Qur’ān, in Arabic; a copy from Java. Contents: ff.1v-200r: text of the Quran, ends with the repetition of the S. al-Fatihah. Text frames are triple-ruled black lines. Verse markers are red circles with a black dot in the middle, 6 mm diameter. Surah headings are in red ink, often with multipl...
Qur’ān, in Arabic; a copy from Java. Contents: f.1r: punika syarat Nifðn abdi dalem pa‘ulu sila; ff.1v-189v, text of the Qur’an; f.190r, S. al-Fatihah; f.191r: (in pen) A Legend in the Pegon; (in pencil) 'This is a copy of the Coran, in Arabic, written in Java. J.M.' Text frames are four rule...
A court diary from Bone, written in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2v. et seqq. Buginese diary, A.D. I780-5 (A.H. 1194-9). The keeper of the diary seems to have had close relations with the court of Bone. Various activities are mentioned. B: ff. 38v.-44r. An astronomical, meteorological, and...
Collection of short tracts and formulae, mostly in Buginese, used in Sufi orders (tarīka) in South Celebes, especially in Naksh(i)bandīya circles, in the second half of the 18th century. On f. 13v. it is stated that the foregoing was written in Palopo, 4 Jum. II A.H. 1172 [A.D. 1759]. Kasaba...
Collection of mystical treatises, teachings, and sayings of well-known mystics in Arabic, Makasarese, and Buginese. A: ff. 4v.-28r. Ar-Risāla al-mubāraka, by Shaikh Abu'l Fatḥ Abū Yaḥya 'Abd al-Baṣīr aḍ-Ḍarīrī al-Khalwatĩ ar-Raffanī. Finished on a Thursday evening at the beginning of Safar A.H....
Texts in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2r.-27r., 27v.-30r. Tracts on medical treatment of various diseases. B: ff. 30r.-31r. Amulet with the names of the Seven Sleepers and their dog (Buginese Kahapĕ’e, Arabic Aṣhāb al-kahf). C: ff. 31, 32v. Formulae against evil spirits, wild animals, and ...
Verses from the Quran in Arabic, with Bugis translation
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Verses from the Qur’an in Arabic, with Buginese translation (ff. 2r.-53r., 58v.-59v., 61v.-68r., 69v.-70r), without translation (ff. 53v.-58r), and with partial Buginese translation (ff. 1r.-2r). 72 written ff. (thereafter further unnumbered ff). Quran, in Arabic and Bugis script. (This descr...
Minhāj at-Tālibīn by Abú Zakariya Yahya an-Nawawi in Arabic; a treatise on Islamic law. Many marginal annotations and paratexts in a much smaller hand. The colophon on f. 196r is dated Jumadilawal 1161 (April 1748), and the scribe named as Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Boni al-Malari (of Bone and...
On the basis of a brief examination. Dr. Th. G. Th. Pigeaud describes this as a primbon consisting of three or more parts, one part concerns medical lore and legal material; another contains Arabic in Javanese script. The MS seems to be of considerable antiquity. It is written on very thin and d...
Works in Javanese by Kyai Haji Ahmad Rifa‘i of Kalisalak
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Works by Kyai Haji Ahmad Rifa‘i of Kalisalak (1786-1876). Ahmad Rifa‘i established his pĕsantren at Kalisalak after spending 1833-41 in Mecca, and was exiled by the Dutch colonial regime to Ambon in 1859, where he died. A: ff. 1r.-48r. Nazham tazkiyyah, by Haji Ahmad al-Rifa‘i ibn Muhammad Ma...