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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 41r-41v
Title:: Prayer
Scope & Content:: A work of praise for Prophet Mohammed. The script is more angular than normal, perhaps due to the writing implement used or Sūqi influence.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 42r-49v
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: A supplication for personal good fortune (the same as at 74v-81r). On f. 48v are instructions concerning when to recite this prayer and a number table. The prayer is said to allow the user to see wondrous things in his sleep and have victory in holy war. A note in the colophon states that Hārūn I...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 8 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 49r-52r
Title:: Ḥizb al-Baḥr حزب البحر
Scope & Content:: The Ḥizb al-Bahr (Litany of the Sea) by Abī Ḥasan ʿAli al-Māliki al-Shādhilī (1196 – 1258), a Sufi devotional prayer, prefaced by a short introductory supplication.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 53r-56r
Title:: Duʿāʾ Saʿd Ibn Saliyā
Scope & Content:: A devotional prayer accredited in the colophon to Saʿd Ibn Saliyā, but different from the supplication accredited to him in this volume at ff. 1v-27v and 91r-109v. A note in the colophon states that Uthmān Ibn Ṣlm is the owner.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 57r-58v
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: Supplication including use of letter sequences probably with numerical significance. On 57v the writer instructs on the ritual for this supplication, including the use of ṭunbūl (possibly the kola nut). On 58v the writer outlines the benefits of reading or washing with this text: the reader will ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 59v-68v
Title:: Safīnat al-Najāʾ
Scope & Content:: Copy of "The Ship of Salvation", a Sufi devotional work by Aḥmad Zurrūq (1442–1493)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 10 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 69r-73v
Title:: Commentary or accompanying work to the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt
Scope & Content:: Instructions for the prayer one performs before reading the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular book of prayers. Lines in red designate prayers for the Prophets from Adam to Muhammad and may have been lifted from the text. F. 73r-73v is an addition in black ink by a later hand mentioning ways to protec...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 6 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 74r-81r
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: Same supplication as 42r. The work is introduced and concluded by a number table and instructions for making the supplication effective. The colophon is simply decorated and includes the copyist and writer, as for the supplication at 42r. The colophon states Hārūn Ibn Idrīs al-Mushriqī is the cop...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 8 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 82r-83v
Title:: Duʿāʾ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
Scope & Content:: A supplication of Sufi saint Abdul Qādir a-Jīlānī, founder of the Qādirīyah Sufi order, preceded by an explanation of the prayer and how to recite it. Consuming or washing in water that has come in contact with this prayer is said to give one the power of invisibility.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

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