MS. Bruce 56 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Bruce Collection
Contents
5 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Universal history, Biography, and Ayyubids
1. ff. 3-90
Title: al-Kāmil fī al-taʼrīkh
Fragments only containing passages corresponding to parts of Tornbergʼs edn. vol. 2, pp. 250-387
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 345
[K 400 (1)]
2. ff. 91-115
Fragments only, containing passages corresponding to parts of the Bulaq edn. of 1882, vol. 1, pp. 532-597
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 327
[K 400 (2)]
3. ff. 116-146
Fragments only, corresponding to parts of Barbier de Meynardʼs edn., vol. III, p. 422-vol. V, p. 71
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 145
[K 400 (3)]
4. ff. 147, 148
Title: Fragment containing the end of a biography of Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb, father of Saladin d. 1173, and the beginning of one of Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn ibn al-Kāmil Muḥammad (1206-49)
Language(s): Arabic
References
Appendix Biography
5. ff. 150-268; 269-294
Fragments of two MSS., the first covering parts of A. H. 517-595, the second parts of A. H. 600 and 613-17
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL I 323
[K 400 (5)]
Physical Description
Form: codex
88 ff. 25 ff. 31 ff. 2 ff. 145 ff.
History
Origin: 13th cent.? CE 14th cent.? CE 14th cent.? CE 14th cent.? CE 14th cent.? 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
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