BĀYSONḠORĪ ŠĀH-NĀMA i. THE MANUSCRIPT The Bāysonḡorī Šāh-nāma manuscript was commissioned by the Timurid prince Ḡīāṯ-al-Dīn Bāysonḡor b. Šāhroḵ (d….

BĀYSONḠORĪ ŠĀH-NĀMA, an illuminated and gilded manuscript of Ferdowsī’s Šāh-nāma measur­ing 26.5 x 38 cm, containing 346 pages and twenty-one…

BARMĀYA, the name of a cow associated with Ferēdūn and eventually killed by Żaḥḥāk. The form Barmāya is found only…

AZRAQĪ HERAVĪ, the pen-name of Abū Bakr b. Esmāʿīl Warrāq of Herat, a Persian poet of the 5th/11th century. His…