Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717 أحمد بن علي سعيد، -1717
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 428
Image Count:
652
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on Manār al-anwār (principles of law) of ʻAbd Allāh al-Nasafī. and Beginning and end missing. Probably with lacunae
Description:
Leaves misbound; the concluding part of the incipit, with the title, appears on leaf 278 recto., Fair modern (18th century?) naskhī., and Islamic binding, in black.
Subject (Name):
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717. and Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310.
Manuscript fragment on paper (unidentified watermark) of outline drawings of saints and prophets and 2 scenes from the New Testament, from a pattern book, with script headings
Description:
In Arabic. and Mounted between glass.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pattern books
Shihāb al-Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1388 or 1389-1470 or 1471
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 49a
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
204
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
A literary anthology in prose and verse and Beginning and end missing, also lacunae elsewhere in the text
Description:
The author's name and the title are written in a later hand on leaf 40 recto., Heading of faṣls (as listed by Brockelmann): 4). Fī al-nathrīyāt (leaf 20 recto); 5) Fī al-ḥikāyāt (leaf 51 verso)., Leaves probably in part out of order., Fairly old (16th century?) naskhī, in red and black., and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 652
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
272
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Volume II only and Incomplete at beginning and end
Alternative Title:
Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ
Description:
The identification of author and title of this volume is uncertain., Title given on the lower edges., Fair naskhī, probably of the 14th century., Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the front cover is preserved., and Other volumes wanting.
Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201 ابن الجوزي، أبو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي، حوالي 1116-1201
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 293
Image Count:
99
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Short manual of history, being an abridgment of the author's al-Muntaẓam fī multaqaṭ al-multazam and Preceded by 1 page of notes
Alternative Title:
Kitāb shudhūr al-ʻuqūd fī taʼrīkh al-ʻuhūd and كتاب شذور العقود في تأريخ العهود
Description:
Available on microfilm, Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī jalá ʻalá al-fikr mā jalá min al-ʻibar ...", Modern (18th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black, sparsely pointed., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and No. 2 of 3 titles bound together.
Subject (Geographic):
Islamic Empire
Subject (Name):
Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201.
Islamic history; volume X(?), covering the years A.H. 628-693 (A.D. 1230-1294). and Copied in A.H. 1270 (A.D. 1854).
Description:
Available on microfilm, For the identification of the work see note on last page; the author's name appears on leaf 47 verso. , Good naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in red, with flap.
A genealogical account of the legendary and historical Persian and Arab kings before Islam and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes
Description:
Text in Arabic, some notes in Persian., The manuscript was probably copied not long after the date of composition of the final treatise, A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574 or 75)., Fair naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and blue on leaf 1 verso. Leaves 1-2 with gold rectangular borders., A note pasted in the front cover lists the contents of the volume in French., Islamic binding, in contemporary brown calf., Bookplate of Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco., Bookplate of Thomas E. Marston., Unidentified bookstamp in Turkish on title page., and With: 2 other titles.