MS. Sale 80 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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10 works by 5 authors on the subject of Arabic literature

1. ff. 1v-52r
Author: Anonymous
Title: An adab work dealing with miscellaneous topics and relying largely on quotations

I strongly suspect to be a work of Ibn Ḥijjah (G2 19)

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Belles Lettres
2. ff. 52v-55r
Author: Damāmīnī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, 1361 or 2-1424? الدماميني، محمد بن أبي بكر، 763-827 هـ
Title: Lumḥat al-badr
Title: لمحة البدر
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 26, 27
3. ff. 55r-56r
Author: Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, d. 1434
Title: Waṣf ḥamāʼim al-rasāʼil

Part of a letter to Damāminī? - ?Brock. no. 8

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 16
4. ff. 56r-59v
Author: Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, d. 1434
Title: Majrá al-sawābiq

An extract only?

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 16
5. fols. 59v-63v
Author: Māridīnī, ʻAlā al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn al-Musharraf, fl. c. 1435
Title: Maqāmah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 161
6. fols. 64r-67r
Author: Māridīnī, ʻAlā al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn al-Musharraf, fl. c. 1435
Title: Mufākharat al-ward wa-al-nasrīn
Title: al-Jauhar al-fard fī munāẓarat al-narjis wa-al-ward?

Here the author is given as “Ibn Ṣūfān”, but the similarity of title and the juxtaposition of other works by Māridīnī suggest the identity here proposed, but Leid. 428 is much longer (15 pp.)

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 161
7. fols. 67r-68v
Author: Māridīnī, ʻAlā al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn al-Musharraf, fl. c. 1435
Title: Ladhdhat al-samʻ fī al-mufākharah bayn al-mudām wa-al-shamʻ
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 161
8. ff. 68v-75r
Author: Ḥamawī*, Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, al-Rassām
Title: al-Durrat al-munīrah fī munāẓarat al-jisr wa-al-jazīrah

*Full name of author from Bagdatli Ismail Pasa; in our MS. only “Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad” Father ? of Ibn al-Rassān al-Ḥamawī S2, p. 83, para. 14.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Belles Lettres
9. ff. 75v-87r
Author: Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, d. 1434
Title: Fī ziyādat al-Nīl

Including, or folld. by, letters of Damāmīnī (f. 85v) and Ibn Ḥasan ibn Faḍl Allāh ibn Makānis (f. 86v)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 16, 17
10. ff. 87v-88v
Author: Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, d. 1434
Title: Risālah fī al-sikkīn
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 17

Physical Description

Form: codex
52 ff. 4 ff. 2 ff. 4 ff. 5 fols. 4 fols. 2 fols. 8 ff. 13 ff. 2 ff.

History

Origin: 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? CE 18th cent.? 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.

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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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