Arabic MS 109 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A work containing popular tales relating to the times of the 'Abbasid Caliphs and the Barmacid family
Title: إعلام الناس بما وقع للبرامكة مع بني العباس
Title: Tales relating to the times of the 'Abbasid Caliphs and the Barmacid family
Incipit: الحمد الله الذى انزل الكتاب ... وبعد فيقول
Explicit: وقابله حساب نفسه بفعله والله اعلم بغيبه واحكم
Colophon: تم ... يوم السب المبارك غرة رجب سنة ١١٥٣ من الهجرة الخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 499 [109]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 165 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Layout
1 column, 21 written lines
Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1153 AH (1740 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.
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