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Accession number:
MS M.1010
Title:
A warrior pierced with arrows, from an abridgement of Firdausī's Shāhnāma.
Created:
Bīdar, Andhra Pradesh, 1734.
Credit:
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1979.
Description:
1 single leaf (15 lines) : paper, ill. ; 241 x 126 mm
Provenance:
Paul F. Walter.
Notes:
Ms. miniature; written and illuminated in Bīdar, Andhra Pradesh, in 1734.
"The text on the verso is written in a cursive script and is from a prose abridgement of Firdausī's Shāhnāma"--Cf. Schmitz.
"The private owner of the manuscript from which this folio was removed has said that that the colophon is dated A.H. 1147 (1734) at Bidar"--Cf. Schmitz.
Miniature measures 203 x 93 mm.
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