Arabic MS 97 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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Contents
A work on calligraphy by Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Ṭībī
Each example of writing is preceded by the sentence طريقة ابن البواب, except on folio 32b where it is introduced as ابن هلال.
The name of the calligrapher is given in the colophon as مهمد بن حسن بن مهمد بن احمد بن عمر الطيبي الشافعي, who was evidently a master of his art.
A treatise in Turkish Naskhi by a scribe in which he gives advices to other scribes.
The writing contains a letter of Ali (folios 11a-14a).
The writing contains: the anecdote of the Caliph Maʾmūn with a maidservant(folios 15a-16b); good advices to scribes (folios 16b-19) entitled at the end: المنظومة في فن الكتابة; asking for forgiveness from God, in verse, by Shaikh ʿĀrīf, entitled: استغفارة الشيخ العارف ابي مدين بن قطب المغرب. Folios 22b-25 contain a specimen called قلم النسخ المعتاد, the subject being sayings of ʿAli b. abī Ṭālib, in rhymed prose.
Main contents: Sayings of the Prophet to قس بت ساعدة الايادي (folios 25b-18a); a story dealing with the Caliph Maʾmūn (folios 29a-31a).
The contents are a quotation from the historian Wāqidi, who died in 207 AH (822 CE).
The subject is an anecdote dealing with محمد بن واسع and قتيبة بن مسلم.
The subject is an anecdote dealing with محمد بن واسع and قتيبة بن مسلم.
Contents: a quotation from Abu Jaafar Muhammad bin Omar(ابو جعفر محمد بن عمر) on the preference of a written to a spoken thing (folios 38a-39a); quotations from two calligraphers on the excellence of calligraphy (folios 39b-41a). These calligraphers are Abd al-Hamīd () and Ismail bin Sabih al-Katib (اسمعيل بن صبيح الكاتب).
The contents are miscellaneous sayings.
The contents are miscellaneous sayings.
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Layout
Layout is not uniform. Text in one column, but number of written lines varies (5 or 6 lines per page).
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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.
Ownership inscription in folio 1a by Abū al-Ḥüseyin Ibrāhīm Muṣtafà Efendī, dated 1151 AH (1738 CE): ِن ودائع الدهر عندي لمرادري لمن بعدي في نوبته الفقير أبو الحسين إبراهيم مصطفى افندي في ١٥ جماد الثاني سنة ١١٧١ (From my deposit for eternity, for my wishes, for he whose turn is after mine, the poor Abū al-Ḥusayn Ibrāhīm Muṣtafà Efendī On 15 Jumā[à] II year 1151).
Ownership inscription in folio 1a by el-Seyyid Ḥüseyin el-Kamāl el-Ṣāẕelī, son of the late Ibrāhīm Ketẖüdā Tüfekçīyān Muṣṭafà Efendī, dated 1179 AH (1765 CE): في نوبته الفقير السيد حسين الكمال الشاذلي ابن المرحوم إبراهيم كتخدا تفكچیان مصطفی افندی فی اخر صفر سنه (In his turn, the poor el-Seyyid Hüseyin el-Kamāl el-Ṣāẕelī, son of the late Ibrāhīm Ketẖüdā Tüfekçīyān Muṣṭafà Efendī End of Ṣafar, 1179 ).
Acquired by French orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, (1758–1838), as per his bookplate on the front paste-down, whose library was sold in 1843.
After de Sacy’s death, ms was presumably inherited by his son Samuel Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy (d. 1879), who sold many of his father's oriental manuscripts through Parisian booksellers Romain Merlin (1793–1871) and Grangeret de La Grange, (1790-1859) on 1843, (see Bibliothèque, Vol. III, App., no. 296), where an individual named 'Moore' purchased it.
Probably acquired by Moore on behalf of scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803–1865), as per the latter's extensive notes on the sale, who then accessioned it into his library at Randalls Park, Leatherhead.
After Bland's death, London bookseller Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899) sold his oriental manuscripts to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) in 1866. Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, 1812-1880.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) Rylands, Enriqueta, 1843–1908 in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913) Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847–1913 .
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.
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