'Isfandiyar's Fifth Course: He Slays the Simurgh', Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), ca. 1330–40, Attributed to Iran, probably Isfahan, Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, Page: 7 13/16 x 5 3/8 in. (19.8 x 13.6 cm), Codices, The Simurgh in this miniature is not the benevolent guardian of the family of Zal and Rustam, but is based on the tradition of the Rukh - a creature of great strength and ferocity. This Simurgh is not yet fully patterned on the Chinese phoenix of some thirty-five years earlier, which comes from a more sophisticated cultural center, but is far more graceful than the rooster/parrot type of Simurgh found elsewhere in the present manuscript
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Isfandiyar, Fifth Course, Slays, Simurgh, Folio, Shahnama, Book, Kings, ca, 1330–40, Attributed, Iran, Isfahan, Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, silver, paper, Page, 7 13/16 x 5 3/8, 19.8 13.6 cm, Codices, miniature, benevolent guardian, family, Zal, Rustam, based, tradition, Rukh, creature, great strength, ferocity, yet fully, patterned, Chinese phoenix, thirty-five years, earlier, comes, sophisticated cultural, center, far, graceful, rooster, parrot type, elsewhere, present manuscript
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