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Royal Institute for the Tropics, collection Haarlem, Amsterdam. (Supplement to vol. II, 1968, p. 846-858)

AdKIT H 2185 21 x 19 cm outside 15,5 X 11,5 cm writing

16.010 284 double pp. Arabic script

11 and 19 lines, Javanese binding, plaited, white, with flap, damaged

11 lines, Javanese binding, plaited, brown, with flap, damaged Ahmad Ripagi treatise in popular rhyming verse called Asna 7 Makasid at Ta c a, containing lessons on UsOl (theology), Fiqh (law) and Tasawwuf (mysticism). The text contains many Arabic sentences, quotations from the Kur’an etc. See Jaarboek KBG 1933, p. 241 and 319. The writing (vocalized, pégon) is provided with numerous rubricated words. The manuscript is dated AH 1261 (AD 1845) in the colophon. According to a note written on the last page it was once in the possession of haji Yahya of Maroq, district of Lëdok. It was presented to the “Koloniaal Museum” of Haarlem by Mr F. Netscher of Santpoort, in 1902. AdKIT H 2186 16.010 22 x 19 cm outside 72 single + 70 15 x 10 cm writing double + 114 double + 48 double + 8 double pp., Arabic script

Ahmad Ripaqi treatises in popular rhyming verse, containing many Arabic sentences and provided with numerous rubricated words. See Jaarboek KBG 1933, p. 241 and 319. The texts are collected in a loose binding, and numbered 1,2,4 and 6. They are called: 1: nalam (nazm, poetry) Wikayah (72 pp.), on godliness, dated AH 1259 (AD 1843), 2: nalam Ta h ri s (70 folios), incitation for hajis, Mecca pilgrims, to virtue and be nevolence, 4: Tabyin bab Nikah (114 folios), on marriage and divorce according to Is - lamic law, dated AH 1264 (AD 1847), 6: nalam Hasani yah (48 folios), on piety and devotion, dated AH 1265 (AD 1848), without numbers: 8 folios containing four different Tan bi h s (religious admonitions) to practise virtues, without dates. The writing of the Tanbihs is smaller and finer; the pages have 19 lines. The manuscript was presented to the Koloniaal Museum of Haarlem by Mr F- Netscher of Santpoort, in 1902.