MS. Arab. e. 120 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 8 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Hadith, Islamic law, Islamic magic, Badr, Arabic alphabet, Gematria, and Mysticism
1. ff. 1-79
Author: Ṭībī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, d. 1343
Title: Asmāʼ al-rijāl fī bayān ruwāt al-Mishkāt

i. e. the register of names from Ṭībīʼs commentary on the Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ of Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, fl. 1337 (composed 1336)

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 364
[K 229 (1)]
2. ff. 79v-82v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Miscellaneous excerpts dealing with ḥadīth and fiqh
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Miscellaneous
[K 229 (2)]
3. ff. 83r-142v
Author: Ḥanafī*, Abu ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad, fl. c. 1529
Title: Commentary (compd. 1529) on the compendium by Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413 of al-Khulāṣah fī uṣūl maʼrifat al-ḥadīth of Ṭībī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, d. 1343

*Autograph in Bankipore (vol. V, 450), whence Brock.ʼs ʻAr as first name must be corrected

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 64
[K 229 (3)]
4. ff. 143, 144r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Sharḥ khātim Muqātil ibn Sulaymān al-Balkhī, d. 767

A magical text

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Magic
[K 229 (4)]
5. ff. 145v-151v
Author: Suwaydī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn, 1692 or 3-1760 or 61
Title: Asmāʼ ahl Badr

*Brock. S. 1757 wrongly.

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 377
[K 229 (5, 6)]
6. ff. 152, 153r
Author: Anonymous
Title: [A short work on the magical properties of the letters of the alphabet]
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Magic
[K 229 (7)]
7. ff. 153v-157r
Author: Anonymous
Title: [On the value of rubrics containing names of God and magical numbers]
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Magic
[K 229 (8)]
8. ff. 157r-160v
Author: Anonymous
Title: [On the value of rubrics containing names of God and magical numbers]
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Magic
[K 229 (9)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
79 ff. 4 ff. 60 ff. 2 ff. 7 ff. 2 ff. 5 ff. 4 ff.

History

Origin: 1760 CE 1760 CE 1760 CE 1760 CE 1760 CE 1760 CE 1760 CE 1760 CE

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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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