Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts

Page of text from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, 1500–1600
Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722)
Opaque watercolors, ink, and gold on paper

Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Per 277.1b–2a.
Photograph © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, www.cbl.ie.