Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 861] احِصْن احَصِين

Prayers and Charms.This manuscript is now IO Islamic 861 in the India Office collections.[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 346 here with further notations and hyperlinks].346.861. Size 9 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 113. Thirteen lines in a page.Another copy of the preceding work.It begins:قال الفقیر الضعیف المسکین المنقطع الی الله تعالی الراجی من کرمه ان ینجیه من القوم الظالمین محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن الجزری (الشافعی)1 لطف الله تعالی به فی شدته اما بعد حمد الله الخThis is the authentic commencement, according to the commentary of ‘Alî Ḳâri’ (see below).Plainly written, by Khân Muḥammad, in Rajab, 1115 [=103-04 CE]. Ornamented. Some notes.A key to the work, in Persian, is on fol. 1.The book belonged once to Ḥusain b. ‘Abdallah b. Shaikh al-‘Aidarûs and subsequently to Nuṣrat Jang. 1 From the margin.