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Physical description: paper, octavo, 36 fols., 1 col.
Language: Arabic
Date: undated, but perhaps 15th/16th cent.
Provenance: Turkey
Contents:
Arabic Infancy Gospel (fols. 1r–34r)
Additional contents: handwritten letter (dated 28 December 1713) by Humphrey Wanley accompanying the manuscript when he donated it to the Bodleian Library. It details the manuscript’s purchase by Heinrich Sike from Jacob Golius, who obtained the manuscript in Turkey in 1625, and its subsequent purchase by Wanley. The final pages in the manuscript (forl. 34v–36r) feature Sike’s notes on parallels from the text in other literature.
Catalogs:
Nicoll, Alexander. Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum manuscriptorum orientalium catalogi. Partis secundae volumen primum arabicos complectens. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1821 (pp. 57–58).
Other online databases: FIRHIST
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 30 December 2018.