Part of a treatise on Minangkabau customs, listed from number 77 to 131. Pages numbered 258-460 (some folios out of order towards end). Physical characteristics: Black ink on paper. Water-damaged towards end of volume.
السوانح الجازمة في التعاريف اللازمة al-Sawāniḥ al-jāzimah fī-l-taʻārīf al-lāzima
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A treatise on logic by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Mālikī (1870-1948). A colophon (image 39) records that this copy was completed on Sunday 14 Jumādá II 1321/6 Sept 1903 by Muḥammad ibn Ismaʻīl al-Maymanī, known as al-Shīnāwī. Dense marginal notes in Arabic in places, dated 1321 on image 35. A ...
Mixed texts: notes, texts, lists, tables and calculations in Arabic and Malay on various religious and personal subjects including reading the Qurʼān, the Prophet, prayer, and members of the writer's community. Individuals referenced include: Muḥammad Sālim al-Khālidī, ʻAbd al-Karīm, and Aḥmad K...
Mukhtaṣar Maṭlaʻ al-saʻid, a summary of Kitāb al-maṭlaʻ al-saʻīd fī ḥisābāt al-kawākib ʻalá al-raṣad al-jadīd, a work on calendrics and horology. Notes at the end of the volume record calculations for locations in the Malay peninsula and Sumatra. A colophon records that it was copied by ʻAbd al...
A one-page letter to ʻAbd al-Karīm Amr Allāh from Siti Afīyah, dated 22 September 1928 Physical characteristics: Black ink on lined notepaper Author: Siti Afīyah
A one-page letter to ʻAbd al-Karīm Amr Allāh from Rahma al-Bunsibah (?) Physical characteristics: Black ink on lined notepaper Author: Rahma al-Bunsibah (?)
Five pages of notes/lists/financial records. Stamp of 'Adam B. B. of Pasar Baroe, Padang Pandjang', and a date of 28 Dec 1932 (image 2). Date of 26 April 1933 on image 5. Physical characteristics: Pencil on lined notepaper, written in two columns
Malay poetry? Interspersed with various hadiths and sentences in Arabic regarding buying, selling and other transactions according to Islamic law. Physical characteristics: Pencil on paper, each page tall and narrow
A Malay rendering of al-Wathīqah al-Wafīyah, a Sufi tract in five parts. The author is ʻUthmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAqīl (image 1; d.1914. The date of publication (1303/1885) is shown in the colophon (image 19). Physical characteristics: Lithograph Author: `Uthmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAqīl ibn ...