Tag Archives: Manuscripts

Émigrés persans dans l’Empire moghol

Les colophons d’un traité de médecine copié pendant une navigation sur l’Indus [DYNTRAN WORKING PAPER 10, March 2016]

by Francis RICHARD (Mapping by Emmanuel GIRAUDET)

La copie très soignée du traité Khulāṣat al-tajārib qui est aujourd’hui cotée Supplément persan 1156 [SP 1156] à la Bibliothèque nationale de France [BnF] fut acquise par la B.N. le 21 juin 1893 en même temps qu’une vingtaine d’autres manuscrits persans de sciences et Continue reading Émigrés persans dans l’Empire moghol

Calligrapher Families of Tabriz

Calligrapher Families of Tabriz (8th/14th–10th/16th centuries) [DYNTRAN WORKING PAPER 9, February 2016]

by Daniel ZAKRZEWSKI

Calligraphers enjoyed enormous prestige in the medieval and early modern Middle East. In Iran and adjacent lands where Persian flourished artistic traditions of writing the language matured between the 8th/14th and 10th/16th centuries Continue reading Calligrapher Families of Tabriz

Šarafnāma and Rūjikī rulers of Bidlīs

The Šarafnāma and the Rūjikī rulers of Bidlīs in the 11th/17th century [DYNTRAN WORKING PAPER 8, January 2016]

by Sacha ALSANCAKLI

The Šarafnāma is a well-known history of Kurdish dynasties and ruling houses, written in Persian in 1005-7/1596-99 by Amīr Šaraf Xān Bidlīsī (949/1543-about 1009/1601), leader of the Rūjikī tribe and prince of Bidlīs in northern Kurdistan. The historical account Continue reading Šarafnāma and Rūjikī rulers of Bidlīs