Arabic MS 28 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Collection
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 105 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 150 mm.
History
Origin: circa 1700 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.
Arabic MS 28A
Contents
An anonymous moral treatise
folios 1-23
Incipit: اسمح يسمح لك
Explicit: مثل المنافق كمثل الشاة
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 777A [28A]
History
Origin: circa 1700 AH
Arabic MS 28B
Contents
Summary of Contents: A treatise containing maxims of morality concerning a man's intercourse with other people and more especially with kings and princes
folios 24-34
Title: عطف العلماء على الامراء والامراء على العلماء
Title: Predilection of Learned Men for Nobles, and of Nobels for Learned Men
Incipit: الحمد الله الذي قسم ارباب التقويم والسياسة بعد ان قسم عليهم خلع الرياسة ... اما بعد فانى رايت عوام الخلق كلهم بعلمائهم وامرائهم
Explicit: والله مولف القلوب على طاعته وموفق الكل لخدمته انه قريب مجيب ... وحسبنا الله الخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 777B [28B]
History
Origin: 597 AH (1200 CE)
Arabic MS 28C
Contents
A treatise on jurisprudence, incomplete
folios 35b-39
Title: تنقيح الفصول في علم الاصول
Title: Revision of the Chapters on the Science of First Principles
Incipit: الحمد الله ذى الجلال الذى لا تدركه الغايات ... اما بعد فان هذا الكتاب جمعت فيه مسائل المحصول للامام فخر الدين ... وسميته بتنقيح الفصول في علم الاصول
Explicit: فلا يلزم من عدمه العدم والشرط ما يلزم من عدمه العدم
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 777C [28C]
History
Origin: circa 1650 AH
Arabic MS 28D
Contents
Persian and Hindustani words translated into Portuguese
folios 40b-96
Incipit: امدن. آمده. بيايد. مي آيد. خواهد آمد. مي امد
Language(s): Persian
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 777D [28D]
History
Origin: circa 1670 AH
Arabic MS 28E
Contents
Portuguese text on verb conjugation
folios 100-105
Incipit: Regra geral pera saber coniugar os verbos persios
Language(s): Portuguese translations of Persian and Hindustani
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 777E [28E]
Additional Information
Record Sources
Catalogue information compiled by Abdullah al-Rashidi from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934.
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