Notably early Hafez manuscript. Hafez Shirazi (1315-1390 AD) is considered one of the greatest of the Persian Poets, whose immensely popular poetry...

Extraordinary survival from the dawn of the printing press. An excellent, well-margined leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book p...

Saint Bernardine of Siena, (1380-1444; canonized 1450; feast day May 20), Franciscan theologian and preacher of great eloquence who, with Saints J...

The most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. A magnificent copy in contemporary hand-colour of the first illustrated encyclopaed...

Timurid manuscript illustration. An early miniature painting from one of Nizami Ganjavi's most loved tragic romances in poetic form, Shirin o Farha...

From the Timurid Courts of Persia. A fine Timurid copy of the complete Mathnavi by the revered Sufi Saint Jalal al-din Rumi.This is Rumi's most cel...

Inscribed by the author. Kamal al-Din Husayn al-Kashifi was a well known Persian writer on mysticism and preacher who died in Herat in 910 AH (1504...

Timurid illustrations of Chinese Emperors. These leaves originate from the famous illustrated copy of Hafiz-i Abru's Majma al-Tawarikh ('Universal ...

The most important historian of late antiquity. One of the earliest printed editions of Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecclesiastica, translated f...

Influential classical geography. Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, transla...

One of the earliest printed works on geography. Rare fourth edition of the earliest surviving Latin work on geography and the only treatise devoted...