Arabic MS 138 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: Stories from the Arabian Nights. A volume containing dialogues, grammar, anthology, and proverbs. It is divided into four maqalahs and subdivided into fasls

Title: Alf laylah wa-laylah

Title: الف ليلة وليلة؛ فى حروف العربية ووضعهم بالكلام؛ فى ضرب الكلام بالمخاطبة لتعليم اللغة العربية؛ فى بعض حكايات ضحكية لتعليم امتداد القول العربى

Title: A Thousand and One Nights

Language(s): Arabic

References

Catalogue no. Arabic MS 653 [138]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: 121 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 100 mm.

Layout

1 column, 15 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.

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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Subjects

Folk literature, Arabic

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