A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the India Office / by Otto Loth.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
1975
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Credit: A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the India Office / by Otto Loth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    337. B 229. Size 103 in. by 6 in.; foll. 63. Twenty- five, afterwards twenty-one lines in a page. Guazziti’s (Abu Hamid Muhammad b. Muhammad, d. a.u. 505) explanation of the ninety-nine names of God, entitled cowl dais! or 2) said}. See H. Kh. vi. 89, iv. 27, vfvo and also v¥vF, and for a full account of its contents, Fliigel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 326. Cf. Bibl. Sprenger. 857. At first ‘written in a small clear hand, but continued (from fol. 35v.) in an inelegant Nasta‘lik. The colophon runs as follows : Usilee cs sai ll maid) LS ei iaeatl) oe det oycblll coy all dncall Ser alll “Lint se atl l wy! sens csyill Ul damy 3M cot (sic) y) é* b Ass LAL et 3. Marginal notes. A prayer, inscribed Wb rau us|, with directions in Persian, is added at the end. The title-page is filled with various extracts, amongst them a fragment of a preface, which begins: was dat Sly wy \ ) Y Us! a, and ends abruptly with the first few words after Xx lel. would appear that we have here only a variation of the From these it original exordium of the present treatise. Worm-eaten and stained. 338. B 429. Size 91 in. by 52 in lines in a page. ; foll. 89. Thirteen A fragment of a work on prayers and cabbalistic matters, by Sharaf al-din Abu’l-‘Abbas Ahmad Buyi (d. a.u. 622), the same as that described by Fliigel, Hdss. Wien, i. 566, 3. Written in a large bold hand, of about the tenth century. Two leaves are wanting at the beginning. The first words are: \zul\ yi dui. Defective after foll. 6, 14, and 83, and at the end. Much injured. That part which treats of the names of God (see Fliigel, l.c.) has its own title (fol. 33), ta.) bal the beginning of it. It is probably mentioned as a separate work, in H. Kh. iv. 24, under *leal ant, in the third place. The part just spoken of had been viene at his beginning of this volume, and inscribed ious “Leash ¢ Cf. Catal. 234, viii. 2 (?). 339. B 488. Size 6 in. by 4} in.; foll. 36. Eleven or twelve lines in a page: Prayers for the week, ascribed to Muhyi al-din (Mu- hammad b. ‘Ali) Inn ‘Anansi (d. a.m. 638). Cf. Cat. Mus. Brit. ii. 78. Beginning: 51} a Nil ope dod! ahd oy wr)! al pes Sm A wd oe oy uall as Qh byt) et pall mao Then follow the nocturnal prayers for the remaining week-days, and after them the diurnal prayers ( en os d>J!, etc.), one in each case. Well written, on European paper, with notes referring to the quotation of some of these prayers in the gel 550 (of Bistami, d. a.m. 858; see H. Kh. iii. 200). Red rulings. Cat. 233 (Duawat), ii. 1. 340. B 115. Size 9 in. by 53 in. ; foll. 241. Nineteen lines in a page. Lee ELSI leds sly] dle Obs tae dime Loe sete Soll) § Lata! Sol, crtycall nel ud | ae peel Slane dal ele) esl 42L od se ¥) Ep sag) nose “LS gl dc rJI Prayers for all occasions of Muslim life, collected from the tradition by Muhyi al-din Nawawi (d. a.x. 676). The work is often called Sal wk. See H. Kh. iti. 109, and Wiistenfeld, das Leben des al-Nawawi, p. 48. Beginning : * aad} pl © Neat dots} al) das)| pel ecbell a) JE od ae bl. CPL ILE ¢ esol gre ech - Saal jai