Arabic MS 809 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Author died in 673 AH (1274 CE). The form of the author's full name is written twice, once on the title page (folio 1a), and another time immediately before the beginning of the text (folio 1b): Burhān al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan Alī bin Mūsa bin al-Qāsim bin Alī al-Ansārī al-Andalusī (برهان الدين ابو الحسن علي بن موسئ بن القاسم بن علي الانصاري الاندلسي). As it is by the same old hand as which wrote the main portion of the manuscript, it should be preferred to that given by Brockelmann (i,313) and others, as ʿAli b. Mūsa al-Andalusi al-ʿAnsi al-ʿImādi.

The work is alphabetical in its final qāfiyah, beginning with alif and ending with yā, the words used for the headings being: قافية الالف. It begins as follows: اذا ثلث المريخ بالزهرة امرء وقارن بالبدو المنير

Not dated. The writing is an old fully vocalised Naskh of about 1350 CE [cf. Mingana catalogue]. The scribe had evidently two copies of the work before him, because he wrote on the margins some variants which linguistically are sometimes better than the text transcribed by himself.

Another hand has written also on the margins the explanation of some words of the text, preceded by the letter ش, which probably means شارح (explainer), doubtless Alī bin Aydamar bin Alī Jaldakī (علي بن ايدمر بن علي الجلدكي), who died in 743 AH (1342 CE), and who wrote a commentary on Andalusi's Shudhūr.

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