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Rustam's horse Rakhsh fights a lion while Rustam sleeps, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Title	Rustam's horse Rakhsh fights a lion while Rustam sleeps, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi
Publication Date:	1590-1600
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	408 mm x 262 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 277.22
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1590-1600
Notes	Rustam's horse Rakhsh fights a lion while Rustam sleeps, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi. Pausing during a long journey, the hero Rustam sleeps while his brave horse Rakhsh fights and kills a lion. On waking up, Rustam scolds the horse for risking his own life as well as their mission to Mazandaran, to save the king of Iran from the White Div. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, pasted to card, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (unfinished) and gold-painted borders (on recto), and blank verso, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Abu al-Qasim Firdausi (d. 1022), folio possibly produced Qazvin, Iran, c. 1590-1600, this painting worked as part of an intervention led by Muhammad Zaman, Isfahan, Iran, 1675-1676. 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, Isfahan
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Rustam's horse Rakhsh fights a lion while Rustam sleeps, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Publication Date 1590-1600

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 408 mm x 262 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 277.22

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1590-1600

Notes Rustam's horse Rakhsh fights a lion while Rustam sleeps, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi. Pausing during a long journey, the hero Rustam sleeps while his brave horse Rakhsh fights and kills a lion. On waking up, Rustam scolds the horse for risking his own life as well as their mission to Mazandaran, to save the king of Iran from the White Div. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, pasted to card, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (unfinished) and gold-painted borders (on recto), and blank verso, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Abu al-Qasim Firdausi (d. 1022), folio possibly produced Qazvin, Iran, c. 1590-1600, this painting worked as part of an intervention led by Muhammad Zaman, Isfahan, Iran, 1675-1676. 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, Isfahan

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script