Shapur is enthroned as an infant, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi
Chester Beatty

Shapur is enthroned as an infant, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

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Chester Beatty

Shapur is enthroned as an infant, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi. Born shortly after his father Narsi's death, Shapur is enthroned as a baby, and attended by servants and courtiers. His mother rests in the upstairs pavilion, on the upper left. This is one of ten folios detached from its codex (also in the Chester Beatty collection, Per 270), the second volume in a two-volume set of this text, illustrated by the Isfahan painter Mu`in Musavvir. Volume one is in the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (Ms22): its colophon is dated Jumada II 1064H (April 1654), with four of its paintings dated 1065H or 1067H (1654-1657). Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto), from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi (codex CB Per 270), painting signed Mu'in Musavvir, Isfahan, Iran, 1655.

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