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

[JP Coane]

The link below

http://www.biggerbooks.com/

has the book for $105.40, search by ISBN number to find it - beware it is
not yet printed

Christopher

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:15 PM
Subject: [EKCooksGuild] Fw: [Sca-cooks] Sultan's Book of Delights-- late
15th century


>
> Thought y'all might be interested in this from Johnna. I want a copy- 
> might
> mesh well with "Soup for the Qan"
>
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
>> 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
>
> Saint Phlip,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnna Holloway" <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>; 
<mk-cooks at midrealm.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:29 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Sultan's Book of Delights-- late 15th century


> 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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