MS. Digby Or. 15 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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1 copy of al-ʻAin fī al-tawārīkh by Ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1315 or 16-1363 or 4

Author: Ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1315 or 16-1363 or 4
Title: al-ʻAin fī al-tawārīkh

a compendium of al-ʻIbar fī akhbār al-bashar of Dhahabī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1274-1348 , with a continuation to 764 A. H. = 1363 A. D.

*The ref. "s. No. 7" two lines later in G2 applies only to the first edition; it should read "No. 6 on GII 65 (p. 77), SII 65 (p. 69)".

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 47
[UAM. 647, with corrig. Nicoll p. 590*]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 366 ff.

History

Origin: n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Kenelm Digby, 1603-1665.

Presented to the Bodleian Library in 1640 along with the Laudian Collections.

Record Sources

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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