Tahmineh Visits Rustam

Firdausi — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:01:14 -0500

Title	Tahmineh Visits Rustam
Artist	Firdausi
Date	c. 1440-1445
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G243

The same scene described in Schroeder's Persian Miniatures, pp 51 H, illustrated on pp VIII, Cambridge 1942. Another miniature of the same scene in a famous manuscript in library of Royal Asiatic Society, London, illustrated in J.V.S. Wilkinson's Shah Namah of Firdausi, where is to be found account of whole story. This miniature No. 923 should be dated toward end of 14th century. It is colorful and the figures

Tahmineh Visits Rustam

Tahmineh Visits Rustam

Tahmineh Visits Rustam

Firdausi

c. 1440-1445