This is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue while we continue to recover from a cyber-attack.
This catalogue is currently browse-only. The collection item request form is not available at the moment but will be reopened from Monday 15 December. Find out more about our current collection access suspension.
Compendium of texts in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script. ff.1r-42v: Arabic text on wahdat al-wujud, the doctrine of seven grades of being, with brief marginal explanations in Malay, with some diagrams and tables; incomplete. ff.43r-55v: Text in Arabic. ff.56r-58r: Fragments in Arabic. ff.58v...
3 loose fragments in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh. Contents: A. ff.1r-14r: Qur’an, extract (S. al-Baqarah, Q.2:8-2.?); incomplete. Note on f.14v: hadha hadiah Qur’an Sing Sih anak Lamtikam Lamki [?]. 11 lines, thumn and rub‘ marked in the margin in red ink. B. ff.15r-16v: fr...
In Arabic and Malay in Jawi script. Kitab maulud, devotional work on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, a MS from Aceh. f.2r: note: Hadha al-kitab waqf Haji Abdul Ghani ff.2v-5v: Blessings and al-Fatihah upon the Prophet, the four rightly-guided caliphs, Syaikh Abdul Hadi al-Sudi, Syaikh Muhyiu...
Miscellany (majmu’) on religious matters, in Arabic and Malay, from Aceh
Scope & Content:
Miscellany (majmu’) on religious matters, in Arabic and Malay in Jawi script, from Aceh Contents: f.1r: Note: Bermula teunebus gala Leubee Muhammad Lam Cot yang telah thabit pada tangan hamba itu dua puluh enam mas. ff.1v-28v: work by Syaikh Abdul Rauf ibn Ali, on wahdat al-wujud, mentioning...
ff. 1r-179r A history of the Ottoman dynasty from Osman Bey (611 AH/1214 CE) to Sultan Murad Khan (995 AH / 1586 CE). The full title of the work is as follows: كتاب تحفة ال الاصحاب والاقران في تاريخ العثمان تصنيف الامام الفاضل المورخ محمد بن على الشهير بسباهى زاده اعطاه الله الخير وزياده ارخ ...
Ijāza for the recitation and teaching of the Dalā’il al-khayrāt
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an ijāza, or license, authorising the recipient, Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm Adham ibn Ḥusayn Rustam al-Ṭirnawawī (of Tarnovo), to recite and teach the Dalā’il al-khayrāt. The Dalā’il was composed by the Moroccan Sufi Muhammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī (died 870 AH/1465 CE). It went on to be...
Part of a manuscript containing Sures of the Qur’an together with an interlinear Turkish translation of great interest; and early copies of some treatises on Islamic subjects. Folios 1r-50r contain verses from Sūret Yā Sīn (36), from āyet 39 to 47, then from Sūret el-Fetiḥ (48), and el-Mülk (67)...
This volume contains a rare treatise in Arabic on the jurisprudence of apportioning inheritances according to the Hanafi madhhab. A heading on the opening page states that the work was authored by a little known figure, Qirshahirlī Ali Riḍā’ Efendi (Turkish: Kırşehirli Ali Rıza Efendi). The tex...
