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.
A Sufi tract. and Copied about A.H. 1150 (A.D. 1737).
Description:
Coarse naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 3 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Followed by two letters by Silvester, patriarch of Antioch to an English merchant, 1733 (leaf 12 recto) and 1732 (leaf 13 recto), and an edict of the synod (majmaʻ) of Constantinople against Euthymius Ṣayfī, bishop of Tyre and Sidon, 1718 (leaf 18 verso). and Polemical correspondence with an English merchant named Sherman (?), in 1734.
Description:
Fair 18th century naskhī, in red and black., For the author see Graf, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, III, 134., Islamic binding, in black., No. 4 of 5 titles bound together., On Euthymius Ṣayfī see Graf, III, 179., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Name):
Euthymius Ṣayfī,--Bishop of Tyre and Sidon, Sherman, and Silvester, Patriarch of Antioch, d. 1766
Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? خليل بن إسحاق الجندي، -1365؟
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 198
Image Count:
30
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of Maliki law
Description:
Incomplete at end., Title from: Brockelmann, II, 84., Compared in parts with the lithographed edition of 1900., Compared with Ahlwardt 4599, the last chapter heading is found on leaf 316 recto, so that probably only one or two leaves are missing., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu ... Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Mālikī ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh ḥamdan yuwāfī mā tazāyada min al-niʻam ...", Two coarse Maghribī hands, fairly modern (18th century?)., Profuse interlinear and marginal notations throughout., and Loose leaves.
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., For Ashʻab see Ibn Khallikān, tr. de Slane, IV, 217, note 3., For the author see Brockelmann, S II, p. 414., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Copied in A.H. 1149 (?) (A.D. 1736). and Treatise on the domestic cock.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., Preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of entire volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., The colophon does not look like A.H. 1149, but the date occurs on leaf 36 recto clearly, and the coincidence of the weekday confirms it. 18th Muḥarram 1149 (May 29, 1736) did fall on Tuesday., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Natural and social sciences--Zoology