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The Houghton Shahnameh

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Field name	Details
Title	The Houghton Shahnameh / introduced and described by Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher	Cambridge, MA : Published for the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, by Harvard University Press, 1981
Physical desc.	2 v. ; ill., facsims. (some col.) ; 47 cm.
Note	One col. facsim. laid in.
Note	Not to be removed from the Reading Room
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. 273-284) and indexes.
Contents	V. 1: The manuscript and its background. The creation of the book -- A tradition and its artists -- Timuri and Turkman roots of Safavi art -- The Safavi synthesis -- The artists of the Houghton Shahnameh. Sultan-Muhammad -- Mir Musavvir -- Aqa-Mirak -- Dust-Muhammad -- Mirza-'Ali -- Muzaffar-'Ali -- Shaykh-Muhammad -- Mir Sayyid-'Ali -- 'Abd us-Samad (Shirin-qalam) -- The lesser masters -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix I: The canons of painting by Sadiqi Bek -- Appendix II: Shah Tahmasb's gift of the Shahnameh to Sultan Selim II -- v. 2: The miniatures of the Houghton Shahnameh -- Inscriptions: notes and sources.
Person as subject	Firdawsi -- Shahnamah -- Illustrations
Corporate name	Fogg Art Museum
Subject	Houghton Shahnameh -- Illustrations
	Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
	Miniature painting, Iranian
Added name(s)	Firdawsī
	Dickson, Martin Bernard
	Welch, Stuart Cary
Added name(s) - Corporate	Fogg Art Museum

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