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Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)
Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)
c. 1444
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Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period
(1370-1501)
Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Overall: 32.7 x 22 cm (12 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1956.10.b
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This text page is the first page of a Shahnama manuscript with an illuminated heading containing the basmala ("In the name of Allah, etc.") followed by the text of the preface to the Shahnama.
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