The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
Subtitle: the Persian Book of kings
By: introduction by Sheila R. Canby ; [edited by Philomena Mariani]
Contributors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Series: [Metropolitan Museum of Art series]
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; New Haven; London
Language: eng; per
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781588394361; 9781588394378; 9780300175868; 9780300179422
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Iranian Illumination of books and manuscripts
Description: "The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576."--Director's Foreword, p. 7.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the opening of the galleries for the art of the Arab lands, Turkey, Iran, central Asia, and later south Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on Nov. 1, 2011.

Issued in slip case.

Includes bibliographical references (page 287).

Text in English and Persian.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp / Sheila R. Canby; title: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: the Persian Book of Kings.