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open Armenia 1 1 56 56
open Australia 2 2 2 2
open Austria 1 3 85 85
open Belgium 1 1 0
open Canada 3 35 67 9 29 19 6 2 2
open Denmark 2 37 73 6 16 31 14 2 4
open Egypt 1 7 239 71 72 49 14 11 22
open France 8 51 1022 9 202 282 282 88 111 48
open Georgia 2 6 7 1 1 5
open Germany 9 44 1217 41 179 330 426 88 101 52
open Greece 1 3 3 2 1
open Hungary 3 5 57 20 2 35
close India 36 105 2879 75 378 364 674 83 1076 17 212
close Aligarh, Maulana Azad Library open 4 100 14 86
close Alwar, Government Museum open 3 196 11 14 171
close Amritsar, Kasla College open 2 0
Baroda, Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery open 0 0
close Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal open 1 0
close Calcutta, Indian Museum open 2 12 12
close Calcutta, National Library open 2 0
close Calcutta, Victoria Memorial Museum open 1 0
Chandigarh, Chandigarh Museum open 0 0
close Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Government Oriental Mss & Res. Inst. open 1 0
close Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh State Museum open 1 2 2
Hyderabad, Birla Museum open 0 0
close Hyderabad, Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad open 1 1 1
close Hyderabad, The Salar Jung Museum open 8 301 49 222 19 11
close Jaipur, City Palace Museum open 1 0
close Lucknow, Lucknow Museum open 2 0
close Mumbai, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya open 3 10 4 6
close Mumbai (Bombay), Hakim Collection open 1 0
close Mumbai (Bombay), The K.R. Cama Oriental Institute open 7 326 46 186 83 11
close New Delhi, National Archives open 1 0
close New Delhi, National Museum open 15 558 195 42 78 233 10
close Patiala, State Archives open 2 0
close Patna, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library open 28 1039 29 124 246 97 519 17 7
open ACC 1243-1244 open 74 72 2
open Cat. No. 1, H. L. 358 open 28 28
open Cat. No. 1792, H. L. 1814 open 34 34
open Cat. No. 1793, H. L. 1815 A-B open 65 65
open Cat. No. 1794, H. L. 1816 A-B open 44 42 2
open Cat. No. 1795, H. L. 1817 open 29 29
open Cat. No. 1797, H.L. 1819 open 52 52
open Cat. No. 2, H. L. 359 A-B open 37 37
open Cat. No. 2004 open 0
open Cat. No. 3, H. L. 360 A-B open 62 62
open Cat. No. 3, H.L. 361 A-B open 79 43 36
open Cat. No. 5-8, H. L. 362-365 open 61 61
open Cat. No. 6, H. L. 363 open 0
open Cat. No. 7, H. L. 364 open 0
open Cat. No. 8, H. L. 365 open 0
open Cat. No. 9, H.L. 366 A-B open 71 71
open H. L. 2770 A-B open 63 63
open H. L. 3355-3356 open 147 147
open H. L. 3356 open 56 56
open H. L. 3566 A-B open 62 60 2
open H. L. 3673, 3786 open 17 17
close H. L. 3787-3788 open 53 52 1
001v Illuminated title page (verso side) open              
002r Illuminated title page (recto side) open              
008r Colophon open              
008v Illuminated unvan open              
010v open              
020r Faridun defeats Zahhak open              
030r Manuchihr kills Tur in battle open              
032r Manuchihr kills Salm open              
038v open              
044r open              
048r open              
057r open              
064r Rustam lifts Afrasiyab by the belt open              
067v Kay Kavus enthroned open              
074r Rustam's seventh labour: he kills the White Div open              
078v open              
084r open              
085r Colophon open              
085v Illuminated unvan open              
088r Suhrab fights Gurdafarid open              
091v The first combat of Rustam and Suhrab open              
096r Rustam discovers Suhrab's identity open              
106v open              
114v Siyavush marries Farangis open              
124r Guruy executes Siyavush open              
128r Piran and the child Kay Khusrau before Afrasiyab open              
135v open              
147v open              
177r Rustam captures and kills Kamus open              
184r Rustam pulls the Khaqan of Chin from his elephant by lasso open              
196r Rustam kills Akvan Div open              
200r Bizhan comes to Manizha's tent open              
212v Kay Khusrau praises Rustam open              
222r Bizhan kills Human open              
235r The eleventh combat: Gudarz kills Piran open              
267r The execution of Afrasiyab open              
271v open              
272r open              
282v Gushtasp kills a dragon in Rum open              
321v The first combat of Rustam and Isfandiyar open              
340v Rustam kills Shaghad before dying open              
367v Khizr at the Fountain of Life open              
372v The great sages mourn the death of Iskandar open              
393r open              
396r Shapur's night attack on Caesar's camp open              
402r Bahram Gur's mount tramples Azada open              
404r open              
414r Bahram Gur kills the dragon that had killed a youth open              
435r Qubad son of Piruz enthroned open              
489v open              
493v Bahram Chubina goes to fight Sava Shah open              
498v open              
531v Shirin greets Khusrau Parviz returning from the hunt open              
open H. L. 3791 open 5 5
open ms 3788 open 0
open Ms. 3787 open 0
close Rampur, Rampur Raza Library open 10 318 55 66 197
close Secunderabad (Haydarabad), R.K. Tanden Collection open 2 0
Thanjavur Mhraja Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library, Mahal Campus, Thanjavur 613009, Tamilnadu, India , Royal Palace Library open 0 0
close Vadoda, Baroda Museum open 4 0
close Vadoda, Baroda Oriental Institute open 1 0
close Varanasi, Bharat Kala Bhavan open 2 16 4 10 2
open Iran 18 91 1781 4 146 623 234 88 473 213
open Iraq 1 1 0
open Ireland 2 29 632 110 62 143 151 106 58 2
open Israel 1 15 58 7 18 3 29 1
open Italy 9 12 336 1 17 91 176 51
open Kuwait 2 18 58 9 36 1 1 2 9
open Malaysia 2 4 18 2 15 1
open Netherlands 1 1 20 20
open Pakistan 19 43 235 4 15 65 147 1 3
open Poland 5 5 30 29 1
open Portugal 1 1 0
open Qatar 1 16 168 6 10 18 134
open Romania 1 1 1 1
open Russia 5 33 1147 53 149 201 451 162 131
open Singapore 1 2 2 2
open Spain 1 1 80 80
open Sweden 1 2 31 31
open Switzerland 6 133 636 45 151 200 98 23 116 1 2
open Tajikistan 2 4 39 32 7
open Turkey 6 77 1191 141 542 429 79
open UK 29 268 3928 31 715 1095 972 362 562 12 176
open USA 39 402 3180 309 254 706 984 223 582 6 113
open Uzbekistan 1 13 252 128 109 3 3 9
open destroyed 2 2 1 1
open dispersed mss 1 15 506 413 34 51 8
open private collections 9 37 183 112 7 22 36 1 5
open unknown country 1 4 7 1 6
open unknown location 3 10 0