La Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze renferme parmi ses tresors le plus ancien Shāhnāme conserve. Le volume – qui contient la moitie du recit – est date de 614/1217. Si texte bien sur en Persan, les titres sont ecrits Arabe et manuscrit des notes Turc, ce qui suggere que commanditaire lieu copie relevent cette culture. Ces pallient donc indirectement omissions colophon. Cet article prese...

Introduction. The Sumagadha-Avadāna (‘Avadāna of Sumagadha’) is often mentioned in Oriental studies, including works on the history classical Mongolian literature examining writings Indo-Tibetan origin. This text included both Tibetan- and Mongolian-language canonical Kangyur (Kanjur) editions. Despite frequent references, former has neither been translated into Russian, nor there are any descr...

the gulistān palace library in tehran owns a manuscript of kalila va dimna (ms. 2198), a persian version, by  nasr allāh munshi. the volume consists of 107 folios, and the text is written in an elegant nasta’liq.   however, the manuscript is defective:  there is no colophon, nor any other indication to show the date and/or place at which it was executed.  the manuscript’s first public appearanc...

Ali Shir Nava’i (d.1501) was a famous statesman, poet and linguist, political cultural identity in the Timurid capital, Herat at end of 15th century. The subject this research is first only illustrated copy Nava’i’s Khamseh, which produced Ottoman Royal Atelier. colophon on folio 309v copy, dating 937/1530-31, shows that calligrapher, bookbinder painter Khamseh as Pir Ahmed bin Iskender. This i...

The seemingly unrelated Poisson (SUP) model (King (1989a), see also Aptech (1994)) is a model for bior multi-variate counted outcomes. Correlation between equations is introduced through a convolution structure with a common additive factor. Previous economic applications include the joint analysis of voluntary and involuntary labour mobility (Jung and Winkelmann, 1993) and the number of recrea...