Persian MS 975 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
For another manuscript of the Muʻallaqāt with an interlinear Persian translation by one Mawlavi Rawshan ‘Alī of Jaunpur, see Rylands Arabic MS 55 (Mingana catalogue no. 434).
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
Hand(s)
Binding
Possibly rebound in Britain for an unidentified prior owner before circa 30 June 1790 as indicated on the left paste-down.
220 × 150 × mm.
Handle binding with caution. In poor but stable condition. Boxed.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
While the circumstances under which this volume arrived in Britain remain unclear, subsequently owned by Manchester merchant and scholar Samuel Robinson (1794–1884) of Wilmslow, the author of Persian Poetry for English Readers (1883), who donated it to Owens College (the original institution that evolved into the of The University of Manchester today).
Transferred to the John Rylands Library in circa 1975 after it merged with the University of Manchester.
Record Sources
Bibliographical description derived from Siavash Rafiee-Rad, 'Persian Manuscripts in Samuel Robinson’s Collection in The John Rylands Library' (2017), and the Cambridge Shahnama Project.
Manuscript description 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
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