Manuscript in an unidentified hand of the 19th century, containing a synaxarium., V.1: Synaxarium for the first part of the year: Ff. 1r–163v, Synaxarium, Sənksar, መጽሐፈ ስንክሳር, first part, beginning in the month of Mäskäräm, arranged for the months of the year: ff. 1r–27v, for Mäskäräm; ff. 28r–51r, for Ṭəqəmt; ff. 51r–77r, for Ḫədar; f. 77r contains one of the prayers that are used in the church after the reading of a section of the Synaxarium; ff. 77v–108r, for Taḫśaś; ff. 108r–140v, for Ṭərr; f. 140v contains prayers for one, ገብረ ማርያም; ff.141r–163v, for Yäkkatit., and V.2: Synaxarium for the second part of the year: Ff. 1r–194v, Synaxarium, Sənksar, መጽሐፈ ስንክሳር, second part, beginning in the month of Mäggabit; ff. 1r–34v, for Mäggabit; ff. 35r–61v, for Miyazya; ff. 62r–96v, for Gənbot; ff. 97r–124v, for Säne; ff. 125r–161v, for Ḥamle; ff. 162r–194r, for Näḥase; f. 194r contains two prayers that are generally used after the reading of sections of the Synaxarium.
Description:
In Geʻez., Ordered by Abba Mikaʼel and Abba Yohannes., Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., V.1: Synaxarium for the first part of the year: F. 1r mentions the ones who ordered the book: Abba Mika’el, whose country is አትሪብ (in Egypt?), Abba Yohannes, whose country is ቡርልስ. F. 163v contains further information about the book; the two volumes of the Synaxarium were purchased by ገብረ ማርያም, with his own money for two ወቂት; the record also mentions other books he bought; thereafter, the record (continuing on f. 165r) mentions a list of purchased books owned by the church, 20 books in all, as well other church utensils and priestly garments, crosses; another record lists books given by other people with a curse on anyone who steals or erases; a final record, written in a different hand, lists more books and materials given to the church; f. 164v contains the name plate of Yale University Library, the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, V.2: Synaxarium for the second part of the year: 1868–1913 (f. 61v mentions Emperor Menilek,1868–1913, and Governor Ras Hailu,1868–1950); f. 1r mentions the ones who ordered the book: Abba Mika’el, whose country is አትሪብ (in Egypt?), Abba Yohannes, whose country is ቡርልስ. 1. f. i r: owner plate: Yale University Library; The Edwin J. Beinecke Fund; 2. f. i v: Pen trial, written in trained hand; 3. f. ii r: An incomplete record, mentioning the dates Genbot 5, and 19, written in an untrained hand; 4. f. ii r, bottom: another incomplete record mentioning Miyazia 25 and 26, Sane 17 and Arias, the heretic, written in an untrained hand; 5. ff. 2v and 194v are blank. F. 44r has the name ወልደ ሰንባት, written into the blank, written in a different hand; f. 61v has a note of ownership in a different hand: This book belongs to the church, ዋሻ ሚካኤል during the time of Emperor Menilek (1868–1913) and Governor (Ras) Hailu (1858–1950), and Qängazmač Alemu, and church manager ቄሰ ገበዝ ተገኝ, and Märigeta ዛይህመ, church scholar, in the year of Evangelist Saint John, it was purchased. ቄሰ ገበዝ ተገኝ, whose baptismal name is ወልደ ተንሣኤ, is the one bought it as the property of the church ዋሻ ሚካኤል; it appears that the hand changes half way through f. 86v., and Volumes in wooden boards, with four chain stitches, three columns, 34-38 lines per page, in red and black ink.
Falmouth (England), Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century, Great Britain--Religious life and customs--19th century, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Fox family, Fox, Anna Maria, Fox, Barclay, 1817-1855, Fox, Caroline, 1819-1871, Sterling family, and Sterling, John, 1806-1844
Subject (Topic):
Bereavement--Great Britain, Death--Social aspects--Great Britain, English literature--19th century, and Tuberculosis--Great Britain
Christopher Isherwood correspondence with John Lehmann
Container / Volume:
Port | Folder 18
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The letters also discuss the writing, publishing, critical reception, and theatrical adaptations of Isherwood's works, critical analysis of many of Lehmann's works, and commentary on the lives and works of many important literary figures of the time, including W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, Berthold Viertel, Virginia Woolf and many others. Also mentioned are Isherwood's companion, the artist Don Bachardy, and two literary journals founded by Lehmann, New Writing and the London Magazine. Also included is one letter from Richard Isherwood, Christopher's brother, to Lehmann, several letters to Lehmann from third parties concerning Isherwood, and a typescript of Isherwood's poem "On His Queerness."
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives, English literature--20th century, and World War, 1939-1945
Christopher Isherwood correspondence with John Lehmann
Container / Volume:
Port | Folder 19
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The letters also discuss the writing, publishing, critical reception, and theatrical adaptations of Isherwood's works, critical analysis of many of Lehmann's works, and commentary on the lives and works of many important literary figures of the time, including W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, Berthold Viertel, Virginia Woolf and many others. Also mentioned are Isherwood's companion, the artist Don Bachardy, and two literary journals founded by Lehmann, New Writing and the London Magazine. Also included is one letter from Richard Isherwood, Christopher's brother, to Lehmann, several letters to Lehmann from third parties concerning Isherwood, and a typescript of Isherwood's poem "On His Queerness."
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives, English literature--20th century, and World War, 1939-1945
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
ʻAlamī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá. علمي، ضياء الدين أبو الهدى.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 188
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A treatise about "Ahl al-Dhimmah" or "Dhimmis" (the protected minorities, mainly Christians and Jews) according to Islamic law, by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá ʻAlamī who wrote his work for al-Amīr Sayf al-Dīn al-Mihrānī (probably Sayf al-Dīn Balabān al-Mihrānī, the overseer of the stables of al-Malik al-Ẓahir Baybars (Baybars I, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1223?-1277). No reference could be found for the author or his work. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
الأحكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة : مخطوطة / ضياء الدين أبو الهدى علمي.
Description:
Binding: Unbound (in 1 quire)., Colophon: Colophon missing; the author ends his work with: "... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam.", Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh munshiʼ saḥāb al-maʻrifah fī samāʼ al-adhhān wa-muṭliʻ shams al-ʻināyah min mashriq al-fahm wa-maṭlaʻ al-bayān wa-munawwir al-jawāriḥ bi-ṣifāt al-ʻibādah wa-anwār al-īmān, wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh shahādata man waḥḥadahu ʻalá al-mushāhadah wa-al-ʻayān wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan ʻabduhu wa-rasūluhu al-mabʻūth lil-kāffah min ḍiʼḍiʼ Maʻadd ibn ʻAdnān, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-makhṣūṣīn bi-al-riḍwān ... fa-qaṣada al-Amīr al-kabīr Sayf al-Dīn al-Mahrānī al-muʻadd la-hum wa-al-muḥakkam fīhim al-muʻayyan bayna al-aʻyān an adhkura la-hu mā warada fī dhālika min al-shurūṭ li-yakūna ḥujjah ʻinda al-imtiḥān fa-istakhartu Allāh wa-jamaʻtuhu bi-ḥaythu lā yaṭʻanu fīhi insān wa-sammaytuhu al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah ...", On folio 1a: "al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah takhrīj al-faqīr ilá Allāh subḥānahu wa-taʻālá al-Mawlá Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abī al-Hudá ʻAlamī ḥam [ḥāmī] al-Sunnah, raḥimahu Allāh.", On folio 5b, an anecdote about the thirteen "mamsūkhūn" (those transformed into animals and inanimate objects and the reasons for their transformation), quoted from Ḥashiyat al-ʻAlqamī (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1492-1556) ʻalá al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr (of al-Suyūṭi, 1445-1505): al-Fīl (elephant), al-dubb (bear), al-khinzīr (pig), al-qird (monkey), al-jirrīth (eel), al-ḍabb (lizard), al-waṭwāṭ (bat), al-ʻaqrab (scorpion), al-Zuhrah (Venus), al-duʻmūṣ (tadpole), al-ʻankabūt (spider), al-arnab (rabbit), Suhayl (Canopus)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-Iskandarīyah ḥamāhu Allāh, Text: Folios 1a-5b; folio 6 is blank., Title from incipit., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله منشئ سحاب المعرفة في سماء الأذهان ومطلع شمس العناية من مشرق الفهم ومطلع البيان ومنور الجوارح بصفات العبادة وأنوار الأمان، وأشهد أن لا إله إلّا الله شهادة من وحده على المشاهدة والعيان وأشهد أن محمدًا عبده ورسوله المبعوث للكافة من ضئضئ معدّ بن عدنان، صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه المخصوصين بالرضوان ... فقصد الأمير الكبير سيف الدين المهراني المعدّ لهم والمحكّم فيهم المعيّن بين الأعيان أن اذكر له ما ورد في ذلك من الشروط ليكون حجة عند الامتحان فاستخرت الله وجمعته بحيث لا يطعن فيه إنسان وسميته ال'حكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة ...", بداية الورقة الثانية: الإسكندرية حماه الله, and على وجه الورقة 1: "الأحكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة تخريج الفقير إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى المولى ضياء الدين أبي الهدى علمي حام [حامي] السنة، رحمه الله."
Subject (Name):
ʻAlamī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá. and علمي، ضياء الدين أبو الهدى.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts, Dhimmis (Islamic law), and Minorities (Islamic law)
On the pronunciation of the vowel fatḥah in the Koran.
Description:
Fair modern (ca. 1800) Yemenite naskhī, in red, green, and black., For the author's brother see Brockelmann, S II, p. 99., and Islamic binding, in brown, with flap.