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Table of contents of Shahnama Studies I (Cambridge 2006, 300 pp.):

Charles MELVILLE, Introduction

EPISODES IN THE SHAHNAMA

Raya Y. SHANI, Illustrations of the parable of the Ship of Faith in Firdausi’s prologue to the Shahnama

M.N. BOGOLYUBOV, Jamshid in the Shahnama and Yima in Zarathushtra’s Yasna 32

Abbas AMANAT, Divided patrimony, tree of royal power and fruit of vengeance: Political paradigms and Iranian self-image in the story of Faridun in the Shahnama

Charles MELVILLE, Text and image in the story of Bizhan and Manizha: I. With contributions by F. ABDULLAEVA

Gabrielle VAN DEN BERG, The Barzunama in the Berlin Shahnama manuscripts

Dick DAVIS, The aesthetics of the historical sections of the Shahnama

Christine VAN RUYMBEKE, Firdausi’s Dastan-i Khusrau va Shirin: Not much of a love story!

MANUSCRIPT STUDIES

Farhad MEHRAN, The break-line verse: The link between text and image in the `First Small’ Shahnama

Bernard O’KANE, The iconography of the Shahnama, Ms. ta’rikh farisi 73, Dar al-kutub, Cairo (796/1393-4)

Eleanor SIMS, The earliest recorded Barzunama manuscript?

F. ABDULLAEVA, Divine, human and demonic: Iconographic flexibility in the context of a depiction of Rustam and Ashkabus

Jerome W. CLINTON & Marianna Shreve SIMPSON, Word and image in illustrated Shahnama manuscripts: A project report

Layla S. DIBA, Introducing Fath `Ali Shah: Production and dispersal of the Shahanshahnama manuscripts

Ulrich MARZOLPH, The last Qajar Shahnama: The Shahnama-yi Bahaduri (1319-26/1901-8)

Kristine ROSE, The conservation of Islamic manuscript material at Cambridge University Library, with particular reference to Ms. Add. 269

General Index