Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Pashto MS 12 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Pashto Manuscripts

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1 copy of Jangnāmah-i Imāmayn by Darvezah, Ak̲h̲ūnd, 1533 or 1534-1638 or 1639

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. A few lines are missing after fol.23a and the manuscript is unfinished, ending in the middle of fol. 24a

Incipit: ترهرچا اول پدوست باند کرم و چه تر کل جهان پر هر څه مقدم و
Language(s): Pashto

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 24 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 17 × 12 cm.
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Hand(s)

Nasta'liq hand

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History

Origin: Early 19th 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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