Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)
Unknown Artist
c. 1444
Medium
opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Dimensions
32.7 × 22 cm
Classification
Manuscript
Department
Islamic Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1956.10.b
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This text page is the first page of a Shahnama manuscript with an illuminated heading containing the basmala ("In the name of Allah, etc.") followed by the text of the preface to the Shahnama.