Arabic MS 41 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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A short history of the principal Muhammadan rulers
Title: مورد اللطافة في من ولي السلطنة والخلافةTitle: The Passage of Elegance in an Account of those who rules the Sultanate and the KhaliphateIncipit: الحمد الله الذي جعل الدول مويدة بالخلفاء الراشدين ... اما بعد فقد الفت هذا التاريخ المختصر المفيد واقتصرت فيه على ذكر الخلفاء والسلاطينExplicit: فوجد عليه للتجار خمسة عشر الف دينار دينا فقضاها عنه العزيز ويقال انه كفن وحنط بما مبلغه عشرة الاف دينار والله اعلم. تم الكتابColophon: وكان الفراغ من كتابة هذه النسخة المباركة نهار اربعة وعشرين من شهر صفر سنة الف وماية وتسعة عشرLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 249 [41]Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 141 foliosDimensions (leaf): 197 × 150 mm.History
Origin: 1119 AH (1707 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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