Arabic MS 70 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
An anthology of tales and poems by Ibn ʻArabshāh
Title: فاكهة الخلفاء ومفاكهة الظرفاء
Title: Fruit of the Caliphs and Entertainment of the Witty
Colophon: تمت النسخة الميمونة على يد ... احمد العجلونى
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 673 [70]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 312 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 150 mm.
Layout
1 column, 21 lines
History
Origin: circa 1680 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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