[Sca-cooks] Sultan's Book of Delights-- late 15th century

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>The NI'Matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu: The Sultan's Book 
>of Delights
SNIP
>115 US dollars

>Routledge says:
>The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of recipes written for
>the Sultan of Mandu, in what is now Madhya Pradesh, India. It contains
>recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights, as
>well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for Nasir ad-Din Shah of
>Mandu and his court. The text provides a unique account of courtly life
>in a fifteenth century Indian Sultanate and documents a fascinating
>stage in the history of Indian cookery.
SNIP

You need this? Hah! *I* need this book.

I heard about it some number of months ago and have it on my wish 
list, but i don't think i can afford it until March :-(

Anahita
who just had a lovely dinner at a local Indian restaurant that 
changes its menu *every night*...