Persian MS 436 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Tārīkh-i Madīnah by Samhūdī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1440-1506

Author: Samhūdī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1440-1506 سمهودي، نور الدین علي بن احمد
Translator: Translated into Persian by Dawlatʹābādī, Shahāb Shams ‘Umar دولت آبادی، شهاب شمس عمر
Title: Tārīkh-i Madīnah
Title: تاریخ مدینه
Language(s): Persian

References

The text makes references to جذب القلوب الي ديار المحبوب Jaz̲b al-qulūb ilá diyār al-maḥbūb by ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn Dihlavī, 1551-1642 عبد الحق بن سيف الدين دهلوى

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Form: codex
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Additions: Note at the end of text ارجاع داده است به حذب القلوب الی دیار المحبوب، از عبدالحق بن سیف الدین حقی دهلوی

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History

Origin: Dated 1130 AH (1717 CE)

Provenance and Acquisition

From the collection of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867 latterly as Commissioner in Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts of which 352 were selected after his death for the British Museum. The remainder were purchased in 1868 by 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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Iran Heritage Foundation

The John Rylands Research Institute

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