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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6953, ff 218v-234r
Title:: Thirty Ḥadīth Qudsī
Scope & Content:: Thirty Ḥadīth Qudsī. The owner is given as Muḥammad al-Bukhārī Ibn ʿAlī (Owner) and the copyist as Muḥammad al-Amīn Ibn Muḥammad.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 16 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6953, ff 235r-249v
Title:: Kitāb al-wāʿiẓ كتاب الواعظ
Scope & Content:: "The Book of the Preacher". Compilation of hadith concerning sermons and mosque preaching. Whereas the contents are not original, the arrangement was perhaps conceived locally. Anonymous note of purchase after colophon. Muḥammad al-Awwal Ibn Ibrāhīm and Ibrāhīm Ibn Ḥanīd (or Junayd) are given as ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 14 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6953, ff 250v-254 v
Title:: قصيدة تَفُتُّ فُؤادَكَ الأَيّامُ فَتّا Tafuttu Fuʾādaka al-Ayyām Fittan
Scope & Content:: A qaṣīdah by the Andalusian Abī Isḥāq al-Albīrī (d. 1065/6) composed for his son, concerning the merits of learning and its application.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6953, ff 255r-278v
Title:: الآجرومية al-Ājurrūmīyah
Scope & Content:: A major work on Arabic grammar by the Moroccan Ibn Ājurrūm al-Ṣanhājī (1273-1323), who put the principles of Arabic grammar into verse form. The copy has copious and erudite notation no doubt added locally, perhaps a commentary or extended explanation.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 23 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6953, ff 279r-294r
Title:: روض الجنان Rawḍ al-Jinān
Scope & Content:: "The Meadows of Paradise", a book recalling the miracles/good deeds of Sheikh Usman dan Fodio, the leader of the Fulani Jihad in Sokoto. It was written by the chief minister of Sokoto under second Amīr al-Muʾminīn Muḥammad Bello, Gidado dan Layma. It was compiled sometime after the death of Usman...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 15 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7368
Title:: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح المجسطي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Commentary on Ptolemy's (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), said to be by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī (أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان الفارابي; ca 870-950), but in fact by Avicenna (أبو علي بن سينا; ca 980-1037). Notes on front paper iii verso and ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 628
Extent:: Codex; ff. iiii+106+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7470
Title:: A literary anthology and a treatise on hippiatry
Scope & Content:: (1) Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī (ابن حجة الحموي، تقي الدين أبو بكر بن علي), Thimār al-awrāq (ثمار الأوراق, ff. 2r-184v); (2) al-Yaḥyāwīyah fī ḥubb khayr al-barīyah (اليحياوية في حب خير البرية, ff. 185r-207v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Rabīʿ I 893
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+207+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7470, ff 2r-184v
Title:: Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʿAlī ابن حجة الحموي، تقي الدين أبو بكر بن علي Thimār al-awrāq ثمار الأوراق
Scope & Content:: A compilation of historical anecdotes and poetic quotations from many sources. Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-5): قال الشيخ الإمام علامة الأعلام حجة العرب وترجمان الأدب قاضي الأدب وفاضله تقي الدين رحلة الطالبين مسلك المتأدبين أبو بكر بن حجة الحنفي منشئ دواوين الإنشاء الشريف بالممالك الإسلام تغمده ال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 2r-184v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7470, ff 185r-207v
Title:: al-Yaḥyāwīyah fī ḥubb khayr al-barīyah اليحياوية في حب خير البرية
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on hippiatry entitled Treatise for Yaḥyá, on Love for the Best of Creation (اليحياوية في حب خير البرية, f. 185v, line 13). The copy was completed on 18 Rabīʿ I 893/ 2 March 1488 by the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāḍir ibn al-Ḥaydar (علي بن محمد بن الحاضر بن الحيضر, see coloph...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Rabīʿ I 893
Extent:: Ff. 185r-207v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7499
Title:: منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá
Scope & Content:: Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94). This copy was completed in Rajab 489 (June-July 1096) by Hi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 489
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+239+i

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