Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Persian MS 275 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

Futūḥāt-i Sikandarī by Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān Munshī

Language(s): Persian

References

Abridgement in prose of the Sikandarʹnāmah سکندرنامه by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 نظامى گنجوى

Physical Description

Form: codex
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History

Origin: 1227 AH (1812 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.

Dating information from Kerney, Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Hand-list of Oriental Manuscripts: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, 1898.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Iran Heritage Foundation

The John Rylands Research Institute


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