Date assigned by C. Landberg ("X. Jahrh.")., Good fairly modern (16th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; copious genealogical tables., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Original foliation: [13bis] not counted; 46 omitted.
Subject (Name):
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661 and Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
Subject (Topic):
Biography--Biography of Muḥammad, Biography--General biography, Biography--Prophet's companions, and Islamic binding
Leaves 117-118, containing a supplementary prayer by a later hand, dated A.H. 1282 (A.D. 1865). and Prayers for the Prophet.
Alternative Title:
Dalāʾil al-khayrāt
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwāns in colors., Loose in Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Marginalia., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and With drawings, in color, of the holy places in Medina on leaves 25 verso and 26 recto.
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Published / Created:
1755
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 349
Image Count:
45
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Copied in A.D. 1755., Followed by 2 leaves of notes., Followed by: ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī's introduction to his translation of the Psalms (leaf 11 recto); 24 ethical maxims, ascribed to St. Gregory of Nyssa (leaf 14 verso); and other pieces., and Questions and answers, ascribed to St. Basil and St. Gregory of Nyssa.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For al-Anṭākī's version of the Psalms, cf. Graf, I, 116., For the ethical maxims, cf. Graf, I, 344, 608 (where, however, reference is made to Berlin catalog, 10181 (16), which is a different text)., and No. 5 of 5 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Anṭākī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, 11th cent. and Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394.
Beginning and end missing. and Manual of Shafiʻi law. Volume VIII (?) only.
Description:
Fair old (14th century?) naskhī., For the author see Brockelmann, I, 387; S I, p. 669. On the Taʻlīqah, cf. also al-Subkī, Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah, III, 155 ff; Ibn Khallikān (ed. Cairo), I, 145., Islamic binding, in brown, loose, the back cover supplied from a smaller book., and The identification of the work is uncertain. Title, as written on the lower edges, is partly rubbed off and indistinct.
Copied after the Mahdī's death, since his name is occasionally followed by the formula ʻalayhi al-salām. and Letters and proclamations.
Description:
"Registre des lettres et proclamations du Mahdi qui se trouvent dans [ce] manuscrit"; 4 leaves, in C. Landberg's hand, in pocket, inside front cover., Cf. JAOS, 31(1911), 368-69, from where it would seem that C. Landberg's original manuscript 543 (a volume of "170 Seiten") is now in the Egyptian Intelligence Office in Cairo and that it was captured at the battle of Toski in 1889., Fair Sudanese hand, in red and black., Imperfect: pp. 252-351 wanting., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Leaves numbered as pp. 1-503 (not counting the first page; pp. 495-503 are blank except for page-numbers).
Ibn al-Farrāʾ, Abū Yaʻlá Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 990-1066
Published / Created:
[11--?].
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 221
Image Count:
406
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Beginning and end missing; also lacunae between leaves 6 and 7, 7 and 8, 9 and 10, 94 and 95. and Legal decisions.
Description:
Fair 12th century naskhī, scantily pointed., For the author see Brockelmann, S I, p. 686., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Title, as above, supplied on leaf 1 recto by a later hand.