Kamawa-sa Text from Burma, written in Pali in wooden

A GILT-LACQUER MANUSCRIPT (KAMAWA-SA) BURMA PROBABLY EARLY 20TH CENTURY stiffened cloth lacquered and gilt with sgraffito decoration and applied brown lacquer script sixteen folios with single piercin

Pair of Burmese Kamawa-sa Buddhist texts, nicely matted and framed. Circa 1850. [40" H x 23" W; Frame: 50" H x 32 1/2" W].

Jewish book showing some of the flowers in Jerusalem. Flowers are watercolored and text is written in English, French and Russian. Wooden hardcover book. Dimensions: 4.5"W x 6.5"L x 0.75"D

Travel palm leaf book, Asia, 19th/20th c., stack of written pages with religious texts, wooden book cover with frog and mask carving. Slightly rubbed, l. 27 cm

Central Asia, Tibet, ca. 19th century CE. Ten pages of a sutra - ancient texts used in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism; one side of each page features hand written calligraphic texts in black ink on p

Gilt and red lacquered carved boards comprising two wooden covers. Sixteen gilt edge leaves with extensive text and one leaf blank. Pages appear to be palm leaf. L 22 1/2 x W 2 1/8 x H 3/4 inches.

Depicting Mary holding Jesus with the cross behind them. Russian text written in gilt around them. H: 12 1/2 in. L: 10 in.

Five leaves from an Ottoman manuscript of prayersPossibly 17th century or later; TurkeyEach: Gouache and gold on cream paper with lines of text written in black naskh script within clouds on a gold gr

19th century A.D. A narrow vellum scroll with black ink text written dextrograde; illuminated panel at the beginning with bearded Saint Theodore holding a spear and sword in a rectangular frame; secon

Middle Eastern ms.- Kamal al-Din Vahshi Baqfi (c.1532-83). Farhad u Shirin, Persian manuscript on paper, 20 leaves and 2 blanks, text written horizontally and diagonally in two central columns and in

The set includes fifteen volumes of books, each book opens to vertically written text and occasional illustrations, few books with marks. Height: 66 1/4 in (168.3 cm) Length: 12 1/2 in (31.8 cm) Width

Heading: (Koran) Author: Title: The Koran (Qu'ran) Place Published: No Place Publisher: Date Published: [c.1780] Description: Approximately 290 leaves (approx. 575 pages) o

The set includes five volumes of books, each book opens to vertically written text and occasional illustrations, few books with marks. Height: 2 in (5.1 cm) Length: 13 in (33.0 cm) Width: 8 in (20.3 c

Middle East, likely Iran, ca. 17th century CE. A beautiful leather-bound Qur'an (Koran) with handwritten pages. The text is written in a calligraphic style in black ink upon thin paper and contained w

Pol MARA (1920-1998) 'Collage' a mixed media with original hand-written text and poems.  Dimensions: (W: 130 x H: 92 cm)

Large Hindu tantric drawing with Sanskrit writing, pen ink and watercolor on paper with hand written text, label on back reads "Purusa Yantra, Tantric drawing of cosmic, primeval man, pen, ink and wat

Of cylindrical form, the tea jar written with Heart Sutra scripture in Chinese on the side, next to Bodhisattva, the seal of "Jin Long Xiang Ji" covering part of the text, the lid written the title He

Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski (Poland, 1875-1944). This oil painting on canvas is signed "F. M. Wygrzywalski, 1915", lower right. A line of text is also written lower left. His name and title can be foun

A late 13th century Medieval Period Illuminated Manuscript folio leaf on vellum from a French Bible. Hand-written Latin text in two columns with Red and Blue illuminations and Gilded detail at recto a

Three vellum pages with hand written Latin text, the top of the first page is illuminated, with James I's title in Latin, initial portrait, heraldic symbols including Emblem of France, Tudor Rose, Emb

The Modern Japanese Print: An Appreciation by James Michener Date: 1962 Publishing City: Tokyo Materials: Bound in tri-colored linen and housed in wooden slipcase. Text paper is handmade kyokushi. Des

A 13/14th century Illuminated Manuscript bifolium and leaf on vellum from the "Book of Hours". Hand-written Latin text with polychrome tempera illuminations and Gilded detail. Single smaller leaf with

A 15/16th century Illuminated Manuscript bifolium and leaf on vellum from the "Book of Hours". Hand-written Latin text with polychrome tempera illuminations and Gilded detail, includes a continuous bi