Manuscript Book on Logic, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.591, fol. 78a Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts The present work is a supergloss on the gloss (ḥāshiyah) by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (d.816 AH / 1413 CE) on the Lawāmiʿ al-asrār by Qutb al-Dīn al-Taḥtānī al-Rāzī (d.766 AH / 1364 CE), being in turn a [Continue]

Illuminated manuscript, Book of Hours in Dutch, Adoration of the Magi, Walters Manuscript W.188, fol. 108r Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page [Continue]

Illuminated Manuscript, Book of kings (Shahnama), Gūdarz kills Pīrān, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.602, fol. 284a Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This copy of Firdawsī’s Shāhnāmah (Book of kings) was written by Muḥammad Mīrak ibn Mīr Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Ustādī, most probably in Herat (present-day [Continue]

Illuminated Manuscript, Book of kings (Shahnama), Gushtāsp kills a wolf, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.602, fol. 341b Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This copy of Firdawsī’s Shāhnāmah (Book of kings) was written by Muḥammad Mīrak ibn Mīr Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Ustādī, most probably in Herat (present-day [Continue]

Illuminated Manuscript, Book of kings (Shahnama), Isfandiyār kills Arjāsp, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.602, fol. 381a Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This copy of Firdawsī’s Shāhnāmah (Book of kings) was written by Muḥammad Mīrak ibn Mīr Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Ustādī, most probably in Herat (present-day [Continue]

Illuminated Manuscript, Book of kings (Shahnama), Bahrām Gūr hunts with his men, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.602, fol. 494b Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This copy of Firdawsī’s Shāhnāmah (Book of kings) was written by Muḥammad Mīrak ibn Mīr Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Ustādī, most probably in Herat (present-day [Continue]

Illuminated Manuscript, Book of kings (Shahnama), Kay Khusraw crosses Lake Zarah in pursuit of Afrāsiyāb, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.602, fol. 319a Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This copy of Firdawsī’s Shāhnāmah (Book of kings) was written by Muḥammad Mīrak ibn Mīr Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Ustādī, most [Continue]

Illuminated manuscript, Book of Hours in Dutch, Harrowing of hell, Walters Manuscript W.188, fol. 122r Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page [Continue]

Illuminated manuscript, Book of Hours in Dutch, Presentation in the temple, Walters Manuscript W.188, fol. 117v Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page [Continue]

Illuminated Manuscript, Book of Hours, Decorated Initial, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.165, fol. 33r Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts This mid-fifteenth century illuminated Book of Hours is written entirely in Dutch on fine vellum, and is remarkable for its eighteen grisaille miniatures. The technique, wherein the figures are [Continue]