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.
Books four and five of "al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb" (Canon of medicine), a comprehensive work on Arabic medicine, by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, 980-1037) who was born near Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna was the most famous and influential scholar, scientist, and philosopher of the medieval world. He was foremost a physician, but was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, psychologist, philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and poet. His al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb became the authoritative reference on medicine in the Middle Ages, not only in the Islamic world, but, in its Latin translations, in Europe as well. The present manuscript consists of book four (folios 1b-156b) and book five (folios 157a-211a) of a five volume set. Book five is called "al-Aqrābādhīn" (pharmacology, materia medica). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 19th century.
Alternative Title:
Aqrābādhīn., Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections, أقراباذين., الكتابان الرابع والخامس من القانون في الطب : مخطوطة / ابن سينا., and قانون في الطب. مختارات
Description:
16.5 x 30.5 cm; written surface: 12.5 x 22.5 cm; 29 lines per page., Binding: In modern dark brown leather binding with flap; spine and flap embossed with central medallions; covers embossed corner decorations., Colophon: "Tamma kitāb al-Aqrābādīn bi-tamāmih min kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá dhālika ḥamdan lā ghāyah la-hā wa-ṣallá [Allāh ʻalá] al-Nabī al-Hāshimī Abṭaḥī [al-Abṭaḥī] wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi ṣalātan lā mithla la-hā. Ḥarrarahu wa-fī sanat thamāniyat ʻashar.", In good medium naskh script, in black ink on white paper; headings and keywords in red; text within frames in red, blue and gold; many wormholes, mostly on the margins; some corrections and notes on the margins; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Fī al-amrāḍ allatī lā takhtaṣṣu bi-ʻuḍw dūna ʻuḍw. al-Kitāb al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn. Kalām kullī fī al-ḥummīyāt wa-huwa sabʻat funūn ...", On folio 156b: "Fa-hādhā ākhir kitāb [...?] wa-huwa ākhir al-kalām min kitāb [al-kitāb] al-rābiʻ wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh shukran kathīran. Wa-yatlūhu kitāb [al-kitāb] al-khāmis fī al-anqrābādīn. Tammat al-jild al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn [... ... ... ...] Allāh sākin Kashmar, ghafara Allāh [la-hu] wa-li-wālidayh. 14.", On folio 157a: "al-Kitāb al-khāmis min al-Qānūn lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-huwa akhir al-kutub minhu.", On folio 157b: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir wa-tammim bi-al-khayr. al-Kitāb al-khāmis min kutub al-Qānūn wa-huwa al-Aqrābādīn. Laqad faraghnā min al-kitāb al-arbaʻah ʻan dhikr al-ʻilam al-naẓarī wa-al-ʻamalī al-ḥāfiẓ lil-ṣiḥḥah wa-ḥāna la-nā an nakhtuma kitāb al-Qānūn, al-kitāb al-khāmis, al-muṣannaf fī al-adwiyah al-murakkabah, li-yakūna kamā al-qarābādīn lil-kitāb ...", On folio 1a: "al-Kitāb al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-yalīhi al-kitāb al-khāmis minhu wa-huwa al-Aqrābādhīn.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-ḥammāmāt fa-yuḥammī judrānah., Title supplied by cataloger., Translation of the colophon: "The book of al-Aqrābādīn of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb [Canon of medicine] of the Grand Master [Avicenna] is completed in its entirety. Praise be to God for this without end. May God pray on the Hashimite and Abṭaḥite Prophet [Muḥammad] and his family and companions, a prayer without equal. Copied in the year eighteen.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. في الأمراض التي لا تختص بعضو دون عضو. الكتاب الرابع من القانون. كلام كلي في الحميات وهو سبعة فنون ...", الخاتمة: "تم كتاب الأقرابادين بتمامه من كتاب القانون في الطب للشيخ الرئيس والحمد لله على ذلك حمدًا لا غاية لها وصلى [الله على] النبي الهاشمي أبطحي [الأبطحي] وعلى آله وأصحابه صلوةً لا مثل لها. حرره وفي سنة ثمانية عشر.", بداية الورقة الثانية: الحمامات فيحمي جدرانه., على ظهر الورقة 156: "فهذا آخر كتاب [...؟] وهو آخر الكلام من كتاب [الكتاب] الرابع والحمد لله شكرًا كثيرًا. ويتلوه كتاب [الكتاب] الخامس في الانقرابادين. تمت الجلد الرابع من القانون [... ... ... ...] الله ساكن كشمر، غفر الله [له] ولوالديه. 14.", على ظهر الورقة 157: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر وتمم بالخير. الكتاب الخامس من كتب القانون وهو الأقرابادين. لقد فرغنا من الكتاب الأربعة عن ذكر العلم النظري والعملي الحافظ للصحة وحان لنا أن نختم كتاب القانون، الكتاب الخامس، المصنّف في الأدوية المركبة، ليكون كما القرابادين للكتاب ...", على وجه الورقة 1: "الكتاب الرابع من القانون للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا، رحمه الله، ويليه الكتاب الخامس منه وهو الأقراباذين.", and على وجه الورقة 157: "الكتاب الخامس من القانون للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا، رحمه الله، وهو آخر الكتب منه."
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and ابن سينا،--980-1037.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Materia medica, Medicine, Arab, and Medicine, Medieval
Ibn Aṣbagh, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, 1167 or 8-1223 or 4.
Published / Created:
1224
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 238
Image Count:
182
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Arabic glossary, in verse, arranged by subjects., Copied in A.H. 621 (A.D. 1224)., and The main work ends on leaf 39 recto, and is followed by a supplement, entitled Naẓm al-jumal al-muʻaqqibah min al-ṣifāt li-Kitāb al-mudhhabah.
Description:
Badly worm-eaten., Brockelmann spells mudhahhabah, but Berlin catalog has mudhhabah, and the meter requires this spelling in the prefatory verses on leaf 1 recto (verse 5, 2d half) and in the verses on leaf 40 recto and in the colophon (which also spell ḥulá, Brockelmann: ḥilā). Also al-muʻaqqibah so spelled on leaf 40 recto (Brockelmann: al-muʻaqqabah)., Considerable marginalia., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Incipit same as in Berlin catalog 5370 and Bankipore XX, 1989.
Subject (Name):
Naẓm al-jumal al-muʻaqqibah min al-ṣifāt li-Kitāb al-mudhhabah.
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Published / Created:
A.H. 1295 (A.D. 1878)
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 431
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 1295 (A.D. 1878)., Short poem in praise of the Prophet., and The attribution to al-Būṣīrī is probably fictitious; the meter (basīṭ) is the same as in al-Būṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-burdah.
Description:
Copied in the form of a primer of calligraphy; calligraphic hand., Islamic binding, in maroon., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Poetry, Arabic language and literature--Primers (Calligraphy), and Islamic binding.
