Vocabularies, Arabic-Turkish-Italian (in Arabic letters); apparently based upon al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah of Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ., Followed by 1 leaf of notes, and Copied in A.H. 1143 (A.D. 1731).
Alternative Title:
Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah wa-al-ʻArabīyah and شذور الذهبية في اللغة التركية والعربية
Description:
Available on microfilm, In Arabic, Turkish, and Italian (in Arabic letters)., For Ibn Muḥammad Ṣālih's work see also British Museum, Turkish Mss., pp. 150-51; and Munich catalog 768, which agrees with the British Museum copy., The incipit is the same as in Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ's work, but the latter is divided into 4 rukns, not faṣls, and has an extensive introduction, etc., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Kitāb al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah wa-al-ʻArabīyah. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa al-insān wa-zayyanahu bi-al-nuṭq wa-al-lisān ...", Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh minhu yawm al-khāmis ʻashar min shahr Kānūn al-Thānī, min shuhūr sanat wāḥid wa-thalāthīn wa-sabʻimiʼah wa-alf, al-muwāfiq li-niṣf Rajab, sanat 1143.", and Translation of the colophon: "Completed on 15 January, 1731, corresponding to the middle of Rajab, 1143 [of the Hijrah]."
Subject (Name):
Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language, Italian language, and Turkish language
History of the caliphs, Preceded by 3 leaves of notes, and Copied in Sanʻa, Yemen, in A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615).
Alternative Title:
Tārīkh al-khulafāʼ 880-02, Taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ, تاريخ الخلفاء 240-02/r, and تأريخ الخلفاء
Description:
Available on microfilm, Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān. Ammā baʻd ḥamd Allāh alladhī waʻada fa-wafá wa-awʻada fa-ʻafā ...", Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Occasional marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., Colophon: "Wāfaqa al-farāgh min raqm hādhā al-taʼrīkh ... yawm al-Jumʻah, ghurrat shahr Ramaḍān ... ʻām arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf ... bi-maḥrūs madīnat Ṣanʻāʼ al-Yaman ... bi-rasm ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... bi-yad ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This history book was completed ... on Friday, the beginning of the month of Ramaḍan ... of the year 1024 [of the Hijrah = 31 January 1615] ... in the protected city of Ṣanʻāʼ of Yemen ... for ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... by the hand of ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ..."
Mārūnī, Anṭūniyūs ibn Mubārak, active 18th century ماروني، أنطونيوس بن مبارك، ناشط قرن 18.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 351
Image Count:
778
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Forty-six sermons, composed at Rome, in 1720 and Preceded by 2 leaves of notes
Description:
Author's colophon at end gives his name, place and date of composition., Graf, III, 436, composed in 1976, is presumably another collection of sermons., Of the two manuscripts referred to by Graf, the first (ʻAyn warqah), composed in 1716, contains only 16 sermons; the other contains sermons also by other authors, and the number of Antonius' sermons and the date of composition are not given., Incipit: "al-ʻIẓah al-ūlá: Fī fāʼidat al-waʻẓ wa-sharafihi wa-fī istimāʻ kalām Allāh wa-ẓarūrīyatih [wa-ḍarūrīyatih] ...", Fair modern (18th century) Karshūnī/Garshūnī (Arabic in Syriac script), in red and black., Islamic binding, in black., Author's colophon: "Ḥurrira bi-Rūmiyah al-Kubrá, fī Madrasat al-Mawārinah, fī al-yawm al-thāminʻashar min shahr Kānūn al-Awwal, sanat sabʻimiʼah wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf lil-tajassud al-Ilāhī. Anṭūniyūs ibn Mubārak al-Mārūnī.", and Translation of the author's colophon: "Written in Great Rome, at the School of the Maronites, on 18 Kānūn al-Awwal [December], the year 1720 after the Divine Incarnation. Anṭūniyūs ibn Mubārak al-Mārūnī."
Subject (Name):
Mārūnī, Anṭūniyūs ibn Mubārak, active 18th century.
Manuscript, on paper, of a mec'mua containing prayers and mystical poems: (1) unidentified Sufi theological text, ff. 1b-20b; (2) Münācāt-ı der tevhīd-i yā Rabbī teālā 'azze ve celle (مناجات در توهيد يارى تعالي عز و جل), ff. 21b-30b; (3) 'İbtidā-i Ġazeliyāt-ı fī ḥarf-i elif (ابتدائي غزليات في حرف الألف), ff. 31a-70a; (4) unidentified poem, ff. 71b-76a
Alternative Title:
Ṭariḳat-ı Bektāşiyye'den Divān-ı Ṣāfī and طريقات بكتاشيهدن ديوان صافي
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish and Arabic., Title assigned by cataloger. Variant title from contemporary manuscript annotation at head of text., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Single column of 15 lines (ff. 1b-20b). Double columns of 15 lines (ff. 21b-76a). Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta'liq., Binding: Modern three-quarter binding in light brown leather with marbled paper over paper pasteboards., Decoration: Rubrication., and Manuscript annotations in a later hand include a prayer (f. 90b) and a petition (f. 91b). Protective charm against bookworms: Yā Kebīkec (يا كبكج) (f. 1b).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Turkish, Sufi poetry, Turkish, and Sufism
Jawī Zādah, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, -1547 or 1548 جوي زادة، محمد بن إلياس، ت. 1547 أو 8.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 715
Image Count:
39
Abstract:
Manuscript on Islamic law dealing with how to establish evidence when two or more claiments are asking for shares in someone's inheritance by Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ilyās Jawī Zādah (d. 1547 or 8), a prolific Ḥanafī scholar, muftī and qāḍī of Turkish origin. Copied by Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Fayḍ Allāh, probably in the 17th century, in Turkey
Alternative Title:
Mīzān al-muddaʻīn fī iqāmat al-bayyinatayn, Kitāb Mīzān al-muddaʻīyīn, Mīzān al-muddaʻīyīn, ميزان المدعين في إقامة البينتين, كتاب ميزان المدعيين, and ميزان المدعيين
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "... Iʻlam anna al-rajulayn idhā iddaʻayā ʻaynan wa-barhanā fa-lā yakhlū immā an iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan muṭlaqan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan bi-sabab wāḥid bi-an iddaʻayā irthan aw shirāʼan min ithnayn aw min wāḥd aw iddaʻá aḥaduhumā mulkan muṭlaqan wa-al-ākhar natājan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā natājan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan bi-sababayn mukhtalifayn min wāḥid aw bi-sababayn mukhtalifīn min ithnayn ...", 15.5 x 21.5 cm; written surface: 7.5 x 15 cm, different lines per page., Modern binding., In clear unified naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper; with headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Preceded by an introduction in Ottoman Turkish (folio 1b-3a) and a table of contents (folios 3b-6b)., Folios 1a and 28b-34b contain advices, proverbs, prayers, poems, invocations, etc. in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian., Several dates are found in the manuscript; the earliest are: [1]101 H [1689 or 1690] (folio 29a) and [11]57 H [1744 or 1755] (folio 31 b)., Ample notes on the margins., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kalām bi-ʻawn Allāh al-Malik al-ʻAllām min taḥrīrāt al-fāḍil zubdat al-anām al-marḥūm al-maʻrūf bi-Jawīʹzādah bayna al-khawāṣṣ wa-al-ʻawām ... Tammat hādhihi al-risālah al-sharīfah ʻan al-ḥaqīr al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-qadīr Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Fayḍ Allāh ..."
Subject (Name):
Jawī Zādah, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, -1547 or 1548.
Subject (Topic):
Evidence (Islamic law), Hanafites, Inheritance and succession (Islamic law), and Islamic law
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197 مرغيناني، علي بن أبي بكر، -1196 or 1197
Published / Created:
1523 or 1524.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 603
Image Count:
560
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Mukhtārāt al-nawāzil" (Selected new issues), a treatise on Islamic law according to the Ḥanafī tradition, by Burhān al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī, a prominent and prolific Ḥanafī scholar, whose "nisbah" (affiliation) is to Marghīnān, a locality in the district of Farghānah (Marghilon, Farghona, Uzbekistan), being a collection of selected "nawāzil" (new issues which require fatwás (advisory or legal opinions), from a "faqīh" (Islamic law scholar)). Copied in the year 930 of the Hijrah (1523 or 1524), by Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim. Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit (folio 4b): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. "al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-al-ʻāqibah lil-muttaqīn, wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūlihi al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn ajmaʻīn. Kitāb al-Ṭahārāt. al-Ṭahārah fī al-lughah ʻibārah ʻan al-naẓāfah, wa-fī al-Sharīʻah, ʻibārah ʻan ghasl aʻḍāʼ makhṣūṣah bi-ṣifah makhṣūṣah, wa-hiya anwāʻ: Ṭahārat al-ṣughrá wa-Ṭahārat al-kubrá, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-ḥadath, wa-ṭahārat al-thawb wa-al-badan, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-khabath. Bāb mā yajūzu bi-hi al-wuḍūʼ, wa-mā lā yajūz. Faṣl fī al-miyāh ...", Secundo folio: Yūsuf, annahu lam yujawwiz fī al-badan., 14.3 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 12 cm; 14lines per page., Binding: Cover missing; dark brown leather on spine., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in red and large black script; some notes on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a-3b: Miscellaneous quotations on Islamic law., At the head of folio 4a: "Hādhā kitāb Mukhtārāt nawāzil, li-ṣāḥib al-Hidāyah.", At the head of folio 5a: An endowment statement: "Waqf Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-Chakmajlī.", Text ends abruptly on folio 276b, as follows: "... rawá al-Ḍaḥḥāk ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās, rḍ, annahu qāl: Yakūnu baʻd al-Nabī nūr yukanná Abū Ḥ, yaḥya dīn Allāh wa-Sunnat Rasūl Allāh ʻalá yadih. Wa-ʻan Anas, qāl, qāla Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam: Yakūnu fī ākhir al-zamān rajul yukanná bi-Abī Ḥanīfah, yaḥyá dīn Allāh taʻālá wa-Sunnatī ʻalá yadih. Thumma shurrifa bi-al-dhikr fī Ḥadīth ākhar: Muliʼa qalbuhu ʻilman wa-ḥikmah ...", Folio 277 is bound upside-down and contains miscellaneous quotations., At the head of folio 277a: "ʻAdad masāʼil hādhā al-kitāb alf wa-khamsmiʼat wa-ithnān wa-thalāthūn, wa-dhakar al-khilāf fī miʼah wa-sabʻīn, wa-lam yadhkur al-qiyās illā fī [...?].", Colophon (at the lower right margin of folio 276b): "Tammat al-kitāb, bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb, ʻalá yad ʻAbd [al-ʻabd] al-ḍaʻīf, al-muḥtāj, al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-Ghanī, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-aḥsana ilayhimā wa-ilayhi. Tārīkhuhu sanat thalāthīn wa-tisʻimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed by the help of the Abundant Giving King, by the hand of the feeble, needy and poor to Gracious God, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, may God forgive him and his parents and treat them and him favorably. Dated in the year 930 [of the Hijrah = 1523/1524]."
Subject (Name):
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197.
Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556 واعظ المكي، عبد الرؤوف بن يحيى، -1556
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 293
Image Count:
53
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Versification of al-Nuqāyah (concise encyclopedia) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī. and Followed by 2 leaves of notes
Description:
Available on microfilm, The title, scrawled in a later hand on leaf 217 recto, confused the author with ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Munāwī., The author's full name is given in the colophon (explicit)., Kâtip Çelebi (ed. Flügel) misprinted ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz as covering fann al-tafsīr only., Kâtip Çelebi gives the author's surname as al-Zamzamī al-Makkī. Brockelmann, S II, p. 509, lists a Naẓm ʻilm al-tafsīr under ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī al-Zamzamī, d. 1568, possibly the same work. (But Hitti, 7, gives his death date as A.H. 963 / A.D. 1556)., Kâtip Çelebi gives the death date as A.H. 963 (A.D. 1555 or 1556)., According to the colophon the author was a pupil of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (d. 1565?)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu muḥtāj al-Ghanī al-Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Raʼūf najl Yaḥyá al-Wāʻiẓ: Aḥmadu man ajāda bi-al-aḥkām ...", Modern (18th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black, sparsely pointed., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and No. 3 of 3 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505., Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556., Zamzamī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī, -1568., and Zamzamī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Yaḥyá, -1556.
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic and Islamic learning and scholarship
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717 أحمد بن علي سعيد، -1717
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 428
Image Count:
652
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on Manār al-anwār (principles of law) of ʻAbd Allāh al-Nasafī. and Beginning and end missing. Probably with lacunae
Description:
Leaves misbound; the concluding part of the incipit, with the title, appears on leaf 278 recto., Fair modern (18th century?) naskhī., and Islamic binding, in black.
Subject (Name):
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717. and Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310.
An anonymous treatise on the Arab conquest of North Africa under the leadership of ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir (died 678), a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad who became the governor of Egypt and died there. The present manuscript is the first book (al-sifr al-awwal) of the original work, dealing with the conquest from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf (localities in North Africa). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm of Banū Ṣāliḥ on Wednesday, 1 Shaʻbān, 1083 Hijrī (22 November, 1672). Place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ Ifrīqīyah and فتوح إفريقية
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi. Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. Bi-ʻawn Allāh wa-barakat Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Qāl fa-kharaja ilayhā ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, yakūnu amīr al-jaysh, wa-kharrajahu Mawlānā ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wa-huwa amīr al-Madīnah [madīnat] al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam, wa-yakūnu ʻAlī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wazīrahu. Wa-lam yuqtal aḥad baʻda mawt al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Fa-kharaja bi-sittīn alf fāris min bilād al-ʻArab ...", Secundo folio: miʼat alf fāris., 14 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 14 cm; 17 lines per page., Binding: In modern brown cloth binding., In fair Maghribī script, in brown ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; the first ten leaves are in a different hand and seem to have replaced the original; catchwords. The leaves are affected by dampness, but the text is legible, some are repaired without loss of text., Text folio 1a-155b., On folios 1a an advice on generosity, written in light blue ink, bearing the name and signature of al-Sayyid al-Ṭūfī al-Mālikī, Mudīr ʻĀmm Maʻhad al-Futūḥ al-Malakī, starts with: "Kun karīman kay tanāla bi-qurbinā nūran wa-ʻilman ...", On folio 10b an invocation in a different hand., Colophon: "Wa-hādhā muqtaḍá al-sifr al-awwal min al-Mahdīyah wa-ilá Sāṭīf ... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-ikmāl ʻalá yad ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm min Banī Ṣāliḥ ... Wa-kāana al-farāgh minhu ʻashīyah yawm al-Arbaʻ awwal shahr Shaʻbān ʻām thalāth wa-thamānīn wa-alf ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This is the end of the first book dealing with [the conquest] from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf ... Praise be to God on completing its copying by ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhim of Banī Ṣāliḥ ... The copying was completed on Wednesday evening, the beginning of Shaʻbān, 1083 [22 November, 1672] ..."