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Data Source: Parker on the Web

• Résumé : 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.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : arabe, latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Abd Allah Baydawi - author

  244v-203r - Abd Allah Baydawi, Tawali Al-Anwar min Matali' al-Anzar

  Note : A theological treatise by Násiru'd-Dín 'Abdu'lláh ben 'Umar al Baỵdawí, who died A.H. 716, entitled: Tawáli 'u'l-Anwár

  Note : See Ahlwardt's Catalogue of Arabic MSS. at Berlin, no. 1772

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Mahmud Isfahani - author

  202v-1r - Mahmud Isfahani, Commentary on Tawali' al-Anwar

  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

  Note : See Rieu's Supplement to the Arabic Catalogue, pp. 112, 113 (no. 186)