Persian MS 19 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: Lawāmiʻ al-ishrāq fī makārim al-akhlāq by Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13

Author: Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13 دواني، محمد بن اسعد

Title: Lawāmiʻ al-ishrāq fī makārim al-akhlāq

Title: Akhlāq-i Jalālī

Title: لوامع الاشراق في مكارم الاخلاق

Title: اخلاق جلالی

Language(s): Persian

References

based on Kitāb al-ṭaharat كتاب الطهارة a philisophical treatise written in Arabic in the 10th Century CE by Abu Ali al-Mashkurī ابي علي المشكري

Physical Description

Form: codex

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History

Origin: Dated 1099 AH (1687 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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