Unknown (painter, outliner) and Muhammad Jan al-Kirmani (calligrapher). Shahnama: Kay Kavus Airborne. Shiraz and Isfahan, Iran, ca. 1604. Opaque watercolour, ink, gold on paper, 380 x 245 mm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Paris, France, Supplément Persan 490, fol. 62r.

Hazhir, Khisrow (Researcher, Scriptwriter, Voiceover, Storyboarder, Audio Editor, Image Editor, Animator, Coder). “Multimedia: Shahnama - Kay Kavus Airborne, Iran, ca. 1604 (BNF Suppl. Persan 490, fol. 62r)” ARTH 370 Shahnama Project (BNF Supplément Persan 490), Dec. 3, 2018. Evolving the Botanic Garden Project, July 31, 2017. .

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IMAGES

• BNF Gallica staff. Digital image of Shahnama: Kay Kavus Airborne (BNF Suppl. Persan 490, fol. 62r). Paris, ca. Nov. 10, 2010. Digital image. BnF Gallica, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84229967/f139.item.

SOUND

• Behnam Manahedji. Gusheh Chakavak. Mp3. Vol. Master of Persian Santoor. Germany: WERGO, 1993, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 1993. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/Master-Of-Persian-Santoo/BehnamManahedji-LostDesires-03GushehChakavak.mp3.

TEXTS

• Abu ʾl-Qasim Firdowsi Tusi. “How Kaus, Beguiled by Iblis, Ascended the Sky.” In The Shahnama of Firdausi. Vol. 2. 9 vols. Translated by Arthur G. Warner and Edmond Warner, 2:102-104. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1905.https://archive.org/details/shahnama02firduoft/page/102
• Rizvi, Kishwar. "The Suggestive Portrait of Shah 'Abbas: Prayer and Likeness in a Safavid "Shahnama"." The Art Bulletin 94, no. 2 (2012): 229-231. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/stable/23268313.
• Clinton, Jerome W. “The use of guile in the Shahnamah.” Iranian Studies 32, no. 2 (Jan 2007): 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/00210869908701953
• Salsman, T.R. “The Individual and the Ideal: Preserving the King and Persian Kingship.” The Undergraduate Historical Journal at UC Merced 4, no. 1 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36z7n8h9

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