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Manuscripts & Rare Books
| "Father, the hour has come" (John 17:1) | Title |
| 1594-1596 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.535.58R | Accession |
| "Look at the birds of the air" (Matthew 6:26) | Title |
| 1594-1596 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.535.82R | Accession |
| A Battle Scene | Title |
| Folio: late 10th century AH/AD 16th century; Borders: 13th century AH/AD 19th century (Mughal) | Period |
| W.683.A | Accession |
| alexander | Tags |
| A Battle Scene (Back) | Title |
| Folio: late 10th century AH/AD 16th century; Borders: 13th century AH/AD 19th century (Mughal) | Period |
| W.683.B | Accession |
| A Christian Girl on Her Deathbed After Converting to Islam | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.35B | Accession |
| A Church representing the Promised Land | Title |
| 1400-1404 (Medieval) | Period |
| W.171.117V | Accession |
| gothic | Tags |
| A Deer Hunt | Title |
| ca. 1775 | Period |
| W.854 | Accession |
| creature | Tags |
| A Funeral Service | Title |
| ca. 1300-1325 | Period |
| W.104.74R | Accession |
| angels | Tags |
| A Juriconsult Giving Sexual Advice | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.51B | Accession |
| A King Looking at a Picture of His Son and His Tutor, who Fell in Love with Him | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.127A | Accession |
| A Lady at Her Toilette | Title |
| ca. 1700 | Period |
| W.878 | Accession |
| nude, india | Tags |
| A Learned Man | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.113B | Accession |
| A Man Exposing Himself Through a Hole in the Fence | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.91A | Accession |
| suckpenis | Tags |
| A Messenger from Seljuk Sultan Meliksah Being Received by the Byzantine King | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.69B | Accession |
| A Princely Voyeur | Title |
| ca. 1775 | Period |
| W.867 | Accession |
| voyeur, princess, bathing | Tags |
| A Sexual Encounter | Title |
| 1675-1700 | Period |
| W.871 | Accession |
| sex, nasty | Tags |
| A Shamed Man Who Lied About a Three-day Journey from Mecca to Nishapur | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.84A | Accession |
| A Sodomite Disgraced | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.59A | Accession |
| A Thief Being Bitten by a Snake | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.60A | Accession |
| A Type of Thymelaea Called al-sarwi | Title |
| 7th century AH/AD 13th century | Period |
| W.750D.A | Accession |
| A Type of Thymelaea Called ilyusqufinus | Title |
| 7th century AH/AD 13th century | Period |
| W.750D.B | Accession |
| A Wedding Procession | Title |
| 1825-1850 | Period |
| W.883 | Accession |
| wedding | Tags |
| A Young Man Looking Out of the Window for His Lover Abdullah | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.130A | Accession |
| Above: How Astaraniqos slept on his bed using the picture of St. Michael as a pillow; Below: How a blacksmith toiled in making a panel for the picture of St. Michael | Title |
| late 17th century (early Gondarine) | Period |
| W.835.72V | Accession |
| Above: How Satan flew away like a raven/crow when Euphemia showed him the picture of St. Michael; Below: How Satan came (again) looking like four women and St. Michael trod on him | Title |
| late 17th century (early Gondarine) | Period |
| W.835.73R | Accession |
| Above: How St. Michael came on horseback to change the bad content of the sealed letter to good, and how the wife of the nobleman received the letter; Middle: How the wealthy man heard that they married Ba?ran to his daughter; Below: How the wealthy man f | Title |
| late 17th century (early Gondarine) | Period |
| W.835.79V | Accession |
| Above: How he put Bahran in a body of water, and how a shepherd found the child and brought him from the body of water; Below: How the shepherd delivered the child, and the nobleman gave a sealed letter to Bahran | Title |
| late 17th century (early Gondarine) | Period |
| W.835.79R | Accession |
| Above: How the Heathen made the Christian swear when he loaned him gold, and one of his hands was paralyzed; Below: How the Heathen was baptized when he saw the power of St. Michael, and how he served with the Christian inside the church of St. Michael | Title |
| late 17th century (early Gondarine) | Period |
| W.835.111R | Accession |
| Above: How the Jew went to the residence of the Metropolitan when he was cured; Below: How the Metropolitan baptized the Jew | Title |
| late 17th century (early Gondarine) | Period |
| W.835.116R | Accession |
| Above: How the sick woman slept under a picture of St. Michael and he appeared to her; Below: How her household gave her a painting of St. Michael, and how she embraced it and offered gold to the church of St. Michael | Title |
| late 17th century (early Gondarine) | Period |
| W.835.108R | Accession |
| Above: St. Michael with Moses at the Burning Bush; Below: St. Michael instructs Moses to touch his staff to the Red Sea | Title |
| late 17th century (Gondarine) | Period |
| W.835.59R | Accession |
| Abraham sacrificing Isaac | Title |
| late 12th-early 13th century (Medieval) | Period |
| W.33.53V | Accession |
| Abridgment of the Book of Kings (Shahnama) | Title |
| 13th century AH/AD 19th century | Period |
| W.597 | Accession |
| book, islamic | Tags |
| Adam | Title |
| ca. 1300 (Gothic) | Period |
| W.102.28V | Accession |
| Adimari Book of Hours | Title |
| 1448 (Renaissance) | Period |
| W.767 | Accession |
| medieval, trunk | Tags |
| Adoration of the Magi | Title |
| mid 13th century | Period |
| W.78.1V | Accession |
| Adoration of the Magi | Title |
| late 17th century (High Renaissance) | Period |
| W.498 | Accession |
| adoration, magi, religious, nativity, christmas | Tags |
| Adoration of the Magi | Title |
| second quarter 15th century | Period |
| W.188.108R | Accession |
| Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane | Title |
| ca. 1470 | Period |
| W.918.104V | Accession |
| Album of Indian Miniatures and Persian Calligraphy | Title |
| late 12th century AH/AD 18th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century (Rajput) | Period |
| W.669 | Accession |
| Album of Ottoman Calligraphy | Title |
| 10th century AH/AD 16th century-12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.672 | Accession |
| Album of Persian Calligraphy | Title |
| 11th century AH/AD 17th century | Period |
| W.673 | Accession |
| Album of Persian Miniatures and Calligraphy | Title |
| 10th century AH/AD 16th century-14th century AH/AD 20th century | Period |
| W.671 | Accession |
| hatt | Tags |
| Album of Persian and Indian Calligraphy and Paintings | Title |
| late 10th century AH/AD 16th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century (Mughal; Safavid; Qajar) | Period |
| W.668 | Accession |
| Album of Persian and Indian Calligraphy, Miniatures, and Prints | Title |
| 10th century AH/AD 16th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century (Mughal; Qajar; Zand) | Period |
| W.670 | Accession |
| Album of Persian and Indian Miniatures, Calligraphy, and European Engravings | Title |
| 11th century AH/AD 17th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century (Mughal; Safavid; Qajar; Zand; Deccan) | Period |
| W.771 | Accession |
| erotic | Tags |
| All Saints | Title |
| 1594-1596 | Period |
| W.535.73R | Accession |
| Alphabet Book | Title |
| 16th century (Renaissance) | Period |
| W.200 | Accession |
| gold, creature, butterfly, insect, iris | Tags |
| Amplified Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad | Title |
| 767 AH/AD 1366 | Period |
| W.581 | Accession |
| An Adulterous Husband and His Lover Butted by a Ram | Title |
| 1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman) | Period |
| W.666.55B | Accession |