MS. Marsh 161 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: One copy of the Kitāb al-musīqī (a section of Avicenna's Kitāb al-najāt) and one copy of Bayḍāwī's Niẓām al-tavārīkh
Author: Avicenna
Title: Kitāb al-najāt
Title: Kitāb al-musīqī
Language(s): Arabic
Author: Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, d. ca. 1286
Title: Niẓām al-tavārīkh
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 210 folios

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard,1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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