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IO Islamic 3214
- Record Id:
- 032-002800266
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002800266
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023517181.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 3214
- Title:
- Sindbādnāmah
- Scope & Content:
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An anonymous version of the adventures of Sindbad in Persian verse, thought to have been originally composed in Sanskrit and subsequently translated into many languages. This copy is believed to have been executed in Golconda, India, around the year 1575. It is written in nastaʻliq script and contains 72 illustrations in Golconda style.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002800266", "parent" : "#", "text" : "IO Islamic 3214: Sindbādnāmah" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002800266
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002800266
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 166 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IO_Islamic_3214 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1575
- Date Range:
- 1575
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 245 x 150 mm leaf [165 x 80mm written]
Script: Nastaʻliq in two columns, 16 lines per page
Decoration: Contains 72 miniatures, Golconda style; shamsa (f. 1r); decorated heading (f. 2v)
Binding: Modern European quarter-leather binding; red leather tooled Indian binding with flap preserved separately
Marginal comments: Marginal annotations in Telegu beside some of the miniatures
Seals: 2 scrubbed out seals, one possibly an East India Company seal (f. 1r)
- Custodial History:
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Belonged to the East India Company in 1841 and was apparently stolen (scrubbed out East India Company seal on f. 1r)
Purchased by Edwin Greenwood at a bookstall for £1, June 1857 (f. 6r)
Returned to the India Office Library by 1859 (note by H.H. Wilson, f. 6r)
- Source of Acquisition:
- East India Company Library
- Publications:
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Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. 2 v. Oxford, 1903-37, no. 1236
Forbes Falconer, “Analytic Account of the Sindībad Nāmah or Book of Sindibad, a Persian Ms. Poem in the Library of the East India Company,” Asiatic Journal, 35 (1841), pp. 169-80, and 36 (1841), pp. 4-18, 99-108
W. A. Clouston, The Book of Sindibad: Or, The Story of the King, His Son, the Damsel, and the Seven Vazirs. [N.p.], 1884
Günsel Rensa, “Sindbādnāma: an Early Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript Unique in Iconography and Style,” Muqarnas, v. 21 (2004), pp. 311-322
- Exhibitions:
- Deccan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 14 April 2015 - 26 July 2016
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Exhibited: Deccan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 14 April 2015 - 26 July 2016