Arabic MS 762 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Contains surah 4:148-176. Several lacunae.
Folio 1b: first six words of Surah 4:148.
Folio 2a: text starts from the pre penultimate word of surah 4:155.
Breaks off in the middle of verse 176.
Contains surah 5:3-55.
Incomplete:begins in the middle of verse 3 (اهل لغير الله به), breaks of after the fourth word of verse 55.
Physical Description
Layout
1 column with three lines of Arabic script, the Persian and Turkic translations below.
Hand(s)
The Arabic text is in large Naskh characters fully vowelled, perhaps of the fourteenth century. The Persian and Turkic translations are both written in smaller characters in the same hand.
Decoration
Folio 1a: almond-shape shamsa without text; primarily in gold, red and blue.
Folio 1b: full page illumination with the first six words of Surah 4:148.
Small illuminated verse markers at the end of each verse, larger, more elaborately illuminated markers (almond-shaped and circular) after every five and ten ayas.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Deed of endowment (waqf) on folio 1a (to be deciphered).
Folio 1b: round-shape black seal.
Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) . His bookplate on the back paste-down: 'Bibliotheca Lindesiana 4/D'.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913) .
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to The John Rylands Library.
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