Arabic MS 3 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A copy of the Qāmūs of al-Fīrūzābādī
Title: al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ
Title: القاموس المحيط
Title: The Encircling Ocean
Colophon: هذا آخر النصف الاول من القاموس المحيط والقابوس الوسيط ... ويتلوه الخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 759 [3]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 472 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 262 × 160 mm.
History
Origin: 1034 AH (1624 CE)
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly part of the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865). Bland’s oriental manuscripts were sold through Bernard Quaritch in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.
Record Sources
Catalogue record based on Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934).
Availability
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