MS. Fraser 15 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Oriental Manuscripts Fraser Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: 3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Linguistics, Arabic language, Laudatory poetry, Didactic poetry, and Dictionaries
1. ff. 1-225r
Author: Zawzanī, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, d. 1093 or 4
Title: Kitāb al-Maṣādir
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 288
[Ethé 1631 [i]]
2. ff. 225r-229v
Author: Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 837 or 8-933
Title: al-Maqṣūrah

With a commentary

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 112
[Ethé 1631 (latter part)]
3. fols. 230v-244v
Author: Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn
Title: Niṣāb al-ṣibyān

Qitʻahs 1-9 only

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 193
[Ethé 1639]

Physical Description

Form: codex
225 ff. 5 ff. 15 ff.

History

Origin: 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Fraser, d. 1754.

Purchased for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford from Fraser's widow.

The Radcliffe Library, Oxford.

Transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Radcliffe Library in May 1872.

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

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions).

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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