Arabic MS 19 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A volume treating of the history of Yaman from the time of the Prophet down to 802/1399
Title: فاكهة الزمن ومفاكهة الآداب والفنن في اخبار من ملك اليمن
Title: Sweets of Time and Pleasance of Literature and Art in the Life of those who reigned in Yaman
Incipit: قال رسول الله صلعم عليكم باليمن
Explicit: فطلبوا الذمة الشاملة وبذلوا الدخول تحت الطاعة والانقياد لامرنا فاجبناهم الى ذلك وتوسط الفقهاء والمشائخ الصوفية وارباب الزوايا في امره وتوثقوا له ولمن معه
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 253 [19]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 283 folios
History
Origin: 17th century 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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