The Shahnama Of Shah Tahmasp The Persian Book Of Kings
About this book
"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576"--Director's Foreword, p. 7.
Subjects
Metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.)Illumination of books and manuscriptsIran, antiquitiesIranian Illumination of books and manuscriptsMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)