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Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn (?) Husaini, known as al-Mausili (calligrapher)
Description
فارسی: برگی از شاهنامه از قرن هشتم هجری که داستان رستم و اسفندیار را نوشته‌است.
English: Folio from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnameh: Rustam and Esfandiar.
Français : Page d'un manuscript du Shahnameh de Ferdowsi : Rustam and Esfandiar.
Date 741 AD (1341 AH)
Medium ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions length: 30.2 cm (11.8 in); height: 36.8 cm (14.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2043,30.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2048,36.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Department of Islamic Art
Accession number
57.51.36
Object history

commissioned by al-Hasan Qawam al-Daula wa'l-Din

place of creation: Shiraz, Iran
Credit line 1956: bequeathed by Cora Timken Burnett
References Metropolitan Museum of Art: entry 140008731
Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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