The letter of Pashang, king of Turan to Keykubad, king of Iran, folio from a Shahnameh manuscript, Safavid Iran, Tabriz, 16th century Paper folio of twenty-five lines of text per page in Persian nasta'liq inscribed in black ink on four columns. A title written on one side in red ink in a cartouche, the other side illustrated with a scene painted in gold and in polychrome representing four horsemen wearing the turban qizilbash taj meeting in a mountainous landscape in the presence of three witnesses. Dim. page : 30 x 20 cm ; dim. painting : 20 x 16,2 cm Folds, paint chips, stain, folio shortened and restored, text partly detached at the level of the ruler. The Letter of Pashang, King of Turan, to Keykubad, King of Iran, a Safavid folio of a Shahnama, Iran, Tabriz, 16th century