Persian MS 1012 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
For another copy of this same work, see Rylands Persian MS 884.
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
Written in 1 column with 27 lines per page. Ruled with a misṭarah hand guide.
Hand(s)
Written in clear black nasta‘līq with red subheaders.
Inscriptions:
- The final left flyleaf a side (ff. ia) bears a note by a former owner in French:
‘Dictionn. Persan & Turc par nametallah.’ - Folios 1a bears a note in Arabic script with the name ‘خواجه قردن’ (‘Ḫōca Ḳardon’), probably Denis-Dominique Cardonne, dated both ‘1165 AH (1751–52 CE)’ and ‘1752’.
Binding
Brown goatskin leather binding over pasteboards.
Accompanying Material
A slip of paper inserted in the volume describes the contents and references ‘Edwards’ Cat.’ with the price of ‘3/3/0’.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Subsequently acquired by Denis-Dominique Cardonne (1720–1783), as per his inscription on folio 1a. An orientalist and translator, he lived in Constantinople from the age of nine for twenty years, where he served a dragoman of France in the Morea (Peloponnese), before returning to France. The dates of his inscription would indicate that he acquired the volume shortly after his appointment as professor and Chair of Turkish and Persian at the Collège royal.
While the circumstances under which the volume arrived in Britain remain unclear, a note in the volume suggests that a Previously held in Chetham's Library, Manchester.
Purchased in 1981 by the John Rylands Library, together with other oriental manuscripts for £2000.
Record Sources
Manuscript description derived from Jan Schmidt, A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library at Manchester, 2011 by Jake Benson in 2023 .
Availability
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Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library and the Soudavar Memorial Foundation.
Subjects
- Chagatai language
- Dictionaries--Early works to 1700
- Dictionaries--Polyglot
- Dictionaries, Polyglot
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Early works to 1600
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Persian
- Turkish language--Dictionaries
- Turkish language--Dictionaries--Polyglot
- Persian language--Dictionaries
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