MS. Arab. c. 56 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 41 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Bills of sale, Astrology, Medicine, Koran, Tales, Registers, Theology, Documents, Promissory notes, Qasidas, Correspondence, Karaites, Bible, Islamic law, Mathematics, Yemen, Islamic Empire, and Amulets
1. f. 1
Title: Document of sale.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (1)]
2. f. 2
Title: Fragment of a document of sale.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (2)]
3. ff. 3, 4
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of an astrological work
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astrology
[K 10 (3)]
4. f. 5
Title: Fragment of a document of sale.

Only the beginnings of the lines preserved

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (4)]
5. f. 6
Title: Fragment containing prescriptions
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Medicine
[K 10 (5)]
6. f. 7
Title: Fragment of the Qurʾān on parchment in Kufic script, including (left side of verso) part of sūrah ix

*originally 2ff., now mounted as one

Language(s): Arabic

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I 33-36
[K 10 (6)]
7. f. 8
Title: Fragment (unidentified as to subject) in an old type of script
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Miscellaneous
[K 10 (7)]
8. f. 9
Title: Document of sale
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (8)]
9. f. 10
Title: Fragment of a folio from a book of tales*.

*"stories from the Paradise" says Kahle, if I read him rightly

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Tales
[K 10 (9)]
10. f. 11*
Title: Fragment of a kind of register

*ff. 12, 64, 65 are blank

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Miscellaneous
[K 10 (10)]
11. ff. 13, 62
Title: Fragment of a theological work

Two separated portions of the same folio

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Theology
[K 10 (11, 34)]
12. f. 14
Title: Document

Fragmentary

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (12)]
13. f. 15
Title: Fragment of a book of tales, mostly very short
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Tales
[K 10 (13)]
14. f. 16
Title: Fragment of a document
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (14)]
15. f. 17
Title: Document
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (15)]
16. ff. 18-20
Title: Qurʾān

f. 18 sūrah v. 44-48; f. 19v sūrah ii. 143-144; f. 20v sūrah ii. 10-15. ff. 19r and 20r are blank

Language(s): Arabic

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I 33-36
[K 10 (16)]
17. f. 21
Title: A promissory note for rent due
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (17)]
18. f. 22
Title: Document
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (18)]
19. f. 23
Title: Document
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (19)]
20. f. 24
Author: Shaṭranjī, al-Majd, al-Baghdādī
Title: Qaṣīdah

Composed on the occasion of a circumcision

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Poetry
[K 10 (20)]
21. f. 25
Title: Fragment of a document

Beginning missing

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (21)]
22. f. 26-28
Language(s): Arabic
23. f. 29
Title: Fragment of a document

[incomplete at side], containing the name Yaḥyá ibn Būlus al-Karāfī

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (23)]
24. f. 30
Author: Anonymous
Title: A long letter, written on both sides of the paper
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Inshāʾ
[K 10 (24)]
25. ff. 31, 32
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments from a medical work
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Medicine
[K 10 (25)]
26. f. 33*
Title: Fragment of a book on the anatomy of the eye

*f. 34 is blank.

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Medicine
[K 10 (26)]
27. f. 35
Title: Fragment of a document

Lacking beginning and end

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Documents
[K 10 (27)]
28. ff. 36-42
Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873
Title: Fragment of an anonymous commentary on a medical work* of Ḥunayn

*Possibly the Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb lil-mutaʻallimīn

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 205
[K 10 (28)]
29. ff. 43-48
Title: Fragment of a Karaite commentary [in Arabic] on Biblical passages prohibiting fortune-telling

Biblical text in Hebrew in Arabic characters

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

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Appendix Judaica; Karaite
[K 10 (29)]
30. ff. 49, 50
Title: Fragment of a work on medicine relating to defective limbs and the eye
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Medicine
[K 10 (30)]
31. ff. 51-56
Title: Fragment of a theological work
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Theology
[K 10 (31)]
32. f. 57
Title: Fragment of a ?legal work on marital relationships.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Law
[K 10 (32)]
33. ff. 58, 61
Title: Fragment of a mathematical work, containing a portion dealing with multiplication
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Mathematics
[K 10 (33)]
34. ff. 59, 60
Title: Two small fragments of a juridical work
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Law
[K 10 (34)]
35. f. 63
Title: Fragment of a kind of register
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Miscellaneous
[K 10 (35)]
36. ff. 66, 70
Title: Sīrat Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan

Two disparate leaves only

Language(s): Arabic

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II 62
[K 10 (36)]
37. ff. 67r-69v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a chronicle of the beginnings of Islam
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix History
[K 10 (37)]
38. f. 70
Title: See MS. Arab. c. 56 (ff. 66, 70)
Language(s): Arabic
39. f. 71
Title: Fragment of a tale?
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Tales
[K 10 (38 as revised, but omitted by Kahle)]
40. ff. 72, 73
Title: Sīrat Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan

Two mutilated fragments only

Language(s): Arabic

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II 62
[K 10 (39)]
41. ff. 74, 75
Title: Two fragments originally forming one leaf of paper, palimpsest; neither the over- nor the under-writing identified
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Miscellaneous
[K 10 (40)]
42. f. 76
Title: An amulet [now folded], originating in West Africa?
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Magic
[K 10 (41)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
1 f. 1 f. 2 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f*. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 2 ff. [mounted on 1]. 1 f. 1 f. 3 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 2 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 7 ff. 6 ff. 2 ff. 6 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 2 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 3 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 2 ff. 2 ff. 1 f.

History

Origin: 1235 CE 1203 CE n.d. n.d. n.d. 8th or 9th cent. CE 10th cent.? CE 1150 CE n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 1229 CE ?19th cent. CE 8 Dec. 1881 CE n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 10 Nov. 1367? CE n.d. 13th or 14th cent.? CE n.d. n.d. ?13th cent. CE ?12th cent. CE n.d. 14th cent.? CE n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. ?19th cent. CE

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