General

Losty, Jeremiah P (1982). The Art of the Book in India. London:British Library.

Seyller, John (2004). The Walters Art Museum Diwan of Amir Hasan Dihlawi and Salim's Atelier at Allahbad. in Arts ofMughal India: Studies in Honour of Robert Skelton .London:Victoria and Albert Museum.

Seyller, John (2001). Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Walters Art Museum Khamsa of Amīr Khusraw of Delhi. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum.

Storey, C (1994). A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey. London: Luzac; Leiden:E.J. Brill; London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Artists

Ibrāhīmī Ḥusaynī, Aḥmad (1959). Calligraphers and Painters: A Treatise by Qāḍī Aḥmad, Son of Mīr-Munshī, circa A.H. 1015 / A.D. 1606. Translated from the Persian by V. Minorsky, with an Introduction by B.N. Zakhoder;Translated from the Russian by T. Minorsky. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art.

Verma, Som Prakash (1995). Mughal Painters and their Work: A Biographical Survey and Comprehensive Catalogue. New York : Oxford University Press

Script

Blair, Sheila (2007). Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Illustartion and Illumination

Beach, Milo Cleveland (1978). The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660. Williamstown, Mass: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.

Brend, Barbara (2003.). Perspectives on Persian Painting:Illustrations to Amīr Khusrau's Khamsah. London; New York: Routledge/Curzon.

Brend, Barbara (1995). The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami.London: British Library.

Carboni, Stefano (2015). The wonders of creation and the singularities of painting: a study of the Ilkhanid London Qazvīnī. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press.

Das, Asok Kumar (1986). Splendour of Mughal Painting. Bombay:Vakils, Feffer, and Simons.

 Ettinghausen, Richard (1961). Paintings of the Sultans and Emperors of India in American Collections. New Delhi: Lalit Kalā Akademi.

Grube, Ernst J., and Alberta Maria Fabris (1962). Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. Venezia: Pozza.

Rice, D. S. (1983). The unique Ibn al-Bawwab manuscript : complete facsimile edition of the earliest surviving naskhi Qu'ran, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, manuscript K. 16. Graz: Akademische.

Smart, Ellen S.  (1986). Yet another illustrated Akbari Baburnama manuscript. Facets of Indian art.

 Suleymanova, Fazila (1985). Miniatures Illuminations of Nisami's “Hamsah”. Tashkent: Fan.

Catalogs

Arberry, Arthur J. (1962). The Chester Beatty Library: A catalogue of  the persian manuscripts and miniature (v.3). indices by Jean Watson. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis.

Arberry, Arthur J. (1967). A Handlist of the Korans in the Chester Beatty Library. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis.

B.W. Robinson (1980). Persian paintings in the John Rylands Library: a descriptive catalogue .London: Sotheby Parke Bernet.

Gacek, Adam (2005). Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. Montreal: McGill University Libraries.

Minovi, M., Robinson, B. W., Wilkinson, J. V., Blochet, E., & Arberry, A. J. (1962). The Chester Beatty Library. a catalogue of the Persian manuscripts and miniatures.

Rieu, Charles (1879). Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum.

Richard, Francis (1989). Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale. 1989.

Richard, Francis (1997). Splendeurs persanes: manuscrits du XIIe au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Schmitz, Barbara, et al (1997). Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library.

Simsar, Muhammed Ahmed (1937). Oriental Manuscripts of the John Frederick Lewis Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia: A Descriptive Catalogue with Forty-eight Illustrations. Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia