abstract the shahnameh (the book of kings) is a long epic poem written by the iranian poet ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010. this literary masterpiece, which tells the mythical and somehow the historical past of the persian empire, was always been the center of attention of the royal courts, the governors, the cultural people, artists and especially the painters. this book is been more than any...

Since it was awarded a Round 4 Trans-Atlantic Platform Digging into Data Challenge grant in 2017, the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project has been working to develop and test methodology link disparate datasets from Europe North America with aim of providing large-scale analysis visualizations history provenance medieval Renaissance manuscripts.

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 107, NO. 9, 10 NOVEMBER 2014 1386 Robert H. Glew is in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA; Anil K. Challa is in the Department of Genetics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA and Venkat Gopalan is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemist...