Persian MS 959 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
For three other copies of this work held in the Rylands, see Persian MS 77, 569, and 966. For a description of 238 other manuscripts of this work, see FANKHĀ.
Physical Description
Layout
Written primarily in 1 column with 29 lines per page. Ruled with a misṭarah hand guide.
Hand(s)
Written in small, hasty black nasta‘līq with occasional shikastah ligatures and red markings by ‘Abd al-Ghanī bin ‘Abd al-Razzāq bin Zakariya.
Binding
Covered in two pieces of red goatskin leather over pasteboards that overlap upon the spine, cut flush with the edges, and without a flap. Flyleaves of
× × mm.
Handle with caution. Binding in fair but stable condition.
Folio 44Aa bears three partially legible rectangular seal impressions, two red and one black, all from the same matrix, intaglio-carved in two nasta‘līq script lines, double-ruled, with the name ‘‘Abd al-Ghanī’ and dated 1276 AH (1859–1860 CE), the year of the manuscript's completion, hence very likely that of the scribe, ‘Abd al-Ghanī bin ‘Abd al-Razzāq bin Zakariya.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Subsequently inspected or acquired by someone possibly named ‘Abd Allāh al-Jīlī as per his inscription on the second to last flyleaf b side (f. vb).
While the circumstances under which this manuscript arrived in Britain remain unclear, Manchester bookseller J. E. Cornish subsequently acquired it from an unidentified source.
Purchased by the John Rylands Library in July 1926 J. E. Cornish.
Record Sources
Manuscript description by Jake Benson in 2023, with reference to the volume, an unpublished handlist, accession registers, and a Persian description of the volume published by Tawfiq Subhani in 1993.
Availability
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Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library
The Soudavar Memorial Foundation
Subjects
- Medicine
- Medicine (Drugs)
- Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Medicine, Persian
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacology--Early works to 1800
- Pharmacopoeias
- Pharmacy
- Pharmacy--Early works to 1800
- Pharmacy--Terminology
- Science--Islamic Empire--History
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