Selections from the Qurʼān: Starts with verse 53 of Sūrat Yūsuf (Chapter 12), Sūrat al-Raʻd (Chapter 13) to the end of Sūrat Ibrāhīm (Chapter 14). The manuscript was illuminated and copied in China in a Chinese style Arabic calligraphy. Qurʼān manuscripts from China are very rare. Name of copyist and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan. Selections.
Description:
19 x 27.5 cm; written surface: 12.5 x 16 cm; 5 lines per page., Binding: In brown leather binding with flap; covers embossed with central medallions and borders are embossed in floral designs; a little worn; slight smudging., Ends with: "Hādhā balāghun lil-nās wa-li-yundharū bi-hi wa-li-yaʻlamū annamā huwa ilāhun wāḥidun wa-li-yadhdhakkara ulū al-albāb." "Ṣadaqa Allāh al-ʻAẓīm.", In beautiful large Arabic script (Chinese style), in black ink on white paper; text vocalized throughout, with recitation marks in red; all headings of the chapters are written in red; the opening two chapters are illuminated in gold, blue; green, red and other colors; the last page is also illuminated in green, gold, brown and other colors; text within double red frames; some pages are repaired with glued pieces of paper from modern Chinese publications; catchwords., On folio 63 an attempt to practice copying part of verse 5 of Sūrat al-Raʻd., On folio 63b an inscription in classical Chinese., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: Rabbī ghafūrun raḥīm., Starts with: "Wa-mā ubarriʼu nafsī inna al-nafsa la-ammāratun bi-al-sūʼ ...", Title supplied by cataloger., بداية الورقة الثانية: ربي غفورٌ رحيم., تبدأ بـِ: "وما أبرئ نفسي إن النفس لأمارةٌ بالسوء ...", and تنتهي بـِ: "هذا بلاغٌ للناس ولينذروا به وليعلموا أنما هو إله واحدٌ وليذكّر أولوا الألباب." "صدق الله العظيم."
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Raʻd., Qurʼan.--Sūrat Ibrāhīm., and Qurʼan.--Sūrat Yūsuf.
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
Cf. Ms. Landberg 256 (leaves 88-187, a commentary on al-Fuṣūl al-Nasafīyah); although Ahlwardt and Brockelmann list al-Fuṣūl and al-Muqaddimah as separate works, they seem to be one and the same - the quotations here and in Landberg MSS 256 are the same., Commentary on al-Muqaddimah al-Burhānīyah (treatise on dialectics) of Muḥammad al-Nasafī., and Copied about A.H. 710 (A.D. 1310).
Description:
A fragment, the first leaf, only., Marginalia., Very minute sparsely pointed hand., and With: 4 other titles. To view all 4, search by call number Arabic MSS 11.
Subject (Name):
Nasafī, Burhān al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1209?-1288. Fuṣūl al-Nasafīyah., Nasafī, Burhān al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1209?-1288. Muqaddimah al-Burhānīyah., Nasafī, Burhān al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1209?-1288.--Fuṣūl al-Nasafīyah., and Nasafī, Burhān al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1209?-1288.--Muqaddimah al-Burhānīyah.
Commentary on al-Nikāt al-arbaʻūn (tract on some legal questions) of Muḥammad al-Nasafī. Abū Ḥanīfah is quoted extensively., Copied in A.H. 708 (A.D. 1308). In the title (leaf 1 recto), the author's name is followed by adāma Allāh ayyāmahu, showing that he was still living., and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
Marginalia., Very minute sparsely pointed hand., and With: 4 other titles. To view all, search by call number Arabic MSS 11.
Subject (Name):
Abū Ḥanīfah, -767 or 768, Nasafī, Burhān al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1209?-1288. Nikāt al-arbaʻūn, and Nasafī, Burhān al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1209?-1288.--Nikāt al-arbaʻūn
Commentary on his al-Qusṭās (or Mīzān al-qusṭās, treatise on logic). and Copied in Iṣfahān in A.H. 705 (A.D. 1305). Leaves 11-20 supplied in a later hand.
Description:
Interlinear and marginal notations., Very minute sparsely pointed hand., and With: 4 other titles. To view all 4, search by call number Arabic MSS 11.
Subject (Name):
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, 13th cent. Mīzān al-qusṭās., Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, 13th cent. Qusṭās., Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf,--13th cent.--Mīzān al-qusṭās., and Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf,--13th cent.--Qusṭās.
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.
A commentary on a work by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, and other medical treatises. It is not certain what books by Hippocrates the present manuscript covers and who is the commentator but it appears to deal with the whole field of medicine. It is divided into ten sections: 1. Cures and methods of treatment (folios: 1b-21b). 2. Treatment of swelling (folios: 21b-30b). 3. Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah (folios: 301b-70a) (A book by this title is attributed to ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās al-Majūsī (active 10th century-11th century)). 4. Treatment of eye sores (folios: 71b-89a). 5. Treatment of small pox and measels (folios: 91a-124b). 6. Methods for treating each member of the body (folios: 125b-160b). 7. Avoiding epidemic diseases (folios: 161b-169a). 8. Preparing travelers on land and sea and equipping them with the necessary advice, caution and medicine (folios: 169b-172a). 9. Treatment of arthritis, gout, knee and hand pain, hip and spine pain, treating varicose veins, etc. (folios: 175b-188a). 10. The pharmacology of Ibn Māsawayh (Yūḥannā ibn Māsawayh, d. 857 or 858) and the pharmacology of Niqulāwus (Nicolaus Myrepsus, active 13th century) (folios: 189b-222a). The name of copyist and the place and date of copying are not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
شرح مقدمة المعرفة لبقراط ورسائل في الطب، [17--؟].
Description:
15 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 11.8 x 18 cm; 21-25 lines per page., Bound., In an anusual naskh script which tilts to the left, in black ink on white paper; edges rubbed, rebacked, slightly soiled, leaves 159-188 are affected by dampness, mainly marginally; both covers embossed with central medallion; catchwords., In Arabic., Incipit: "Ibtidāʼ al-maqālah al-thāniyah min al-juzʼ al-thāmin al-kāmil. al-Bāb al-awwal fī taqsīm al-mudāwāh wa-ṭuruq al-ʻilāj. al-Bāb al-sābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn fī mudāwāt al-awrām. al-Maqālah al-thālithah fī kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. al-Bāb al-rābiʻ wa-al-thalāthūn min al-Kāmil fī mudāwāt al-ramad. al-Bāb al-awwal fī mudāwāt al-judarī wa-al-ḥaṣbah. al-Maqālah al-khāmisah min al-juzʼ al-thānī wa-hiya ithnayn wa-thamānūn bāban: al-Bāb al-awwal fī al-ṭuruq al-maslūkah ilá mudāwāt kull wāḥid min al-aʻḍāʼ idhā ḥadathat fīhi al-ʻillah. al-Bāb al-sādis wa-al-ʻishrīn min al-maqālah al-ūlá fī al-taḥarruz, min al-taḥarruz min al-amrāḍ al-wabāʼīyah. al-Bāb al-ḥādī wa-al-thalāthūn fī tadbīr al-musāfir fī al-barr wa-al-baḥr wa-mā yuḥtāju ilayhi fī hādhā al-tadbīr alladhī yaṣluḥu li-istiʻdād al-safar wa-al-taḥarruz min an yanālahu al-ḍarrar fī safarih. Amrāḍ al-mafāṣil, wa-hiya al-niqris wa-awjāʻ al-rukbatayn wa-awjāʻ al-yadayn wa-wajaʻ al-wirk wa-ʻirq al-nasā ...al-maqālah al-ūlá min Aqrabādīn Ibn Māsawayh wa-Niqlāwus wa-al-tarākīb allatī tustaʻmalu fī zamāninā bi-bilād al-Ifranj.", Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009., Title supplied by vendor., and البداية: "ابتداء المقالة الثانية من الجزء الثامن الكامل. الباب الأول في تقسيم المداواة وطرق العلاج. الباب السابع والعشرون في مداواة الأورام. المقالة الثالثة في كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية. الباب الرابع والثلاثون من الكامل في مداواة الرمد. الباب الأول في مداواة الجدري والحصبة. المقالة الخامسة من الجزء الثاني وهي اثنين وثمانون بابًا: الباب الأول في الطرق المسلوكة إلى مداواة كل واحد من الأعضاء إذا حدثت فيه العلة. الباب السادس والعشرين من المقالة الأولى في التحرز، من التحرز من الأمراض الوبائية. الباب الحادي والثلاثون في تدبير المسافر في البر والبحر وما يحتاج إليه في هذا التدبير الذي يصلح لاستعداد السفر والتحرز من أن يناله الضرر في سفره. أمراض المفاصل، وهي النقرس وأوجاع الركبتين وأوجاع اليدين ووجع الورك وعرق النسا ...المقالة الأولى من أقربادين ابن ماسويه ونقلاوس والتراكيب التي تستعمل في زماننا ببلاد الإفرنج."