Collection of three treatises, as follows: 1. Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb (folios 1a-34b), also called Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, a polemic against Christians and the doctrines of Christianity, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mayurūqī, the Arabic name used by the Franciscan monk Anselmo de Turmeda (Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?), after his conversion to Islam. The text proper in this manuscript is preceded by an introduction by Abū al-Ghayth Muḥammad al-Qashshāshī (or al-Qushāshī, could not be identified), in which he titles the work "Taḥīyat al-asrār taʼlīf al-akhyār al-anṣār fī al-radd ʻalá al-Naṣārá min firaq al-kuffār". Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century. 2. Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn (folios 35a-35b), popular tales and anecdotes by an anonymous author/compiler. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century. 3. Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs (folios 36a-38b), a polemic against "Iblīs", an Arabic word for the Devil, by an anonymous author, copied on Saturday, 9 Jumād Awwal, 1303 of the Hijrah (13 February, 1886) by Makkāwī al-Sayyid. Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title of Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb from folio 3a., Title of Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn from folio 35a., Title of Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs from folio 36a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit of Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb (folio 1b): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbih wa-sallam. Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Rabbihi, subḥānuhu wa-taʻālá, Abū al-Ghayth Muḥammad al-Qashshāshī [or al-Qushāshī]: Lammā naẓartu hādhā al-taʼlīf al-ʻajīb wa-ʻalimtu mā fīhi min al-uslūb al-gharīb, wa-kāna min al-muqarrar fī al-maʻqūl wa-al-manqūl anna al-inṣāf awlá wa-aḥaqq mā taʻāṭathu ayādī al-fuḥūl, bādartu ilá imtithāl mā kāna ḥaqqan ʻalayya, wa-shahidtu bi-ḥusnihi ʻalá an yakūna min ṣāliḥ ʻamal bayna yadayya, fa-qultu: Mā aḥaqqa hādhā al-taʼlīf al-mubārak an tusammá [yusammá] 'Taḥīyat al-asrār taʼlīf al-anṣār fī al-radd ʻalá al-Naṣārá min firaq al-kuffār' ...", Secundo folio of Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb: al-khayrāt mūriqah bi-saḥāʼib raʼfatih., Incipit of Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn (folio 35a): "Ḥaká Ibn ʻAsākir anna Yaʻqūb al-Mājashūn, jadd ʻAbd al-Malik, ṣāḥib Mālik, mātā [māta] wa-wajiʻa fī al-sarīr, wa-ijtamaʻa al-nās lil-ṣalāh ʻalayhi, fa-wajada al-ghāsil ʻirqan taḥta rijlihi yataḥarraku, fa-qāla: Ará an yuʼakhkhara ghasluhu ilá ghad. Fa-lammā aṣbaḥū wa-ijtamaʻa al-nās ʻalayhi wa-jadahu al-ghāsil kadhālika ...", Incipit of Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs (folio 36a): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ḥamdan lillāh subḥānuhu wa-taʻālá, wa-ṣalātan wa-salāman ʻalá man lā nabīya baʻdah. Ammā baʻd, faqad dhakara al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī fī kitābihi 'al-Kanz al-madfūn wa-al-fulk al-mashḥūn', qāl: Li-ʻilm hādhihi al-shubhah allatī dhakarahā Iblīs, laʻanahu Allāh, min qawlihi 'Anā khayr minhu, khalaqtanī min nār wa-khalaqtahu min ṭīn', innamā dhakarahā ʻalá sabīl al-taʻannut, wa-illā fa-imtināʻuhu min al-sujūd li-Ādam, ʻalayhi al-salām, innamā kāna ʻan kibar wa-kufr, wa-mujarrad ibāʼ wa-ḥasad, wa-maʻa dhālik, fa-mā abdāhu min al-shubhah fa-huwa dāḥiḍ, li-annahu rattaba ʻalá dhālik annahu khayr min Ādam ...", Secundo folio of Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs: min awṣāf al-arḍ fī al-Qurʼān., 16.5 x 22 cm; written surface: 10 x 16.5 cm; 22-24 lines per page., Binding: In marbled cardboard with brown leather spine., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in purple; some corrections on the margins in pencil; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Taḥīyat al-asrār taʼlīf al-akhyār al-anṣār fī al-radd ʻalá al-Naṣārá min firaq al-kuffār, wa-ayḍan tusammá Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, taʼlīf al-Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mayurūqī, min madīnat Mayurūqah, athābahu Allāh al-Jannah. Āmīn", At the head of folio 35a: "Hādhihi Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn.", At the head of folio 36a: "Hādhihi Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs.", Colophon of Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb: "Ghafara Allāh wa-ʻafá ʻan kātibihi wa-muʼallifihi wa-qārīhi ilá abad al-ābidīn. Āmīn.", Translation of the colophon of: Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb: "May God forgive its copyist, its author and its reader, forever and ever. Amen.", Colophon of Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn: No colophon., Colophon of Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs: "Intahá mā yassara Allāh taʻālá jamʻahu fī hādhihi al-māddah fī ḍuḥá yawm al-Sabt, al-muwāfiq 9 khalat min shahr Jumād Awwal, sanat 1303, alf wa-thalāthumiʼah wa-thalāthah baʻd al-Hijrah [al-Nabawīyah] ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām, ʻalá [yad] kātibihi, al-faqīr ilá Mawlāh, Makkāwī al-Sayyid, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn wa-al-Muslimāt, al-aḥyāʼ minhum wa-al-amwāt, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Translation of the colophon of Kamālāt al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs: "Completed is what God Most High facilitated of the compilation of this material on the morning of Saturday, 9 Jumādd Awwal, 1303 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [13 February, 1886], may the best of prayer and peace be upon him, by the hand of its copyist, the poor to his Lord, Makkāwī al-Sayyid, may God forgive him, his parents, and all Muslim men and women, the living among them and the dead. May God pray on our Master and Lord, Muḥammad, on his family and companions and grant them peace. Amen. Praise be to God, Lord of the Universe."
Subject (Name):
Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Devil, Islam, and Folk literature, Arabic
Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, a polemic against Christians and the doctrines of Christianity, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mayurūqī, the Arabic name used by the Franciscan monk Anselmo de Turmeda (Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?), after his conversion to Islam. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb and كتاب تحفة الأريب في الرد على أهل الصليب
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 2a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi thiqatī, wa-ʻalayhi iʻtimādī. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī khaṣṣanā bi-khayr al-adyān, wa-jaʻalanā min ummat al-Furqān, wa-akramanā bi-tilāwat al-Qurʼān, wa-ṣawm shahr Ramaḍān, wa-al-ṭawāf ḥawla al-Bayt al-Ḥarām, wa-al-rukūʻ ʻinda al-Rukn wa-al-Maqām, wa-sharrafanā bi-Laylat al-Qadr, wa-al-wuqūf bi-ʻArafāt, wa-jaʻalanā min ahl al-ṭahārah wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-zakāh ... Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tarjumān, jaʻala Allāh maḍjiʻahu wa-maʼwāhu fasīḥ al-jinān ...", Secundo folio: ʻalá ʻĪsá ʻalayhi al-salām., 16.5 x 25 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 18 cm; 25 lines per page., Binding: In marbled cardboard with flap; brown leather on spine and flap., In clear naskh/ruqʻah script, in black ink, on white paper; some headings in red; markings in purple; some notes and corrections on the margins in pencil; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb ʻalá al-tamām.", On folio 2a: "... sammaytuhu Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb ...", Colophon: "Wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-niʻma al-wakīl, wa-lā ḥawla wa-lā qūwata illā billāh al-ʻAlī al-ʻAẓīm, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran ilá Yawm al-Dīn, wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Translation of the colophon: "God suffices us, He is the best advocate. There is no power nor might except in God, the Most High, the All Powerful. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, his family and his companions and grant them abundant peace until Judgment Day. Praise be to God Lord of the Universe."
Manuscript, on paper, containing Tuḥfat al-labīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, or a text containing Polemics against Christianity, preceded by the author's autobiography
Alternative Title:
Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb 880-01, Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, تحفة الأريب في الردّ على أهل الصليب 240-01/r, and تحفة الأريب في الردّ على أهل الصليب
Description:
Copied in A.H. 1244 (A.D. 1828)., In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Yaqūlu al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh, al-rājī karīm al-ṣafḥ ʻan dhanbihi al-ʻaẓīm, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tarjumān, laṭafa Allāh bi-hi wa-bi-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn, Āmīn, bi-mannihi wa-faḍlihi wa-karamihi, Āmīn: Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn ʻalá al-qawm al-kāfirīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī khaṣṣanā bi-khayr al-adyān, wa-jaʻalanā min ummat Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-ʻAdnān, wa-akramanā bi-tilāwat al-Qurʼān, wa-ṣawm shahr Ramaḍān ...", The author was a Christian convert from Majorce., Script: Fair naskhī, in red and black., Binding: In paper covered cardboard, Type II (with flap); light brown leather on the spine of the cover and the flap., Decoration: Rubricated., Foliation in modern pencil., and Colophon: "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min taswīd hādhā al-kitāb waqt adhān al-ẓuhr, yawm al-Sabt, laylat al-Aḥad, 8, li-thamān layālin maḍat min shahr Allāh al-ḥarām, iftitāḥ ʻām 1244 [21 July 1828], ʻalá yad al-ʻabd al-faqīr ʻAlī al-Saqqā, khādim al-fuqarāʼ, laṭafa Allāh bi-hi." To the right of the colophon: An ownership statement: "Mimmā manna Allāh taʻālá al-ʻAlī ʻalá ʻabdihi al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr ʻAlī." To the left of the colophon: "In raʼayta ʻayban fa-sudda al-khalalā // tabqá ʻinda al-nāsi fī ʻayn al-malā. Wa-lā tuʻāyir man fīhi ʻaybun // jalla man lā fīhi ʻaybun wa-ʻalā."
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?
Published / Created:
between 1700 and 1799.
Call Number:
Persian MSS suppl. 101
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, of two texts in Arabic and Persian attributed to ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jurjānī.
Description:
In Arabic and Persian., Layout: 1 column of around 9 lines., Decoration: Rubrication., Binding: Modern blind-tooled blue leather over paper pasteboards with central mandorla., and Modern pencil foliation.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian and Persian language and literature
Zīj (astronomical tables) of Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 (a Persian astronomer), in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, presented to the Sultan ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Khān ibn Aḥmad Khān (Abdülhamid I Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789), in 1193 Hijrī (1779 or 1780). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish., Title from folio 1a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī khalaqa al-arḍ wa-al-samāwāt wa-zayyanahā bi-al-kawākib al-thawābit wa-al-sayyārāt wa-qaddara manāzil li-yuʻlama bi-hā ʻadad al-sinīn wa-ḥisāb al-awqāt, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Rasūlihi Muḥammad ṣāḥib al-muʻjizāt wa-muẓhir al-ḥikam wa-al-āyāt wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-muqīmīn bi-aḥsan al-taqwīm wa-al-aḥkām al-bayyināt ...", Secundo folio: Ulugh Bik ribāṭ., 17 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 16.5 cm; lines per page vary., Binding: Unbound., In small naskh script, in black ink on white paper, headings and markings in red; some notes on the margins; some wormholes., and Colophon: Colophon missing.
Subject (Name):
Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789. and Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449.
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225 بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225
Published / Created:
1715.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 557
Image Count:
142
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah" (Divine secrets), a treatise on magic and the occult, employing the letters of the Arabic alphabet and magic squares and circles, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (died 1225), a well-known Ṣūfī, of North-African origin, who authored works on Sufism and "ʻilm al-ḥurūf" (science of letters) and died in Cairo; his "nisbah" (affiliation) is to Būnah (Bône, Algeria). Copied in the year 1127 of the Hijrah (1715). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a and the colophon., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī adāra bi-yad al-asrār laṭāʼif aflāk al-malakūtīyāt, wa-abraza min khidhr [khidr] al-ghayb shumūs al-maʻārif li-dhawī al-ḥaqāʼiq al-ilāhīyāt, wa-aṭlaʻa min baḥr al-nūr al-aʻlá nafāʼis jawāhir al-ʻuqūl al-nūrānīyāt, wa-aḥkama iḥkām aḥkām tadawwiru dawāʼir al-akwān bi-al-ḥurūf al-iḥāṭīyāt, al-badīʻ alladhī abdaʻa ibdāʻ ṣuwarihā fī alwāḥ arwāḥ al-ʻawālim al-ʻulwīyāt wa-al-suflīyāt, al-muṣawwir alladhī ṣawwara kunh maʻānīhā fī ʻarsh al-nafs al-wāḥidah, fa-ẓaharat fī dhawāt al-anfus al-mutaʻaddidāt ...", Secundo folio: al-tajallīyāt, fa-ḥamdan ʻalá hādhihi al-niʻmah., 15.2 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 10 x 16 cm; 19 lines per page., Binding: In cardboard cover with dark brown leather on spine., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; some headings and markings in red; many magic squres and circles; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folios 1a (in pencil): "al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah lil-Būnī.", On folio 1a: A statement by a reader/owner: "Naẓara fīhi wa-taʼammala maʻāniyahu, dāʻiyan li-ḥāwīhi an yaftaḥa Allāh ʻalayhi futūḥ al-ʻārifīn bi-jāh al-Nabī al-amīn, ṣallá Allāh taʻālá ʻalayhi wa-sallam. Āmīn.", Colophon: "Tammat hādhihi al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah. Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb. Sanat 1127.", and Translation of the colophon: "These Divine secrets are completed. God is more knowledgeable of what is correct. The year 1127 [of the Hijrah = 1715]."
Subject (Name):
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic alphabet, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, and Magic squares
Qamūlī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255 or 1256-1327, author قمولي، أحمد بن محمد، 1255 or 1256-1327, author
Published / Created:
before 1327.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 283
Container / Volume:
1
Image Count:
215
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, containing Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qamūlī's al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ, commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only. The beginning of both volumes is missing
Description:
In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit of volume 9: The beginning is missing. Text starts with: "... li-anna al-awwal lam yastaqirr bi-iftirāq wa-lā taḥāyur, wa-farraqa bayna al-taḥāyur wa-al-bayʻ bi-annahumā idhā ikhtāra al-imḍāʼ fa-qad raḍiya kullun minhumā bi-iqrār milk ṣāḥibihi ʻalá mā intaqala ilayhi, wa-idhā tabāyaʻā thāniyan fa-kullun minhumā lam yarḍa bi-istiqrār milk ṣāḥibihi ʻalá mā intaqala ilayhi fa-lam yastaqirr al-milk fa-ṣāra milkahumā mukhtalifan ...", Incipit of volume 16: The beginning is missing. Text starts with: "... al-maḥkūm bi-mawtihi min akhīhi al-mayyit qablahu ilá warathatihi al-mafqūd al-maḥkūm bi-mawtihi min zawjatihi wa-awlādihi in kānat la-hu zawjah wa-awlād, fa-hādhā tawjīh al-kalām, wa-al-qawl bi-annahu idhā qaḍá al-qāḍī bi-mawtihi yuqaddaru ka-annahu lam yakun mawjūdan, ḥāluhu mawt al-qarīb al-ḥāḍir, wa-yuṣraf al-naṣīb al-mawqūf li-ajl al-ghāʼibīn ilá warathat al-qarīb al-mayyit al-ḥāḍir ...", For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Other volumes wanting., Considerably worm-eaten., Script: Fair naskhī in black and red., Binding: In dark brown leather, Type II (with flap); cover embossed with central medallion; flaps missing; covers heavily deteriorated., Decoration: Rubricated., Colophon of volume 9: "Tamma al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnihi wa-ḥusn tawfīqih, wa-dhālik taʼlīf al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Qamūlī, ʻafā Allāh ʻanhu wa-ghafara la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-dhālik Sharḥ al-Wasīṭ min al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ. Yatlūhu fī al-Juzʼ al-ʻāshir al-qism al-thānī Bayʻuhu mimman huwa ʻalayhi, wa-yusammá istibdālan. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran.", and Colophon of volume 16: "Najaza al-Juzʼ al-mubārak al-sādis ʻashar [bi-ḥamd] Allāh wa-ʻawnihi wa-ḥusn tawfīqih, taṣnīf al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥarbī (?) al-Qamūlī, ʻafā Allāh ʻanhu wa-arḍāh, wa-jaʻala al-Jannata maʼwāh, wa-ghafara la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn. Tamma al-juzʼ min al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ. Yatlūhu fī al-juzʼ al-sābiʻ ʻashar furūʻ min Kitāb al-Waṣāyā. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi, wa-sallam."
Qamūlī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255 or 1256-1327, author قمولي، أحمد بن محمد، 1255 or 1256-1327, author
Published / Created:
before 1327.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 283
Container / Volume:
2
Image Count:
125
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, containing Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qamūlī's al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ, commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only. The beginning of both volumes is missing
Description:
In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit of volume 9: The beginning is missing. Text starts with: "... li-anna al-awwal lam yastaqirr bi-iftirāq wa-lā taḥāyur, wa-farraqa bayna al-taḥāyur wa-al-bayʻ bi-annahumā idhā ikhtāra al-imḍāʼ fa-qad raḍiya kullun minhumā bi-iqrār milk ṣāḥibihi ʻalá mā intaqala ilayhi, wa-idhā tabāyaʻā thāniyan fa-kullun minhumā lam yarḍa bi-istiqrār milk ṣāḥibihi ʻalá mā intaqala ilayhi fa-lam yastaqirr al-milk fa-ṣāra milkahumā mukhtalifan ...", Incipit of volume 16: The beginning is missing. Text starts with: "... al-maḥkūm bi-mawtihi min akhīhi al-mayyit qablahu ilá warathatihi al-mafqūd al-maḥkūm bi-mawtihi min zawjatihi wa-awlādihi in kānat la-hu zawjah wa-awlād, fa-hādhā tawjīh al-kalām, wa-al-qawl bi-annahu idhā qaḍá al-qāḍī bi-mawtihi yuqaddaru ka-annahu lam yakun mawjūdan, ḥāluhu mawt al-qarīb al-ḥāḍir, wa-yuṣraf al-naṣīb al-mawqūf li-ajl al-ghāʼibīn ilá warathat al-qarīb al-mayyit al-ḥāḍir ...", For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Other volumes wanting., Considerably worm-eaten., Script: Fair naskhī in black and red., Binding: In dark brown leather, Type II (with flap); cover embossed with central medallion; flaps missing; covers heavily deteriorated., Decoration: Rubricated., Colophon of volume 9: "Tamma al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnihi wa-ḥusn tawfīqih, wa-dhālik taʼlīf al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Qamūlī, ʻafā Allāh ʻanhu wa-ghafara la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-dhālik Sharḥ al-Wasīṭ min al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ. Yatlūhu fī al-Juzʼ al-ʻāshir al-qism al-thānī Bayʻuhu mimman huwa ʻalayhi, wa-yusammá istibdālan. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran.", and Colophon of volume 16: "Najaza al-Juzʼ al-mubārak al-sādis ʻashar [bi-ḥamd] Allāh wa-ʻawnihi wa-ḥusn tawfīqih, taṣnīf al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥarbī (?) al-Qamūlī, ʻafā Allāh ʻanhu wa-arḍāh, wa-jaʻala al-Jannata maʼwāh, wa-ghafara la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn. Tamma al-juzʼ min al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ. Yatlūhu fī al-juzʼ al-sābiʻ ʻashar furūʻ min Kitāb al-Waṣāyā. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi, wa-sallam."
Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311, author ابن الرفعة، أحمد بن محمد، 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311, author
Published / Created:
before before [1327?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 313
Image Count:
412
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, containing Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Rifʻah's al-Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ, commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of al-Ghazzālī
Description:
In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Muḥammad wa-ālih. Qāla Kitāb Ṣalāt al-ʻĪdayn. Wa-hiya sunnah muwattarah (?) ʻalá man yalzamuhu ḥuḍūr al-Jumʻah, wa-al-aṣl fīhi al-ijmāʻ wa-al-fiʻl al-mutawātir min Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam, wa-qawluhu taʻālá Fa-ṣalli li-Rabbika wa-inḥar, qīla arāda bi-hi ṣalāt ʻīd al-naḥr, wa-dhahaba al-Iṣṭakhrī ilá annahā min furūḍ al-kifāyāt, wa-ṭarada dhālika fī jamīʻ al-shaʻāʼir ...", The title al-Maṭlab lil-Qamūlī is given in the waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto (dated A.H. 797 [A.D. 1395]); Aḥmad al-Qamūlī presumably having completed Ibn al-Rifʻah's unfinished work., For the author see Brockelmann, C. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, II, 133., For the handwriting cf. Landberg MSS 283., C. Landberg compared this manuscript with Landberg MSS 283 (al-Qamūlī's al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ, on the same subject) and found the text to be different., Script: Fair naskhī., Binding: In dark brown leather, Type III (without flap); cover embossed with central medallion; cover deteriorated, only the front cover having been preserved., and Colophon: "Ākhir al-juzw al-ʻāshir, yatlūhu fī awwal al-juzʼ baʻdahu, qāla, raḥimahu Allāh Kitāb al-Zakāh. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh awwalan wa-ākhiran, wa-ẓāhiran wa-bāṭinan, wa-ṣalawātuhu wa-salāmuhu al-akmalān al-atammān ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, khayr khalqihi, wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-niʻma al-wakīl."
"al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah", a textbook of miscellaneous vocabularies and glossaries in Arabic with their corresponding equivalents in Ottoman Turkish, written for the benefit of a certain "Aḥmad", the son of a high ranking, unnamed dignitary, by Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (Molla Sâlih, Mullā Ṣāliḥ, Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ), referred to as Shaykh al-Arwām, who was teaching at the Eşrefiyye medrese (al-Madrasah al-Ashrafīyah) in Cairo, and was alive in the year 1029 of the Hijrah (1619/1620). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 17th century
Description:
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish., Name of the author: "Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ" from folio 2a., Title from (folio 3a): "... wa-tarjamtuhā bi-al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa al-insān wa-zayyanahu bi-al-nuṭq wa-al-lisān, wa-karramahu ʻalá sāʼir al-makhlūqāt, wa-faḍḍala man shāʼa min ʻibādihi bi-al-faṣāḥah wa-al-ihtidāʼ ilá tamyyuz al-lughāt. Wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahu lā sharīka la-hu, shahādatan tuḥaqqiqu li-qāʼilihā al-tamassuk bi-al-awāmir, wa-al-ijtināb ʻan al-manhīyāt. Wa-ashhadu anna Sayyidanā wa-Nabīyanā Muḥammad al-mabʻūth ilá sāʼir al-umam, Sayyid al-ʻUrb wa-al-ʻAjam, afṣaḥ man naṭaqa bi-al-Ḍād ...", Secundo folio: bi-ḥurūf al-suyūf min kalimāt al-bāṭil., 14 x 21 cm; written surface: 10 x 16 cm; 15 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather; cover tooled with broad golden frame., The translation of this work into modern Turkish "Eş-şüzûr-üz-zehebiyye vel-kıtaiʼl-Ahmediyye fil-lûgat-it-Türkiyye", was published in Istanbul, in 1949., The name of the author and the title of the work is mentioned in Brockelmann (S II:632:13)., On folios 48b and 50a: Texts in Ottoman Turkish in a different hand., Folio 49 is blank., In beautiful and large naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; the Ottoman Turkish terms are written beneath the Arabic terms in red; catchword., Colophon (folio 48a): "Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah. Tammat wa-bi-al-khayr kamulat.", and Translation of the colophon: "Praise be to God alone. It is completed and well concluded."
