Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Sale 80 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Sale Collection

Contents

10 works by 5 authors on the subject of Arabic literature

1. ff. 1v-52r
Author: Anonymous

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

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Belles Lettres
3. ff. 55r-56r

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

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 16
4. ff. 56r-59v

An extract only?

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 16
5. fols. 59v-63v
Title: Maqāmah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 161
6. fols. 64r-67r

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

References

GAL II 161
8. ff. 68v-75r

*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

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
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.

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

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions).

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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