Details

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Leaf from the Shāhnāmah with a miniature depicting the king Bahrām feasting with the watercarrier Lanbak while Bahrām's horse eats in the stable.

Notes

• Ms. leaf.
• Title from heading.
• Physical description: Written in small naskh in black in six columns on tan Arabic paper. Text bordered by gold and red; columns separated by double red lines. Heading in gold set within a rectangle bordered by red and blue. With one miniature measuring 45 x 124 mm. The leaf has been mounted onto pasted board and framed in brown paper.
• Origin: According to Moghadam, the miniature is from the 14th century.

Language note

Persian.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. E. et al. Garrett collection, no. 194

OCLC

773290466

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