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Nisapur

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StateLetter-preserved textSurviving witnesses2TSS catalogue units2Catalogue rolePrimary / default
Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

Characters in this exact text

Exhaustively reviewed for this catalogued Poetry state. Generic lyric speakers/addressees, collectives, places and purely metaphorical allusions are not manufactured into permanent Characters.

BayezidBayezid — Ottoman ruler riding from Stamboul against NisapurOn Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 107RustumRostam — legendary Persian hero named by Howard in the Rustum spellingMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 107SubotaiSubotai — historical Mongol commanderMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 107

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Original Howard typescript — TSS 15372Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 15372

Original Typescript (OT) source code; retained as an original Howard typescript witness.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 37–38

Letter-sheet witness — NisapurOther physical witness
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 shared letter-sheet TSS item

TSS: 15372

Howard poem text preserved within a letter; the same physical TSS item also contains Niflheim.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Poetry working list · Nisapur / Niflheim · TSS 15372

Textual witnesses & editorial mediation

These records describe how this textual state is known or represented. A witness may be authorial, editorially mediated, restored, transcribed or otherwise derived without becoming a new Howard-authored textual state.

Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 107Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 3 p. 107

Published in

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume ThreeREH Foundation PressNovember 2022↗