Arabic MS 218 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A Commentary on the Tuḥfat al-mulūk wa-'s-salāṭīn
Title: شرح تفحة الملوك والسلاطين
Title: Commentary upon the Tuḥfat al-mulūk wa-'s-salāṭīn
Incipit: الحمد الله الذى هدانا الى الصراط المستقيم ... وبعد فان العبد الضعيف محمد بن عبد اللطيف ... يقول قد التمس مني بعض اخواني واقترح علي خلص خلاني ان اشرح المختصر المسمى بتحفة الملوك والسلاطين الذي الفه الامام زين الدين
Explicit: لان ذلك يحصل لارباب القلوب الذين اشتهروا بحب لله والشوق اليه من المباحات لا من المحرمات والحمد لله على التمام
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 174 [218]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 174 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 175 mm.
Layout
1 column, 19 written lines
Hand(s)
Naskh
History
Origin: circa 1680 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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