ZNA-EAC-008General Ref/Shelf Mark: ZNA-EAC-008
Title in transliteration: mulitple mss
Collection of original material: ZIAR
Owner/Custodian: ZIAR
Text Arrangement: multi-text item
Physical characteristics height (cm): 21.5
Physical characteristics width (cm): 15.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 420
Location of original material: ZANZIBAR
Comments: A multi-manuscript object. In poor condition. Binding and cover both deterioriating. Dechlich notes "Black in, heading in the first part of the first work. By the second part fthe first work the script is in black ink except for elements of decoration and titles" which are in red ink.
ZNA-EAC-008aModality of text: Manuscript
General Ref/Shelf Mark: ZNA-EAC-008a
Title in transliteration: Iḍāḥ asrār 'ulūm al-muqarrabīn
Author-Original Script: محمد بن عبدالله بن شيخ عيدروس
Author-Latin Script: Muhammad b. Abullah b. Shaykh Aydarus
Collection of original material: ZIAR
Owner/Custodian: ZIAR
Historical Owner: Abudllah b. Umar al-Yafi'i
Copyist-Latin Script: Abdullah b. Umar al-Yafi'i
Description of Content: Tasawuuf
Physical Description of item: Manuscript in black ink with red headings
Physical characteristics (folios): 200
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Keywords: Sufism
Location of original material: ZANZIBAR
ZNA-EAC-008bModality of text: Manuscript
General Ref/Shelf Mark: ZNA-EAC-008b
Title in transliteration: Hadhihi al-abyāt al-farīḍa li-l-qāḍī Muhammad b. Ahmad
Author-Original Script: جمل الدين محمد بن عسى بن برهان البسير
Author-Latin Script: Gamal al-din Muhammad b. Isa ibn Burhan al-Busayr
Collection of original material: ZIAR
Owner/Custodian: ZIAR
Description of Content: Qaṣīḍa
Text Arrangement: Poems
Physical Description of item: Manuscript in black ink
Physical characteristics (folios): 100
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Keywords: poetry,commentary
Location of original material: ZANZIBAR
Comments: Dechlich notes, " A collection of verses from different Shafi'I and Sufi scholars. These verses are commented [upon] by the author.
ZNA-EAC-008cModality of text: Manuscript
General Ref/Shelf Mark: ZNA-EAC-008c
Title in transliteration: Kitāb ayya al-muhtammī wa-hidāya al-mubtadi' man naz'a min hidāya wa-l-nihāya
Collection of original material: ZIAR
Owner/Custodian: ZIAR
Description of Content: Ḥāmish
Physical Description of item: Manuscript in black ink
Physical characteristics (folios): 70
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Keywords: Balāgha,'ilm al-qawāfi
Location of original material: ZANZIBAR
Comments: A commentary on al-Arabi's treatise on rhetoric and meter.
ZNA-EAC-008dModality of text: Manuscript
General Ref/Shelf Mark: ZNA-EAC-008d
Title in transliteration: Dhamarāt al-baṭar fī 'ilm al-aṭār
Author-Original Script: محمد بن اسمعيل العمير
Author-Latin Script: Muhammad b. Isma'il al-Amir
Collection of original material: ZIAR
Owner/Custodian: ZIAR
Description of Content: Tasawuuf
Year of copy AH: 1163
Physical Description of item: Manuscript in black ink
Physical characteristics (folios): 50
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Keywords: Sufism
Location of original material: ZANZIBAR
Comments: Dechlich notes, "An explanation of an unidentified work of Ahmad b. Ali b. Hajar Al-Asqalani (1372-1449) an author defined in the incipit as 'al-Hafi al-imam al-alama'"
Collection description
The ZNA-EAC are the only entries in the Mprint corpus that do not have accompanying images. The ZNA-EAC series catalogs manuscripts belonging to the Zanzibar Institute for Records and Archives – ZIAR – (formerly the Zanzibar National Archives or ZNA.) The manuscripts housed in ZIAR were not available for digitization. The records included in the Mprint corpus are drawn from the work of Dr. Lorenzo Declich and published in The Arabic Manuscripts of the Zanzibar National Archives: A Checklist that appeared as Supplemento no. 2 Alla Revista Studi Orientale Nouvo Serie volume LXVIII (Pisa/Roma: Academia Editoriale, 2006). Dr. Declich's supplement includes early printed and lithographed books (designated with the series prefix ZA) and manuscripts (designated by the prefix EAC). Only the latter are included in the Mprint corpus. Most of these items originated from the Sultan's Palace and were deposited with the Archives following the 1964 revolution. These objects remain housed in ZIAR. MprinT is funded by the Research Council of Norway and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was partially conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at University of Hamburg. Most of the digitization occurred between October 2021 and May 2025.