A Prince's Manuscript Unbound: Muhammad Juki's 'Shahnamah' April 30, 2011

Asia Society Museum presents one of the finest surviving Persian manuscripts, an exquisite and richly illuminated 15th-century volume commissioned by the Timurid prince Muhammad Juki (1402-1444). This rarely exhibited manuscript, now in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, features more than 30 miniatures that illustrate scenes from the Persian national epic, the 'Shahnamah' (Book of Kings). This is the first time that the intricately colored and gilded illustrations in the manuscript, recently unbound and conserved, have all been exhibited together in the United States.