Shahnama

Detail from from the Timurid Manuscripts, the Nahj-Al-Faradis. Estimate £2,000,000 - £3,000,000 ($2,600,000 - $3,900,000)
The Nahj al-Faradis: Rare Book of the Week
This week's Rare Book of the Week comes up for auction at Christie’s in its spring sale of Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds on May 1, an extremely rare
Folio from a ‘Shahnama’ (‘Book of Kings’) by Firdawsi (d. 1020); Anushirvan bestowing largess upon his minister Buzurjmihr”
The Great Mongol Shahnama: Rare Book of the Week
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art's exhibition An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama focuses on the first imperial copy of Iran’s natio