Arabic MS 169 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Sīrat ʻAntar (volume 26 of 36)
Title: Sīrat ʻAntar
Title: سيرة عنتر
Title: The Life (Romance) of ʻAntar
Incipit: انى رايت حمامة
Explicit: الا طممتكي بالكلام
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 526 [169]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 60 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Layout
1 column, 25 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.
Availability
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