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Ṭahmūras defeats the demon army, attributed to Reẓā `Abbāsī (d. 1635), from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)

Title	Ṭahmūras defeats the demon army, attributed to Reẓā `Abbāsī (d. 1635), from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)
Publication Date:	1590-1600
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	405 mm x 262 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 277.17
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1590-1600
Notes	Ṭahmūras defeats the demon army, attributed to Reẓā `Abbāsī (d. 1635), from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma). Across a rocky mountain, king Ṭahmūras and his army defeat the rebellious dīvs (or demons). On horseback, Ṭahmūras delivers a blow with his mace to the Black Dīv, while his forces scatter the others. The demons offer to surrender, and promise in return for peace that they will teach the art of reading and writing to mankind. Tahmuras learns almost thirty scripts. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto), illuminated rubric ("Jamshīd's reign was sixty years", on verso), and gold-painted borders, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma) by Abū al-Qāsim Firdausī (d. 1020), attributed to the early reign of Safavid Shāh `Abbās I (r. 1587-1629), Qazvin or Isfahan, 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 Firdausī's Shāhnāma: 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, Farīdūn and his descendants, and Rustam.
Materyal	Paper (material), Ink (material), Pigment (material), Gold pigment
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri	Unknown, Qazvin
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Ṭahmūras defeats the demon army, attributed to Reẓā `Abbāsī (d. 1635), from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)

Publication Date 1590-1600

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 405 mm x 262 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 277.17

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1590-1600

Notes Ṭahmūras defeats the demon army, attributed to Reẓā `Abbāsī (d. 1635), from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma). Across a rocky mountain, king Ṭahmūras and his army defeat the rebellious dīvs (or demons). On horseback, Ṭahmūras delivers a blow with his mace to the Black Dīv, while his forces scatter the others. The demons offer to surrender, and promise in return for peace that they will teach the art of reading and writing to mankind. Tahmuras learns almost thirty scripts. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto), illuminated rubric ("Jamshīd's reign was sixty years", on verso), and gold-painted borders, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma) by Abū al-Qāsim Firdausī (d. 1020), attributed to the early reign of Safavid Shāh `Abbās I (r. 1587-1629), Qazvin or Isfahan, 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 Firdausī's Shāhnāma: 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, Farīdūn and his descendants, and Rustam.

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

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri Unknown, Qazvin

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script