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The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp : the Persian book of kings / Sheila R. Canby

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University press, 2014Description: 359 P. color illustrations ; 34 cmISBN:
  • 9780300194548 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.5511 CAN-S
Summary: "The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576"--Director's Foreword, p. 7.
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Published in conjunction with the opening of the galleries for the art of the Arab lands, Turkey, Iran, central Asia, and later south Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on Nov. 1, 2011.

"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576"--Director's Foreword, p. 7.

Text in English and Persian.

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