A genealogical account of the legendary and historical Persian and Arab kings before Islam and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes
Description:
Text in Arabic, some notes in Persian., The manuscript was probably copied not long after the date of composition of the final treatise, A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574 or 75)., Fair naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and blue on leaf 1 verso. Leaves 1-2 with gold rectangular borders., A note pasted in the front cover lists the contents of the volume in French., Islamic binding, in contemporary brown calf., Bookplate of Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco., Bookplate of Thomas E. Marston., Unidentified bookstamp in Turkish on title page., and With: 2 other titles.
Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 576
Image Count:
438
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of cosmography
Description:
Title from: Brockelmann, II, 131. In manuscript on title page: ʻAjāʾib-i makhlūqāt., Fair naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and blue on leaf 10 verso. Leaves 10-13 with gold rectangular borders. Rubricated., Illustrated with a map of the world related to the group known as the "Seven Seas" maps, and a chart giving the qiblah to Mecca (leaf 12 verso)., Islamic binding, in contemporary brown calf., and With: 2 other titles.
Manuscript written on vellum and paper in black and red ink. and From Carthusian monastery at Cologne; Leander van Ess (no. 171); Sir Thomas Phillipps (manuscript 555); presented to Yale Med in 1958 by David P. Wheatland.
Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534 كمال پاشازاده، 1468 أو 1469-1534
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 516
Image Count:
196
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of Hanafi law, consisting of the main text (al-Iṣlāḥ, being a revision of Maḥmūd al-Maḥbūbī's Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah) and the commentary (al-Īḍāḥ, being a revision of Sharḥ Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah of ʻUbayd Allāh Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Thānī)., Preceded by 1 leaf of notes, and Copied in A.H. 947 (A.D. 1540 or 1541).
Description:
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Aḥmaduhu fī al-bidāyah wa-al-nihāyah ʻalá al-hidāyah wa-al-wiqāyah ...", Fair nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʼunwān in gold and blue on leaf 1 verso., Extensive marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb ... 947.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed ... 947 [of the Hijrah = 1540/1541]."
Subject (Name):
Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534., Maḥbūbī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1344 or 1345., and Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, -1346 or 1347.