MS. Pococke 245 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 5 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Medicine, Hadith, Islamic law, Inheritance and succession, and Arabic poetry
1. ff. 3v-244r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kitāb al-Isʻād wa-al-imdād bi-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād

On the theory and practise of medicine, dedicated to Bayezid II. (1481-1512)

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
[UAM. 534 (1), with corrig. Nicoll p. 586]
2. ff. 245v-251r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Twenty sayings of the Prophet
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Traditions
[UAM. 534 (2)]
3. ff. 252v-261r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A work on definitions of legal terms
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Law
[UAM. 534 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 586]
4. ff. 262v-266r
Author: Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412
Title: al-Tuḥfah al-Qudsīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 125
[UAM. 534 (4 [i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 586]
5. ff. 267v-270v
Author: Ibn al-Shiḥnah, Zayn al-Dīn Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad d. 1412
Title: al-Urjūzah al-bayānīyah

*The ascription is Brock.ʼs, derived from Gotha 27882, where the incipits are identified

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 142
[UAM. 534 (4, ii), with corrig. Nicoll p. 586]

Physical Description

Form: codex
242 ff. 7 ff. 10 ff. 5 ff. 4 ff.

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Edward Pococke, d. 1691.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1692.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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