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Firdawsi's Shahnama: Iskandar visits Queen Qaidafa of Andalucia

1341
Object PlaceShiraz, Iran
Medium/TechniqueInk, color and gold on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 37.1 × 30 cm (14 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number20.1841
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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
Seated Dervish
Mu'in ad-Din
late 16th century
Folios 1 Verso; Folio 2 Recto
'Abdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Fadlallah ibn 'Abd al-Hamid al-Qadi al-Qazvini
1339 A.D./ 739 A.H.
Volume 13
'Abdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Fadlallah ibn 'Abd al-Hamid al-Qadi al-Qazvini
1338 A.D./ 739 A.H.
Page with calligraphy, Sura 20:4-8 of the Qur'an
Yāqūt al-Musta‘ṣimī
late 13th-14th century
Page with illuminated calligraphy
al-Sayyid Meḥmed Şeref bin ‘Abdu’r-Raḥīm Fá’iz
18th century
Page from a Qur'an manuscript
Muḥammad ibn al-Waḥīd
about 1306–1311