Curator
Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition
Story of How Garsivaz is Tortured to Capture Afrasiyab (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Story of Bahman Seeking Rustam and Launching a Boulder toward Him (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Story of the Expedition of the Army of Rum to Iran (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Episodes from the Story of Mahuy (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Text (recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Double page: The Death of Luhrasp in Battle against the Forces of Arjasp (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad (recto); Geneaology of the Prophet Muhammad (verso) , left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Ismail bin Ibrahim Bosnavi (calligrapher, d. 1748)
Episodes from the wedding of Zal and Rudaba
Persian
Text concerning Rustam’s fifth and sixth trials (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Sultan Sanjar and the Old Woman (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Makhsan al-Asrar) by Nizami
Persian
Colophon (text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
The Burial of Yazdigird (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Story of Piran Convincing Siyavush to Take Farangis as his Wife (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Double page: Rustam Mourns Sohrab and Carries His Coffin (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
Episodes from the Story of Hurmuzd (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Persian
The Story of Rustam and Bahman (text, recto and verso), folio from the Shahnama of Firdawsi
Persian
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad, right-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Ismail bin Ibrahim Bosnavi (calligrapher, d. 1748)
Frontispiece from a Prayer Book (recto and verso), folio from a manuscript, right-hand side of a bifolio
Persian
Verses from the Divan by Hafiz (recto and verso); folio from a manuscript, left-hand side of a bifolio
Persian
Frontispiece from a Prayer Book (recto and verso), folio from a manuscript, left-hand side of a bifolio
Persian