Arabic MS 72 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Collection
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 58 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 197 × 147 mm.
Layout
1 column, 19 lines
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.
Arabic MS 72A
Contents
Diwan of Ibn al-Fāriḍ
Folios 1-56
Title: Dīwān ʻUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ
Title: ديوان عمر بن الفارض
Title: Diwan of Ibn al-Fāriḍ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 459A [72A]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
History
Origin: circa 1670 AH
Arabic MS 72B
Contents
Two short extracts from the grammar Baḥth al-maṭālib by Jirmānūs Farḥāt
Folios 57b-58
Title: Baḥth al-maṭālib
Title: بحث المطالب
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 459B [72B]
History
Origin: 18th century AH
Additional Information
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.
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