Shahnama: the visual language of the Persian book of kings

Foreword / Richard Thomson

1. New perspectives in Shahnama iconography / Robert Hillenbrand

2. Shahnama as text and Shahnama as image : a brief overview of recent studies, 1975-2000 / Marianna Shreve Simpson

3. great mongol Shahnama in the Qajar period / Jonathan M. Bloom

4. Rewriting the history of the great mongol Shahnama / Sheila S. Blair

5. St. Petersburg illustrated Shahnama of 733 Hijra (1333 A.D.) and the Injuid School of Painting / Adel T. Adamova

6. Firdausi and more : a Timurid anthology of epic tales / Elaine Wright

7. Kevorkian-Kraus-Khalili Shahnama : the history, codicology and illustrations of a sixteenth-century Shirazi manuscript / Tim Stanley

8. Characters out of context : the case of a bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Sylvia Auld

9. Bahram Gur woven with gold : a silk fragment in the diocesan Museum of St. Afra in Augsburg and the modes of rendition of a popular theme / Avinoam Shalem

10. Faint-echoes of past splendour - a group of brass plaques from 19th-century Qajar Iran / Ulrike al-Khamis and Godfrey Evans

11. Bandar-i Tahiri - a late outpost of the Shahnama / Jennifer M. Scarce

12. Evidence for grid layout in Persian manuscripts / M. Amin Mahdavi

App. A. List of four-column manuscripts considered

App. B. Summary statistics of four-column manuscripts which have not been remargined

App. C. sample of analysis of variance to test whether columns and gutters on the folio have equal width

App. D. Estimated grid height based on various division schemes

App. E. Sample calculations for the margins.