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ANONYMOUS
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Title:
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Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
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Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
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16.5 x 9.3 inches.
42.0 x 23.5 cm.
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In original colours.
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Written by the scribe Aby Bakr Jami in Isfahan on polished paper. Verso 4 columns text in black and red. Size of paper 420x235mm.
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Page with large miniature 187 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 60, 000 verses, the Shahnameh is the world's longest epic poetry written by a single poet.
It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.
The work is of central importance in Persian culture, regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of ethno-national cultural identity of modern-day Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is also important to the contemporary adherents of Zoroastrianism, in that it traces the historical links between the beginnings of the religion with the death of the last Sassanid ruler of Persia during the Muslim conquest and an end to the Zoroastrian influence in Iran. (source wikipedia)
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