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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 178r-203v
Title:: Surahs 78-114 of the Qur'an
Scope & Content:: Three different hands. The first with red and black trefoils for verse endings and a double circle after every 7-8 verses (not ten, as is usual). Rectilinear markings using Arabic letters in a grid, possibly for the purposes of ḥizb division. The second, beginning on f. 189, is in a less accompli...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 26 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 204r-213v
Title:: al-Ḥizb al-Kabīr
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy of the Ḥizb al-Kabīr (The Grand Invocation) of Abī Ḥasan ʿAli al-Māliki al-Shādhilī (1196 – 1258), founder of the Shādhiliyya Sufi order, with some erudite notation.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 10 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 214v-215v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Two praise works in a good example of a closely spaced Sahrawi hand. The second is incomplete.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 216r-217r
Title:: Ḥizb al-Baḥr
Scope & Content:: A section of the Ḥizb al-Baḥr ofAbī Ḥasan ʿAli al-Māliki al-Shādhilī (1196 – 1258). The final folio is half the size of the first, with the last sentences of the work written vertically.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 219r-220v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Various prayers, verses of the Qur'an and a number square written in the same hand, to get one out of difficulty and win people's favour.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 230r-231r
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Ritual practice to protect oneself against enemies followed by magic writing (joined words) and a number table
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 246r-247v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Fāʾidah to cure all manner of bodily ills and the necessary verses from the Qur'an to copy out, along with a number square. 247v is a separate Fāʾidah with a diagram containing the names of angels and Caliphs.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6573
Title:: Qur’ān with commentary
Scope & Content:: An eleventh- or twelfth-century Qur’ān, from Iraq or Persia, written on paper in the Qarmatian style of eastern kufic script. The Persian commentary is written in a naskh hand and is possibly slightly later. Qur’ān contains sections (juz’) 16-18 which corresponds to Sūrahs 18.75 - 25.22.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 246

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6575
Title:: West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt
Scope & Content:: A finely copied and illuminated West African edition of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular prayer book by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). The work is illuminated by illuminations on folios 2v, 65v, 77r, 99v, 128r and 147r, many of them consisting of a square of geometric design...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 177 ff

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