Arabic MS 216 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
An anonymous commentary on the Maqamāt al-Ḥarīrī
Title: Sharḥ Maqamāt al-Ḥarīrī
Title: شرح مقامات الحريري
Title: The Maqamāt of Ḥarīrī
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى تلالات شواهد قدرته على وجنات الموجودات ... اما بعد فقد اقترح والح علي زمرة اخوان وثلثة دخلا فى ان اشرح لهم كتاب المقامات ... خطبة الكتاب اللهم اصله عند البصرين يا الله
Explicit: يعنى هو معطي كل خير من الدنيا والآخرة. هذا آخر ما شرحت من آخر المقامات ... والحمد الله رب العالمين الخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 689 [216]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 274 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 170 mm.
Layout
1 column, 21 written lines
Hand(s)
Nasta-liq
History
Origin: circa 1770 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
From the collection of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867 latterly as Commissioner in Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts of which 352 were selected after his death for the British Museum. The remainder were purchased in 1868 by 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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