The Shāh-nāmah of Firdausī. With 24 illustrations from a fifteenth-century manuscript formerly in the Imperial Library, Delhi, and now in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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Author / Creator:Wilkinson, J. V. S. (James Vere Stewart)
Imprint:London, The India Society, 1931.
Description:xx, 92 p. 24 plates (part col.) 31 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Firdawsī. -- Shāhnāmah
Shāhnāmah (Firdawsī)
Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Iran
Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc.
Manuscripts, Persian -- Facsimiles.
Painting -- Iran.
Illumination of books and manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Persian.
Painting.
Mogul Empire
India -- Mogul Empire.
Iran.
Facsimiles.
Specimens.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2130191
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Other authors / contributors:Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943
India Society.
Notes:"In outlining the structure of Firdausī's great epic, and sketching the principal stories, I have concentrated principally on the subjects of the miniatures in the manuscript with which the following pages are concerned."--Pref.
Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
"Chief authorities": p. [vii]

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