Shāh-nāmah of Firdausī
Subtitle: the book of the Persian kings. With 24 illus. from a fifteenth-century Persian manuscript in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society.
By: Described by J.V.S. Wilkinson, with an introd. on the paintings by Laurence Binyon.
Contributors: Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Firdawsī; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Persia; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc; Manuscripts, Persian -- Facsimiles; Painting -- Persia; Mogul Empire
Notes: "In outlining the structure of Firdausi'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]