Persian art: illuminated manuscript. Pages from manuscript copies of the epic poem Shannameh (National Library, Paris, MS 489 top and MS 494 below). Arabic text decorated with running patterns of arabesques and flowers. Persan. Hand-finished chromolithograph by Picard from Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome, (Polychromatic Ornament), Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1869-73.

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