[Sca-cooks] reading at my house

[Johnna Holloway]

Here's the information again. I am sure that this is in a file for the
Florilegium. We've discussed this on the list before. Huette does  
have a copy too.

Johnnae


The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu
The Sultan's Book of Delights
Norah M. Titley


Publisher:

Routledge

ISBN:

041535059X

Pub Date:

17 DEC 2004

Type:

Hardback Book

Price:

£65.00

Extent:

576 pages
(Dimensions 234X156 mm)

Illustrations:

197 b+w photos and 1 plate section


The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the  
eccentric Sultan of Mandu (Madhya Pradesh), Ghiyath Shahi, collected  
and added to by his son and successor, Nasir Shah. It contains  
recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights,  
as well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for the Sultan and his  
court. It also includes important sections on the preparation of  
betel leaves as well as advice on the logistics of hunting  
expeditions and warfare. The text provides a remarkable and  
tantalizing account of rarified courtly life in a fifteenth-century  
Indian Sultanate region.


Contents:
1. Preface 2. Introduction 3. List and description of the  
manuscript's illustrations 4. Facsimile of the manuscript including  
colour inserts for illustrations 5. Translation of the manuscript 6.  
Bibliography 7. Glossary 8. Index