Jarring Prov. 435
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Firdusi.
Shah-namah.
Uighur.
Eastern Turkistan.
1287/1870-1871, ca (?).
Prov. no. 435 of 557. Go to: 1 ... 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 ... 557
Lund University Library
, Shah-namah. Eastern Turkistan, 1287/1870-1871, ca (?), Uighur
Old number 130. A giant volume containing the translation of Firdusi's Shahnamah. The beginning and end is missing. Name of the translator and other details were probably to be found in the missing introductory folios. Cf. Prov. 194, 433, 440.
Physical description
Extent: ff. 358 ; 390 x 260mm.
Decoration
Binding
Brown leather binding with primitive decorations
Foliation
The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.
Condition
Unusable
History
Origin
No date indicated in the text. On f. 358a a note giving the year 1287/1870-1871 which would indicate that the copying date is earlier than this year, but approximately around this year.
Provenance
Bought from Rev. David Gustafsson who acquired the ms. in Yarkand in the 1920's. To the manuscript's Yarkand origin points also notes in the margin of ff. 133b, 134b and 256b where an in Russian untrained hand has written a name ... and ... (the town of Kokaseq is also mentioned). On f. 358 an enigmatic note in faulty spelling, which would indicate some connection of the manuscript with Khotan.
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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