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The Royal procession to the ploughing ceremony. King Suddhodana walks under a white parasol with courtiers behind him and followed by the oxen for ploughing. Queen Maha-Maya and Prince Siddhattha ride behing upon an elephant

The procession to the ploughing ceremony

Miniature painting showing a Persian couple copulating

Persian couple copulating

Page of text relating to Krishna and the gopis

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 56R

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

The age of evil in which people murder one another (top right) and good people will take refuge in caves and meditate (top left); the age of goodness when gems will fall from the sky (bottom left). The decomposing corpses (bottom right) are an object of study for the good Buddhist

MS Thai 3, four leaves

Panjabi manuscript 255. Varaha avatara of Visnu

Varaha avatara of Visnu. Panjabi manuscript 255

Illimunated chapter heading. The extensive floral and vine decorations are caracteristic 19th c. Kashmiri productions, while the interlinear golden 'cloud' decorations evoke similar adornments used in Islamic manuscripts

Panjabi Manuscript 255

A colour miniature showing Krsna playing his flute to a group of gopis one of which is Radha, the youthful Laksmi. This scene is beside the river Yamuna which appears at the bottom of the image

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti; folio 14 recto

Practica Rogerii, illuminated manuscript. 13th C

Text and astrolabe from the book of the birth of Iskandar

Maimonides' Treatise on agriculture

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 46V

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 33V

Anatomical illustration showing the arterial system and viscera. The writing is in a good professional hand. From a Persian manuscript with a seal bearing the words: Murajiah va taftish shud.

Human body, arteries and viscera, Persian, 1893

Page 1 Arabic manuscript on Alchemy by Razes

Page 1 of Arabic manuscript on Alchemy by Razes

Page with Kufi calligraphy

Faramarz battles the black div, from the Shah Nameh, 10th century Persian epic of the Kings

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The procession to the ploughing ceremony

Persian couple copulating

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 56R

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

MS Thai 3, four leaves

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

Varaha avatara of Visnu. Panjabi manuscript 255

Panjabi Manuscript 255

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti; folio 14 recto

Persian couple copulating

Panjabi Manuscript 255

Practica Rogerii, illuminated manuscript. 13th C

Text and astrolabe from the book of the birth of Iskandar

Maimonides' Treatise on agriculture

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 46V

Panjabi Manuscript 255

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 33V

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

Human body, arteries and viscera, Persian, 1893

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

Page 1 of Arabic manuscript on Alchemy by Razes

Page with Kufi calligraphy

Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings

Oriental Manuscript Or 52a - Folio 112 recto

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The procession to the ploughing ceremony

Persian couple copulating

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 56R

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

MS Thai 3, four leaves

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

Varaha avatara of Visnu. Panjabi manuscript 255

Panjabi Manuscript 255

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti; folio 14 recto

Persian couple copulating

Panjabi Manuscript 255

Practica Rogerii, illuminated manuscript. 13th C

Text and astrolabe from the book of the birth of Iskandar

Maimonides' Treatise on agriculture

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 46V

Panjabi Manuscript 255

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 33V

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

Human body, arteries and viscera, Persian, 1893

Page from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"

Page 1 of Arabic manuscript on Alchemy by Razes

Page with Kufi calligraphy

Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings

Oriental Manuscript Or 52a - Folio 112 recto

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