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"Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
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"Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1300–30 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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Credit line"Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings). ca. 1300–30. Abu'l Qasim Firdausi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1934. CC0.
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