MS. Marsh 583 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: 16 works by 13 authors on the subjects of Hadith, Sufism, Bereavement, Reward, Inheritance and succession, Religious disputations, Shafiites, Muslim scholars, Prayer, Rhetoric, and Arabic language
1. ff. 3r-20r
Composed 1420
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL II 173
UAM. 157 (1)
2. ff. 21v-47v
Title: A collection of traditions
Title: مجموعة من الأحاديث
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL II 113
UAM. 157 (2 [i])
3. ff. 49v-68v
Title: A collection of traditions
Title: الأربعون العشارية الإسناد
?= al-Arbaʻūn al-ʻushārīyāt al-isnād
xcf. Gotha 6131
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL II 66
UAM. 157 (2 [iii]) with corrig. Nicoll p. 570
4. ff. 69v-84v
Language(s): Arabic
References
Appendix Traditions
UAM. 157 (2 [iv]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 570
5. ff. 85v-102r
Title: al-Aḥādīth al-arbaʻūn
Title: الأحاديث الأربعون
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL II 76
UAM. 157 (2 [ii])
6. ff. 103r-114r
A reply to the Tanbīh al-ghabī of Biqāʻī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar, 1406 or 7-1480
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 448
UAM. 157 (3)
7. ff. 115r-136r
Title: فواتح الجمال وفوائح الجلال
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 440
UAM. 157 (4 [i]) with corrig Nicoll p. 570
8. ff. 137r-158r
Title: Ḥuḍayrat al-quds
Title: حضيرة القدس
Anon., but presumably Ghazzālīʼs work
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 424
UAM. 157 (4 [ii]) with corrig. Nicoll p. 570
9. ff. 159v-190v
Title: برد الأكباد عن فقد الأولاد
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL II 76
UAM. 157 (5), with corrig. Nicoll p. 571
10. ff. 191v-200r
Title: مطلع البدرين فيمن يؤتى أجرين
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL II 147
UAM. 157 (6 [i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 571
11. ff. 239v-271v
Title: مسائل في الفرائض
*The identification of this author in Puseyʼs index with Ibn al-Ikhwah, author of MS. Bodl. Or. 315 (Nic. AM 97), seems quite without justification. Does Levy say anything in his edn. of the latter (Gibb Mem. n. s. 12)?
Language(s): Arabic
References
Appendix Law
UAM. 157 (7)
12. ff. 272r-291v
Title: Taflīs Iblīs
Title: تفليس إبليس
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 451
UAM. 157 (8, i as enumerated by Nicoll p. 571), with further corrig. Nicoll p. 619
13. ff. 292r-311r
Title: A notice of the life and writings of Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī, ca. 1327-1370
Language(s): Arabic
References
Appendix Biography
UAM. 157 (8 [ii]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 571
14. ff. 312r-325v
Title: An unidentified commentary on the Muqaddimah fī al-ṣalāt of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī d. c. 990
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 196
UAM. 157 (8 [iii)], with corrig. Nicoll p. 571
15. ff. 325v-339v
Title: Muqaddimah fī al-adab
Title: مقدمة في الأدب
*Not Zamakhsharīʼs; incipit
Language(s): Arabic
References
Appendix Rhetoric
UAM. 157 (8 [iv]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 571
16. fols. 340r-346v
Title: al-Luʼluʼah fī al-naḥw
Title: اللؤلؤة في النحو
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL II 162
UAM. 157 (9)
Physical Description
Form: codex
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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. n.d.
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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