Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Arabic MS 260 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Arabic Manuscripts

Contents

Rawḍ al-akhyār by al-Amāsī

Title: روض الاخيار المنتخب من ربيع الابرار
Title: Garden of the Best Selected from the Spring-Time of the Just
Incipit: نحمدك اللهم على ما علمتنا من البيان والهمتنا من التبيان ... فبعد فيقول العبد المتضرع الى فاتح القلوب وساتر العيوب محمد بن قاسم بن يعقوب ... وسميته بروض الاخبار المنتخب من ربيع الابرار
Explicit: محرره المعترف بالذنوب محمد بن قاسم بن يعقوب. تفضل علينا يا كثير المواهب بلطف واحسان لك الحمد والثناء ... اللهم اجب دعائنا ولاتخيب رجاءنا
Colophon: ولد الفقير ابو احمد محمد بن قاسم ليلة الثلثاء وقت السحر فى السابع والعشرين من شعبان المبارك اربع وستين وثمانمائة فى بلدة اماسية وفرغ من قراءة الفروع والاصول بتوفيق واهب النفوس والعقول سنة ثمان ثمانين وثمانمائة. يروى عن شيخه ووالده وهو عن شيخه سيد احمد بن عطاء الله القريمي وهو عن شيخه مولانا شرف الدين الكرمري وهو عن ابيه ناصر الدين البزارى وهو عن جلال الدين الكرلانى وهو عن حسام الدين السغناقي
Language(s): Arabic

References

Catalogue no. Arabic MS 425 [260]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 142 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 145 mm.

Layout

1 column, 17 written lines

Hand(s)

Naskh

History

Origin: circa 1620 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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