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020			_a9780300194548 (hbk.)
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082			_a891.5511 _bCAN-S
100	1		_aCanby, Sheila R.
245	1	4	_aThe Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp : _bthe Persian book of kings / _cSheila R. Canby
260		2	_aNew Haven : _bYale University press, _c2014
300			_a359 P. _bcolor illustrations ; _c34 cm.
500			_aPublished 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.
520			_a"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.
546			_aText in English and Persian.
650		0	_aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian.
942			_cBK
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