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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 / Described by J.V.S. Wilkinson, with an introduction on the paintings by Laurence Binyon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, J. V. S. (James Vere Stewart)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Firdawsī. Shāhnāmah.
- Firdawsī.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts--Iran.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts.
- Iran.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Persian--Facsimiles.
- Manuscripts, Persian.
- Painting--Iran.
- Painting.
- Mughal Empire.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Facsimiles.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 92 pages, 2 leaves : xxiv plates (part color; including frontispiece). ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : The India society, 1931.
- 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 with thich the following paged are concerned"--Pref.
- Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
- "Chief authorities": page [vii].
- OCLC:
- 2880539
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