Arabic MS 31 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Volume two of the commentary on the Diwan of al-Mutanabbi (for volume one see Arabic MS 30)
Title: Sharḥ dīwān al-Mutanabbī
Title: شرح ديوان المتنبي
Title: Commentary on the Diwan of Mutanabbi
Explicit: هذا آخر ما اشتمل عليه ديوانه الذى رتبه بتفسه وهو خمسة آلاف واربعمائه واربعة وتسعون قافية وتقدر الفراغ من التفسير والشرح فى اليوم السادس عشر من [شهر ربيع] الآخر سنة اثنتين وستين واربعمائة
Colophon: وكان الفراغ من كتابة هذا الشرح المبارك في نهار الخميس خامس جمادى الاخرى سنة الف ومائتين وثلثين
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 450 [31]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 385 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 187 mm.
History
Origin: 1230 AH (1814 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 information compiled by Abdullah al-Rashidi from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934.
Availability
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