Arabic MS 221 (The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Arabic prayer with a Persian introduction
Title: al-Duʻāʼ al-Mughnī
Title: الدعاء المغني
Title: The Efficient Prayer
Incipit: از حضرت خواجه اويس قرني رض منقول است كه كسى اين دعاء مغني را ورد خود سازد ومداومت نمايد غنى كردد
Explicit: وكم من مسيء قد تجاوزت عنه وتجاوز عني برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين
Language(s): Arabic and Persian
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 336 [221]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 64 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 122 mm.
Layout
1 column, 7 lines
Hand(s)
Naskh
History
Origin: circa 1760 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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