Scroll on vellum. Made about 1750?, at Brody, in Austrian Poland. Minute calligraphic square characters with the names of Haman's sons enlarged and the blessings for recital before and after the reading of the scroll also enlarged. Colored border with several miniatures worked into it. The Jewish dramatis personae are clad in caftans, while Haman and his entourage wear 18th century Polish-Austrian costumes. Colophon : nikhtav poh ḳ.ḳ Brod. There is some water damage to the images at the beginning of the scroll.
Alternative Title:
Bible. O.T. Esther. Hebrew. 1750., Blessings for recital before and after reading the scroll of Esther, Megilat Ester, and מגילת אסתר
Description:
From the Sholem Asch collection, gift of Louis M. Rabinowitz, 1943. and Hebrew (unvocalized).
Subject (Geographic):
Brody (Ukraine)--Religious life and customs.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Esther--Illustrations., Purim--Liturgy--Texts., and Scrolls--Ukraine--Brody.
Falmouth (England), Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century, Great Britain--Religious life and customs--19th century, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Fox family, Fox, Anna Maria, Fox, Barclay, 1817-1855, Fox, Caroline, 1819-1871, Sterling family, and Sterling, John, 1806-1844
Subject (Topic):
Bereavement--Great Britain, Death--Social aspects--Great Britain, English literature--19th century, and Tuberculosis--Great Britain
Christopher Isherwood correspondence with John Lehmann
Container / Volume:
Port | Folder 18
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The letters also discuss the writing, publishing, critical reception, and theatrical adaptations of Isherwood's works, critical analysis of many of Lehmann's works, and commentary on the lives and works of many important literary figures of the time, including W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, Berthold Viertel, Virginia Woolf and many others. Also mentioned are Isherwood's companion, the artist Don Bachardy, and two literary journals founded by Lehmann, New Writing and the London Magazine. Also included is one letter from Richard Isherwood, Christopher's brother, to Lehmann, several letters to Lehmann from third parties concerning Isherwood, and a typescript of Isherwood's poem "On His Queerness."
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives, English literature--20th century, and World War, 1939-1945
Christopher Isherwood correspondence with John Lehmann
Container / Volume:
Port | Folder 19
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The letters also discuss the writing, publishing, critical reception, and theatrical adaptations of Isherwood's works, critical analysis of many of Lehmann's works, and commentary on the lives and works of many important literary figures of the time, including W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, Berthold Viertel, Virginia Woolf and many others. Also mentioned are Isherwood's companion, the artist Don Bachardy, and two literary journals founded by Lehmann, New Writing and the London Magazine. Also included is one letter from Richard Isherwood, Christopher's brother, to Lehmann, several letters to Lehmann from third parties concerning Isherwood, and a typescript of Isherwood's poem "On His Queerness."
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives, English literature--20th century, and World War, 1939-1945
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)
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.
Presumably a holograph. and Treatise on the water-level of the Nile.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For the supposed author see Brockelmann, S II, p. 743., In the incipit "Muḥammad" is written over an erased "Ibrāhīm," and there is also an erasure in the same place on the title page. It is not clear whether the change is the author's own legitimate correction, or a case of plagiarism., and The hand writing is entirely different from that of Landberg MSS 9, also presumably a holograph, so the authors are not identical.
Ibn al-Qāṣṣ, Aḥmad ibn Abī Aḥmad, -946 or 947.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 314
Image Count:
359
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
An attempt to reconcile the differences between the imam Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī and his pupil Ismāʻīl al-Muzanī. and Beginning missing.
Alternative Title:
Tawassuṭ bayna al-Shāfiʻī wa-al-Muzanī
Description:
For the author see Brockelmann, I, 180., Good 14th century naskhī, wholly unpointed., Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and Marginalia.
Subject (Name):
Muzanī, Ismāʻīl ibn Yaḥyá, 791-878., Muzanī, Ismāʻīl ibn Yaḥyá,--791-878., Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820., and Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs,--767 or 768-820.