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Cover illustrations: On the front cover of this book: a Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), Cleveland Museum of Art. On the back: left folio from the same double frontispiece (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025), Cleveland Museum of Art. The scene represented on these pages does not illustrate a narrative from the Shah-nama, but likely represents the courtly audience for whose entertainment the manuscript was created. The date and style of the painting indicate that it was made during the reign of the Timurid dynasty in Shiraz, Iran.
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