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	COLONIAL -- EARLY (c.1750-1857)
	Bismillah bird, thuluth, by Mustafa Raqim (1757-1826), Iran or Ottoman Turkey
IRAN	More examples from this period from IRAN
TURKEY	More examples from this period from TURKEY
	An agate inscribed in naskh and carved, unusually, in relief (1762/3)
	A farman from the reign of Shah 'Alam, dated 1776
ALBUM c.1780	Calligraphy pages from the Lady Coote Album, c.1780, from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, with ZOOM capabilities: pages [one], two], [three], [four]
	"Khatt-e ghubar," or "dust writing," late 1700s(?), on an agate amulet
	An agate inscribed with astonishingly tiny detail, late 1700s(?)
MEDICAL MSS	The opening page of a Persian medical manuscript copied in 1800/1, possibly for presentation to Shah Alam II; from the National Library of Medicine
SHAH NAMAH	Ten leaves from an illustrated Kashmir-style manuscript of the Shah-namah, c.1800. These images are from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and have ZOOM capabilities for close examination.
	A gorgeously illuminated Quran, with three unwans and a number of sample pages, probably from Kashmir, c.1800
	A leaf from an elegant Quran, 18th c., with detailed 19th c. additions; Mughal India or Kashmir
	The seal of a raja of the Nayaka family, South India, 1808
	Complexly arranged Nastaliq theological manuscripts, Iraq, early 1800's
	A leaf from Nizami's Khamsah, 1800's, North India, in a remarkable floral geometrical design