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032-003390346 Language Arabic

1. 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

2. Or 6880, f 237r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 237r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Poem, badly faded
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

3. Or 6880, f 317r-317v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 317r-317v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
A charm for memory and understanding
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

4. Or 6880, ff 294r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 294r
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
A charm for memory and understanding: "whoever writes it out and imbibes it will remember everything they hear". Underneath is a talismanic device resembling a diagram or map, perhaps a representation of the charm.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

5. Or 6880, f 297v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 297v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
A charm for memory and understanding. Mention of cow and goat tongue.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

6. Or 6880, f 331r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 331r
Title:
Talisman
Scope & Content:
A talisman to resolve (or cause?) the separation of a man and woman. Space for a man's name and woman's within a square border over-written with biblical names and archangels. Note: folio upside down.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

7. Or 6880, f 331v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 331v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
Instructions for the writing out and drinking of certain ayahs for a woman to conceive a child, even if she is old. Accompanying number square filled with letters.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

8. Or 6880, f 320v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 320v
Title:
Curse
Scope & Content:
A curse beseeching God to bring ruin and death upon an unnamed family
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

9. Or 6880, f 321r-321v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 321r-321v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
An amulet, or instructions for writing one. When written in the blood of a white chicken and worn, it is said to bring blessing and success in commercial transactions. What follows is a reminder that God has forbidden usury. Verso: a love amulet, with spaces for "name of woman".
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

10. Or 6880, f 328r-328v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 328r-328v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
An amulet to cure stomach problems, perhaps caused by a spirit. Instructions include supplications to several spirits or trees with non-Arabic names and eating or drinking medicine prepared with them.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

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