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Image Number: 
Bookreader PersianMS_838
Reference Number: 
Persian MS 838
Link to Catalogue: 
Parent Work Title: 
Taz̲kirat al-shuʻarāʼ
Creator: 
Samarqandī, Dawlatshāh, 1438-1494
Creator Role: 
Author
Description: 
This complete copy of the Taẕkirat al-Shuʻarā (Chronicles of Poets) by Dawlatshāh Samarqandī (d. ca. 1494) contains biographical accounts of some 150 poets, together with selections of their poems. The author, from a ruling Timurid-era elite family, dedicated this work to the cultural and political figure Mīr ‘Alī Shīr Navā'ī (d. 1501). While unsigned and undated, a purchase recorded on 1030 AH (1620–21 CE) inscribed within the volume would make this manuscript the earliest of four copies held in the Rylands.
Language Code: 
per
Language: 
Persian
Subject: 
Music
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Item Height: 
217 mm
Item Width: 
145 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance: 
Forbes, Duncan, 1798-1868, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2022-08-09
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