A Garshuni translation of Bar Hebraeus'' work Menarat Qudše, "the Lamp of the Sanctuary". ff. 1-4v : Various illustrations of the Cross as the Tree of Life. f. 5v. : The cross with a guide the views of the main Eastern Christian sects on the nature of Christ f. 6r: A map of the Temple f. 6v:...
An abridgement, without maps, of the Book of Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands (نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق) completed in 1157 or 58 by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī al-Qurṭubī (أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي القرطبي, c.1100-1166) and also known as the Kitāb Rujār (Book of Roger) for its pa...
Collection of Arabic works from the Senegambian region II
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A bound volume of around 20 works followed by single pages and fragments of larger works and some Fāwāʾid and ritual practices, bought from Sir Henry Rawlinson in 1895 and probably bound shortly after acquisition. Complete works mainly on fiqh, tawḥīd, hadith and Sufism, with several works by Muḥ...
"The Book of Beasts". A list of animals (elephant, rabbit, scorpion, frog) linked in some way to specific transgressions (drinking alcohol, et cetera).
علي بن محمد المنوفي الشاذلي المالكي ʿAlī Ibn Muḥammad al-Manūfī al-Shādhilī al-Mālikī تحفة المصلي Tuḥfat al-Muṣallī
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"The Masterpiece of the Worshipper", a work on prayer by Abī Ḥasan ʿAli al-Māliki al-Shādhilī (1196 – 1258). Final page only. The colophon gives Sīka Kūmāwa Ibn Muḥammad Siri as the copyist. The name of the owner has been erased.
Qur'an 20:55 "From the earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time." Accompanied by name. Purpose unclear
Colophon of a missing work entitled Kitāb al-Burhān, followed by work in an untidy hand listing names of the Abrahamic prophets. The colphon gives the owner as Maḥmūd Ṭūru Ibn Abū Bakr, son of ʿĀʾisha Kanāmī.
