An exhibition at the Walters Art Musuem traces the appearences of cats in medieval manuscripts, from Europe, Asia, and the ...

Princeton University has placed a new digital library of 200 Islamic manuscripts online for scholars to consult and study. These manuscripts were selected from some 9,500 volumes of Islamic ...

Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, author, ‘Dalāʼil al-khayrāt’ (between 1700–99), 344 unnumbered pages, illuminations, 17 cm (all digital images courtesy the Getty’s Open Content Program) (click to ...

A unique exhibition, "Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting," opened 21 October at the Morgan Library and Museum, displaying handwritten Qurans, single illuminated pages, and scores of old ...

Those who have visited it know that the resplendent New York library of financier J. Pierpont Morgan is less a museum than a walkable trove of artistic and cultural riches. Among those riches is a ...

An illuminated folio from the most treasured manuscript of The Shahnameh, Persia’s Book of Kings, will reappear on October 26 alongside ornate texts and artifacts for Sotheby’s London’s latest ...

October 1, 1933 : Near Eastern art, Christian and Islamic illuminated manuscripts -- November 15, 1933: Near Eastern art, Christian and Islamic illuminated manuscripts -- April 5, 1935: Near Eastern ...

The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists. The Divan’s whereabouts remained a mystery until ...