Selections from the Shah Namah for the Degree of Honor Examination in

FERDOWSI. & JARRETT (Major H.S.), editor.

Selections from the Shah Namah for the Degree of Honor Examination in Persian for Officers in the Military & Civil Services.

THE SHAHNAMEH PRINTED FOR OFFICERS IN BRITISH INDIA

Farsi text, additional title and introductory page in English. 8vo. Contemporary half black leather and black cloth boards, red-speckled edges; rebacked and recornered, new red morocco label to spine, boards a little scuffed, front joint beginning to split, otherwise good. A few small wormholes (defunct), rest of interior clean and fresh. [iv], 513, [3]pp. Calcutta, Printed by Malawi Kabir Ud Din Ahmad, at the Urdu Guide Press, 1880.

£350.00

A selection from Ferdowsi’s epic poem, printed in a neat Farsi type at the Urdu Guide Press. It includes the part of the poem concerning the first three centuries of Sassanian rule.

It was edited by the British soldier and linguist Henry Sullivan Jarrett (1839-1919), and issued as a text for the Degree of Honor Examination in Persian for [British Indian] Officers in the military and civil services. With the utilitarian appearance of a textbook, it stands in stark contrast to the popular illustrated editions (in Farsi and Urdu) of the Shahnameh circulating in India at the time.

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Selections from the Shah Namah for the Degree of Honor Examination in Persian for Officers in the Military & Civil Services.

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