MS. Marsh 264 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Astrology, Muḥammad, and Christianity and other religions

1. ff. 1v-50r
Author: Ptolemy, 2nd cent.
Title: al-Thamarah
Title: Centiloquium

With an anonymous Persian commentary

SAUG § 118, p. 212 (204)

Language(s): Arabic, Persian

References

GAL I 149
[UAM. 931 (1)]
2. ff. 59v-53r
Author: Anonymous
Title: al-ʻAhd wa-al-shurūt allatī sharaṭahā Muḥammad rasūl Allāh li-ahl al-millah al-naṣrānīyah

A copy of the Paris 1630 edition of the Testamentum (the so-called Edict of the Prophet, a Nestorian fraud of the 9th cent.).

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf III, p. 353
[UAM. 931 (2), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602]

Physical Description

Form: codex
50 ff. 7 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. 17th cent. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri M.S. Incompacti in quarto &c, no. 24, and Addenda. Libri M.S. Incompacti in quarto, no. 3].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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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