British Library IO Islamic 3214
From The Seven Sages of Rome
Manuscript Identification
Reference Number
Sindbadnama_Yazdi1
Siglum / Shelfmark
British Library IO Islamic 3214
Page / Folio range
entire manuscript
Textual Content & Tradition
Standardised title of narrative
Language Group within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version
Translated / adapted from (Version/Text)
Zahiri al Samarqandi (versified and adapted)
Languages
Language of text
Digitisation & Editions
Digitisation
No
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 & Production
Physical Description
Contents & Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
None
Research Material
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