Persian MS 235 (The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
In one volume
corresponding to Persian MS 231 folios 19v, l.11 to 24v, l.15
imperfect at the beginning, wanting aṣl 1 and part of aṣl 2 (corresponding to Persian MS 231 folios 47r, l. 6 to the end of this volume on 93r), with the following arrangements 24v, l.15
divided into 10 aṣl
Physical Description
Folios pencilled in Latin, beginning as from folio 2 (text 0v-452v); folios 287v, 288r blank.
Condition
Wormeaten througout; roughly repaired.
Layout
15 lines to the page; Table of contents
Hand(s)
Black ink, rubrics in red; elegant and consistent mixture of nasta‘līq and shikastah, unusually including the rubrical Arabic texts.
- Bookplate inside the cover of the Bibilotheca Lindesiana
- Bookplate inside the cover of the Bland MSS No. 456
- Bookplate inside the cover 169 Kimiai Saadat, the Alchemy of Prosperity, being a treatise on Morals and Ethics. Persian, a good legible hand, sm. fol. half -bd. neat, 41.4s. A learned and much esteemed work.- Ouseley Perscription fol. 1
Binding
Strongly rebound; title in Latin on the spine
History
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
The manuscript is available for consultation by any accredited reader, see Becoming a Reader for details. Please contact uml.special-collections@manchester.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.
Funding of Cataloguing
Iran Heritage Foundation and The John Rylands Research Institute
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