Arabic MS 42 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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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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Subjects

Islamic ethics

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