Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 2
Image Count:
693
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
According to C. Landberg, this copy probably belonged to Ibn Taymīyah himself, or else was corrected by him., Ex-libris of Muḥammad ibn Khalīl(?) ibn Quṭuz al-Ẓāhirī on leaf 1 recto dated A.H. 759 (A.D. 1358)., and Polemic against the Shīʻah and the Qadarīyah, in refutation of the Minhāj al-karāmah of Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.
Ibn al Jazarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1350-1429. Muqaddimah al-Jazarīyah fī al-tajwīd Sūdī Efendi Bosnalı, d. ca. 1596
Published / Created:
1693
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 218
Image Count:
12
Abstract:
Commentary on Ibn al-Jazarī's al-Muqaddimah, on reading the Koran. and Copied in A.H. 1104 (A.D. 1693).
Alternative Title:
Şerḥ el-Muḳaddime el-Cazariye fi el-tecvid.
Description:
2nd of 5 works bound together., Also known as: Şerḥ el-Muḳaddime el-Cazariye fi el-tecvid., Islamic binding, covered in red fabric, with flap., and Marginalia.
Subject (Name):
Ibn al Jazarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1350-1429.--Muqaddimah al-Jazarīyah fī al-tajwīd
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
1525
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
86
Abstract:
Commentary on Hayākil al-nūr (Sufi tract) of Yaḥyá al-Suhrawardī., Copied in Constantinople in A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525)., and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes, including table of contents.
Alternative Title:
Shawākil al-ḥūr fī sharḥ Hayākil al-nūr.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 10 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and Sporadic marginalia.
Subject (Name):
Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 3-1191. Hayākil al-nūr. and Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash,--1152 or 3-1191.--Hayākil al-nūr.
An anonymous treatise on sales according to Islamic law. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
Kitāb al-bayʻ, كتاب البيع, and كتاب ثابت في أحكام البيوع : مخطوطة.
Description:
19.5 x 34 cm; written surface: 13 x 25.5 cm; 17-19 lines per page., Binding: In modern dark red imitation leather binding., Colophon: Colophon missing; ends abruptly with: "... fa-in shāʼa bāshara nafsuhu wa-in shāʼa fawwaḍa ilá ghayrih, wa-bi-hi qālat al-thalāthah, wa-la-hu anna al-jawāb thābit mustaḥiqq ʻalá al-khaṣm bi-lisānih ʻaynan li-annahu huwa al-maqdūr la-hu fī al-tawkīl, naqala hādhā al-ḥaqq ilá ghayrih ʻalá wajh lā yuʻribu min al-ḍarar li-ṣāḥib al-ḥaqq wa-huwa ḍarar shiddah ...", In thick and large naskh/taʻlīq script, in black ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; many marginal notes; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir wa-tammim bi-al-khayr. Hādhā Kitāb thābit fī bayān aḥkām al-buyūʻ wa-fī baʻḍ al-nusakh Kitāb al-bayʻ. Wa-al-aṣl an lā yujmaʻ al-bayʻ wa-lā yuthanná li-annahu maṣdar, fa-taʼawwla al-kathīr wa-al-qalīl, wa-alladhī yajmaʻuhu naẓaran ilá anwāʻ [al-anwāʻ] allatī taḥtahu. Wa-huwa fī al-lughah muṭlaq al-mubādalah, wa-fī al-sharʻ huwa, ay al-bayʻ, mubādalat al-māl bi-al-māl bi-al-tarāḍī, fa-in wujidat al-mubādalah bi-lā tarāḍin lā yakūnu bayʻan sharʻīyan ...", On folio 1a invocations and prayer in a different hand., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: bi-al-ibdāl baʻda al-ījāb., Text folios 2b-95b., Title from folio 2b., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر وتمم بالخير. هذا كتاب ثابت في بيان أحكام البيوع وفي بعض النسخ كتاب البيع. والأصل أن لا يجمع البيع ولا يثنّى لأنه مصدر، فتأول الكثير والقليل، والذي يجمعه نظرًا إلى أنواع [الأنواع] التي تحته. وهو في اللغة مطلق المبادلة، وفي الشرع هو، أي البيع، مبادلة المال بالمال بالتراضي، فإن وجدت المبادلة بلا تراضٍ لا يكون بيعًا شرعيًا ...", الخاتمة: الخاتمة مفقودة؛ ينتهي النص فجأةً بـِ: "... فإن شاء باشر نفسه وإن شاء فوّض إلى غيره، وبه قالت الثلاثة، وله أن الجواب ثابت مستحق على الخصم بلسانه عينًا لأنه هو المقدور له في التوكيل، نقل هذا الحق إلى غيره على وجه لا يعرب من الضرر لصاحب الحق وهو ضرر شدة ...", and بداية الورقة الثانية: بالإبدال بعد الإيجاب.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Sales (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800.
Illuminated, especially leaves 1 verso-2 verso., Purchased from McBlain Books in 1986 on the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., Some pages stuck together., and Some repairs done poorly, resulting in loss of text.
Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1325-1374 or 1375
Published / Created:
1885
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 69
Image Count:
52
Abstract:
Appeal to contemporary poets for information about their life and works, for use in the anthology compiled by the author, entitled Mujtabá al-udabāʾ (including specimens from the anthology). and Copied in A.H. 1302 (A.D. 1885).
Description:
Considerable marginalia. and Fair naskhī, in red and black.
Subject (Name):
Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá,--1325-1374 or 1375.--Mujtabá al-udabāʾ
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Poetry--Anthologies
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.