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Great Mongol Shahnameh

the most important manuscript of the Shahnameh epic poem from the Ilkhanid period
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Summary

Great Mongol Shahnameh is an illuminated manuscript[1]. It draws 250 Wikipedia views per month (illuminated manuscript category, ranking #27 of 197).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: version, edition or translation[3]
  • Owned by: Georges Joseph Demotte[4], Hagop Kevorkian[5]
  • Named after: Georges Joseph Demotte[6], Ilkhanate[7]
  • Collection: Freer Gallery of Art[8], Department of Islamic Arts of the Louvre[9], British Museum[10], Metropolitan Museum of Art[11], Chester Beatty Library[12], The Keir Collection of Islamic Art[13], Worcester Art Museum[14], Arthur M. Sackler Gallery[15]
  • Inventory number: Per 111[16]
  • Commons category: Demotte Shahname[17]
  • Language of work or name: Persian[18]
  • Country of origin: Ilkhanate[19]
  • Has part(s): Great Mongol Shahnama (CBL Per 111)[20], "The Funeral of Isfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)[21], Iskandar enthroned[22], Afrasiyab Killing Naudar, a folio from the Great Il-Khanid (Mongol) Shahnama (Book of Kings)[23], The bier of Iskandar (Alexander the Great)[24], 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[25], 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)[26], Bahram Gur Sends his Brother Narsi as Viceroy to Khurasan, from the Great Mongol ('Demotte') Shahnamah[27], "Bahram Gur Hunting Onagers (Wild Ass)", folio from a Shahnama ("Book of Kings") of Abu'l Qasim Firdawsi[28], Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); recto: text; verso: Darab sleeping in the ruined vault[29], Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (died 1020); recto: text:; verso: illustration and text: Bahram Gur finds Jamshid's treasure[30]
  • Inception: 1330[31]
  • Edition or translation of: Shahnameh[32]
  • Described at URL: http://shahnama.caret.cam.ac.uk/new/jnama/card/cemanuscript:-1053710476[33], https://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/khan6/hd_khan6.htm[34]
  • Location of creation: Tabriz[35]
  • Described by source: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History[36]
  • Title: شاهنامه دموت[37]
  • Exemplar of: Shahnameh[38]
  • Height: 60 cm[39]
  • Width: 40 cm[40]

Why It Matters

Great Mongol Shahnameh has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Related Entities

British Museum Chester Beatty Library Metropolitan Museum of Art Shahnameh

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . viewer.cbl.ie. viewer.cbl.ie. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . collections.dma.org. collections.dma.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . viewer.cbl.ie. viewer.cbl.ie. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6h ago · Zserghei · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bn', 'commons', 'en', 'fa', 'fr', 'it', 'zh']
    Wikidata description → the most important manuscript of the Shahnameh epic poem from the Ilkhanid perio
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 22w ago · Maxlath · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → —
    Country of origin → —
    Width → {'unit': 'Q174728', 'amount': '+40'}
    Described by source → Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Title: 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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