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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, ff 294v-297r
Title:: Thalāthūn lā yuʿdhar fīhā bi'l-jahl ʿalā Madhab al-Imām Mālik
Scope & Content:: This book starts with "the thirty matters for which ignorance is no excuse according to the Maliki school". It contains versified fiqh rulings from the Maliki school followed by a few sayings of Anas Ibn Mālik added after the colophon.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, ff 298r-304v
Title:: Matn al-Raḥabīyah fī al-Mawārīth
Scope & Content:: A list of judicial rulings on inheritance by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Raḥabī (1103- 1181), copied with hemstitches like a poem but in prose. The colophon mentions the lineage of the copyist.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 7 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, ff 305r-306r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Final pages of an unidentified work concerning instructions for ritual ablutions followed, by a hadith concerning the angel of death and the archangels.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, ff 307r-310v
Title:: Poem of Ibn al-Ḥāj
Scope & Content:: The final verses of a poem by Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥāj al-ʿAbdarī al-Fassī, an Egyptian/Moroccan Maliki fiqh scholar and theologian famous for his "Madkhal".
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, ff 318r-319v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Qur'anic verses and magic writing. Verso: instructions for writing a talisman to gain wealth or favourable treatment from a ruler
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, ff 322r-323v
Title:: Esoteric practice
Scope & Content:: Praise formulas to God, with number table. Note: folios laid out incorrectly. Rectos should be versos.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, ff 324r-325v
Title:: Esoteric practice
Scope & Content:: Instructions on how many times to recite a given passage from the Qur'an depending on whether your need is great, average, small or "as insignificant as food and drink". ff 324v-325r contain instructions on how to fill in a number square drawn on an allo board in order to have your need fulfilled...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, ff 329r-330v
Title:: Wird
Scope & Content:: The wird (daily practice) of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077–1166 ) and the ten ways he will intercede to help the bearer of this wird (blessing the bearer, accompanying him at the moment of death, finding the right answer to questions posed etc.). Introduced by a prayer (f. 327r)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6905, ff 3v-178r
Title:: Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
Scope & Content:: Medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The text begins with an extensive table of contents (ff. 3v-10r). The copy was comple...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 22 Ayyār (May) 1814
Extent:: Ff. 3v-178r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6905, ff 179r-212v
Title:: Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī ta’līf Barākalsūs al-jarmānī wa-Kitāb Karūlīyūs ayḍan كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي تأليف براكلسوس الجرماني وكتاب كروليوس أيضًا Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
Scope & Content:: Treatise on Paracelsian iatrochemistry by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87), based on the writings of Paracelsus (براكلسوس الجرماني, Philippus Aureolus Theophras...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14 Āb (August) 1814
Extent:: Ff. 179r-212v

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