Kanz al-ishtihāʾ

Name: Kanz al-ishtihāʾ
Author: Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī

Title	Kanz al-ishtihāʾ
Author	Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī
Subject	Persian poetry--747-1500, Satire, Persian, Humor in literature, Gastronomy--Poetry, Eating (Philosophy)
Type	Book
Language	fas,ara
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	112
Physical Dimensions	112 ff. Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 123 mm.
Library:	FIHRIST Library
Library Asset ID	Delhi Persian 1390
Record ID	32591
Library Location	Oriental Manuscripts, British Library
Notes	Anthology of poetic compositions expressing the cosmopolitan gastronomic culture of Timurid provincial courts by the poet Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, known as Ḥallāj, takhalluṣ Busḥāq varied to Aṭʿimah in his culinary verses (d. 827/1424), focussing on the allegorical treatment of the ingredients and types of common and ceremonial Persian and Indian foods. Volume not dated; datable to the early seventeenth century. Intermittent pencil foliation. Calligraphic to scribal nastaʿlīq. Limited annotations and corrections in margins by multiple contemporary and later hands. Damaged composite binding (brown tooled leather board and spine mistakenly paired with a front board with combed marbled paper over delaminating paste board with brown leather edging and corners); labels. Folios mostly unbound; stains, wormholes, creases, cropped. Condition fragile.
Koleksiyon	India Office Library
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Kanz al-ishtihāʾ

Author Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī

Subject Persian poetry--747-1500, Satire, Persian, Humor in literature, Gastronomy--Poetry, Eating (Philosophy)

Type Book

Language fas,ara

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 112

Physical Dimensions 112 ff. Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 123 mm.

Library FIHRIST Library

Library Asset ID Delhi Persian 1390

Record ID 32591

Library Location Oriental Manuscripts, British Library

Notes Anthology of poetic compositions expressing the cosmopolitan gastronomic culture of Timurid provincial courts by the poet Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, known as Ḥallāj, takhalluṣ Busḥāq varied to Aṭʿimah in his culinary verses (d. 827/1424), focussing on the allegorical treatment of the ingredients and types of common and ceremonial Persian and Indian foods. Volume not dated; datable to the early seventeenth century. Intermittent pencil foliation. Calligraphic to scribal nastaʿlīq. Limited annotations and corrections in margins by multiple contemporary and later hands. Damaged composite binding (brown tooled leather board and spine mistakenly paired with a front board with combed marbled paper over delaminating paste board with brown leather edging and corners); labels. Folios mostly unbound; stains, wormholes, creases, cropped. Condition fragile.

Koleksiyon India Office Library

Biçim codex