Arabic MS 102 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A poem based on the Burdah
Title: Tasbīʻ al-Burdah
Title: تسبيع البردة
Title: Septemplication or Seven-Lines Elaboration of the Burdah
Incipit: الله يعلم ما فى قلب من الم
Colophon: تم التخميس المبارك والحمد الله الخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 473 [102]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 46 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 127 mm.
Layout
1 column, 12 written lines
Hand(s)
History
Origin: circa 1750 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.
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.
Availability
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