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Reading In, Looking Out: Hermeneutics by Implication in an Early Fifteenth-Century Anthology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

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Abstract

This article investigates aspects of mise-en-page in British Library Add. MS. 27261, an anthology of twenty-three texts on mixed subjects produced for Eskandar Soltān (d. 818/1415), grandson of Timur and self-styled ruler of territories in southern Iran during the early fifteenth century. It examines the juxtaposition of literary and scientific texts together with images in Add. MS. 27261, and explores the correlations that these juxtapositions create. It concludes that the London anthology should be seen as a coherent intellectual enterprise, and as an interpretative project designed to feed Eskandar’s experiments with different forms of knowledge.

Keywords

PhilologyHermeneuticsManuscript CultureEditorial PracticesEskandar SoltānNezāmi GanjaviAstronomy
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Iranian Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 5-6: Special Section: Saʿdi at Large , November 2019 , pp. 947 - 972
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2019

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