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51. Or 6992

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

52. Or 7718

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

53. Or 7922

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

54. Or 8612

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8612
Title:
Epistles of Paul
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains one the earliest translations of the Pauline Epistles into Arabic and is written in a rather ancient script. The main part of the codex is still in St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai. Smaller units that were separated from it are today found in Paris and Munich whereas a p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
Codex; fols. 40

55. Or 8746

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8746
Title:
Section of a West African Qur'an
Scope & Content:
This work is a section of the Qur'an copied in West Africa (probably Nigeria) running from Sūra 16 (al-Naḥal) to partway through Sūra 21 (al-ʾAnbiyāʾ). The hand is regular but not ornate. Only two colours - black and red - are used. Verse endings are represented by a single black circle, not a ye...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
43 ff

56. Or 12127

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12127
Title:
[Signature of Shaykh Shibli]
Scope & Content:
A brief note in Arabic by Shaykh Shibli of the Druze, as well as his signature in Latin script, followed by an explanation of the text and its context. The Arabic text appears to read: يمكن بينى وبينك اعهد مثل براهيمThe English text below explains that this was written during an interview at al-A...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 text, 2 ff

57. Or 12809

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12809
Title:
al-Qurʼān القرآن
Scope & Content:
Subject: Qurʼan--Manuscripts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
792
Extent:
1 item

58. Or 13284

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13284
Title:
West African Qur'an
Scope & Content:
The first 23 folios are part of a richly illuminated copy of the Qur'an, with marginal gloss. From West Africa, probably Nigeria. After the 23rd folio, this is a less refined copy. Trefoils in red ink with yellow filling after each verse, and after every fifth verse a hāʾ/number five in black fil...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
558 ff

59. Or 15894

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15894
Title:
Վկայութիւնք Vkayut'iwnk' Catechism, textbook of disputation, by Yovhannēs Mrk'uz Jughayets'i
Scope & Content:
An Armenian manuscript containing: Quotations from the Bible in Armenian and Arabic on facing pages, written by Yovhannēs Mrk'uz Jughayets'i (1643-1715), under four headers. f.1r Witnesses concerning the coming of Christ into the world f.25r Concerning the death of Christ, Witnesses from the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Armenian
Date Range:
1643-1715
Extent:
1 item, 68 ff

60. Papyrus 1347

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1347
Title:
Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1350, TM 19808)
Scope & Content:
Letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, requesting a report on the sailors who had gone on the raiding fleet to Africa: more specifically, the number of those who had returned to Basilius’s administrative district and of those who had stayed in Africa (with rea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
29 January 710
Extent:
Medium-dark brown papyrus, broken off at the top, with detached fragment at the top; with few holes, especially along the right edge, but otherwise well preserved; written on both sides. The front bears 16 lines written across the fibres transversa charta; the first line is in Arabic. Lower and side margins are minimal. On the back, there is a one-line docket written along the fibres at the top. Horizontal folds are still visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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