Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Arabic MS 220 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Arabic Manuscripts

Contents

A prayer book by Ibn al-Jazarī, dated 791AH

Title: الحصن الحصين
Title: The Fortified Citadel
Incipit: قال الفقير العبد الضعيف ... محمد بن محمد بن محمد الجزري الشافعي لطف الله تعالى به في شدته اما بعد حمد الله الذي جعل الدعاء لرد القضاء ... فان هذا الحصن الحصين من كلام سيد المرسلين
Explicit: اللهم فرج عنا يا كريم يا ارحم الراحمين والحمد لله وحده والسلام على من اتبع الهدى
Colophon: قال مؤلفه ... فرغت من ترصيف هذا الحصن الحصين من كلام سيد المرسلين يوم الاحد بعد الظهر الثاني والعشرين من ذي الحجة الحرام سنة احدى وتسعين وسبعمائة بمدرسة التي انشاتها براس عقبة الكتان داخل دمشق المحروسة ... هذا وجميع ابواب دمشق مغلقة بل مشيدة والخلائق يستغيثون على الاسوار والنار في جهد عظيم من الحصار والمياه مقطوعة ... وقد احرق ظواهر البلد ونهب اكثره وكل احد خائف على نفسه واهله وماله
Language(s): Arabic

References

Catalogue no. Arabic MS 304 [220]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 152 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 187 × 112 mm.

Layout

1 column, 11 lines

Hand(s)

Naskh

History

Origin: 791 AH (1388 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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