Persian MS 196 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Persian Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: Mir‘āt al-Asrār (Mirror of Secrets) by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Chishtī

Author: Chishtī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1596?-1682? عبد الرحمٰن چشتی

Title: Mir‘āt al-Asrār

Title: مرآت الاسرار

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 948 folios, (ff. 948).

Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 220 mm.

Binding

History

Origin: ‘14 Jumādá I’ with the year omitted; probably late 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Formerly part of the collection of Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803–1865), after whose death London antiquarian dealer Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899) sold his oriental manuscripts to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) in 1866.

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913).

Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to the John Rylands Library.

Record Sources

Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993, derived from a manuscript catalogue by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s concisely published as Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Hand-list of Oriental Manuscripts: Arabic, Persian, Turkish in 1898.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Iran Heritage Foundation

The John Rylands Research Institute

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