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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, ff 269r-273v
Title:: قصيدة تَفُتُّ فُؤادَكَ الأَيّامُ فَتّا Tafuttu Fuʾādaka al-Ayyām Fittan
Scope & Content:: A qaṣīdah by the Andalusian Abī Isḥāq al-Albīrī (d. 1065/6) composed for his son concerning the merits of learning and its application. The colophon gives the owner as Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Suwaré. Two lines of poetry encased in red box and circles by a later hand on f. 270v. Signification uncl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 5 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4897, ff 276r-279v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Section of a work, mentioning the Tajsīm of Abū al-Maʿālī al-Malik al-Jawīnī, a work on creed.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4945
Title:: Qur’ān
Scope & Content:: Part (juz’) 25 of the Qur’ān commissioned by the Ilkhanid ruler Sultan Uljaytu. Written in a fine large gold muḥaqqaq script, outlined in black, with illuminated frontispiece. Mosul, 710 AH (1310/11).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1310-1311
Extent:: Codex; ff. 51

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5085
Title:: አቡሻክር, Abušāker and the Explanation of the Book of Ezekiel.
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing:: ff. 2r-185r. Chronological work of አቡሻክር, Abušākǝr. ff. 186-192r. Explanation of the Book of Ezekiel. ff. 192v-194r. Daniel XI. Kings of the North and South .
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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