Royal Feast in a Garden, left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), c. 1440 https://t.co/M0yAMVzrl3

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Royal Feast in a Garden, left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), c. 1440 https://t.co/M0yAMVzrl3

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Royal Feast in a Garden, recto of left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020), 1444 https://t.co/iggsGs6Gpd

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(Two views, close-up)
Iskandar (Sikandar) meets the Archangel Israfil while Khizr prays at the Water of Life
Folio from a copy of Firdausi's Shahnama (completed 8 March 1010),
made for
Nawab Sa'adat 'Ali Khan (r. 1798-1814) of Awadh

c.1797-99
https://t.co/8G9LdcTalo

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The Tale of the Twelve Faces. "The Warriors Engage in Combat": Illustration from the Firdausi Shahnama (verso), 1341 https://t.co/3YKCq56mNz

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A painting from depicts Prince facing a maddened war elephant named

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