A collection containing: 1. A treatise on the readings of the Koran, together with the chain of recensionists. The title is given by a later hand as Asānīd al-qirāʼāt by Abū al-Jūd al-Lakhmī al-Muqriʼ. Fols. 118; 19 x 13.8cm.; written surface 13.7 x 9.3 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with full vowel signs; entries in gold. A few marginal notes and glosses. Evidently several folios are missing between folios 109 and 110. MS is incomplete at beginning and end. MS probably from XXth century. 2. al-Arbaʻūn al-mukhtārah min ḥadīth Ibn Abī ʻUmar, a collection of forty traditions selected by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī from the corpus of traditions according to the recension of Shams al-Dīn ibn Abī ʻUmar al-Ḥanbalī. The present work was written A.H. 889 [A.D. 1484] by the author. 3. al-ʻAsharah al-mukhtārah, a collection of ten traditions by the same Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī according to the recension of his father. This copy was also written by the author A.H. 889 [A.D. 1484]. Texts 2 and 3: Fols. 16; 19 x 13.8 cm.; written surface 14.7 x 11.8 cm.; 18 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Fārisi. 4. Nashr al-maḥāsin, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad al-Yāfiʻī, a collection of stories, prayers and verses of poetry illustrating the virtues of leading shaykhs and saints. Copied in Makkah, A.H. 809 [A.D. 1406], by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ghazzī. Fols. 227; 19 x 13.8 cm.; written surface 13.5 x 11.7 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red. Stated on title page that this is the second part of Nashr al-maḥāsin. 5. A section of Kitāb al-Irshād wa-al-taṭrīz fī faḍl dhikr Allāh wa-tilāwat kitābihi al-ʻazīz, a work on the excellence of prayer and reading the Koran, by al-Yāfiʻī, A.H. 768 [A.D. 1367]. On the title page this work is designated as an abridgment of the first chapter of al-Irshād. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8101. Copied in Makkah. A.H. 809 [A.D. 1407], by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ghazzī. Fols. 12; 19 x 13.8 cm.; written surface 13.5 x 11.7 cm.; 17-20 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords. MS in good condition; Arabic binding. Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
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