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5 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Universal history, Biography, and Ayyubids — Multiple dates

MS. Bruce 56

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

5 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Universal history, Biography, and Ayyubids — Multiple dates

Shelfmark

MS. Bruce 56

Date

14th cent.?

13th cent.?

Language

Arabic

Contents

1. ff. 3-90 Author: Ibn al-Athīr, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1160-1233 Title: al-Kāmil fī al-taʼrīkh
2. ff. 91-115 Author: Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282 Title: Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ abnāʼ al-zamān
3. ff. 116-146 Author: Masʻūdī, d. 956? Title: Murūj al-dhahab wa-maʻādin al-jawāhir
4. ff. 147, 148 Author: Anonymous 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)
5. ff. 150-268; 269-294 Author: Ibn Wāṣil, Muḥammad ibn Sālim, 1207 or 8-1297 or 8 Title: Mufarrij al-kurūb fī akhbār Banī Ayyūb

Form

codex

Physical extent

88 ff. 25 ff. 31 ff. 2 ff. 145 ff.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

Provenance

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

Subject

Biography--Dictionaries

Universal history

Ayyubids

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  • Anonymous
  • Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282

  • Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb

  • James Bruce of Kinnaird, d. 1794

  • Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193

  • Ibn al-Athīr, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1160-1233

  • Masʻūdī, d. ca. 956

  • Ibn Wāṣil, Muḥammad ibn Sālim, 1207 or 8-1297 or 8

  • Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn ibn al-Kāmil Muḥammad, 1206-49

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