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LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1635 Latin

This decorative and detailed map of Persia is by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), a Dutch cartographer, globe maker, and publisher. Blaeu trained with the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and began …


LC: Library of Congress · 1626 Persian

Persian translation of Nasafī's Kanz al-daqāʼiq.


LC: Library of Congress · 1625 Persian

Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in India. Paper; thin, polished laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; both sections have …


LC: Library of Congress · 1625 Persian

Tale of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badiʼʻ al-Jamāl, also recorded in an Arabic version in the Arabian Nights.


LC: Library of Congress · 1619 Persian

Page from "Farhang-i Jahangiri" a Persian-language dictionary by Jamal al-Din Husayn b. Fakhr al-Din Hasan Inju Shirazi, from 1619 in Nasta'liq script Mughal and Safavid courts. Dimensions of Written Surface: …


LC: Library of Congress · 1619 Persian

Illuminated first page from "Farhang-i Jahangiri" a Persian-language dictionary by Jamal al-Din Husayn b. Fakhr al-Din Hasan Inju Shirazi, from 1619 in Nasta'liq. Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: 11 (w) …


LC: Library of Congress · 1619 Persian

Page from "Farhang-i Jahangiri" a Persian-language dictionary by Jamal al-Din Husayn b. Fakhr al-Din Hasan Inju Shirazi, from 1619 in Nasta'liq script Mughal and Safavid courts. A marginal gloss cross-referenced …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1615 Japanese

Tsukimitsu no sōshi (Story of the moon and the sun) is one of the otogizōshi, Japanese fairy tales of the Muromachi period (1336-1573). In the story, Hō'ō and Sansō, sons …


LC: Library of Congress · 1606 Persian

Islamic law as practiced in India.


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1602 Persian

This is an illuminated and illustrated Mughal copy of a dīvān (collection of poems) by the eminent poet and hagiographer of Islamic India, Hasan Dihlavī, who died in about 1338. …