Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Persian MS 633 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

Summary of Contents: An anthology containing three works: A collection of qaṣāʾid (odes) excerpted from the Khulāṣat al-Ashʿār va Zubdat al-Afkār by Mīr Taqī al-Dīn Kāshānī; The Dīvān of Abū Turāb Bayg; The Dīvān of Mīr Riz̤ā Ārtīmānī.
Folios 1a–224a
Incipit: برگ ۱پ (folio 1b): مساعدت فلک کجرفتار که گویا برای محروفی مستعدان سایر است
Colophon: برگ ۲۲۴ر (folio 224a):
Language(s): Persian
Colophon: Completed by Qurbān ʿAlī al-Khurāsānī al-Mashhadī in 1059 AH/1649 CE.
Folios 224b-256a
Language(s): Persian
Folios 256b-284b
Explicit: برگ ۲۸۴پ (folio 284b): هر دم هر سو هزار قربان داری
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Cream-coloured laid paper probably handmade in the Indian subcontinent with ~8 laid lines per cm and no discernible chain lines.
Extent: 284 folios, 6 flyleaves (ff. iii + 284 + iii).
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Condition

Handle text with caution. In fair condition with insect damaged areas and historical repairs.

Layout

Hand(s)

Work 1 in the hand of Qurbān-ʿAlī al-Khurāsānī al-Mashhadī

Binding

Red leather on pasteboard. Gilded margin.

× × mm.

Seal(s):
Folios 1a and 284b bear seal impressions of the royal library of the Kings of Awadh

Ex libris of Sulaymān Jāh.

Seal of ‘…ʿAlī’, dated ?1152 AH

Seal dated 1263 AH

History

Origin: Text 1 dated 1059 AH / 1649 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Subsequently acquired by 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, from which the British Museum selected 352, now held in the British Library.

Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) purchased the remainder of Hamilton's collection in 1868.

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.

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.

Record subsequently amended and enhanced by Jake Benson in 2022.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Iran Heritage Foundation

The Soudavar Memorial Foundation

John Rylands Research Institute

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