In metal box, which has magnifying glass set into cover and ring to receive string or chain; the whole probably to be worn as an amulet., Printed from the copy of the calligrapher Ḥāfiẓ ʻUthmān Effendi. Cf. p. 819., and Without t.p.; imprint supplied from colophon, p. 819.
Publisher:
al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻUthmānīyah, and المطبعة العثمانية،
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, b. 1160. Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
Published / Created:
1804 or 1805
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 210
Image Count:
8
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 1215 (A.D. 1804 or 5); parts of the manuscript seem older than 1804. and Exhaustive commentary on al-Qazwīnī's Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, which is an excerpt of part 3 of al-Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
Description:
Islamic binding, covered in green fabric, with flap., Profuse marginal and interlinear notes throughout., and Purchased from Oskar Rescher in 1972 on the Edwin J. Beinecke fund.
Subject (Name):
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān,--1267 or 8-1338.--Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text.
Description:
Decoration: alternating red and blue initials., Script: written in a late pregothic script., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi 6058 (Francesco Filelfo, Vita di S. Giovanni Battista), in which the fragments are used as front and back end papers and pastedowns.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Qārī al-Harawī, ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad, -1605 or 1606.
Published / Created:
[1737]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
Collection of traditions generally regarded as not genuine. and Copied in A.H. 1150 (A.D. 1737).
Alternative Title:
Mawḍūʻāt ʻAlī ibn al-Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī.
Description:
Coarse naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 4 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and Title, as above, appears in explicit (leaf 91 recto); also given (leaf 64 recto) as: Mawḍūʻāt ʻAlī ibn al-Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Theology--Tradition--Corpuses.
Books four and five of "al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb" (Canon of medicine), a comprehensive work on Arabic medicine, by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, 980-1037) who was born near Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna was the most famous and influential scholar, scientist, and philosopher of the medieval world. He was foremost a physician, but was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, psychologist, philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and poet. His al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb became the authoritative reference on medicine in the Middle Ages, not only in the Islamic world, but, in its Latin translations, in Europe as well. The present manuscript consists of book four (folios 1b-156b) and book five (folios 157a-211a) of a five volume set. Book five is called "al-Aqrābādhīn" (pharmacology, materia medica). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 19th century.
Alternative Title:
Aqrābādhīn., Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections, أقراباذين., الكتابان الرابع والخامس من القانون في الطب : مخطوطة / ابن سينا., and قانون في الطب. مختارات
Description:
16.5 x 30.5 cm; written surface: 12.5 x 22.5 cm; 29 lines per page., Binding: In modern dark brown leather binding with flap; spine and flap embossed with central medallions; covers embossed corner decorations., Colophon: "Tamma kitāb al-Aqrābādīn bi-tamāmih min kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá dhālika ḥamdan lā ghāyah la-hā wa-ṣallá [Allāh ʻalá] al-Nabī al-Hāshimī Abṭaḥī [al-Abṭaḥī] wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi ṣalātan lā mithla la-hā. Ḥarrarahu wa-fī sanat thamāniyat ʻashar.", In good medium naskh script, in black ink on white paper; headings and keywords in red; text within frames in red, blue and gold; many wormholes, mostly on the margins; some corrections and notes on the margins; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Fī al-amrāḍ allatī lā takhtaṣṣu bi-ʻuḍw dūna ʻuḍw. al-Kitāb al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn. Kalām kullī fī al-ḥummīyāt wa-huwa sabʻat funūn ...", On folio 156b: "Fa-hādhā ākhir kitāb [...?] wa-huwa ākhir al-kalām min kitāb [al-kitāb] al-rābiʻ wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh shukran kathīran. Wa-yatlūhu kitāb [al-kitāb] al-khāmis fī al-anqrābādīn. Tammat al-jild al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn [... ... ... ...] Allāh sākin Kashmar, ghafara Allāh [la-hu] wa-li-wālidayh. 14.", On folio 157a: "al-Kitāb al-khāmis min al-Qānūn lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-huwa akhir al-kutub minhu.", On folio 157b: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir wa-tammim bi-al-khayr. al-Kitāb al-khāmis min kutub al-Qānūn wa-huwa al-Aqrābādīn. Laqad faraghnā min al-kitāb al-arbaʻah ʻan dhikr al-ʻilam al-naẓarī wa-al-ʻamalī al-ḥāfiẓ lil-ṣiḥḥah wa-ḥāna la-nā an nakhtuma kitāb al-Qānūn, al-kitāb al-khāmis, al-muṣannaf fī al-adwiyah al-murakkabah, li-yakūna kamā al-qarābādīn lil-kitāb ...", On folio 1a: "al-Kitāb al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-yalīhi al-kitāb al-khāmis minhu wa-huwa al-Aqrābādhīn.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-ḥammāmāt fa-yuḥammī judrānah., Title supplied by cataloger., Translation of the colophon: "The book of al-Aqrābādīn of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb [Canon of medicine] of the Grand Master [Avicenna] is completed in its entirety. Praise be to God for this without end. May God pray on the Hashimite and Abṭaḥite Prophet [Muḥammad] and his family and companions, a prayer without equal. Copied in the year eighteen.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. في الأمراض التي لا تختص بعضو دون عضو. الكتاب الرابع من القانون. كلام كلي في الحميات وهو سبعة فنون ...", الخاتمة: "تم كتاب الأقرابادين بتمامه من كتاب القانون في الطب للشيخ الرئيس والحمد لله على ذلك حمدًا لا غاية لها وصلى [الله على] النبي الهاشمي أبطحي [الأبطحي] وعلى آله وأصحابه صلوةً لا مثل لها. حرره وفي سنة ثمانية عشر.", بداية الورقة الثانية: الحمامات فيحمي جدرانه., على ظهر الورقة 156: "فهذا آخر كتاب [...؟] وهو آخر الكلام من كتاب [الكتاب] الرابع والحمد لله شكرًا كثيرًا. ويتلوه كتاب [الكتاب] الخامس في الانقرابادين. تمت الجلد الرابع من القانون [... ... ... ...] الله ساكن كشمر، غفر الله [له] ولوالديه. 14.", على ظهر الورقة 157: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر وتمم بالخير. الكتاب الخامس من كتب القانون وهو الأقرابادين. لقد فرغنا من الكتاب الأربعة عن ذكر العلم النظري والعملي الحافظ للصحة وحان لنا أن نختم كتاب القانون، الكتاب الخامس، المصنّف في الأدوية المركبة، ليكون كما القرابادين للكتاب ...", على وجه الورقة 1: "الكتاب الرابع من القانون للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا، رحمه الله، ويليه الكتاب الخامس منه وهو الأقراباذين.", and على وجه الورقة 157: "الكتاب الخامس من القانون للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا، رحمه الله، وهو آخر الكتب منه."
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and ابن سينا،--980-1037.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Materia medica, Medicine, Arab, and Medicine, Medieval
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Published / Created:
A.H. 1295 (A.D. 1878)
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 431
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 1295 (A.D. 1878)., Short poem in praise of the Prophet., and The attribution to al-Būṣīrī is probably fictitious; the meter (basīṭ) is the same as in al-Būṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-burdah.
Description:
Copied in the form of a primer of calligraphy; calligraphic hand., Islamic binding, in maroon., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Poetry, Arabic language and literature--Primers (Calligraphy), and Islamic binding.
A full copy of the Qurʼān, copied by Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf in 1238 H (1822 or 1823); place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan., القرآن، [1822 أو 1823]., and قرآن
Description:
10.5 x 16.3 cm; written surface: 6 x 10.8 cm, 15 lines per page., Bound., Colophon: "Sawwadahu al-mudhnib Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-laṭīf ḥāmidan lillāh taʻālá wa-muṣalliyan ʻalá Nabīyihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Sanat thamān wa-thalāthūn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf.", In Arabic., In elegant naskh script, in black ink with markings in red; text framed in red, blue and gold; colorful decorations on leaves 1b and 2a and on the margins of some leaves; leaves 301a-305b contain "Duʻāʼ khatm al-Qurʼān" (prayer of conclusion of the reading of the Qurʼān) and other supplications; catchwords., Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., and الخاتمة: "سوّده المذنب إبراهيم العفيف المحتاج إلى رحمة ربه اللطيف حامدًا لله تعالى ومصليًا على نبيه محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين. سنة ثمان وثلاثون ومائتين وألف."
A full copy of the Qurʼān, copied by ʻAlī al-Turābī, a student of Muḥammad al-Shukrī al-maʻrūf bi-Rīḥān Dhādah and ʻAlī al-Miṣrī who is burried in Istanbul, in 1250 H (1834 or 1835); place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan., القرآن، [1834 أو 1835]., and قرآن
Description:
11 x 16 cm; written surface: 5.5 x 9.5 cm, 15 lines per page., Bound with flap., Colophon: "Katabahu al-ḥaqīr al-faqīr al-mudhnib al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-qadīr al-maʻbūd ʻAlī al-Turābī min talāmīdh Muḥammad al-Shukrī al-maʻrūf bi-Rīḥān Dhādah wa-ʻAlī al-Miṣrī al-madfūn fī Islāmbūl ghafara Allāh dhunūbahu wa-dhunūbahumā wa-satara ʻuyūbahumā wa-li-wālidayhi wa-aḥsana ilayhimā wa-ilayhi sanat 1250.", In Arabic., In elegant naskh script, in black ink with markings in red; text framed in red, blue and gold; colorful decorations on leaves 1b and 2a., Leaves 304b-306a contain prayers and supplications., Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., and الخاتمة: "كتبه الحقير الفقير المذنب المحتاج إلى رحم ربه القدير المعبود علي الترابي من تلاميذ محمد الشكري المعروف بريحان ذادة وعلي المصري المدفون في إسلامبول غفر الله ذنوبه وذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما ولوالديه وأحسن إليهما وإليه سنة 1250."