MS. Huntington 363 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

4 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Theology, Bible, Islam, Koran, and Shiites

1. ff. 1v-8r
Author: ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī
Title: Risālah Maḥāsin al-asrār

A religious treatise

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Theology
[UAM. 339 (1)]
2. ff. 9r-21v
Author: Hippolytus of Rome d.c. 236
Title: Brief commentary on the Pentateuch

Lacking beginning and end

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 307
[UAM. 339 (2)]
3. ff. 22v-33v
Author: Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, d. 710?
Title: al-Ṣaḥīfah al-kāmilah
Title: al-Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah

First part only including the introduction

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 44
[UAM. 339 (3)]
4. ff. 34v-48v
Author: Suyūrī, al-Miqdād ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1423
Title: Kanz al-ʻirfān fī fiqh al-Qurʼān

Lacking end

Pusey quotes H. Khalf. as ascribing the work to ʻAbd al-Wāhid ibn ʻUmar al-Miṣrī d.A. H. 658, but no author is given in Bağd. İsm. Paşaʼs edn. of Ḥ. Khalf.

*followed by 3 fragments in different hands (i) ff. 49-58 a philosophical discussion, (ii) ff. 59-60 verses from al-Naẓẓām, al-Ḥakamī and others in an ?anthology or ?work on poetics (iii) f. 61 a homily

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 164
[UAM. 339 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 578]

Physical Description

Form: codex
8 ff. 13 ff. 12 ff. 15 ff.

History

Origin: 1551 CE ?1568 CE n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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