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Compendium of Arabic texts, from Tiro, Aceh. Contents: ff.1r-2r: Ilm al-mantiq, author describes himself as ‘abid al-rahman. In Arabic, poetical text using the rajaz metre on logic; incomplete. 7 lines per page; lacking beginning; colophon on f.2r gives date of copying as Muharam 1309 (August ...
Compendium of texts in Arabic, with notes in Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: f.1r: notes ff.2r-3v: loose fragment of a text in Arabic; incomplete. ff.4r-52v: [Ilmu nahwu], anonymous text on grammar (incomplete; lacking beginning and end), with marginal annotations; f.27v copied up...
Compendium of textxs in Arabic and Malay, from Aceh
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Compendium of texts in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: f.1r: note in Arabic (written diagonally upside down). ff.1v-28v: al-Adwa' al-bahjah fi ibraz daqa'iq al-munfarijah, by Yahya Zayn al-Din Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ansari, on ethics, a commentary (sharh) on ...
Fath al-qarīb al-mujīb fī sharh alfāz al-taqrīb, by Shams al-Dīn Muhammad Ibn Qāsim al-Ghazī. Dated 1208 (1793/94 AD), copied by Sa‘id bin ‘Aud; a MS from Aceh. Contents: a fiqh text on Shafi’i law, in Arabic. ff.1r-1v: various notes ff.2r-97v: Fath al-mujīb; title on f.2r: Fath al-mujīb fi ...
Kitab maju’ al-masa’il, in Malay in Jawi script, with notes in Arabic, a MS from Aceh. ff.1v-2r: Doa kamilin, prayers and zikir, Ini adalah doa Kamilin yang sangat terkenal dan biasanya dibaca di antara shalat tarawih dan shalat witir pada bulan Ramadhan. In Arabic. ff.2v-13v: Kitab majmu‘ al...
Compendium of texts in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script. ff.1r-42v: Arabic text on wahdat al-wujud, the doctrine of seven grades of being, with brief marginal explanations in Malay, with some diagrams and tables; incomplete. ff.43r-55v: Text in Arabic. ff.56r-58r: Fragments in Arabic. ff.58v...
3 loose fragments in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: A. ff.1r-14r: Qur’an, extract (S. al-Baqarah, Q.2:8-2.?); incomplete. Note on f.14v: hadha hadiah Qur’an Sing Sih anak Lamtikam Lamki [?]. 11 lines, thumn and rub‘ marked in the margin in red ink. B. ff.15r-16v: fr...
In Arabic and Malay in Jawi script. Kitab maulud, devotional work on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, a MS from Aceh. f.2r: note: Hadha al-kitab waqf Haji Abdul Ghani ff.2v-5v: Blessings and al-Fatihah upon the Prophet, the four rightly-guided caliphs, Syaikh Abdul Hadi al-Sudi, Syaikh Muhyiu...
Miscellany (majmu’) on religious matters, in Arabic and Malay, from Aceh
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Miscellany (majmu’) on religious matters, in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh Contents: f.1r: Note: Bermula teunebus gala Leubee Muhammad Lam Cot yang telah thabit pada tangan hamba itu dua puluh enam mas. ff.1v-28v: work by Syaikh Abdul Rauf ibn Ali, on wahdat al-wujud, mentioning...
ff. 1r-179r A history of the Ottoman dynasty from Osman Bey (611 AH/1214 CE) to Sultan Murad Khan (995 AH / 1586 CE). The full title of the work is as follows: كتاب تحفة ال الاصحاب والاقران في تاريخ العثمان تصنيف الامام الفاضل المورخ محمد بن على الشهير بسباهى زاده اعطاه الله الخير وزياده ارخ ...
