Great Mongol Shahnameh

The most important manuscript of the Shahnameh epic poem from the Ilkhanid period
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Great Mongol Shahnameh

Summary

Great Mongol Shahnameh is an illuminated manuscript[1]. It draws 44 Wikipedia views per month (illuminated_manuscript category, ranking #27 of 197).[2]

Key Facts

  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's instance of is recorded as illuminated manuscript[3].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's instance of is recorded as version, edition or translation[4].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh is owned by Georges Joseph Demotte[5].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh is owned by Hagop Kevorkian[6].
  • Georges Joseph Demotte is named after Great Mongol Shahnameh[7].
  • Ilkhanate is named after Great Mongol Shahnameh[8].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's collection is recorded as Freer Gallery of Art[9].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's collection is recorded as Department of Islamic Arts of the Louvre[10].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's collection is recorded as British Museum[11].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's collection is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art[12].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's collection is recorded as Chester Beatty Library[13].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's collection is recorded as The Keir Collection of Islamic Art[14].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's collection is recorded as Q847508[15].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's collection is recorded as Arthur M. Sackler Gallery[16].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's inventory number is recorded as Per 111[17].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's Commons category is recorded as Demotte Shahname[18].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's language of work or name is recorded as Persian[19].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh's country of origin is recorded as Ilkhanate[20].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh comprises Great Mongol Shahnama (CBL Per 111)[21].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh comprises "The Funeral of Isfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)[22].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh comprises Iskandar enthroned[23].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh comprises Afrasiyab Killing Naudar, a folio from the Great Il-Khanid (Mongol) Shahnama (Book of Kings)[24].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh comprises The bier of Iskandar (Alexander the Great)[25].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh comprises Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama[26].
  • Great Mongol Shahnameh comprises Persian Verses: The Fortieth Year of King Kisra Nushirwan's Reign and the Story of Buzurgmihr (recto); Portrait of Nushirwan the Just (verso) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)[27].

Body

Publication

Great Mongol Shahnameh's language of work or name is recorded as Persian[19].

Why It Matters

Great Mongol Shahnameh draws 44 Wikipedia views per month (illuminated_manuscript category, ranking #27 of 197).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . viewer.cbl.ie. viewer.cbl.ie. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . collections.dma.org. collections.dma.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . viewer.cbl.ie. viewer.cbl.ie. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24d ago · Maxlath · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after
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    Width {'unit': 'Q174728', 'amount': '+40'}
    Described by source Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P1476]]: شاهنامه دموت, Infer edition title (P1476) from the label in the edition language (P407) ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/wikibase-cli/8448ee635c0cf/|details]]"
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