Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 1860]

Prayers and charms.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1860 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 359 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

359.

1860. Size 91/2 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 248. Twenty-one and ten lines in a page.

Foll. 9-200. A Commentary (ممزوج) on the preceding work, by Ibrâhîm b. Muḥammad b. Ibrâhîm ḤALABÎ (d. A.H. 956). This is the abridgement which the author made from his larger commentary, called غنیمة المتملّی. It is simply named شرح منیة المصلّی. See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 228; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 50 sq.; and Flügel, Hdss, Wien, iii. 118 sq.

Neatly written. Dated Tuesday, 17th Ṣafar, 1096. Numerous marginal notes, extracted from the larger commentary, and from various other works. A small ornament on the first page, and coloured lines round the others.

The vacant leaves at the beginning and end of this piece are filled with various extracts, traditions, Fatwas, etc., written in the same hand. Amongst them is a list of the sections of the present work (foll. 3v.-4r.).

Foll. 205v.-208. Short Rules of Inheritance, written like the preceding.

Foll. 209-210. Various extracts, amongst them (fol. 210v.) one from ریاض الصالحین, and, on the margin of the same page, another from تفسیر زاهدی, both of some length.

Foll. 211-223. A Persian treatise on Dress. It is imperfect at the beginning, but it is described at the end as an extract from کتاب جیبی.

Foll. 224-227 are vacant, but enclosed with coloured lines like the rest.

Foll. 229-248: الجزء الاول من نسخة ..1 فی علم الفرائض والله اعلم بالصواب. An anonymous treatise on the Law of Inheritance.

Begins: اعلم ان الرجل اذا مات. Imperfect at the end. Plainly written in a large hand, with numerous notes. This part of the volume being of a smaller size, the single sheets of it have been bound higher and lower alternately, so as to fit the size of the rest. Part of the margin of it has been cut off.

Both parts of this volume bear the seal of Nuṣrat Jang, the first also a note stating that it had been bought of Saiyid Ḥusainî ‘Aidarûs, at Mailâpûr. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 151, liii.

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1Cut off.