Dimensions of Written Surface: 20.4 (w) x 15.5 (h) cm Shi'i calligraphic panels in Arabic written in Thuluth script by calligrapher Muhammad Ibrahim during the 18th century Iran and India. …

Maʻārij al-nubūwah

LC: Library of Congress · 1713 Persian

Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad.

Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1710 Japanese

Shows the world, based on knowledge from numerous famous Chinese and Japanese classics and Buddhism. Depths shown pictorially. Wood block print. Map and author, Hōtan, listed in Imago Mundi's Review …

Dīvān-i Mawlānā Ẓuhūrī

LC: Library of Congress · 1710 Persian

Poems of Muḥammad al-Ẓuhūri.

The Big Island of Ceylon, or Ilanare, Called Chilan by the Arabs, Persians and Chinese.

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1707 Dutch

This fine map of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was originally drawn to illustrate an account by the Portuguese historian João de Barros (1496-1570) of the voyage to Asia that Lopo …

From the Shores of Gujarat, Malabar, Bengal and Malacca, to the Kingdom of Siam and China in the East.

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1707 Dutch

This attractive map of Southeast Asia was published in Leiden in 1700 and covers, to the west most of India; as far east as southern China and the Korean Peninsula; …

Bhāgavatapurāṇa

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1700 Sanskrit

Palm-leaf manuscript from Orissa; illustrations on every page; wooden covers highlighted in red with single threaded hole in middle; encased in box (10 x 49 x 29 cm). Also available …

Milestones of the Divine Revelation.

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1699 Arabic

Al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Baghawī (circa 1044-circa 1117), nicknamed muḥyī al-sunnah (Reviver of the Prophet's traditions), was a Shāfiʻi scholar and Qurʼan exegete. He was born, and possibly died, in Bagh …

A description of the sea coasts ... in the East Indies

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1690 English

Covers the coasts of eastern Africa, India, and the East Indies. Relief shown pictorially. Each drawing bears a brief description with soundings, distances and facts regarding anchorages and navigation of …

Treatise on the Rules and Meters of Poetry.

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1677 Persian

Risalat-i'Urūḍ va Qafiyah (Treatise on the rules and meters of poetry) is about rules and conventions to be followed in writing good poetry. The manuscript, copied in Kashmir, India, in …