MS. Thurston 5 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 7 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Religious biography, Meteorology, Islam, Arabic poetry, Theology, and Qasidas
1. ff. 1r-66v
Author: Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1503-ca. 1566
Title: al-Khayrāt al-ḥisān fī manāqib Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān

*cf. Berl. 10003-5 and prd. edns if any in Bodl.(Cairo 1304, 1311, 1326)

Nicoll suggests ascription to Ibn Abī al-Wafāʼ G2, p. 97 There is also an anon. wk. of this title at S1, p. 285

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 389
[UAM. 817 (1), with corrig. Nicoll p. 596]
2. ff. 67r-69r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A work on the prediction of the weather for any year from the day of the week on which the 1st of Muḥarram falls
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Magic
[UAM. 817 (2 [i])]
3. ff. 69v-72r
Author: Kaydānī Kaydānī, Luṭf Allāh, al-Nasafī fl. c. 1349
Title: A treatise in eight chapters on the chief tenets of Islam [?= Brock, no. 3* “Abh. über die 5 Aḥkām”]

*cf. Paris 6344 and 63932

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 198
[UAM. 817 (2 [ii])]
4. ff. 75v-81v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Eight poems, of which nos. 1-4 begin as follows: (1)(2)(3)(4)and 5-8 are short

* Is it possible that the ref. Bodl. I, 8113 on Gl. p. 179 should read 8173 [i]? Cf. Berl. 1933/34, Goth. 659/60.

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Poetry
[UAM. 817 (3) with corrig. Nicoll p. 596]
5. ff. 93v-98v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A discussion of the question whether the Prophetʼs parents died as infidels
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Theology
[UAM. 817 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 596]
6. ff. 99v-104v
Author: Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Title: Qaṣīdat al-Burdah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 264
[UAM. 817 (6 [i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 596]
7. ff. 105r-107r
Author: Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān, 12th cent.
Title: al-Qaṣīdah al-lāmīyah fī al-tawḥīd
Title: Badʼ al-amālī
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 429
[UAM. 817 (6 [ii]) with corrig. Nicoll p. 596]

Physical Description

Form: codex
66 ff. 3 ff. 4 ff. 7 ff. 6 ff. 6 ff. 3 ff.

History

Origin: 1574 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

Provenance unknown but not given by Thurston [see Summary Catalogue, 2.ii, 798-801].

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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