A King's Book of Kings: The Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp
- ISBN-10
- 0870990284
- ISBN-13
- 9780870990281
- Category
- Art, Iranian
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1972-01-01
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Author
- Stuart Cary Welch
Description
Reproduces pages from a sixteenth-century Islamic manuscript which details early Iranian history and contains miniatures by leading Safavid painters
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- 2012-10
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- Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
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