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37231. Or 15406

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15406
Title:
Quran
Scope & Content:
Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Aceh. f.315r: colophon in Malay: Inilah Qur'an milik Teungku Ti orang baruh duduk pada nenggeri Lam Kubu tetapi Qur'an ini diwakaf pada tangan Teungku Abdul Kadir Lam Siwi[?]akhir[?]kalam tamma, ‘This is the Qur'an belonging to Teungku Ti, from the coastal lowland...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
315 folios

37232. Or 15582

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15582
Title:
Rawzat al-va'izin
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1700-1799
Extent:
327 ff.

37233. Or 15588

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15588
Title:
Mavahib-i ʻAliyah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1547
Extent:
335 ff.

37234. Or 15601

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15601
Title:
Javahir-i khams
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1700-1799
Extent:
48 ff.

37235. Or 15604

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15604
Title:
Juz’ 5 of the Qur’ān
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Fifth Juz’ of the Qur’ān (Sūrat al-Nisā’; 4) in qazabi (rainbow) style. The text has been copied in the ṣinī style of calligraphy. The opening of the text (ff 1v-2r) and the closing (ff 55v-56r) are heavily illuminated in gold, red, blue, yellow, and green, featuring ban...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:

1 text, 56 ff

37236. Or 15638

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15638
Title:
Khayr al-mava‘iz
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1800-1899
Extent:
152 ff (plus 2 at the end with text frames and gilt text area).

37237. Or 15639

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15639
Title:
al-Qānūn al-waḍīḥ fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah القانون الواضح في علم البيزرة Waṭwāṭ, وطواط
Scope & Content:
Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey attributed on the cover page (f. 1r) to al-Waṭwāṭ (الوطواط), presumably Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá (محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحى, d. 1318) the Mamluk bookseller and author of the encyclopedia of natural history Mab...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+42+i

37238. Or 15643

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15643
Title:
Tuḥfat al-Fuḥūl fī tamhīd al-uṣūl fī ‘ilm al-biḥār تحفة الفحول في تمهيد الأصول في علم البحار Mahrī, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad مهري، سليمان بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
A manual on the principles of navigational theory by Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Mahrī (سليمان بن أحمد بن سليمان المهري, fl. 16th century), here called al-Muḥammadī (المحمدي), an Indian Ocean navigator from the city of al-Shiḥr (الشحر), Yemen. The treatise is arranged in seven parts (أبوا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15 Jumādá II 1153
Extent:

Codex; ff. 5+i

37239. Or 15648

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15648
Title:
Calligraphic Qur'an with Persian translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1250-1349
Extent:
45 ff.

37240. Or 15650

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15650
Title:
[Dürretü’t-tac fi sireti sahibi’l-mi‘rac] - [درة التاج في سيرة صاحب المعراج]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an account of the life of the Prophet Muhammad up to his migration to Medina and building of the Quba mosque on the city’s outskirts. It was authored by the renowned Ottoman writer and poet Üveys ibn-i Mehmed, whose mahlas was Veysi (died 1037 AH/1628 CE). The work is common...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1089
Extent:
1 text, 139 ff

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