[RAS Maxwell Malay 043] Shair Mekah Madinah & Isra Miraj oleh Daid fatani

[186-?]
Malay
22 x 15.5 cm

106 f. A: 72 ff. (containing 131 pages of text).

Shair Mekah Madinah, or Shair (Rukun) Haji, by Shaikh Daud of Sunur (Minangkabau). On the ceremonies of the pilgrimage to Mecca, etc. Containing 1096 verses with a postscript of 2 verses by the copyist. Decoated initial pages. European paper.  B: 34 ff. Kifayat al-muhtaj fi’l-isra wa’l-mi’raj. Translated in Mecca in AH 1224 [AD 1809], by Daud bin Abdullah of Patani. From the Arabic Kissat Mi’raj an-Nabi by al-Ghaiti (d. 1504) and part of the commentary by al-Kalyubi (d. 1658). Many marginal notes. The MS contains a note on f. 32v. that it was sold in AD 1867. European paper: ‘M’, ‘G’.  Maxwell bequest, 1898. 

See M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (1977), p. 146.

Digitized with the support of the Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, 2024-5.