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Shahnama Project : Shahnama

Firdausi

Shahnama Project

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>This is an interesting, unusual manuscript with a set of illustrations of rather strong design, usually in stepped format. Among its notable features is that it contains a picture for each of the combats of the Eleven Champions. For this episode and some of the illustrations, see Charles Melville, “Serial killers: the mise-en-page of Firdausi’s ‘Davazdah rukh’”, Persica 23 (2009-10), pp. 73-107.</p><p>The ms. is numbered on every page. (Ch.M.)</p><p>See the description by S.A. Sharifzadeh, Namvarnama, Tehran, 1370 sh./1991, pp. 78-96; also Baqir Najafi, Shahnama-ha-yi Iran, 1997, p. 512, pls. 335-337, for bindings and text pages.</p></p>

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