Delhi Persian 1390 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1390 a.

Selections referencing Persian and Indian food and its ingredients from the poetic works of numerous poets followed by the poetic responses in varied forms and genres (tarjīʿ, ghazal, qiṭʿah, rubāʿī, mustazād, mas̲navī, fard) of the present compiler and poet, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, known as Ḥallāj, takhalluṣ Busḥāq varied to Aṭʿimah in his culinary verses (d. 827/1424).

The work was apparently written for ʿĪd al-Fiṭr celebrations in the year 815 (1 Shavvāl/13 January 1413, yielded by the chronogrammatic title) for the circle of courtiers associated with the ruler praised at the beginning, Shāh Abā Naṣr Sulṭān Sayf al-Dīn al-Hurmuzī.

The works of other poets sampled here include Khvājū Kirmānī, Ẓahīr Fārābī, Shaykh ʿImād Faqīh, Amīr Ḥasan, Ḥāfiẓ, Shaykh Saʿdī, Sayyid Niʿmat Allāh, Khvājah Ṣadr al-Dīn, Salmān, Amīr Khusraw, Kamāl Ghiyās̲, Shams Nāṣir, Shaykh Jamāl Khujandī, Mawlānā Maḥmūd Jawharī, Nāṣir Bukhārī, Mawlānā Amīn al-Dīn, Mawlānā Awḥadī, Sulṭān Abū Saʿīd, Darvīsh Ashraf Namadpūsh, Mawlānā Quṭb al-Dīn, and Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Vāsiʿ.

The work opens with an allegorical preface and concludes with a similar conclusion in refined prose.

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Delhi Persian 1390 b.

Satirical mas̲navī on the adventures of ingredients making up the Persian sweetmeat changāl by the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424) parodying a verse by Mawlānā Najmī quoted at the beginning.

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Delhi Persian 1390 c.

Satirical mas̲navī on the courtly adventures of muzaʿfar or pilaf of saffron along with other articles of food in the region of Khurāsān, by the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424).

Lacuna between folios 78-79 indicated by catchwords.

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Delhi Persian 1390 d.

Satirical treatise in refined prose and poetry on an imaginary debate between shāh qalyah or risotto of rice and bughrā or cake typical of Khurāsān by the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424) parodying a poem of the poet Saʿdī Shīrāzī (d. 691/1292).

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Delhi Persian 1390 e.

Untitled brief qaṣīdah or panegyric on culinary themes, in qiṭʿah form, prefaced by a lengthy introduction in refined prose setting out the objectives and methods of its author, the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424).

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Delhi Persian 1390 f.

Treatise in refined prose interspersed with poetry describing and defining culinary terms for the instruction of the nation or qawm, arranged into nine sections termed bāb, by the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424).

The work was written in imitation of treatises by Saʿdī Shīrāzī and ʿUbayd Zākānī.

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Delhi Persian 1390 g.

Account in refined prose interspersed with poetry relating a dream of the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424), describing his interment in a mausoleum built of food.

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Delhi Persian 1390 h.

Untitled treatise in refined prose interspersed with poetry relating the delights of the Indian dish kicharī (khicharī) or kedgeree by the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424).

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Delhi Persian 1390 i.

Treatise in lyric or ghazal form relating the delights of the Indian dish kicharī (khicharī) or kedgeree by the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424).

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