Persian MS 918 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
Text complete.
Physical Description
Unfoliated.
Condition
Damage to lacquer covers.
Layout
1 and 4 columns. 26 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Copied in a Nasta’liq hand tending towards shikastah, in black ink. Arabic text written in a pseudo-Naskh. Red ink used to mark headings.
Decoration
Text block bordered in red, gold, white and blue.
f. 1b Illuminated sarlwah.
ff. 1b-2a marginal decoration consisting of floral designs.
Inserted pencil sketch of a man in Qajar dress on one side and of a young woman and an old on the other.
- Marginalia f. ia Note in French: No.1 Atechkede. Le Pyree. Ouvrage Persan compose par Hadji Loutf Ali Bey et contenant la biographie des principaux Poetes Persans avec des ? de leurs ouvrages
- Additions Contained loose in the codex are: a sheet of paper with a pencil sketch of a man in Qajar dress on one side and of a young woman and an old on the other; and a note written on blue paper.
- Marginalia f. 1a Note made by a reader, and his seal. Banda ʿAlī Abdallāh Anīs.
- Marginalia f.274b and end paper Reader’s poems.
Binding
Original binding of lacquer on pasteboard. Floral design.
History
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. Revised and expanded by James White with reference to the manuscript 2017.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Iran Heritage Foundation
The John Rylands Research Institute
The Soudavar Memorial Foundation
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