A COMPENDIUM OF CHRONICLES: Rashid al-Din's Illustrated History of the World (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XXVII)

The Khalili Collection owns one of the most important illustrated medieval manuscripts in the world, the Jami al-Tawarikh, or 'Compendium of Chronicles,' which was written by the 14th century court historian Rashid al-Din. The 59 folios in the Collection are reproduced here in color for the first time after their recent restoration and, together with those in the Edinburgh University Library, form a fragment of the earliest surviving Arabic copy of the work.