Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 856
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- Persian MS 856
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- Date
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- 16th century
- Language
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- Persian
- Title
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- Khamsah (خمسۀ)
- Agent
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- Ǧalāl al-Dīn Abō Moḥamad Ilīās ben Īōsōf Neẓāmī Ganǧavī (1141-1209)
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- Author
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- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 نظامى گنجوى
- نظامى گنجوى (Niẓāmī Ganjavī)
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- Nizami, Llyas ibn Yusuf (1140?-1209?)
- Niżāmī
- Niz̤āmī Ganǧavī (Niz̤ām al-Dīn Abū M. Iliyyās b. Yūsuf)
- Niz̤āmī Ganǧavī
- Nizami, poète persan
- Neẓāmī Ganǧavī, Ǧalāl al-Dīn Abō Moḥamad Ilīās ben Īōsōf (1141-1209)
- Niẓāmi
- Niẓāmī
- نظامی
- šayẖ Niẓāmī Ganǧah
- Niżāmī Ganǧavī.
- نظامی گنجوی
- Nezâmi
- Nizāmī
- نظامی
- Nizami Ganjavi, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
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- Duncan Forbes (1798-1868)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Duncan Forbes (1798-1868)
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- Preferred form
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- Alexander William Crawford Lindsay (1812-1880)
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- Former owner
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- Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
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- Former owner
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- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
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- Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl (1847-1913)
- Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
- Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall
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- Description
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- Extent:
222 folios Leaf height: 311 mm, width: 209 mm. Written height: 190 mm, width: 108 mm.
Binding:
Nineteenth-century oriental binding of red leather (rebacked) with medallions and pendants inlaid with gilt paper.
Decoration:
The manuscript at present contains 16 miniatures (though there must have been about 25 miniatures originally, as some pages with miniatures have been removed) in the Shiraz style of c. 1575 , in good condition for the most part.
Richly illuminated double title-page on folios 2b and 3a, as well as richly decorated illuminated headings on folios 40b (Layla wa Majnun), 94b (Haft Paykar), 144b (Iqbal Nama Iskandari) and 192b (Sharaf Nama Iskandari).
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands, on behalf of the John Rylands Library, in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford.
Layout:
4 columns, 20 lines.
Data Source(s):
Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993. Identification of provenance based on manuscript catalogue by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s.
Manuscript description based on B.W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the John Rylands Library: A Descriptive Catalogue (London, 1980).
Subject(s):
Persian poetry--747-1500
Abstract:
Nizami's Khamsa (five poems), with illuminated headings and 19 miniatures.
Foliation:
Small foliation in pencil throughout. There is also Persian foliation in ink, which breaks off at 226, and rough Modern Arabic pagination which reaches 440. (B. W. Robinson mistakenly refers to the illuminated double title-page on folios 2b and 3a as folios 1b and 2a due to the later pagination.)
Format:
Codex
Material:
Paper
Provenance:
Pencil note on a front fly-leaf gives the price £14.14s.
Formerly part of the collection of Duncan Forbes (1798-1868), orientalist, whose collection of manuscripts was acquired by Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford in 1866 through W. H. Allen.
Condition:
Illuminated double title-page (f. 2b and f. 3a) somewhat damaged and the edges trimmed.
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