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Very fine West African copy of the Qur'an. Presented to Lieutenant Lancelot Heygate, Royal Engineers, in Nigeria by Serikim Owdu (?) of Makurdi, Benue River, Nigeria around 1916 and sent by him to his father, Canon Ambrose Heygate, in Cheshire, with a letter detailing provenance. The letter says ...
Compendium of Arabic texts, from Tiro, Aceh. Contents: ff.1r-2r: Ilm al-mantiq, author describes himself as ‘abid al-rahman. In Arabic, poetical text using the rajaz metre on logic; incomplete. 7 lines per page; lacking beginning; colophon on f.2r gives date of copying as Muharam 1309 (August ...
Compendium of texts in Arabic, with notes in Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: f.1r: notes ff.2r-3v: loose fragment of a text in Arabic; incomplete. ff.4r-52v: [Ilmu nahwu], anonymous text on grammar (incomplete; lacking beginning and end), with marginal annotations; f.27v copied up...
Compendium of textxs in Arabic and Malay, from Aceh
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Compendium of texts in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: f.1r: note in Arabic (written diagonally upside down). ff.1v-28v: al-Adwa' al-bahjah fi ibraz daqa'iq al-munfarijah, by Yahya Zayn al-Din Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ansari, on ethics, a commentary (sharh) on ...
Fath al-qarīb al-mujīb fī sharh alfāz al-taqrīb, by Shams al-Dīn Muhammad Ibn Qāsim al-Ghazī. Dated 1208 (1793/94 AD), copied by Sa‘id bin ‘Aud; a MS from Aceh. Contents: a fiqh text on Shafi’i law, in Arabic. ff.1r-1v: various notes ff.2r-97v: Fath al-mujīb; title on f.2r: Fath al-mujīb fi ...
Kitab maju’ al-masa’il, in Malay in Jawi script, with notes in Arabic, a MS from Aceh. ff.1v-2r: Doa kamilin, prayers and zikir, Ini adalah doa Kamilin yang sangat terkenal dan biasanya dibaca di antara shalat tarawih dan shalat witir pada bulan Ramadhan. In Arabic. ff.2v-13v: Kitab majmu‘ al...
Compendium of texts in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script. ff.1r-42v: Arabic text on wahdat al-wujud, the doctrine of seven grades of being, with brief marginal explanations in Malay, with some diagrams and tables; incomplete. ff.43r-55v: Text in Arabic. ff.56r-58r: Fragments in Arabic. ff.58v...
3 loose fragments in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: A. ff.1r-14r: Qur’an, extract (S. al-Baqarah, Q.2:8-2.?); incomplete. Note on f.14v: hadha hadiah Qur’an Sing Sih anak Lamtikam Lamki [?]. 11 lines, thumn and rub‘ marked in the margin in red ink. B. ff.15r-16v: fr...
In Arabic and Malay in Jawi script. Kitab maulud, devotional work on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, a MS from Aceh. f.2r: note: Hadha al-kitab waqf Haji Abdul Ghani ff.2v-5v: Blessings and al-Fatihah upon the Prophet, the four rightly-guided caliphs, Syaikh Abdul Hadi al-Sudi, Syaikh Muhyiu...
Miscellany (majmu’) on religious matters, in Arabic and Malay, from Aceh
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Miscellany (majmu’) on religious matters, in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh Contents: f.1r: Note: Bermula teunebus gala Leubee Muhammad Lam Cot yang telah thabit pada tangan hamba itu dua puluh enam mas. ff.1v-28v: work by Syaikh Abdul Rauf ibn Ali, on wahdat al-wujud, mentioning...
