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Personal Interview with Kenneth Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 6

In this audio clip, the interviewer asks if the interviewee's experience learning the book in school did justice in reflecting the magnitude of the…

Picture of Matt

Matt needs to get some sleep!

Pomegranates on AKM PS24 Robe

Zoomed in photograph focusing on the pomegranate motif surrounding the borders of the AKM PS24 robe

Prayer Book (Dala'il al-Khayrat), 19th century, Morocco, Gilt and embossed leather binding; opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper,

This late copy of the Dala'il al-Khayrat was created in Morocco, where the work was originally composed four hundred years earlier. Thousands of…

Prayer Book (Dala'il Al-Khayrat), India, Probably Kashmir, 1818, pasteboard, paint, lacquer; opaque watercolour, ink, and gold on paper, AKM278

The prayer book "Waymarks of Benefits" (Dala"il al-Khayrat), originally composed in fifteenth-century Morocco, was frequently copied from Senegal to…

Prayer Sheet (Avalokitesvara), China, Dunhuang, 15th day of 7th month [4 August] 947 CE, Woodblock print, ink on paper, ROM, 927.24

This Buddhist prayer sheet is a rare survivor among hundreds of identical prints featuring Avalokite?vara, a form of the Boddhisatva of compassion,…

Quilt Facing - Pomegranate Motifs

Quilt facing, or bedding, from the Ottoman empire embroidered with continuous patterns of the pomegranate motif. The pomegranates are faced with two…

Qur'an Anthology, China, second half of the 18th century, Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper, AKM824,

"Glory to God" (subhan Allah) appears on the right-hand page as an ornate Arabic letter form upon a delicate floral background. The sweeping letter…

Recueil sur le droit normand.

Fourteenth-century Latin text of the Coutumier de Normandie, 140 leaves; 21 cm by 15 cm.

Robe
Central Asia, 13th century
Silk, woven

AKM816
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