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1 copy of Rātib al-imām Muḥammad al-Mahdī
Title: راتب سيد الامام محمد المهدي
A collection of prayers, Kurʼānic extracts, etc., ascribed to the Mahdī of the Sudan and dated 1303/1885, the year of his death
Incipit: هذا راتب سيد الامام محمد المهدي
Colophon:
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 75 ff.
Layout
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq
History
Origin: 1303 AH; 1885 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
This manuscript is part of a small collection of Islamic manuscripts held at Eton College Library, which are not part of the separate ‘Pote Collection’. (The Pote Collection was given in 1788 by Edward Ephraim Pote to Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge and is now held on loan at the Cambridge University Library).
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on M.S.Q. Fraser, Islamic manuscripts in the Eton College Library, 1996.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Eton College
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