Shahnama Project : Shahnama

Firdausi

Shahnama Project

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Exhibited in CBL Shahnama exhibition, 2010-11, with date given as c. 1575.</p><p>This manuscript is in an excellent condition. The binding is a dark brown leather with gold inscriptions around a central gold illuminated box. The section headings are in gold and are mostly nicely illuminated by blue paint with flowers.The date of the manuscript makes it a rare copy - there are very few others from the first decade of the 16th century, and only one of the same year, in the Dar al-Kutub, Cairo, of Shawwal 905/April 1500 (Ch.M.).Initial investigation by Amin Mahdavi.</p><p>Link to the entry in the online database: https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/Per_295/1/</p></p>