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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 144r-145v
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: Anonymous work of supplications to God. At the end of the work a short unvocalised passage highlights the benefit of reciting this supplication. On f. 145 v there is a basmala in the same hand for an unwritten work.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 146r-147v
Title:: Instruction for ritual practice
Scope & Content:: Lists the benefits of saying certain prayers (immunity from injury by weapons, acquisition of wealth, good health etc.) and who they were related by, in this case companions of the Prophet (ʿAlī Ibn ʿAlī Ṭālib, ʿUmar al-Khaṭṭāb, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq etc.).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 148r-149v
Title:: Instructions for reading the Kīmiyāʾ al-Ṣalāt
Scope & Content:: Instructions for ritualised reading of the Kīmiyāʾ al-Ṣalāt, presumably a book of supplications, in order to complete a reading in one week.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 150r-153r
Title:: قصيدة عبدالقادر الجيلاني Qaṣīdat ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
Scope & Content:: A devotional poem by the founder of the Qādirīyah Sufi order, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077–1166 ), written in fine calligraphic script with a neat double-edged border.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 154r-156v
Title:: Incomplete sections of the Qur'an
Scope & Content:: Several folios from a copy of the Qur'an. Red and black trefoils for verse endings, red circles for hamzas, single example of medallion and rectilinear marking for division of the work into segments. Calligraphy neat and regular but not ornate.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 3 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 157r-163v
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: A prayer asking for intercession from God from every kind of disaster. Simple colophon decorated with trefoils.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 7 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 164r-170v
Title:: Sūrat al-Wāqiʿa
Scope & Content:: A chapter of the Qur'an written without ornamentation and with simply decorated colophon.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 7 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 171v-173v
Title:: A compendium of the 37 angels
Scope & Content:: A compendium of the 73 angels with an introduction outlining the benefit of reciting them and endnote outlining the method for the preparation of amulets with these names including writing them on a Magarya tree (Hausa for the jujube/lote (ziziphus)). On 173v is a Qur’anic verse copied out twice,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 3 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 174r-175v
Title:
Scope & Content:: This work lists the words that should be said "on the key to every conclusion of a contract", which are Qur'an 7:89: "Our Lord, decide between us and our people in truth, and You are the best of those who give decision". This is followed by praises to prophets Jesus and Moses. Decorative and orig...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 176r-176v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Seven Qur'anic verses to be written out for spiritual benefit
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

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