41 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Bills of sale, Astrology, Medicine, Koran, Tales, Registers, Theology, Documents, Promissory notes, Qasidas, Correspondence, Karaites, Bible, Islamic law, Mathematics, Yemen, Islamic Empire, and Amulets — Multiple dates | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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41 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Bills of sale, Astrology, Medicine, Koran, Tales, Registers, Theology, Documents, Promissory notes, Qasidas, Correspondence, Karaites, Bible, Islamic law, Mathematics, Yemen, Islamic Empire, and Amulets — Multiple dates

Shelfmark

MS. Arab. c. 56

Associated place

West Africa

Date

13th or 14th cent.?

8th or 9th cent.

1203

?19th cent.

8 Dec. 1881

?12th cent.

1150

1229

14th cent.?

10 Nov. 1367?

?13th cent.

10th cent.?

1235

Language

Hebrew

Arabic

1. f. 1 Title: Document of sale.

2. f. 2 Title: Fragment of a document of sale.

3. ff. 3, 4 Author: Anonymous Title: Fragment of an astrological work

4. f. 5 Title: Fragment of a document of sale.

5. f. 6 Title: Fragment containing prescriptions

6. f. 7 Title: Fragment of the Qurʾān on parchment in Kufic script, including (left side of verso) part of sūrah ix

7. f. 8 Title: Fragment (unidentified as to subject) in an old type of script

8. f. 9 Title: Document of sale

9. f. 10 Title: Fragment of a folio from a book of tales*.

10. f. 11* Title: Fragment of a kind of register

11. ff. 13, 62 Title: Fragment of a theological work

12. f. 14 Title: Document

13. f. 15 Title: Fragment of a book of tales, mostly very short

14. f. 16 Title: Fragment of a document

15. f. 17 Title: Document

16. ff. 18-20 Title: Qurʾān

17. f. 21 Title: A promissory note for rent due

18. f. 22 Title: Document

19. f. 23 Title: Document

20. f. 24 Author: Shaṭranjī, al-Majd, al-Baghdādī Title: Qaṣīdah

21. f. 25 Title: Fragment of a document

22. f. 26-28

23. f. 29 Title: Fragment of a document

24. f. 30 Author: Anonymous Title: A long letter, written on both sides of the paper

25. ff. 31, 32 Author: Anonymous Title: Fragments from a medical work

26. f. 33* Title: Fragment of a book on the anatomy of the eye

27. f. 35 Title: Fragment of a document

28. ff. 36-42 Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873 Title: Fragment of an anonymous commentary on a medical work* of Ḥunayn

29. ff. 43-48 Title: Fragment of a Karaite commentary [in Arabic] on Biblical passages prohibiting fortune-telling

30. ff. 49, 50 Title: Fragment of a work on medicine relating to defective limbs and the eye

31. ff. 51-56 Title: Fragment of a theological work

32. f. 57 Title: Fragment of a ?legal work on marital relationships.

33. ff. 58, 61 Title: Fragment of a mathematical work, containing a portion dealing with multiplication

34. ff. 59, 60 Title: Two small fragments of a juridical work

35. f. 63 Title: Fragment of a kind of register

36. ff. 66, 70 Title: Sīrat Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan

37. ff. 67r-69v Author: Anonymous Title: Fragment of a chronicle of the beginnings of Islam

38. f. 70 Title: See MS. Arab. c. 56 (ff. 66, 70)

39. f. 71 Title: Fragment of a tale?

40. ff. 72, 73 Title: Sīrat Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan

41. ff. 74, 75 Title: Two fragments originally forming one leaf of paper, palimpsest; neither the over- nor the under-writing identified

42. f. 76 Title: An amulet [now folded], originating in West Africa?

Form

codex

Physical extent

1 f. 1 f. 2 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f*. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 2 ff. [mounted on 1]. 1 f. 1 f. 3 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 2 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 7 ff. 6 ff. 2 ff. 6 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 2 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 3 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 2 ff. 2 ff. 1 f.

Subject

Theology, Islamic

Promissory notes

Qasidas

Bills of sale

Documents

Mathematics

Medicine

Correspondence

Qurʼan--Manuscripts

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Tales

Registers

Karaites

Yemen (Republic)--History

Islamic Empire--History

Islamic law

Amulets (Islam)

Bible--Commentaries

Astrology

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