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Bahram Gur sleeps out in the courtyard of the inhospitable Baraham, feasting inside, folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) of Firdausi.
Detached folio, ink, pigments and gold on paper, later mounted onto card, Persian text with painting, probably Tabriz, Iran, c. 1300.
This folio is from a dispersed manuscript known to scholars as the "First Small Shahnama", of which seventy-seven folios are now in the Chester Beatty. The "Small Shahnama" manuscripts are the earliest known illustrated examples of the Book of Kings (Shahnama), the epic Persian poem composed c. 1010 by Firdausi. Two manuscripts are dispersed, and a third is in the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC. Of small format, these three manuscripts are undated, but usually attributed to c. 1300 on stylistic grounds. Details of iconography confirm that production was after the Mongol invasions of Iran and Iraq, and the establishment of Ilkhanid rule in 1258.
Bahram Gur sleeps out in the courtyard of the inhospitable Baraham, feasting inside, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi
Per 104.55
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Persian collection
Persian (language)
Approved Category 2017/Manuscript/Codex/Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Approved Place 2018/Middle East/Iran
Approved Place 2018/Middle East/Iran
Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Naskh script
c. 1300
1300
1000
1310
1010
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Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material)
Approved Material 2018/Inorganic/Metal (material)/Non-ferrous metal/Gold
Paper (material)
Ink (material)
Pigment (material)
Gold
GOOD
178 mm x 144 mm (height x width)
cre
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Iran
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