6 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Arabs, Calendars, Church festivals, Divination, and Christian saints — c. 1578? | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

6 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Arabs, Calendars, Church festivals, Divination, and Christian saints — c. 1578?

Shelfmark

MS. Marsh 82

Date

c. 1578?

Language

Syriac

Persian

Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)

Arabic

1. ff. 1v-58v Author: anonymous Title: Ravnaḳ-ı Būstān Title: رونق بوستان

2. ff. 59r-79 (i)r Author: Dhahabī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1274-1348 Title: Kitāb yustakhraj minhu al-anghām Title: Maʻrifat al-anghām

3. ff. 80v-97 (i)r Author: Niʻmat Allāh ibn Yūhannā ?16th cent Title: Replies to questions from one Saʻādah al-Qāʼiqah on various calendars in use in the East, including Chinese, Coptic, and Persian

4. ff. 98v-107 (i)v Author: Anonymous Title: An untitled work on the calendars of various Eastern peoples

5. ff. 108v-116v Author: Anonymous Title: Tables relating to various Christian feasts etc. and other calendar matters, preceded (f. 108v), and followed (f. 116), by explanatory notes

6. ff. 133-166r Author: Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq, 702?-765 or 6 Title: Fāl-nāmah

7. ff. 177v-183v Author: Anonymous Title: A calendar of saints of the Coptic church

Form

codex

Physical extent

21 ff. 18 ff. 10 ff. 9 ff. 34 ff. 7 ff.

Acquisition

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Provenance

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Miscellanei M.S. in quarto &c, no. 36].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

Subject

Calendars

Christian saints

Church festivals

Divination

Arabs--Music

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