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Faridun’s sons meet King Sarv of Yemen and his daughters, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Title	Faridun’s sons meet King Sarv of Yemen and his daughters, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi
Publication Date:	1590-1600
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	407 mm x 260 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 277.5
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1590-1600
Notes	Faridun’s sons meet King Sarv of Yemen and his daughters, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi. King Sarv of Yemen sits in the centre, with his three daughters on the left, and the three sons of Faridun on the right, in a palace courtyard with garden landscape beyond. Sarv begrudgingly accepts that his daughters may now marry the Iranian princes, because the boys have solved his riddle. On the upper right, a woman (the girls' mother) sits alone on a balcony, and there is an empty nest in the plane tree overhead. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto) and illuminated rubric ("Faridun tests his sons", both on verso), with gold-painted borders, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Abu al-Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020), attributed to the early reign of Safavid Shah `Abbas I (r. 1587-1629), Qazvin, Iran, undated, c. 1590-1600. This is one of twenty-two folios in the Chester Beatty, all from the same partial copy (possibly never fully completed) of Firdausi's Shahnama: ten folios are in a modern binding, twelve are mounted separately. Most of these folios are not directly sequential, and fall into three sets, narrating the earliest kings, Faridun and his descendants, and Rustam.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold pigment
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri	Unknown, Qazvin
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Faridun’s sons meet King Sarv of Yemen and his daughters, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Publication Date 1590-1600

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 407 mm x 260 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 277.5

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1590-1600

Notes Faridun’s sons meet King Sarv of Yemen and his daughters, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi. King Sarv of Yemen sits in the centre, with his three daughters on the left, and the three sons of Faridun on the right, in a palace courtyard with garden landscape beyond. Sarv begrudgingly accepts that his daughters may now marry the Iranian princes, because the boys have solved his riddle. On the upper right, a woman (the girls' mother) sits alone on a balcony, and there is an empty nest in the plane tree overhead. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto) and illuminated rubric ("Faridun tests his sons", both on verso), with gold-painted borders, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Abu al-Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020), attributed to the early reign of Safavid Shah `Abbas I (r. 1587-1629), Qazvin, Iran, undated, c. 1590-1600. This is one of twenty-two folios in the Chester Beatty, all from the same partial copy (possibly never fully completed) of Firdausi's Shahnama: ten folios are in a modern binding, twelve are mounted separately. Most of these folios are not directly sequential, and fall into three sets, narrating the earliest kings, Faridun and his descendants, and Rustam.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold pigment

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri Unknown, Qazvin

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script