Pashto MS 14 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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1 copy of Dīwān-i Raḥmān

Author: Raḥmān, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān active 1641-1708 ʿAbd al-Raḥman Bābā, 1641-1708 رحمان، عبد الرحمان عبد الرحمان بابا
Title: Dīwān-i Raḥmān
Title: دیوان رحمان

The poems of Raḥmān Bābā arranged in two diwans, the second of which begins at fol. 56b

Incipit: کوره هسي کرد کار دي رب څما چه صاحب د خپل اختیار دي رب څما
Colophon: تمت تمام شد نسخخۀ عبد الرحمان
Language(s): Pashto

References

Mackenzie no.86

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 133 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 23 × 13.5 cm.
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Layout

Hand(s)

Naskhi hand

Binding

History

Origin: 18th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Formerly owned by Turner Sahib

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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