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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.

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.

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 & Production

Scribe

unknown

Author

Seyyed Jalaloddin Azod-e Yazdi

Date of Production

1575/85 (982 AH^AH)

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

Research Material

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

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 |Has Standardised Title Of Narrative=Sindbadnama
 |Has Siglum Of The Version Of The Seven Sages=Persian Sindbadnama
-|Has Narrative Or Scholarly Group Within Version=Azod Yazdi versification
+|Has Narrative Or Scholarly Group Within Version=Zahiri al Samarqandi, Sindbadnama
+|Has Further Primary Scholarly Subgroup=Azod Yazdi versification
 |Was Translated Or Adapted From=Zahiri al Samarqandi, Sindbadnama
+|Has Language=Persian
+|Has Digitisation=No
+|Has Modern Edition=Yazdi, Azod. Sindbad-nameh-ye Manzum. Ed. Mohammad Jaʿfar Mahjub. Tehran: Tus, 2002.
 |Has Scribe=unknown
 |Has Author=Seyyed Jalaloddin Azod-e Yazdi
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 |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 Script Style=Nastaliq
+|Has Literary Form=Verse
 |Has Illustrations=Yes
-|Has Digitisation=No
+|Has Collation=None
-|Has Modern Edition=Yazdi, Azod. Sindbad-nameh-ye Manzum. Ed. Mohammad Jaʿfar Mahjub. Tehran: Tus, 2002.
 |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.