Publication Date
1719
Publication Place
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[India, between 1719-1748]
Subject
Manuscripts, Persian -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Type
Other
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
368
Physical Dimensions
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Library
University of Chicago
Record ID
12919160
Date
1719
Notes
Codex manuscript.Title from colophon at the end of the fourth book.Collation: Paper, fol. ii + 23 + i + 117 + ii + 28 + ii + 108 + ii + 26 + i + 54 + ii (fol. i is pasted to preceding fol. 54); horizontal catchworks in lower inner margin.Layout: Written in 15 long lines; main text is within blue, red, and gold border-rules; occasional marginal notes, most horizontal and some diagonal; rubrications and some headings and image captions in red.Script: Written in nastaʻliq by scribe Muhammad Zaman Gujarati.Decoration: 42 full-page and 38 partial-page color illustrations.Binding: red velvet over boards; purple striped cloth pastedowns; rebacked in burgundy calf.Accompanying materials: 3 pieces of snakeskin laid in.Origin: The manuscript was produced during the time of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah Badshad (r. 1719-1748 CE) and is likely of imperial or sub-imperial provenance. The manuscript contains the Razm-nāma (Book of War), a translation into Persian of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata that was sponsored by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 1580s, with a preface (muqaddama) by Abu'l Fazl. This manuscript contains books 1-5 of the epic.The colophon at the end of the fourth book gives the date "caharom sahar jumad al-sani 967," that is, "the 4th day of the month of Jumada-al sani, 967, regnal year of the emporer Muhammad Shah Badshah" or 2nd March 1560 CE. It is unclear what this date refers to. It seems to be a copyist's error.Byname: Razmnāma.Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms341.Stamped seal on second front flyleaf: "Al-majdu lillah". The date on the seal, 1169 AH [1755 CE], indicates ownership and likely refers to the date in which the manuscript entered a Muslim nobleman's library.Open access Unrestricted online accessElectronic reproduction. Chicago : University of Chicago Library, [2023] Digitied as part of the University of Chicago Digital Preservation CollectionMaster and use copy. Digital Master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 http://www.diglib.org/standards/bmarkfin.htmIn Persian.Print version cataloged from existing description: collection file in Special Collections Research Center and exhibit text from Envisioning South Asia: Text, Scholarship, Legacies.digitized 2023 University of Chicago Library committed to preserveDescription based on print version record.. 1 online resource (368 leaves) : color illustrations. Manuscript produced in India of the Persian translation of the Indian epic Mahābhārata, containing a preface and books 1-5 of the work.
Seri
University of Chicago Digital Preservation Collection.
İlgili öğeler
Print version:
Mahābhārata.
Başlığın Farklı Biçimleri
RazmnāmaFormer catalog title: Mahabharata : manuscript, [16--?]
Diğer yazarlar / katkıda bulunanlar
Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605, sponsor.
Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602, writer of preface.
Muhammad Shāh, Emperor of Delhi, 1702-1748, sponsor.
University of Chicago. Library. Codex Ms. 341.
University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center.
University of Chicago Digital Preservation Collection.
Diğer biçim
Print version: Mahābhārata. [India, between 1719-1748]
