2 works by anonymous authors on the subjects of Arabic poetry and Biography — 1609 | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

2 works by anonymous authors on the subjects of Arabic poetry and Biography — 1609

Shelfmark

MS. Sale 43

Date

1609

Language

Arabic

1. ff. 1v-54r Title: Four fragments of Arab anthologies of verse:- (i) ff. 1v-18v: an anthology compiled by Ibn Ḥujjah not before 1594. n.d. (ii) f. 19 (i): one leaf dated 1691 (iii) f. 20r-53r: an anthology compiled not earlier than the beg. of the 17th cent. n.d. (iv) f. 54r: one leaf dated 1703.

2. ff. 55v-177v Author: Anonymous Title: Fragments of biographical works

Form

codex

Physical extent

123 ff.

Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1872.

Provenance

The collections of George Sale, d. 1736.

Acquired by Thomas Hunt in 1760.

The Radcliffe Library.

Subject

Arabic poetry

Biography

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Anonymous
Radcliffe Library
Hunt, Thomas, 1696-1774
George Sale
Ibn Ḥujjah

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