Cleveland Museum of Art
Persian Verses: The Fortieth Year of King Kisra Nushirwan's Reign and the Story of Buzurgmihr (recto); Portrait of Nushirwan the Just (verso) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)
1330–35
The <em>Shahnama</em>, a great epic poem in 50,000 verses, traces the history of Iran from legendary times through the Sasanian period.
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