Arabic MS 55 (The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
An anonymous Persian edition of the Muʻallaqāt (the Arabic text with explanation in Persian)
Title: Muʻallaqāt
Title: المعلقات
Title: The Mu'allakat
Language(s): Arabic and Persian
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 434 [55]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 61 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 160
History
Origin: circa 1800 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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