Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 908
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- Persian MS 908
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- Tuesday, 8 Rabi' II 1038 (1628 CE)
- Language
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- Persian
- Title
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- Kullīyāt (كليات)
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- Muḥammad ʿUrfī Šīrāzī (1555?-1591?)
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- Author
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- ʻUrfī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad, 1555 or 6-1590 or 91 عرفى
- عرفى (ʻUrfī Shīrāzī)
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- Muhammad Husayn Dār al-Marzi
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- Scribe
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- Muhammad Husayn Dar-al-Marzi
- Muhammad Husayn Dar-al-Marzi, called Qazi
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- Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838)
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- Former owner
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- Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838).
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- Silvestre de Sacy, Antoine-Isaac (1758-1838)
- Silvestre de Sacy
- Silvestre de Sacy, Antoine Isaac (1758-1838)
- Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
- Sacy, Silvestre de
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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:
271 folios Leaf height: 222 mm, width: 123 mm. Written height: 130 mm, width: 60 mm.
Binding:
Modern red leather slip-case. Contemporary binding very similar to that of Persian MS 35 (the gilt panels on the outer faces are from the same die) and no doubt from the same workshop, with panels of inscription of cut-out and inlaid coloured leather and cut-out work on the doublures.
Decoration:
Two double page miniatures at the beginning (1b and 2a) and end (270b and 271a), both enclosed in richly illuminated borders.
Illuminated headings with richly decorated margins on folios 2b (Preface), 66b (Qasidas), 131b (Short Poems), 141b (Ghazals) and 253b (Quatrains).
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands, on behalf of the John Rylands Library, in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford.
Layout:
2 columns, 17 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--1500-1796
Abstract:
Illustrated copy of the Kullīyāt (collected poems) of ʻUrfī Shīrāzī.
Format:
Codex
Provenance:
Formerly part of the collection of a Chevalier J. Ferrão de Castel-Branco (or Castelbranco), member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Also formerly part of the collection of the orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838).
A note on a slip inserted in the manuscript reads 'Purchased in May 1883 at an orientalist sale in Lisbon for £80', presumably by James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
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