Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the miniature depicting a dying man seated on the back of an elephant, soldiers and spectators look on from the horizon and foreground, between four columns of black nasta'liq with gold intercolumnar rules, small cartouche with Armenian calligraphy in the mount ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with various simple calligraphic compositions, mostly in black diwani written in the diagonal, one with a single Hne of thuluth across the bottom with interlocking upstrokes, one with large central illuminated medallion, the pencil rules still appearing behind the calhgra ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with various simple calligraphic compositions, mostly in black diwani written in the diagonal, one with a single Hne of thuluth across the bottom with interlocking upstrokes, one with large central illuminated medallion, the pencil rules still appearing behind the calhgra ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with various simple calligraphic compositions, mostly in black diwani written in the diagonal, one with a single Hne of thuluth across the bottom with interlocking upstrokes, one with large central illuminated medallion, the pencil rules still appearing behind the calhgra ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with various simple calligraphic compositions, mostly in black diwani written in the diagonal, one with a single Hne of thuluth across the bottom with interlocking upstrokes, one with large central illuminated medallion, the pencil rules still appearing behind the calhgra ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with various simple calligraphic compositions, mostly in black diwani written in the diagonal, one with a single Hne of thuluth across the bottom with interlocking upstrokes, one with large central illuminated medallion, the pencil rules still appearing behind the calhgra ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with various simple calligraphic compositions, mostly in black diwani written in the diagonal, one with a single Hne of thuluth across the bottom with interlocking upstrokes, one with large central illuminated medallion, the pencil rules still appearing behind the calhgra ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with various simple calligraphic compositions, mostly in black diwani written in the diagonal, one with a single Hne of thuluth across the bottom with interlocking upstrokes, one with large central illuminated medallion, the pencil rules still appearing behind the calhgra ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with various simple calligraphic compositions, mostly in black diwani written in the diagonal, one with a single Hne of thuluth across the bottom with interlocking upstrokes, one with large central illuminated medallion, the pencil rules still appearing behind the calhgra ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 14ll. o f black naskh, gold and polychrome strapwork verse markers, sura heading in white naskh within illuminated panel, many illuminated medallions, the text panel within gold and polychrome rules, each folio with gold illuminated margins, on gold speckl ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 14ll. o f black naskh, gold and polychrome strapwork verse markers, sura heading in white naskh within illuminated panel, many illuminated medallions, the text panel within gold and polychrome rules, each folio with gold illuminated margins, on gold speckl ...