Arabic MS 136 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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The third volume of a five-volume set containing stories from the Arabian Nights and other sources.

Title: الف ليلة وليلة؛ حكاية جرت بين هارون الرشيد وباسم الحداد؛ خبر الملك كلعاد مع شيماس الحكيم وما جرى لهم بالبيان

Title: A Thousand and One Nights

Language(s): Arabic

For the other volumes of the set, see Arabic MS 134 (Vol. 1), Arabic MS 135 (Vol. 2), Arabic MS 137 (Vol. 4), Arabic MS 138 (Vol. 5).

Title: Ḥikāyat jarat bayn Hārūn al-Rashīd wa-Bāsim al-ḥidād

Title: حكاية جرت بين هارون الرشيد وباسم الحداد

The story of Bāsim the smith, in connection with the Caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd who (for fun), on four occasions, unsuccessfully tried to stop his income (Mingana).

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Title: جير الملك كلعاد مع شيماس الحكيم وما جرى لهم بالبيان

The story of the King Galaʿād and the philosopher Shīmās (Mingana).

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: 157 folios (ii+157+ii)

Dimensions (leaf): 163 × 95 mm.

Dimensions (written): 116 × 64 mm.

Foliation: Modern foliation in Western Arabic numberals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Layout

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Same hand throughout, possibly Christian scribe (cf. Mingana).

Binding

Half-bound with marble paper covers.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

It was brought from Aleppo by Dr Patrick Russell, physician and naturalist who worked in Aleppo, Syria and in the Madras Province of India. Dr P. Russell bequeathed it to Mr C. Russell's sons in 1805; see note on the front paste-down: Bequeath'd by Dr Patrick Russell to Mr C. Russell's sons 1805

Formerly part of the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865). His bookplate on the back paste-down: "Bland MSS 213".

Bland’s oriental manuscripts were sold through Bernard Quaritch in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.

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 .

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.

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.

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