Kitab-i Shahnameh. (Urdu).
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Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Kitab-i Shahnameh. (Urdu).

Lucknow, North India, [probably 1880s].

4to (190 x 280 mm). 82 ff. (incomplete), lithographed throughout in Urdu. Text written in four columns. With a decorative frontispiece and headpiece and 21 half- and three-quarter-page illustrations in the text. Modern binding.

€ 4,500.00

A substantial fragment of Firdawsi's Shahnameh in Urdu, a lithographed Lucknow edition with 21 illustrations present. The translation from Persian was made by Mul Chand Munshi, with the addition of praise of the Mughal Emperor Akbar II (r. 1806-37) in the first chapter, which reflects the date of the original composition. Mul Chand's version was apparently first printed in Delhi in 1883, and then again in 1887.

Provenance

Handwritten notes indicate that the book's owner is Muhammad Nasir al-Din, and that it was bought from Munshi 'Abd al-Karim Khan on 18 May 1908 CE.

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