MS. Sale 43 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Sale Collection
Contents
2 works by anonymous authors on the subjects of Arabic poetry and Biography
1. ff. 1v-54r
Title: Four fragments of Arab anthologies of verse:- (i) ff. 1v-18v: an anthology compiled by Ibn Ḥujjah not before 1594. n.d. (ii) f. 19 (i): one leaf dated 1691 (iii) f. 20r-53r: an anthology compiled not earlier than the beg. of the 17th cent. n.d. (iv) f. 54r: one leaf dated 1703.
Language(s): Arabic
References
Appendix Poetry
[EA 63]
2. ff. 55v-177v
Including biographies of Sībawayhi, Yāqūt, and Shanfarah
Language(s): Arabic
References
Appendix Biography
[EA 22]
Physical Description
Form: codex
123 ff.
History
Origin: 1609 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of George Sale, d. 1736.
Acquired by Thomas Hunt in 1760.
The Radcliffe Library.
Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1872.
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
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