Arabic MS 771 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: The twelfth of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Quʾranic manuscript with interlinear literal translations in Persian and Qarakhanid Turkic. The set, probably from the 14th century, would originally have comprised 30 volumes. This volume contains parts of Juzʾ 25.
Title: al-Qurʾān
Title: القران
Language(s): Arabic, with interlinear translations in Persian and Qarakhanid Turkic
1b-109b
Title: Juzʾ 25
Title: جزء 25
1b-2b
Title: Sūrat Fuṣṣilat
Title: سورة فصلت

Contains Sūrah 41:47

Incipit: اله يرد علم الساعة
Explicit: ويوم يناطيهم ايت شركاءي
3a-36b
Title: Sūrat al-Shūrā
Title: سورة الشورى

Contains Sūrah 42:53

Explicit: الا الئ الله تصير الامور
36b-74a
Title: Sūrat al-Zukhruf
Title: سورة الزخرف

Contains Sūrah 43:1-89.

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حم والكتاب المبين
Explicit: فسوف يعلمون
74b-88b
Title: Sūrat al-Dukhān
Title: سورة الدخات

Contains Sūrah 44:1-59.

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حم والكتاب المبين انا انزلناه
Explicit: فارتقب انهم مرنقبون
89a-109b
Title: Sūrat al-Jāthiyah
Title: سورة الجاثية

Contains Sūrah 45:1-37.

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حم تنزيل الكتاب من الله
Explicit: وهو العزيز الحكيم

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: White and cream glazed paper.
Extent: 109 folios (ii+109+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 360 × 295 mm.
Dimensions (written): 230 × 175 mm.
Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil in Western Arabic numerals.

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

Folios 1b-2a: double full-page illumination with the beginning of Sūrah 41:47.

Folios 36b, 74b, and 89a: Sūrah heading within illuminated rectangular panel.

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

Origin: 14th century, probably CE; possibly produced in ; Transoxiana (A. Ata narrows it down to the Ispicab region; see Ata 2020).

Provenance and Acquisition

Deed of endowment (waqf) on folio 1a (to be deciphered); see same or similar note in Arabic MS 761, Arabic MS 762, Arabic MS 765, and Arabic MS 766.

Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, 1812-1880. His bookplate on the back paste-down: 'Bibliotheca Lindesiana 4/D'.

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) Rylands, Enriqueta, 1843–1908 in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913) Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847–1913 .

Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to John Rylands Library.

Record Sources

Description based on A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934), no. 36 [771], revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.

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