MS. Pococke 33 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 8 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Arabic poetry, Inheritance and succession, Qasidas, Arabic language, Arabic proverbs, Aphorisms and apothegms, and Complaint poetry
1. ff. 3v-9r
Author: Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1103 or 4-1181 or 2 Raḥbī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, ‏1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182 رحبي، محمد بن علي
Title: al-Urjūzah al-Raḥbīyah
Title: Bughyat al-bāḥith ʻan jumal al-mawārith
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 391
[UAM. 1268 (1)]
2. ff. 9v-13r
Author: Bulaythī, or Balathī, Abū al-Fatḥ ʻUthmān ibn ʻĪsá, 1130-1202
Title: al-Qaṣīdat al-ḥirbāwīyah

With anonymous glosses

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 302
[UAM. 1268 (2)]
3. ff. 14r-23v
Author: Ibn al-Dahhān, Saʻīd ibn al-Mubārak, 1101-1174
Title: Qaṣīdah

With anonymous commentary

*Which according to Pertsch “seems different” from that of Gotha 2255

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 281
[UAM. 1268 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 617]
4. ff. 24v-127r
Title: Muʻallaqāt

With a Persian commentary

Language(s): Arabic, Persian

References

GAL I 18
[UAM. 1268 (4)]
5. ff. 128v-182r
Author: Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, fl. 1261
Title: al-Amthāl wa-al-ḥikam
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 383
[UAM. 1268 (5)]
6. ff. 182v-186r
Author: Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr
Title: Bānat Suʻād
Title: Qaṣīdat al-Burdah

With brief glosses

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 39
[UAM. 1268 (6) with corrig. Nicoll p. 617]
7. ff. 187v-191r
Author: Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, 1061 or 2-1121?
Title: Lāmīyat al-ʻajam

With Persian glosses

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 247
[UAM. 1268 (7)]
8. ff. 192v-216r
Author: Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 915 or 16-965
Title: Dīwān

Select poems only

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 86
[UAM. 1268 (8)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
7 ff. 5 ff. 10 ff. 104 ff. 55 ff. 5 ff. 5 ff. 25 ff.

History

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