Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service. and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household.
Description:
Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2000., In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family; not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Draycott, Eleanor, Fitzjames family, and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Decedents' estates--England, Inheritance and succession--England, Manors--England, Material culture--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Prayers for the dead, Saints--Cult, and Wills
ʻAlamī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá. علمي، ضياء الدين أبو الهدى.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 188
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A treatise about "Ahl al-Dhimmah" or "Dhimmis" (the protected minorities, mainly Christians and Jews) according to Islamic law, by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá ʻAlamī who wrote his work for al-Amīr Sayf al-Dīn al-Mihrānī (probably Sayf al-Dīn Balabān al-Mihrānī, the overseer of the stables of al-Malik al-Ẓahir Baybars (Baybars I, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1223?-1277). No reference could be found for the author or his work. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
الأحكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة : مخطوطة / ضياء الدين أبو الهدى علمي.
Description:
Binding: Unbound (in 1 quire)., Colophon: Colophon missing; the author ends his work with: "... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam.", Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh munshiʼ saḥāb al-maʻrifah fī samāʼ al-adhhān wa-muṭliʻ shams al-ʻināyah min mashriq al-fahm wa-maṭlaʻ al-bayān wa-munawwir al-jawāriḥ bi-ṣifāt al-ʻibādah wa-anwār al-īmān, wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh shahādata man waḥḥadahu ʻalá al-mushāhadah wa-al-ʻayān wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan ʻabduhu wa-rasūluhu al-mabʻūth lil-kāffah min ḍiʼḍiʼ Maʻadd ibn ʻAdnān, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-makhṣūṣīn bi-al-riḍwān ... fa-qaṣada al-Amīr al-kabīr Sayf al-Dīn al-Mahrānī al-muʻadd la-hum wa-al-muḥakkam fīhim al-muʻayyan bayna al-aʻyān an adhkura la-hu mā warada fī dhālika min al-shurūṭ li-yakūna ḥujjah ʻinda al-imtiḥān fa-istakhartu Allāh wa-jamaʻtuhu bi-ḥaythu lā yaṭʻanu fīhi insān wa-sammaytuhu al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah ...", On folio 1a: "al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah takhrīj al-faqīr ilá Allāh subḥānahu wa-taʻālá al-Mawlá Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abī al-Hudá ʻAlamī ḥam [ḥāmī] al-Sunnah, raḥimahu Allāh.", On folio 5b, an anecdote about the thirteen "mamsūkhūn" (those transformed into animals and inanimate objects and the reasons for their transformation), quoted from Ḥashiyat al-ʻAlqamī (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1492-1556) ʻalá al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr (of al-Suyūṭi, 1445-1505): al-Fīl (elephant), al-dubb (bear), al-khinzīr (pig), al-qird (monkey), al-jirrīth (eel), al-ḍabb (lizard), al-waṭwāṭ (bat), al-ʻaqrab (scorpion), al-Zuhrah (Venus), al-duʻmūṣ (tadpole), al-ʻankabūt (spider), al-arnab (rabbit), Suhayl (Canopus)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-Iskandarīyah ḥamāhu Allāh, Text: Folios 1a-5b; folio 6 is blank., Title from incipit., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله منشئ سحاب المعرفة في سماء الأذهان ومطلع شمس العناية من مشرق الفهم ومطلع البيان ومنور الجوارح بصفات العبادة وأنوار الأمان، وأشهد أن لا إله إلّا الله شهادة من وحده على المشاهدة والعيان وأشهد أن محمدًا عبده ورسوله المبعوث للكافة من ضئضئ معدّ بن عدنان، صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه المخصوصين بالرضوان ... فقصد الأمير الكبير سيف الدين المهراني المعدّ لهم والمحكّم فيهم المعيّن بين الأعيان أن اذكر له ما ورد في ذلك من الشروط ليكون حجة عند الامتحان فاستخرت الله وجمعته بحيث لا يطعن فيه إنسان وسميته ال'حكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة ...", بداية الورقة الثانية: الإسكندرية حماه الله, and على وجه الورقة 1: "الأحكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة تخريج الفقير إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى المولى ضياء الدين أبي الهدى علمي حام [حامي] السنة، رحمه الله."
Subject (Name):
ʻAlamī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá. and علمي، ضياء الدين أبو الهدى.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts, Dhimmis (Islamic law), and Minorities (Islamic law)
Ibn al-Farrāʾ, Abū Yaʻlá Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 990-1066
Published / Created:
[11--?].
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 221
Image Count:
406
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Beginning and end missing; also lacunae between leaves 6 and 7, 7 and 8, 9 and 10, 94 and 95. and Legal decisions.
Description:
Fair 12th century naskhī, scantily pointed., For the author see Brockelmann, S I, p. 686., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Title, as above, supplied on leaf 1 recto by a later hand.
Copied about 1736., Followed by other traditions., and Two traditions related by Abū Ḥanīfah on the authority of Mālik ibn Anas.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Theology--Tradition--Corpuses
Ibn Mammātī, Asʻad ibn al-Muhadhdhab, 1149-1209 Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 258
Image Count:
19
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied about 1736., Followed by 2 leaves of notes., and Satyrical essay on Bahāʾ al-Dīn Qarāqūsh.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., With: 10 other titles., and Wrongly ascribed in the title to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
On the pronunciation of the vowel fatḥah in the Koran.
Description:
Fair modern (ca. 1800) Yemenite naskhī, in red, green, and black., For the author's brother see Brockelmann, S II, p. 99., and Islamic binding, in brown, with flap.
A treatise on erotic literature attributed to al-Suyūṭī (1445-1505), a well-known and prolific Egyptian author to whom are attributed books which are not written by him.
Alternative Title:
Īḍāḥ, Kitāb al-bāh fī rujūʻ al-shaykh ilá ṣibāh, Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ, الإيضاح في النكاح والباه : مخطوطة / جلال الدين السيوطي., إيضاح, كتاب الإيضاح, and كتاب الباه في رجوع الشيخ إلى صباه
Description:
16 x 22 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 16 cm; 15 lines per page., Binding: In marbled cardboard with flap., Colophon: "Intahá Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ lil-Suyūṭī.", Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary., In Arabic., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; with headings and markings in red; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Wa-baʻd, fa-hādhā kitāb al-waṣīyah al-mashhūr al-musammá fī ʻilm al-nayk wa-yusammá al-Īḍāḥ fī al-nikāḥ wa-al-bāh fī al-rujūʻ [rujūʻ] al-shaykh ilá al-ṣibāh [ṣibāh] lil-Shaykh al-ajall Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá, wa-dhālika mashhūr lammā fasiqū ahl miṣr allafa lahum hādhā al-kitāb ḥattá rajiʻū ʻan al-liwāṭ bi-barakat al-Shaykh, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá ...", On folio 1a: Kitāb al-bāh fī rujūʻ al-shaykh ilá al-ṣibāh [ṣibāh] taʼlīf al-ajall Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī nafaʻanī Allāh bi-ʻulūmih wa-al-Muslimīn. Āmīn. Wa-yalīhi nukat wa-ḥikāyāt wa-qarʻah.", On folios 47a-48a: various anecdotes, intrigues and jokes., On front cover: "Fī al-Īḍāḥ lil-Suyūṭī.", Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-makhāṣī ʻalá al-shfār., Table of contents (folios 1b-2a): "Hādhihi Fihrist hādhā al-kitāb al-musammá bi-al-Īḍāḥ.", Text: Folios 2b-46b., Title from folio 2b., Translation of the colophon: "The book of al-Īḍāḥ by al-Suyūṭī is concluded.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين. وبعد، فهذا كتاب الوصية المشهور المسمى في علم النيك ويسمى الإيضاح في النكاح والباه في الرجوع [رجوع] الشيخ إلى الصباه [صباه] للشيخ الأجل جلال الدين السيوطي، رحمه الله تعالى، وذلك مشهور لما فسقوا أهل مصر ألف لهم هذا الكتاب حتى رجعوا عن اللواط ببركة الشيخ، رحمه الله تعالى ...", الخاتمة: "انتهى كتاب الإيضاح للسيوطي.", بداية الورقة الثانية: المخاصي على الأشفار., على وجه الغلاف: "في الإيضاح للسيوطي.", على وجه الورقة 1: كتاب الباه في رجوع الشيخ إلى الصباه [صباه] تأليف الأجل جلال الدين السيوطي نفعني الله بعلومه والمسلمين. آمين. ويليه نكت وحكايات وقرعة.", and فهرس المحتويات (الورقات 1ب-2أ): "هذه فهرست هذه الكتاب المسمى بالإيضاح."
Subject (Name):
Suyūṭī,--1445-1505 and سيوطي،--1445-1505.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Erotic literature, Arabic--Early works to 1800.