16th-century illuminated manuscripts

thumb|350px|An awards ceremony in Ibrahim Khan Lodi|Sultan Ibrahim's court before being sent on an expedition to [[Sambhal]] The Bāburnāma (; ) is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is written in the Chagatai language, known to Babur as Türki "Turkic", the spoken language of the Timurids.

The Akbarnama () is the official chronicle of the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor (), commissioned by Akbar himself and written by his court historian and biographer, Abul Fazl. It was written in Persian, which was the literary language of the Mughals, and includes vivid and detailed descriptions of his life and times. It followed the Baburnama, the more personal memoir by his grandfather, Babur, founder of the dynasty. It was produced in the form of lavishly illustrated manuscripts.

Aztec manuscript

book by Bernardino de Sahagún

Aztec codex

Tutinama (), literal meaning "Tales of a Parrot", is a 14th-century series of 52 stories in Persian. The work remains well-known largely because of a number of lavishly illustrated manuscripts, especially a version containing 250 miniature paintings commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 1550s. The Persian text used was edited in the 14th century from an earlier anthology 'Seventy Tales of the Parrot' in Sanskrit compiled under the title Śukasaptati (a part of katha literature) dated to the 12th century. In India, parrots (in light of their purported conversational abilities) are popu

Turkish epic about the life of Muhammad

thumb|200px|The Court of Akbar, an illustration from a manuscript of the Akbarnama The Ain-i-Akbari (), or the "Administration of Akbar", is a detailed document regarding the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abu'l Fazl, in the Persian language between 1589 and 1596. It forms Volume III and the final part of the much larger document, the Akbarnama (Account of Akbar), also by Abu'l-Fazl, and is itself in three volumes.

illustrated manuscript of the Shahnameh

record of ships of the English Tudor navy of the 1540s

16th-century Russian chronicle

Early 16th century Book of Hours by Jean Bourdichon

Aztec textual and pictorial history book

manuscript

Aztec codex

Aztec pictorial manuscript

illuminated manuscript made in the Ottoman Empire in 1582

1515 Polish illuminated missal

manuscript of English sacred music (15th Century)

Flemish illuminated breviary, ca. 1510-20

16th-century book manuscript

sketchbook by Francisco de Holanda

manuscript on the game of chess

16th-century lienzo (cloth painting) of the Nahua

16th century family chronicle of the German noble family of Zimmern

sixteenth-century illuminated codex

The '''''Şeca'atname''' (, Şecāʿatnāme or Šajāʿat-nāme'', "Book of Valor" or "Book of Bravery") was an illustrated record of the exploits of the Ottoman statesman and general Özdemiroǧlu Osman Pasha during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590), written by his secretary Dal Mehmed Çelebi Asafi (d. 1597–98) and completed in September 1586.

16th-century illuminated manuscript

16th century book of hours illuminated by Simon Bening

postconquest cartographic Aztec codex

Collection of sermons

Book of the Chief Armourer, authored by the King of Arms João do Cró

16th-century Nahuatl-language manuscript