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3001. Or 6953, ff 235r-249v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953, ff 235r-249v
Title:
Kitāb al-wāʿiẓ كتاب الواعظ
Scope & Content:
"The Book of the Preacher". Compilation of hadith concerning sermons and mosque preaching. Whereas the contents are not original, the arrangement was perhaps conceived locally. Anonymous note of purchase after colophon. Muḥammad al-Awwal Ibn Ibrāhīm and Ibrāhīm Ibn Ḥanīd (or Junayd) are given as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
14 ff

3002. Or 6953, ff 250v-254 v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953, ff 250v-254 v
Title:
قصيدة تَفُتُّ فُؤادَكَ الأَيّامُ فَتّا Tafuttu Fuʾādaka al-Ayyām Fittan
Scope & Content:
A qaṣīdah by the Andalusian Abī Isḥāq al-Albīrī (d. 1065/6) composed for his son, concerning the merits of learning and its application.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

3003. Or 6953, ff 255r-278v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953, ff 255r-278v
Title:
الآجرومية al-Ājurrūmīyah
Scope & Content:
A major work on Arabic grammar by the Moroccan Ibn Ājurrūm al-Ṣanhājī (1273-1323), who put the principles of Arabic grammar into verse form. The copy has copious and erudite notation no doubt added locally, perhaps a commentary or extended explanation.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
23 ff

3004. Or 6953, ff 279r-294r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953, ff 279r-294r
Title:
روض الجنان Rawḍ al-Jinān
Scope & Content:
"The Meadows of Paradise", a book recalling the miracles/good deeds of Sheikh Usman dan Fodio, the leader of the Fulani Jihad in Sokoto. It was written by the chief minister of Sokoto under second Amīr al-Muʾminīn Muḥammad Bello, Gidado dan Layma. It was compiled sometime after the death of Usman...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
15 ff

3005. Or 7029

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7029
Title:
Miscellany including the Life of Aaron of Philae
Scope & Content:
Scribe: Zokrator son of Ioseph
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:
78 folios

3006. Or 7604

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7604
Title:
御制玉釜佩詩 Yu zhi yu fu pei shi [Imperial jade-axe ornament poetry]
Scope & Content:
Imperial jade-axe ornament poetry
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:

1 volume (13 folios)

3007. Or 7605

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7605
Title:
御制詩 Yu zhi shi [Imperial poetry]
Scope & Content:
Imperial poetry, copy made by Jin Shisong
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
c 1711-c 1799
Extent:

1 volume (8 folios)

3008. Or 7616

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7616
Title:
Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 11903-11904
Scope & Content:
Chapters 11903 and 11904 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1562-1572
Extent:
48 folios

3009. Or 7718

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7718
Title:
Unwān al-majd fī taʾrīkh najd By ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bishr al-Ḥanbalī.
Scope & Content:
A history of Nejd from the middle of the 18th to the 19th century.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1853-54
Extent:

Codex; ff. 258

3010. Or 7922

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7922
Title:
Durrat al-tāj wa-sullam al-mi‘rāj fī dhikr tā’rīkh al-maqarr al-ashraf al-jalīl al-mu‘aẓẓam al-faḍīl درّة التاح وسلّم المعراج في ذكر تأريخ المقرّ الأشرف الجليل المعظّم الفضيل Ibn Naṣr, Sulaymān ibn Ḥusayn ابن نصر، سليمان ابن حسين
Scope & Content:
Biography of the Druze Shaykh Amīr Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Allāh al-Tanūkhī (الأمير جمال الدين عبد الله التنوخي; d. 1479).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+140+i

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