Title: Faridun’s mother Faranak sends gifts to her son
Location: Tabriz, Iran
Materials: ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; margins heavily sprinkled with gold
Dimensions: 47.2 x 32.1cm (folio); 27.1 x 17.4cm (written surface, recto); 37.4 x 17.5cm (maximum; illustration, verso)
Accession Number: MSS 1030, folio 38
Other Notes:
Zahhak slays the sacred cow Barmayah, whose holy milk had nourished the infant Faridun, and all the other animals in sight.
[For the Shahnamah of Shah Tahmasp, see MSS 1030]
Script:
text copied in a superior nasta‘liq script, generally with 22 lines to the page, arranged in 4 columns, two to a couplet
Bibliography:
J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.301, p.265.
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