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

[Huette von Ahrens]

I have been trying to order this book, but
the publisher won't let me.  Amazon says that
the book is "out of print--limited availablity".
Even Barnes and Noble says it is "not available
at this time".  Where else could I purchase
this?

Huette

--- Johnna Holloway
<johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:

> Here's a new one from Routledge.
> 
> Johnnae llyn Lewis
> 
> 
> The NI'Matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of
> Mandu: The Sultan's Book of
> Delights
> 
> 
> # 576 pages (February 2005)
> # Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
> # ISBN: 041535059X
> 
> 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.
> 
> There is only one copy of The Sultan's Book of
> Delights in existence,
> held in the Oriental and India Office
> Collections of the British Library
> (BL-Persian 149). The book manuscript is
> illustrated with fifty elegant
> miniature paintings, most of which show showing
> the Sultan observing the
> women of his court as they prepare and serve
> him various dishes. These
> illustrations are important historical art
> documents in their own right.
> Painted in a distinctive Shirazi (Southern
> Iranian) style, they are also
> stylistically influenced by indigenous styles
> of book painting found in
> Central and Western India, and are the earliest
> known example of
> miniature painting in an Islamic Deccani style.
> 
> For the first time, a facsimile of the original
> text is reproduced for a
> scholarly audience. Norah Titley, formerly
> assistant keeper, Oriental
> Collections at the British Library, has
> masterfully translated this
> unique book.
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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