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Alfiyah va shalfiyah
This manuscript is one of the class of works that goes by the generic title of 'Lizzat al-nisa’' or 'Women's pleasure.' It covers the use of medicinal drugs for personal beauty and as aphrodisiacs, and a manual explaining and illustrating various positions during sexual intercourse. The text ultimately derives from Sanskrit works such as the Kamasutra and Kokashastra. The manuscript is of Indian provenance, as is clear from the thirty-four illustrations executed in a popular nineteenth-century style. There is a personal seal, illegible, on the last page.
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Table
Wooden table -- painted, gilded, and lacquered
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Two women
An image of a drawing signed as E. VAN MUYDEN, possibly the Swiss illustrator and painter Evert Louis van Muyden.
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Nakhust Namah, 1902 or 1903
The first volume of the book, written for public schools in the Muzaffari period (1902 or 3) by Matah Vus Khan Malik Yans. In the introduction, the author explains how to use the book. Part One is visual and teaches the alphabet. Part Two includes some reading exercises from works of poets such as Sa‘di, Nizami and Hafiz.
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Illustrated pilgrimage scroll
This scroll illustrates the Shi‘i pilgrimage from Mecca to Mashhad. The images are accompanied by verses describing different stages of the journey and the related rites. It was lithographed in six sections and glued to a fabric (probably cotton) backing. The scroll, which was commissioned by Muhammad Ja‘far Kasa’i, a cloth merchant from Karbalaʼ, was acquired in Kirman in ca. 1971 and is now in a private collection in Kailua, Hawaii.