Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi

摘要

The Shahnamah of Muhammad Juki, a masterpiece of the Islamic book, is the most famous manuscript in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society. While it has features in common with two other slightly earlier Timurid royal Shahnamahs, those of Baysunqur Mirza and Ibrahim Sultan, it is a work of extreme refinement, being devoid of the slightly rebarbative steely brilliance of the former and the mannered, archaic effect of the latter. It has never had the monograph it merited, and this it now receives in Dr Brend's sumptuous, but also very useful, publication.