Arabic MS 75 (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: 122 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 170 mm.
Layout
1 column, 11 lines
History
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 75A
Contents
A work of Muslim eschatology
Folios 1-67
Title: Shajarat al-yaqīn
Title: شجرة اليقين
Title: Tree of Certainty
Incipit: وقد جاء في الخبر ان الله تعالى خلق شجرة ولها اربعة الاف اغصان (sic) فسميها (sic) شجرة اليقين
Explicit: على كل مائدة الف صحيفة من ذهب كما قال الله تعالى يطاف عليهم بصحاف
Colophon: قد تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة الموسومة بالشجرة اليقين من يد الضعيف الذليل ... احمد بن باتريك ... فى قرية يخسانى فى محلة تومان الحنفيان ... فى سنة احدى وسبعين بعد الف ومائة
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 779A [75A]
History
Origin: 1171 AH (1757 CE)
Arabic MS 75B
Contents
An anonymous commentary on a treatise of jurisprudence by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī
Folios 70-109
Title: Commentary on al-Samarqandī treatise on jurisprudence
Incipit: الحمد الله الذى شرح صدور ائمة الفقه بنور الاجتهاد ... اما بعد فانى لما رايت هذا الكتاب مرغوبا للمبتدئين مع اشكال احكامه ... قال الفقيه ابو ليث وهو منصور بن محمد بن ابراهيم السمرقندى
Colophon: حرره الحقير الفقير ... احمد الملقب بجتم ابن بتريك ... فى قرية يخسانى فى محلة تومان فى مدرسة ملك شريف الشروانى الشماخى فى شهر ذو الحجة فى ... تاريخ سبعون بعد الف ومائة
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 779B [75B]
History
Origin: 1170 AH (1756 CE)
Arabic MS 75C
Contents
Two short stories plus a text on prayer and faith
Folios 109b-115b
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 779C [75C]
Arabic MS 75D
Contents
The story of the Prophet's night journey
Folios 116-122
Title: قصة نبينا محمد صلعم ليلة المعراج الى السماء
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 779D [75D]
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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