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Project / Collection West African Arabic Manuscripts 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 6473

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473
Title:
Collection of Arabic works from the Senegambian region I
Scope & Content:
A volume of 34 separate works from West Africa bound together by the BL in 1905 after acquisition in 1903 from a Julius Bertram. Some watermarks bear a date of 1819. Most works concern fiqh, Islamic law and tawḥīd and were basic instructional texts for use in Islamic education. Most of the later ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
286 ff

3. Or 6559

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6559
Title:
Collection of Arabic material from the Asante Kingdom, Kumasi, Ghana
Scope & Content:
A bound collection of manuscript material from Kumasi, Ghana, dating from the mid-19th century and associated with the Asante Kingdom. The majority of the works are Fāwāʾid (Ar Benefit). These are single folio works giving instructions for preparing an amulet or other ritual practices to produce ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
251 ff

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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