Persian MS 276 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Divān by G̱ẖālib, Mirzā Asadullāh Ḵẖān, 1797-1869

Author: G̱ẖālib, Mirzā Asadullāh Ḵẖān, 1797-1869 Mirzā Niẓām al-Mulk غالب، ميرزا اسد الله خان

Title: Divān

Title: دیوان

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

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History

Origin: 1028 AH (1618 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

Subjects

Persian poetry

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