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Fatḥ al-Jalīl fī Adwīyat al-ʿAlīl فتح الجليل في ادوية العليل Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad al-Madyūnī محمد بن محمد بن احمد بن محمد المديوني
Scope & Content:
The final pages of a work on Islamic law by Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad al-Madyūnī, with extensive gloss in ʿajamī language. Colophon on f. 254r gives Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Suwaré as owner. Perhaps other work on f. 254v.
منظومة الشيخ محمد الصالح الأوجلي في العقائد Manẓūmat al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ṣaliḥ al-Awjalī fī al-ʿAqāʾid
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The treatise of Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ṣaliḥ al-Awjalī on creed (ʿaqīda). Simple geometric design on f. 268v. The colophon gives the copyist as Bū Bakari Kanu.
A qaṣīdah by the Andalusian Abī Isḥāq al-Albīrī (d. 1065/6) composed for his son concerning the merits of learning and its application. The colophon gives the owner as Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Suwaré. Two lines of poetry encased in red box and circles by a later hand on f. 270v. Signification uncl...
A short work on numerology in ritual practice. The colophon gives Uthmān Dhat (?) as the owner and "al-Muṣṭafā Suwaré named Muḥammad Kayta" as the copyist.