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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12369
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Scope & Content:: A VOLUME in Bugis, apparently an European Calendar for the Years 1714 -1718, adapted to the Arabic months. Religious sentences in Arabic are intermixed. Folio. [12,369.] Calendars: An European calendar for 1714-1718, adapted to the Arabic months: Bugis. Bugis language and character: Mss. in the.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1714-1718
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12370
Title:: Bugis translation of Tanbih al-Ghafilin
Scope & Content:: Buginese translation of a part of the Arabic work Tanbīh al-Ghāfilīn by Abu'l-Laith as-Samarkandī. According to an Arabic note on f. 2r. the MS contains the middle part of the work, as-sijill al-wāsit min Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn, and, according to a Buginese note on f. 4r., the second part of the ‘ad...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 114 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12371
Title:: Akhbar al-akhira
Scope & Content:: A: ff. 86r.-25r. A Buginese translation of Akhbár al-ákhira by Nūr ad-Dīn ar-Rānīrī. Dated A.H. 1178 [A.D. 1764/5] (for this copy) and A.H. 1149 [A.D. 1736] (either for the original of which this is a copy or, less likely, for the date of the translation into Buginese). B: ff. 24r.-18v. A desc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1764
Extent:: 86 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12373
Title:: Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1793-1799
Scope & Content:: Diary running from Jan. 1793 to Dec. 1799 (a further year, presumably 1800, is filled in but without the year stated). The diarist must have been a person living in the immediate vicinity of the king of Bone. He reports upon meetings of the members of the high State College, and on events in the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1793-1799
Extent:: 110 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12374
Title:: Verses from the Quran in Arabic, with Bugis translation
Scope & Content:: Verses from the Qur’an in Arabic, with Buginese translation (ff. 2r.-53r., 58v.-59v., 61v.-68r., 69v.-70r), without translation (ff. 53v.-58r), and with partial Buginese translation (ff. 1r.-2r). 72 written ff. (thereafter further unnumbered ff). Quran, in Arabic and Bugis script. (This descr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 73 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14042
Title:: Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains a large section of rosaries and prayers dedicated to the Virgin Mary (ff. 5r-245v), followed by prayers dedicated to Christ and saints, and prayers for Communion. The manuscript contains a large number of pasted and sewn in coloured woodcuts and engravings....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle
Date Range:: 1517-1523
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14055
Title:: Kitāb al-ḥiyal fī al-ḥurūb wa-fatḥ al-madāʾin wa-ḥifẓ al-durūb كتاب الحيل في الحروب وفتح المدائن وحفظ الدروب Ibn Mankalī, Muḥammad ابن منكلي، محمد
Scope & Content:: A manual on the military arts supposed to have been discovered in the tomb of Alexander the Great at Alexandria and translated from Greek into Arabic (see ff. 2v, line 7-3r, line 2). In fact, the author is thought to be the mamluk general and tactician Muḥammad Ibn Mankalī or Ibn Manjlī (محمد ب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+224+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056
Title:: Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:: (1) Anonymous collection of lance drills (ff. 1v-10v); (2) Fragment of anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance (ff. 11r-18v); (3) Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah (كتاب في علم البيطرة; ff. 19r-123v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+124+vi

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v
Title:: Anonymous collection of lance drills
Scope & Content:: Collection of instructions for military drills for lancers. Each set of instructions for a drill is called a band (بند, pl. بنود). The fragment contains 26 bunūd most of which are attributed to companions of the Prophet. Although no title or author of the fragment is specified, it is probable th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 1v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v
Title:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance
Scope & Content:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance. The text is defective at beginning and end, starting abruptly in Chapter 1 (باب الأول) and ending just after the chapter heading for Chapter 7 (الباب السابع). Contents: Chapter 1 (ff 11r-13v, defective at beginning); Chapter 2: Strateg...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 11r-18v

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