MS. Ouseley 95 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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22 works by 11 authors

1. ff. 1, 10-12, 9, 16, 13
Author: Sāwajī, ʻUmar ibn Sahlān, fl. c. 1120-50.
Title: Persian commentary on the Risālat al-ṭayr of Ibn Sīnā 980-1037.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 456
[Ethé 1422 (1)]
2. ff. 4r-8v and 21r-22v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Persian commentary on al-Khuṭbat al-gharrāʼ of Ibn Sīnā.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 456
[Ethé 1422 (3)]
3. ff. 13v-19r
Author: Ibn Sīnā.
Title: Sharḥ i miʻrāj.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 456
[Ethé 1422 (iv)]
4. ff. 19v, 20, 2r-4r
Author: Ibn Sīnā.
Title: Tarjumah i risālat al-nafs, a trans. by Ibn Sīnā himself of his Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 456
[Ethé 1422 (2)]
5. ff. 22v-31v
Author: Ibn Sīnā, Abū ʻAlī Ḥusain ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 980-1037.
Title: al-Risālat al-aḍḥawīyah, in an anon. Persian trans.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 454
[Ethé 1422 (5)]
6. ff. 31v-36r
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274.
Title: Anjām i āfirānish]
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 510
[Ethé 1422 (6)]
7. f. 53v
Author: Ibn Sīnā.
Title: al-Khuṭbat al-gharrāʼ. [lacking end].
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 456
[Ethé 1422 (10)]
8. ff. 54r-60v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments of a philosophical work, based chiefly upon Greek philosophers.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Philosophy
[Ethé 1422 (11)]
9. ff. 87v, 89, 90, 99r-132v
Author: Ibn Nāʻimah, ʻAbd al-Masīḥ ibn ʻAbd Allāh, al-Ḥimṣī fl. c. 835.
Title: Kitāb Uthūlūjiyā [a paraphrastic trans. of Porphyriusʼs lost commentary on Plotinusʼ Enneads IV-VI].
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 203
[Ethé 1422 (15)]
10. ff. 92v-95v
Author: Theophrastus.
Title: The Metaphysics, probably* in the Arabic version of Yaḥyá ibn ʻAdī d. 973. [Fragmentary.]

*D.S. Margoliouth in JRAS n. s. 24 (1892), pp. 192-201 (SAUG § 46 (70), p. 92 (130))

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 207
[Ethé 1422 (16)]
11. ff. 96, 97
Author: Anonymous
Title: Multaqaṭāt [a fragm. containing part of a collection of sayings of a philosopher].
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Philosophy
[Ethé 1422 (17)]
12. ff. 98v, 91, 88
Author: Plato [attribd.]*.
Title: Waṣīyah fī taʼdīb al-aḥdāth [on the education of the young], in Arabic trans. [fragments only].

*See Steinschneider AUG § 36

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Ethics
[Ethé 1422 (18)]
13. ff. 138-139
Author: Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad.
Title: Maqālah fī al-jamʻ bayna raʼy* Aflāṭūn wa-Arisṭāṭālīs [defective and wanting end].

*The text is the original Arabic, nevertheless

*Brock raʼyay Ethè

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 212
[Ethé 1422 (19)]*
14. f. 146r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment (six lines only) of the end of a philosophical work.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Philosophy
[Ethé 1422 (20)]
15. ff. 146r-148v
Author: Plato [attribd.]*.
Title: a khuṭbah addressed to Alexander.

*Not mentioned by Steinschn. AUG

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Ethics
[Ethé 1422 (21)]
16. ff. 149r-150v
Author: Anonymous
Title: [Risālah] fī bayān [?al-]ʻālamay al-rūḥānī wa-al-jismānī [attribd. to al-shaikh al-Yūnānī = ? Plato].
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Philosophy
[Ethé 1422 (22)]
17. ff. 150v-152v; 133v-137v
Author: Ḥunain ibn Isḥāq d. 874.
Title: Kitāb al-Nawāmis [a trans. of Platoʼs Laws, supposititious]*.

*See Steinschneider AUG § 10 (34), p. 19 (57), to which Brock. also refers, and which discusses this, the only known MS.

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 206
[Ethé 1422 (23)]
18. ff. 153r-164v; 140r-145r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah fī dhikr waṣf al-ʻālam wa-takawwunihi [in the form of question and answer].
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Geography
[Ethé 1422 (24)]
19. ff. 165v, 168
Author: Anonymous
Title: Athqal al-suʼāl fī al-bayn li-iṣlāḥ dhāt al-bayn [a theological tract in the form of question and answer; initial fragment only].
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Theology
[Ethé 1422 (25)]
20. f. 166
Author: Anonymous
Title: End fragment of a maqālah on mathematical and physical subjects, in three faṣls and based chiefly on Aristotle.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Mathematics
[Ethé 1422 (26)]
21. ff. 166v-169r
Author: Barhebraeus, Gregorius, d. 1286.
Title: Taʻlīq [fragment of a note; a few lines only, greatly damaged].
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 349, 50
[Ethé 1422 (27)]
22. ff. 167, 169
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a theological work [lacking beg. and end].
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Theology
[Ethé 1422 (28)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
7 ff. 7 ff. 7 ff. 5 ff. 10 ff. 6 ff. 1 f. 7 ff. 37 ff. 4 ff. 2 ff. 3 ff. 2 ff. 1 f. 3 ff. 2 ff. 7 ff. 18 ff. 2 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 2 ff.

History

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Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir William Ouseley, d. 1842.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

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