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The Illustrated Book About Makers of Glassware, etc. and a Description of Their Tools
Beautiful digital reproduction and translation with footnotes and glossary of all 36 folios of an early 19th-century Indo-Persian text on glass making authored by Ghulam Yahya.
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Louis E. Fenech (Faculty)
it gives the reader a glimpse into the complex process and economics of glass
making in northern India during the 1820s. The second is that it is so well
footnoted that even a beginning college student can wander through the text and
make sense of it. The third, although this text's shikasteh script is especially legible, students
of classical Persian literature who have had little time with actual Persian
manuscripts can get a virtual first-hand experience here.