Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Arabic MS 237 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Arabic Manuscripts

Contents

Muntakhab al-lughāt, an Arabic-Persian Dictionary. Also called al-Rashīdī

Title: منتخب اللغات
Title: Selection of Words
Incipit: ستايش وسپاس مالك الملكى كه تذكار الاى بى احصاى ونعماى منهاى ... وبعد از صورة اتمام واختتام منتخب اللغات شاهجهانى موسوم نموده
Language(s): Arabic

References

Catalogue no. Arabic MS 761 [237]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 346 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 155 mm.

Layout

1 column, 17 lines

Hand(s)

Naskh

History

Origin: circa 1730 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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