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.
Copied about 1736. and On the questioning which is administered to the dead in their graves concerning their belief in the Prophet.
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):
Islamic binding. and Miscellanea--Death and burial
A Christianized version, the names of the two principal figures being spelled Barlām and Yuwāṣaf. and Beginning missing.
Alternative Title:
Barlaam and Joasaph. Arabic.
Description:
Fairly modern (18th century?) calligraphic naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Title as above supplied by a modern hand inside front cover.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Belles lettres., Christian literature., and Islamic binding.
Ghāfiqī, Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1165
Published / Created:
1338
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 473
Image Count:
13
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 738 (A.D. 1338). and Treatise on medicine.
Description:
Loose in Islamic binding, in brown., Small naskhī, in red and black., The title-page (leaf 44 recto) bears the wrong title: Kitāb al-tadāruk li-anwāʻ khaṭāʾ al-tadbīr, attributed to Avicenna (cf. also Brockelmann, S II, p. 1028, Tadāruk al-khaṭāʾ fī tadbīr al-abdān by one Aḥmad al-Suhaylī)., and With: 1 other title.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding and Natural and social sciences--Medicine
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.
Ibn Qudāmah, Muwaffaq al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, 1147-1223
Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 711
Image Count:
81
Abstract:
Copied about A.H. 1229 (A.D. 1814)., The work ends on leaf 231 verso, and is followed by a responsum by Ibn Qudāmah to a query as to whether the Koran represents the actual word of God, and by other pieces, in prose and verse., and Tract in condemnation of the use of allegorical interpretation in theology.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., and With: 6 other titles.