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Credits and Resources

Support for A Prince’s Manuscript Unbound: Muhammad Juki’s Shahnamah is provided by The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund, and by Nazee and Joseph Moinian.

Support for Asia Society Museum provided by the Asia Society Friends of Asian Art, Asia Society Contemporary Art Council, Arthur Ross Foundation, Sheryl and Charles R. Kaye Endowment for Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, National Endowment for the Humanities, Hazen Polsky Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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The exhibition is organized by Adriana Proser, Asia Society Museum’s John H. Foster Curator for Traditional Asian Art, in consultation with independent scholar Barbara Brend.

Asia Society Museum Staff
Melissa Chiu, Museum Director and Vice President, Global Art Programs
Marion Kocot, Director, Museum Operations
Nancy Blume, Head of Museum Education Programs
Martha Kang McGill, Publication Coordinator
Clare McGowan, Collections Manager and Registrar
Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Curator for Traditional Asian Art
Jacob M. Reynolds, Associate Registrar
Miwako Tezuka, Associate Curator
Davis Thompson-Moss, Installation Manager
Hannah Vicencio, Executive Assistant

Special thanks to Lara Netting.

All works in this exhibition are from
Muhammad Juki’s Shahnamah
Herat (present-day Afghanistan)
c. 1440s
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, MS 239

For further reading:

Brend, Barbara, and C. P. Melville. Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010.

Brend, Barbara, and Teresa Fitzherbert. Muhammad Juki’s Shahnamah of Firdausi. London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2010.

Davis, Dick and Firdawsī. Fathers and Sons. Vol. 2 of Stories from The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Washington, D.C: Mage Publishers, 2000.

Davis, Dick, and Firdawsi. Sunset of Empire. Vol. 3 of Stories from The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2004.

Davis, Dick, Firdawsī, and Stuart Cary Welch. The Lion and the Throne. Vol. 1 of Stories from The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2005.

Porter, Yves. Painters, paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries. Translated by S. Butani. New Delhi: Manohar: Centre for Human Sciences, 1994.

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