Persian MS 960 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Persian Manuscripts
Composite text of five devotional and poetic works.
Contents
Summary of Contents: This composite manuscript contains several texts and poetical works. It opens with a poem entitled Mi‘rāj al-Nabī (Ascension of the Prophet), followe by (ḥijrah) of the Prophet Muḥammad.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Layout
Hand(s)
Written in clear black nasta‘līq with red subheaders.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Probably acquired for the John Rylands Library, by Alphonse Mingana (1881–1937) from an unidentified source.
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Manuscript description by Jake Benson in 2023, with reference to the volume, an unpublished handlist, accession registers, and a Persian description of the volume published by Tawfiq Subhani in 1993.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
Tawfīq Subḥānī, 'Kitāb'hā-yi khaṭṭī-i Fārsī fihrist nashudah dar Kitābkhānah Jān Rāylāndz, Manchistir' Majallah-'i Dānishkadah-i Adabiyāt va ‘Ulūm-i Insānī n.s., Vol. 1, Nos. 2-3 (1372 SH [1993 CE]): pp. 175–176, no. 19.
Funding of Cataloguing
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library
The Soudavar Memorial Foundation
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