Arabic MS 109 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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Summary of Contents: A work containing popular tales relating to the times of the ʿAbbasid caliphs and the influential Persian Barmakid family. It was composed by Muḥammad Diyāb al-Itlīdī around 1100 AH (1688 CE). Present manuscript was copied in 1153 AH (1740 CE).Title: Tales relating to the times of the 'Abbasid Caliphs and the Barmacid familyA work containing popular tales relating to the times of the 'Abbasid caliphs and the Barmakid family.
Title on folio 1a (and on folio 2a) was given by the author himself and defines the period to which most of the tales are assigned. In other respects the title is too narrow.
The arrangement is by caliphs, beginning with ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb on folio 2a and ending with Ibrāhim Muʿtaṣim on folio 161a.
Begins (as in Paris 2108): الحمد لله الذي انول الكتاب ... وبعد فيقول; ends (folio 165a): وقابله حساب نفسه بفعله والله اعلم بفيبه واحكم.
Colophon on folio 165a gives the date 1153 AH.
Colophon: ثم ... يوم السبت المنارك في غرة رجب سنة ١١٥٣ من الهجرةIncipit: الحمد الله الذى انزل الكتاب ... وبعد فيقولExplicit: وقابله حساب نفسه بفعله والله اعلم بغيبه واحكمLanguage(s): ArabicPhysical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 165 folios (165+[1])Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.Dimensions (leaf): 152 × 92 mm.Foliation: Foliation in Western Arabic numeral in ink.Collation
Condition
Iron gall ink corrosion, worm damage.Layout
Uniform layout. Text framed by double red lines. Broad margins. Well rubricated.
Hand(s)
Naskh script.
Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled with almond-shaped centrepiece.
History
Origin: The manuscript was copied in the 1153 AH (1740 CE).Provenance and Acquisition
Folio 1a: signature in thick brown ink: Perille in Latin and in Arabic script; ownership inscription of the same owner 'Perille the French': صاحبه ترجمان پريل الفرانساوي .
Formerly part of the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865). See label on back paste-down: Bland No. 188.
Bland’s oriental manuscripts were sold through Bernard Quaritch in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford; his bookplate on the back paste-down: Bibliotheca Lindesiana 4/I.
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 .
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to 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; revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.Availability
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