MS. Marsh 550 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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6 works by 4 authors on the subject of Hadith

1. ff. 1v-10v
Author: Sibṭ ibn al-ʻAjamī, 1352-1438
Title: Kitāb al-Tabyīn li-asmāʼ al-mudallisīn
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 67
[NAM. 379 (1)]
2. ff. 11v-33v
Author: Nasāʾī, Aḥmad ibn Shuʻayb, 830 or 31-915
Title: Kitāb al-Ḍuʻafāʼ wal-matrūkīn
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 163
[NAM. 379 (2), with corrig. Nicoll p. 555]
3. ff. 34r-47r
Author: Dhahabī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1274-1348
Title: Tadhkirat al-ḥuffāẓ

Names only, arranged chronologically in 21 classes

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 47
[NAM. 379 (3)]
4. ff. 47v
Title: The names of the nine on whose authority the “Six books” are transmitted
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Traditions
[NAM. 379 (4)]
5. ff. 47v-53r
Title: Four lines of poetry ascribed to Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372-1449 *, extracts from books of Traditions, a poem in 9 lines, a biographical notice and miscellaneous other matter.

*according to a marginal note wrongly ascribed

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Traditions
[NAM. 379 (5)]
6. ff. 53v-158r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kitāb al-Qanāʻah fī man ittafaqa ʻalá riwāyatihi al-jamāʻah
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Traditions
[NAM. 379 (6)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
10 ff. 23 ff. 14 ff. 1 f. 7 ff. 106 ff.

History

Origin: 1434 CE 15th cent. CE 15th cent. CE 15th cent. CE 15th cent. CE 15th cent. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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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