Arabic MS 32 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection relating to al-Ḥillī
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 144 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 140 mm.
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.
Arabic MS 32A
Contents
A work on the conquest of Bahnsa
folios 1-138a
Title: Fath al-Bahnasā
Title: فتح البهنسا
Title: The Conquest of Bahnasa
Incipit: ذكر فتح مدينة البهنسا وفضائلها وعجائبها وفضل البحر اليوسفى وتاريخ البهنسا وسبب عمارتها وملوكها
Explicit: وهذا ما انتهى من غزاة فتح مدينة البهنسا الخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 498A [32A]
Arabic MS 32B
Contents
The story of Aṣḥāb al-Kahf
folios 138b-144
Title: Qiṣṣat Aṣḥāb al-Kahf
Title: قصة اصحاب الكهف
Title: The Story of the Seven Sleepers
Incipit: كان بارض الروم مدينة يقال لها افسوس
Colophon: ووافق الفراغ من هذا الكتاب فى الايام الثلثة من غرة شهر شعبان المبارك سنة ١١٣٩ تسع وثلثون ومائة والف ... على يد الفقير ... علي بن مرجان
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 498B [32B]
History
Origin: 1139 AH (1726 CE)
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.
Availability
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