Contains correspondence between George Platt Lynes and various correspondents (box 1); autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of "The Love of New York" and "The Sailor" by Glenway Wescott, with autograph manuscript notes from Wescott to Lynes, and a copy of Harper's Bazaar (December 1943) that includes Wescott's essay "I Love New York" (box 2); and photographs of Jean Cocteau and Katherine Anne Porter by Lynes (box 1). Correspondents include Webster Aiken, Mary Butts, Paul Cadmus, Condé Nast Publications, René Crevel, William Flores, Jared and Margaret French, Bernadine Szold Fritz, Dora and Kiko Harrison, Christopher Isherwood, Lincoln Kirstein, Warren Lowenhaupt, Alexander Liberman, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry McIlhenny, Marianne Moore, Allen Porter, Katherine Anne Porter, François Reichenbach, Perry Ruston, Diana Sheean, Laurence Sickman, Getrude Stein, Pavel Tchelitchew, Barbara and Lloyd Wescott, and John Wisner.
Description:
George Platt Lynes, American fashion and commercial photographer. and Gift of Bernard Perlin, 1958 and Russell Lynes, 1976. Other material was acquired from various sources and provenance information is filed in the collection.
Handbook of a Sufi order, consisting of three tracts, the second and third, treating of the teaching of Salman al-Farisi, ascribed to Ja`far al-Sadiq, the Imam.
Description:
The title, as above, supplied by a later hand on leaf 1 recto, may not be genuine. Preceded and followed by 1 page of notes.
Treatise on words which have three different meanings, depending on whether the first syllable has the vowel a, i, or u.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., Hitti 2003(27) is a versified version, and Ahlwardt 7072 a shorter one, without the shawāhid., Islamic binding, in brown, front cover and flap missing., and With: 1 other title.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Lexicography and Islamic binding
Fables translated by ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Muqaffaʻ from the Pehlevi version of Bīdpāī's Panchatantra., Lacuna between leaves 40 and 41., and Leaves 1 verso-2 verso contain a preface by Silvestre de Sacy.
Alternative Title:
Fables of Bidpai. Arabic. and Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. Arabic.
Description:
Islamic binding, in black., Modern (19th century) naskhī., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Name):
Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, -approximately 760. and Silvestre de Sacy, A. I. (Antoine Isaac), 1758-1838.
Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrāʾīlī, fl. 822-850 Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrāʾīlī, fl. 822-850. Dalāʾil al-burūj Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrāʾīlī, fl. 822-850. Dalāʾil al-kawākib
Published / Created:
1912
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 523
Image Count:
228
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 1330 (A.D. 1912)., The work ends on leaf 121 verso, and is followed by a note on dalāʾil al-kawākib and dalāʾil al-burūj., and Treatise on astrology.
Alternative Title:
Majmūʻ fī al-aḥkām.
Description:
Agrees exactly with Leipzig catalog (Vollers) 799, as described in detail by V. Stegemann, Dorotheos von Sidon und das sogenannte Introductorium des Sahl ibn Bisr, Prag, 1942, pp. 15-25., Also known as: al-Majmūʻ fī al-aḥkām (Brockelmann)., Binder's blanks after leaf 127 not digitized., Good naskhī, in red and black., No. 2 of 2 titles bound together., and With diagrams.
Subject (Topic):
Natural and social sciences--Astronomy and astrology
Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī, ca. 1327-1370
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 323
Image Count:
564
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 816 (A.D. 1413). Leaves 247 verso-275 verso copied in A.H. 851 (A.D. 1447 or 8)., Followed by 1 leaf of notes., and Principles of Shafiʻi law.
Alternative Title:
Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʾir
Description:
Hasty naskhī; leaves 1-5 supplied (with lacuna) by a later hand., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Marginalia.