Iran: An illustrated page from Firdausi's Shahnama: 'Mubad i-Mubadan gives food to the captive Vizier Izad i-Gashap', early 14th century.

The first extant copies of Firdausi’s celebrated 11th-century Persian epic, the Book of Kings, were written under the Il-Khanids. This miniature comes from one of the 'small Shah-namas' that are considered by some to be precursors of the period’s more mature masterpiece, the 'great Shah-nama'.

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Pictures From History

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Scripts and Writing, Great Khans,