Pashto MS 1 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Pashto Manuscripts
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1 copy of Yūsuf Zulaykhā by Jāmī, 1414-1492
Title: Yūsuf Zulaykhā
Title: يوسف زليخا
A metrical translation of Jāmī's Yūsuf va Zulaykhā. Lacks the last section and the khatimah
Incipit: عنایت رب پما کړه د امید غنچه مي واکړه
Colophon: تمت تمام شد کتاب یوسف زلیخا بلفظ افغانی به تاریخ پانزدهم شهر ربیع الاول بروز سه شمبه در موضع شاه جهاناباد درون قلعه در عرصه نواب نجیب الدوله بهادر بدست فقیر حقیر سلیمان ساکن رامپور...نوشته شد
Language(s): Pashto
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 118 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 25.5 × 14 cm.
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Layout
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq hand Sulaimān, of Rampur
Binding
History
Origin: Delhi; 18th century CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly part of the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865). Bland's oriental manuscripts were sold through Bernard Quaritch in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.
Purchased by Mrs Enriqueta Rylands, on behalf of the John Rylands Library, in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on James Fuller Blumhardt and D.N MacKenzie : Catalogue of Pashto manuscripts in the British Isles, 1965.
Availability
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