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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

Sindbadnama_Yazdi1

Location

London, British Library

Siglum / Shelfmark

British Library IO Islamic 3214

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sindbadnama

Version (siglum)

Persian Sindbadnama

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Zahiri al Samarqandi, Sindbadnama

Further scholarly subgroup (1)

Azod Yazdi versification

Translated / adapted from (Version/Text)

Zahiri al Samarqandi, Sindbadnama

Languages

Language of text

Persian

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

No

Modern Editions

Yazdi, Azod. Sindbad-nameh-ye Manzum. Ed. Mohammad Jaʿfar Mahjub. Tehran: Tus, 2002.

Authorship & Production

Scribe

unknown

Author

Seyyed Jalaloddin Azod-e Yazdi

Date of Production

1575 - 1585

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Total pages / folios

157

Height

435

Width

300

Script style / form

Nastaliq

Prose or verse

Verse

Illustrations

Yes

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

None

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Ethé, Hermann. Catalogie of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office, 1236

Research Material

Has Research Material Title	Has Research Material Link	Has Research Material Description

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 |Has Author=Seyyed Jalaloddin Azod-e Yazdi
 |Has Canonical Name Of Author=Azod Yazdi
-|Has Date Of Production=1575-85
 |Has Start Date Of Production=1575
 |Has End Date Of Production=1585
-|Has Islamic Date Of Production=982 AH
+|Is Date Uncertain=No
 |Has Material=Paper
 |Has Total Pages In Manuscript=157
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 |Has Illustrations=Yes
 |Has Collation=None
-|Has Internal Notes=Note: BL, originally Golconda
+}}
-|Has Note=Manuscript of the Shirazi poet Azod Zazdi's 1374CE versification (masnavi form) and adaptation of Zahiri al Samarqandi's Sindbadnama. The stories are identical to Zahiri's version.
+{{ExternalCatalogueLink
+|Has External Catalogue Title=Ethé, Hermann. Catalogie of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office, 1236
-This richly illuminated manuscript (holding 72 miniatures stylistically associated with the Shirazi school of miniaturists) was acquired by the East India Company orientalist Hamish Forbes Falconer, likely from the library of the Tipu Sultan of Mysore after his defeat in 1799. It was then briefly lost  until it was purchased in a bazaar in 1857, and waantransferred to the British library when the latter took over the papers of the East India Company.
+|Has External Catalogue Link=https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi01greauoft/page/n383/mode/2up
-Next to the many of the miniatures are short descriptive commentaries in Kannada (previously misidentified as Telugu), potentially suggesting that the manuscript was circulating within Hindu circles of the Deccan court.
 }}