Description
Alternative title
Liber Arabicus
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 244 + 6
Date created
[ca. 1500 - 1599]
Language
Arabic, Latin
Material
Paper
Layout
25 lines to a page
Height (mm)
214
Width (mm)
147
Writing
in the Maghrabi character
Foliation
ff. a-b + 1-244 + i-vi + c
Additions
The volume must have been acquired from an English source by Parker: otherwise he would not have had written on f. 1r (as he has done): Hic liber quondam fuit Theodori archiepiscopi Cantuariensis (!!!).
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 401 contains two texts in Arabic, Abd Allah Baydawi (d. A.H. 716), Tawali' al-Anwar min Matali' al-Anzar and the commentary on it by Mahmud Isfahani (d. A.H. 749/50), Matali' al-Anzar, Sharh Tawali' al-Anwar. It is one of a small handful of Arabic manuscripts possessed by Parker. The greater part of the manuscript is in a sixteenth-century hand but Parker wrote a note on the flyleaf indicating his belief that the codex had once belonged to Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690) and no doubt it was this misapprehension, as much as Parker's interest in unusual scripts, that led him to acquire the volume. Parker's belief that this manuscript was once in the possession of an early predecessor as archbishop may indicate that the volume was acquired from a library in Canterbury, but beyond this, nothing is known of the provenance of this manuscript.
- Contents
- Tawali Al-Anwar min Matali' al-Anzar -- Commentary on Tawali' al-Anwar
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