MS. Arab. d. 173 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 14 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Muʻtazilah, Shiites, Arabic poetry, Arabic language, Theology, Shafiites, Islamic law, and Inheritance and succession
1. ff. 1r-14v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments of a commentary on a work dealing with differences of Muʻtazilite and Shiʻite dogma
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Theology
[K 117 (1)]
2. ff. 15r-24v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments of a commentary on a poem in basīṭ metre, rhyming in --īlu.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Poetry
[K 117 (2)]
3. ff. 25r-28v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments of a commentary on a work on rhetoric*.

*f. 25 = f. 2 of work? Groundwk. beg.? BAṘṘḢLẆʻA[??] deals with metaphor called al-istiʻārah bil-kināyah and is divided into farāʼid. Posterior to Taftāzānī

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Rhetoric
[K 117 (3)]
4. ff. 29r-49v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments of a commentary on a work on furūʻ al-fiqh [containing kurrāsahs 6 and 7* of the work (each of 10 leaves), with the first and last leaves of kurrāsah 5].

*Lacking one leaf?

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Law
[K 117 (4)]
5. ff. 50r-57v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments of a commentary on a work on tawḥīd [the commentary not earlier than 17th cent.]
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Theology
[K 117 (5)]
6. f. 58
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a commentary on an urjūzah (?) on grammar
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Grammar
[K 117 (6)]
7.
Author: Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1499
Title: Sharḥ al-muqaddimah al-Ājurrūmīyah

Commentary on al-Muqaddimah al-Ājurrūmīyah of Ibn Ājurrūm, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1273 or 4-1323

[fragments only, containing pp. 5-10, 27, 28, 82-97 of the original]

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 238
[K 117 (7)]
8. f. 71
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a grammatical work on the pronunciation of yāʼ
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Grammar
[K 117 (8)]
9. ff. 72r-77v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments of a grammatical work
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Grammar
[K 117 (9)]
10. ff. 78r-81v
Author: Shirbīnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, d. 1570
Title: al-Iqnāʻ fī ḥall alfāẓ Abī Shujāʻ

A commentary on al-Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh of Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, b. ca. 1042

Fragment only, containing the beginning].

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 392
[K 117 (10)]
11. f. 82
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a commentary on a compendium of Shafiʻite law
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Law
[K 117 (11)]
12. f. 83
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a commentary on a work on the law of inheritance
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Law
[K 117 (12)]
13. f. 84
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragment of a book on law, dealing with the rights of inheritance of the hermaphrodite (khunthá)
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Law
[K 117 (13)]
14. ff. 85r-108v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments [not continuous] of a work on Arabic grammar
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Grammar
[K 117 (14)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
14 ff. [lacuna betw. ff. 13 and 14]. 10 ff. 4 ff. [lacuna between 2nd and 3rd]. 21 ff. 8 ff. 1 f. 12 ff. 1 f. 6 ff. [lacuna between 4th and 5th] 4 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 24 ff. [lacunae between 1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd, 14th, and 15th, and (?) 15th and 16th].

History

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