The Shāh-nāmah of Firdausī
Subtitle: the book of the Persian kings.
By: With 24 illustrations from a fifteenth-century Persian manuscript in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society.  Described by J. V. S. Wilkinson, with an introduction on the paintings by Laurence Binyon.
Contributors: Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, H. Milford
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Firdawsī; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Iran; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc; Manuscripts, Persian -- Facsimiles; Painting -- Iran; Mogul Empire
Notes: "Chief authorities" : p.[vii]
"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.
Another issue, with same imprint date, was published by the India society.