Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 295
Image Count:
13
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Tract endeavoring to show that the sacred places in Palestine are of secondary sanctity, and that pilgrimage thither and prayer there are of subordinate importance.
Description:
Fair modern (18th century) naskhī, in red and black., Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and With: 2 other titles.
Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, d. 1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, d. ca. 1436
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 436
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (handbook of astronomy) of Maḥmūd al-Jighmīnī. and Incomplete at end.
Description:
End of leaf 50 corresponds to leaf 162 recto (numbered 166) of Ms. Landberg 361; probably only one leaf is missing., Fairly old (16th century?) hasty nastaʻlīq, almost entirely unpointed., In manuscript on fly-leaf: "Comprado en el Cairo 27/12/28. T[eodoro] B[ecu]." With Becu's bookplate., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 1 of 2 items bound together., Purchased from V.G. Simkhovitch in January 1955., With copious diagrams, some with background-pictures representing the constellations in the form of human and animal figures., and With: 1 other title.
Subject (Name):
Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Autograph, Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Bookplate, and Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad,--d. 1221?--Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding and Natural and social sciences--Astronomy and astrology
Ḥanbalī, ʻAlī ibn al-Bahāʼ, 1419 or 1420-1494 or 1495.
Published / Created:
1488
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 319
Image Count:
564
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wajīz (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. The second half of the work. and Copied in A.H. 893 (A.D. 1488).
Description:
C. Landberg gave the author's name (from Shadharāt al-dhahab) as Alāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbalī, d. A.H. 899, and the title as Fatḥ al-malik al-ʻazīz bi-sharḥ al-Wajīz (confusion with al-Rāfiʻī's commentary; cf. Berlin catalog, 4470). The explicit gives the author's name, and the date of completion, A.H. 887., First half wanting., Good naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, paper covered, flap missing.
Subject (Name):
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. Wajīz. and Ghazzālī,--1058-1111.--Wajīz.