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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.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wilkinson, J. V. S. (James Vere Stewart)
Contributor:
Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943.
India society.
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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