Arabic MS 33 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Completion of the Tadhkira al-Ḥakīm Dāwūd, by unknown author.
Title: تكملة تذكرة الحكيم داود
Title: Completion of the Tadhkira of the Physician Dawud
Incipit: نحمدك اللهم حمد القارين بوحدانيتك ... وبعد فاني رايت في كتاب الكنوز لابن سينا دعوة الكواكب لكن محذوفة المناجاة
Colophon: كمل في شهر رمضان سنة ١١٧٤
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 335 [33]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 256 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 160 mm.
History
Origin: 1174 AH (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 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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