Manuscript/Mixed Material Muntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah va al-maghfirah. منتخب شاهنامه حكيم ابو قاسم فردوسى، عليه الرحمة و المغفرة.

Title

• Muntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah va al-maghfirah.

Other Title

• منتخب شاهنامه حكيم ابو قاسم فردوسى، عليه الرحمة و المغفرة.

Summary

• Selections from the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī.
• This manuscript from the early 17th century contains selections from the Shāhnāmeh (Book of kings), the epic-historical work of Persian literature composed at the end of the tenth century by the poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). This beloved epic of pre-Islamic Persia (present-day Iran) was widely read in Persia, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. The manuscript contains three half-page paintings showing different battles. The text is preceded by an introduction and table of contents (folios 1b-6b) and is written in black ink in a nastaʻliq script. The pages are in four columns of 25 lines each within a blue-cream-gold-cream-gold border. Rubrication is used, and there are catchwords on the recto pages. A few notes and corrections have been made in the margins. The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Jamādī al-Avval, 14, 1027 (May 9, 1618); the place of writing is not given. The binding, newer and of Central Asian origin, is olive-green leather with embossed medallions, two in dark red, with a light-red leather spine. World Digital Library.

Names

• Firdawsī.

Created / Published

• 14 Jamādī al-Avval 1027 [9 May 1618]

Headings

• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Iran
• -  Tajikistan
• -  Uzbekistan

Notes

• -  Colophon: Tammat al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb Kitāb-i Shāhnāmah guftār-i Firdawsī, navvara Allāh marqadahu tamām shūd, rūz-i panjshanbih 14 māh-i Jamādī al-Avval sanah-i 1027, bi-khaṭṭ-i faqīr-i haqīr Allāh Sayyid ʻAliʼ valad Sayyid Hāshim, ghafara Allāh z̲unūbahu va satara ʻuyūbah.
• -  Contains three half page paintings for various battles and combat.
• -  Folio 1b-92a.
• -  Library of Congress Persian manuscript, 303/36A.
• -  Manuscript.
• -  Nastaʻliq; 25 lines in four columns in written aren 24 x 13.5 cm.
• -  Newer Central Asian binding; olive green leather with embossed medallions, two in dark red; light red leather spine.
• -  Paper; cream-colored laid paper; black ink; rubrication; pages in four colums within a blue-cream-gold-cream-gold border; few marginal notes and corrections; catchwords on rectos. text preceded by and introduction and table of contents (folios 1b-6b).
• -  Title from folio 7a.
• -  Written in Iran, newer Central Asian binding.
• -  Browne, E. G. Literary history of Persia, v. 1, p. 110-123
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
• -  Persian.
• -  digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16

Medium

• 1, 92 leaves (25 lines) bound : paper; 30.7 x 17.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• PK6455 .A2 1618

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/plmp.m012
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.11801

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2012498627

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2012498627

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