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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5149
Title:: Kalpasūtra
Scope & Content:: Kalpasūtra: Jain Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit containing the biographies of Jain Tirthankaras.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Prakrit
Date Range:: 15th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 80 folios, 26x11 cm. Illustrated.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5268
Title:: ዳዊት, Psalter.
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 1r-123r. Psalms, መዝሙር ዘዳዊት. ff. 123r-136v . The Canticles of the Prophets of the Old and New Testaments: ff. 137r-144r. Song of Songs of Solomon, መኃልየ መኃልይ ዘሰሎሞን. Divivded into five sections, all except the first preceded by the doxology: ስብሐት ለ አብ ወወልድ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5421
Title:: Prayer of the Virgin Mary at Golgotha- Temherta Ḥebu’at.
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 2r-31v. Prayer of the Virgin Mary at Golgotha. Title: ዘጸለየት ባቲ አመ ፳፮ለወርኃ ሰኔ በደብረ ጎለጎታ ዘውእቱ መቃብረ እግዚእነ ኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ. ff. 32r- 44r. Temherta Ḥebu’at (“Doctrina arcanorum”) ትምህርት ኅቡአት. A geometrical ornamentation on the first folio of the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 1700-1900
Extent:: 1 item

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