Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); verso: Arzu, the jeweler’s daughter, plays before Bahram Gur; recto: text: Bahram reaches the jeweler's house

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi; text: Persian in black naskh script; recto: text, Bahram reaches the jeweler's house, 4 columns, 33 lines; verso: illustration and text, Arzu, the jeweler's daughter, plays before Bahram Gur, 4 columns, 21 lines; one of a group of 7 folios.

  Border: The text and the painting are set in red rulings on cream-colored paper.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Engaging the Senses (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

  Untitled Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1935 (1935)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Date

  1300s

• Topic

  Art, King, Arts of the Islamic World, Mongol period (1220 - 1380), Bahram Gur, Shahnama

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Naskh script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts