MS. Pococke 89 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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6 works by 4 authors on the subject of Arabic poetry

1. ff. 3v-61r
Author: ʻAmīdī, Abū Saʻīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Title: al-Ibānah ʻan sariqāt al-Mutanabbī lafẓan wa-maʻnan
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 89
[UAM. 412 (1)]
2. ff. 62v-76v
Author: Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 915 or 16-965
Title: An anonymous commentary on selected verses

Lacking end

ff. 77, 78 are blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 88-89
[UAM. 412 (2[i]), plus 1 folio (f. 70) formerly MS. Arab. e. 35, f. 2 [= K 168] and now restored]
3. ff. 81r-100v
Author: Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 915 or 16-965
Title: Various poems from the dīwān

Lacking several leaves

f. 79 a poem of Umayyah ibn Abī al-Ṣalt (SI 55)

f. 80 blank (formerly MS. Arab. e. 20, f. 1)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 88
[UAM. 412 (2[ii]), plus 14 fols. (ff. 82, 83, 85-90 and 91-93, 98-100), formerly, respectively, MS. Arab. e. 20, ff. 2-9 [= K 154], and MS. Arab. e. 35, ff. 6-8, 3-5 [= K 168] and now restored]
4. ff. 101r-108r
Author: Qurashī, Abū Zayd Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Khaṭṭāb
Title: Jamharat ashʻār al-ʻArab
Title: كتاب جمهرة أشعار العرب

Extract only

* corresponding to pp. 43-63 of Bajāwīʼs edn. (1967) ff. 108v-110r.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 19
[UAM. 412 (2[iii])]
5. ff. 110v-129v
Author: Ḥātimī, Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, d. 998
Title: al-Risālah al-Ḥātimīyah
Title: الرسالة الحاتمية

f. 130 is blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 88
[UAM. 412 (3[i])]
6. ff. 131v-148r
Author: Ḥātimī, Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, d. 998 الحاتمي، محمد بن الحسن، ت. 388 هـ
Title: al-Risālah al-Ḥātimīyah
Title: الرسالة الحاتمية

f. 149 (ult.) is blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 88
[UAM. 412 (3[ii])]

Physical Description

Form: codex
59 ff. 15 ff. 20 ff. 8 ff. 20 ff. 18 ff.

History

Origin: 1635 CE n.d. n.d. n.d. 1634 CE 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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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