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Or 16762

Record Id:
032-002898928
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002898928
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16762
Title:

Compendium of Arabic texts, from Tiro, Aceh

Scope & Content:

Compendium of Arabic texts, from Tiro, Aceh.

Contents:

ff.1r-2r: Ilm al-mantiq, author describes himself as ‘abid al-rahman. In Arabic, poetical text using the rajaz metre on logic; incomplete. 7 lines per page; lacking beginning; colophon on f.2r gives date of copying as Muharam 1309 (August 1891 AD).

ff.2v-9r: al-Barahin, anonymous short text on logic, consisting of two parts, fasal fi al-mufradat, dan fasal fi al-murakkabat. In Arabic.

f.10v: fragment of [first?] text in Arabic, 7 lines, upside down.

ff.11v-32v: Sharh umm al-barahin, by Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad Yusuf al-Sanusi; text on theology, incomplete; copying completed on Friday. In Arabic.

ff.33v-44r: Kitab al-rahbiyah fi ilm al-faraid, by Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Rahbi (d. 1183); text on fiqh with interlinear commentary; note on f.44r: Inilah yang empunya kitab ini arta Teungku Ibrahim adiknya Teungku Sulaiman p.s.a.’.n.

ff.44v-52v: Jawharat al-tawhīd, by Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm Hārūn al-Laqqānī; poetical work on theology, an approved and accredited text of the Sunni Creed in the Ashari school. Written as a poem to facilitate memorizing it. It was composed by Imam Ibrahim al-Laqani al-Maliki in 1041 AH (1631/32 AD) in response to a request from his Sufi mentor.

f.53r: notes in Arabic.

ff.53v-62r: [ilmu Bayan], anonymous text on a poem by al-Tilawwi, discussing Isti'arah dalam ilmu Bayan. Colophon on f.62r: copied on Wednesday on 4 Rabiulawal fi al-dar al-Tirawi … sahibihi Ibrahim al-farabi al-faqir (62v). The first part of this text contains another text in the margins (54r-57v), a commentary (sharh) on a text by al-Imam al-Samarqandi on the same subject. In Arabic.

ff.63r-138v: [Kitah fikih], anonymous text on fiqh (incomplete, lacking beginning and end, but continuous save for the final quire comprising ff. 129r-138v). Appears to be part of a comprehensive work on fiqh, and discusses a.o. laws governing prisoners and war booty, procedures for slaughtering sacrificial animals (al-udhiyah), hukum balap kuda and harvesting, hukum bernazar, with many marginal annotations commenting on the text. In Arabic.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
138 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
19th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

138 ff; 24 x 17 cm; variety of European (mainly Italian) papers; black ink; separate loose quires, enclosed within a loose cream leather cover.

Papers and watermarks: ff.1-10: moonface in shield watermark; double-headed eagle with ‘NF’; ff.11-48: smooth cream paper with chainlines, no watermark visible; ff.49-50, watermark of 3 crescent moons; ff.53-62, ‘AG’ [i.e. Andrea Galvani of Pordenone], moonface in shield watermark; ff.63-116, ‘F T’, 3 men in crescent moons; f.177, 3 slim crescent moons.

Source of Acquisition:
Acquired from Arthur Probsthain in 2004.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)