Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 2
Image Count:
693
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
According to C. Landberg, this copy probably belonged to Ibn Taymīyah himself, or else was corrected by him., Ex-libris of Muḥammad ibn Khalīl(?) ibn Quṭuz al-Ẓāhirī on leaf 1 recto dated A.H. 759 (A.D. 1358)., and Polemic against the Shīʻah and the Qadarīyah, in refutation of the Minhāj al-karāmah of Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
1525
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
86
Abstract:
Commentary on Hayākil al-nūr (Sufi tract) of Yaḥyá al-Suhrawardī., Copied in Constantinople in A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525)., and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes, including table of contents.
Alternative Title:
Shawākil al-ḥūr fī sharḥ Hayākil al-nūr.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 10 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and Sporadic marginalia.
Subject (Name):
Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 3-1191. Hayākil al-nūr. and Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash,--1152 or 3-1191.--Hayākil al-nūr.
Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1325-1374 or 1375
Published / Created:
1885
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 69
Image Count:
52
Abstract:
Appeal to contemporary poets for information about their life and works, for use in the anthology compiled by the author, entitled Mujtabá al-udabāʾ (including specimens from the anthology). and Copied in A.H. 1302 (A.D. 1885).
Description:
Considerable marginalia. and Fair naskhī, in red and black.
Subject (Name):
Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá,--1325-1374 or 1375.--Mujtabá al-udabāʾ
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Poetry--Anthologies
Sayfī Āqbāy, Muḥammad ibn Jānī Bak, 15th cent.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 31
Image Count:
366
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Anthology, in prose and verse, on the subject of virtues and vices, being an abridgment of the Ghurar al-khaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiḥah wa-ʻurar al-naqāʾiṣ al-fāḍiḥah of Muḥammad al-Waṭwāṭ., Copied in A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1692)., Followed (leaves 174-76) by a fāʾidah on the subject of coffee by one al-Ujhūrī., and Followed by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black.
Subject (Name):
Ujhūrī. Sharḥ al-ṣaghīr. and Waṭwāṭ, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá, 1235-1318. Ghurar al-khaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiḥah wa-ʻurar al-naqāʾiṣ al-fāḍiḥah.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Belles lettres. and Miscellanea--Coffee.
A literary work, in prose and verse; followed (33-38) by some minor pieces, supposedly by the same author. and Copied in A.H. 603 (A.D. 1206).
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black. and On leaf 1 recto is written: "E. Scheidius. 1767." From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 163). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870.
Subject (Name):
Scheidius, Everard,--1742-1794--Ownership. and Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Ownership.
Manuscript of the famous Maqāmāt (Orations, literally sittings, sessions, meetings); a genre of highly developed Arabic rhythmic prose intended to amuse and entertain but also with critical social, moral and political undercurrents, by Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī (1054-1122), from al-Baṣrah (Iraq), one of the most celibrated and prolific authors of the 11th/12th centuries. The Maqāmāt have been translated into many European and Oriental languages. They are also known by the titles: al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah and Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Surūjī (a fictitious charachter). They are fifty in number. The manuscript was a gift from Abū Bakr, a Chinese Muslim teacher of Arabic in Beijing, to Samuel Zwemer (probably the missionary Samuel M. Zwemer, 1867-1952) on 4 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 1335 (22 August 1917). According to Abū Bakr's letter written in Arabic and pasted on the back of the front cover, the manuscript was copied more than two hudred years ago probably in China.
Alternative Title:
al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah., Maqāmāt, Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Surūjī., المقامات الحريرية., مقامات, مقامات أبي زيد السروجي., and مقامات الحريري، [17--?] / للقاسم بن علي الحريري.
Description:
22.5 x 30.5 cm; written surface: 14 x 22.5 cm, 13 lines per page., Bound., Folios 163a-167b are blank., In elegant naskh script, on yellowish paper with interlinear and marginal notes and explanations., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Allāhumma innā naḥmaduka ʻalá mā ʻallamta min al-bayān wa-alhamta min al-tibyān kamā naḥmaduka ʻalá mā asbaghta min al-ʻaṭāʼ wa-asbalta min al-ghiṭāʼ wa-naʻūdhu bi-ka min sharah al-lasan wa-fuḍūl al-hadhar kamā naʻūdhu bi-ka min maʻarrat al-lakn wa-fuḍūḥ al-ḥaṣr wa-nastakfī bi-ka al-iftitān bi-iṭrāʼ al-mādiḥ wa-ighḍāʼ al-musāmiḥ kamā nastakfī bi-ka al-intiṣāb li-izrāʼ al-qādiḥ wa-hatk al-fāḍiḥ ...", Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., The Maqāmāt ends with: "Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥarīrī raḥimahu Allāh: 'Hādhā ākhir al-Maqāmāt allatī anshaʼtuhā bi-al-ightirār wa-amlaytuhā bi-lisān al-iḍṭirār wa-qad uljītu ilá an arṣadtuhā lil-istiʻrāḍ wa-nādaytu ʻalayhā fī sūq al-iʻtirāḍ hādhā maʻa maʻrifatī bi-annahā min saqaṭ al-matāʻ wa-mimmā yastawjibu an yubāʻ wa-lā yubtāʻ wa-law ghashiyanī nūr al-tawfīq wa-naẓartu li-nafsī naẓara al-shafīq lil-shaqīq la-satartu ʻuwwārī alladhī lam yazal mastūran wa-lakin kāna dhālika fī al-kitāb masṭūran wa-anā astaghfiru Allāh mimmā awdaʻtuhā min abāṭīl al-laghw wa-aḍālīl al-lahw wa-astarshidu ilá mā yaʻṣimu min al-sahw wa-yaḥẓá bi-al-ʻafw innahu huwa ahl al-taqwá wa-ahl al-maghfirah wa-walī al-khayrāt fī al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá khayr khalqihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi.", There are some Chinese inscriptions on the top margin of folios 1 and 2, probably by Abū Bakr himself., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اللهم إنّا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان وألهمت من التبيان كما نحمدك على ما أسبغت من العطاء وأسبلت من الغطاء ونعوذ بك من شره اللسن وفضول الهذر كما نعوذ بك من معرّة اللكن وفضوح الحصر ونستكفي بك الافتتان بإطراء المادح وإغضاء المسامح كما نستكفي بك الانتصاب لإزراء القادح وهتك الفاضح ...", and تنتهي المقامات بـ : "قال الشيخ الإمام أبو محمد القاسم بن علي الحريري رحمه الله: 'هذا آخر المقامات التي أنشأتها بالاغترار وأمليتها بلسان الاضطرار وقد ألجيت إلى أن أرصدتها للاستعراض وناديت عليها في سوق الاعتراض هذا مع معرفتي بأنها من سقط المتاع ومما يستوجب أن يباع ولا يبتاع ولو غشيني نور التوفيق ونظرت لنفسي نظر الشفيق للشقيق لسترت عواري الذي لم يزل مستورًا ولكن كان ذلك في الكتاب مسطورًا وأنا استغفر الله مما أودعتها من أباطيل اللغو وأضاليل اللهو وأسترشد إلى ما يعصم من السهو ويحظى بالعفو إنه هو أهل التقوى وأهل المغفرة وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والآخرة. وصلى الله على خير خلقه محمد وآله."
Subject (Name):
Ḥarīrī,--1054-1122 and حريري،--1054-1122
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts, Arabic prose literature--Early works to 1800, and Maqamah--Early works to 1800
Followed by 1 leaf of notes. and Tract in proof of the proposition that the advent of the Prophet is foretold in the Old Testament.
Description:
Copied in the 15th(?) century., Fair naskhī, in red and black., The author was a Jewish convert to Islam., The date A.H. 720 at end is the date of composition., and With: 5 other titles.