Title from f. 1r.According to the colophon (f. 10v), copy completed on 5 Rabīʻ al-awwal 990 AH [March 22, 1582 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Abūṣīrī al-Azharī.Unbound.Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.Cream laid paper. 18 x 13 cm. (13 x 9 cm.).MS Arab 252. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فهو حبي اكفي الحمد لله الملك العزيز في ملكه واقتذاره الذي ملك الوجود يقوته واوجد بارادته واختياره... :IncipitWritten in Naskhi hand, in one column, 20 lines per page, in black and red, framed within double red and black lines. First leaves framed within golden and double black lines.Original cover, blind stamped red leather with flap, in red leather and board pouch, in separate protective case.21 x 15.5 cm. (16.5 x 10 cm.)According to the colophon (f. 325r), copy completed on 10 Rabīʻ al-Akhar 1146 AH [September 29, 1733 AD] in the hand of Ḥijāzī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūlūnī.MS Arab SM162. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Unbound.According to the colophon, copy completed in the hand of Aḥmad ibn al-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī on 23 Muḥarram 1091 AH [February 24, 1680 AD].Ownership statement by Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm ibn al-Munayyir, Jumādá al-Ukrá 1218 AH [September 1803 AD]. Another ownership statement was deleted.The book was apparently bound with Muqaddimah fī al-shudūd al-ḥarīr [MS Arab 7019] and Kitāb fī al-taṣawwuf (f. 1r).MS Arab SM7141. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Paginated 1-32.Copy completed in 16 Jumād[á] al-Thānī 1314 [November 22, 1896] in the hand of Aḥmad Fahmī ibn Salīm al-ʻAṭṭār.Bound with: Kitāb al-Fawāʼid al-jalīlah fī musalsalāt Ibn ʻAqīlah / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ʻAqīlah.MS Arab 112. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in several hands, some in red and black. Texts nos. 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 are in the hand of Abdullah bin Abdulkadir.Probably compiled at the request of the ABCFM missionary Alfred North.With: Concise history of Malay-Bugis relations in Riau, with a colophon dated 1837 (ff. 2r-5v) ; Malay genealogical chronicle (ff. 7r-10v) ; Genealogical chronicle of Sumenap, dated 1837 (ff. 12r-18v) ; Letter from Pangeran Putera Negara bin Sultan Sambas to Mr. Robin, dated 1841 (ff. 20r) ; Letter to Sultan Alauddin Johar al-Alam Syah, Lord of Aceh, dated 1820 (ff. 23r) ; Syair cinta berahi [Ballad of passionate love, a poem] (ff.25r-28r) ; Letter from Adrian Koek concerning Abdullah bin Abdulkadir, dated 1821 (ff. 28v-29r) ; Memorandum by Abdulkadir on the collection of manuscripts (ff. 29v-32r) ; Contract ceding Tanjung Pinang to the Dutch (ff. 32v-33v) ; Letter from the Sultan of Kedah to Governor Bonham, dated 1838 (f. 34v) ; Letter from the ruler of Kuala Batu, Aceh (f. 35v) ; Letter of welcome from Datuk Besar Makai (ff. 36r-36v) ; Letter of welcome from the ruler of Kuala Batu (ff. 37r-37v) ; Letter from Mr. Bonham to Chao Phraya Prakasan Chief Minister of Siam, dated 1839 (ff. 37v-38v).MS Indo 14. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Malay in the Jawi-Arabic script.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red ink.According to colophon (f. 28r), copy completed on 29 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1219 AH [March 35, 1805 AD] in the hand of Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm ibn al-Sayyid ʻUbayd ibn al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm ibn al-Sayyid Ḥasan ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid ʻAlī al-Munayyir.MS Arab 344. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Title from caption.Written in slightly broken dīvānī script, in two columns, 23 lines par page, in black ink. Rubrics, numerical dates in the chronogram section in red. Nābī's name occasionally red overlined in poem text. Catchwords.Boards covered with partially torn paper cover. Leather on edges and spine.25.3 x 15 cm (18 x 8.2 cm).Ownership statements on f. 1r signed Muṣṭafá Jamīl and Muḥammad Rifʻat ibn Muṣṭafá Jamīl and one seal in the name of Bandah Muḥammad Amīn.A note on fly leaf 1: "ديوان نابي باخط مستقيم زاده افندى."According to a note on f. 1r, copy completed in Ṣafar 1162 AH [1749 AD] in the hand of Müstaqīm-zāde [Süleymān] Efendi.MS Turk 5. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Title from f. 1r.According to colophon (f. 60v), copy completed in Tabrīz in Rajab 551 AH [August 1156 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad al-Ardabīlī.Written in two columns, from 16 to 18 lines per page, in black ink. Each column framed within double golden or grey now faded lines.There is numerous aniconic headpieces in colors and gold and 16 miniatures.On inside back cover: "Purchased for Philip Hofer in Tehran as an example of 12th century illumination and presented as such to the Harvard College Library. Subsequently doubts arose as to its authenticity and it was submitted to experts for examination."Persian poems.MS Typ 1016. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Written in one column, 5 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Text surrounded by comments in the margins.According to the colophon (f. 67r), copy completed in Muḥarram 843 AH [June/July 1439 AD] in the hand of Muṣṭafá ibn Shams al-Dīn ibn Zakarīyā.With: Manẓūmah fī al-masāʼil al-mutashābihah min masāʼil al-farāʼiḍ ʻalá hayʼat asʼilah wa-ajwibah / min naẓm Yaḥyá ibn Abī Bakr al-Ḥanafī (ff. 67v-82v).MS Arab 309. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in 1248 [1832-3].Copy completed on 21 Rajab 1336 [May 3, 1918].Bound with: Risālah / ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Nūr.MS Arab 230. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in several hands, in one column, from 15 to 21 lines per page, in black rubricated in red, sometimes framed within double red lines.According to colophon (f. 40r), copy completed on 12 Muḥarram 1322 AH [March 30, 1904 AD] in the hand of Aḥmad Fahmī ibn Salīm al-ʻAṭṭār, most probably in Damascus.With this is bound: Kitāb al-ʻIqd al-jawhar al-thamīn fī arbaʻīn ḥadīthan min aḥādīth Sayyid al-Mursalīn / Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī al-Jarrāḥī (ff. 41r-62r) ; Thabat al-Shihāb Aḥmad al-ʻAṭṭār (ff. 63r-81v) ; Risālah fī ʻilm muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth al-sharīf / Muḥammad ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Kasm (ff. 83r-105v) ; Risālat Ṣiḥāḥ al-nuqūl fī radd al-fatwá bi-ṭahārat al-kuḥūl / Muḥammad ʻAṭāʼ al-Kasm (ff. 108r-120r) ; Kitāb al-Ḥikam / Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻArabī (ff. 121r-128v) ; Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-jalīyah fī ʻilm al-kalām / Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Sinān (ff. 129r-144v).MS Arab 112. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).