The volume contains 97 leaves. Folios 1a, 17a, 18b, and an unnumbered folio between 17 and 18 are blank. There are four preliminary folios: folio ia has Arabic and Latin titles for the first item in the volume, with the lower quarter torn away; folios iia, iiia, and ivab have Arabic pious phrases, prayers, and a note of purchase for 20 dinars, written in Maghribī script; folios ib, iib, and iiib are blank. | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

The volume contains 97 leaves. Folios 1a, 17a, 18b, and an unnumbered folio between 17 and 18 are blank. There are four preliminary folios: folio ia has Arabic and Latin titles for the first item in the volume, with the lower quarter torn away; folios iia, iiia, and ivab have Arabic pious phrases, prayers, and a note of purchase for 20 dinars, written in Maghribī script; folios ib, iib, and iiib are blank.

Shelfmark

MS. Marsh 71

Language

Arabic

Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)

1. ff. 1v-15v Author: Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq, 702?-765 or 6 Title: Untitled Turkish treatise on lot casting (Fāl-nāme)

2. ff. 16r-16v Author: Anonymous Title: A testament of ʿAlī (Turkish)

3. ff. 20r-92r Author: Ṣafī al-Dawlah Mālik al-Najm al-Masīḥī (dates uncertain) Title: Kitāb al-Dustūr Title: كتاب الدستور Title: The Book of Rules Title: Kitāb al-Dustūr al-bīmāristānī Title: Kitāb al-Minhāj wa-dustūr al-ʿilāj Title: كتاب الدستور البيمارستاني Title: كتاب المنهاج ودستور العلاج Title: The Book of Hospital Rules Title: The Book of the Method and Rules of Therapy

4. ff. 92r-95v Author: Sīz Dāfīd al-ḥakīm of Nicosia (fl. before 1001/1593) Title: Ziyādah fī al-kitāb Title: زيادة في الكتاب Title: An Addendum to the Book

5. ff. 96r-97v Author: Hippocrates (fl. c. 450s BC) Title: Urjūzah laṭīfah fī qaḍāyā Buqrāṭ al-khams wa-al-ʿishrīn Title: أرجوزة لطيفة فى قضايا بقراط الخمس والعشرين Title: An Elegant Poem on the Twenty-five Premises of Hippocrates

Form

codex

Physical extent

16 ff. 1 ff. 73 ff. 4 ff. 2 ff.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian by Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh, upon his death in 1713.

Provenance

The volume is from the private collection of Jacob Golius (d. 1667) who acquired manuscripts in the 1620s (mostly in Syria). The manuscript was purchased in 1696 by Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh.