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Shahnama studies III: the reception of the Shahnama

Shahnama studies III: the reception of the Shahnama
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ISBN 900435624X (hbk.)
9789004356245 (hbk.)
Title Shahnama studies III : the reception of the Shahnama / edited by Gabrielle van den Berg and Charles Melville
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018
Physical desc. xviii, 431 pages ; color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in Persian Cultural History 12
Note Papers presented at a conference under the auspices of the Shahnama Project, held at the University Library at Leiden University, 8-9 January 2009.
CBL illustrations: p. 247, fig. 9.11 (Per 293.8).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1: The reception of the Shahnama: later epics. Banu Gushasp in the Shahnama: a case study of the British Library Ms. Or. 2926 and the interpolated Banu Gushaspnama / Marjolijn van Zutphen -- The demon Barkhiyas at the well of Bizhan: two versions / Charles Melville -- Rustam's grandson in Central Asia: the Sistan cycle epics and the Shahnama tradition / Gabrielle van den Berg -- The interplay of oral and written traditions in Persian epics: the case of the Barzunama in the Haft Lashkar / Kumiko Yamamoto -- A new manuscript of the Shahriyarnama attributed to Mukhtari of Ghazna from the collection of the Ancient India and Iran Trust / Maria Szuppe -- Part 2: The Shahnama in later contexts. The Shahnama in Timurid historiography / Michele Bernardini -- The Sulaiman-nama (Suleyman-name) as an historical source / Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz -- A storyteller's Shahnama: Meddah Medhi and his Sehname-i Turki / Tulun Degirmenci -- The Shahnama legacy in a late-15th-century illustrated copy of Ibn Husam's Khavaran-nama, the Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran, Ms. 5750 216 / Raya Shani -- Part 3: Textual studies. Persian medieval rewriters between auctoritas and authorship: the story of Khusrau and Shirin as a case-study / Christine van Ruymbeke -- Rebels, virtuous adorers and successors: the agentic daughters of the Shahnama / Alyssa Gabbay -- Part 4: Art history and manuscript studies. Zahhak from Cambridge and Bahram Gur from Geneva: two unpublished lustre tiles with Shahnama verses / Firuza Melville -- Illustration as localization: a dispersed Bijapuri manuscript of the Shahnama / Laura Weinstein -- The Baysunghuri manuscript in the Malek National Library / Shiva Mihan.
Person as subject Firdawsi -- Shahnamah -- Congresses
Subject Shahnama
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 293
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Congresses
Miniature painting, Iranian -- Congresses
Added name(s) Van den Berg, Gabrielle Rachel 1967-
Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter) 1951-
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