Persian MS 363 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: A biographical history of Shi‘ite notables. The first part providing geographical notes on various towns and cities, the last two parts treating of the Arab and Persian poets. parts

Author: Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1610 or 11 التستري، نور الله بن شريف الدين عبد الله، 956-1019 هـ

Title: Majālis al-muʼminīn

Title: مجالس المؤمنين

Language(s): Persian

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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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