Illustrated poetry and epic images : Persian painting of the 1330s and 1340s ; [published in conjunction with the Exhibition "Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fe

The Illustrations In The Mu'nis Al-aḥrār / Stefano Carboni -- Catalogue Numbers 1-7 / Stefano Carboni -- The Mu'nis Al-aḥrār And Its Twenty-ninth Chaper / A.h. Morton -- The Metropolitan Museum Of Art's Small Shāhnāma / Marie Lukens Swietochowski -- Catalogue Numbers 8-48 / Marie Lukens Swietochowski -- The Condition Of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art's Small Shāhnāma And The Reconstruction Of Its Text / Tomoko Masuya. By Marie Lukens Swietochowski And Stefano Carboni ; With Essays By A.h. Morton And Tomoko Masuya. Published In Conjunction With The Exhibition Held At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, February 1-may 1, 1994. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 146-148). Two 14th-century manuscripts are the focus of this catalog, published in conjunction with a Museum exhibit, February-May 1994. Essays and illustrations present the Mu'nis al-ahrar an anthology of poetic devices, and the Shahnama, a copy of the Persian national epic in which events are depicted in 41 extant miniatures