Jarring Prov. 433
[ Jarring Prov. 433 | Jarring's handwritten catalogue ]
Firdusi.
Shah-namah.
Uighur.
Eastern Turkistan.
1250/1834-1835, ca (?).
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Lund University Library
, Shah-namah. Eastern Turkistan, 1250/1834-1835, ca (?), Uighur
Old number 143. A giant volume containing a translation of Firdusi's famous work the Shah-namah. The title of the book on f. 2b: "The book of Kings of Molla Firdusi of Tus". The translator, who gives his name as ... , made the translation at the instigation of ... (the metropolitan of Samarkand, who visited Kashghar, cf. Bellow in Forsyth's Report... p. 174). The translation, which must be an abridgement of Firdusi's work, was made in order to make the common people read and understand Firdusi's work. The end page is missing. Cf. Blochet 1010; Prov. 194, 435, 440.
Physical description
Extent: ff. 344 ; 410 x 280mm.
Decoration
Binding
Brown leather binding with decorations
Foliation
The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.
Condition
Poor
History
Origin
No date indicated in the text; on f. 344b the year 1250/1834-1835, which may well be the approximate copying year (stated in Persian).
Provenance
Bought from Rev. Oskar Hermansson who acquired the ms. in Kashghar in the 1930's.
Acquisition
The ms. was part of the Jarring collection of Eastern Turkistan manuscripts donated to the Lund University Library in 1982.
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