Arabic MS 132) (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Collection of texts on colloquial dialect of Morocco and Moorish tribes and customs
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 65 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 210 mm.
Layout
1 column, 13 written lines
Hand(s)
History
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.
Arabic MS 132 A
Contents
A collection of dialogues in colloquial Arabic, of the dialect of Morocco, with Latin or German rendering in a parallel column
Folios 1-29
Title: هذا دفتر يشتمل علي تقييد مقالات العربية بلسان العامة يجتمع على عشرين بابا
Title: Dialogi Arabici, in lingua vulgari Arabica exarati ac divisi in viginti capita
Language(s): Arabic, Latin and German
History
Origin: circa 1790 CE
Arabic MS 132 B
Contents
A catalogue of Arabic books circulating in Morocco
Folios 31-58
Title: هذا بحمد الله تعالى برناميج الكتب الذين متداولين في بلاد المغرب
Title: Catalogus Manuscriptorum in Lingua Arabica exaratorum ac in Mauritania magis notorum
Language(s): Arabic and Latin
History
Origin: circa 1790 CE
Arabic MS 132 C
Contents
Moorish customs
Folios 59-62
Title: Sammlungen uber einige Gebriiuche der Marokkaner
Language(s): Arabic and German
History
Origin: circa 1790 CE
Arabic MS 132 D
Contents
Enumeration (in Arabic) of Moorish tribes
Folios 63-66
Title: قبايل العرب الذين فى المغرب
Title: Familiae seu Tribus in Mauritania
Language(s): Arabic
History
Origin: circa 1790 CE
Additional Information
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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