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201. Or 5566B

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5566B
Title:
Genizah fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
0900-1880
Extent:
34 folios

202. Or 5566C

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5566C
Title:
Genizah fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
0900-1880
Extent:
20 folios

203. Or 5566D

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5566D
Title:
Genizah fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
0900-1880
Extent:
35 folios

204. Or 6471

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6471
Title:
Treatise on magic, astrology and the calendar
Scope & Content:
An Armenian manuscript containing: ff.1r-261v A treatise on magic, astrology and the calendar. The individual texts are very varied and feature tables and decorations. Highlights include: ff.40r-45v Full-page pictures of the zodiacal signs ff.48r-95v Tables of five columns, four rows (not i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1610
Extent:
1 item, 263 ff

205. Or 6473

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473
Title:
Collection of Arabic works from the Senegambian region I
Scope & Content:
A volume of 34 separate works from West Africa bound together by the BL in 1905 after acquisition in 1903 from a Julius Bertram. Some watermarks bear a date of 1819. Most works concern fiqh, Islamic law and tawḥīd and were basic instructional texts for use in Islamic education. Most of the later ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
286 ff

206. Or 6559

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6559
Title:
Collection of Arabic material from the Asante Kingdom, Kumasi, Ghana
Scope & Content:
A bound collection of manuscript material from Kumasi, Ghana, dating from the mid-19th century and associated with the Asante Kingdom. The majority of the works are Fāwāʾid (Ar Benefit). These are single folio works giving instructions for preparing an amulet or other ritual practices to produce ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
251 ff

207. Or 6573

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6573
Title:
Qur’ān with commentary
Scope & Content:
An eleventh- or twelfth-century Qur’ān, from Iraq or Persia, written on paper in the Qarmatian style of eastern kufic script. The Persian commentary is written in a naskh hand and is possibly slightly later. Qur’ān contains sections (juz’) 16-18 which corresponds to Sūrahs 18.75 - 25.22.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 246

208. Or 6774

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6774
Title:
[Duʿāʾ lil-musāfirīn]
Scope & Content:
Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

209. Or 6817

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6817
Title:
al-Murshid - المرشد
Scope & Content:
This still largely unpublished tract was composed by a Western Syriac (Jacobite) physician and scholar commonly known as Abū Naṣr Yaḥyā ibn Jarīr al-Takrītī (d. 1103/4 CE), who seems to have been active in Mayyāfāriqīn in Upper Mesopotamia. It is a theological work in which the author explains c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1357-58
Extent:
Codex; ff. 290

210. Or 6880

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880
Title:
Collection of West African Arabic manuscripts
Scope & Content:
This is a volume of West African Arabic manuscripts from the 18th or 19th century containing around 18 complete works, amongst them copies of Arabic literary works, pre-Islamic poetry, works on Arabic grammar, biographies of the Prophet Muhammad and Sufi works (Tījānī and Qādirī). Several are fin...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
337 ff

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