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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 6880

1. Or 6880

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880
Title:
Collection of West African Arabic manuscripts
Scope & Content:
This is a volume of West African Arabic manuscripts from the 18th or 19th century containing around 18 complete works, amongst them copies of Arabic literary works, pre-Islamic poetry, works on Arabic grammar, biographies of the Prophet Muhammad and Sufi works (Tījānī and Qādirī). Several are fin...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
337 ff

2. Or 6880, f 236v

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Or 6880, f 236v
Title:
A story from the history of al-Ṭabarī
Scope & Content:
A story concerning Moses meeting the devil with five donkeys taken from the "History of the Prophets and Kings" by Ṭabari (839–923). Below, several sentences mentioning the torments of the grave.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

3. Or 6880, f 237r

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Or 6880, f 237r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Poem, badly faded
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

4. Or 6880, f 271v

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Or 6880, f 271v
Title:
Scope & Content:
A short prayer asking for the intercession of God against anyone doing the creator harm. "Whoever wishes to do me harm, may God do him harm before he harms me."
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

5. Or 6880, f 297v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 297v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
A charm for memory and understanding. Mention of cow and goat tongue.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

6. Or 6880, f 311r-311v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 311r-311v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Single page of a poem or work of rhymed prose. Judging by the three tier verse structure, it may be a page from the Dīwān of al-Fāzzāzī (d.1230).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

7. Or 6880, f 312r-312v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 312r-312v
Title:
Dīwān al-Wasāʾil al-Mutaqabbilah ديوان الوسائل المتقبلة
Scope & Content:
The first page of the dīwān of al-Fāzzāzī (d.1230), containing praise poems for the Prophet, probably to be sung on the celebration of his birthday. The verso is a charm to avoid hellfire.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

8. Or 6880, f 313r-313v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 313r-313v
Title:
Single page from the Qur'an
Scope & Content:
A fine small Sudanic hand with rubricated vowel signs and yellow and red trefoils for marking of verses.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

9. Or 6880, f 314r-314v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 314r-314v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Seems to be a story about travelling in a foreign country, an account of an attack or perhaps a talisman to prevent this. Mention of King Umaru Ibn Adama. Badly damaged.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

10. Or 6880, f 315r-315v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 315r-315v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Page from a work in praise of Prophet Muhammad, followed by short poem denouncing infidels, with simple commentary by the same hand.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

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