COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader PersianMS_213
Reference Number:
Persian MS 213
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:
Qazvīnī, Muḥammad Shafīʻ
Creator Role:
Scribe
Date Created:
1693 [1105 AH]
Description:
A prominent calligrapher named Muḥammad Shafī‘ Qazvīnī (d. ca. 1750), known as Khalīfat al-Khulafā' (Regent of Regents) copied this manuscript of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. The son of ‘Abd al-Jabbār (d. 1654–55), a leading student of the preeminent Safavid master of nasta‘līq script, Mīr ‘Imād al-Ḥasanī (d. 1615), he ultimately served as librarian to Shāh ‘Abbās II (b. 1632, r. 1642–1666) in Isfahan, but then after the death of his father retired to Qazvin, where he completed this manuscript in 1105 AH (1693 CE). Originally comprised of six separate booklets that subsequently suffered severe damage, then subsequently restored, with numerous quires replaced, losses expertly infilled, and incomplete passages re-written in two different hands then rebound, efforts likely due to admiration for the scribe. It also contains a seventh apocryphal volume added when last restored.
Language Code:
per
Language:
Persian
Subject:
Persian poetry--747-1500
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Iran: Qazvin
Item Height:
200 mm
Item Width:
123 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
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2022-08-16
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