Chester Beatty Library

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Library and museum in Dublin, Ireland

The Chester Beatty Library, now known as the Chester Beatty, is a museum and library in the grounds of Dublin Castle, Ireland. It was established in 1953 at 20 Shewsbury Road, Dublin 4, to house the collections of mining magnate, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. The present museum opened on 7 February 2000, the 125th anniversary of Beatty's birth and was named European Museum of the Year in 2002.

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Bahram Gur kills a horned wolf (karg) in India (recto) and Bahram Gur kills a dragon in India (verso), from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Jizō Bosatsu (J 1214)

Marooned at sea, from Prince Baysunghur's Gulistan by Sa`di (CBL Per 119.29)

The rescue at sea, from Prince Baysunghur's Rose Garden (Gulistan) by Sa`di (CBL Per 119, f.15v)

Manuchihr pursuing his father's murderer Tur

Rakhsh Kills a Lion while Rustam Sleeps.jpg

Portrait of Raisal Darbari (CBL In 44.2)

Yogini with a mynah bird (CBL In 11A.31)

Tale of Ōeyama (Ōeyama emaki) (CBL J. 1145)

Awrangzib Hunts Nilgais (CBL In 11A.27)

Dutch mansions in Dejima, Nagasaki (Nagasaki Dejima Rankan no zu) (CBL J 1131)

Women on a palace terrace with a panoramic view (CBL In 69.6)

Handscroll of birds and flowers (CBL C 1185)

Jain cosmographical painting (CBL InE 1669)

Begum Samru and her household (CBL In 74.7)

Jahangir Shooting the Head of Malik Ambar

Emperor Awrangzib Receives Prince Mu'azzam (CBL In 34.7)

Mughal emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan with their ministers (CBL In 07A.19)

Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan standing on a globe (CBL In 07A.16)

Virgin and Child from the Coëtivy Hours (CBL W 082, f.222v)

Abu'l-Fazl presents Akbarnama to Akbar (CBL In 03.176)

Paintings of birds and flowers (CBL C 1335)

The Old Man Encounters a Youth (CBL Per 163.38)

Nagauta song

A party at night, from the Bustan (Orchard) of Sa`di (Per 236, f.59b)

Salm and Tur order the murder of their brother Iraj

The simurgh arrives to assist with the birth of Rustam

Bahram Gur and the Iranian princess in the white pavilion (CBL Per 276.205)

Preparing the palace feast, from the Garden (Bustān), by Sa`di

Tahmuras Defeating the Divs

Young man in a fur hat (CBL Per 260.2)

Zal Rescued by the Simurgh