MS. Bruce 15 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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2 works by Bakrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 9th cent on the subjects of Futuḥ, Yemen, and Islam

1. ff. 1-117v
Author: Bakrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 9th cent.
Title: Futūḥ al-Yaman wa mā waqaʻa lil-nabī wa aṣḥābihi
Title: Futūḥ, al-Yaman wa qatl al-malʻūn Raʼs al-ghūl ʻalà al-tamām wa-al-kamāl
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 362
[K 365 (1)]
2. ff. 117v-126
Author: Bakrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 9th cent.
Title: Ghazwat Ḥunayn

Attributed to this author though not by this MS. itself: see R. Paret, Die legendäre Maghāzi-Literature (Tübingen, 1930), pp.44-49

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 362
[K 365 (2)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
117 ff. 10 ff.

History

Origin: 1719 CE 1719 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.

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JISC

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