Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader PersianMS_213
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Reference Number:
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Persian MS 213
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Link to Catalogue:
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Parent Work Title:
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Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Spiritual Couplets
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Creator:
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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Qazvīnī, Muḥammad Shafīʻ
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Creator Role:
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Scribe
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Date Created:
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1693 [1105 AH]
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Description:
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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.
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Language Code:
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per
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Language:
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Persian
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Subject:
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Persian poetry--747-1500
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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Iran: Qazvin
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Item Height:
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200 mm
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Item Width:
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123 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Provenance:
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Bland, Nathaniel, 1803-1865, former owner
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Provenance:
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Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2022-08-16
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2022-08
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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