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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, f 305v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Instructions for a talisman for writing with the name of one's enemy
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, f 307r-307v
Title:: Ritual Practice
Scope & Content:: Succession of magic words, or words in an ʿajamī language. On f.307v, instructions for the writing of a magic name, with five squares made with the word Muḥammad.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, ff 1r-24v
Title:: Kitān Ibn Abī Maḥallī كتاب ابن أبي محلي
Scope & Content:: A work on tawḥīd by the fiqh scholar Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Abī Maḥallī (1389-1459). The colophon gives Abū Bakr Dramé as the copyist.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 25 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, ff 25r-44r
Title:: الحمد لله الذي فضل أهل المعرفة و الهداية al-ḥamdu Allāh alladhī faḍala ahl al-maʿrifah wa al-hidāyah
Scope & Content:: A work on tawḥīd by Yūsuf Ibn Abū Bakr Ibn Mūsa Ibn Yūsuf
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 20 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, ff 45r-59v
Title:: Unidentified work on tawḥīd
Scope & Content:: A book on tawḥīd written (or copied) by Muḥammad Kata Dramé for his brother, Abu Bakr Suwaré. On f59v: small personalised sketch of the flames of hell and personal note calling Abu Bark to take care of his spiritual and physical health and stay close to his family and tribe. Note diagram on f 52v.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 15 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, ff 60r-76v
Title:: قال الشيخ السنوسي التوحيد أشرف من الفقه و التصوف و جميع العلومqāl al-shaykh al-Sanūsī al-tawḥīd ashraf min al-fiqh wa al-taṣawwuf wa jamīʿ al-ʿulūm
Scope & Content:: A book on tawḥīd by Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490). Fine geometric drawings on f 68v-69v. Small text on f 69 running vertically and horizontally that has been filled in with ink in a spider's web pattern, to form a border for present work. The work was "copied by its owner, Fodio Ibn ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 17 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, ff 77v-88v
Title:: al-Muqaddimah li-Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī المقدمة لمحمد ابن يوسف السنوسي
Scope & Content:: The "preface" of Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490), a work explaining the basic tenets of the Islamic faith with extensive commentary by the same hand. The book was copied by Bubakar Fadika, son of Hā Suwaré.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 12 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, ff 89r-101v
Title:: Selection of Ḥadīth from the collection of Abū Muṭīʿ al-Balkhī
Scope & Content:: A work of hadith by Abū Muṭīʿ al-Balkhī (730–814). The colophon gives Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Suwaré, son of Fāṭima Fādakī as the copyist. Further notes on the text on f 101v.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 13 ff

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