MS. Selden superius 69 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Natural history, Geography, Islamic eschatology, Symbolism of numbers, and Egypt
1. ff. 1v-116v
Author: Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar. fl. c. 1446
Title: Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-ghāraʼib

Also attributed to Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, d. 1349

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 131
[UAM. 1013 (1)]
2. ff. 116v-119v
Author: Dīrīnī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1215-ca. 1295
Title: Qilādat al-durr al-manthūr fī dhikr al-baʻth wa-al-nushūr
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 452
[UAM. 1013 (2)]
3. ff. 121r-192r
Author: Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1325-1374 or 5
Title: Sukkardān al-sulṭān al-Malik al–Nāṣir

Composed 1356

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 13
[UAM. 1013 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]

Physical Description

Form: codex
116 ff. 4 ff. 72 ff.

History

Origin: 1484 CE 1484 CE 1484 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of John Selden.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.

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

JISC

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