Pashto MS 11 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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2 works by 2 authors on the subject of Pushto poetry

1.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tawallud'nāmah
Title: تولدنامه
Translator: Translated into Pashto by Sayyid Ḥusayn سید حسین

A Pashto metrical translation of a Persian account of the miracles connected with the birth and childhood of Muhammad

Incipit: اول وایه پزبان ښه ثنا د پاک سبحان
Colophon: پفارسي و انشا شوي سید حسن به پښتو وو سنه د هجر په شماره شه پر څلور حرف پوره ښه یو الف راغي بل کاف قصه تم پر عینو قاف
Language(s): Pashto

References

Mackenzie no.139
2.
Author: Darvezah, Ak̲h̲ūnd, 1533 or 1534-1638 or 1639 آخوند درويزه
Title: Jangnāmah-i Imāmayn
Title: جبګ نامه د امامانو

Translation of an account of the tragedy of Karbala and the martyrdom of Hasan and Husayn from the Persian version in the Irshād al-ṭālibīn ارشاد الطالبين

Translator: Translated into Pashto by Sayyid Ḥusayn سید حسین
Incipit: ترهرچا اول پدوست باند کرم و چه تر کل جهان پر هر څه مقدم و
Colophon: دا قصه و پفارسی اخون ویلي سید حسین تر پر پوښتو ښکلي دیوان و
Language(s): Pashto

References

Mackenzie no.139

Physical Description

Form: codex
1-31b f. 31b-66 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 18.5 × 11 cm.
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Hand(s)

Naskhi hand

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History

Origin: 18th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

From the collection of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867 latterly as Commissioner in Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts of which 352 were selected after his death for the British Museum. The remainder were purchased in 1868 by 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.

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