COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader PersianMS_236
Reference Number:
Persian MS 236
Link to Catalogue:
Parent Work Title:
Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Spiritual Couplets
Creator:
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312
Creator Role:
Author
Creator Role:
Contributor
Date Created:
[18th century]
Description:
This nearly complete copy of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) contains all six books, but without added prefaces, for a total of 30,265 couplets. While unsigned and undated, illuminated page openings indicate the start of each book, with the centres of all pages masked off and finely sprayed with gold ink (ghubār) surrounded by gold marginal ruling. Extensive repairs and blank pages between each book indicate the scribe likely originally completed six separate volumes that a later owner combined together in one binding.
Language Code:
per
Language:
Persian
Subject:
Persian poetry--747-1500
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Item Height:
250 mm
Item Width:
160 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance:
Bland, Nathaniel, 1803-1865, former owner
Provenance:
Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899, former owner
Provenance:
Warton, Joseph, 1722-1800, former owner
Provenance:
Clarke, Adam, approximately 1762-1832, former owner
Provenance:
Clarke, Joseph Butterworth Bulmer, -1855, former owner
Provenance:
Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2022-07-11
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2022-08
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Rylands