Persian MS 450 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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Summary of Contents: (According to Kerney a hardly known and rare geographical work.) A misleading title for the final part of the Rawz̤at al-ṣafāRawḍat al-ṣafāʼ
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.
Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993. Identification of provenance based on manuscript catalogue by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s.