Muslim history to A.H. 1033 (A.D. 1624). and Copied in A.H. 1068 (A.D. 1658).
Description:
Available on microfilm, The title is given in the incipit, leaf 2 recto., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in brown, flap missing.
Commentary on the Minhāj al-ṭālibīn (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Yaḥyá al-Nawawī. Volume VI only and Incomplete at beginning and end
Description:
The title is written on the lower edges as: al-juzʾ al-sādis min al-Ghunyah al-Adhraʻīyah., Old (14th century?) naskhī., Islamic binding, in brown, front cover and part of flap missing., and Other volumes wanting.
Manuscript of three Coptic grammatical works by John of Samannud (13th century) and Abu Ishaq ibn al-Assal for the preservation of the Coptic language
Description:
In Bohairic Coptic, Arabic, Script: Uncial script. Black and red ink., Decoration: Some decorative headpieces., Bound together with: Abu Ishaq ibn al-Assal, Scala Rimata. John of Samannud's Grammatical Preface and Scala Ecclesiastica were originally written in the 13th century. All three texts preserved are Coptic grammatical works, presumably for continuation of the language, which was waning in popularity. According to internal Coptic numeration, first nine pages are missing. Numbered folios = 9-123. Contains chapter divisions (Cpt. = kephaleon). Some sections are alphabetically arranged. Many pages still bound in sections. Severe worming and heavy damage to some pages. Significant staining throughout. Some Arabic marginalia. Some letters excised., and Binding: 17th century binding with stamped or pressed floral decoration. Some worming. Some Arabic script on the back flyleaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John of Samannud, Grammatical Preface, Scala Ecclesiastica, Abu ibn al-Assal, Scala Rimata.
Versification of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ (Arabic grammar) and Hamʻ al-hawāmiʻ (commentary to it). and Copied in A.H. 1051 (A.D. 1641).
Description:
The title appears on leaf 3 recto., Fair naskhī, in red and black. Some leaves supplied in a later hand., and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap.
Modern (19th century) calligraphic naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in colors on leaf 2 verso., Leaves 91-135 in another less careful hand., and Marginalia.
Vocabularies, Arabic-Turkish-Italian (in Arabic letters); apparently based upon al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah of Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ., Followed by 1 leaf of notes, and Copied in A.H. 1143 (A.D. 1731).
Alternative Title:
Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah wa-al-ʻArabīyah and شذور الذهبية في اللغة التركية والعربية
Description:
Available on microfilm, In Arabic, Turkish, and Italian (in Arabic letters)., For Ibn Muḥammad Ṣālih's work see also British Museum, Turkish Mss., pp. 150-51; and Munich catalog 768, which agrees with the British Museum copy., The incipit is the same as in Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ's work, but the latter is divided into 4 rukns, not faṣls, and has an extensive introduction, etc., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Kitāb al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah wa-al-ʻArabīyah. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa al-insān wa-zayyanahu bi-al-nuṭq wa-al-lisān ...", Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh minhu yawm al-khāmis ʻashar min shahr Kānūn al-Thānī, min shuhūr sanat wāḥid wa-thalāthīn wa-sabʻimiʼah wa-alf, al-muwāfiq li-niṣf Rajab, sanat 1143.", and Translation of the colophon: "Completed on 15 January, 1731, corresponding to the middle of Rajab, 1143 [of the Hijrah]."
Subject (Name):
Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language, Italian language, and Turkish language