Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)
Unknown Artist
c. 1444
Medium
opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Dimensions
32.7 × 22 cm
Classification
Manuscript
Department
Islamic Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1956.10.b
About this artwork
This text page is the first page of a Shahnama manuscript with an illuminated heading containing the basmala ("In the name of Allah, etc.") followed by the text of the preface to the Shahnama.