Isfandiyar kills the dragon (recto) and Isfandiyar lassoes the sorceress (verso), from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi
| Müellif | Unknown |
| Materyal türü | Yazma eser |
| Dil | İngilizce |
| Kurum | Chester Beatty |
| Kaynak | Europeana |
| Not | Isfandiyar kills the dragon (recto) and Isfandiyar lassoes the sorceress (verso), folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama). This scene show one of the seven heroic feats, or Trials, undertaken over seven days by prince Isfandiyar. For his third Trial, Isfandiyar uses a spiked chariot to kill a dragon (recto). For his fourth Trial the following day, he lassoes and then kills a sorceress in disguise (verso). Once the Trials are complete, Isfandiyar continues his mission to rescue his two sisters from imprisonment in a bronze fortress. Detached folio, ink, pigments and gold on paper, later mounted onto card, Persian text with two paintings (recto and verso), probably Tabriz, Iran, c. 1300. This folio is from a dispersed manuscript known to scholars as the "First Small Shahnama", of which seventy-seven folios are now in the Chester Beatty. The "Small Shahnama" manuscripts are the earliest known illustrated examples of the Book of Kings (Shahnama), the epic Persian poem composed c. 1010 by Firdausi. Two manuscripts are dispersed, and a third is in the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC. Of small format, these three manuscripts are undated, but usually attributed to c. 1300 on stylistic grounds. Details of iconography confirm that production was after the Mongol invasions of Iran and Iraq, and the establishment of Ilkhanid rule in 1258. |
Unknown, Isfandiyar kills the dragon (recto) and Isfandiyar lassoes the sorceress (verso), from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, Chester Beatty, https://www.europeana.eu/item/1100/440?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=mmurvess.