Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, d. 1108 or 9
Published / Created:
[13--?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 165
Image Count:
43
Abstract:
Handbook of rhetoric. and Incomplete at end (probably 1 leaf missing).
Alternative Title:
Kitāb min kalām al-Rāghib fī al-badīʻ.
Description:
For the author see Brockelmann, I, 288-89., Marginalia., Old (14th century?) calligraphic naskhī., and Title, as above, supplied by C. Landberg; leaf 1 recto reads: Kitāb min kalām al-Rāghib fī al-badīʻ.
Portions of a grammar handbook, including parts of a nominalium and rhetorical works (23 pieces).
Description:
"The recovery of a fifteenth-century schoolmaster's book": Beinecke MS 3, no. 34, Voights and Shailor: Yale University Library Gazette, LX, (1985) pp. 11-31. and Paper (watermarks similar in design to Piccard Fabeltiere 1342-48), each fragment 158 x 100 mm. Long lines ruled in ink or (in lexicon) 2 columns, unruled. Written in Anglicana bookhand. Signature of an early owner on what appears to have been the paper flyleaf of the codex: "Johannes carter est verus possessor huius libri." Boards from a binding.
Holograph. and Traditions and prayers relating to the fast of Ramaḍān.
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black. and The author signs himself on leaf 1 recto as: Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Anṣārī; "Ibn al-Mulaqqin" was supplied on the Landberg card (son of ʻUmar ibn al-Mulaqqin, Brockelmann, II, 92).
Manuscript on parchment of theological and moral treatises.
Alternative Title:
[Trattato di teologia morale in quattro libri:] ms., on parchment, in Italian. With Viridarium consolationis, and Tractatus scale: ms., on parchment, in Italian
Description:
Binding: 19th century (?). Quarter binding, parchment (from a music manuscript with 4-line red staves?) and paper printed in a rose and white decorative pattern over cardboard. On the front cover, in s. XIX handwriting: "Trattato di morale e teologia"; on the spine, in 19th century handwriting: "M.S. / 1421". Blue sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. 2- and 3-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue with very developed penwork in the contrasting colours in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space; at both ends the penwork terminates in conspicuous corkscrew ornament. 3- and 4-line litterae duplices with a yet more elaborate execution of the same type of penwork on ff. 2r (beginning of art. 2), 35v (2, beginning of art. 3), 52v (beginning of art. 4). The additional artt. 5-9 are undecorated., Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Script: main text is copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Formata. The additional artt. 5-9 and the notes are written in extremely small Gothica Cursiva Libraria, all probably by Dominicus de Seraphinis., The first page is badly soiled., and The manuscript contains: 1) Gerardus de Prato OFM, Breviloquium in sententias. 2) Iacobus de Benevento OP (s. XIII2 , Ps.-Bonaventura), Viridarium consolationis. 3) Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella OP (1250-1300), Scala fidei, second recension. 4) Note on the ten virtues. 5) Quodlibet questions with answers based on Raymundus de Pennaforti (d. 1275). 6) Note on the real existence of Purgatory. 7) A legal note on the conditions on which toll must not be paid for the transportation of goods, quoting Henricus de Segusio (Hostiensis, d. 1271). 8) A note about the four senses of Scripture.
Subject (Topic):
Christian ethics., Christian literature, Latin., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Biblesworth, Walter de Bozon, Nicole, fl. 1300-1320 Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253 Hues, de Tabarie
Published / Created:
[circa 1300-1349]
Call Number:
Osborn a56
Image Count:
154
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hue de Tabarie, Ordre de la chevalerie ff.42-53v; Le mariage des ix filles du diable, often attributed to Robert Grosseteste (1170-1253), bishop of Lincoln but here described as St Maurice, bishop of Paris's translation from the Latin, ff.54-67. The text of Le tretiz contains numerous interlineations and side notes in Middle English.
Description:
Binding: contemporary chemise binding of white leather over corded boards., Decoration: some rubrication of initials., From the library of Lacock Abbey. From the library of Sir Henry Sharington. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christies sale 8002, lot 12) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011., In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations., Ownership inscriptions of Sir Henry Sharington (d. 1581)., and Script: Gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Biblesworth, Walter de, Lacock Abbey (England)--Ownership, and Sharington, Henry,--Sir,--d. 1581--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates--Early works to 1800, Anglo-Norman dialect, Chivalry--Early works to 1800, Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, French language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800, French language--To 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 479
Container / Volume:
Box 5
Image Count:
502
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 479
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
262
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.