Jarring Prov. 285
[ Jarring Prov. 285 | Jarring's handwritten catalogue ]
An Arabic manuscript.
Uighur.
Eastern Turkistan.
1238/1822-1823 (?).
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Lund University Library
An Arabic manuscript. Eastern Turkistan, 1238/1822-1823 (?), Uighur
Old number 62. An unidentified Arabic manuscript, divided into different chapters of which an index is to be found on f. 3a. Commentaries in the margin. On f. 229a and 229b text specimens in Arabic and Persian.
Physical description
Extent: ff. 231 ; 260 x 190mm.
Decoration
Binding
Grey-black leather binding with decorations
Foliation
The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.
Condition
Poor
History
Origin
Date on f. 228b: 1004/1595-1596; on f. 3a a later date 1238/1822-1823.
Provenance
On f. 83a an illegible seal imprint. On f. 228b the following note by a former owner in Persian: Muhammad Niaz ibn mollah Dihqan ibn Asta Qurban bought (this book) for 50 tanga from Abul Faiz Khani. Bought by Gunnar Jarring from Rev. David Gustafsson who acquired the ms. in the 1920's in Yarkand.
Acquisition
The ms. was part of the Jarring collection of Eastern Turkistan manuscripts donated to the Lund University Library in 1982.
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