Lexicon, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Dates
- Creation: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Extent
266 Leaves
Language of Materials
- Arabic
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. Or. 799
Arrangement
Originally arranged and housed in 1641 at the Bodleian in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Selden End, compartment as ‘A 179’, see Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, p. 14
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 478
For a full description in Latin, see:Uri, J., Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium, Videlicet Hebraicorum, Chaldaicorum, Syriacorum, Æthiopicorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Copticorumque Catalogus, Jussu Curatorum Preli Academici a Joanne Uri Confectus. Pars Prima (1 vol., Oxford, 1787), Arab. Moham. no. 1049
Custodial History
Stated to be given to the Bodleian by Philip Williams, merchant of London, in 1640 ('Constantinopoli, Feb. 13, 1639' i.e. 1639/40) according to the Benefactors' Register, and through Dr. (Nicholas?) Davies in 1641 according to MS. Tanner 269, fol. 129v: non-Laudian. Manuscript 2907 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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