FIRDOUSI Abu 'lkasim. Shahnamè. Le Livre des Rois.

The edition and translation of this master book in seven volumes and over forty years is partly posthumous. It is Barbier de Meynard who finished it in 1878 at the Imprimerie Nationale. The whole life of J. Mohl, who died in 1876, was devoted to the publication and translation of this text, masterpiece of the national epic of Persia: the Chahnamè. Mohl was chosen by a royal order in 1826 to translate this work because of his knowledge of Persian. He undertook this enormous task for various reasons: after having published Fragments relating to the religion of Zoroaster, he was aware that the publication of the texts in oriental languages alone would not longer be enough to help Westerners to know the East better, and that it was necessary to join a translation into European languages. Finally, he felt that none of the draft translations of the Schahnameh that had been published throughout Europe reflected the soul of Ferdowsi. In a preface of 92 p. Mohl explains his approach and specifies "that he had in his hands a large number of manuscripts of various origins". The task facing the Franco-German philologist was to compare the different versions of the Persian text and to try to identify the verses that really belonged to Firdowsi.

Provenance : Collection particulière, Paris.

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