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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 320v
Title:: Curse
Scope & Content:: A curse beseeching God to bring ruin and death upon an unnamed family
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 321r-321v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: An amulet, or instructions for writing one. When written in the blood of a white chicken and worn, it is said to bring blessing and success in commercial transactions. What follows is a reminder that God has forbidden usury. Verso: a love amulet, with spaces for "name of woman".
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 326r
Title:: Esoteric practice
Scope & Content:: Describing the blessings of the number 787 (code for an Arabic word).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 327r-327v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: The recto is an amulet to prevent jinn and devils coming to one's wife in her sleep and making her barren, with an accompanying number table filled with letters in a rubricated grid. The verso is a passage from the Qur'an followed by instructions for reciting the name of God for a physical/spirit...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 328r-328v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: An amulet to cure stomach problems, perhaps caused by a spirit. Instructions include supplications to several spirits or trees with non-Arabic names and eating or drinking medicine prepared with them.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 331r
Title:: Talisman
Scope & Content:: A talisman to resolve (or cause?) the separation of a man and woman. Space for a man's name and woman's within a square border over-written with biblical names and archangels. Note: folio upside down.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 331v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Instructions for the writing out and drinking of certain ayahs for a woman to conceive a child, even if she is old. Accompanying number square filled with letters.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 332r-332v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Recto: a ritual practice in order to understand the Qur'an and acquire learning. Reference to Caliph Uthmān and other companions of the Prophet. Verso: number/letter table joined up letter series.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 333r-333v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Two number tables, one for attaining paradise, one for acquiring wealth with accompanying number tables. Verso: a talisman for he who wants his wife to be a virgin at marriage, his marriage to be blessed and his wife to love him.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6880, f 334r-334v
Title:: Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:: Recto: a talisman to make all who see you love you "as a Muslim loves paradise, as a faithful person loves prayer, as a stomach loves food, as fields love the rain, as infidels and wolves love meat". Verso: number table
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

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