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Summary of Contents: A volume of miscellaneous contents. 1. (ff. 1-35) A short life of the Prophet, entitled. نور العيون في تلخيص سير الأمين المأمون which the author, Abu'l-Fath Muhammad b. Abí Bakr al-Ya'muri ash-Shafi'i ibn
Sayyidi'n-nás (Brockelmann, Gesch. d. Arab. Litt., vol. II, p. 71), epitomized from his larger work, entitledعيون الاثر فى فنون المغازى والشمائل والسير Both are mentioned by Hajji Khalifa, ed. Flügel, No. 8449, and the present abridgment is described in Rieu's Suppl. to the Cat. of Arabic MSS. in the British Museum, No. 127710,
and in the Bodleian Arabic Catalogue, No. 345 (3).Begins: بعد حمد الله فاتح ابواب الندا... فلما وضعت كتابي المسمى عيون الأثر الخ Good, clear naskh. The copyist, whose name is illegible, completed the transcription on 10 Dhul-Qa'da, 885/11 January, 1481. 2. (ff. 36-43.) An Arabic qaşida in praise of the Prophet and 'Alí, by as-Sayyid
Abú Háshim Ismá'íl ibn Muhammad al-Himyarí, beginning: هلا وقفت على المكان المعشببین الطويلع فاللوى من كبكب
3. (ff. 43-103.) A collection of various prayers, charms, homilies, etc., mostly
in Arabic, including a list of the ninety-nine Names of God (f. 48) and also a list
of names and epithets of the Prophet (f. 50).. Ff. 103 of 16,9 x 11,8 c. Written by several hands. This is one of the Belshah
MSS. and was acquired at their final division in Nov. 1920.

1. ff. 1a-35b

Author: Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1273?-1334 ابن سيد الناس، محمد بن ابي بكر اليعموري ابو الفتح

Title: Nūr al-ʻuyūn fī talkhīṣ siyar al-amīn al-maʼmūn

Title: نور العيون في تلخيص سير الامين والمامون

Language(s): Arabic

References

p.294

This biography of the Prophet is an epitome of the work of the same author entitled ʻUyūn al-athr fī funūn al-maghāzī wa-al-shamāʼil wa-al-siyar عيون الاثر في فنون المغازي والشمائل والسير .

2. ff. 36b-43a

Author: Sayyid al-Ḥimyarī, Ismāʻil ibn Muḥammad, 723-789 سيد الحميري، اسماعيل بن محمد ابو هاشم

Title: Qaṣīda in praise of the Prophet

Language(s): Arabic

3. ff. 43b-103b

Author: anonymous

Title: Collection of prayers, charms, homilies, etc.

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 103

Dimensions: 16.9 × 11.8 cm.

Layout

Written by several hands.

Hand(s)

Good, clear naskh.

History

Origin: 885 AH; 1481 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This is one of the Belshah MSS. and was acquired at their final division in Nov. 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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