MS. Bruce 12 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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2 works by anonymous authors on the subjects of Universal history, Qasidas, and Complaint poetry

1. ff. 1r-170v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A manual for Aḥmadīyah dervishes

Beginning with extracts from part 1 of al-Rawḍ al-bāsim fī akhbār man maḍá min al-ʻawālim by Isḥāqī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī, d. 1649 or 50

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mysticism
[K 362 (1)]
2. ff. 171,172
Author: Anonymous
Title: Commentary on the Lāmīyat al-ʻajam of Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, 1061 or 2-1121?

Last 2 ff. only, on verses 53-59

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 248
[K 362 (2)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
170 ff. [lacking end]. 2 ff.

History

Origin: 17th cent.? CE 1687 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Bruce of Kinnaird, d. 1794.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

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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