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.
Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294.
Published / Created:
[after 1268]
Call Number:
Salisbury MSS 73
Image Count:
196
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The colophon, dated A.H. 666 (A.D. 1268), is presumably that of the original from which this manuscript was copied, probably not many years afterwards. and Treatise on music.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī., Copious diagrams., From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 88, wrongly ascribed to al-Fārābī). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Islamic binding, in brown., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Natural and social sciences--Music.
Presumably a holograph. and Treatise on the water-level of the Nile.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For the supposed author see Brockelmann, S II, p. 743., In the incipit "Muḥammad" is written over an erased "Ibrāhīm," and there is also an erasure in the same place on the title page. It is not clear whether the change is the author's own legitimate correction, or a case of plagiarism., and The hand writing is entirely different from that of Landberg MSS 9, also presumably a holograph, so the authors are not identical.
Ibn al-Qāṣṣ, Aḥmad ibn Abī Aḥmad, -946 or 947.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 314
Image Count:
359
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
An attempt to reconcile the differences between the imam Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī and his pupil Ismāʻīl al-Muzanī. and Beginning missing.
Alternative Title:
Tawassuṭ bayna al-Shāfiʻī wa-al-Muzanī
Description:
For the author see Brockelmann, I, 180., Good 14th century naskhī, wholly unpointed., Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and Marginalia.
Subject (Name):
Muzanī, Ismāʻīl ibn Yaḥyá, 791-878., Muzanī, Ismāʻīl ibn Yaḥyá,--791-878., Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820., and Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs,--767 or 768-820.
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., For Ashʻab see Ibn Khallikān, tr. de Slane, IV, 217, note 3., For the author see Brockelmann, S II, p. 414., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Copied in A.H. 1149 (?) (A.D. 1736). and Treatise on the domestic cock.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., Preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of entire volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., The colophon does not look like A.H. 1149, but the date occurs on leaf 36 recto clearly, and the coincidence of the weekday confirms it. 18th Muḥarram 1149 (May 29, 1736) did fall on Tuesday., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Natural and social sciences--Zoology
