British Library IO Islamic 3214: Difference between revisions

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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Sindbadnama_Yazdi1
Location	British Library, originally Golconda
Siglum/Shelfmark	British Library IO Islamic 3214
Page/Folio range	entire manuscript

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sindbadnama
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)
└ Language Group within Version	Persian (Dari)
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Azod Yazdi versification
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)	Zahiri al Samarqandi (versified and adapted)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition

Languages
Language of text	Persian
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	No
Modern Editions	Yazdi, Azod. Sindbad-nameh-ye Manzum. Ed. Mohammad Jaʿfar Mahjub. Tehran: Tus, 2002.

Note
his 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. 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.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1575 - 1585 (982 AH^AH)
Source of Date of Manuscript Production

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	157
Height	435
Width	300
Script style/form	Nastaliq
Prose or verse	Verse
Illustrations	Yes

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	None

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation

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 |Has Narrative Or Scholarly Group Within Version=Azod Yazdi versification
 |Was Translated Or Adapted From=Zahiri al Samarqandi (versified and adapted)
-|Has Illustrations=No
+|Has Start Date Of Production=1575
+|Has End Date Of Production=1585
+|Has Islamic Date Of Production=982 AH
+|Has Material=Paper
+|Has Language=Persian
+|Has Literary Form=Verse
+|Has Collation=None
+|Has Script Style=Nastaliq
+|Has Total Pages In Manuscript=157
+|Has Height=435
+|Has Width=300
+|Has Illustrations=Yes
+|Has Digitisation=No
+|Has Modern Edition=Yazdi, Azod. Sindbad-nameh-ye Manzum. Ed. Mohammad Jaʿfar Mahjub. Tehran: Tus, 2002.
+|Has Internal Notes=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.
+|Has Note=his 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.
+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.
 }}