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Text (recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
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This text folio includes both poetry and prose written in nasta'liq script. The poetry is divided into four columns and is separated by colorful lines. The text concerns Mahmud of Ghazni, who was Firdawsi’s patron.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[Christies London 17 October 1995 lot no. 79]. [Mansour Gallery London before 1998] sold; to Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Belmont MA (by 1998-2002) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2002.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
Title: Text (recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Description:
This text folio includes both poetry and prose written in nasta'liq script.
The poetry is divided into four columns and is separated by colorful lines.
The text concerns Mahmud of Ghazni, who was Firdawsi’s patron.
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