Persian MS 1007 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: This last of four incomplete volumes of the Razmnāmah (Book of Battles) a Persian translation of the Mahābhārata, contains the fourteenth to eighteenth Parva. Translated at the behest of the Mughal ruler Akbar I (b. 1542, r. 1566–1605) starting in 990 AH (1582–83 CE) by four scholars, chiefly Ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Ḥusaynī Naqīb-K̲h̲ān (d. ca. 1614), as well as ʻAbd al-Qādir Badāʼūnī (ca. 1540–1615), Muḥammad Sulṭān Thānīsārī fl. late 16th c, and Mullā S̲h̲īrī (d. ca. 1586), to which the vizier Abū al-Faz̤l (1551–1602) added a preface. One of two sets of this work previously held in the Chetham Library, Manchester.
Author and Bibliographic antecedent: Vyāsa;
ব্যাস, কৃষ্ণদ্বৈপায়ণ
Author and Translator: Ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Ḥusaynī Naqīb-K̲h̲ān (d. 1614);
ابن عبد اللطیف نقیب خان
Author and Translator: Badāʼūnī, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Mulūk Shāh, ca. 1540–1615;
عبد القادر بن ملوكشاه بدائونی
Author and Translator: Muḥammad Sulṭān Thānīsārī, fl. late 16th c.;
محمد سلطان ثانیساری
Author and Translator: Mullā Shīrī, d. ca. 1586;
ملا شیری
Author, Author of introduction, etc. and Writer of preface: Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602 ابو الفضل بن مبارك
Patron: Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, b. 1542, r. 1566–1605
Title: Razmnāmah
Title: رزمنامه
Title: Mahābhārata
Title: महाभारतम्
Title: مهابهارته
Title: Persian translation of the Mahābhārata
Title: ترجمه‌ٔ هابهارته
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Language(s): Persian

For another three-volume set of this work held in the Rylands, see Persian MS 1008 to 1010. For another ornate prose redaction based upon this version by Abū al-Faz̤l's brother, the poet Fayz̤ī (d. 1595) in two volumes, see Persian MS 835 and 836.

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Provenance and Acquisition

Previously held in the Chetham Library, Manchester.

Purchased in 1981 by the John Rylands Library, together with other oriental manuscripts for £2000 .

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Manuscript description by Jake Benson in 2023 .

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Bibliography

    Persian MS 1004
    Persian MS 1005
    Persian MS 1006
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The Soudavar Memorial Foundation

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