Folio page with text arranged in four columns. A large illustration shows two men duelling, while five soldiers look on. The warrior in red is winning, slashing at the other man’s neck, as he in turn decapitates a white horse. A brown horse runs loose in the bottom right.
AKM55, Saad ibn Waqqas Kills Rustam (Son of Hormuzd), Front

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Folio page from a manuscript, with 25 lines of text arranged in four columns. Each column is divided by thin lines, with a frame of thin lines enclosing the entire text. There is a small black ink annotation in the bottom left corner.
AKM55, Saad ibn Waqqas Kills Rustam (Son of Hormuzd), Back

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Saad ibn Waqqas Kills Rustam (Son of Hormuzd)
Folio detached from a manuscript of the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) by Abu’l Kasim Firdausi (d. 1010)
  • Accession Number:AKM55
  • Creator:scribed by Abd al-Dha’if Sultan ‘Ali Shirazi
  • Place:Iran
  • Dimensions:32.4 x 23 cm
  • Date:1494
  • Materials and Technique:opaque watercolour, gold, silver and ink on paper

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