Arabic MS 12 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
The Diwan of Abu Tammam
Title: Dīwān Abi Tammām
Title: ديوان ابي تمّام
Title: The Diwan of Abu Tammam
Explicit: نظر فيه العبد الفقير مصطفى بن محمد الشهير قصاب باشى ... وذلك في غرة جماد اول سنة ١٢٣٣
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 444 [12]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 162 folios
History
Origin: circa 1760 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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