Add MS 12370

Buginese translation of a part of the Arabic work Tanbīh al-Ghāfilīn by Abu'l-Laith as-Samarkandī. According to an Arabic note on f. 2r. the MS contains the middle part of the work, as-sijill al-wāsit min Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn, and, according to a Buginese note on f. 4r., the second part of the ‘admonitions to the negligent'. The text can be compared with the Arabic text described in Loth, 1877, pp. 34-5; bāb 27 of the Arabic text is bāb 1 of the Buginese; the final bāb (78) of the Buginese corresponds to bāb 49 of the Arabic. There are three lists of contents in the MS (ff. 1-4r.), but they are incomplete. The first chapter concerns ‘poverty', the last ‘the wages of wickedness'.

[The text has been written in Bugis script (reading left to right) and Arabic script (reading right to left), and the manuscript has been foliated Arabic style, right to left, even though the main text reads from left to right; thus the digital images display starting at the end of the text.]

(This description from Dr. A. A. Cense.)