Pashto MS 11 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Pashto Manuscripts
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2 works by 2 authors on the subject of Pushto poetry
A Pashto metrical translation of a Persian account of the miracles connected with the birth and childhood of Muhammad
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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
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Naskhi hand
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History
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.
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