Persian MS 1013 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Persian vocabulary

Author: Anonymous
Title: A Persian, Bengali, and English vocabulary
Language(s): Persian, Bengali, and English

Physical Description

Form: codex

History

Origin: Completed by an unidentified scribe in the Indian subcontinent; undated, but probably mid-18th century CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

While the circumstances under which these volumes arrived in Britain remain unclear, Chetham's Library, Manchester subsequently acquired it.

Purchased in 1981 by the John Rylands Library, together with other oriental manuscripts for £2000.

Record Sources

Manuscript description by Jake Benson in 2023 with reference to the volume in hand.

Availability

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Bibliography

    G. P. Greswell, Bibliotheca Chethamensis: Sive Bibliothecæ Publicæ Mancuniensis Ab Humfredo Chetham Armigero Fundatæ Catalogus, Vol. III (Mancunii: Henricus Smith, 1826), p. 164, no. 7991 [Rylands Persian MS 1013].

Funding of Cataloguing

The John Rylands Research Institute and Library and the Soudavar Memorial Foundation.

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