Collection Abbreviations

Dushanbe – Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe

I.O. – India Office (now at the British Library), London

IVRU – Biruni Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Tashkent

Catalogues of Manuscripts

Ethé H., Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, vol. 1–2, Oxford 1903.

Karatay F.E., Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi farsça yazmalar kataloğu, Istanbul 1961.

[Khuda Bakhsh] Maulavi Abdul Muqtadir, Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna 1977 [reprint of the original: Supplement to the Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore, Patna 1932].

Mirzoev A. et al., Katalog vostochnykh rukopisej Akademii nauk Tadzhikskoj SSR, vol. 1, Stalinabad 1960.

Naushahi Kh.‘A., A catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Azir Collection of the Punjab University Library of Lahore, Islamabad 1986.

Piemontese A.M., Catalogo dei manoscritti persiani conservati nelle Biblioteche d’Italia, Roma 1989.

[SVR] Semënov A.A. et al., Sobranie vostochnykh rukopisej Akademii nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, Tashkent 1952–1987.

Persian sources

Moṭrebi Samarqandi, Taẕkerat al-sho‘arā, ed. A. Jānfedā, ‘A. Rafi‘i ‘Alā’marvdāshti, Tehrān 1377/1998.

Moṭrebi Samarqandi, Noskha-ye zibā-ye Jahāngir, eds. I. Bikjānuf, S.‘A. Mawjāni, Qom 1377/1998.

Nes̱āri, Seyyed Ḥasan Kwāja Naqib al-Ashrāf Bokhāri, Moẕakker al-aḥbāb, ed. N. Māyel Heravi, Tehrān 1377/1998.

Qomi, Qāżi Mir Aḥmad Monshi, Golestān-e honar, ed. A. Soheyli Khwānsari, Tehrān 1352/1973.

Secondary Literature

Akimuškin O.F., Biblioteka Šibanidov v Buxare XVI veka, [in:] Bamberger Zentralasienstudien. Konferenzakten ESCAS IV Bamberg 8.–12. Oktober 1991, eds. I. Baldauf, M. Friederich, Berlin 1994, pp. 325–341.

Akimuškin O.F., Ivanov A.A., Une école artistique méconnue: Boxârâ au XVIIe siècle. Notes sur les calligraphes et les peintres de la Bibliothèque des Aštarxânides d’après Moḥammad-Amin Boxâri, [in:] Art et société dans le monde iranien, ed. C. Adle, “Bibliothèque iranienne”, no. 26, Paris 1982, pp. 127–139.

Burton A., The Bukharans. A Dynastic, Diplomatic and Commercial History, 1550–1702, Richmond 1997.

Gray B., Persian Painting, Rizzoli 1977.

Krasnowolska A., Some Key Figures of Iranian Calendar Mythology, Kraków 1998.

Krasnowolska A., Mythes, croyances populaires et symbolique animale dans la littérature persane, “Cahiers de Studia Iranica”, no. 48, Paris 2013.

Krasnowolska A., Ferdowsi’s Dāstān – An Autonomous Narrative Unit?, [in:] Ferdowsi’s Shāhnāma. Millenial Perspectives, eds. O.M. Davidson, M. Shreve Simpson, “Ilex Foundation Series”, no. 13, Cambridge 2013, pp. 12–27.

Norik B.V., Biobibliograficheskij slovar’ sredneaziatskoj poezii (XVI–pervaja tret’ XVII v.) / A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Poetry in Central Asia (XVI–first third XVII cent.), Moskva 2011.

Porter Y., Remarques sur la peinture à Boukhara au XVIe siècle, “Cahiers d’Asie Centrale” 1998, no. 5/6 (Dossier: Boukhara-la-Noble), pp. 147–167.

Robinson B.W., Persian Paintings in the India Office Library. A Descriptive Catalogue, London 1976.

Robinson B.W., A Survey of Persian painting (1350–1896), [in:] Art et société dans le monde iranien, ed. C. Adle, “Bibliothèque iranienne”, no. 26, Paris 1982, pp. 13–89.

Robinson B.W., Fifteenth-Century Persian Painting: Problems and Issues, “Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilization”, New York 199.

Ruehrdanz K., The Samarqand Shahnamas in the context of dynastic change, [in:] The Reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama. Shahnama Studies, vol. 2, eds. Ch. Melville, G. van den Berg, Leiden–Boston 2012, pp. 212–233.

Sharma S., The Production of Mughal Shāhnāmas: Imperial, Sub-Imperial, and Provincial Manuscripts, [in:] Ferdowsi’s Shāhnāma. Millenial Perspectives, eds. O.M. Davidson, M. Shreve Simpson, “Ilex Foundation Series”, no. 13, Cambridge 2013, pp. 86–107.

Szuppe M., A Preliminary account of the Persian manuscripts in the collection of the late Sir Harold W. Bailey, “Iran” 1997, no. 35, pp. 93–101.

Szuppe M., A Glorious Past and an Outstanding Present: Writing a Collection of Biographies in Late Persianate Central Asia, [in:] The Rhetoric of Biography. Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies, ed. L. Marlow, “Ilex Foundation Series”, no. 4, Cambridge 2011, pp. 41–88.

Szuppe M., Family and professional circle of two Samarkand calligraphers of Persian belles-lettres around the year 1600 (1010H.), “Eurasian Studies” 2017, vol. 15, no. 2.

Welsford Th., Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia. The Tûqāy-Tîmîrid Takeover of Greater Mā Warā al-Nahr, 1598–1605, Brill 2013.

Website

The Illustrated Shahnama project: http://shahnama.caret.cam.ac.uk (access: 18.05.2019).