CHINESE, JAPANESE AND ISLAMIC ART, JEWELRY AND GLASS WEIGHTS

Arabic manuscript on paper, 298 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and bla...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script within gold and black rules, gold rounde...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 17 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a gilt and black border. Surah headings in r...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 320ff. with 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a double red borde...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 310ff. with 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a polychrome and g...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a red and gilt border. Surah headings in whi...

Arabic script consisting of 9 leaves, mainly about the Arabic Maqams which is the system of melodic modes used in traditional Arabic music. The w...

Persian manuscript on paper, each page with a central panel enclosing 15 lines in nastaliq black script, surrounded by diagonally written scripts,...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 22 lines to each page, written in brown Maghribi script, catchwords and titles is red ink, occasional marginal notes. ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, a single paper with 38 ll. written in black naskh script, dated 19 Muharram 982 AH. Statements and seals. A large d...

Arabic manuscript on paper of 19 leaves with 18 lines to each page, in naskh script with black and red ink. 1. A short thesis on Medicine, Arabic...

Arabic manuscript on paper, complete Quran, 10 lines to each page, written in large black naskh script, catchwords in large script, diacritics and...

Comprising the 4th and 5th juz’, Arabic manuscript on paper, 36 leaves, each folio with 11 lines of elegant black naskh script, surah headings in ...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 217 leaves with 3 fly-leaves, 19 lines to the page written in minute naskhi script in black ink with...

A manual on Arabic grammar. Arabic manuscript on paper, with 20 lines to each page and written in black naskh script, with occasional marginal c...

Arabic manuscript on paper depicting prayers in honor of the Prophet Muhammad, each folio with 10 lines, written in elegant black naskh script, wi...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 35 lines written in black Maghribi script, catchwords in gilt ink outlined in black, gold verse rosette markers outli...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 13 lines to the page, the upper and lower line in large blue thuluth script, the middle line in large gold thuluth scr...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with later added interlinear Persian translation, 45 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, 9 lines to each page in elegant black m...

Arabic manuscript on cream-coloured paper, 7 lines to the page written in clear large maghribi script, significant words picked out in red and gre...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 592 leaves, each folio with 11 lines of black naskh script written on a cream coloured ground, each line within double...

Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 22 leaves, each page with 11lines, written in Arabic naskh script and Persian nasta'liq script, ruled in g...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each page with 8 ll. written in black Maghribi script, titles and important words picked out in red and blue, the chap...

Sahih Al-Akhabr in the lineage of the good fatimid mastersArabic manuscript on paper, 146ff. with 25ll. to each page written in black ink in beau...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 36ff. with 21ll. to each page written in small neat naskh script, titles and important words picked out in red ink, oc...

Of rectangular convex form, decorated in blue, turquoise, brick-red, black and white, outlined with a section of a calligraphic inscription in flo...

A shirt (jama) covered with text written in thuluth, square Kufic and naskh scripts, in assorted colors, roundels and cartouches. The inscriptions...

Arabic manuscript on cloth, with Mecca and Medina drawings, prayers and Quran verses. A Single cloth scroll divided into different main divisions ...

An astronomy copied manuscript 'Share Al-Mulkhas Fi Al-Hay'a of Al-Jaghmini (a Compendium of the science) by Salah Al-Din Must Ibn Muhammad Ibn M...

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 18 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, written in elegant naskh, Ruqaa and thuluth script, titles in red and...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 10 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, written in 17 lines in elegant naskh and thuluth script, each page written horizontally, ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, written in black, green, red and blue ink, in Kufic and Maghribi scripts. Two central views of al-Masjid al-Haram a...

Two volumes, 'new edition', folding plan of Mecca, 3 further tables (2 folding), offsetting, translated by George Sale, bookplate to front pastedo...

A brass tray of rectangular form, profusely inlaid, the central field depicting the Mahmal procession, the border containing cartouches enclosing ...

An Ottoman shirt made from the inner kiswa, with an inscribed weave in cream color over a deep red silk ground. Embellished with a prominent inscr...

Arabic manuscript on paper, depicting a detailed map of the routes to Mecca and Medina, with further details of the routes to Yemen, Iraq and Syri...

Photography assembled to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the recapture of Ar-Riyadh by the founder of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, His majesty ...

Formed as an arch, the central niche with pointed arch under semi-circular top, the spandrels with crescent shaped medallions filled with religiou...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with Mecca and Medina drawings, prayers and Quran verses. Single scroll divided into different main divisions with thu...

Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 13 lines of black diwani, beneath the tughra of Sultan Mahmud II in gold and polychrome. Very decorative and ...

The ovoid body with a domed hinged cover surmounted by a baluster-form finial, decorated with palmettes containing an openwork foliate design sepa...

The body of truncated conical form with flanged base, perforated bands and everted drip-pan, the shaft with globed perforated bulb, the socket of ...

A silver plated casket, engraved around the sides with floral scrolls. The cover set with a Timurid dark green jade with a petal border and flat e...

Of deep, rounded, and a loop handle with flattened tri-lobed thumb piece, the exterior decorated with niellowork, including scrolling arabesques o...

Of fluted tapering drum shaped short foot, with tall tubular neck rising to an angled spout and with square section loop handle, the body lavishly...

The lower cubic section surmounted by canopy in the form of a pyramid, of red, green and black silk profusely embroidered with silver and gilt-sil...

A metal thread calligraphic band for the tomb of the prophet (Hujrat Al-Qabr Al-Nabawi Al-Sharif) in Medina, of elongated rectangular form, the re...

A black Kaaba kiswa Qandeel, of rectangular form placed between the hizams or on the four corners of the Kaaba. Embellished in gilt wires on a b...

Two green Kabaa kiswa brocades or samadiyah, of square form placed always on the four corners of the Kabaa. Each embellished in silver and gilt wi...

A fragment of the inner curtain of sacred kiswa for the inner wall of the Kabaa with an inscribed weave in darker black silk over a black ground. ...

An Ottoman hanging panel, embroidered in gilt threads on a black silk ground with the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed. 42 by 45 cm.

Watercolor on stucco heightened with gold, depicting a large roundel enclosing a view of Mecca, central al-Masjid al-Haram with seven minarets, an...

A fragment of hanging panel of the inner kiswa, with an inscribed weave in cream color over a light green silk ground. Embellished with a prominen...

The white ground decorated in bole-red, green and turquoise with a view of al-Masjid al-Haram.The Kabaa is located in the centre with Maqam Ibrahi...

Printed in black and white on thick paper. The continent showing the city/town names, such as Hejaz, Yemen, Hadramout, Najid, and the Arabian dese...

An illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Majnun opens the door of a maqam surrounded by a crow...

An illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Majnun opens the door of the Kaaba surrounded by a cr...

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paperText: Quran 2 surah Al-Baqarah v.255.The text of the Throne Verse begins at the horse’s head; the first ha...

A Mihraab shaped panel, comprised of 15 tiles, the white ground painted in turquoise, green, cobalt-blue and bole-red, with a stylized view of Mec...

An Ottoman shirt made from the inner kiswa, with an inscribed weave in cream color over a deep green silk ground. Embellished with a prominent ins...