Illuminated and handwritten page, India, 19th century

depicting a battle scene between knights and soldiers, taken from the epic poem Shah-Nameh (The Book of Kings) by the Persian poet Firdusi. The poem, one of the longest epic poems in the world, constitutes the national epic of the Persian-speaking countries and narrates the chivalrous deeds of the Iranian epic by recounting the mythical and historical past of Iran from the creation of the world to the Islamic conquest of the VII century

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