Arabic MS 147 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Sīrat ʻAntar (volume 4 of 36)

Title: Sīrat ʻAntar
Title: سيرة عنتر
Title: The Life (Romance) of ʻAntar
Incipit: قال الراوي لهذا الكلام العجيب وكان السبب في مجيء هذا الغلام
Colophon: تم الكتاب الثالث (sic) الخ
Language(s): Arabic

References

Catalogue no. Arabic MS 504 [147]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 63 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.

Layout

1 column, 23 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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