Eleven leaves from a Shahnameh manuscript, probably India, 17th century Folio from a manuscript on paper with twenty-five lines of text per page in Persian nasta'liq in black ink, titles in red ink. Some advertisements and marginal inscriptions. Margins of some folios illuminated in 19th-century gold with animals and figures in a landscape. Approx. page size: 38.7 x 24.4 cm Stains, foxing, some restorations and accidents. A set of calligraphic and illuminated pages, India and Iran, 19th - early 20th century: an illuminated ghazaliat poetic manuscript folio of seven lines of text in reserve on a gold background and floral margins, 21.6 x 12.7 cm; six sewn-together poetic manuscript folios of eleven lines of text in two columns, 30 x 19 cm; a Persian manuscript folio of fifteen lines of text in nasta'liq illustrated with shrubs and clumps of flowers, 38.5 x 24.5 cm; eight paper leaves with flowers illuminated on both sides in gold and polychrome, approx. 34.4 x 19.4 cm; a Safavid-style painting of a musician playing the târ, Iran, 20th century, 19 x 14.7 cm