R.13.53 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

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Oriental Manuscripts

Extracts from the Qur᾽ān, prayers and poems.

ff. 1r.-2v.

Title: The words 'Trial of the pen upon paper' repeated several times.

Language(s): Arabic

2. f. 10r.

Title: Sūrat al-Fātiḥah

Title: سورة الفاتحة

3. ff. 11r.-13v.

Title: Sūrat al-Anʿām

Title: سورة الأنعام

4. ff. 14r.-22v.

Title: Sūrat Maryam

Title: سورة مريم

5. ff. 23v.-30r.

Title: Bāb fī maʿrifat al-Islām

Title: باب في معرفة الإسلام

A chapter on the traditionary sayings of the Prophet.

Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وآله أجمعين

Explicit: ومن يشك بشيء من هذه الأشياء فقد كفر والله أعلم بالصواب ولله المرجع والمآب

6. ff. 41v.-71r.

Title: Prayers and durūd upon the Prophet Muḥammad and his family

7. ff. 71r.-76v.

Title: Two Arabic qaṣīdas

8. ff. 76v.-82r.

Title: Two short prayers

9. ff. 83v.-84r.

Title: A page and a half in Burmese characters

References

no. 1401

Palmer, p. 140

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 84 ff.

Hand(s)

A poor European hand.

History

Origin: Undated

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".

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Funding of Cataloguing

Trinity College Cambridge

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