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Author :
Firdusi (Abu 'l-Qasim Mansur )
[author] , Ranjit Singh
[collector] , Shah Jahan
[sponsor] , Tawakal Beg
[copyist]
Title : Shahnama (of Firdusi)
Level : item / Reference : Acc. n° 363
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Notice types :
- Manuscript
Organization :
Patiala - PUNJAB STATE ARCHIVES (Chandigarh & Patiala - India) (Chandigarh & Patiala, INDIA)
Language :
English
Material Lang 1 :
Persian
Date :
- 1069h/1653
Physical description :
1 volume, on paper, 400 folios, It has 65 illustrations. It carries the seal of " Ghulam Ali Sahib Bahadur Kitab Khana Sarkar Wala", i.e. the library of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, with the date 1244 Hijra (1828 AD) : testimony rare in this moment i of the kind of illustrated manuscripts which were in the Lahore fort during Maharaja Ranjit's reign.
Scope content :
This splendid Shahnama of Firdausi was copied in 1069 Hijra (1653 AD) for Shah Jahan by the scribe Tawakal Beg.
Bibliography :
Jean Marie Lafont, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Lord of the Five Rivers, New delhi, OUP, 2002, p. 22 and161-162, n. 200.
Geognames :
- Lahore [other]
- Patiala (Penjab) [other]
Subject :
- 090a Manuscripts
- East Indo-European litteratures
- Indo-iranian literature
- Iranian literature (classical and modern)
Notes :
The presence of that manuscript in the Royal Library explains the copying and illustration of a splendid Shahanama done at Lahore in c. 1830 and also some of the classical influence we have already noticed in the paintings of imam Bakhsh Lahori.
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Date created :
08/03/2009 09:29:53
Last update :
08/04/2009 18:16:20
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Patiala - PUNJAB STATE ARCHIVES (Chandigarh & Patiala - India)
collection : Manuscript collections of the Punjab State Archives (Ref : MSPU)
item : Shahnama (of Firdusi) (Ref : Acc. n° 363)
