Arabic MS 5 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A beautiful copy of the famous Dīwān of al-Mutanabbī.
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Physical Description
Binding
Brown leather binding with flap. Gold-tooled border and centre piece on both covers.
History
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.
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