Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556 واعظ المكي، عبد الرؤوف بن يحيى، -1556
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 293
Image Count:
53
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Versification of al-Nuqāyah (concise encyclopedia) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī. and Followed by 2 leaves of notes
Description:
Available on microfilm, The title, scrawled in a later hand on leaf 217 recto, confused the author with ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Munāwī., The author's full name is given in the colophon (explicit)., Kâtip Çelebi (ed. Flügel) misprinted ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz as covering fann al-tafsīr only., Kâtip Çelebi gives the author's surname as al-Zamzamī al-Makkī. Brockelmann, S II, p. 509, lists a Naẓm ʻilm al-tafsīr under ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī al-Zamzamī, d. 1568, possibly the same work. (But Hitti, 7, gives his death date as A.H. 963 / A.D. 1556)., Kâtip Çelebi gives the death date as A.H. 963 (A.D. 1555 or 1556)., According to the colophon the author was a pupil of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (d. 1565?)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu muḥtāj al-Ghanī al-Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Raʼūf najl Yaḥyá al-Wāʻiẓ: Aḥmadu man ajāda bi-al-aḥkām ...", Modern (18th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black, sparsely pointed., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and No. 3 of 3 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505., Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556., Zamzamī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī, -1568., and Zamzamī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Yaḥyá, -1556.
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic and Islamic learning and scholarship
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
Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad مهفني، الحسين بن أحمد
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 156
Image Count:
36
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Short manual of the law of marriage, Preceded by 1 page of notes, and Copied in A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808).
Alternative Title:
Arkān al-nikāḥ and أركان النكاح
Description:
Also known as: Arkān al-nikāḥ (Brockelmann, S II, p. 628, taken from Ahlwardt, 4681, where it is made up)., The author is a Javanese, and is presumably of the Shafiʻi persuasion (cf. Brockelmann, II, 422)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-Malik al-Dayyān ... Qāla ... Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mahfanī ... Ammā baʻd, fa-qad saʼalanī baʻḍ aḥibbāʼī ... an uṣannifa lahum kitāban mukhtaṣaran nāfiʻan fī arkān al-nikāḥ ...", Fair naskhī, in red and black., With: 1 other title., Colophon: "Tammat al-kitāb, taʼrīkh yawm al-Khamīs, al-khāmis min shahr Jumād al-Awwal, min sanat thalāth wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼatayn baʻd al-alf.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed on Thursday, 5 Jumād al-Awwal of the year 1223 [of the Hijrah = 29 June 1808]."
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.