Arabic MS 107 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A work devoted to the excellences of Damascus by al-Badri
Title: نزهة الانام في محاسن الشام
Title: The Delight of Mankind in the Beauty of Damascus (Syria)
Incipit: الحمد الله الذي جعل الشام في وجه الارض شامة خضراء ... وبعد فقد سالتني ايها الاخ ... ولهذا سميتها نزهة الانام في محاسن الشام
Explicit: وقد ختمنا كتابنا هذا بذكر الانبيا والصحابة والاوليا ... ان شاء الله تعالى بمنه وكرمه وامنه ويمنه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد الخ
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Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 317 [107]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 136 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 135 mm.
Layout
1 column, 15 written lines
Hand(s)
History
Origin: circa 1600 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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