MS. Pococke 253 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Pococke Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ al-murshid ilá al-falāḥ wa al-najāḥ by Yaḥyá ibn Jarīr [or Ḥarīr] (Abū Naṣr) fl. 11th cent.
*completed at beg. and end and elsewhere in Karshuni in that year; not, as Graf, wholly in Karshuni
Language(s): Arabic, (partly in Syriac characters)
References
Graf II, p. 261
[Nicoll Arab. Christ. 21, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 496, 497]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 210 ff.
History
Origin: before1572* CE
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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