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[Manuscript containing two texts related to Mevlana Rumi]
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This volume contains the following two works: (1) 3v-37v, Fatihü’l-ebyat – فاتح الابيات This is İsmail Rusuhi Ankaravi’s (died 1041 AH/1631 CE) commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the first eighteen beyitler of Mevlana Rumi’s (died 672 AH/1273 CE) Mesnevi. (2) 38v-138r: [Risāla-i Sipahsālār] – [...
This section (3v-37v) contains a commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the first eighteen beyitler of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi’s (died 672 AH/1273 CE) classic Mesnevi-i ma‘nevi. It also includes explanations of some difficult points and words from elsewhere in the Mesnevi. The commentary was authore...
Islamic texts in Arabic with interlinear Javanese translations
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Islamic religious texts in Arabic with interlinear Javanese translations and marginal notations. A: f. 1r. incomplete verses of Sūrat al-Baqarah: 163 and 255 (ayat Kursi), commonly read during dhikr and for other purposes, including tahlil. B and C: ff. 1v.-17r. Umm al-barāhin by Abū ‘Abd All...
Islamic texts in Arabic with interlinear Javanese translations
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Islamic religious texts in Arabic with interlinear Javanese translations and marginal notations. A: ff. 1v.-2r. and f.51v. appear to belong together. The present a chart dealing with three types of hukm (law) in Javanese, namely (1) syarak lima, (2) [not seen here, but implicitly hukum akal] an...
Very fine West African copy of the Qur'an. Presented to Lieutenant Lancelot Heygate, Royal Engineers, in Nigeria by Serikim Owdu (?) of Makurdi, Benue River, Nigeria around 1916 and sent by him to his father, Canon Ambrose Heygate, in Cheshire, with a letter detailing provenance. The letter says ...
Compendium of Arabic texts, from Tiro, Aceh. Contents: ff.1r-2r: Ilm al-mantiq, author describes himself as ‘abid al-rahman. In Arabic, poetical text using the rajaz metre on logic; incomplete. 7 lines per page; lacking beginning; colophon on f.2r gives date of copying as Muharam 1309 (August ...
Compendium of texts in Arabic, with notes in Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: f.1r: notes ff.2r-3v: loose fragment of a text in Arabic; incomplete. ff.4r-52v: [Ilmu nahwu], anonymous text on grammar (incomplete; lacking beginning and end), with marginal annotations; f.27v copied up...
Compendium of textxs in Arabic and Malay, from Aceh
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Compendium of texts in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: f.1r: note in Arabic (written diagonally upside down). ff.1v-28v: al-Adwa' al-bahjah fi ibraz daqa'iq al-munfarijah, by Yahya Zayn al-Din Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ansari, on ethics, a commentary (sharh) on ...
Fath al-qarīb al-mujīb fī sharh alfāz al-taqrīb, by Shams al-Dīn Muhammad Ibn Qāsim al-Ghazī. Dated 1208 (1793/94 AD), copied by Sa‘id bin ‘Aud; a MS from Aceh. Contents: a fiqh text on Shafi’i law, in Arabic. ff.1r-1v: various notes ff.2r-97v: Fath al-mujīb; title on f.2r: Fath al-mujīb fi ...
Kitab maju’ al-masa’il, in Malay in Jawi script, with notes in Arabic, a MS from Aceh. ff.1v-2r: Doa kamilin, prayers and zikir, Ini adalah doa Kamilin yang sangat terkenal dan biasanya dibaca di antara shalat tarawih dan shalat witir pada bulan Ramadhan. In Arabic. ff.2v-13v: Kitab majmu‘ al...
