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Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp (1524–1565)

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The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp (Houghton Shahnameh), 258 miniatures produced at the Safavid royal atelier in Tabriz under Shah Tahmasp I, c. 1524–1565. Now dispersed: key folios at Metropolitan Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and elsewhere.

Scholarly Significance

Introduce Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp as the supreme Persian illustrated manuscript.

Notes

·Named contributors include Sultan Muhammad, Aqa Mirak, Mir Musavvir, and Mir Sayyid Ali.
·Dismembered by Arthur Houghton Jr. in 1976 and sold folio-by-folio.