MS. Marsh 595 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Arabic poetry

1. fols. 1r-81v
Author: Ibn Abī al-Khayr, Abū Naṣr Saʻīd, al-Masīḥī d. 1193
Title: al-Nukhbah

Extracts from his Kitāb al-Iqtiḍāb ʻalá ṭarīq al-masʼalah wa-al-jawāb fī al-ṭibb

Followed (fols. 65v-81v) by anonymous glosses

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 489
[UAM. 622 (1) with corrig. Nicoll p. 589]
2. ff. 92r-136r
Author: Shayzarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Naṣr, 12th cent.
Title: al-Īḍāḥ fī asrār al-nikāḥ

2 parts

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 461
[UAM. 622 (3, 4)]
3. ff. 138v-140v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A poem on medicine, in 65 couplets
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
[UAM. 622 (5), with corrig. Nicoll p. 589]

Physical Description

Form: codex
81 fols. 18; 28 ff. 3 ff.

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Medici M.S. in quarto &c., no. 6].

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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