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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12349
Title:: Bugis diary from Bone, 1780-5
Scope & Content:: A court diary from Bone, written in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2v. et seqq. Buginese diary, A.D. I780-5 (A.H. 1194-9). The keeper of the diary seems to have had close relations with the court of Bone. Various activities are mentioned. B: ff. 38v.-44r. An astronomical, meteorological, and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: 1780-5
Extent:: 64 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12363
Title:: Sufi tracts in Bugis
Scope & Content:: Collection of short tracts and formulae, mostly in Buginese, used in Sufi orders (tarīka) in South Celebes, especially in Naksh(i)bandīya circles, in the second half of the 18th century. On f. 13v. it is stated that the foregoing was written in Palopo, 4 Jum. II A.H. 1172 [A.D. 1759]. Kasaba...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: 1759
Extent:: 90 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12367
Title:: Mystical treatises in Arabic, Makasar and Bugis
Scope & Content:: Collection of mystical treatises, teachings, and sayings of well-known mystics in Arabic, Makasarese, and Buginese. A: ff. 4v.-28r. Ar-Risāla al-mubāraka, by Shaikh Abu'l Fatḥ Abū Yaḥya 'Abd al-Baṣīr aḍ-Ḍarīrī al-Khalwatĩ ar-Raffanī. Finished on a Thursday evening at the beginning of Safar A.H....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Buginese, and Makasar
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 193 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12368
Title:: Bugis medical tracts
Scope & Content:: Texts in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2r.-27r., 27v.-30r. Tracts on medical treatment of various diseases. B: ff. 30r.-31r. Amulet with the names of the Seven Sleepers and their dog (Buginese Kahapĕ’e, Arabic Aṣhāb al-kahf). C: ff. 31, 32v. Formulae against evil spirits, wild animals, and ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 32 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12374
Title:: Verses from the Quran in Arabic, with Bugis translation
Scope & Content:: Verses from the Qur’an in Arabic, with Buginese translation (ff. 2r.-53r., 58v.-59v., 61v.-68r., 69v.-70r), without translation (ff. 53v.-58r), and with partial Buginese translation (ff. 1r.-2r). 72 written ff. (thereafter further unnumbered ff). Quran, in Arabic and Bugis script. (This descr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 73 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12375
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Scope & Content:: Minhāj at-Tālibīn by Abú Zakariya Yahya an-Nawawi in Arabic; a treatise on Islamic law. Many marginal annotations and paratexts in a much smaller hand. The colophon on f. 196r is dated Jumadilawal 1161 (April 1748), and the scribe named as Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Boni al-Malari (of Bone and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 209 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 13965
Title:: A TREATISE on the properties of plants, animals, minerals, &c., called --------------------------------- by Edmer Ibn Ali Al-Jaldaki; written A.H. 1186, A.D. 1772. Folio. [13,965.]
Scope & Content:: Arabic Mss:. Admer Ibn Ali Al-Jaldaki: Treatise on the properties of plants, animals etc.: Arabic.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 item

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