Persian MS 281 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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Summary of Contents: The Dīvān of poet Ḥaydar Haravī (d. 1552), popularly known as Kulūch (Biscuit) or Kulūchah-Paz on account of his profession as a biscuit-baker and merchant. Originally from Herat, his trade took him to India. Despite the poet's contemporary, Timurid vizier Mīr ‘Alī Shīr Navā'ī description of him in the Majālis al-Nafā'is (Assemblies of Elegancies) as illiterate and of modest talent, an opinion repatedly cited by subsequent authors, his works have only very recently received critical scholarly attention.Author: Ḥaydar Haravī, d. 1552 دیوان حیدر هروی Ḥaydar Kulūchah-paz حیدر کلوچه پز Ḥaydar Kulūchah حیدر کلوچهTitle: Dīvān-i Ḥaydar HaravīTitle: دیوان حیدر هرویTitle: Dīvān-i Ḥaydar Kulūchah-pazTitle: دیوان حیدر کلوچه پزIncipit: برگ ۱پ (folio 1b): بیا رب یا ربم تا روز بی ماه رخت شبها.Explicit: برگ ۸۹پ (folio 89b): تمت الکتاب بعون الله وحسن توفیقهColophon: No colophon.Language(s): PersianḤamīd Riz̤ā Ṭahmāsbī recently-published a critical edition of this Divan.
Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: Textblock of cross-grained, ivory-coloured paper probably handmade in the Indian subcontinentExtent: 89 folios, 9 flyleaves (ff. vi + 89 + iii).Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 125 mm.Dimensions (written):Condition
Handle text with caution. In fair condition, with stains and discolouration, and some folios torn.Layout
Written in 1 column with 12 lines per page. Ruled with a misṭarah hand guide.
Hand(s)
Written in clear black nasta‘līq.
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Inscription: Folio 1a bears a note, possibly for the sale of the volume, dated 5 Jumādā II 1219 AH (11 Sep. 1804 CE)
Bookplates: The left pastedown: ‘Bibliotheca Lindesiana’ with shelfmark ‘2/K’, and ‘Bland MSS No. 501’.Binding
Spine and board edges hemmed in and faced with marbled paper. Spine titled ‘Diwan Heidar’ in Latin script.
History
Origin: Possibly completed in Greater Iran> Undated, but possibly 18th century.Provenance and Acquisition
Subsequently acquired by scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803–1865) for his library at Randalls Park, Leatherhead. After his death, London bookseller Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899) sold his oriental manuscripts to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) in 1866, and moved to Bibliotheca Lindesiana at Haigh Hall, Wigan.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913).
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to the John Rylands Library, Manchester.
Record Sources
Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993, derived from a manuscript catalogue by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s, concisely published as Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Hand-list of Oriental Manuscripts: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, 1898.
Manuscript description by James White in 2018 with reference to the volume in hand.
Subsequently augmented and enhanced by Jake Benson in 2022 with reference to the volume in hand.
Availability
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Bibliography
Ḥaydar Haravī, Dīvān-i ashʻār-i Ḥaydar-i Haravī-i Kulūch: shāʻir-i qarn-i dahum. Edited by Ḥamīd Riz̤ā Ṭahmāsbī. Tehran: Manshūr-i Samīr, 1397 SH (2018–19 CE).Ali Muhaddis, Fifteen Literary - Mystical Poems: In Persian and Arabic. PhD Dissertation. (Upsalla: Uppsala University Publications, 2005) pp. 11–12, 126–143 [selections from Uppsala University Library O Nov-389].C. Rieu, Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. II (London: British Museum, 1881), p. 736a [BL Or. 7796].Funding of Cataloguing
Iran Heritage Foundation
The John Rylands Research Institute
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