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Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Julia Gonnella, Friederike Weis and Christoph Rauch -- Contents and Contexts: Re-viewing the Diez Albums /Julian Raby -- Memorabilia of Asia: Diez's Albums Revisited /David J. Roxburgh -- The Oriental Manuscripts and Albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez and the Perception of Persian Painting in His Time /Christoph Rauch -- The Perusal of the Topkapı Albums: A Story of Connoisseurship /Lâle Uluç -- Repetition of Illustrations in the Topkapı Palace and Diez Albums /Zeren Tanındı -- Jaʻfar Tabrizi, "Second Inventor" of the Nastaʻlīq Script, and the Diez Albums /Simon Rettig -- The Illustration of the Turko-Mongol Era in the Berlin Diez Albums /Charles Melville -- The Mongols Enthroned /Yuka Kadoi -- Royal Insignia in the Periods from the Ilkhanids to the Timurids in the Diez Albums /Claus-Peter Haase -- The Depiction of Horses in the Diez Albums /Barbara Brend -- Brave Warriors of Diez /Filiz Çakır Phillip -- Models, Sketches, and Pounced Drawings in the Diez Albums: First Steps in the Making of Illustrated Manuscripts /Yves Porter -- A Persianate Drawing of the Tazza Farnese: A Work by Muhammad Khayyam? /Friederike Weis -- Scientific Investigation of Carbon Inks: An Analytical Challenge /Oliver Hahn -- The Great Mongol Shāhnāma: Some Proposed Repatriations /Robert Hillenbrand -- The Great Jalayirid Shāhnāma /Bernard O'Kane -- The Dīvān of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and the Diez and Istanbul Albums /Massumeh Farhad -- Illustrated Messages of Love in the Diez Albums /Karin Rührdanz -- Persianate Images between Europe and China: The "Frankish Manner" in the Diez and Topkapı Albums, c. 1350-1450 /Gülru Necipoğlu -- Iconographic Turn: On Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Iconography in the Diez Albums /Ching-Ling Wang -- The Ottomans in Diez's Collection /Serpil Bağcı -- Appendix 1: Conference Programme -- Appendix 2: Masterpieces from the Serail: The Albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751-1817) /Julia Gonnella -- Credits -- Index of Names,