Century: 16th Century / Institution: The University of Manchester / Collection: Persian Manuscripts

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1. Persian MS 18 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This illustrated manuscript of the Anvār-i Suhaylī (Lights of Canopus), a prose rescension of animal fables of Indian origin…

2. Persian MS 20 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A nearly complete illustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the…

3. Persian MS 23 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A Safavid-era scribe named Muḥammad Amīn bin ‘Abd Allāh completed this manuscript of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which…

4. Persian MS 28 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This illustrated copy of Laylā va Majnūn by Hātifī, (d. 1520–21), a nephew of ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (d. 1492) , whom composed the…

5. Persian MS 29 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A nearly complete, illuminated and illustrated Safavid-era copy of the Subḥat al-Abrār (Rosary of the Pious), the third of…

6. Persian MS 43 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Persian illustrated copy of the Dīvān-i Shāhī, a collection of poems by the Persian poet Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī.

7. Persian MS 45 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: 3 works by 3 authors on the subject of Persian literature

8. Persian MS 48 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Famed calligrapher Khalīl Allāh (fl. ca. 1580–1625) completed this abridged Divān of select poems by Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (d.…

9. Persian MS 49 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Illustrated copy of Amir Khusrau's masnavi Duval Rani u Khizr Khan , the tragic love story of Khizr Khan and Duval Rani.

10. Persian MS 55 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Khulāṣat al-ash‘ār (Abridgment of Poems), an anthology of lyric poetry quatrains culled from the works of roughly forty poets…

11. Persian MS 73 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Rawḍ al-akhyār by Amāsī, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim, 1459 or 60-1533 or 4

12. Persian MS 94 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This composite manuscript contains two texts: a commentary on forty prophetic traditions and a hagiography of the calligrapher…

13. Persian MS 102 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

14. Persian MS 109 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This Dīvān compiles together poems ascribed to Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (ca. 1253–1325), widely regarded as India's most famous…

15. Persian MS 115 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Siyar al-ʻārifīn by Dihlavī, Shaikh Jamālī

16. Persian MS 130 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Rawz̤at al-aḥbāb by ʻAṭāʼ Allāh ibn Faz̤l Allāh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī

17. Persian MS 177 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Sixth volume of an incomplete set of the Rawz̤at al-Ṣafā (Garden of Purity), a general history from the creation of the world…

18. Persian MS 191 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Akhlāq-i Muḥsinī by Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5

19. Persian MS 194 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Kitāb al-nawādir

20. Persian MS 207 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: An unillustrated copy of Mihr va-Mushtarī (the Sun and Jupiter), by Muḥammad 'Aṣṣār Tabrīzī (d. ca. 1383). Very neatly written…

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