BEIN 1971 233: Bound in 2 vols. Imperfect: half-title wanting. Autograph of Andersone. Autograph of Godwill., Signatures: v. 1: A-M8 (M8 blank) A-O8P2Q2 (Q2 blank); v. 2: a-z8aa4 (aa4 blank)., and The Arabic text without book 4 translated by Edward Pococke, and printed at the expense of the Hon. Robert Boyle.
Publisher:
excudebat Gulielm. Hall
Subject (Name):
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics, History, Indifferentism (Religion), and Dedications
History of the caliphs, Preceded by 3 leaves of notes, and Copied in Sanʻa, Yemen, in A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615).
Alternative Title:
Tārīkh al-khulafāʼ 880-02, Taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ, تاريخ الخلفاء 240-02/r, and تأريخ الخلفاء
Description:
Available on microfilm, Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān. Ammā baʻd ḥamd Allāh alladhī waʻada fa-wafá wa-awʻada fa-ʻafā ...", Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Occasional marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., Colophon: "Wāfaqa al-farāgh min raqm hādhā al-taʼrīkh ... yawm al-Jumʻah, ghurrat shahr Ramaḍān ... ʻām arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf ... bi-maḥrūs madīnat Ṣanʻāʼ al-Yaman ... bi-rasm ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... bi-yad ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This history book was completed ... on Friday, the beginning of the month of Ramaḍan ... of the year 1024 [of the Hijrah = 31 January 1615] ... in the protected city of Ṣanʻāʼ of Yemen ... for ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... by the hand of ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ..."
An anonymous treatise on the Arab conquest of North Africa under the leadership of ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir (died 678), a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad who became the governor of Egypt and died there. The present manuscript is the first book (al-sifr al-awwal) of the original work, dealing with the conquest from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf (localities in North Africa). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm of Banū Ṣāliḥ on Wednesday, 1 Shaʻbān, 1083 Hijrī (22 November, 1672). Place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ Ifrīqīyah and فتوح إفريقية
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi. Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. Bi-ʻawn Allāh wa-barakat Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Qāl fa-kharaja ilayhā ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, yakūnu amīr al-jaysh, wa-kharrajahu Mawlānā ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wa-huwa amīr al-Madīnah [madīnat] al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam, wa-yakūnu ʻAlī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wazīrahu. Wa-lam yuqtal aḥad baʻda mawt al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Fa-kharaja bi-sittīn alf fāris min bilād al-ʻArab ...", Secundo folio: miʼat alf fāris., 14 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 14 cm; 17 lines per page., Binding: In modern brown cloth binding., In fair Maghribī script, in brown ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; the first ten leaves are in a different hand and seem to have replaced the original; catchwords. The leaves are affected by dampness, but the text is legible, some are repaired without loss of text., Text folio 1a-155b., On folios 1a an advice on generosity, written in light blue ink, bearing the name and signature of al-Sayyid al-Ṭūfī al-Mālikī, Mudīr ʻĀmm Maʻhad al-Futūḥ al-Malakī, starts with: "Kun karīman kay tanāla bi-qurbinā nūran wa-ʻilman ...", On folio 10b an invocation in a different hand., Colophon: "Wa-hādhā muqtaḍá al-sifr al-awwal min al-Mahdīyah wa-ilá Sāṭīf ... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-ikmāl ʻalá yad ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm min Banī Ṣāliḥ ... Wa-kāana al-farāgh minhu ʻashīyah yawm al-Arbaʻ awwal shahr Shaʻbān ʻām thalāth wa-thamānīn wa-alf ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This is the end of the first book dealing with [the conquest] from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf ... Praise be to God on completing its copying by ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhim of Banī Ṣāliḥ ... The copying was completed on Wednesday evening, the beginning of Shaʻbān, 1083 [22 November, 1672] ..."
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.