The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Buzurjmihr Explains the Game of Backgammon (Nard) to the Raja of Hind", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

Date

ca. 1300–30

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Text block: H. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm) W. 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm) Painting: H. 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm) W. 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

Iran or Iraq

Object number

34.24.2

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1934

The Met object ID 449001. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.