Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 401: Abd Allah Baydawi, Tawali Al-Anwar. Mahmud Isfahani, Commentary on Tawali Al-Anwar

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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

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 (!!!).

M.R. James Date	xvi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jv826bp1784/MS_401.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vc137qy3383/401.pdf
Contains	Title Abd Allah Baydawi, Tawali Al-Anwar min Matali' al-Anzar. 244v-203r Author Abd Allah Baydawi Note A theological treatise by Násiru'd-Dín 'Abdu'lláh ben 'Umar al Baỵdawí, who died A.H. 716, entitled: Tawáli 'u'l-Anwár See Ahlwardt's Catalogue of Arabic MSS. at Berlin, no. 1772 Title Mahmud Isfahani, Commentary on Tawali' al-Anwar. 202v-1r Author Mahmud Isfahani Note A commentary on the above, entitled: Matáli 'u'l-Aṇdhár, by Shamsu'd-Dín Mạhmúd ben 'Abdu 'r-Rahmán al Isfahání, who died of the plague at Cairo in A.H. 749 or 750 See Rieu's Supplement to the Arabic Catalogue, pp. 112, 113 (no. 186)
TJames	383
Stanley	Misc. 24
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hq225cp3879
Location	MS 401
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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