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.
Followed by 1 leaf of notes. and Tract in proof of the proposition that the advent of the Prophet is foretold in the Old Testament.
Description:
Copied in the 15th(?) century., Fair naskhī, in red and black., The author was a Jewish convert to Islam., The date A.H. 720 at end is the date of composition., and With: 5 other titles.
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
Mīlawī, Yūsuf ibn al-Wakīl, fl. 1689 Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 258
Image Count:
40
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied about 1736., The work ends on leaf 52 recto, and is followed by additions by Yūsuf ibn al-Wakīl al-Mīlawī., and Treatise on stomach-ache (de strepitus ex ventre emissione).
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., For Yūsuf ibn al-Wakīl al-Mīlawī see Brockelmann, S II, p. 414., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding., Miscellanea--Stomach-ache, and Natural and social sciences--Medicine
An erotic tract. and Copied in A.H. 1149 (A.D. 1736).
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak, 1297 (ca.)-1363 Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 258
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Anthology of poetical pieces on the new moon, by Khalīl al-Ṣafadī and others. and Copied about 1736.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Poetry--Anthologies and Islamic binding.
Ṣabbāgh, Mīkhāʾīl ibn Niqūlā, 1775 or 6-1816 Zawzanī, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, d. 1093 or 4
Published / Created:
[ca. 1810]
Call Number:
Salisbury MSS 48
Image Count:
45
Abstract:
Commentary on the Muʻallaqāt. and Copied by Mīkhāʾīl Ṣabbāgh, about 1810.
Alternative Title:
Muʻallaqāt.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For the author see: Brockelmann, I, 288., From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 141). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Interleaved with 84 leaves, containing copious annotations by Silvestre de Sacy., and Mīkhāʾīl Ṣabbāgh's dates are 1784-1816 (Brockelmann, II, 479).
Subject (Name):
Silvestre de Sacy, A. I. (Antoine Isaac), 1758-1838