Title from dealer's catalog., Signed and dated A.A. Trail. 1832 in lower left., and Inscribed on verso in unknown hand: No. 1, Youngest son of the Honble Thos Erskine by Ann Agnes Trail.
Title supplied by cataloger. and "This book of charts was taken out of a Chinese trading junk of between 400 & 500 tons burden, trading from the gulf of Pechili in China to the straits of Singapore, by Philip Bean, of H.M.S. Herald, in the year of 1841; the junk being taken as a seige by the 'Herald'"--inscription from front free endpaper in 19th century hand.
Commentary on ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá (tract on the principles of faith) of Muḥammad al-Sanūsī. The beginnig of the work only.
Alternative Title:
al-Manhaj al-farīd fī maʻrifat ʻilm al-tawḥīd
Description:
Loose leaves., Modern (19th century) Maghribī (Sudanese) hand., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and The matn is the same (with longer titulature) as in Berlin catalog 2006.
Subject (Name):
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, ca. 1427-ca. 1490. ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá. and Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf,--ca. 1427-ca. 1490.--ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá.
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
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."