Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Persian MS 961 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

Summary of Contents: Sanwal Singh walad-i Shawhar Singhcompleted this adbridged Persian translation of ninety adhāhiya of the tenth skanda of the Bhāgavat Puran, here entitled Khulāṣah'-i Tarjamah-'i Fārsī-yi Bhāgavat (Abridged Persian translation of the Bhāgavat), in 1896 CE.
Incipit: بعد حمد سریکشن‌جی که منجمله ده او تار بر مهمه ‌نار این‌که خالق جمیع جهان‌ هستند و توصیف سـریـکنش کـه دهنده عقل و کیاست تمامی مـخلوقات‌اند. اخوان سریکش که در دنیا پیدا شده کرامات‌ها نمودند نود باب از پونهی بهاکوت دهم اسکنده نوشتند اینست که...
Explicit: .ورق کلان مندرج است از آن پوهی هندی بها کیا بنده سانول سنگ قوم کاتهه سرمای یست ولد لله شوهر سنکه خان از پنجاه و چهار سال ساکن بفارس(؟) محله سینپوره متصل چیت‌کنج در فارسی ترجمه حلاصه نمود
Colophon: تمام شد ترجمه خلاصه فارسی دسم اسکنده سری بهاگوت ...(؟) دیولی سنه ۱۸۹۳ سنه ۱۲۴۳ هجری روز شنبه. مخفی نماند و بر آن ورائی(؟) که اگرچه انین نا زلد را امتیاز املا پرواری پنج نیت مگر این خلاصه ترجمه وسیم اسکده سری بهاگوت که پر از کرامات کشن‌جی خالق حقیقی است و برای خواندن و شنیدن بوهی ساسنهنر(؟) و بها کیا مفصل ... و بـرکسیکه هندی‌ ندانسته‌ باشد از مطالعه این اوراق آگاه و بهره‌یاب تواند شد.
Colophon: تمام شد ترجمه خلاصه نود ادهاهی وسم اسکنده بهاگوت
Colophon: Completed by Sanwal Singh walad-i Shawhar Singh on Rūz-i Sanah [2 Urdībihisht] 1243 Fasli (Apr. 1833).
Language(s): Persian

The dates provided in the colophon do not appear to compute correctly. For other redactions of this work, see Storey and Qasemi. The exact original version from which this abridgment derives awaits identification.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 90 folios, 5 flyleaves (ff. ii + 90 + iii).
Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 132 mm.
Dimensions (written): × mm.
Foliation: Foliated on the upper-left corners of the a side throughout by the scribe.

Collation

Undetermined, possibly quaternions throughout. Catchwords present on the lower-left corners of the b sides throughout.

Condition

Textblock in good condition

Layout

Hand(s)

Written in clear black nasta‘līq with red subheaders.

Additions:
Inscriptions: Folio 1a describes the volume: ‘’

Binding

rebound in full buckram bookcloth by the Manchester firm Bramhall & Menzies.

The left board bears the emblem of the John Rylands Library blocked in gold.

Binding in good condition.

History

Origin: Completed by Sanwal Singh walad-i Shawhar Singh, probably in the Indian subcontinent; Rūz-i Sanah [2 Urdībihisht] 1243 Fasli (Apr. 1833)

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the John Rylands Library in March 1927 from Manchester bookseller 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

    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]): p. 176, no. 20.

Funding of Cataloguing

The John Rylands Research Institute and Library

The Soudavar Memorial Foundation


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