Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 655]

<ul> <li><strong>Prayers and charms</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 655&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 375&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>375.</p> <p>655. Size 9 in. by 4^3/4 in. Twenty-one lines in a page.</p> <p>A Miscellany, inscribed by a later hand متفرّقات.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Foll. 1-23. A treatise on exorcism, styled بستان الناظرین, by Shaikh &lsquo;ABD AL-RAḤM&Acirc;N b. Shaikh Naẓar Muḥammad. Imperfect at the end.</p> </li> </ol> <p>The author declares this to be an abridgement of the الفاتحة الاسرار (?).</p> <p>Begins: الحمدلله الموصوف بالتصریف، المنعوت بالتخفیف. It has an introduction, فی فضائل الفاتحة, and is divided into sections (فصل). It contains also passages in <em>Persian</em>. Indifferently written, with notes. Soiled.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ol> <li> <p>Foll. 25, 28-45. Prayers and benedictions on Muḥammad, often in verse.</p> </li> </ol> <p>Beginning: فاذا قرات القران فاستعذ بالله من الشیطان الرجیم.</p> <p>Well written, in a large character.</p> <p>The rest of the volume contains <em>Persian</em>, and occasionally <em>Urd&ucirc;</em>, poetry on the same subject; irregularly written across the pages.</p> <p>Bound in red leather, with the marks of Tippu&rsquo;s library.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>