Vatican Manuscripts from the Cerulli Persiani/Persian Fond

Between 1950 and 1954 Enrico Cerulli was the Italian ambassador to Iran and collected a number of Persian manuscripts. These 1055 manuscripts, of which 13 are, in part or in full, in Turkish, form this collection. It has a particular focus on Shiʿite passion plays (taʿzias), which were unappreciated at the time he formed the collection. 2. Of those 1055 signatures, 24 have been digitized

Sources

  1. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. (2011). Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca vaticana. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. pp. 402-403
  2. Enrico Cerulli


Cerulli.pers.82, Rifa'u 'l-Ummat (1906)

Dated 1324 AH




Cerulli.pers.272, Isma'il-i qurban, Zibh hardan-i Hazrat-i Isma'il ba-dast-i Hazrat-i Ibrahim-i Halil va amadan-i Saitan-i mal'un (1914)

Dated 1333 AH


Cerulli.pers.284, Haggag (1875-1900)

Cerulli.pers.354.pt.1, Duhtarfurushi (1883)

Dated 1301 SH


Cerulli.pers.354.pt.2, Abbasabad-i Hind (Abbasabad d'India) (1883)

Dated 1301 AH



Cerulli.pers.359.pt.1, Tavallud-i Iman Husain (20th C)

Cerulli.pers.394, Pashmrisi-yi Fatima (20th C)

Cerulli.pers.396, Tiflan-i Zainab (1870)

Dated 1287 AH


Cerulli.pers.398.pt.1, Hinda Haraba (c. 1870)



Cerulli.pers.536, 'Arusi raftan-i Fatima-i Zahra dar 'arusi-yi zanha-yi Quraish (c. 1901-1909)



Cerulli.pers.803, Gasb-i Fadak kardan-i Abu Bakr (1868)

Dated 1285 AH




Cerulli.pers.994, Vafat-i Maryam (20th C)

Poems on the Assumption of the BVM



Cerulli.pers.1055 (Low Quality)