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Shahnama Project

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>For a detailed description of this manuscript and a list of the paintings, see Schmitz and Desai, 2006, pp. 206-207, listing the dimensions of the paintings, and pls. 314-317. The colophon gives a full statement of the date and place of copying, and the scribe. Mahmud b. Muhammad al-Tustari also copied a Nizami in 849/1446; Schmitz and Desai also note the work of another calligrapher based in Abarquh.</p><p>The paintings are in an offshoot of the Shiraz style of the period.</p><p>There are 5-6 'arz-didas on the flyleaf, the third of which is dated 1193/1779.</p><p>The manuscript is paginated not foliated: there are 1074 pages.</p><p>Initial investigation by Afsaneh Firouz in February 2009, with the images.</p><p>.</p></p>

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