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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 126r-133v
Title:: الحمد الله الذي قد ابتدا خلفا لان يعرف ثم يعبد al-ḥamdu Allāh alladhī qad ibtadā khalfan lian yaʿrif thumma yaʿbud
Scope & Content:: An unidentified versified treaty on learning and wisdom by Muḥammad al-Ṭaghūghī (?), incomplete.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 8 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 134r-154v
Title:: Qurrat al-Abṣār قرة الأبصار
Scope & Content:: A poem by the Moroccan ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Lamṭī al-Maghribī al-Miknāsī al-Fāsī al-Mālikī (born c. 1475) on the sīrah (life) of the Prophet Muḥammad. Colophon blank.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 21 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 155r-163v
Title:: Unidentified work
Scope & Content:: An instructional book split into sections dealing with life, death, angels, judgement, heaven and hell, the signs of judgement, et cetera. First sections lost.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 9 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 184v-187v
Title:: Section of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī
Scope & Content:: An incomplete copy of the maqāmāt of Abū Muḥammad Ibn al-Qāsim al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī (1054-1122). A maqāma is a literary work of rhymed prose, of which al-Ḥarīriī's is the best known.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 188r-189v
Title:: Qiṣṣat al-Dhabḥ lil-Mayt wa Taḥrīm Aklihi
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the forbidden nature of butchering and eating animals that have died of natural causes, by Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré . The colophon (f189v) reports that: "The butchering of dead animals such as the cow is not allowed among us, [although] butchering dead animals is done by many in the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 192r-195r
Title:: لامية الأفعال Lāmīyat al-Afʿāl
Scope & Content:: A versified treatise on morphology by the famous Andalusian grammarian Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʾī al-Jiyānī, known as Ibn Mālik (1204 – 1274)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 198r-226v
Title:: العقيدة الوسطى al-ʿAqīdah al-Wusṭá
Scope & Content:: A section from the "middle creed" of Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490), a work on belief (tawḥīd). Sanūsī wrote a small, middle and large creed to suit different levels of advancement in study. Gloss in Soninke ʿajamī. The colophon states that the owner is al-Ḥajj Kasama (Gasama) and his...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 31 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 227r-253v
Title:: Unidentified work on Tawḥīd
Scope & Content:: A work denouncing innovation (bidʿa), citing the Egyptian Maliki fiqh scholar Sālim al-Sanhūrī and the Sharḥ ʿAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-kubrá of Yūsuf al-Sanūsī. The creator states that "the tradition (Sunnah) in our time is amongst innovations (bidʿa) like a white hair in the hide of a black ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 27 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, ff 254r-256v
Title:: Kitāb Muḥammad Kuntī
Scope & Content:: A poem outlining the duties of a Muslim and seemingly philosophical commentary on life. The copyist states in the colophon that "I wrote [out] the book for myself and for anyone who is not corrupted (?)." He names the book "the book of Muḥammad Kuntī", perhaps the son of Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 3 ff

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