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ArtChart | An illustrated and illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnameh: Zahhak wounds Jamshid in battle, Persia, Shiraz, Safavid, mid-16th century by Unknown Artist

An illustrated and illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnameh: Zahhak wounds Jamshid in battle, Persia, Shiraz, Safavid, mid-16th century

Unknown Artist
An illustrated and illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnameh: Zahhak wounds Jamshid in battle, Persia, Shiraz, Safavid, mid-16th century
Handicrafts and classics, Calligraphy, manuscript
27.8 * 44.4 cm
gouache and ink heightened with gold on paper, 10 lines to the page above and below the painting, written in nasta’liq in black ink within 4 columns, ruled in gold, green, red and blue, the reverse with 17 oblique and horizontal lines to the page in black nasta’liq

text panel: 27.5 by 16.5cm.
leaf: 44.4 by 27.8cm.