MS. Marsh 536 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 15 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Philosophy, Theology, Prayer, Koran, Islam, Soul, Psychology, and Love
1. ff. 2v-9r
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Risālah fī qiyām al-arḍ wasṭ al-samāʼ
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 457
[UAM. 980 (1)]
2. ff. 9v-27r
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Letter to al-Bīrūnī about Aristotle ʼsetc.
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 457
[UAM. 980 (2)]
3. ff. 27v-32v
Title: Risālah of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Nasawī to Omar Khayyam and the latterʼs reply

On theological questions

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 471
[UAM. 980 (3) with corrig. Nic. p. 604]
4. ff. 42v-49v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Risālah fī al-ṣalāh
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 454
[UAM. 980 (4 [i])]
5. ff. 50r-53v
Author: Ṣadaqah ibn ʻAlī, Zayn al-Dīn
Title: Two works on the existence of God and manʼs knowledge of him.

In Brock, only as author of a commentary on Ibn Sīnāʼs Ishārāt (SN 1, p. 817, commentary 20n) Sharḥ masāʼil ʻawīṣah fī al-Ishārāt, ms. Carullah 1503.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Philosophy
[UAM. 980 (4 [ii]), with corr. Nic. p. 605]
6. ff. 53v-61v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Commentary on Qurʼān, sūrahs 112-114
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 453
[UAM. 980 (5)]
7. ff. 62v-64r
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Risālah Ijābat al-duʻāʼ

Mahdawi 4d

Anawati 213 (who says also = Brock. 68111 [?])

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 454
[UAM. 980 (6 [i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
8. ff. 64r-67v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: al-Arzāq

f. 68 is blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 456
[UAM. 980 (6 [ii]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
9. ff. 69v-84v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: al-Inṣāf

Part 2 only: Commentary on the Theology of Aristotle

Mahdawi 35b

Anawati 6 (part) (who says = Brock. 18 [sic: read 18a])

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 454
[UAM. 980 (7), with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
10. ff. 85r-87v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Fī tanāmī al-abʻād al-jismānīyah ʻalá al-wajh

[*Nicoll p. 605 doubts the attribution].

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 457
[UAM. 980 (8)]
11. ff. 89r-90r
Author: Fārābī
Title: Risālah fi māhīyat al-nafs

Hebr. trans. Reggio 43

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 212
[UAM. 980 (9, [ii])]
12. ff. 91v-98r
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Risālah fī aqsām al-ḥikmah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 455
[UAM. 980 (10)]
13. ff. 99v-112r
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Ḥaqāʼiq ʻilm al-tawḥīd
Title: Risālah fī maʻrifat Allāh wa-ṣifātihi wa-afʻālihi)
Title: al-Risālah al-ʻarshīyah

Mahdawi 61 (“= Anawati 179 and 183”)

Anawati 179 (“= Brock. 9a”) and 183 (“= Brock. 9b and 68c”)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 454
[UAM. 980 (11 [i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
14. ff. 112r, v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Risālah fī al-ḥathth ʻalá al-ishtighāl bil-dhikr (fī al-khalwah wa-al-dhikr wa-al-ḥathth ʻalá taṣfiyat al-bāṭin)

Mahdawi 54 (“=Anawati 216 and 221”)

Anawati 216 and 221 (acc. to whom 216 = 68 xxx and 68 y 221 = 68 yy)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 456
[UAM. 980 (11 [ii]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
15. ff. 113r-125v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Risālah fī al-ʻishq
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 456
[UAM. 980 (12)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
8 ff. 19 ff. 6 ff. 8 ff. 4 ff. 9 ff. 3 ff. 4 ff. 16 ff. 3 ff. 2 ff. 8 ff. 14 ff. 1 f. 13 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Miscellanei M.S. in quarto &c, no. 44].

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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