Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu
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Add Lime Juice
aphrodisiac remedies
Areca Nut
artocarpus
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Bamboo Manna
betel
Betel Leaf
carandas
carissa
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chew
Chickpea Flour
Cook Meat
Cooking Pot
cordia
curculigo
Date Sugar
Dragon's Blood
Dragon’s Blood
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fifteenth-century Indian royal cuisine
Fine White Flour
food anthropology
Fresh Ginger
Ghiyath Shahi
historical gastronomy
Horse Radish
Indian culinary history
lakoocha
Lime Juice
medieval court culture
myxa
orchioides
Palm Sugar
Parched Grain
Persian manuscript studies
Pine Kernels
Rice Flour
Sesame Meal
Sesame Oil
Sesame Seeds
Skewered Meat
Small Cardamoms
Sweet Orange Peel
Water Chestnut
Product details
- ISBN 9780415650465
- Weight: 1070g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the eccentric Sultan of Mandu (Madhya Pradesh), Ghiyath Shahi, collected and added to by his son and successor, Nasir Shah. It contains recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights, as well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for the Sultan and his court. It also includes important sections on the preparation of betel leaves as well as advice on the logistics of hunting expeditions and warfare. The text provides a remarkable and tantalizing account of rarified courtly life in a fifteenth-century Indian Sultanate region.
Norah M. Titley is one of the scholars in Britain specialising in the study of Persian language manuscripts and miniature paintings. She began her career in the British Museum's Department of Oriental Manuscripts in 1950 and retired as the British Library's curator of illustrated Persian manuscripts in 1983. Since retiring, she has worked intensively on translating the Ni'matnama.
