MS. Rawlinson Or. 8 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A composite MS containing a work on the history of the Prophets, and 3 works on lexicography.

ff. 1-245
Author: Anonymous
Title: قصص الانبیا
Title: Ḳıṣaṣu'l-enbiyā
Title: Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ
Incipit: الحمد الله ربّ العالمین قال الشیخ الامام محمّد بن عبد الله اکساٸی [...]

A Turkish translation of the Kitāb Badʼ al-dunyā wa-qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ of Kisāʼī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 11th cent.

Language(s): Arabic, Turkish

References

GAL I 350
Ethé 2070
Fols. 246-261
Author: ابراهيم دده شاهدى Şâhidî, İbrahim Dede 1470-1550 İbrāhīm Dede Şāhidī
Title: تحفۀ شاهدی
Title: لغت شاهدی
Title: Tuḥfe-yi Şāhidī
Title: Lüġat-i Şāhidī
Title: Tuḥfah-’i Shāhidī
Title: Lughat-i Shāhidī
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish, Persian

References

Ethé 1694
Fols. 262-281
Author: Anonymous مؤلف مجهول
Title: Lughāt-i Būstān-i Shaykh Saʻdī
Title: لغات بوستان شيخ سعدى
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 746
ff. 281b-311b
Author: Anonymous
Title: A short Arabic-Persian vocabulary explaining common words and forms used in Persian
Language(s): Arabic, Persian

References

Appendix Lexicography
Ethé 1679

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 311

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Richard Rawlinson, d. 1755.

The Rawlinson bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1756.

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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