01251cam a2200217 a 4500 vtls000183657 20161121114449.0 160926s2014 xxka b 000 0 eng d 9780300194548 (hbk.) PK-LaUMT 891.5511 CAN-S Canby, Sheila R. The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp : the Persian book of kings / Sheila R. Canby New Haven : Yale University press, 2014 359 P. color illustrations ; 34 cm. 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. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian. BK 88850 88850 0 0 0 0 01 01 2016-11-21 2 891.5511 CAN-S 103026 2023-01-03 00:00:00 2022-09-07 2016-11-21 BK