Persian MS 661 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
So that there were Thirty seven persons of the family of the sons of Abbas, who assumed the garment of administration, and drank
the wine of soveriegnty from the goblet of Fortune. and the whole time of their power
was from the 13th of day of Rabial' Awwal, 132, to
the 6th day of Sefer, 656, being 523 years, and 2 months, and 23 days, according to the fol:
lowing divisions...
They relate thay then Jaffer in the year 158 made the family marrige.
Physical Description
‘R BOND
PLYMOUTH
1827
4’.
Watermark:Watermark: 108 × 82 mm.
Countermark: 138 × 64 mm. .
Collation
Condition
Layout
Written in a single column with variant lines per page. Unruled.
Hand(s)
Written in a clear English hand by Nathaniel Bland.
Binding
Likely purchased as a blank notebook by former owner Nathaniel Bland.
Pamphlet stiched at three stations through large single quire. Covered in a semi-limp Spanish waved-patterned marbled paper wrapper adhered to the outer quire. Flush-cut edges, no endpands.
204 × 163 × 15 mm.
Handle binding with caution. In fair but stable condition, with the fore-edge chipped.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
After Bland's death, London bookseller Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899) sold his oriental manuscripts to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) in June, 1866, paid in two instalments of £450 and £400, and then moved to Bibliotheca Lindesiana at Haigh Hall, Wigan.
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, Manchester.
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 Jake Benson in 2025 with reference to the volume in hand.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Iran Heritage Foundation
The John Rylands Research Institute
The Soudavar Memorial Foundation
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