Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Persian MS 831 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

History of the Caliphs in the early days of Islam ending with Mu‘āviyyah's death.

Physical Description

Form: codex
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History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

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.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Iran Heritage Foundation

The John Rylands Research Institute


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