Madani, Yar Muhammad Shaykh Fayz Allah al-Hashimi Taj al-Din Muhammad Sadr, 14th cent, creator
Published / Created:
[1637]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 59
Image Count:
7
Description:
A Hindu tale, retold in prose and verse., Chiefly in Persian, with intermittent prose and verse in Arabic; colophon is in Arabic., Copied on A.H. 2 Ramazan 1[0]46 [A.D. 1637] by Yar Muhammad Shaykh Fayz Allah al-Hashimi al-Madani. A note on leaf 1 recto is dated A.H. 1119 [A.D. 1707 or 1708], hence the missing figure in the date of the colophon would seem to be a zero., Good naskhi, in red and black. Unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso; with five colored miniatures., Islamic binding, in brown., Paginated 1-341 (291-299 omitted; first and last page not numbered)., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Rieu, C. Persian manuscripts,, and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Manuscript volume on paper, in several hands, two-thirds of which contains numerous brief commonplace book entries in Latin and English arranged under alphabetical Latin headings. The most frequently quoted author is Seneca, but there are also passages from Cicero, Plutarch, Tacitus, Tertullian, Quintillian, Ambrose, Augustine, and Aquinas. Nearly all of the numerous quotations from the Bible are in English. The final third of the volume contains lengthier passages in English prose, arranged under headings such as "A Reformed Catholic," "Of Afflications," and "Idolatrie."
Description:
Binding: contemporary full parchment; extensive later 17th century annotations on covers, containing excerpts from Robert Wild's Iter Borealis and verses on the Popish Plot., In English and Latin., Inscribed on front endpaper: "Liber Richardi Fitzherbert," accompanied by other extensive annotations in a variety of hands., Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2008., and Richard Fitzherbert (d. 1653?) received his M.A. from New College, Oxford in 1605 and was appointed rector of Cucklington in Somerset in 1607. He was also rector of Stoke Tristor and Gussage All Saints from 1621, as well as Archdeacon of Dorset. In his later years in Cucklington he was "often plundered and imprisoned," and died circa 1653, leaving at least one daughter, Elizabeth.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Classical literature--Quotations, Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc, English prose literature--17th century, and Fathers of the church--Quotations
Bound autograph manuscript in several unknown hands.
Description:
Bound in vellum., Stamp of St. Francis Xavier College Library inside front cover. From the library of St. Francis Xavier College, New York. From the collection of Otto Dümler. Gift of Mrs. Otto Dümler., and Title in English from inside front cover, written by later owner. Manuscript in Spanish.
Subject (Name):
Dümler, Otto--Ownership and Saint Francis Xavier College--Ownership
Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft. Kurtzer Bericht von der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Ludwig, Prince of Anhalt-Koethen, 1579-1650 Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650
Published / Created:
[1630]
Call Number:
Zg17 F94 630f
Image Count:
224
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Each leaf bears a Gesellschaft member's emblem and motto, a short poem, and the member's initials; chart at end lists names that match the initials.
Alternative Title:
Fruchtbringende Gesellschafft Vorhaben, Nahmen, Gemaehlde und Woerter and Fruchtbringenden Gesellschafft Vorhaben, Nahmen, Gemaehlde und Woerter
Description:
Autograph: Ferdinand Albrecht Flemming ex bibliotheca paterna 1669. At end, list in ms. of additional members of Gesellschaft, possibly in hand of Christian Flemmer. Book waste used in binding.