Persian MS 222 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Kulliyāt-i Naẓīrī Nīshāpūrī by Naẓīrī, d. 1613

Author: Naẓīrī, d. 1613 نظيرى نيشاپوری
Title: Kulliyāt-i Naẓīrī Nīshāpūrī
Title: کلیات نظيری نيشاپوری
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
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A single black octagonal intaglio-carved in two nasta‘līq lines read from top down, bears the name of former owner Henry George Keene (1781-1864) dated la dated 1801
‘هنری جارج کین ۱۸۰۱’ 16 × 19.5 mm. 21 × 25 mm.

History

Origin: 1050 AH (1640 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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Iran Heritage Foundation

The John Rylands Research Institute

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