Imaginary dialogue between the cities of al-Rawdah and Cairo, each extolling its own excellence.
Description:
Fourth of 5 titles bound together., Good modern (ca. 1700?) naskhi, in red and black., Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Leaves 27-31, and Modern foliation (skips ff. initially numbered 27 as blank).
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
Followed by two letters by Silvester, patriarch of Antioch to an English merchant, 1733 (leaf 12 recto) and 1732 (leaf 13 recto), and an edict of the synod (majmaʻ) of Constantinople against Euthymius Ṣayfī, bishop of Tyre and Sidon, 1718 (leaf 18 verso). and Polemical correspondence with an English merchant named Sherman (?), in 1734.
Description:
Fair 18th century naskhī, in red and black., For the author see Graf, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, III, 134., Islamic binding, in black., No. 4 of 5 titles bound together., On Euthymius Ṣayfī see Graf, III, 179., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Name):
Euthymius Ṣayfī,--Bishop of Tyre and Sidon, Sherman, and Silvester, Patriarch of Antioch, d. 1766
Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? خليل بن إسحاق الجندي، -1365؟
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 198
Image Count:
30
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of Maliki law
Description:
Incomplete at end., Title from: Brockelmann, II, 84., Compared in parts with the lithographed edition of 1900., Compared with Ahlwardt 4599, the last chapter heading is found on leaf 316 recto, so that probably only one or two leaves are missing., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu ... Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Mālikī ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh ḥamdan yuwāfī mā tazāyada min al-niʻam ...", Two coarse Maghribī hands, fairly modern (18th century?)., Profuse interlinear and marginal notations throughout., and Loose leaves.
ʻAdawī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʻīl, d. ca. 1727 ʻĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān, ca. 709-796 or 7
Published / Created:
A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1676)
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 183
Image Count:
173
Abstract:
Holograph, written in A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1676)., On the Koranic reading of ʻĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, transmitted through Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān., and Preceded and followed by 2 leaves of notes.
Description:
Extensive marginalia., For date of the author's death see Bankipore catalog, XVIII, no. 1271., Good naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in red, with flap.
Avicenna, 980-1037, author ابن سينا، 980-1037 مؤلف
Published / Created:
1055 H [1645 or 1646]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 6
Image Count:
1030
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
al-Qanūn fī al-ṭibb, a comprehensive manuscript on Arabic medicine by al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Sīnā (980-1037), commonly known by the Latinized version of his name Avicenna who was born near Bukhara in Persia (present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna was the most famous and influential of the many Islamic scholars, scientists, and philosophers 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 (Canon of medicine) became the authoritative reference on medicine in the Middle Ages, not only in the Islamic world but, in Latin translations, in Europe as well. Presented in this manuscript is the second half of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (from al-fann 11 "the 11th art" of the third book to the end of the fifth book). The whereabouts of the first part of the Canon are not known.The colophons indicate that the copy was copied in 1055 H (1645/1656) in the city of Shīrāz, Iran by Muḥammad Qulī al-Shīrāzī al-muʻallim. The manuscript was a gift of Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), a Yale-educated neurosurgeon, whose collection of rare medical books forms a key part of the Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. 1645 Selections. 880-02 and قانون في الطب. 1645 مختارات. 240-02/r
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "al-Fann al-ḥādī ʻashar min al-kitāb al-thālith min al-Qānūn fī aḥwāl al-qalb wa-huwa maqālatān: al-Maqālah al-ūlá minhumā fī mabādī wa-uṣūl li-dhālika tashrīḥ al-qalb. Ammā al-qalb fa-innahu makhlūq min laḥm qawī li-yakūna abʻada min al-āfāt muntasij fīhi min aṣnāf al-līf qawīyah shadīdah al-ikhtilāf al-ṭawīl al-jadhdhāb wa-al-ʻarīḍ al-daffāʻ wa-al-muwarrab al-māsik li-yakūna la-hu aṣnāf min al-ḥarakāt ...", 26 x 45.5 cm ; written surface: 17.5 x 32.8 cm, 21 lines per page., Islamic black leather binding., In elegant, rather large naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings and keywords in gold, some markings in red; magnificently illuminated heading to opening chapter; text within gold and blue frames; catchwords., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On leaf 1a an ownership note in the name of Muḥammad Taqī [ibn] Muḥammad Bāqir, dated 1076 H [1665/1666], Colophon at the end book 3 of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (leaf 238a): "Tamma al-kitāb al-thālith min kutub al-Qānūn al-mushtamil ʻalá al-amrāḍ al-wāqiʻah. Wa-li-wāhib al-ʻaql al-ḥamd wa-al-minnah wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Nabīyihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. Qad faragha yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ, panjum shahr Rabīʻ al-Awwal, sanat 155 [i.e. 1055 = 1 May 1645] ḥāmidan muṣalliyan.", Colophon at the end of book four (leaf 436a): "Tamma kitāb al-zafanah wa-huwa ākhir al-kalām min al-kitāb al-rābiʻ fī baldat Shīrāz sanat khams wa-khamsūn wa-alf bi-khaṭṭ Muḥammad Qulī al-Shīrāzī al-muʻallim, ghafara Allāh dhunūbahum wa-li-jamīʻ al-muʼmīn wa-al-muʼmināt bi-Muḥammad wa-ālih.", and Colophon at the end of book five (leaf 509b): "Tamma kitāb al-aqrābādīn wa-bi-tamāmihi tammat al-kutub al-khamsah al-mushtamilah ʻalá al-Qānūn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ḥaqqa ḥamdihi ḥamdan kathīran dāyiman. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá khayr khalqihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi ajmaʻīn."
A full copy of the Qurʼān, copied on 10 Rabīʻ Awwal 1086 (Tuesday, 4 June, 1675); name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan., القرآن، [1675]., and قرآن
Description:
6.5 x 9.5 cm; written surface: 4.8 x 6.8 cm, 13 lines per page., In Arabic., In small and elegant naskh script, in black ink with headings and markings in red; text framed in blue and gold; catchwords., Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., and Red leather binding with flap.
