| ISBN |
0951644319 |
| Title |
Shahnama studies : 1 / edited by Charles Melville |
| Publisher |
Cambridge : Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2006 |
| Physical desc. |
xxvi, 300 p. ; ill. (mostly col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Pembroke papers 5 |
| Note |
CBL illustrations: p. 152-3 (Per 104); p. 212-3 (T 406, f. 2r) |
| Papers presented at the conference, The second Shahnama round-table, held at Newnham and Pembroke Colleges in Cambridge, on 21-23 November 2003 |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Illustrations of the parable of the Ship of faith in Firdausi's prologue to the Shahnama / Raya Y. Shani. -- Jamshid in the Shahnama and Yima in Zarathustra's Yasna 32 / M.N. Bogolyubov. -- Divided patrimony, tree of royal power and fruit of vengeance: political paradigms and Iranian self-image in the story of Faridun in the Shahnama / Abbas Amanat. -- Text and image in the story of Bizhan and Manizha: I / Charles Melville, with contributions by F. Abdullaeva. -- The Barzunama in the Berlin Shahnama manuscripts / Gabrielle van den Berg. -- The aesthetics of the historical sections of the Shahnama / Dick Davis. -- Firdausi's Dastan-i Khusrau va Shirin: not much of a love story! / Christine van Ruymbeke. -- The break-line verse: the link between text and image in the 'First small' Shahnama / Farhad Mehran. -- The iconography of the Shahnama, Ms. ta'rikh farisi 73, Dar al-kutub, Cairo (796/1393-4) / Bernard O'Kane. -- The earliest recorded Barzunama manuscript? / Eleanor Sims. -- Divine, human and demonic: iconographic flexibility in the context of a depiction of Rustam and Ashkabus / F. Abdullaeva. -- Word and image in illustrated Shahnama manuscripts: a project report / Jerome W. Clinton & Maria Shreve Simpson. -- Introducing Fath 'Ali Shah: production and dispersal of the Shahanshahnama manuscripts / Layla S. Diba. -- The last Qajar Shahnama: the Shahnama-yi Bahaduri (1319-26/1901-8) / Ulrich Marzolph. -- The conservation of Islamic manuscript material at Cambridge University Library, with particular reference to Ms. Add. 269 / Kristine Rose. |
| Person as subject |
Firdawsi -- Shahnamah -- Congresses |
| Corporate name |
University of Cambridge -- Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies -- Congresses |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 104 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 406 |
| Shahnama |
| Manuscripts, Islamic -- Conservation and restoration |
| Illuminated books and manuscripts, Islamic -- Congresses |
| Illuminated books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Congresses |
| Manuscripts, Persian -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Melville, C.P. (Charles Peter) 1951- ed. |
| Rose, Kristine |
| Series Added Entry |
Pembroke Persian papers |
