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Course of Islamic paleography by Jan Just Witkam Tasks for the student: 1. Read the bibliographical description of the manuscript. 2. Carefully compare the images of the manuscript with the proposed transliteration. Get accustomed with peculiarities of this hand. 3. Transcribe in the same way a considerable portion of that part of the manuscript which has not been transliterated. Start where the given transliteration ends. See how far you come. 4. Note remarkable or unusual ligatures and make a list of these. 5. Make an inventory of all signs and peculiarities which are different from modern practice. W. 63 Arabic, Turkish paper with watermarks (crescent with face on shield = Abū Shubbāk; Arabic text as counter-mark: 4 + 168 ,(بياض ابو شبّك اصطمبولى عال اصيلى ff., 35 x 22.5 cm, vocalized naskh script, 19 lines to the page (misṭara), black ink with rubrics, dated end Muḥarram 1337 (1917, colophon on f. 168a), full-leather Islamic binding with flap, without ornamentation. Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām (title on f. 1a), a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī (d. 971/1563), GAL S II, 691. On f. 1a (title-page) is also a waqf-note by Aḥmad Salaf b. Afrānī of Simnī pedigree, living in Abaghrār (?). The full text of the note reads:

ـرب فالاقرب فمن بدله >قـ<قلما علم احمد سلف بن افرانى بادر بوقف هذا الكتاب لجميع المسلمين وجعل النظر هو بنفسى ثم بوالديه ثم لاقاريبه الا

رار عالان قل نطق المزالى ا اثمه على الدين يبد لونه ان االله سميع عليم نسبه سمنى بلده اببعدما سمعه فانم

Added to the manuscript is one single leaf and one bifolium, both of the same paper, each with one page of text in a smaller script but apparently not in the same hand. The bifolium has 40 lines of text and gives the introductory part (but without the actual beginning with a basmala) of the Tanbīh al-Anām, in which is also mentioned its alternative title Shifā al-Asqām wa-Maḥw al-Āthām fil-Ṣalāt ʿalā Khayr al-Anām. On the other side of the folio is what seems the title-page, but the text is incomplete, as the upper part of the paper is torn off. The bifolium consists of three blank pages, and the fourth page contains the beginning (with basmala) of what seems to be the same text. Due to the Provenance: 2008, Bale Mountains, South-East Ethiopia. ff. 1b-2a:

|باب فى فضل الصلاة على النبي صلى االله عليه وسلم وشرف وآرم ومجد وعظم

اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا | صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليما، ) عليه(فى محكم التنزيبل قال لخلقه | االله عظم قدر جاه محمد واناله فضلا عليه عظيما،

اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى | اضعاف ذلك وسلم تسليما آذلك، | واضعاف محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد عدد معلوماتك واضعاف ذلك

اللهم | اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه واحدة صلى االله عليه عشرا، | ال سيدنا محمد الاية الكبرى،

اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد | ل سيدنا محمد الذى لا يدفع بالسيئة السيئة، صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ا

اللهم صلى وسلم | اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الحبيب المصطفى، | الذى من صلى عليه عشرا صلى االله عليه مائة،

اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا | على ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه مائة صلى االله عليه الفا، على سيدنا ومولنا محمد و

آتفه آتفه على باب | اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه الفا زاحم و | محمد المرسل بالشفقة والحنان،

على الكمال آان آمن استأنف | اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه الف صلاة | ضوان، جنة الر

حتى يرى مقامه فى الجنة | اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه فى يوم الف مرة لم يمت | الاعمال،

لم يمت حتى يبشر بالجنة فى اليقظة || اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه الف مرة فى يوم | وقصره،

| لا فى النوم،

Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī.

© Course in palaeography. Copyright, Jan Just Witkam, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2009 2Title-page with waqf-note (W. 63, f. 1a).

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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. Colophon (W. 63, f. 168a).

Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī.

© Course in palaeography. Copyright, Jan Just Witkam, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2009 4Beginning (W. 63, f. 1b).

Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 2a).

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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 2b).

Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 3a).

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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 3b).

Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 4a).

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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 4b).

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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 5a).