Persian MS 137 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Persian Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: The complete works of Niʻmat Khān ʻĀlī an attenant on Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 1618-1707.

Author: Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710 نعمت خان على

Title: Kulliyāt-i Niʻmat Khān ʻĀlī

Title: کلیات نعمت خان علی

Language(s): Persian

References

One of the works in this volume is also available in Persian MS 131.

Physical Description

Form: codex

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History

Origin: 1194 AH (1780 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 Enriqueta Rylands, on behalf of the John Rylands Library, in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford.

Record Sources

Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993. Identification of provenance based on manuscript catalogue by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Iran Heritage Foundation

The John Rylands Research Institute

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