Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a description of European travels, mainly in Greece, Italy and Germany, where the author visits such cities as Naples, Messina, Malta, Florence, Salerno, Rome, Constantinople, Athens, Smyrna, Corinth, and Corfu, paying particular attention to monuments and agriculture. He views paintings and churches in Naples; visits the Campo Santo "where there are 366 holes or vaults in which the poor are interred"; sees Vesuvius; hears Mass at the Sistine Chapel; and reports on "the state of vegitation during the voyage." Elsewhere, the author notes a tempest of snow, hail, and wind on his sea voyage out of Malta; accompanies his brother "Joe" to Barcelona, where he kills two quails; admires the scenery of Switzerland and visits the landmarks associated with the legend of William Tell; and describes his meals throughout. At the end of the third volume is a list of traveling expenses. All volumes are illustrated throughout with several dozen pen and ink sketches of landscapes and monuments
Description:
In English. and Binding: full calf. Vol. 1 has metal clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland, Altdorf., Germany, Great Britain, Greece, and Italy
Subject (Name):
Tell, Wilhelm
Subject (Topic):
Monuments, Agriculture, Europe, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a description of European travels, mainly in Greece, Italy and Germany, where the author visits such cities as Naples, Messina, Malta, Florence, Salerno, Rome, Constantinople, Athens, Smyrna, Corinth, and Corfu, paying particular attention to monuments and agriculture. He views paintings and churches in Naples; visits the Campo Santo "where there are 366 holes or vaults in which the poor are interred"; sees Vesuvius; hears Mass at the Sistine Chapel; and reports on "the state of vegitation during the voyage." Elsewhere, the author notes a tempest of snow, hail, and wind on his sea voyage out of Malta; accompanies his brother "Joe" to Barcelona, where he kills two quails; admires the scenery of Switzerland and visits the landmarks associated with the legend of William Tell; and describes his meals throughout. At the end of the third volume is a list of traveling expenses. All volumes are illustrated throughout with several dozen pen and ink sketches of landscapes and monuments
Description:
In English. and Binding: full calf. Vol. 1 has metal clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland, Altdorf., Germany, Great Britain, Greece, and Italy
Subject (Name):
Tell, Wilhelm
Subject (Topic):
Monuments, Agriculture, Europe, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
Holograph diary describing a tour through France, Switzerland, and Germany. The diary begins with the author's sea voyage from Southampton to Havre by steam packet. He remarks on the abundance of parrots in Havre, speculating that they have been brought across the Atlantic as part of Havre's extensive trade with America and the West Indies. In France, he visits Versailles, Rouen, and Paris; in Switzerland, he travels through the Via Mala, a narrow passage through a mountain; and discusses the Romansch dialect with a local bookseller. In Germany, he provides a history of minnesingers and comments on fashion in Strasbourg. The diary concludes with his voyage back to England and his experience at the custom house there
Description:
Available on microfilm., In English., Written on flyleaf in first volume: J. S. Haygarth Journal. Vol. I. 1839. Written inside front cover in second volume: J. S. Haygarth. Journal. 1839. Vol 2., and Binding: quarter morocco; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Germany, Le Havre (France), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Haygarth, John Sayer, ca. 1811-ca. 1865.
Subject (Topic):
Minnesingers, Raeto-Romance language, Dialects, Travelers' writings, English, Troubadours, and Description and travel
Holograph diary describing a tour through France, Switzerland, and Germany. The diary begins with the author's sea voyage from Southampton to Havre by steam packet. He remarks on the abundance of parrots in Havre, speculating that they have been brought across the Atlantic as part of Havre's extensive trade with America and the West Indies. In France, he visits Versailles, Rouen, and Paris; in Switzerland, he travels through the Via Mala, a narrow passage through a mountain; and discusses the Romansch dialect with a local bookseller. In Germany, he provides a history of minnesingers and comments on fashion in Strasbourg. The diary concludes with his voyage back to England and his experience at the custom house there
Description:
Available on microfilm., In English., Written on flyleaf in first volume: J. S. Haygarth Journal. Vol. I. 1839. Written inside front cover in second volume: J. S. Haygarth. Journal. 1839. Vol 2., and Binding: quarter morocco; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Germany, Le Havre (France), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Haygarth, John Sayer, ca. 1811-ca. 1865.
Subject (Topic):
Minnesingers, Raeto-Romance language, Dialects, Travelers' writings, English, Troubadours, and Description and travel
Manuscript fragment on paper of an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a bâtarde script., Decoration: capitals heightened in red; red initials and chapter marks in the text., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi 3134 (Bartholomaeus de Chaimis, Confessionale), in which they are used as quire guards and front and back pastedowns.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 283
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
125
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only, The beginning of both volumes is missing, and Holograph
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Considerably worm-eaten., Fair naskhī., and Other volumes wanting.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 283
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
215
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only, The beginning of both volumes is missing, and Holograph
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Considerably worm-eaten., Fair naskhī., and Other volumes wanting.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 53a
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
702
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Beginning and end missing, and Perhaps a holograph (cf. Landberg MSS 283).
Description:
Fair naskhī. and Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, flap and back missing.
Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534 كمال پاشازاده، 1468 أو 1469-1534
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 516
Image Count:
196
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of Hanafi law, consisting of the main text (al-Iṣlāḥ, being a revision of Maḥmūd al-Maḥbūbī's Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah) and the commentary (al-Īḍāḥ, being a revision of Sharḥ Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah of ʻUbayd Allāh Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Thānī)., Preceded by 1 leaf of notes, and Copied in A.H. 947 (A.D. 1540 or 1541).
Description:
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Aḥmaduhu fī al-bidāyah wa-al-nihāyah ʻalá al-hidāyah wa-al-wiqāyah ...", Fair nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʼunwān in gold and blue on leaf 1 verso., Extensive marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb ... 947.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed ... 947 [of the Hijrah = 1540/1541]."
Subject (Name):
Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534., Maḥbūbī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1344 or 1345., and Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, -1346 or 1347.
Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 313
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
412
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī.
Alternative Title:
Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ
Description:
The title al-Maṭlab lil-Qamūlī is given in the waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto (dated A.H. 797 [A.D. 1395]); Aḥmad al-Qamūlī presumably having completed Ibn al-Rifʻah's unfinished work., Perhaps al-Qamūlī's autograph., For the author see Brockelmann, II, 133., For the handwriting cf. Landberg MSS 283., C. Landberg compared this manuscript with Landberg MSS 283 (al-Qamūlī's Baḥr al-muḥīṭ, on the same subject) and found the text to be different., and Islamic binding, in brown, only the back cover having been preserved.