Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020)

Object Details

• Description

  Manuscript; Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi; Persian in black nasta'liq script; 633 folios with a double-page frontispiece (fols. 7 verso, and 8 recto), one sarlawh (fol. 8 verso), one dated colophon (fol.633 recto), 44 paintings, and seals (fols. 12 recto, 366 recto, 633 recto/verso); inscriptions (fols. 633 recto/ verso, 635 recto); Muhammad Qasim b. Hajji Muhammad Kashani added a glossary of words (fols. 1-6) to the manuscript in A.H Muharram 1257 (A.D. February 1847); standard page: 4 columns of text.

  Binding: The manuscript is bound in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century; the binding is of brown leather over paper pasteboards with block-stamped medallions, cornerpieces, and doublures of marbled paper.

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Topic

  Trees, S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination, Shahnama

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts