Arabic MS 58 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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The first volume of the literary-biographical work by Ibn Khāqān (an early copy)
Title: قلائد العقيان ومحاسن الاعيانTitle: Necklaces of Gold and Virtues of Great MenIncipit: الحمد الله الذى راض لنا البيانExplicit: فلا زالت حلاك رايقة وعلاك شايقة بمنه تم الجزء الاول من الخColophon: عبد العزيز بن احمد البالسى وكتبه ... [ا] حدى وسبع مائة من الهجرة النبوية عفا الله الخLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 668 [58]Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 139 foliosDimensions (leaf): 220 × 163 mm.History
Origin: 701 AH (1301 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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