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Swirling blue-and-gold cloud bands fill the upper corners; a spotted goat stands beside a black saddled horse nearby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: a Persian manuscript painting of the Shahnama episode in which Isfandiyar kills Bidarafsh, from McGill University Library's Persian literary history collection; no place or date is recorded for the original painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Shahnama, or Book of Kings, is the Persian national epic: a verse history of Iran from its first kings to the Arab conquest, completed around 1010 by the poet Firdausi of Tus (c. 940–1020). Its illustrations were painted in later centuries for the rulers and patrons who commissioned copies. Illustrated manuscripts survive from the Ilkhanid period onward, from the First Small Shahnama of the early fourteenth century to Shah Tahmasp's great copy made in Tabriz, and later volumes from Qazvin, Herat and Bijapur in the Deccan. Leaves from these dispersed manuscripts are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in solid wood with low-reflection glazing, or unframed. 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