Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)
1435–1449
- Medium
- opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 32.7 x 22 cm (12 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- Manuscript
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)
About
This text page is the first page of a Shahnama manuscript with an illuminated heading containing the basmala ("In the name of Allah, etc.") followed by the text of the preface to the Shahnama.