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"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

codices highlighted in The MET collection

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

codices highlighted in The MET collection

Ardavan's slave-girl Gulnar with the young Ardashir

Folio 516b of the Houghton Shahnamah

Battle of Rostam and China's Khagan

story in Shahnameh

Battle of Rostam and Esfandiyār

story in Shahnameh, a war between two Iranian governments

Battle scene

item EA1978.204 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Bijan and Manijeh

Love story in Shahnameh epic poem

Bizhan forces Farud to flee

folio 234r from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp

Davazdah Rokh

Esfandiyār's Seven Labors

Story in Shahnameh

Hamavan Battle

story of Shahnameh

Hamavaran Battle

story of Shahnameh

Iskandar and Queen Qaydafa

item EA2012.49 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Jahn installed on the throne of Turan

folio from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp

Julius Mohl edition of Shahnameh

Persian epic poem book Shahnameh edited by Julius von Mohl

Kay Kavus on his flying machine

item LI2067.3 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Kingdom of Fereydun

Story in Shahnameh

Kingdom of Kay Kāvus

story in Shahnameh

Kingdom of Zahhak

story in Shahnameh

Le livre des rois

Man being stabbed in a tent

item EA1962.153 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Mazandaran Battle

story in Shahnameh

Page from a dispersed manuscript with a flowering plant

item EA2012.67 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Recto: The Simurgh restores the child Zal to his father Sam. Verso: Calligraphy

item EA1960.212 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Rostam

hero in Iranian mythology

Rostam and Shaghad

story in Shahnameh

Rostam and Sohrab

story in Shahnameh

Rostam's Seven Labours

one of the Shahnameh story, seven difficult stages that Rostam went through

Rustam captures Barzu

item EA1961.55 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Rustam killing the White Div

item EA2003.49 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Rustam kills the White Div

item EA2003.50 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Rustam's battle against the king of Hamavaran

item EA2003.51 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Sahanama

Sam before Manuchihr

item EA2012.51 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Shahnama

illustrated manuscript at Topkapi Palace Museum, Ms. Hazine 1479

Shahnama Add. 21,103

Shahnama Walters Ms. W.602

Shahnamah

Shahnameh

epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi

Sindukht comes to Sam Bearing Gifts, Folio from the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Detached folio from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp in the Aga Khan Museum collection

Siyavush on His Horse Hitting a Rolling Target, from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025) (recto)

manuscript by unknown artist (1942.871.a)

Story of Khosrow with Shirin

story from Shahnameh

Story of Siyavakhsh

story in Shahnameh

The Court of Jamshid

Folio 24v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

The Great War of Kaykhosrow

story of Shahnameh

The poet Firdausi reciting from his work before the Ghaznavid sultan Mahmud

folio from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnameh

The snakes of King Zahhak

Turner Macan edition of Shahnameh

Persian epic poem book Shahnameh edited by Turner Macan

Zal and Rudabeh

novel by Ferdowsi