50 works by 19 authors

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50 works by 19 authors

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MS. Pococke 26

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Arabic

1. ff. 1-40v Title: Miscellaneous notes and extracts of historical interest

2. ff. 41r-66v Author: Anonymous Title: Excerpts and notes on the Umayyad caliphs and the house of Marwān.

3. f. 67v Author: Anonymous Title: Short extract on the virtues of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.

4. f. 68v Author: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib [attribd.]. Title: Short sayings.

5. f. 69r,v Author: Anonymous Title: Madrasas, mosques and tombs named after pious women in Damascus.

6. ff. 70r-71v Author: Ibn ʻAbd Rabbihi, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 860-940. Title: al-ʻIqd al-farīd [geographical extracts].

7. f. 72r Author: Anonymous Title: Note on the college in Damascus called al-Maqdamīyah (?Muqaddamīyah) al-Ḥanafīyah al-Juwānīyah.

8. f. 74r,v Author: Anonymous Title: Eulogy in verse.

9. f. 75r,v Author: Anonymous Title: Poem rhyming in dāl beginning “qalbī ka-khaddiki jamrah yatawaqqadu ...”

10. f. 76v Author: Madāʼinī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 753-830. Title: Extract containing verses supposedly seen on the crown of the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd.

11. f. 77r Author: al-Hudhalī Title: Verses on ʻUbaid Allāh ibn Yaḥyá and others.

12. f. 78r Title: List of kinship terms and their definitions.

13. f. 78v Author: Yaḥyá ibn Aktam. Title: Report concerning the caliph al-Maʼmūn, followed by several sayings of al-Muqtadir bi-Allāh.

14. ff. 79r-89r Author: Anonymous Title: Several excerpts and notes on the Umayyad caliphs, followed by letters.

15. f. 90r Title: A prayer, each line beginning “Yā rabb ...”, the first line starting “Yā rabb bi-smika fī umūrī abdaʼu ...”

16. f. 89v Author: Anonymous Title: Brief note on Sulaimān ibn ʻAlī al-Dailamī, with other historical matter.

17. 90v, 91r Title: A tradition of the Prophet (ḥadīth ʻajīb), with explanation.

18. ff. 91v, 93 Author: Anonymous Title: Ḥikāyat al-mubāhalah fī anna al-Kurʼān makhlūq, an anecdote deriving from Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭūlūn. [Lacking end.]

19. f. 92r Title: Note of the fruits conceded to Adam by God after the Fall.

20. ff. 96v-99r Author: Ibn Zuraiq, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī, fl. c. 1029. Title: Qaṣīdah of 37 verses [= ?al-Qaṣīdat al-ʻainīyah (in 40 verses)].

21. ff. 100r-104v Author: Ṭughrāʼī, Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl d. 1121. Title: Lāmīyat al-ʻajam.

22. ff. 105r-110r Author: Anonymous Title: List of dates of birth and death of famous poets.

23. ff. 110v-111v Author: Anonymous Title: An extract on the qualities in women which recommend them for marriage, etc.

24. ff. 111v-113r Author: Anonymous Title: Medical prescriptions.

25. ff. 113v-114r Author: Dhū al-Rummah, Ghailān ibn ʻUqbah, d. 719 or 735. Title: Two lines of poetry, followed by extracts from other poets, and preceded by a saying of Abū Bakr Dāʼūd.

26. ff. 115r-119v Author: Anonymous Title: Biographical notice of the ʻAbbāsid caliph ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Muʻtazz, followed by verses and a note on Sitt al-Shām, wife of Sultan Nūr al-Dīn.

27. ff. 120r-124v Author: ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād. Title: Muʻallaqah.

28. ff. 125v-132v Author: Ibn Zaghdūn or Zaghdān, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Mawāhib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1417-1477. Title: Faraḥ al-asmāʼ bi-rukhṣ al-samāʻ. [?Lacking end.]

29. f. 135r Title: Names of the 12 imāms combined in a verse, together with genealogies.

30. ff. 136r-140r Title: Reported sayings of al-Junaid and others on music, with a ṣūfī poem, followed, ff. 138v-140r, by a note on the name al-Shumaisāṭī, etc.

31. ff. 140v Author: Anonymous Title: Part of a chronology of Egypt, from 664-665 A.H.

32. ff. 141v-142r Author: Anonymous Title: Fragment of a poem concerning the Āl al-Muhallab.

33. ff. 142v-143r Author: Anonymous Title: Dates of birth and death of a number of famous men.

34. f. 143v Author: Anonymous Title: Several Arabic proverbs.

35. f. 144r,v Title: Reported sayings of Quss ibn Sāʻidah at ʻUkāẓ.

36. ff. 144v-145r Author: Anonymous Title: Faṣl fī kullīyāt al-lughah.

37. ff. 145v-146r Author: Anonymous Title: Fragment of a work on style (badīʻ), with poetical examples.

38. ff. 146v-151v Author: Shanfará al-Azdī. Title: Lāmīyat al-ʻArab, with marginal and interlinear notes.

39. f. 152r,v Author: ʻUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim, 1182-1235. Title: A poem beginning “Huwa al-ḥubb fa-aslam ...” [Lacking end. ]

40. ff. 153v-155r Author: Ṣafadī, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh, c. 1296-1363. Title: al-Tadhkirat al-Ṣalāḥīyah, extracts only, followed, f. 155r, by a commentary on certain proverbs.

41. f. 156v Author: Anonymous Title: Extract concerning prayer in the Place of blood (Mauḍiʻ al-dam) on Mount Qāsiyūn, nr. Damascus.

42. ff. 157r-158r Author: Anonymous Title: Fragment on Fāṭimah bint Usāmah ibn Zaid ibn Ḥārithah.

43. ff. 158v-160v Author: Anonymous Title: Two tales (ḥadīth), the second entitled Ḥadīth al-samakah.

44. f. 161r,v Author: Abū Tammān Ḥabīb ibn Aus al-Ṭāʼī c. 807-c. 846. Title: Extracts from the Ḥamāsah, preceded by a notice of Abū Tammām.

45. ff. 162v-168v Author: Abú Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aus al-Ṭāʼī c. 807-c. 846. Title: Fragments of several poems from the Ḥamāsah.

46. ff. 168v-171v Author: Anonymous Title: Historical notice of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

47. f. 173r Author: Burhān al-Dīn al-Bāghnūnī. Title: Poem.

48. ff. 175r-176r Author: al-Washshāʼ, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, d. 936. Title: al-Muwashshá, extract from Bāb mā suʼila ʻanhu ahl al-ṣidq; followed, ff. 175v-176r, by lines from several poets.

49. f. 176v Author: Ibn Qutaibah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-884. Title: Kitāb Adab al-kātib, short extract on teeth.

50. ff. 177r-180v Author: Anonymous Title: Brief note on ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, with two lines of his poetry, followed, ff. 177v-180v, by a short tale and a poem.

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