Arabic MS 115 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Two grammatical treatises
Folios 1-11a
A grammatical treatise by Birgivî Mehmet Efendi
Title: Al-ʿawāmil al-jadīdah
Title: العوامل الجديدة
Incipit: الحمد الله ... وبعد فاعلم انه لا بد لكل طالب معرفة الاعراب
Language(s): Arabic
Folios 12b-23
A grammatical treatise by al-Jurjānī
Title: Miʾat ʿāmil
Title: مائة عامل
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 23 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 116 mm.
Layout
1 column, 13 written lines
Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1185 AH (1771 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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