Arabic MS 88 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Collection
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 785 [88]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 141 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.
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 88A
Contents
Miscellaneous notes and inscriptions in Arabic and Turkish on different subjects by various owners
Folios 1-3
Language(s): Arabic; Turkish
Arabic MS 88B
Contents
Folios 4-51
Title: Muqaddimat al-adab
Title: Abridgement by anonymous author of Muqaddimat al-adab
Title: مقدمة الادب
Incipit: الحمد الله الذى فضل على جميع الالسنة لسان العرب ... وبعد فهذا مختصر في اللغة المتداولة من مقدمة الادب لجار الله العلامة من قسميه اعتى الاسماء والافعال
Language(s): Arabic
History
Origin: circa 1580 CE
Arabic MS 88C
Contents
A treatise on grammar, in Arabic and Turkish
Folios 52-84a
Incipit: قال مفتقر ودود احمد غفر والدين احسن ... اعلم صرف امّ علوم نحو اب
Language(s): Turkish; Arabic
History
Origin: circa 1650 CE
Arabic MS 88D
Contents
Anonymous treatise on grammar
Folios 84b-87
Incipit: الحمد الوهاب سبيل صواب الراجز ... اما بعد فان العربية وسيلة علوم شريعة
Language(s): Arabic
Arabic MS 88E
Contents
A versified Persian-Turkish vocabulary composed by İbrahim Şahidî
Folios 88b-108
Title: Tuhfe-i Şâhidî
Title: تحفۀ شاهدی
Incipit: بنام خالق وحي وتوانا قديم وقادر وبينا ودانا
Explicit: شاهدى يه هر كيم ايلرسه دعا ايدر محشرده شفاعت مصطفا
Language(s): Turkish; Persian
History
Origin: circa 1780 CE
Arabic MS 88F
Contents
A fragment of the Gulistan of the Persian poet Sa'di, interlined with a Turkish translation
Folios 110-119
Title: Gulistān
Title: گلستان
Title:
Incipit: لما رات بين يدي بعلها شيأ كارخى شفة الصائم
Language(s): Persian; Turkish
History
Origin: circa 1670 CE
Arabic MS 88G
Contents
A Persian-Turkish vocabulary, incomplete
Folios 120-141
Language(s): Persian; Turkish
History
Origin: circa 1670 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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