Princeton Shahnama Project

Princeton Shahnama Project
This website is an archive of book paintings--commonly known as Persian Miniatures--that were created to illustrate scenes from the Persian national epic, the Shahnama (the Book of Kings). The core of this archive is a fund of 277 illustrations from five illustrated manuscripts of the Shahnama. The Shahnama is a poem of some 50,000 couplets that was composed by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi over a period of several decades in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries.

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