Epic literature, Persian
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
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Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
تأريخ شمشير خانی Tā'rīkh-i shamshīr-khānī, 1090 A.H., 1679 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 270
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of an abridgement of the Shāh-nāmah of Firdawsī, compiled with a connecting narrative in prose by Tawakkul Beg, son of Tūlāk Beg al-Ḥasanī. The history begins with the reign of Gayūmars̱, and is brought down to the Sāsānians, descendants of Ardashīr-Bābagān.
Illuminated frontispieces.
Dates:
1090 A.H.; 1679 C.E.
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سام نامه Sām-nāmah, undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 272
Scope and Contents
An epic poem celebrating the exploits of Sām (son of Narīmān), who succeeded Garshāsp as Jahān-Pahlawān, and his romantic love with Princess Parīdukht, daughter of the Emperor of China. The author's name is not given, but as it is in close imitation of the celebrated mas̲navī of Khvājū-yi Kirmānī (d. c. 1349 C.E.) entitled Humā-yi Humāyūn, it is usually ascribed to the same author.The present copy is written in fine nast'līq in four columns,...
Dates:
undated
شاه نامه Shāh-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 265
Scope and Contents
A superb copy of the Persian "Book of Kings" and epic poem, the verse written by Abū'l-Qāsim Firdawsī ca. 329-410 A.H. (940-1019 C.E.).The present copy begins with a short preface containing a list of the ancient kings of Persia in genealogical order. This is followed by the four daftars of the poem in the form of two books.It is comprised of 606 folios and is written in excellent nasta'līq, in four gold-ruled columns, with headings in red. The first two leaves are...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
شاه نامه Shāh-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 266
Scope and Contents
A superb copy of the Persian "Book of Kings" and epic poem, the verse written by Abū'l-Qāsim Firdawsī ca. 329-410 A.H. (940-1019 C.E.). The present copy is across two volumes OR MS 266 and 267; the verse appears to be complete but it does not include the preface.It is written in fine nast 'līq in four columns, framed by coloured lines, with headings in red or gold and has an illuminated frontispiece. The last few folios are slightly...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
شاه نامه Shāh-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 267
Scope and Contents
A superb copy of the Persian "Book of Kings" and epic poem, the verse written by Abū'l-Qāsim Firdawsī ca. 329-410 A.H. (940-1019 C.E.). The present copy is across two volumes OR MS 266 and 267; the verse appears to be complete but it does not include the preface.It is written in fine nast'līq in four columns, framed by coloured lines, with headings in red or gold and has an illuminated frontispiece.Despite being undated the other...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
شاه نامه Shāh-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 268
Scope and Contents
A complete copy of the Persian "Book of Kings" and epic poem, the verse written by Abū'l-Qāsim Firdawsī ca. 329-410 A.H. (940-1019 C.E.), over two volumes OR MS 268 and 269. The first volume is injured in its first half.
Headings in black or red.
Numerous later additions have been made on the margins.
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
شاه نامه Shāh-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 269
Scope and Contents
A complete copy of the Persian "Book of Kings" and epic poem, the verse written by Abū'l-Qāsim Firdawsī ca. 329-410 A.H. (940-1019 C.E.), over two volumes OR MS 268 and 269. The first volume is injured in its first half.
Headings in black or red.
Numerous later additions have been made on the margins.
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
شاهمانه Shāh-nāmah, 1226 A.H., 1811 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 98
Scope and Contents
The Persian "Book of Kings" and national epic, the rendition in verse by Abū'l-Qāsim Firdowsī ca. 329-410 A.H. (940-1019 C.E.).
Dates:
1226 A.H.; 1811 C.E.
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گرشاسپ نامه Garshāsp-nāmah, undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 271
Scope and Contents
This poem celebrates the exploits of Garshāsp, prince of Sistan, and one of the ancestors of Rustam (the celebrated hero in Firdawsī's Shāh-nāmah). It is said to be one of the earliest attempts to imitate Firdawsī.It is usually ascribed to the poet Asadī Ṭusī, the master of Firdawsī, who flourished during the reigns of Sulṭān Maḥmūd and his son Mas'ūd of Ghaznī, and died in that of the latter (421-432 A.H., 1030-1040 C.E.). However, some of the...
Dates:
undated