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1. Add MS 88942/1/40

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Add MS 88942/1/40
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Seven Champions of Christendom / A Poem')
Scope & Content:
This early notebook contains a poem (two pages long) entitled ‘The Seven Champions of Christendom’. Only a few more pages in the notebook are used. They contain miscellaneous notes including a brief word list in French and, upside-down, a brief account list. One page seems to be written by Lady ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 7 pages of text)

2. Add MS 89270

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89270
Title:
Correspondence between John Masefield and Marta Hodgkiss
Scope & Content:
Manuscript letters from John Masefield to Mrs Marta Hodgkiss, of Liphook, and later Gosport, Hampshire (with envelopes), and typescript carbon copy replies from Hodgkiss to Masefield. Apart from two letters in 1957, the correspondence chiefly dates from 1961 to 1967. The letters concern Masefield...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1957-Apr 1967
Extent:
3 files

3. Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v
Title:
Refutation of an anonymous poem excusing disbelief in God Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ابن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم
Scope & Content:
The text begins with eight lines of a poem in which the anonymous poet tries to excuse his disbelief in God (f. 4v, lines 2-9), and continues with a refutation of the poet's points by the theologian Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah (تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية; AD 1263-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 4v-9v

4. EAP352/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP352/1
Title:
The Surau Haji Muhammad Said Bonjol Collection [1800s to 1900s]
Scope & Content:
12 manuscripts dealing with tasawuf (Sufi doctrine), ritual practice, history and literature of two brotherhoods: Naqshbandiyah and Shattariyah. Texts of the manuscripts are used for teaching and ritual processes as well as fiqh. Physical characteristics: European and Indonesian paper. The cond...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Javanese, Malay, and Minangkabau
Date Range:
1800-1918
Extent:
706 tiff images

5. EAP352/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP352/1/1
Title:
Syair Tasawuf [25 Jumadil Akhir 1300H (1918)]
Scope & Content:
Colophon: 25 Jumadil Akhir 1300H (1918); text deals with Sufi doctrine in poetical form (syair) Physical characteristics: The size of the manuscript 16X21sm; 24 lines on the page: European paper; without watermarks; cover made of handpaper; condition is rather good ; the text is readable
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Minangkabau
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
65 tiff images

6. EAP352/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP352/8
Title:
Kutubchanah Sheikh Amdul Karim Amrullah Collection
Scope & Content:
EAP352/8/1: Treatise on Minangkabau customs and laws EAP352/8/2: السوانح الجازمة في التعاريف اللازمة al-Sawāniḥ al-jāzimah fī-l-taʻārīf al-lāzimah EAP352/8/3: Mixed texts EAP352/8/4: Mukhtaṣar maṭlaʻ al-sa'id EAP352/8/5: Regulations EAP352/8/6: Correspondence EAP352/8/7: Correspondence EAP352/8/...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, Malay, and Minangkabau
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
452 tiff images

7. EAP352/8/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP352/8/9
Title:
Poetry?
Scope & Content:
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
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
64 tiff images

8. EAP352/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP352/11
Title:
Surau Tinggi Amdul Karim Taram Collection
Scope & Content:
5 manuscripts EAP352/11/1: Manusciprt - stamped leather binding, mistarah. Arabic tract on the nature of knowledge, attributes of god, wujud EAP352/11/2: Manuscript – Title not supplied EAP352/11/3: Al-Fawākih al-Jānnīyah ʻalá Mutammimah al-Ājurrūmīyah EAP352/11/4: Kitab sharh Shams al-Din Abi ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Malay
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
2049 tiff images

9. EAP352/11/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP352/11/2
Title:
Manuscript – Texts on faith, poetry, prophets and other subjects
Scope & Content:
6-33: Malay work on faith; 34-38: Malay poetry in couplets dated 20 June 1976; 40: Arabc verses on God; 41 Arabic text on earthquakes and eclipses; 42-48: list of prophets/biblical figures?; 49- 77, copy of a commentary on the Risalah of Shaykh Wali Raslan (on tawhid) by Zakariyya al-Ansari and ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Malay
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
138 tiff images

10. EAP387/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP387/1
Title:
Muhammad Bashir Abubakar Collection of Fulfulde Jihad Poetry [18 - 19th centuries]
Scope & Content:
This collection contains 242 poems. Some of the poets are known and include: Hassan Ahmadu Ganye; Usman dan Fodio; Naana Asmaa''u Fodio (daughter of Usman dan Fodio); Moodibo Raaji (who stayed with Usman dan Fodio in Sokkoto and migrated to Aadamaawa); Taanu Mo Iililel (student of Moodibo Raaji);...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Fulah
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
242 items with an average of 6 TIFF files, each item contains separate photographs of all the pages of the poem/manuscript encoded in the item number. The abbreviations and numbers of the poems are taken from the notes present in the collection, written by Bashir and Dr. Sannu, in addition page numbers have been added to identify which page of the manuscript is on the photo.

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