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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6992
Title:: West African Illuminated Qur'an
Scope & Content:: Illuminated Qur'an. The original catalogue reference reports that the Qur'an was copied by a Hausa scribe. It is unclear where this information came from, but the manuscript is definitely of West African origin, probably Nigeria. The script is uniform but not especially refined. The script and pa...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 499 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7718
Title:: Unwān al-majd fī taʾrīkh najd By ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bishr al-Ḥanbalī.
Scope & Content:: A history of Nejd from the middle of the 18th to the 19th century.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1853-54
Extent:: Codex; ff. 258

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7922
Title:: Durrat al-tāj wa-sullam al-mi‘rāj fī dhikr tā’rīkh al-maqarr al-ashraf al-jalīl al-mu‘aẓẓam al-faḍīl درّة التاح وسلّم المعراج في ذكر تأريخ المقرّ الأشرف الجليل المعظّم الفضيل Ibn Naṣr, Sulaymān ibn Ḥusayn ابن نصر، سليمان ابن حسين
Scope & Content:: Biography of the Druze Shaykh Amīr Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Allāh al-Tanūkhī (الأمير جمال الدين عبد الله التنوخي; d. 1479).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+140+i