The Shāh-nāmah of Firdausī
Subtitle: With 24 illustrations from a fifteenth-century manuscript formerly in the Imperial Library, Delhi, and now in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society
By: Described by J. V. S. Wilkinson, with an introduction on the paintings by Laurence Binyon
Contributors: Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943; India Society (London, England)
Publisher: The India Society
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts; Specimens; Persian Manuscripts; Facsimiles; Painting
Notes: "In outlining the structure of Firdausī's great epic, and sketching the principal stories, I have concentrated principally on the subjects of the miniatures in the manuscript with which the following pages are concerned."--Pref.

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

"Chief authorities": p. [vii]