Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s

Swietochowski, Marie Lukens, and Stefano Carboni, with essays by A. H. Morton and Tomoko Masuya (1994)

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Preface
Daniel Walke

The Illustrations in the Munis al-ahrar
Stefano Carboni

Catalogue numbers 1–7
Stefano Carboni

The Mu'nis al-ahrar and Its Twenty-ninth Chapter
A.H. Morton

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Small Shahnama
Marie Lukens Swietochowski

Catalogue numbers 8–48
Marie Lukens Swietochowski

The Condition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Small Shahnama and the Reconstruction of Its Text
Tomoko Masuya

Selected Bibliography

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Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Enameled and Gilded Glass from Islamic Lands." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Folios from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Book of Kings)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Folios from the Jami' al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Glass from Islamic Lands." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Glass with Mold-Blown Decoration from Islamic Lands." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Hot-worked Glass from Islamic Lands." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Mosaic Glass from Islamic Lands." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Stained, or Luster-Painted Glass from Islamic Lands." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "Takht-i Sulayman and Tile Work in the Ilkhanid Period." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "The Art of the Book in the Ilkhanid Period." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "The Legacy of Genghis Khan." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "The Mongolian Tent in the Ilkhanid Period." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Qamar Adamjee. "The Religious Arts under the Ilkhanids." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Trinita Kennedy. "Commercial Exchange, Diplomacy, and Religious Difference between Venice and the Islamic world." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Trinita Kennedy. "Islamic Art and Culture: the Venetian Perspective." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Trinita Kennedy. "Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Carboni, Stefano and Trinita Kennedy. "Venice's Principal Muslim Trading Partners: the Mamluks, the Ottomans, and the Safavids." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Tomoko Masuya

Print Titles

Carboni, Stefano, and Tomoko Masuya. Persian Tiles. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. See more

A. H. Morton

Print Titles

Marie Lukens Swietochowski

Print Titles

Babaie, Sussan, and Marie Lukens Swietochowski. Persian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. See more

Barnhart, Richard, Marilynn Johnson Bordes, Richard Ettinghausen, Everett Fahy, Henry Geldzahler, Mary Glaze, Maxwell Hearn, Colta Ives, Phyllis D. Massar, A. Hyatt Mayor, Douglas Newton, Harvey Stahl, Marie Swietochowski, and Renata Villein. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 30, no. 5 (April-May, 1972). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. See more

Ettinghausen, Richard. "Islamic Painting." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 36, no. 2 (Autumn, 1978). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. See more

Swietochowski, Marie Lukens. "Medieval Islamic Glass." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 23, no. 6 (February, 1965). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965. See more

Swietochowski, Marie Lukens. "The Language of the Birds: The Fifteenth-Century Miniatures." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 25, no. 9 (May, 1967). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967. See more

Welch, Stuart Cary, Annemarie Schimmel, Marie L. Swietochowski, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The Emperors' Album: Images of Mughal India. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. See more

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