Miscellanies [IO Islamic 2446] بحر المشاهدة and other texts

Miscellanies.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2446 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1047 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1047.

2446. Size 93/4 in. by 73/4 in.; foll. 120. Fourteen lines in a page.

I. Foll.4-24. A mystic treatise, called بحر المشاهدة; by AḤMAD B. AḤMAD SAMṬARÂNÎ السمطرانی.

Begins:

الحمدلله الذی کاشف القلب لعباده المصطفی (!)

In six chapters.

II. Foll. 25-51r. A System of Theosophy, entitled بحر اللاهوت, by ‘ABDALLAH al-‘Ârifîn (عبدالله العارفین, sic).

Begins:

الحمدلله الذی خلق نور محمد بقدرته

The single paragraphs of the work are invariably introduced by اعلم انّ….

The last few leaves are injured.

III. Foll.51v.-60r. An anonymous treatise on Prayer and its redeeming powers, etc.

Begins:

الحمدلله رب العالمین...قال النبی صلعم اذا قام العبد الی الصلوة الخ

IV. Foll.60v.-62r. Some traditions of various contents.

V. Foll.62v.-103r. A treatise without title, on the merits of Ramaḍân, and on the various religious acts which are to be performed in that month, and also on some other subjects.

Begins:

الحمدلله المشکور علی الآیات...باب فی فضیلة شهر رمضان

VI. Foll.103v.-106r. A short tract, beginning:

و ینبغی للمؤمنین (!) اذا خرج من الدنیا ان یحمل مع نفسه عشر هِدْیَاتٍ.

Terminating abruptly.

VII. Foll. 106v.-120. Various moral and mystic aphorisms, attributed to the Prophet.

Begins:

الحمدلله المُبْدِءِ المعید....قال النبیّ صلعم الفناء ثلثة اشیاء الخ.

All these treatises are written in a large plain hand, with vowel-points, but rather incorrect. A Javanese translation in the Arabic character is added between the lines.

The rest of the volume is in Javanese in the Arabic character.