"A Prince's Manuscript Unbound: Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah" Exhibition
Asia Society and Museum
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Asia Society Museum presents an exquisite and richly illuminated fifteenth-century manuscript commissioned by the Timurid prince Muhammad Juki (1402–1444). This rarely exhibited volume, now in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, features more than thirty miniatures that illustrate scenes from the Persian national epic, the Shahnamah (Book of Kings). This is the first time that the illustrations in the manuscript—recently unbound and conserved—have all been exhibited together in the United States.
[Image: Rustam in combat with Isfandiyar, c. 1440s. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. 7.2 x W. 5 in. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland]
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from February 09, 2011 to May 01, 2011
The Museum is closed on Fridays after 6:00 p.m. from Independence Day to Labor Day and now through February 8 2011.