Several lacunae in the text. and Volume I only, stops in the middle of the story of Qamar al-Zamān and Budūr.
Alternative Title:
Arabian nights., Kitāb Alf laylah wa-laylah, ألف ليلة وليلة. -- [17--؟]., and كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة
Description:
Fair modern (18th century) nastaʻlīq, leaves 1-5 supplied in a later hand., In manuscript on leaf 1 recto: "Bought by me at Mocha 1805. M. Thoms[on].", Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Ḥukiya, wa-Allāh aʻlam wa-aʻraf [wa-]akram, fīmā maḍá wa-taqaddam min asālīf al-umam, annahu [kāna] malikayn min mulūk al-ʻAjam, min Banī Sāsān, wa-kānū khawayn [akhawayn] shaqīqayn min umm wa-ab ...", Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... حكي، والله أعلم وأعرف [و]أكرم، فيما مضى وتقدّم من أساليف الأمم، أنّه [كان] ملكين من ملوك العجم، من بني ساسان، وكانوا خوين [أخوين] شقيقين من أم وأب ..."
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Arabic prose literature--Early works to 1800.
An amulet on long scroll of vellum or snake skin, rolled around a central axis into a silver hexagonal tube with a cap; niello etched in an arabesque pattern in gold, with three loops where a chain can go through, so that it can be worn as a necklace. The scroll is written in a long central column surrounded by eight different rectangular compartments in different colors. The central column contains Surat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97), followed by Surāt al-Fātiḥat (Qurʼan: Chapter 1), followed by the Creator's verse of Sūrat al-Ḥajj (Qurʼan: Chapter 22:65), followed by a long invocation asking God for help and guidance, followed by a Shiʻī invocation asking for the intecession of Imām ʻAlī, followed by a magic square. The amulet is meant to have magical powers to protect the owner. Name of copyist (and/or creator) and place and date of copying/and or production not mentioned, probably from the 18th or 19th century.
Description:
39.5 x 6 cm., Incipit: Starts with Sūrat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97): "Innā anzalnāhu fī Laylat al-Qadr ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., The central part of the amulet is written in ruqʻah/naskh script and the compartments in thulth script, in black, blue, red and gold., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Amulets (Islam)--Early works to 1800., Arabic manuscripts., Islamic magic--Early works to 1800., Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Fātiḥah--Early works to 1800., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Ḥajj--Early works to 1800., and Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-qadr--Early works to 1800.
Ibn Sabʻīn, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Ibrāhīm, 1216 or 1217-1270.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 12
Image Count:
275
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 784 (A.D. 1382). and Tract in Sufi theology.
Description:
Brockelmann gives the author's honorary title as Muḥyī al-Dīn (S I, p. 844); the manuscript gives it as Quṭb al-Dīn., Cairo catalog, VII, 682 does not give the incipit for the Kitāb al-daraj. Nor in Ḥājjī Khalīfah., Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black, generously vocalized., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Presumably not the same as the author's Kitāb al-daraj (Brockelmann, I, 466)., The manuscript vocalized "darj" for "daraj" in the beginning of the work, but has "daraj" on leaf 131 recto., and Title page in gold and colors.