MS. Pococke 26 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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50 works by 19 authors

1. ff. 1-40v
Title: Miscellaneous notes and extracts of historical interest

f. 11v copy of a letter in Turkish

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix History
[UAM. 869 (1)]
2. ff. 41r-66v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Excerpts and notes on the Umayyad caliphs and the house of Marwān.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix History
[NAM. 383 (1)]
3. f. 67v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Short extract on the virtues of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Biography
[NAM. 383 (2[i])]
4. f. 68v
Author: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib [attribd.].
Title: Short sayings.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 43
[NAM. 383 (2[ii])]
5. f. 69r,v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Madrasas, mosques and tombs named after pious women in Damascus.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Geography
[NAM. 383 (3)]
6. ff. 70r-71v
Author: Ibn ʻAbd Rabbihi, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 860-940.
Title: al-ʻIqd al-farīd [geographical extracts].
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 154
[NAM. 383 (4), with corrig. Nicoll pp. 556-57]
7. f. 72r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Note on the college in Damascus called al-Maqdamīyah (?Muqaddamīyah) al-Ḥanafīyah al-Juwānīyah.

ff. 72v, 73 are blank

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Geography
[NAM. 383 (5)]
8. f. 74r,v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Eulogy in verse.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 383 (6)]
9. f. 75r,v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Poem rhyming in dāl beginning “qalbī ka-khaddiki jamrah yatawaqqadu ...”

f. 76r is blank

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 383 (7)]
10. f. 76v
Author: Madāʼinī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 753-830.
Title: Extract containing verses supposedly seen on the crown of the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd.
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 141
[NAM. 383 (8[i])]
11. f. 77r
Author: al-Hudhalī
Title: Verses on ʻUbaid Allāh ibn Yaḥyá and others.

f. 77v contains 2 lines of poetry of Aḥmad ibn al-Muʻaddil

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 383 (8[ii])]
12. f. 78r
Title: List of kinship terms and their definitions.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Lexicography
[NAM. 383 (9)]
13. f. 78v
Author: Yaḥyá ibn Aktam.
Title: Report concerning the caliph al-Maʼmūn, followed by several sayings of al-Muqtadir bi-Allāh.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix History
[NAM. 383 (10)]
14. ff. 79r-89r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Several excerpts and notes on the Umayyad caliphs, followed by letters.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix History
[NAM. 383 (11)]
15. f. 90r
Title: A prayer, each line beginning “Yā rabb ...”, the first line starting “Yā rabb bi-smika fī umūrī abdaʼu ...”
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Prayers
[NAM. 383 (13)]
16. f. 89v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Brief note on Sulaimān ibn ʻAlī al-Dailamī, with other historical matter.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix History
[NAM. 383 (12)]
17. 90v, 91r
Title: A tradition of the Prophet (ḥadīth ʻajīb), with explanation.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Traditions
[NAM. 383 (14)]
18. ff. 91v, 93
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ḥikāyat al-mubāhalah fī anna al-Kurʼān makhlūq, an anecdote deriving from Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭūlūn. [Lacking end.]

ff. 94 and 95 (except for one and a half lines) are blank

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Tales
[NAM. 383 (15)]
19. f. 92r
Title: Note of the fruits conceded to Adam by God after the Fall.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Theology
[NAM. 383 (16)]
20. ff. 96v-99r
Author: Ibn Zuraiq, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī, fl. c. 1029.
Title: Qaṣīdah of 37 verses [= ?al-Qaṣīdat al-ʻainīyah (in 40 verses)].
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 83
[NAM. 334 (1), with corrig. Nicoll p. 550]
21. ff. 100r-104v
Author: Ṭughrāʼī, Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl d. 1121.
Title: Lāmīyat al-ʻajam.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 247
[NAM. 334 (2)]
22. ff. 105r-110r
Author: Anonymous
Title: List of dates of birth and death of famous poets.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Biography
[NAM. 334 (3)]
23. ff. 110v-111v
Author: Anonymous
Title: An extract on the qualities in women which recommend them for marriage, etc.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Miscellaneous
[NAM. 334 (4)]
24. ff. 111v-113r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Medical prescriptions.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Medicine
[NAM. 334 (5[i])]
25. ff. 113v-114r
Author: Dhū al-Rummah, Ghailān ibn ʻUqbah, d. 719 or 735.
Title: Two lines of poetry, followed by extracts from other poets, and preceded by a saying of Abū Bakr Dāʼūd.
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 58
[NAM. 334 (5[ii]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 550]
26. ff. 115r-119v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Biographical notice of the ʻAbbāsid caliph ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Muʻtazz, followed by verses and a note on Sitt al-Shām, wife of Sultan Nūr al-Dīn.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Biography
[NAM. 334 (6)]
27. ff. 120r-124v
Author: ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād.
Title: Muʻallaqah.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 22
[NAM. 334 (7)]
28. ff. 125v-132v
Author: Ibn Zaghdūn or Zaghdān, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Mawāhib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1417-1477.
Title: Faraḥ al-asmāʼ bi-rukhṣ al-samāʻ. [?Lacking end.]

ff. 133, 134 blank except for 2 lines of verse on f. 134v of Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 123
[NAM. 335 (1)]
29. f. 135r
Title: Names of the 12 imāms combined in a verse, together with genealogies.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Biography
[NAM. 335 (2)]
30. ff. 136r-140r
Title: Reported sayings of al-Junaid and others on music, with a ṣūfī poem, followed, ff. 138v-140r, by a note on the name al-Shumaisāṭī, etc.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Mysticism
[NAM. 335 (3[i])), with corrig. Nicoll p. 550]
31. ff. 140v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Part of a chronology of Egypt, from 664-665 A.H.

f. 141r is blank

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix History
[NAM. 335 (3[ii])]
32. ff. 141v-142r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a poem concerning the Āl al-Muhallab.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 335 (3[iii])]
33. ff. 142v-143r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Dates of birth and death of a number of famous men.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Biography
[NAM. (3[iv])]
34. f. 143v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Several Arabic proverbs.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Proverbs
[NAM. 335 (3[v])]
35. f. 144r,v
Title: Reported sayings of Quss ibn Sāʻidah at ʻUkāẓ.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix History
[NAM. 335 (3[vi]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 550]
36. ff. 144v-145r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Faṣl fī kullīyāt al-lughah.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Lexicography
[NAM. 335 (3[vii])]
37. ff. 145v-146r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a work on style (badīʻ), with poetical examples.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Rhetoric
[NAM. 335 (3[viii])]
38. ff. 146v-151v
Author: Shanfará al-Azdī.
Title: Lāmīyat al-ʻArab, with marginal and interlinear notes.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 25
[NAM. 335 (4)]
39. f. 152r,v
Author: ʻUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim, 1182-1235.
Title: A poem beginning “Huwa al-ḥubb fa-aslam ...” [Lacking end. ]
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 262-3
[NAM. 335 (5)]
40. ff. 153v-155r
Author: Ṣafadī, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh, c. 1296-1363.
Title: al-Tadhkirat al-Ṣalāḥīyah, extracts only, followed, f. 155r, by a commentary on certain proverbs.

= 3 leaves stuck together, greater part of text concealed

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 32
[NAM. 335 (6[i])]
41. f. 156v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Extract concerning prayer in the Place of blood (Mauḍiʻ al-dam) on Mount Qāsiyūn, nr. Damascus.

ff. 156, 157 stuck together; half text concealed

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Tales
[NAM. 335 (6[ii]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 551]
42. ff. 157r-158r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment on Fāṭimah bint Usāmah ibn Zaid ibn Ḥārithah.

ff. 156, 157 are stuck together; half text concealed

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Biography
[NAM. 335 (6[iii])]
43. ff. 158v-160v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Two tales (ḥadīth), the second entitled Ḥadīth al-samakah.

ff. 158, 159 stuck together; half of text on f. 158v concealed

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Tales
[NAM. 335 (6[iv])]
44. f. 161r,v
Author: Abū Tammān Ḥabīb ibn Aus al-Ṭāʼī c. 807-c. 846.
Title: Extracts from the Ḥamāsah, preceded by a notice of Abū Tammām.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 20
[NAM. 335 (6[v])]
45. ff. 162v-168v
Author: Abú Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aus al-Ṭāʼī c. 807-c. 846.
Title: Fragments of several poems from the Ḥamāsah.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 20
[NAM. 335 (7)]
46. ff. 168v-171v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Historical notice of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

f. 172 is blank

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Biography
[NAM. 335 (8)]
47. f. 173r
Author: Burhān al-Dīn al-Bāghnūnī.
Title: Poem.

ff. 173v, 174 are blank

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Poetry
[NAM. 335 (9[i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 551]
48. ff. 175r-176r
Author: al-Washshāʼ, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, d. 936.
Title: al-Muwashshá, extract from Bāb mā suʼila ʻanhu ahl al-ṣidq; followed, ff. 175v-176r, by lines from several poets.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 124
[NAM. 335 (9[ii])]
49. f. 176v
Author: Ibn Qutaibah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-884.
Title: Kitāb Adab al-kātib, short extract on teeth.
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 122
[NAM. 335 (9[iii])]
50. ff. 177r-180v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Brief note on ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, with two lines of his poetry, followed, ff. 177v-180v, by a short tale and a poem.

ff. 179, 180 are stuck together; text concealed

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Biography
[NAM. 335 (9[iv])]

Physical Description

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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.

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