Anushirvan dictates a letter to the Khaqan of Chin, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama)

Anushirvan dictates a letter to the Khaqan of Chin, folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama). The Khaqan has proposed a peace treaty between Iran and China, and Anushirvan promptly agrees.
Detached folio, ink, gold and pigments on paper, later re-mounted, Persian text with framed captions and painting (with later retouches), Tabriz, Iran, c. 1330.
Dateable to the era of Ilkhanid rule in Iran, a dramatic but fragmentary manuscript known as the Great Mongol Shahnama (and also the Demotte Shahnama) is today dispersed across many international collections, including eleven folios in the Chester Beatty collection.