Cleveland Museum of Art
Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)
- Date
- c. 1444
- Medium
- opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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