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A poem by the Sufi poet named variously Ḥishām al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn ʿAlī or Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh al-Waʿīẓī al-ʿArūḍī or al-Waʿīẓī al-Ḥasānī, but commonly known as al-Waʿīẓī. Copied in beautiful Sudani script, possibly in the Hausa style, with copious notation by the same hand. The colophon ...
A series of commentaries upon various single lines of poetry (highlighted in red) by a "Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh Ibn ʿAlī" who also made this copy. Unusual hooked design to introduce and end the work with colophon.
The preface states that: "this is the book of a collection of matters and fatwas of this singular age of our time, exalted in its centuries, of ʿAlī Ibn al-Ḥasan al-Saʿīdī". In the colophon the anonymous copyist says that he copied the work for himself.
A section of the Risāla of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996), a writer of instructional religious works. This section deals with trials and witness statements.
A section of the Risāla of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996), a writer of instructional religious works. This chapter deals with the division of an estate after death. The text is written in beautiful Central Sudanic/Hausa hand. The colophon praises an unnamed sheikh for his knowledge and patie...
A work collating the sayings of scholars of the Shāfiʿī school of the 11th-12th century CE such as Abū al-Maʿālī and Abū Ḥāmīd al-Ghazālī. The work is reported to have been written by al-Muṣṭafā Ibn al-Faqīh Muḥammad Ghāsī. The work begins with instructions for the quick answering of prayers with...
A book outlining the five different types of jūr (Hausa: goro, kola nut) and the benefits of eating it. Each type has a different colour and different benefits including strengthening the mental faculties, sweetening the breath, etc.
Unidentified poem with extensive notation often dwarfing the main body of the text. On f. 288 there is a small piece of paper attached to main page with thread for the purpose of extending a note on the text.
A charm for memory and understanding: "whoever writes it out and imbibes it will remember everything they hear". Underneath is a talismanic device resembling a diagram or map, perhaps a representation of the charm.