Arabic MS 36 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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A work containing biographies of rulers and philosophers by al-Shahrazūrī
Title: نزهة الارواح وروضة الافراحTitle: Delight of Spirits and Garden of PleasuresIncipit: الحمد الله القديم الازلي الدائم السرمدى اما بعد فان تواريخ الحكماء الاقدمين والفلاسفة المتالهين من اليونانيين والمصريين الخExplicit: ولا ارضاه كالرضىColophon: انتهى ... سنة ١٢٢٢ حسب الحكم جناب معلى القاب بسلير وليم فريزر اليكساندر صاحب بهادر دام اقباله تاريخ الحكماء از دست فقير حقير محمد تقي ... تحرير اين نسخة در زمان سلطنت ابو النصر معين الدين محمد اكبر شاه بادشاه غازى سنه احد جلوس والاLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Catalogue No. Arabic MS 300 [36]Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 144 foliosDimensions (leaf): 290 × 180 mm.History
Origin: 1222 AH (1807 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.
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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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