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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 1v-27v
Title:: Duʿāʾ Saʿd Ibn Saliyā Ibn ʿAtifāq Ibn Bāba
Scope & Content:: Text entitled "The Supplication of Saʿd Ibn Saliyā Ibn ʿAtifāq (?) Ibn Baba" about miracles within the Qur’an and the numbers of various things (hearts, stars, souls) to be recited in ritual practice (dhikr) along with several 3x3 number tables. Folios 18-19 feature numerical additions by a later...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 27 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 28r-32v
Title:: Manual of Fawāʾid
Scope & Content:: Instructions for writing amulets for various purposes (prevention from evil and injury, to kill or injure an enemy, please a ruler, attract a lover) on specific days and their preparation (mixing with the milk of a white or black cow, mixing with honey, attaching to clothes), followed by the 20 a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 5 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 39r-40v
Title:: Wird of the Qādirīyah
Scope & Content:: A list of 'pious sheikhs' starting with Abdul Qādir al-Jīlānī. Probably a list of key figures in the Qādirīyah Sufi brotherhood. Seems to be the work of an experienced hand. On f. 41v there is a Qur’anic quote in a less accomplished hand: ‘Take this, my shirt, and cast it over the face of my fath...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 3 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 41r-41v
Title:: Prayer
Scope & Content:: A work of praise for Prophet Mohammed. The script is more angular than normal, perhaps due to the writing implement used or Sūqi influence.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 42r-49v
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: A supplication for personal good fortune (the same as at 74v-81r). On f. 48v are instructions concerning when to recite this prayer and a number table. The prayer is said to allow the user to see wondrous things in his sleep and have victory in holy war. A note in the colophon states that Hārūn I...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 8 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 49r-52r
Title:: Ḥizb al-Baḥr حزب البحر
Scope & Content:: The Ḥizb al-Bahr (Litany of the Sea) by Abī Ḥasan ʿAli al-Māliki al-Shādhilī (1196 – 1258), a Sufi devotional prayer, prefaced by a short introductory supplication.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 53r-56r
Title:: Duʿāʾ Saʿd Ibn Saliyā
Scope & Content:: A devotional prayer accredited in the colophon to Saʿd Ibn Saliyā, but different from the supplication accredited to him in this volume at ff. 1v-27v and 91r-109v. A note in the colophon states that Uthmān Ibn Ṣlm is the owner.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 57r-58v
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: Supplication including use of letter sequences probably with numerical significance. On 57v the writer instructs on the ritual for this supplication, including the use of ṭunbūl (possibly the kola nut). On 58v the writer outlines the benefits of reading or washing with this text: the reader will ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

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