An Illustrated And Illuminated Leaf From A Manuscript Of Firdausi’s Shahnameh: Rustam Kicking Back The Rock Thrown By Bahman, Persia, Shiraz, Mid-16th Century

Description : Gouache heightened with gold ink on paper
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting a figure sitting roasting meat on a spit beside a stream in a green valley within a rocky outcrop, with attendents and observers standing by, 7 lines to the page in 4 columns, written in nasta’liq script in black ink within cloudbands against a gold ground sprinkled with polychrome flowes, intercolumnar rules filled with scrolling flowers, margins ruled in colours and gold, reverse with 25 lines of text on gold-sprinkled paper with ensuite decoration.