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1251. Or 4897, ff 280r-283v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 280r-283v
Title:
Short work on Numerology
Scope & Content:
A short work on numerology in ritual practice. The colophon gives Uthmān Dhat (?) as the owner and "al-Muṣṭafā Suwaré named Muḥammad Kayta" as the copyist.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

1252. Or 4897, ff 284r-286v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 284r-286v
Title:
Scope & Content:
A work on the correct procedure for prayer
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
3 ff

1253. Or 4897, ff 287r-288r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 287r-288r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Subject unclear, seems incomplete (no bismillāh or colophon), parts in Arabic but other parts in ʿajamī language or otherwise letter combinations for ritual practice.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

1254. Or 4897, ff 289r-290v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 289r-290v
Title:
قال نبي المرأة الجاهلية لها زوج أفضل عند الله من إمرأة عابدة Qāl nabī al-marʾah al-jāhilīyah lahā zawj afḍal ʿind Allah min imraʾah ʿābidah
Scope & Content:
A short treatise on marriage and the actions of wives towards their husbands. Incomplete work.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

1255. Or 4897, ff 291r-292r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 291r-292r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Short praise work for Muhammad
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

1256. Or 4897, ff 304r-305r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 304r-305r
Title:
Instructions for ritual practice
Scope & Content:
Instructions for ritual practices involving talisman (perhaps a filled-in talisman contained within the folded page). Sections of backwards and intercrossed writing. "There is no doubt in it, it has been tested, it is from the Shams al-Maʿārif (of al-Būnī?)"
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

1257. Or 5982

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5982
Title:
Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 19789-19790
Scope & Content:
Chapters 19789 and 19790 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1562-1572
Extent:
39 folios

1258. Or 6622

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6622
Title:
Primbon
Scope & Content:
On the basis of a brief examination. Dr. Th. G. Th. Pigeaud describes this as a primbon consisting of three or more parts, one part concerns medical lore and legal material; another contains Arabic in Javanese script. The MS seems to be of considerable antiquity. It is written on very thin and d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:
16th-17th century
Extent:
1 item; 27 folios

1259. Or 6953, f 250r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953, f 250r
Title:
Unidentified work
Scope & Content:
A didactic tale about a lion, a wolf and a hyrax who go hunting. Perhaps copied from an earlier work
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

1260. Or 6953, ff 1-22 v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953, ff 1-22 v
Title:
مختصر الأخضري Mukhtaṣar al-Akhḍarī
Scope & Content:
A copy of a work on fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Akhḍarī (1514 – 1546)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
22 ff

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