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MSS 1030 135b
MSS 1030 135b
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Rustam and the Seven Warriors at the hunting-ground of Afrasiyab

MSS 1030, folio 135

Tabriz, Iran

circa 1530

MSS 1030 135b
MSS 1030 135b
MSS 1030 135a
MSS 1030
Ten Folios from the Copy of Firdawsi ‘s Shahnamah Made for Shah Tahmasp (Houghton Shahnamah)
MSS 1030, folio 25
‘The Death of King Mirdas’, Folio 25 from the Shahnamah of Shah Tahmasp
MSS 1030, folio 27
Zahhak Receives the Daughters of Jamshid
MSS 1030, folio 30
Zahhak slays the sacred cow Barmayah
MSS 1030, folio 38
Faridun’s mother Faranak sends gifts to her son
MSS 1030, folio 89b
Mihrab’s wife, Sindukht, comes out with slaves carrying gifts to welcome Sam
MSS 1030, folio 119
Rustam slays a dragon
MSS 1030, folio 279
The combat of Rustam and Shangul
MSS 1030, folio 516
Ardavan’s slave-girl Gulnar with the young Ardashir
MSS 1030, folio 731
The musician Barbad conceals himself in a tree

Rustam and the Seven Warriors at the hunting-ground of Afrasiyab

MSS 1030, folio 135

Tabriz, Iran

circa 1530

ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; margins heavily sprinkled with gold

text copied in a superior nasta‘liq script, with 22 lines to the page, arranged in 4 columns, two to a couplet; headings (on the recto) in riqa‘

47.2 x 32cm (folio); 26.8 x 17cm (written surface, recto); 26.7 x 21.2cm (illustration, verso)

Rustam and the Seven Warriors head to the hunting ground of Afrasiyab in Turan, with their troops, hounds, flacons and gear. After a week of hunting, birds and beasts lay everywhere in heaps, some killed, some wounded.

[For the Shahnamah of Shah Tahmasp, see MSS 1030]

J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.305, p.267.

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