Sayfī Āqbāy, Muḥammad ibn Jānī Bak, 15th cent.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 31
Image Count:
366
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Anthology, in prose and verse, on the subject of virtues and vices, being an abridgment of the Ghurar al-khaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiḥah wa-ʻurar al-naqāʾiṣ al-fāḍiḥah of Muḥammad al-Waṭwāṭ., Copied in A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1692)., Followed (leaves 174-76) by a fāʾidah on the subject of coffee by one al-Ujhūrī., and Followed by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black.
Subject (Name):
Ujhūrī. Sharḥ al-ṣaghīr. and Waṭwāṭ, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá, 1235-1318. Ghurar al-khaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiḥah wa-ʻurar al-naqāʾiṣ al-fāḍiḥah.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Belles lettres. and Miscellanea--Coffee.
Manuscript on parchment of Pauline Epistles (Epistola ad Romanos 2.27 through Epistola ad Hebreos 11.34), with commentary of Gilbert de la Porree. With Argumenta, later additions, all attributed to Hugo de Sancto Caro or Peter Lombard.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century, United States (?). Half bound in dark red goatskin with gold-tooled lettering on the spine ("St. Paul/ Epistulae cum commento/ MS. 12th Cent."), marbled paper sides, and yellow edges., Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand in two sizes of script, above top line., and Three illuminated initials at beginning of first three Epistles of excellent quality, ff. 34v, 69v, 86v, 8- to 5-line, with descenders extending into margins, red, blue, green and beige against gold ground. Bodies of initials filled with stylized scrolling foliage, bright blue, red, green, orange, silver and yellow with white highlights against gold ground. Descenders serve as a trellis for similar scrolls, some ending in biting animal's heads or fantastic birds. Scrolling foliage, f. 86v, inhabited by beasts of a canine variety, white with red shading. The decoration of manuscript is unfinished; f. 99r pen and ink underdrawing for an initial as above, with only touches of red added; blank spaces left for initals for remaining Epistles. Small initials, 3-line, gold with red penwork, for beginning of commentary for each Epistle. Headings in red or alternating red and blue majuscules. Plain initials touched with red. Running titles, later addition, in red.
Subject (Name):
Gilbert, de La Porrée, Bishop, ca. 1075-1154, Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, ca. 1200-1263, Paul, the Apostle, Saint, and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Epistles of Paul, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Kitab mut awwal / Sa'd al-Taftazani. -- 1826 or 27.
Image Count:
8
Abstract:
Commentary, in the longer version, on Talkhis al-Miftah (manual of rhetoric, abridged from the Mifta¯h al-'ulum of al-Sakkaki) of Muh ammad Khat ib Dimashq.
Description:
Only partial work scanned. and Profuse interlinear and marginal notations in earlier part of the manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Qazwini, Jalal al-Din Muh ammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhis al-Miftah. and Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr, b. 1160. Miftah al-'ulum
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature --Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Commentary, in the longer version, on Talkhis al-Miftah (manual of rhetoric, abridged from the Miftah al-'ulum of al-Sakkaki) of Muh ammad Khat ib Dimashq.
Description:
Modern (18th century?) calligraphic naskhi; 'unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso. and Only partial work scanned.
Subject (Name):
Qazwini, Jalal al-Din Muh ammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhis al-Miftah. and Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr, b. 1160. Miftah al-'ulum
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature --Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Commentary, in the longer version, on Talkhis al-Miftah (manual of rhetoric, abridged from the Miftah al-'ulum of al-Sakkaki) of Muhammad Khatib Dimashq.
Description:
Only partial work scanned. and Title supplied by a modern hand inside front cover.
Subject (Name):
Qazwini, Jalal al-Din Muh ammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhis al-Miftah. and Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr, b. 1160. Miftah al-'ulum
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature --Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Kitab al-mutawwal / [Mas'ud ibn 'Umar al-Taftazani]. -- 1680.
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Commentary, in the longer version, on Talkhis al-Miftah (manual of rhetoric, abridged from the Miftah al-'ulum of al-Sakkaki) of Muhammad Khatib Dimashq.
Description:
Copied in A.H. 1091 (A.D. 1680). Leaves 1-3 supplied by a later hand. and Only partial work scanned.
Subject (Name):
Qazwini, Jalal al-Din Muh ammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhis al-Miftah. and Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr, b. 1160. Miftah al-'ulum
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature --Rhetoric and Islamic binding