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MS. Marsh 42 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: 11 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Arabic language, Philosophy, Deserts, Tales, Medicine, and Prosody, including one anonymous collection of stories about Nasreddin, Hoca, active 13th century in Ottoman Turkish.
1. folios 1b-26a
Author: Anonymous
Title: Clavis linguae Arabicae et Persicae

A vocabulary of Arabic words used in conversation and letter writing, arranged alphabetically and explained in Persian*

* appears to be a version of the work in MS. Arch. Seld. A. 60

Language(s): Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish

References

Appendix Lexicography
Ethé 1675
no. 1675
2. folios 28b-36a
Author: Anonymous
Title: Khabar Faythāghūrath al-faylasūf al-mutaʼallih

With pencilled marginal and interlinear notes (by Marsh?)

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Philosophy
[Uri Pers. 92 (2)]
3. folios 37-46
Author: Anonymous
Title: A short geographical tract on deserts
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 429
no. 429
4. folios 47b-76a
Author: anonymous
Title: Ḥikāyāt-i Naṣreddīn Ḫvāce
Title: حکایات نصر الدین خواجه
Title: Leṭā'if-i Ḫvāce Naṣreddīn
Title: لطاٸف خواجه نصر الدین
Incipit: (folio 47b, line 1) بر کون نصر الدین خواجه منبره چقوب وعد و نصیحت ایدرکن [...]
Filiation: The Asian and Middle Eastern Special Collections at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries holds at least seven manuscripts of Nasreddin Hoca stories in Ottoman Turkish: MS. Bodl. Or. 627, MS. Bodl. Or. 185, MS. Laud. Or. 178, MS. Selden Superius 8, MS. Marsh 42 (this manuscript), MS. Bodl. Or. 192, and MS. Bodl. Or. 85.
Language(s): Colloquial Ottoman Turkish.

References

Ethé, Hermann. Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part II: Turkish, Hindûstânî, Pushtû and Additional Persian Manuscripts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1930. col. 1187 § (57) 2096.
5. folios 77a-82b
Author: Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? بن زکریّا محمد أبو بكر الرازي
Title: al-Mudkhal ilá al-ṭibb (al-ṣaghīr)

*This section of the MS. is Arabic, nevertheless

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 234
[Uri Pers. 92 (5)*]
6. folios 83a-89a
Author: Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? بن زکریّا محمد أبو بكر الرازي
Title: Dastūr al-ṭibb fī sirr al-sināʻah wa-burʻ al-sāʻah

*This section of the MS. is Arabic, nevertheless

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 235
[Uri Pers. 92 (6)*]
7. folios 94b-112a
Author: Raphelengius, Justus fl.1588-1617
Title: Dictionariolum Turcico-Arabicum

A dictionary of Arabic (and a few Persian) words, mostly with interlinear Turkish paraphrase

Language(s): Arabic, Persian, Latin, Turkish

References

Appendix Lexicography
[Ethé 2227]
8. folios 116a-120b*
Author: Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, d. 1013?
Title: Tafsīr al-akyāl wa-al-awzān al-mawjūdah fī kutub al-ṭibb bi-ikhtilāf al-lughah

*f. 114r has the Latin title; folios 114v-115v blank; f. 121 blank.

**This section of the MS. is Arabic, nevertheless.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 240
[Uri Pers. 92 (8)**]
9. folios 122b-138a
Author: Anonymous
Title: al-Amthilah al-mukhtalifah min al-thulāthī al-mujarrad

With interlinear definitions and explanations in Arabic

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Grammar
[Uri Pers. 92 (9), with note Nicoll p. 433, note b]
10. folios 140b-145a
Author: Anonymous
Title: A paradigm of the triliteral stem naṣara, with interlinear explanations in Turkish and Italian
Language(s): Arabic, Turkish, Italian

References

Appendix Grammar
[Uri Pers. 92 (10)]
11. folios 166b-161b [European order]
Author: Golius, Jacobus, 1596-1667
Title: Mensura carminum omnium Arabicorum adapta ad normam Prosodiarum Graecae et Latinae
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Prosody
[Uri Pers. 92 (12)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 161 ff.

History

Origin: n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri M.S. Incompacti in quarto &c, nos. 10, 11, 15, 19, 20, 22, 29, and Addenda. Libri M.S. Compacti in quarto, no. 23, and Addenda. Libri M.SS. Incompacti in quarto, no. 15].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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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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