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Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Author Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (Iranian, Paj ca. 940/41–1020 Tus)
1475–1675
- Medium
- Leather; tooled and gilded; ink on paper
- Classification
- Codices
- Dimensions
- H. 18 1/2 in. (47 cm) W. 13 in. (33 cm) D. 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
