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"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Author Abu'l Qasim Firdausi Iranian
dated 741 AH/1341 CE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 455
The colophon folio, now in the Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. informs us that the manuscript from which this page comes, was produced in the city of Shiraz, ordered by the Injuid dynasty vizier Hasan Qavam al-Daula va al-Din in 741/1341. This early painting depicts the hero Bizhan ridding the Armenian territories of a terrorizing band of wild boars.

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  • Title: "Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
  • Author: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (Iranian, Paj ca. 940/41–1020 Tus)
  • Calligrapher: Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn (?) Husaini, known as al-Mausili
  • Patron: al-Hasan Qawam al-Daula wa'l-Din (Iranian, ca. 1303–1357 Shiraz)
  • Date: dated 741 AH/1341 CE
  • Geography: Made in Iran, Shiraz
  • Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
  • Dimensions: Painting: H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
    W. 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)
    Page: H. 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm)
    W. 11 15/16 in. (30.3 cm)
    Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm)
    W. 16 in. (40.6 cm)
  • Classification: Codices
  • Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929
  • Object Number: 29.160.22
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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