This digital image collection presents facsimiles of some of the Bodleian s most valuable and most fragile manuscripts from many cultures of the Near East and Asia.
Included are :
- Several albums of Mughal Indian paintings ranging in date from the 16th to the 19th centuries
- The Kitab al-Bulhan, an illustrated miscellany of astronomical, astrological and magical works containing 97 full-page paintings and produced over a time-span of one hundred years in the 14th and 15th centuries.
- A Mediterranean portolan atlas from the 16th century produced in the Tunisian town of includes charts of Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Crete and Cyprus. It also a world map and astronomical and chronological tables
- The Shuinjo, an important Japanese document, with the original vermillion seal of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, granting trade privileges in Japan to the English East India Company in 1613
- A vividly painted handscroll containing a Japanese Urashima
- A mid-15th century illustrated manuscript of Hebrew animal fables, composed by Isaac ben Solomon Sahula in the 13th century
- Examples of Persian poetry illustrated with miniature paintings
- Illuminations from two Armenian bibles of the 15th and 17th centuries
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