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Box Or Ms 687 - Box 1

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An elegy on the death of a woman, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/1
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "An Elegy - 8.2 x 6 in. Arabic".


Pencil inscription on fragment reads: "Arabic. An elegy on the death of a woman. Fragment."

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

A philosophical work, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/2
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "A Philosophical work - 8 x 6.2 in. Arabic".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Fragment in Persian in neat shikastah script, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/3
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Persian or Turkish? (In neat Shikasta writing). 9.1 x 6.3 in".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Part of Qur'an, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/4
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Fragment of Koran - in Arabic, 7.6 x 5.4 in".


It contains verses 84 (Al- Inshiqaq)- 89 (al- Fajr).

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Prophet's sayings on domestic animals, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/5
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Fragment of a work containing sayings by Prophets on domestic animals - in Arabic, 11.7 x 8.3 in".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

A letter from Muhammad bin Mustafa to Husain Khwajah, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/6
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "A Letter from Muhammad bin Mustafa to Husain Khwaja Recommending Yusuf Khwaja".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

The last part of the Qur'an, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/7
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "30th or the last chapter/part of the Koran beginning with Sura Amma - 8.5 x 6.1 in".


Pencil inscription on fragment reads: "Part of the Koran, beginning with the Sura." Sura Amma is also called Sura Nabaa.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Index to a biographical work, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/8
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Index to a Biographical Work- 8.3 x 6.4 in. Arabic".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Manuscript fragment on Islamic laws and jurisprudence, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/9
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Piece of a manuscript on Islamic laws and Jurisprudence- 8.5 x 6.1 in. Arabic".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Arabic grammar, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/10
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Arabic Grammar (fragments) ".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments