# "The Four Knights of Kai Khusrau in the Mountains", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), in Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi's contemporaries

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi painted this (dated 741 AH/1341 CE). It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Having given up his throne, the just king Kai Khusrau rode into the mountains with a band of his paladins and vanished at a spring, after warning them to turn back before the snow came. The knights who stayed behind were caught in a blizzard and died.

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## The work

- Date: dated 741 AH/1341 CE
- Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Page: H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm) W. 11 5/16 in. (28.7 cm) Painting: H. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm) W. 9 5/16 in. (23.6 cm) Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm) W. 16 in. (40.6 cm)
- Type: Codices
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 36.113.2
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Abu'l Qasim Firdausi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/abu-l-qasim-firdausi), Iranian, Paj ca. 940/41–1020 Tus

10 works in the collection.

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