Arabic MS 42 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: A heterogeneous compilation of an ethical character basen on traditions in which only the first rawi is mentioned. Also contains chapters on eschatology, jurisprudence, and mysticism.
Title: Ethical Compilation
Incipit: وقال وهب بن منبه اليمانى طلبت الرفعة فوجدتها في التواضع وطلبت الرياسة فوجدتها في النصيحة وطلبت الفخر فوجدته في الفقر
Explicit: ثم يقول الله تعالى عظموا صلوة عبدي ... يكتب ثواب ذلك كله للمصلي على النبي صلعم الى يوم القيمة روضة
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 429 [42]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 235 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 155 mm.
History
Origin: circa 1670 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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