m o c . b o t t o k l a . w w w www.alkottob.com m ubr*** ©e o c . b o t t o k l a . w w w www.alkottob.com Oversize m z o / c . b o t t o k l a . w w w www.alkottob.com m o c . b o t t o k l a . w w w www.alkottob.com m CATALOGUE OF ARABIC BOOKS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM o c . b o t t o k l a . w w w www.alkottob.com m o c . b o t t o k l a . w w w www.alkottob.com Muse 13 rij s h U' i CATALOGUE m OF o ARABIC BOOKS c IN THE . MUSEUMb BRITISH o t BY t A. G. ELLIS, M.A. o ASSISTANTINTHE DEPARTMENTOFORIENTALPRINTED BOOKSAND MSS. k l VOL. I a . w w PUBLISHED BY wTHE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM www.alkottob.com m © 1967,TheTrusteesoftheBritish Museum o First published 1894 Photolithographic reprint 1967 c . b o t t o k l a . w w Printed in Great Britain by w Jarrold & Sons Ltd, Norwich www.alkottob.com m o PREFACE TO THE REPRINTED CATALOGUE This catalogue, for many years out ofprint, was originally published in twocvolumes in 1894 and 1901. It was followed in 1926 by a Supplementary Catalogue of Arabic Printed Books compiled by A. G. Ellis and A. S. Fulton, and in 1959 by a Second Supplementary Catalogue of Arabic Printed Books compiled by A. S. Fulton and . M. Lings. The present reprint has been undertaken so that all three catalogues shall be in print and available to scholars at one time. Together, theybcover the whole range ofArabic printed books acquired by the British Museum up to 1957. In preparing this catalogue for photolithographic reproduction, no revision has been carried out on the body of the catalogue beyond the correction of a few con- spicuous errors. But where the location ofbooks has been chaonged since the printing of the original edition, new shelf-marks have been inserted in typescript in this reprint. Ithasnot beenthought necessary to reprint the volume oftitle- andsubject- indexes relatingtothe present catalogue, asthisis still itn print atthetime ofwriting. In the past, an Arab author was seldom well known by what was, strictly speaking, his " name ", and this creates problemstfor both compilers and users of catalogues. To help readers to understand the way in which authors' names are analysed into their component parts and arrangeod in this catalogue according to a logical system, it may be useful to quote the following explanation from the Editor's Introduction to the Second Supplementary Catalogue of 1959 : The designation under which an Arab or Persian author, editor, etc., is to be found, begins wherever possible with kthe ism (for example 'ABD ALLAH, AHMAD, etc.) or, if this is unknown, with the kunyah (for example 'ABU 'ALI, ABU al-ASWAD, etc.) or, failing this, under a name of honour (for example JAMAL al-DIN, etc.). But an excepltion is made in the case of dignitaries of the Church, who are named in Englaish if possible, for example STEPHEN, not ISTIFAN, and also in the case of those whose names have figured largely in previous catalogues under a Europeanized form, even though their writings are all in Arabic, for example CHEIKHO (Louis), not LUWIS SHAIKHU. Rulers are entered under the names.by which they are best known, followed by the ism, etc., in brackets, for example SALAH al-DIN (Yusuf ibn Aiyub). Cross refer- w ences to main entries have been given unsparingly. The order ofheadings is alphabetical, but where there are two or more headings which begin with the same name (there are 620 beginning with MUflAMMAD, forexample), they are grouped in categories, the simplest headings being arranged together in alphabwetical order in the first group, the next simplest in the second, and so on. The series ofgroups may be illustrated as follows: (1) MUHAMMAD, called Bibi : a single name followed by a lakab. (2) MUHAMMAD, al-Anbabi : a single name followed by a nisbah, or a title, or an epithet indicating a profession, etc. (3) MwUHAMMAD ('Id al-Wasif) : a single name followed by another appellation in brackets. (The next three groups are like the first three, except that the name of the father is also given, preceded by ibn.) (4) MUHAMMAD ibn AHMAD, called Ibn Rushd. MUHAMMAD AHMAD, ibn al-Dahabi. (5) MUHAMMAD AHMAD ibn (Abu al-Kasim). (6) www.alkottob.com MUHAMMAD ibn AHMAD ibn 'ABD al-BlRI' with the name of tmhe (7) : grandfather added. (8) MUHAMMAD ibn AHMAD al-DARIR : with a compound name for the father. (9) MUHAMMAD AHMAD : a double name, or a name followed by the father's name, etc., without ibn o ; and so on, with some intermediary and further stages. — —It follows from this and here is what might cause the reader some difficulty that the heading 'ALI (Abu al-Hasan), al-Jaznd'i, for example, which conforms c to category (3) will come after 'ALI, al-Tantawi, which conforms to (2). Similarly, MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD ibn (Abu Nasr), al-Fardbi (6) comes after MUHAMMAD ibn MUHAMMAD, al-Tanjawl (5), and 'ABD al-RAHMAN BADAWI (9) after 'ABD al-RAHMAN ibn ZIYAD, al-Zub.airl (5). For notes on the transcription of Arabic words, the reader is referred to the b introductory pages of the Second Supplementary Catalogue of Arabic Printed Books from which the above quotation is taken. GARDNER Ko. B. Keeper ofOriental Printed Books and Manuscripts October, 1966 t t o k l a . w w w VI www.alkottob.com