"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 ...
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.
"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...
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
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Biography of the Druze Shaykh Amīr Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Allāh al-Tanūkhī (الأمير جمال الدين عبد الله التنوخي; d. 1479).