From Bidlīs to Ardabīl Via Aleppo and Iṣfahān. On the Circulation of a Manuscript of Šaraf Ḫān Bidlīsī’s Šarafnāma Revised by the Author (1007/1599).
Résumé
The Dorn 306 manuscript of the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg is a copy revised by the author of the Šarafnāma, a history of Kurdish dynasties written in Persian in 1005-7/1596-99 by Šaraf Ḫān Bidlīsī. Dated Šavvāl 1007/May 1599, the manuscript was bequeathed as a vaqf by Šāh ʿAbbās to Šayḫ Ṣafī’s shrine’s library in 1017/1608. This article studies the history of the manuscript’s circulation between the years 1007/1599 and 1017/1608.