Persian MS 968 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Hand(s)
Written in clear black nasta‘līq with subheaders in red.
Decoration
Illustrations: Sixty-two illustrations:
- 2a
- 5a
- 6a
- 6b
- 7a
- 9a
- 11a
- 11b
- 13a
- 14b
- 15a
- 15b
- 16a
- 17a
- 19a
- 19b
- 20a
- 22a
- 22b
- 23a
- 24a
- 24b
- 25a
- 25b
- 26a
- 28b
- 30a
- 31a
- 32a
- 32b
- 33a
- 33b
- 37b
- 38b
- 3bb
- 44a
- 44b
- 45a
- 46a
- 46b
- 47a
- 47b
- 48a
- 49a
- 50b
- 51b
- 56a
- 58b
- 61b
- 64a
- 67a
- 73a
- 75b
- 76b
- 78a
- 81b
- 82a
- 82b
- 84a
- 84b
- 85a
- 86a Published: Rafiee-Rad, pl. 1.
Ruling: Folios ruled in gold outlined with thin black lines, and surrounded by another single line. The margins of folios 2b onwards ruled with single lines of ultramarine blue.
Inscriptions:
- The right flyleaf a side (f. ia) bears .
- Folio 1a inscribed with .
- Folio 92b bears a note in English:
‘22nd Reg. This book was found in the loot of Hyderabad after its capture in February 1842. It was found in one of the palaces of the Ameers of Scinde’ (NB: the Battle of Hyderabad actually took place on 24 Mar. 1843).
Binding
Resewn with Italian laid endpapers, watermarked Al Masso manufactured by the Enrico Maganini in Pescia. Covered in quarter cloth with 'antique spot' patterned marbled paper sides.
250 × 180 × mm.
Binding in fair condition.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
According to a note on the final left flyleaf b side (f. ivb) indicates that members of the 22nd Regiment of Foot looted from an unidentified Amir's palace in Hyderabad, Sindh after their defeat in 24 Mar. 1843, when Maj. John H. Poole acquired it. Although Siavash Rafiee-Rad implies that Samuel Robinson of Wilmslow formerly owned this manuscript, we find no external nor internal evidence to suggest this.
Unknown. Probably transferred from the University of Manchester Library to the John Rylands Library after the institutions merged in 1972.
Record Sources
Bibliographical description derived from Siavash Rafiee-Rad, 'Persian Manuscripts in Samuel Robinson’s Collection in The John Rylands Library' 2017. Record created and manuscript description amended and enhanced by Jake Benson in 2022 with reference to the volume in hand.
Availability
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Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library
The Soudavar Memorial Foundation
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library
The Soudavar Memorial Foundation
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