Persian MS 894 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Persian Manuscripts

Dīvān by Suhaylī, Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad, d. 907/1501 or 918/1512

Author: Suhaylī, Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad نظام الدين احمد سهیلی

Title: Dīvān

Title: دیوان

Incipit: خوان نوالیست غذی بخش جان ما * ز آن خوان نواله است دردمان ما

Explicit: در طره ات که جانم اسیر سلاسل است * در زلف تابدار تو دعوی وی دل است

Language(s): Persian

Excerted from a longer anthology and bound as an independent MS.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 101

Dimensions (leaf): 23 × 16.5 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Foliation: Foliation not marked.

Condition

In excellent condition.

Layout

2 columns, 12 lines

Hand(s)

Nasta’liq in black ink. Some rubrication in red and blue ink.

Decoration

Illuminated ʿunvān f. 4a.

Binding

Original binding with flap. Black leather, tooled, stamped and gilded.

History

Origin: circa 1500 CE

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, and the Soudavar Foundation

Subjects

Persian poetry

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