Unknown (painter, outliner) and Muhammad Jan al-Kirmani (calligrapher). Shahnama: Anushrivan Receives Caesar's Locked Chest and Other Presents. Shiraz and Isfahan, Iran, ca. 1604. Opaque watercolour, ink, gold on paper, 170 x 140 mm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Paris, France, Supplément Persan 490, fol. 392v.

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• BNF Gallica staff. Digital image of Shahnama: Anushrivan Recieves Caesar's Locked Chest and Other Presents (BNF Suppl. Persan 490, fol. 392v). Paris, ca. Nov. 10, 2010. Digital image. BnF Gallica, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84229967/f800.item.zoom.
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SOUND
• Edessa. Graovsko. Mp3. Vol. Live at Golden Festival 2016. New York:, 2016. freemusicarchive.org. https://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Middle_East/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 https://freemusicarchive.org/file/music/WFMU/Edessa/Live_at_Golden_Festival_2016/Edessa_-_02_-_Graovsko.mp3.
TEXTS
• Abu ʾl-Qasim Firdowsi Tusi. “ How the Ambassador of Cossar came to Niishirwan with a locked Casket and how Buzurjmihr was set at large to declare its Contents” In The Shahnama of Firdausi. Vol. 8. 9 vols. Translated by Arthur G. Warner and Edmond Warner, 2:8-14. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1905.
• Marcotte, Roxanne D. “Anūshīrvān and Buzurgmihr-The Just Ruler and the Wise Counselor: Two Figures of Persian Traditional Moral Literature” Rocznik Orientalistyczny 51, no. 2 (1998): 69-90 https://www.academia.edu/3792941/_1998_Anushirvan_and_Buzurgmihr_-_the_Just_Ruler_and_the_Wise_Counselor_Two_Figures_of_Persian_Traditional_Moral_Literature.

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