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Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Java. Contents: f. 1r, doodles and jottings; ff. 1v-322r, text of the Qur’an; f. 322v, doodles and wakaf (endowment) notes: bahwa ini Qur’an waqabnya Enci’ Musa bin Enci’ / waqab fi al-masjid Sunan Giri., 'this Qur'an has been endowed by Mister Musa, son of ...
This volume contains a treatise on the human soul and its faculties as microcosm in the form of a narrative of a journey of exploration. It was authored by, or at least is attributed to, the renowned Sufi theosopher Muḥyi’l-Din Ibn al-‘Arabī (died 638 AH/1240 CE). The text is accompanied by seve...
Majmūʾah Two texts: ff. 1v-31r: Awrād Shādhliyah A compilation of litanies (awrād) of the Shadhili Sufi Order. This manuscript illustrates the spread of the Shādhiliyah into ottoman Bularia, and also contains illuminated headings and colophons in regional style on ff. 1v, 2r, 25v, 31v, 34v, ...
Qur’ān, in Arabic, a fine illuminated copy from Aceh. Contents: f.1v, a prayer for the prophet and other notables, and a mnemonic poem (nazam) made up of the first words of each juz’; ff.2v-255r, text of the Qur’an; f.255v, a prayer on completion of the Qur’an. Text frames are ruled lines of r...
West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt with Carrying Case
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Richly illuminated West African copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular book of devotional prayers to the Prophet Muhammad written by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). Probably copied in Nigeria. Features full page illuminations (ff. 1v 2r 31v, 87v, 143v, 180v) and half-page i...
Qur’ān, in Arabic, with some notes in Persian on flyleaf. The folio (f. 441) containing the last two chapters of the Qur'an (S. al-Falaq and S. al-Nas) is a later replacement for the lost original. From Malakand, North-West Frontier province (present-day Pakistan), 19th c. In between the fo...
As series of petitions and administrative documents, some of which appear to be from the Kaymakam of the Kaza of Kūt al-Amārah in present day Iraq. The administrative documents and petitions contain dates that range from 1306-1324 according to the Rumi calendar, while a solitary Persian letter...
Kitab-i Servisî ma'a şerhu'l-burde - كتاب سرويسى مع شرح البرده
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This volume contains a commentary on the Qaṣīdat al-burdah (قصيدة البردة) of Abū ᶜabdullāh Muḥammad ibn Saᶜīd al-Būṣīrī (died 694 AH/1294-95 CE or 696 AH/1296-97 CE) by Seyit Ahmet İbn-i Mustafa known as Lali (died 971 AH/1563-64 CE).The text is a Sufi poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم...
A bilingual tract on printing in Egypt entitled Vakayı-yı mazi, with an additional title, Al-waqāyiʾ al-miṣriyah, found at the bottom of the page. The page was printed on 25 Jumādá al-Awwāl 1244 AH (Tuesday, 3 December 1828) in Bulaq, Egypt at the Maṭbaʾat Ṣāḥib al-Futūḥāt. The item also contai...
