Arabic MS 83 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Collection (Arabic and Turkish)
Language(s): Arabic and Turkish
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 796 [83]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 80 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 197 × 128 mm.
Layout
1 column, 10 written lines
Hand(s)
Naskh
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 83A
Contents
Arabic letters, single and in combination, for writing exercises. The letters are vowelled in the combination form
Folios 1-9
Title: Arabic letters for writing exercises
Language(s): Arabic
History
Origin: circa 1640 CE
Arabic MS 83B
Contents
An epistolary manual in Turkish, containing fifty-three forms of petitions and addresses to different kinds of people
Folios 10-32
Title: Epistolary manual
Incipit: ادعيهء دولت افزون
Explicit: ديكر لطايف دعوات صافيات اخلاص شعار كه لذت روحى حبوبات اشجار نسيم بهشت جنان بخش اولا
Language(s): Turkish
History
Origin: 1027 AH (1617 CE)
Arabic MS 83C
Contents
Arithmetical tables, in Turkish
Folios 33-44
Title: Arithmetical tables
Incipit: در بيان لغت سياقت وحساب
Language(s): Turkish
History
Origin: 1027 AH (1617 CE)
Arabic MS 83D
Contents
A treatise, in Turkish, on taking augury from the letters of the Qurʼān
Folios 44b-47
Title: Fāl kalām sharīf
Title: فال كلام شريف
Incipit: وقت كه كلام قديمده فال اچمق دلسك كركدركه برنيت اوزينه
Language(s): Turkish
History
Origin: 1027 AH (1617 CE)
Arabic MS 83E
Contents
A list of Arabic and Persian words translated into Turkish
Folios 33-78a
Title: لغت انشاء مكاتيب المفيد؛ كتاب لغة دانستن
Language(s): Turkish
History
Origin: 1027 AH (1617 CE)
Arabic MS 83F
Contents
A conclusion, in Turkish, to the Turkish part of the manuscript
Folios 78b-79
Title: Khātimat al-kitāb
Title: خاتمة الكتاب
Colophon: تحريرا في اوايل شهر صفر المظفر سنة سبع وعشرين والف
Language(s): Turkish
History
Origin: 1027 AH (1617 CE)
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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