MS. Marsh 481 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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8 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Qasidas, Arabic poetry, Sufism, and Arabic language

1. ff. 2v-3r
Author: Ṣarṣarī, Yaḥyá ibn Yūsuf, d. 1258
Title: Qaṣīdah yudhkaru fī kull bayt min abyātihā ḥurūf al-khaṭṭ jamīʻan
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 250
[NAM. 315 (1), with corrig Nicoll p. 549]
2. f. 4v
Author: Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
Title: [A single poem beginning Innī taʻawwadhtu bī minnī ...]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 447
[NAM. 315 (3)]
3. f. 4r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A poem in 22 verses

Perhaps lacking beginning

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 315 (2), with corrig. Nicoll p. 549]
4. ff. 5v-25v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tasbīʻ on the Qaṣīdat al-Burdah of Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?

When S1, p. 470 says that Manch. 473 = B. Mus. 622 iv, Bodl. 11, 415 it means presumably only that they are equally anon., not that they are identical.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 266
[NAM. 315 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 549]
5. ff. 27-104
Author: Ibn Ghānim, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad, d. 1279?
Title: Ḥall al-rumūz wa mafātīḥ al-kūnūz
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 451
[NAM. 315 (5)]
6. f. 105r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A poem in the form of an amulet
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 315 (6)]
7. f. 105v*
Author: Shāfiʻī [?]
Title: A poem

*ff. 106, 107r are blank.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 315 (7)]
8. ff. 107v-114
Author: Anonymous
Title: A poem in 162 verses on the three parts of speech (nouns, verbs and particles)
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 315 (8), with corrig. Nic. p. 549]

Physical Description

Form: codex
2 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 21 ff. 78 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 8 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. 16th cent.? CE 1599 CE n.d. n.d. 1595 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Miscellanei M.S. in quarto &c, no. 53].

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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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