Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 2
Image Count:
693
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
According to C. Landberg, this copy probably belonged to Ibn Taymīyah himself, or else was corrected by him., Ex-libris of Muḥammad ibn Khalīl(?) ibn Quṭuz al-Ẓāhirī on leaf 1 recto dated A.H. 759 (A.D. 1358)., and Polemic against the Shīʻah and the Qadarīyah, in refutation of the Minhāj al-karāmah of Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.
Sayfī Āqbāy, Muḥammad ibn Jānī Bak, 15th cent.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 31
Image Count:
366
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Anthology, in prose and verse, on the subject of virtues and vices, being an abridgment of the Ghurar al-khaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiḥah wa-ʻurar al-naqāʾiṣ al-fāḍiḥah of Muḥammad al-Waṭwāṭ., Copied in A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1692)., Followed (leaves 174-76) by a fāʾidah on the subject of coffee by one al-Ujhūrī., and Followed by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black.
Subject (Name):
Ujhūrī. Sharḥ al-ṣaghīr. and Waṭwāṭ, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá, 1235-1318. Ghurar al-khaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiḥah wa-ʻurar al-naqāʾiṣ al-fāḍiḥah.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Belles lettres. and Miscellanea--Coffee.
A literary work, in prose and verse; followed (33-38) by some minor pieces, supposedly by the same author. and Copied in A.H. 603 (A.D. 1206).
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black. and On leaf 1 recto is written: "E. Scheidius. 1767." From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 163). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870.
Subject (Name):
Scheidius, Everard,--1742-1794--Ownership. and Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Ownership.
Manuscript of the famous Maqāmāt (Orations, literally sittings, sessions, meetings); a genre of highly developed Arabic rhythmic prose intended to amuse and entertain but also with critical social, moral and political undercurrents, by Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī (1054-1122), from al-Baṣrah (Iraq), one of the most celibrated and prolific authors of the 11th/12th centuries. The Maqāmāt have been translated into many European and Oriental languages. They are also known by the titles: al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah and Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Surūjī (a fictitious charachter). They are fifty in number. The manuscript was a gift from Abū Bakr, a Chinese Muslim teacher of Arabic in Beijing, to Samuel Zwemer (probably the missionary Samuel M. Zwemer, 1867-1952) on 4 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 1335 (22 August 1917). According to Abū Bakr's letter written in Arabic and pasted on the back of the front cover, the manuscript was copied more than two hudred years ago probably in China.
Alternative Title:
al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah., Maqāmāt, Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Surūjī., المقامات الحريرية., مقامات, مقامات أبي زيد السروجي., and مقامات الحريري، [17--?] / للقاسم بن علي الحريري.
Description:
22.5 x 30.5 cm; written surface: 14 x 22.5 cm, 13 lines per page., Bound., Folios 163a-167b are blank., In elegant naskh script, on yellowish paper with interlinear and marginal notes and explanations., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Allāhumma innā naḥmaduka ʻalá mā ʻallamta min al-bayān wa-alhamta min al-tibyān kamā naḥmaduka ʻalá mā asbaghta min al-ʻaṭāʼ wa-asbalta min al-ghiṭāʼ wa-naʻūdhu bi-ka min sharah al-lasan wa-fuḍūl al-hadhar kamā naʻūdhu bi-ka min maʻarrat al-lakn wa-fuḍūḥ al-ḥaṣr wa-nastakfī bi-ka al-iftitān bi-iṭrāʼ al-mādiḥ wa-ighḍāʼ al-musāmiḥ kamā nastakfī bi-ka al-intiṣāb li-izrāʼ al-qādiḥ wa-hatk al-fāḍiḥ ...", Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., The Maqāmāt ends with: "Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥarīrī raḥimahu Allāh: 'Hādhā ākhir al-Maqāmāt allatī anshaʼtuhā bi-al-ightirār wa-amlaytuhā bi-lisān al-iḍṭirār wa-qad uljītu ilá an arṣadtuhā lil-istiʻrāḍ wa-nādaytu ʻalayhā fī sūq al-iʻtirāḍ hādhā maʻa maʻrifatī bi-annahā min saqaṭ al-matāʻ wa-mimmā yastawjibu an yubāʻ wa-lā yubtāʻ wa-law ghashiyanī nūr al-tawfīq wa-naẓartu li-nafsī naẓara al-shafīq lil-shaqīq la-satartu ʻuwwārī alladhī lam yazal mastūran wa-lakin kāna dhālika fī al-kitāb masṭūran wa-anā astaghfiru Allāh mimmā awdaʻtuhā min abāṭīl al-laghw wa-aḍālīl al-lahw wa-astarshidu ilá mā yaʻṣimu min al-sahw wa-yaḥẓá bi-al-ʻafw innahu huwa ahl al-taqwá wa-ahl al-maghfirah wa-walī al-khayrāt fī al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá khayr khalqihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi.", There are some Chinese inscriptions on the top margin of folios 1 and 2, probably by Abū Bakr himself., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اللهم إنّا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان وألهمت من التبيان كما نحمدك على ما أسبغت من العطاء وأسبلت من الغطاء ونعوذ بك من شره اللسن وفضول الهذر كما نعوذ بك من معرّة اللكن وفضوح الحصر ونستكفي بك الافتتان بإطراء المادح وإغضاء المسامح كما نستكفي بك الانتصاب لإزراء القادح وهتك الفاضح ...", and تنتهي المقامات بـ : "قال الشيخ الإمام أبو محمد القاسم بن علي الحريري رحمه الله: 'هذا آخر المقامات التي أنشأتها بالاغترار وأمليتها بلسان الاضطرار وقد ألجيت إلى أن أرصدتها للاستعراض وناديت عليها في سوق الاعتراض هذا مع معرفتي بأنها من سقط المتاع ومما يستوجب أن يباع ولا يبتاع ولو غشيني نور التوفيق ونظرت لنفسي نظر الشفيق للشقيق لسترت عواري الذي لم يزل مستورًا ولكن كان ذلك في الكتاب مسطورًا وأنا استغفر الله مما أودعتها من أباطيل اللغو وأضاليل اللهو وأسترشد إلى ما يعصم من السهو ويحظى بالعفو إنه هو أهل التقوى وأهل المغفرة وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والآخرة. وصلى الله على خير خلقه محمد وآله."
Subject (Name):
Ḥarīrī,--1054-1122 and حريري،--1054-1122
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts, Arabic prose literature--Early works to 1800, and Maqamah--Early works to 1800
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365 Křišt̕an z Prachatic, ca. 1366-1439 Wenceslas, Emperor of Germany, 1361-1419
Published / Created:
[ca. 1440]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 9
Image Count:
671
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of the compilation of a physician interested in medicine, alchemy, and herbs. Includes three texts by Krisean z Prachatic, a physician, herbalist, and teacher of Prague University; Albicus, De regimine sanitatis, a treatise on the treatment of paralysis and the plague; Albicus, Regimen for King Wenceslaus of Bohemia (1361-1419); several alphabets of general scientific terms in Latin with Czech and/or German equivalents; Latin names of herbs with Czech and sometimes Polish equivalents; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and hundreds of medical and alchemical recipes.
Description:
Binding: Probably original. Brown calf, the covers ruled with triple parallel lines to a pattern of four rectangles within a rectangle, the larger rectangle crossed with similar ruling; indications of five center and corner pieces on each cover, possibly of iron and certainly fastened with iron nails, now lost; indications of two missing clasps and catches at the fore-edges of the covers; heavily repaired at fore-edges, hinges, and backstrip, the original back divided into four compartments by five heavy double bands, a modern morocco label in the second compartment from the top gold-stamped between double gold rules top and bottom: "ALCHEMICAL-MEDICAL | MISCELLANY | - | MANUSCRIPT | MIDDLE EUROPE | XVTH CENTURY"., Headings, foliation, rubrics, and capital strokes in red., Pagination refers to openings, i.e. facing pages., and Script: The greater part of the manuscript (except the unnumbered quires 15-19) written by a single hand in a clear, round, and steady Gothica cursiva. Quires 15-19 written in a similar but more pointed and flowing hand, sometimes more condensed, similarly decorated.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Qasṭallānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1447 or 1448-1517 or 1518
Published / Created:
1701
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 1a
Image Count:
742
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Ṣaḥīḥ (corpus of traditions) of Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj. Volume I., Copied in A.H. 1113 (A.D. 1701)., and Incomplete at beginning.
Description:
According to Ḥājjī Khalīfah, the author did not finish the commentary., Fair naskhī, in red, green, and black., and Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, with flap.
Subject (Name):
Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, ca. 821-875. Ṣaḥīḥ. and Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, ca. 821-875--Ṣaḥīḥ
Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, 1549 or 1550 حلبي، إبراهيم بن محمد، -1549 أو 1550.
Published / Created:
1751
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 615
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Treatise on the rules of prayer according to the Ḥanafī school, by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī (died 1549 or 1550), being an abridgement of the author's Ghunyat al-mutamallī, itself a commentary on Munyat al-muṣallī wa-ghunyat al-mubtadī of Sadīd al-Dīn al-Kashgharī (active 13th century?). Copied by Muṣṭafá Bik ibn Ḥājjī Muṣṭafá al-Kanqrawī al-mashhūr bi-Jalabʹzādah (could not be identified) who resides at Maḥallat al-Shaykh ʻUthmān (could not be identified), at noon time of the last Friday [probably the 24th of] Ṣafar, 1164 Hijrī (22 January, 1751).
Alternative Title:
مختصر غنية المتملي : مخطوطة / إبراهيم بن محمد بن إبراهيم الحلبي.
Description:
14 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 7.2 x 14.7; 21 lines per page., Binding: In modern marbled cardboard binding., Colophon: "Qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min imlāʼ Ghunyat al-mutamallī fī Sharḥ Munyat al-muṣallī ʻan yad ʻabd [al-ʻabd] al-ḍaʻīf al-naḥīf, al-rājī ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-laṭīf, Muṣṭafá Bik ibn Ḥājjī Muṣṭafá al-Kanqrawī, al-mashhūr bi-Jalabʹzādah, al-sākin bi-Maḥallat al-Shaykh ʻUthmān, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayninā [wa-li-wālidaynā] wa-li-man naẓara fīhi, ākhir yawm al-Jumʻah min Ṣafar al-khayr, waqt al-ẓuhr, li-sanat arbaʻ wa-sittīn wa-miʼah wa-alf. M.", Folio 167 is missing., In clear naskh script, in black ink, on glossy white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; text ruled in several lines of gold and black; numerous notes in neat hands on the margins; many incerts with notes; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī jaʻala al-ʻibādah maftaḥ al-saʻādah wa-maṭmaḥ al-siyādah wa-malmaḥ al-ḥusná wa-al-ziyādah, wa-jaʻala al-ṣalāh ʻamūd qiyāmihā wa-dhurwat sanāmihā wa-ʻumdat aḥkāmihā, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá afḍal khalqihi Sayyidinā Muḥammad alladhī juʻilat fī al-ṣalāh qurrat ʻaynihi, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi alladhīna fāzū min maʻdin al-dīn bi-lujaynih wa-ʻaynih. Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-muftaqir ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-ghanī Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī: Qad sharaḥtu kitāb Munyat al-muṣallī sharḥan wa-sammaytuhu bi-Ghunyat al-mutamallī, wa-lākin lammā raʼaytu fīhi baʻḍ al-iṭālah allatī rubbamā awjabat lil-mubtadīn wa-al-qāṣirīn al-malālah, fa-aḥbabtu an akhtaṣir min farāʼid dalāʼilihi wa-azīd fī fawāʼid masāʼilihi tasʹhīlan lil-ṭālibīn wa-tanwīran lil-rāghibīn ...", On folio ia a faded seal with the date 1312 [1894/1895]., On folios iib-iiib an elaborate index of contents., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-ṣawm fa-lammā raʼaytu., Title from printed version., Translation of the colophon: "The copy of Ghunyat al-mutamallī fī Sharḥ Munyat al-muṣallī was completed by Muṣṭafá Bik ibn Ḥājjī Muṣṭafá al-Kanqrawī al-mashhūr bi-Jalabʹzādah ... who resides at Maḥallat al-Shaykh ʻUthmān ... at noon time of the last Friday [probably the 24th] of Ṣafar, 1164 Hijrī [22 January, 1751].", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل العبادة مفتح السعادة ومطمح السيادة وملمح الحسنى والزيادة، وجعل الصلوة عمود قيامها وذروة سنامها وعمدة أحكامها، والصلوة والسلام على أفضل خلقه سيدنا محمد الذي جعلت في الصلوة قرة عينه، وعلى آله وأصحابه الذين فازوا من معدن الدين بلجينه وعينه. وبعد، فيقول المفتقر إلى رحمة ربه الغني إبراهيم بن محمد بن إبراهيم الحلبي: قد شرحت كتاب منية المصلي شرحًا وسميته بغنية المتملي، ولكن لما رأيت فيه بعض الإطالة التي ربما أوجبت للمبتدين والقاصرين الملالة، فأحببت أن اختصر من فرائد دلائله وازيد في فوائد مسائله تسهيلًا للطالبين وتنويرًا للراغبين ...", الخاتمة: "قد وقع الفراغ من إملاء غنية المتملي في شرح منية المصلي عن يد عبد [العبد] الضعيف النحيف٬ الراجي إلى رحمة ربه اللطيف، مصطفى بك بن حاجي مصطفى الكنقروي، المشهور بجلبزاده، الساكن بمحلة الشيخ عثمان، غفر الله له ولوالديننا [ولوالدينا] ولمن نظر فيه، آخر يوم الجمعة من صفر الخير، وقت الظهر، لسنة أربع وستين ومائة وألف. م.", and بداية الورقة الثانية: الصوم فلما رأيت.
Subject (Name):
Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, 1549 or 1550, Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, 1549 or 1550.--Ghunyat al-mutamallī, Kashgharī, Sadīd al-Dīn,--active 13th century?--Munyat al-muṣallī wa-ghunyat al-mubtadiʼ, حلبي، ابراهيم بن محمد،---1549 أو 1550., حلبي، إبراهيم بن محمد،---1549 أو 1550.--غنية المتملي., and كشغري، سديد الدين،--ناشط قرن 13؟--منية المصلي وغنية المبتدئ.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Hanafites--Early works to 1800, Islamic law--Early works to 1800, and Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800