Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Persian MS 531 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

Dīvān by Salmān Sāvajī, d. 1376

Title: Dīvān
Title: ديوان
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
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History

Origin: 1209 AH (1794 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.

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


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