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Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi — VisualArtsDB

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Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

1450–1699

Medium: Leather; tooled and gilded; ink on paper
Dimensions: H. 18 1/2 in. (47 cm) W. 13 in. (33 cm) D. 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)
Genre: Codices
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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