The manuscript describes in detail the proper way to seek knowledge, to make the ablution, to enter a mosque etc. In the explanations, the knowledge seekers fall into three categories, those who do so: 1. only because of Allah, 2. only to obtain worldly power while acknowledging this, and 3. only to become Satan’s slave so that knowledge is used as the bridge to obtain worldly matters and power.
Colophon:
Tamat fi yawm Salasa ing tahun [eba..?] Hādhā musammá kitāb Bidāyah ana dene ṣāḥib al-kitāb Abd’ al-Husain.
Other notes:
The text starts with many quotations from commentaries on Islamic jurisprudence. The text is written with the use of diacritics. Some pages are damaged causing loss of text.
Item 1 - Title in Native script:
بداية
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Bidāyah
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Bidāyah
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Arabic, Javanese
Item 2 - Title in Native script:
[أداب السلوك]
Item 2 - Title in Roman script:
[Adab al-Sulūk]
Item 2 - Title in English script:
The Right Way to Travel the Sufi Path
Item 2 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 2 - Language:
Arabic, Javanese
Item 3 - Title in Native script:
منهاج العابدين
Item 3 - Title in Roman script:
Minhāj al-‘ābidīn
Item 3 - Title in English script:
Minhāj al-‘ābidīn
Item 3 - Author:
Abū ‘Abdullāh Muḥammad Shams al- Dīn ibn Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Ja’far
Item 3 - Language:
Arabic, Javanese
Item 4 - Title in Native script:
بيان الطريق
Item 4 - Title in Roman script:
Bayān al-ṭarīq
Item 4 - Title in English script:
Bayān al-ṭarīq
Item 4 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 4 - Language:
Arabic, Javanese
Item 5 - Title in Native script:
مختصر عمدة عقيدة أهل السنة والجماعة
Item 5 - Title in Roman script:
Mukhtaṣar ‘umdat ‘aqīdat ahl al-sunnah wa al-jamā‘ah
Item 5 - Title in English script:
Mukhtaṣar ‘umdat ‘aqīdat ahl al-sunnah wa al-jamā‘ah
Item 5 - Author:
Abū al-Barakah ‘Abdullāh ibn Aḥmad Maḥmūd al-Nasafī