<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>al-Īḍāḥ fī al-nikāḥ wa-al-bāh : manuscript / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.</dc:title><dc:creator>Suyuti, 1445-1505</dc:creator><dc:creator>سيوطي، 1445-1505.</dc:creator><dc:date>18th century.</dc:date><dc:description>A treatise on erotic literature attributed to al-Suyūṭī (1445-1505), a well-known and prolific Egyptian author to whom are attributed books which are not written by him.</dc:description><dc:description>16 x 22 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 16 cm; 15 lines per page.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: In marbled cardboard with flap.</dc:description><dc:description>Colophon: "Intahá Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ lil-Suyūṭī."</dc:description><dc:description>Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection.  For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.</dc:description><dc:description>In Arabic.</dc:description><dc:description>In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; with headings and markings in red; catchwords.</dc:description><dc:description>Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Wa-baʻd, fa-hādhā kitāb al-waṣīyah al-mashhūr al-musammá fī ʻilm al-nayk wa-yusammá al-Īḍāḥ fī al-nikāḥ wa-al-bāh fī al-rujūʻ [rujūʻ] al-shaykh ilá al-ṣibāh [ṣibāh] lil-Shaykh al-ajall Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá, wa-dhālika mashhūr lammā fasiqū ahl miṣr allafa lahum hādhā al-kitāb ḥattá rajiʻū ʻan al-liwāṭ bi-barakat al-Shaykh, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá ..."</dc:description><dc:description>On folio 1a: Kitāb al-bāh fī rujūʻ al-shaykh ilá al-ṣibāh [ṣibāh] taʼlīf al-ajall Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī nafaʻanī Allāh bi-ʻulūmih wa-al-Muslimīn. Āmīn. Wa-yalīhi nukat wa-ḥikāyāt wa-qarʻah."</dc:description><dc:description>On folios 47a-48a: various anecdotes, intrigues and jokes.</dc:description><dc:description>On front cover: "Fī al-Īḍāḥ lil-Suyūṭī."</dc:description><dc:description>Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.</dc:description><dc:description>Romanization supplied by cataloger.</dc:description><dc:description>Secundo folio: al-makhāṣī ʻalá al-shfār.</dc:description><dc:description>Table of contents (folios 1b-2a): "Hādhihi Fihrist hādhā al-kitāb al-musammá bi-al-Īḍāḥ."</dc:description><dc:description>Text: Folios 2b-46b.</dc:description><dc:description>Title from folio 2b.</dc:description><dc:description>Translation of the colophon: "The book of al-Īḍāḥ by al-Suyūṭī is concluded."</dc:description><dc:description>البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين. وبعد، فهذا كتاب الوصية المشهور المسمى في علم النيك ويسمى الإيضاح في النكاح والباه في الرجوع [رجوع] الشيخ إلى الصباه [صباه] للشيخ الأجل جلال الدين السيوطي، رحمه الله تعالى، وذلك مشهور لما فسقوا أهل مصر ألف لهم هذا الكتاب حتى رجعوا عن اللواط ببركة الشيخ، رحمه الله تعالى ..."</dc:description><dc:description>الخاتمة: "انتهى كتاب الإيضاح للسيوطي."</dc:description><dc:description>بداية الورقة الثانية: المخاصي على الأشفار.</dc:description><dc:description>على وجه الغلاف: "في الإيضاح للسيوطي."</dc:description><dc:description>على وجه الورقة 1: كتاب الباه في رجوع الشيخ إلى الصباه [صباه] تأليف الأجل جلال الدين السيوطي نفعني الله بعلومه والمسلمين. آمين. ويليه نكت وحكايات وقرعة."</dc:description><dc:description>فهرس المحتويات (الورقات 1ب-2أ): "هذه فهرست هذه الكتاب المسمى بالإيضاح."</dc:description><dc:format>text</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>