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Project / Collection West African Arabic Manuscripts Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) Level [32] Fonds

1. Or 4897

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897
Title:
Collection of Arabic works from the Senegambian region II
Scope & Content:
A bound volume of around 20 works followed by single pages and fragments of larger works and some Fāwāʾid and ritual practices, bought from Sir Henry Rawlinson in 1895 and probably bound shortly after acquisition. Complete works mainly on fiqh, tawḥīd, hadith and Sufism, with several works by Muḥ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
307 ff

2. Or 6575

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6575
Title:
West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt
Scope & Content:
A finely copied and illuminated West African edition of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular prayer book by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). The work is illuminated by illuminations on folios 2v, 65v, 77r, 99v, 128r and 147r, many of them consisting of a square of geometric design...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
177 ff

3. Or 6576

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6576
Title:
Kitāb al-Balagh al-Minan كتاب البلغ المنى
Scope & Content:
An instruction book for the preparation of amulets, talismans and other supernatural protective devices which the copyist calls kitāb al-balagh al-minan, roughly translated "The Book of Attaining Destiny". Folios 1-4 concern the methods of preparation, while the rest of the work consists of 4x4 n...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
62 ff

4. Or 6953

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953
Title:
Collection of Arabic works of West African provenance
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fourteen separate works in Arabic from West Africa. Among them are four works on Maliki law, one on tawḥīd, two works on Arabic grammar, two poems, three works on hadith and one on Qādirī Sufism. The last work is the Rawḍ al-Jinān composed by the Wazīr of Sokoto, Gidado dan L...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
294 ff

5. Or 13706

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13706
Title:
West African Illuminated Qur'an and Carrying Case
Scope & Content:
A richly illuminated copy of the Qur'an, probably Hausa. Probably from Nigeria. The writing style is not consistent, changing slightly in size and style throughout. There are some additions and crossings out in a later hand as well as pre-BL repairs, suggesting the book was passed down to several...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
582 ff

6. Or 16924

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16924
Title:
West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt with Carrying Case
Scope & Content:
Richly illuminated West African copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular book of devotional prayers to the Prophet Muhammad written by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). Probably copied in Nigeria. Features full page illuminations (ff. 1v 2r 31v, 87v, 143v, 180v) and half-page i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
214 ff

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