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2961. Or 6880, f 335r-335v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 335r-335v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
Recto: a talisman to make one a ḥāfiẓ (someone who can recite the Qur'an by heart). Verso: circular design with names of the Prophets.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

2962. Or 6880, f 336r-336v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 336r-336v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
Recto: A practice prescribed to a woman who cannot conceive a child involving the use of "the seven letters", accompanied by a number table. Verso: a talisman for success in trade, to washed and rubbed over the body, accompanied by a number table.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

2963. Or 6880, f 337r-337v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, f 337r-337v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
Recto: A talisman for acquiring a child. The man must recite his prayer beads and write out the number table on the day the woman washes her menstrual dress. Verso: the lines "I have bought a black shirt. You will buy it God willing". Significance unclear
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

2964. Or 6880, ff 1r-95v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 1r-95v
Title:
Sections from the Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
Scope & Content:
Sections of the maqāmāt of ʿAbd al-Qāsim al-Ḥarīrī (1054-1122)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
95 ff

2965. Or 6880, ff 96r-133v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 96r-133v
Title:
Najm al-Durar al-Sanīyah
Scope & Content:
"The Star of Shining Pearls", a life of the Prophet Muḥammad in poetic metre by Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʿIrāqī al-Miṣrī (1325–1403), a well-known hadith scholar. Finely written in Sahrawi script. Extensive commentary in Arabic. Some commentary in a lighter ink has all but faded.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
38 ff

2966. Or 6880, ff 134r-154r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 134r-154r
Title:
Dīwān Zuhayr Ibn Abī Sulmā
Scope & Content:
The complete collection of the poems of Zuhayr Ibn Abī Sulmā (c. 520 – c. 609), considered one of the greatest pre-Islamic poets. Extensive commentary in Arabic. Cruciform drawing to introduce the work on f. 134r and ornate colophon f. 154.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
21 ff

2967. Or 6880, ff 155v-161r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 155v-161r
Title:
Part of the Dīwān of ʿAntara
Scope & Content:
Poems from the pre-Islamic poet ʿAntara Ibn Shaddād al-ʿAbsī (c.525–608), one of the most famous poets and warriors of pre-Islamic Arabia.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
7 ff

2968. Or 6880, ff 162v-189r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 162v-189r
Title:
Shudhūr al-Dhahab fī Maʿrifat Kalām al-ʿArab
Scope & Content:
A treaty on Arabic language by the Egyptian Ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī (1309-1360), a noted Arabic grammarian. No biographical details of copyist in colophon.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
28 ff

2969. Or 6880, ff 190v-203r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 190v-203r
Title:
Lāmīyat al-afʿāl
Scope & Content:
A famous versified treatise on Arabic grammar by Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʾī al-Jiyānī , known as ibn Mālik (c. 1204-1274 AD), traditionally used in the education of students in the Arabic language. In fine Sahrawi script, with extensive notation in the same hand. No biographical de...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
14 ff

2970. Or 6880, ff 204r-205v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 204r-205v
Title:
Qaṣīdat Ḥishām al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh al-Waʿīẓī
Scope & Content:
The first pages of a versified work on Arabic grammar by the Syrian historian and geographer ʿUmar Ibn al-Wardī (1292–1349), with elaborate calligraphic frontispiece, possibly by a different hand, outlining various ritual practices to gain understanding of the Qur'an. Ibn al-Wardī is best known f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

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