Arabic MS 144 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Sīrat ʻAntar (volume 1 of 36)

Title: Sīrat ʻAntar
Title: سيرة عنتر
Title: The Life (Romance) of ʻAntar
Incipit: الحمد الله الكريم الحنان ... وبعد ايها السامع استمع ما كان
Explicit: حتى كاد البر بهم ان ينقلب والليل مسا والحديث ليلة غدا. تم الكتاب
Colophon: طالع هذا الكتاب الامير ايوب عبد الله خلوتى
Language(s): Arabic

References

Catalogue no. Arabic MS 501 [144]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 196 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 115 mm.

Layout

1 column, 15 written lines

Hand(s)

Naskh

History

Origin: circa 1750 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.

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