Shahnama Project

General Interest

The following links may be of general interest concerning the Shahnama, related works, and their historical context.

• The Art of The Book -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Islamic Art -- Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Rostam -- Tales of The Shahnameh -- Modern comic book illustration of scenes from The Shahnama
• Folios from the Great Mongol Shahnama -- Metropolitan Museum of Art

Listed below, where possible, are links to the websites of the institutions featured in the archive.

Armenia

• Matenadaran

Austria

• Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek

Canada

• McGill University Library

Denmark

• The David Collection

destroyed

• ex-Schulz

Egypt

• Dar al-Kutub

France

• Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Germany

• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

India

• Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library
• University Library

Iran

• Anthropology Encyclopedia Center
• Central Library, University of Isfahan
• Museum of Contemporary Arts

Ireland

• The Chester Beatty Library

Italy

• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale

Netherlands

• University Library

private collections

• Ebrahimi Collection
• Nassr D. Khalili Collection
• Private collection

Russia

• National Library of Russia
• Oriental Library, St Petersburg University

Switzerland

• Bernisches Historisches Museum
• Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève
• Musee d'art et d'histoire

Turkey

• Beyazit Devlet Kutuphanesi

UK

• All Souls College
• Ancient Indian and Iran Trust
• Christie's
• Fitzwilliam Museum
• John Rylands University Library of Manchester
• Nasser D. Khalili Collection
• Sam Fogg
• Sotheby's London
• Special Collections
• The British Library
• The British Museum
• University Library
• Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding
• Windsor Castle

unknown location

• ex-Kevorkian
• ex-Riefstahl

USA

• Harvard University Art Museums
• Institute of Arts
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
• Princeton Shahnama Project
• Special Collections Library
• University of Michigan Museum of Art
• Yale University Manuscript Library