Arabic MS 56 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A copy of Sīrat al-Iskandar, containing only the beginning part
Title: سيرة الاسكندر بن داراب الرومي
Title: Romance of Alexander the Great
Incipit: هذا سيار ملوك الى وقت اسكندر ابن الداراء الدارائى الاكبر ابن بنت فيلسوف (sic) الرومي
Explicit: وفتحها واذا فيها مكتوب. تم الجزء الاول الخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 497 [56]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 230 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 158 mm.
History
Origin: circa 1720 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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