Several lacunae in the text. and Volume I only, stops in the middle of the story of Qamar al-Zamān and Budūr.
Alternative Title:
Arabian nights., Kitāb Alf laylah wa-laylah, ألف ليلة وليلة. -- [17--؟]., and كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة
Description:
Fair modern (18th century) nastaʻlīq, leaves 1-5 supplied in a later hand., In manuscript on leaf 1 recto: "Bought by me at Mocha 1805. M. Thoms[on].", Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Ḥukiya, wa-Allāh aʻlam wa-aʻraf [wa-]akram, fīmā maḍá wa-taqaddam min asālīf al-umam, annahu [kāna] malikayn min mulūk al-ʻAjam, min Banī Sāsān, wa-kānū khawayn [akhawayn] shaqīqayn min umm wa-ab ...", Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... حكي، والله أعلم وأعرف [و]أكرم، فيما مضى وتقدّم من أساليف الأمم، أنّه [كان] ملكين من ملوك العجم، من بني ساسان، وكانوا خوين [أخوين] شقيقين من أم وأب ..."
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Arabic prose literature--Early works to 1800.
An amulet on long scroll of vellum or snake skin, rolled around a central axis into a silver hexagonal tube with a cap; niello etched in an arabesque pattern in gold, with three loops where a chain can go through, so that it can be worn as a necklace. The scroll is written in a long central column surrounded by eight different rectangular compartments in different colors. The central column contains Surat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97), followed by Surāt al-Fātiḥat (Qurʼan: Chapter 1), followed by the Creator's verse of Sūrat al-Ḥajj (Qurʼan: Chapter 22:65), followed by a long invocation asking God for help and guidance, followed by a Shiʻī invocation asking for the intecession of Imām ʻAlī, followed by a magic square. The amulet is meant to have magical powers to protect the owner. Name of copyist (and/or creator) and place and date of copying/and or production not mentioned, probably from the 18th or 19th century.
Description:
39.5 x 6 cm., Incipit: Starts with Sūrat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97): "Innā anzalnāhu fī Laylat al-Qadr ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., The central part of the amulet is written in ruqʻah/naskh script and the compartments in thulth script, in black, blue, red and gold., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Amulets (Islam)--Early works to 1800., Arabic manuscripts., Islamic magic--Early works to 1800., Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Fātiḥah--Early works to 1800., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Ḥajj--Early works to 1800., and Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-qadr--Early works to 1800.
Ibn Sabʻīn, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Ibrāhīm, 1216 or 1217-1270.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 12
Image Count:
275
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 784 (A.D. 1382). and Tract in Sufi theology.
Description:
Brockelmann gives the author's honorary title as Muḥyī al-Dīn (S I, p. 844); the manuscript gives it as Quṭb al-Dīn., Cairo catalog, VII, 682 does not give the incipit for the Kitāb al-daraj. Nor in Ḥājjī Khalīfah., Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black, generously vocalized., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Presumably not the same as the author's Kitāb al-daraj (Brockelmann, I, 466)., The manuscript vocalized "darj" for "daraj" in the beginning of the work, but has "daraj" on leaf 131 recto., and Title page in gold and colors.
Miyāwardī, ʻUthmān Nūrī ibn Muḥammad Amīn, active 1894 مياوردي، عثمان نوري بن محمد أمين، ناشط 1894.
Published / Created:
1894.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 606
Image Count:
28
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A formal scholarly certificate "Ijāzah" given by the Muslim scholar ʻUthmān Nūrī ibn Muḥammad Amīn al-Miyāwardī (could not be identified) to his student ʻUmar Luṭfī ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ḥilmī Afandī al-ʻarīf bi-Munlā Ismāʻīl Zādah al-Arkhawī (could not be identified). In the "Ijāzah" the teacher enumerates the subjects studied and authorizes his student to teach them. He gives the student advice on how to teach, how to treat his students and how to conduct himself to achieve the ultimate goal, God's favor and acceptance. The teacher also mentions in the "Ijāzah" the teachers from whom he received his learning and the unbroken chain of scholars up to the very first master. The "Ijāzah" bears the stamp of ʻUthmān Nūrī. It was given on 4 Jumādá al-Ākhirah, 1312 Hijrī (3 December, 1894). Place of issuing not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Ijāzat ʻUthmān Nūrī ibn Muḥammad Amīn al-Miyāwardī ilá tilmīdhihi ʻUmar Luṭfī ibn Muḥammad Ḥilmī al-Arkhawī, إجازة عثمان نوري بن محمد أمين المياوردي إلى تلميذه عمر لطفي بن محمد حلمي الأرخوي, and إجازة من عثمان نوري بن محمد أمين المياوردي إلى تلميذه عمر لطفي بن محمد حلمي الأرخوي : مخطوطة / أبو محمد الذهني عثمان نوري الحنفي المياوردي.
Description:
14 x 21.5 cm; written surface: 7.5 x 12.5 cm; 15 lines per page., Binding: Contemporary green cardboard binding with leather spine., Colophon: "Katabahu al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-qadīr ʻUthmān Nūrī ibn Muḥammad Amīn al-Miyāwardī ʻafá ʻanhumā [...] al-ʻAlī al-Bārī. Fī al-yawm al-rābiʻ min Jumādá al-Ākhirah, li-sanat ithnay ʻashrah wa-thalāthimiʼah wa-alf min al-Hijrah [hijrat] man la-hu al-ʻizz wa-al-sharaf." [Seal of] ʻUthmān Nūrī., In clear naskh taʻlīq script, in black ink, on white paper; the opening page has a handsome heading in gold, red and blue; all the sentences are separated by gold discs; pages are ruled in gold, red, blue and gold; the opening two pages are surrounded with vignette arabesque design in gilt; folio 10a has some rubrications in gold; the teachers seal appears at the very end of the certificate; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī qad anbata dawḥat al-ʻilm fī ṣudūr al-ʻulamāʼ wa-jaʻala athmārahā iḥkām al-Sharīʻah al-gharrāʼ, wa-lā yaghrubu ʻan ʻilmihi mithqāl dharrah fī al-arḍ wa-lā fī al-samāʼ, yaʻlamu mā bayna aydīhim wa-mā khalfahum, wa-lā yuḥīṭūna bi-shayʼ min ʻilmihi illā bi-mā shāʼ ...", On folio 2a: "Ammā baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá alṭāf rabbihi al-qadīr ... Abū Muḥammad al-Dhihnī ʻUthmān Nūrī al-Ḥanafī al-Miyāwardī mawlidan wa-bidār al-khilāfah al-sanīyah mawṭinan, al-Nāʼib al-Sharʻ bi-Maḥkamat Ghalaṭah ibn Muḥammad Amīn ...", On folio 4a: "... ʻUmar Luṭfī ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ḥilmī Afandī al-ʻarīf bi-Munlā Ismāʻīl Zādah al-Arkhawī.", On front cover: "ʻUmar Luṭfī ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ḥilmī Afandī al-Arkhawī.", Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2005., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: ittabaʻū wa-nahajū manāhijahum., Title supplied by cataloger., Translation of the colophon: "Written by the poor and despised, he who is in need for the mercy of his mighty Lord Nūrī ibn Muḥammad Amīn al-Miyāwardī, may both be forgiven by the Sublime Creator. Issued on the fourth of Jumādá al-Ākhirah, the year 1312 of the Hijrah [3 December, 1894] of Him who has glory and honor [Prophet Muḥammad]. [Seal of] ʻUthmān Nūrī.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي قد أنبت دوحة العلم في صدور العلماء وجعل أثمارها أحكام الشريعة الغراء، ولا يغرب عن علمه مثقال ذرة في الأرض ولا في السماء، يعلم ما بين أيديهم وما خلفهم، ولا يحيطون بشيء من علمه إلّا بما شاء ...", الخاتمة: "كتبه الفقير الحقير المحتاج إلى رحمة ربه القدير عثمان نوري بن محمد أمين المياوردي عفى عنهما [...] العلي الباري. في اليوم الرابع من جمادى الآخرة، لسنة اثني عشرة وثلاثمائة وألف من الهجرة [هجرة] من له العز والشرف." [ختم] عثمان نوري., بداية الورقة الثانية: اتبعوا ونهجوا مناهجهم., على الغلاف الأمامي: "عمر لطفي بن الحاج محمد حلمي أفندي الأرخوي.", على وجه الورقة 2: "أما بعد، فيقول العبد الفقير إلى ألطاف ربه القدير ... أبو محمد الذهني عثمان نوري الحنفي المياوردي مولدًا وبدار الخلافة السنية موطنًا، النائب الشرع بمحكمة غلطة ابن محمد أمين ...", and على وجه الورقة 4: "... عمر لطفي بن الحاج محمد حلمي أفندي العريف بمنلا إسماعيل زاده الأرخوي."
Subject (Name):
Arkhawī, ʻUmar Luṭfī ibn Muḥammad Ḥilmī, active 1894, Miyāwardī, ʻUthmān Nūrī ibn Muḥammad Amīn, active 1894, أرخوي، عمر لطفي بن محمد حلمي،--ناشط 1894, and مياوردي، عثمان نوري بن محمد امين،--ناشط 1894
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Islamic learning and scholarship., Muslim scholars--Biography., and Muslim scholars--Intellectual life.
An illuminated talismanic scroll, begins with the basmalah formula (Bismillahi al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm), followed by Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (Qurʼān, Chapter one), followed by twenty-nine of the ninety-nine of al-Asmāʼ al-Ḥusná (Most Beautiful Names of God), written in a horizontal fashion. Each name is written in gold on black background, in circular shape, each circle is surrounded by tiny script, known as ghubār script in the form of a dome. The tiny script begins with Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (Qurʼān, Chapter one), followed by the Throne verse (Qurʼān, Sūrat al-Baqarah: verse 255), followed by prayers, quotations from the Qurʼān, and other often repeated Islamic phrases. All these verses and invocations are meant to protect the owner of the scroll.
Description:
435 x 19 cm., In different scripts and styles of writing, in black, gold, silver and other colors on thick paper., Incipit: Starts with the Basmalah: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., God (Islam)--Name., Prayer--Islam., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Baqarah., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Fātiḥah., and Talismans.
Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731. نابلسي، عبد الغني بن إسماعيل، 1641-1731.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 199
Image Count:
648
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A treatise on Sufism by ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl al-Nābulusī (1641-1731), a famous Ṣufī, a prolific author and poet from Damascus (Syria) who traveled extensively all over the Middle East and died and buried in Damascus, being an elucidation and a commentary on "Fuṣuṣ al-ḥikam", a famous work on sufism by Ibn al-ʻArabī (Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240), one of the most famous, prolific and controversial sufis and auhtors, with some 400 works to his credit, born in Murcia (Andalusia, Spain), died and buried in Damascus (Syria). The book was read by the copyist Ḥusayn ibn Ṭuʻmah al-Baytimānī (Baytamānī, al-Baytumānī, d. 1175 H/1761 or 1762, cf. Brockelmann, GAL, G II, 351), also a prolific author and sufi from Damascus (Syria) with some other scholars and disciples in the presence of the author himself at his home in al-Ṣāliḥiyah (a neighborhood in the city of Damascus, Syria) on Thursday, 8 Shaʻbān, 1140 (18 March, 1728). The copying was finished on Saturday, the beginning of Jumād al-Awwal, 1140 H (13 December, 1727), probably in Damascus, Syria.
Alternative Title:
جواهر النصوص في حل كلمات الفصوص، [1727] / لعبد الغني بن إسماعيل النابلسي.
Description:
19.5 x 29 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 18.5 cm, 27 lines per page., Bound with flap., Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābatihi wa-taḥshiyatihi nahār al-Sabt baʻda ṣalāt al-ʻaṣr ghurrata Jumād al-awwal sanat arbaʻīn baʻda al-miʼah wa-al-alf ʻalá yad al-faqīr al-muʻtarif bi-al-ʻajz wa-al-taqṣīr al-rājī faḍla rabbihi al-karīm wa-duʻāʼ ikhwānihi al-muʼminīn Ḥusayn ibn al-Shaykh Ṭuʻmah al-Baytimānī al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban al-Qādirī mashraban khādim niʻāl muʼallifihi yawmaidhin ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-liwālidayhi wa-jamaʻahu bi-hi ʻalayhi wa-qarrabahu bi-faḍlihi ladayhi wa-dhalika qabla tamām khatm qirāʼatihi ʻalá muʼallifihi bi-arbaʻat karārīs al-qirāʼah al-muʻtabarah ʻalá al-ḍabṭ wa-al-taḥqīq ...", Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary., In good and clear naskh script; keywords and markings in red; text within red frames; extensive commentaries on the margins; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī bi-dhātihi thabutat al-aʻyān wa-bi-ṣifātihi tafaṣṣalat al-akwān wa-bi-afʻālihi ẓahar al-taghayyur wa-tabayyanat al-ziyādah wa-al-nuqṣān thumma bi-asmāʼihi barazat ḥaqīqat al-insān wa-bi-aḥkāmihi tamayyazat al-shaqāwah min al-saʻādah wa-al-sukhṭ min al-ruḍwān ... Ammā baʻd, fa-yaqūlu asīr al-dhunūb wa-ināʼ al-naqāʼiṣ wa-al-ʻuyūb ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī hādhā sharḥ mukhtaṣar wa-ḍaʻtuhu ʻalá kitāb Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam alladhī ṣannafahu baḥr al-maʻārif al-ilāhīyah wa-tarjumān al-ʻulūm al-rabbānīyah al-Shaykh al-akbar wa-al-quṭb al-afkham al-Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī al-Ṭāʼī al-Andalusī ...", On leaf 1a ownership notes dated 1259 and 1260: "Ṣāḥib hādhā al-kitāb al-Shaykh al-Sayyid Muḥammad Muntaẓar sanat 1259", "Ṣāḥibuhu Muḥammad Muntaẓar sanat 1260.", On the margin of leaf 316a a note (probably by the copyist himself Ḥusayn ibn al-Shaykh Ṭuʻmah al-Baytamānī) stating that he finished reading the book with some other scholars and disciples in the presence of the author himself on Thursday, 8 Shaʻbān, 1140 (18 March, 1728) at the author's home in al-Ṣāliḥiyah (a neighborhood in Damascus, Syria): "Kān khatm hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak min kātibihi ʻalá shāriḥihi fī baytihi al-muʻaẓẓam fī Ṣāliḥīyat Dimashq fī majlis min al-ikhwān wa-al-ʻulamāʼ wa-al-ṣāliḥīnṣabāḥ yawm al-Khamīs al-thāmin min shahr Shaʻbān al-mubārak alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat 1140.", On title page: "Kitāb Jawāhir al-nuṣūṣ fī ḥall kalimāt al-Fuṣūṣ taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-jalīl wa-al-baḥr al-kabīr al-quṭb al-rabbānī wa-al-haykal al-ṣamadānī shaykh al-waqt al-wārith al-Muḥammadī wa-al-ʻārif al-Aḥmadī al-zakī al-aṣl wa-al-farʻ al-Qādirī ṭarīqatan al-Naqshabandī mashraban al-Ḥanafī madhhaban ṣāḥib al-sirr al-qudsī Sayyidinā al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-Nābulusī qaddasa Allāh sirrahu wa-sammāhu kātibuhu al-Ḥaqq al-mubīn wa-al-ḥabl al-matīn fī kashf asrār uṣūl al-dīn sharḥ Sayyidinā al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī ʻAlá Fuṣūṣ al-Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn.", Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي بذاته ثبتت الأعيان وبصفاته تفصّلت الأكوان وبأفعاله ظهر التغير وتبينت الزيادة والنقصان ثم بأسمائه برزت حقيقة الإنسان وبأحكامه تميزت الشقاوة من السعادة والسخط من الرضوان ... أما بعد، فيقول أسير الذنوب وإناء النقائص والعيوب عبد الغني النابلسي هذا شرح مختصر وضعته على كتاب فصوص الحكم الذي صنفه بحر المعارف الإلهية وترجمان العلوم الربانية الشيخ الأكبر والقطب الأفخم الشيخ محيي الدين بن العربي الطائي الأندلسي ...", الخاتمة: "وكان الفراغ من كتابته وتحشيته نهار السبت بعد صلاة العصر غرة جماد الأول سنة أربعين بعد المائة والألف على يد الفقير المعترف بالعجز والتقصير الراجي فضل ربه الكريم ودعاء إخوانه المؤمنين حسين بن الشيخ طعمة البيتماني الشافعي مذهبًا القادري مشربًا خادم نعال مؤلفه يومئذٍ غفر الله له ولوالديه وجمعه به عليه وقرّبه بفضله لديه وذلك قبل تمام ختم قراءته على مؤلفه بأربعة كراريس القراءة المعتبرة على الضبط والتحقيق ...", على الورقة 1أ تملك بتاريخ 1259 و 1260: "صاحب هذا الكتاب الشيخ السيد محمد منتظر سنة 1259"، "صاحبه محمد منتظر سنة 1260.", على صفحة العنوان: "كتاب جواهر النصوص في حل كلمات الفصوص تأليف الشيخ الجليل والبحر الكبير القطب الرباني والهيكل الصمداني شيخ الوقت الوارث المحمدي والعارف الأحمدي الزكي الأصل والفرع القادري طريقةً النقشبندي مشربًا الحنفي مذهبًا صاحب السرّ القدسي سيدنا الشيخ عبد الغني بن الشيخ إسماعيل النابلسي قدس الله سره وسمّاه كاتبه الحق المبين والحبل المتين في كشف أسرار اصول الدين شرح سيدنا الشيخ عبد الغني على فصوص الشيخ محيي الدين.", and على هامش الورقة 316أ الملاحظة التالية (ربما للناسخ نفسه حسين بن الشيخ طعمة البيتماني): "كان ختم هذا الكتاب المبارك من كاتبه على شارحه في بيته المعظّم في صالحية دمشق في مجلس من الإخوان والعلماء والصالحين صباح يوم الخميس الثامن من شهر شعبان المبارك الذي هو من شهور سنة 1140."
Subject (Name):
Ibn al-ʻArabī,--1165-1240.--Fuṣuṣ al-ḥikam., Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl,--1641-1731., ابن العربي،--1165-1240.--فصص الحكم., and نابلسي، عبد الغني بن إسماعيل،--1641-1731.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Sufism--Early works to 1800.
Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and With marginal notes by ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Nāfiʻ and Naṣr al-Hūrīnī (cf. leaves 8 verso, 130 recto, 192 recto).
Subject (Name):
ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Nāfiʻ--Ms. notes. and Hūrīnī, Naṣr,--d. 1874 or 5--Ms. notes.