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.
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.
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.
A literary work, in prose and verse; followed (33-38) by some minor pieces, supposedly by the same author. and Copied in A.H. 603 (A.D. 1206).
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black. and On leaf 1 recto is written: "E. Scheidius. 1767." From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 163). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870.
Subject (Name):
Scheidius, Everard,--1742-1794--Ownership. and Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Ownership.
Manuscript of the famous Maqāmāt (Orations, literally sittings, sessions, meetings); a genre of highly developed Arabic rhythmic prose intended to amuse and entertain but also with critical social, moral and political undercurrents, by Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī (1054-1122), from al-Baṣrah (Iraq), one of the most celibrated and prolific authors of the 11th/12th centuries. The Maqāmāt have been translated into many European and Oriental languages. They are also known by the titles: al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah and Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Surūjī (a fictitious charachter). They are fifty in number. The manuscript was a gift from Abū Bakr, a Chinese Muslim teacher of Arabic in Beijing, to Samuel Zwemer (probably the missionary Samuel M. Zwemer, 1867-1952) on 4 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 1335 (22 August 1917). According to Abū Bakr's letter written in Arabic and pasted on the back of the front cover, the manuscript was copied more than two hudred years ago probably in China.
Alternative Title:
al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah., Maqāmāt, Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Surūjī., المقامات الحريرية., مقامات, مقامات أبي زيد السروجي., and مقامات الحريري، [17--?] / للقاسم بن علي الحريري.
Description:
22.5 x 30.5 cm; written surface: 14 x 22.5 cm, 13 lines per page., Bound., Folios 163a-167b are blank., In elegant naskh script, on yellowish paper with interlinear and marginal notes and explanations., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Allāhumma innā naḥmaduka ʻalá mā ʻallamta min al-bayān wa-alhamta min al-tibyān kamā naḥmaduka ʻalá mā asbaghta min al-ʻaṭāʼ wa-asbalta min al-ghiṭāʼ wa-naʻūdhu bi-ka min sharah al-lasan wa-fuḍūl al-hadhar kamā naʻūdhu bi-ka min maʻarrat al-lakn wa-fuḍūḥ al-ḥaṣr wa-nastakfī bi-ka al-iftitān bi-iṭrāʼ al-mādiḥ wa-ighḍāʼ al-musāmiḥ kamā nastakfī bi-ka al-intiṣāb li-izrāʼ al-qādiḥ wa-hatk al-fāḍiḥ ...", Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., The Maqāmāt ends with: "Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥarīrī raḥimahu Allāh: 'Hādhā ākhir al-Maqāmāt allatī anshaʼtuhā bi-al-ightirār wa-amlaytuhā bi-lisān al-iḍṭirār wa-qad uljītu ilá an arṣadtuhā lil-istiʻrāḍ wa-nādaytu ʻalayhā fī sūq al-iʻtirāḍ hādhā maʻa maʻrifatī bi-annahā min saqaṭ al-matāʻ wa-mimmā yastawjibu an yubāʻ wa-lā yubtāʻ wa-law ghashiyanī nūr al-tawfīq wa-naẓartu li-nafsī naẓara al-shafīq lil-shaqīq la-satartu ʻuwwārī alladhī lam yazal mastūran wa-lakin kāna dhālika fī al-kitāb masṭūran wa-anā astaghfiru Allāh mimmā awdaʻtuhā min abāṭīl al-laghw wa-aḍālīl al-lahw wa-astarshidu ilá mā yaʻṣimu min al-sahw wa-yaḥẓá bi-al-ʻafw innahu huwa ahl al-taqwá wa-ahl al-maghfirah wa-walī al-khayrāt fī al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá khayr khalqihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi.", There are some Chinese inscriptions on the top margin of folios 1 and 2, probably by Abū Bakr himself., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اللهم إنّا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان وألهمت من التبيان كما نحمدك على ما أسبغت من العطاء وأسبلت من الغطاء ونعوذ بك من شره اللسن وفضول الهذر كما نعوذ بك من معرّة اللكن وفضوح الحصر ونستكفي بك الافتتان بإطراء المادح وإغضاء المسامح كما نستكفي بك الانتصاب لإزراء القادح وهتك الفاضح ...", and تنتهي المقامات بـ : "قال الشيخ الإمام أبو محمد القاسم بن علي الحريري رحمه الله: 'هذا آخر المقامات التي أنشأتها بالاغترار وأمليتها بلسان الاضطرار وقد ألجيت إلى أن أرصدتها للاستعراض وناديت عليها في سوق الاعتراض هذا مع معرفتي بأنها من سقط المتاع ومما يستوجب أن يباع ولا يبتاع ولو غشيني نور التوفيق ونظرت لنفسي نظر الشفيق للشقيق لسترت عواري الذي لم يزل مستورًا ولكن كان ذلك في الكتاب مسطورًا وأنا استغفر الله مما أودعتها من أباطيل اللغو وأضاليل اللهو وأسترشد إلى ما يعصم من السهو ويحظى بالعفو إنه هو أهل التقوى وأهل المغفرة وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والآخرة. وصلى الله على خير خلقه محمد وآله."
Subject (Name):
Ḥarīrī,--1054-1122 and حريري،--1054-1122
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts, Arabic prose literature--Early works to 1800, and Maqamah--Early works to 1800
Shurunbulālī, Ḥasan ibn ʻAmmār, 1585 or 1586-1659. شرنبلالي، حسن بن عمار، 1585 أو 1586-1659.
Published / Created:
1703 or 1704.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 572
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A treatise on Islamic law, according to the Ḥanafī school, by Ḥasan ibn ʻAmmār al-Shurunbulālī (1585 or 1586-1659), a prolific Egyptian Ḥanafī Islamic law scholar, a graduate of al-Azʹhar, being a commentary on his own work "Nūr al-īḍāḥ". Copied on a Wednesday in the year 1114 Hijrī [1703 or 1704] by Ḥasan Ḥubayshī al-Ḥanafī ibn al-Ḥājj Hilālī al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Ḥijāzī, in Dimyāṭ (Damietta, Egypt).
Alternative Title:
Hādhā Sharḥ Nūr al-īḍāḥ wa-najāt al-arwāḥ, Sharḥ Nūr al-īḍāḥ wa-najāt al-arwāḥ, شرح نور الإيضاح ونجاة الأرواح, مراقي الفلاح بإمداد الفتاح شرح نور الإيضاح ونجاة الأرواح : مخطوطة / حسن بن عمار الشرنبلالي., and هذا شرح نور الإيضاح ونجاة الأرواح
Description:
15.5 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 14.5 cm; 19 lines per page., Binding: In modern black leather binding with flap., Colophon: "Katabahu li-nafsihi al-ʻabd al-faqīr wa-al-mudhnib al-ḥaqīr al-muqirr bi-al-taqṣīr al-rājī ʻafwa rabbihi al-qadīr Ḥasan Ḥubayshī al-Ḥanafī ʻāmalahu Allāh taʻālá bi-luṭfihi al-khafī wa-ajrāhu Allāh ʻalá ʻawāyid birrihi al-khafī ibn al-marḥūm al-Ḥājj Hilālī al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Ḥijāzī bi-Dimyāṭ, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh wa-li-wālid wālidayh wa-li-man qaraʼa fīhi wa-li-man samiʻahu wa-li-man ṣaḥḥaḥa fīhi laḥnahu wa-li-man daʻā la-hu bi-al-raḥmah wa-al-riḍwān. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Aḥad al-mubārak alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat alf wa-miʼah wa-arbaʻat ʻashar. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-qad tamma bi-khayr.", In clear naskh script, in black ink on glossy white paper; with keywords and markings in red; many wormholes, mainly on the margins, with some loss of text; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa khulāṣat ʻibādihi bi-wirāthat ṣafwatih khayra ʻibādih wa-amaddahum bi-al-ʻināyah fa-aḥsanū li-dhātihi al-ʻibādah wa-ḥafiẓū sharīʻatahu wa-ballaghūhā ʻibādah ... Wa-baʻd fa-yaqūlu al-ʻabd al-dhalīl al-rājī ʻafwa rabbihi al-jalīl Ḥasan ibn ʻAmmār ibn ʻAlī al-Shurunbulānī al-Ḥanafī ... Inna hādhā kitāb ṣaghīr ḥajmuhu ghazīr ʻilmuhu ... wa-sammaytuhu Marāqī al-falāḥ bi-imdād al-Fattāḥ sharḥ Nūr al-īḍāḥ wa-najāt al-arwāḥ.", On folio 1a, a note by one of the readers of the manuscript: "Ṭālaʻ ʻAbd al-Wahhāb Ṣūfī fī hādhā al-kitāb sanat 1263 [1846/1847], fataḥa Allāh ʻalayhi. Āmīn.", On folio 1a: "Hādhā Sharḥ Nūr al-īḍāḥ wa-najāt al-arwāḥ lil-Shaykh al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah wa-al-baḥr al-fahhāmah shaykh mashāyikh al-Islām Sayyidī Ḥasan al-Shurunbulānī al-Ḥanafī taghammadahu Allāh bi-al-raḥmah wa-al-ruḍwān. Āmīn.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: wa-al-ṭahārah bi-fatḥ al-Ṭāʼ., The last three leaves are blank., The manuscript contains 22 numbered quires each of which contains 10 leaves, except quires 1, 8, 9, 21 and 22 which contain 8 leaves each, but the text is complete with nothing missing., Title from folio 1b., Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the poor servant, for himself, he who admits his sin and deficiency and hopes for the forgiveness of his Almighty God, Ḥasan Ḥubayshī al-Ḥanafī the son of the departed al-Ḥājj Hilālī al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Ḥijāzī, in Dimyāṭ [Damietta, Egypt], may God treat him according to His hidden kindness and lead him unto the paths of His hidden righteousness. May God forgive him, his parents and the father of his parents and those who read this book, those who listen to it, those who correct its mistakes, and those who invoke God to grant him [the copyist] mercy and acceptance. The copying of this book was completed on blessed Sunday [name of the month not mentioned] of the year 1114 [1703 or 1704]. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, his family and his companions and grant them peace. Praise be to God the Lord of the Universe. It is finished with success.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذي شرّف خلاصة عباده بوراثة صفوته خير عباده وأمدهم بالعناية فأحسنوا لذاته العبادة وحفظوا شريعته وبلغوها عباده ... وبعد فيقول العبد الذليل الراجي عفو ربه الجليل حسن بن عمار بن علي الشرنبلاني الحنفي ... إن هذا كتاب صغير حجمه غزير علمه ... وسميته مراقي الفلاح بإمداد الفتاح شرح نور الايضاح ونجاة الأرواح.", الخاتمة: "كتبه لنفسه العبد الفقير والمذنب الحقير المقر بالتقصير الراجي عفو ربه القدير حسن حبيشي الحنفي عامله الله تعالى بلطفه الخفي وأجراه الله على عوايد بره الخفي ابن المرحوم الحاج هلالي الشهير بابن الحجازي بدمياط، غفر الله له ولوالديه ولوالد والديه ولمن قرأ فيه ولمن سمعه ولمن صحح فيه لحنه ولمن دعا له بالرحمة والرضوان. وكان الفراغ من هذا الكتاب في يوم الأحد المبارك الذي هو من شهور سنة ألف ومائة وأربعة عشر. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. والحمد لله رب العالمين. وقد تم بخير.", بداية الورقة الثانية: والطهارة بفتح الطاء., على وجه الورقة 1: "طالع عبد الوهاب صوفي في هذا الكتاب سنة 1263 [1846/1847]، فتح الله عليه. آمين.", and على وجه الورقة 1: "هذا شرح نور الإيضاح ونجاة الأرواح للشيخ العالم العلامة والبحر الفهامة شيخ مشايخ الإسلام سيدي حسن الشرنبلاني الحنفي تغمده الله بالرحمة والرضوان. آمين."
Subject (Name):
Shurunbulālī, Ḥasan ibn ʻAmmār,--1585 or 1586-1659., Shurunbulālī, Ḥasan ibn ʻAmmār,--1585 or 1586-1659.--Nūr al-īḍāḥ fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfah., شرنبلالي، حسن بن عمار،--1585 أو 1586-1659., and شرنبلالي، حسن بن عمار،--1585 أو 1586-1659.--نور الإيضاح في الفقه على مذهب الإمام أبي حنيفة.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Hanafites--Early works to 1800., and Islamic law--Early works to 1800.
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365 Křišt̕an z Prachatic, ca. 1366-1439 Wenceslas, Emperor of Germany, 1361-1419
Published / Created:
[ca. 1440]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 9
Image Count:
671
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of the compilation of a physician interested in medicine, alchemy, and herbs. Includes three texts by Krisean z Prachatic, a physician, herbalist, and teacher of Prague University; Albicus, De regimine sanitatis, a treatise on the treatment of paralysis and the plague; Albicus, Regimen for King Wenceslaus of Bohemia (1361-1419); several alphabets of general scientific terms in Latin with Czech and/or German equivalents; Latin names of herbs with Czech and sometimes Polish equivalents; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and hundreds of medical and alchemical recipes.
Description:
Binding: Probably original. Brown calf, the covers ruled with triple parallel lines to a pattern of four rectangles within a rectangle, the larger rectangle crossed with similar ruling; indications of five center and corner pieces on each cover, possibly of iron and certainly fastened with iron nails, now lost; indications of two missing clasps and catches at the fore-edges of the covers; heavily repaired at fore-edges, hinges, and backstrip, the original back divided into four compartments by five heavy double bands, a modern morocco label in the second compartment from the top gold-stamped between double gold rules top and bottom: "ALCHEMICAL-MEDICAL | MISCELLANY | - | MANUSCRIPT | MIDDLE EUROPE | XVTH CENTURY"., Headings, foliation, rubrics, and capital strokes in red., Pagination refers to openings, i.e. facing pages., and Script: The greater part of the manuscript (except the unnumbered quires 15-19) written by a single hand in a clear, round, and steady Gothica cursiva. Quires 15-19 written in a similar but more pointed and flowing hand, sometimes more condensed, similarly decorated.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library