BĀYSONḠORĪ ŠĀH-NĀMA ii. THE PAINTINGS Of the three great extant royal Šāh-nāmas—the others being the Il-khanid (“Demotte”) version of ca….

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…