A small collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, 17th century, chiefly in the hand of Samuel Clarke. Four of the manuscripts are on Abu al-Fida' (1273-1331), historian and geographer of Syria.
Arabic and Persian manuscripts chiefly in the hand of Samuel Clarke
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. S. Clarke 1-4, 7-11, 13-14
- Dates of Creation
- 17th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- Arabic, and Persian.
- Physical Description
- 11 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Samuel Clarke (1624-69) was an orientalist, and first printer to Oxford University. See the Dictionary of National Biography for details.
Access Information
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).
Acquisition Information
The manuscripts were purchased from the heirs of Samuel Clarke in 1670.
Note
Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Brief descriptions are in 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, with references to the oriental and other manuscripts (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, nos. 3919-32.
The manuscripts are also summarily described in the card catalogue, arranged by language, located in the Oriental Reading Room.
J. UriBibliothecae Bodleianae codicum manuscriptorum Orientalium catalogus pars prima (Oxford 1787). See the Arabic Christian, and Arabic Mohammedan sections.
A. Nicoll Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Orientalium Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars secunda, Arabicos complectens (Oxford, 1835). See the Arabic Mohammedan section.
E. Sachau, H. Eth and A.F.L. Beeston Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindstn, and Pusht manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1889-1953), vols. 1-2.