Series: Aesop’s Fables
Medium: Etching on laid paper with English and Latin text
Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: English, 1626 - 1702
Date finished: 1666
Date of plate: 1666
Date of impression: 1687
Condition: Loss and creases around edges of sheet. Text verso.

Original English text by Thomas Philipott (d. 1682). Text for 1687 edition updated by female novelist Aphra Behn (1640-1689.

Ex Libris for Zach Miloslav

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 3 7/8 x 2 inches
Artist details: Unknown artist

Series: Callot's New Testament
Medium: Etching
Artist details: Abraham Bosse
Date of impression: c. 1635
Condition: Only state

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Series: Industry and Idleness
Medium: Engraving
Artist details: English, 1697 - 1764
Date of plate: 1747

Plate 1. The Fellow Prentices At Their Looms
Plate 2. The Industrious Prentice Performing The Duty Of A Chrifton
Plate 3. The Idle Prentice At Play In The Churchyard During Divine Service
Plate 4. The Industrious Prentice A Favorite and Entrusted By His Master
Plate 5. The Idle Prentice Turned Away And Sent To Sea
Plate 6. The Industrious Prentice Out Of His Time And Married To His Master's Daughter
Plate 7. The Idle Prentice Returned From Sea And In A Garret With A Common Prostitute
Plate 8. The Industrious Prentice Grown Rich And Sheriff Of London
Plate 9. The Idle Prentice Betrayed And Taken In A Night Cellar With His Accomplice
Plate 10. The Industrious Prentice, Alderman of London, The Idle One Brought Before Him Impeached By His Accomplice
Plate 11. The Idle Prentice Executed At Tyburn
Plate 12. The Industrious Prentice Lord-Mayor Of London

Series: Poems by Abul Ala Al-Maarri (Syrian, 973-1058)
Medium: Calligraphy in black and red with borders in gold.
Dimensions: 10 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: 1743

Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 5 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: Late 18th century

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Medium: Sanskrit script in black with borders in orange
Dimensions: 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: 19th century

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Series: Turkey
Medium: Arabic calligraphy in Naskhi script. Borders in red, blue and gold. Round gold breath markers
Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 5 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: 18th century
Condition: Juz' (disc in margin) has blue script on gold field.

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Series: India
Medium: Arabic script in black. Bold script headings in gold and black. Decorative discs in margin with pen lines in blue, red, and gold
Dimensions: 5 15/16 x 3 1/2 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: 17th century

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Series: India
Medium: Arabic calligraphy in black with orange, gold and blue border
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 3 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: 17th century
Condition: Some worm damage.

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Medium: Calligraphy in black and red script with panels of explanations and discussions. Border pen work in blue, red and gold
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: Late 18th century

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Series: Text by Muhammad Farrukh
Medium: Hand-lettered manuscript with nastaliq script in black and red. Red, blue and gold borders
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: Rabi I 1108 (October 1696)

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Series: Turkey
Medium: Calligraphy in black script punctuated with gold sphere breath notations. Gold borders
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: Early 18th century

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Medium: Arabic calligraphy in black on colored paper. Red, blue and gold borders
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 5 inches (Sheet)
Date finished: 19th century

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Eastern manuscript

Medium: Calligraphy in Naskhi script on burnished paper with gold, blue and red decorative elements
Dimensions: 7 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Pakistani
Date finished: Late 18th century

Eastern manuscript

Medium: Gurmukhi calligraphy in black with borders in red, blue and gold
Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches (sheet)
Date finished: Late 18th century

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Indian manuscript

Medium: Hand-lettered manuscript leaf Sanskrit text in black with red discs and borders
Dimensions: 4 15/16 x 10 5/16 inches
Date finished: 16th century
Condition: Some water staining.

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Turkish manuscript

Medium: Calligraphy in Naskh script headings and Thuluth text
Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (sheet)
Date finished: Late 18th century

Medium: Persian calligraphy in black with gold historiated capitals
Dimensions: 7 11/16 x 4 3/4 inches
Artist details: Indian
Date finished: 1208 AH (c. 1780s)

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Medium: Color woodblock
Dimensions: Oban triptych
Artist details: Japanese, 1850 - 1880
Date finished: 1869
Condition: Backed.

Roles: 木村長門守重成 Kimura Shigenari (Main Generals) 塙団右衛門塙直之 Ban Naoyuki (Main Generals)