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:
In Arabic., Incipit: Starts with Sūrat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97): "Innā anzalnāhu fī Laylat al-Qadr ...", Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., 39.5 x 6 cm., and The central part of the amulet is written in ruqʻah/naskh script and the compartments in thulth script, in black, blue, red and gold.
Karmī, Marʻī ibn Yūsuf, -1623 or 1624 كرمي، مرعي بن يوسف، -1623 أو 1624
Published / Created:
1644.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 82
Image Count:
198
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A treatise on Islamic law by Marʻī ibn Yūsuf al-Karmī (d. 1623 or 1624) a prolific Ḥanbalī Islamic law scholar and historian, born in Ṭūrkarm (Palestine) then moved to Jerusalem and Cairo where he died. The author finished writing his book on Saturday, 17 (probably 27) Rajab, 1019 H (5 [probably 15] October , 1610) at al-Jāmiʻ al-Azʹhar. Copied on Tuesday, 14 Jumādá al-Ūlá, 1054 H (19 July, 1644) at Masjid ʻAbd al-Mājid at ʻAnabtā, a village in Jabal Nāblus by Yāsīn ibn ʻAlī al-Labadī al-Ḥanbalī al-Azʹharī for al-Shaykh ʻĪsá ibn ʻUṣfūr of the village of Barqā. The manuscript is preceded by four leaves of various anecdotes in a different hand
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib fī al-fiqh and كتاب دليل الطالب لنيل المطالب في الفقه
Description:
In Arabic., Title from title page., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi athiq wa-bi-hi astaʻīn. al-Ḥamd lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn wa-ashhad an lā ilāh illā Allāh waḥdah lā sharīka la-hu mālik yawm al-dīn ...", Secundo folio: kāfir aw taghayyar bi-milḥ, 15 x 20 cm; written surface: 10 x 15 cm; 23 lines per page., Binding: Dark brown leather binding with flap., In good and clear naskh script, in black ink on aging white paper with headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., On title page (folio 5a): "Kitāb Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Imām al-awḥad wa-al-ḥabr al-amjad madhhab al-Imām Aḥmad taʼlīf Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā al-Shaykh al-Imām wa-al-ḥabr al-humām al-mughtarif min fayḍ rabbihi al-ʻalī Sayyidinā al-Shaykh Marʻī al-Ḥanbalī ṭayyaba Allāh tharāh wa-jaʻala Jannat al-Firdaws munqalabahu wa-mathwāh innahu jawād karīm raʼūf raḥīm.", Author's colophon (folio 88b-89a): "Qāla muʼallifuhu sāmaḥahu Allāh taʻālá: Faraghtu min taʻlīqihi nahār al-sabt sābiʻ ʻashar min Rajab bi-al-Jāmiʻ al-Azʹhar sanat tisʻ ʻashrah baʻda al-alf wa-Allāh subḥānahu asʼal al-wafāh ʻalá al-Islām wa-an yudkhilanī bi-raḥmatihi Dār al-Salām.", Translation of the author's colophon: "Its author, may God forgive him, said: 'I finished writing it on Saturday, the seventeenth of Rajab at al-Jāmiʻ al-Azʹhar in the year one thousand and nineteen. I beseech God, may he be praised, that I die as a Muslim and that he may admit me into the Abode of Peace'.", Colophon of the copyist (folio 89a): "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min kitābatihi nahār al-Thulāthāʼ rābiʻ ʻashar Jumādá al-Ūlá sanat 1054 bi-Masjid ʻAbd al-Mājid bi-qaryat ʻAnabtā min qurá Jabal Nāblūs al-Shāmī ʻalá yad al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-muʻtarif bi-al-ʻajz wa-al-taqṣīr al-rājī ʻafwa rabbihi al-qawī al-qadīr Yāsīn ibn ʻAlī al-Labadī al-Ḥanbalī al-Azʹharī ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-li-man qaraʼa fī hādhā al-kitāb wa-daʻā la-hu bi-al-maghfirah wa-kutiba bi-rasm fakhr al-ṣāliḥīn wa-zayn al-fāliḥīn wa-ʻumdat al-mutaṣawwifīn al-akh fī Allāh wa-al-rafīq ilá al-Jannah in shāʼa Allāh al-Shaykh ʻĪsá ibn ʻUṣfūr min Qaryat Barqā ghafar Allāh dhunūbanā wa-dhunūbahu. Āmīn. Wa-asʼaluhu an lā yansānī min daʻawātihi al-tāmmah bi-an yarzuqunī Allāh ḥusn al-khātimah wa-al-ḥamd lillāh alladhī bi-niʻmatihi tatimmu al-ṣāliḥāt wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi madá al-awqāt.", and Translation of the colophon of the copyist: "The copying ended on Tuesday the fourteenth of Jumādá al-Ūlá, 1054 at the village of ʻAnabtā one of the villages of the mountain of Nāblus, Syria, at the hand of the poor slave who admits his helplessness and neglect and begs the forgiveness of his mighty and powerful Lord, Yāsīn ibn ʻAlī al-Labadī al-Ḥanbalī al-Azʹharī, may God forgive him and his parents and he who reads this book and asks God to forgive him. It was written at the order of the pride of the righteous, the beauty of the successful and the dean of the sufis, the brother in God and the companion to Paradise, God willing, al-Shaykh ʻĪsá ibn ʻUṣfūr of the village of Barqā. May God forgive our sins and his sins. Amen. I beg him not to forget me in his perfect invocations that God may grant me a good end. Praise be to God in whose grace all good things are accomplished and prayer and peace be upon our master Muḥammad, upon his family and his companions at all times."
Subject (Name):
Karmī, Marʻī ibn Yūsuf, -1623 or 1624.
Subject (Topic):
Hanbalites, Islamic law, and Interpretation and construction
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390 ابن عباد، محمد بن إبراهيم، 1332 or 1333-1390
Published / Created:
1717.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 489
Image Count:
464
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Ghayth al-mawāhib al-ʻalīyah bi-Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" (also called "Sharḥ al-Nafazī ʻalá matn al-Sakandarī"), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Ḥimyarī al-Nafazī al-Rundī (1332 or 1333-1390.), a Ṣūfī and scholar from the city of Rundah (Ronda, Má́laga, Spain), who journeyed in cities of al-Maghrib and resided in Fès (Morocco) where he assumed the position of "khaṭīb" (preacher) at Jāmiʻ al-Qarawīyīn, and died there, being a commentary on "al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah", a collection of Sufi and mystical aphorisms of Tāj al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Sakandarī (died 1309 in Cairo), an Egyptian Shādhilī and Ṣūfī scholar and author, an ardent opponent of the well-known Ḥanbalī scholar Ibn Taymīyah (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328). Copied on Thursday, 19 Shaʻbān, 1129 of the Hijrah (29 July, 1717). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam, Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah, كتاب شرح الحكم, and شرح الحكم العطائية
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir. Qāla al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá, al-muʻtamid fī ghufrān dhunūbihi ʻalá Allāh taʻālá, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Nafazī al-ʻArsawī [?], laṭafa Allāh taʻālá bi-hi wa-raḥimahu wa-ghafara la-hu. Āmīn: al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-munfarid bi-al-ʻaẓamah wa-al-jalāl, al-mutawaḥḥid bi-istiḥqāq nuʻūt al-kamāl, al-munazzah ʻan al-shurakāʼ wa-al-nuẓarāʼ wa-al-amthāl, al-mutaqaddis ʻan simāh [simāt] al-ḥadath min al-taghyīr wa-al-intiqāl wa-al-ittiṣāl wa-al-infiṣāl, ʻālim al-ghayb wa-al-shahādah, al-kabīr al-mutaʻāl, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-hādī min al-ḍalāl ...", Secundo folio: ḥaqāʼiquhā illā bi-al-talaqqī., 15.5 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 9.5 x 15.5 cm; 21 lines per page., Binding: In cardboard binding (in 23 numbered quires), In fair naskh/ruqʻah script, in black ink, on white paper; with the phrases of "al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam li-Ibn ʻAbbād, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-hi wa-al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Āmīn.", On folio 1a: Two verses of poetry, quoted from "Kitāb Ḥusn al-tanabbuh li-mā warada fī al-tashabbuh" of al-Najm al-Ghazzī (Ghazzī, Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1570-1651), On folio 1a: Two verses of "Mawwāl [a form of popular folk poetry], li-Sayyidī al-ʻārif billāh wa-Sayyid al-ʻĀrifīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, quddisa sirruhu.", On folio 1a: Ownership statement: "Āla ilá nawbat al-ḥaqīr Muḥṣṭafá al-Ḥalabī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAraḍī al-Ḥusaynī al-Muṭṭalibī, jammala Allāh aḥwālahu wa-min ʻatharātihi aqālahu. Fī 12 Sh. [Shʻbān/Shawwāl], 1269 [of the Hijrah = 21 May 1853 or 19 July, 1853].", On folio 1a: Five illegible ownership statements and two illegible seals., On folio 228a: A reader's statement: "Qad tammat qirāʼat hādhā al-kitāb al-ʻadhb al-mustaṭāb bayna al-ʻishāʼayn fī Jāmiʻ Banī Umayyah bi-Dimashq al-maḥmīyah, wa-dhālika laylat al-Khamīs al-thāniyah ʻasharī shahr Jumādá al-Thānī, sanat arbaʻah wa-sabʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf [28 January, 1858]. Katabahu al-faqīr Sulaymān ibn Jaʻfar Āghā, ʻufiya [ʻanh].", On folio 228b: A reader's note: "Naẓara wa-ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb afqar al-ʻibād wa-aḥwajuhum ilá al-Malik al-Jawwād, al-ʻabd al-musīʼ Saʻīd ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhā ibn Yāsīn al-Qudsī, nahār al-khamsīn [?] al-Khamīs alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat iḥdā [iḥdá] wa-sittīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [Thursday, [?]1748]." Followed by invocation by him in seven verses of poetry., Colophon (folio 228a): "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah yawm al-Khamīs al-mubārak, tāsiʻ ʻashar Shaʻbān al-mubārak, min shuhūr sanat alf wa-miʼah wa-tisʻah wa-ʻishrīn min al-Hijrah ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām. M.", and Translation of the colophon: "This blessed copy was completed on blessed Thursday, 19 blessed Shaʻbān 1129 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [29 July, 1717], may the best prayer and peace be upon Him."
Subject (Name):
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390. and Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1309.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Mysticism, Shādhilīyah, and Sufism
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405 دميري، محمد بن موسى، 1341?-1405
Published / Created:
[17th century?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic S-2
Image Count:
862
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A zoological encyclopedia listing the names of the different animals, birds and insects arranged alphabetically, with anecdotes, poems and folkloric tales, but the most important part of this work is the description of the medicinal properties of the animals and their different organs. It is the most comprehensive zoological work in Arabic and a store-house of folk-lore and popular medicine. The author is Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (1341?-1405), a Shafiite Egyptian scholar, from Cairo. He worked as a tailor, but then devoted himself to learning and scholarship and became a prominent scholar at al-Azʹhar. He also lived for a while in Mecca and Medina. al-Damīrī finished writing his book in the month of Rajab, 773 H (January/February, 1372). The book is in two versions: long and short. The present manuscript is the long version and according to a recent note on leaf 1a it was copied from a manuscript copied in 805 H (1402/1403). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 17th century
Alternative Title:
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá 880-02 and حياة الحيوان الكبرى 240-02/r
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa nawʻ al-insān bi-al-aṣgharayn al-qalb wa-al-lisān wa-faḍḍalahu ʻalá sāyir al-ḥayawān bi-niʻmatay al-manṭiq wa-al-bayān wa-rajjaḥahu bi-al-ʻaql alladhī wazan bi-hi qaḍāyā al-qiyās fī aḥsan mīzān fa-aqām ʻalá waḥdānīyatihi al-burhān. Aḥmaduhu ḥamdan yamuddunā bi-mawādd al-iḥsān ...", 18 x 31.5 cm ; written surface: 10.5 x 23 cm, 26 lines per page, Black leather binding., In good, rather fine naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On leaf 1a a recent note in pencil: "Nuskhah manqūlah ʻan nuskhah kutibat fī sanat 805, wa-al-khaṭṭ min al-ḥādiyah ʻashar.", and Colophon: "Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyid al-Mrusalīn al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafá wa-raḍiya Allāh ʻan ālihi wa-ʻutratihi wa-ṣaḥbih ahl al-faḍl wa-al-wafā wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-kafá. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min musawwadatihi fī shahr Dhī al-Ḥijjah tashrīf sanat thalāth wa-sabʻīn wa-sabʻimiʼah wa-min hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah fī Shaʻbān sanat khams wa-thamānimiʼah. Jaʻala Allāh taʻālá dhālika khāliṣan li-wajhihi al-karīm mūjiban lil-fawz ladayh fī dār al-naʻīm wa-huwa ḥasbunā wa-niʻma al-wakīl. Qāla dhālika kātibuhu [i.e. kātibuhu] wa-muʼallifuhu faqīr raḥmat rabbihi Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī al-Damīrī waqāhu Allāh sharra nafsihi wa-jaʻala būmahu ḥasīran min massihi hawā al-fiṭnah bi-ḥurūfihi. Tammat kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá bi-ḥamd Allāh al-ʻaẓīmah [i.e. al-ʻaẓīm] rabb al-ākhirah wa-al-ūlá. Tammat."
Subject (Name):
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405.
Subject (Topic):
Zoology, Science, Medieval, and Animals in literature
Manuscript on Islamic doctrines, being a commentary by al-Shaykh al-Qayrawānī (full name could not be determined) on Umm al-Barahīn (also known by the titles: al-Sanūsīyah, and ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá), a treatise on Islamic doctrines in verse by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (ca. 1427-ca. 1490), a prolific Muslim scholar from Tlemcen, Algeria. Date and place of copying not mentioned, probably in the 19th century in Egypt
Alternative Title:
Hādhā kitāb Sharḥ al-Sanūsīyah lil-Shaykh al-imām wa-al-ḥabr al-humām al-Qayrawānī, Sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn, Sharḥ al-Sanūsīyah lil-Shaykh al-Qayrawānī, هذا كتاب شرح السنوسية للشيخ الإمام والحبر الهمام القيرواني, شرح أم البراهين, and شرح السنوسية للشيخ القيرواني
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit of Iʻānat al-mujiddīn fī taṣḥīḥ al-dīn li-sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn : "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-mawṣūf bi-al-jalāl al-manʻūt bi-al-ikrām wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyid al-rusul al-kirām wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi hudāt al-anām. Wa-baʻd fa-innī fīmā maḍá min sinīn qad sharaḥtu al-ʻAqīdah al-musammāh bi-Umm al-barāhīn al-fāʼiqh maʻa ṣighar ḥajmihā kibār al-dawāwīn ...", Incipit of Umm al-Barāhīn: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá ṣilātihi thumma ṣalātu Allāhi maʻa ṣalātihi ...", 16.5 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 8.5 x 15 cm, 23 lines per page., Unbound., In good medium naskhī script; in black ink, with underlined keywords and phrases; catchwords., Author's name is written on folio 1a as "al-Shaykh ... al-Qayrawānī"; title from folio 1b., On folio 1a ownership note in the name and seal of Muḥammad ʻAlī Sulṭān and another ownershib in the name of al-ʻAbd al-ḥaqīr ʻAbd al-Qādir., Includes the full text of Umm al-barahīn, fully vocalized (folios 24b-27b)., Colophon of Iʻānat al-mujiddīn fī taṣḥīḥ al-dīn li-sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn: "... fa-qāla bi-qawlī fī al-risālah Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad ʻadada mā dhakarahu al-dhākirūn wa-ghafala ʻan dhikrihi al-dhākirūn. Intahá. Qultu wa-laʻalla al-muʻidd khatama ʻaqīdatahu bi-dhalika li-dhalika wa-zāda raḍiya Allāh taʻālá ʻan aṣḥāb Rasūl Allāh ajmaʻīn wa-ʻan al-tābiʻīn wa-tābiʻ al-tābiʻīn la-hum bi-iḥsān ilá yawm al-dīn wa-salām ʻalá jamīʻ al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-mursalīn wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Colophon of Umm al-Barāhīn: "... Thumma al-ṣalātu wa-al-salāmu al-dāʼimu ʻalá Nabīyin daʼbuhu al-marāḥimu. Muḥammadin wa-Ṣaḥbihi wa-ʻitratih wa-tābiʻn li-nahjihi min ummatih. Tammat bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnih wa-ḥusn tawfīqih."
Subject (Name):
Qayrawānī. and Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490.
Ibn Ghānim, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad, -1279? ابن غانم، عزّ الدين عبد السلام بن أحمد، -1279?
Published / Created:
1657.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 224
Image Count:
108
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A collection of two treatises: 1. Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azhār "Unveiling of secrets on the sagacity of birds and flowers" (folios 1a-47a), a treatise on sufism, in the form of "maqāmah" genre, by ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (died 1279? in Cairo), a ṣūfī author, preacher and poet. Copied in the middle of Jumādá al-ākhir (31 March, 1657). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned. 2. Naẓm "Muthallath Quṭrub" (folios 47b-52b), by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān al-Azʹharī al-Ḥanafī, active 1688, a little known author (See Brockelmann: G II, 215; Suppl. I, 161: "al-Manẓūmah al-sannīyah fī bayān al-asmāʼ al-lughawīyah" [Illustrious poem presenting the linguistic nouns]). The treatise is a versification of "al-Muthallath" of Quṭrub (Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr, died 821 or 822, a well-known grammarian and philologist, from Baṣrah, Iraq), enumerating the trilateral homonyms in Arabic which have different meanings according to the three Arabic vowels (fatḥah, ḍammah, kasrah). Quṭrub was the first author to write on the "Muthallath" genre. The author added to the materials of "Muthallāth Quṭrub" words which he selected from extensive dictionaries, such as "Ṣiḥāḥ al-Jawharī". Copied by Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī (?). Place and date of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azhār 880-02, Kashf al-asrār fī ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār, Kitāb al-Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār, Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār, كشف الأسرار عن حكم الطيور والأزهار 240-02/r, كشف الأسرار في حكم الزهور والأطيار, كتاب المختار لكشف الأسرار في مناقشة الطيور والأزهار, and مختار لكشف الأسرار في مناقشة الطيور والأزهار
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In Arabic., Title of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār from folio 3a., Title of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah lisān al-fuṣaḥāʼ wa-al-mutakallimīn ʻIzz al-Dīn Ghānim ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Maqdisī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu wa-arḍāh wa-jaʻala al-Jannah mathwāh: al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-baʻīd fī qurbih al-qarīb fī buʻdih, al-mutaʻālī fī rafīʻ majdih ʻan al-shayʼ wa-ḍiddih, alladhī awjada bi-qudratihi al-wujūd baʻda an kāna ʻadaman, wa-awjada kull mawjūd ḥukman, wa-jaʻala al-ʻaql baynahumā ḥakaman ...", Secundo folio of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: wa-mā yukābiduhu min wijdān., Incipit of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Yā Rabbī yassir yā karīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāhi alladhī hadānā // li-millati al-Islām wa-ijtabānā ... Wa-baʻda taslīmī ʻalá khayri nabī // naẓamtu min Muthallathāt Quṭrubi. Urjūzatan ladhīdhatan fī al-mashrabi // wa-zidtuhā min kutubin ṭiwāli ...", Secundo folio of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "Taḥīyat al-nāsi hiya al-salāmu., 15 x 20 cm; written surface: 8 x 14.5 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: In reddish blue cardboard binding., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; with headings and markings in red and green; catchwords., On front cover a statement in Arabic and English by Duncan Black Macdonald, 1863-1943, professor of Semitic languages at Hartford Theological Seminary, as follows: "Kashf al-asrār fī ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār li-ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Maqdisī. Bought at Damascus, Aug. 1908. D.B. Macdonald. Hartford.", On folio 1a: "Ḥasbiya Allāh. Kitāb al-Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār lil-shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah ʻIzz al-Dīn Ghānim ibn ʻAbd al-Salām, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu, wa-ʻafá ʻanhumā.", On folio 3a: "... wa-sammaytuhu: Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār ...", Colophon of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "Tammat nuskhat hādhā al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb fī awāsiṭ shahr Jumādá al-Ākhir, sanat sabʻ wa-sittīn wa-alf.", Translation of the colophon of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "The copy of this book was completed by the help of the Benevolent King, in the middle of the month of Jumādá al-Ākhir, 1067 [31 March, 1657].", Colophon of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: " Tammat wa-bi-al-khayr ʻammat ʻalá yad al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr, al-muʻtarif bi-al-ʻajz wa-al-taqṣīr Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī [?], ʻufiya ʻanhumā. Balagha al-muqābalah ḥasba al-ṭāqah wa-al-imkān. Wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-niʻma al-wakīl. Tamm.", and Translation of the colophon of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "It is completed. May it be wide-spread with goodness, by the hand of the poor and despised, who confesses his inability and shortcoming, Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī [?], may they both be pardoned. It was collated to the best of [my] ability, as far as possible. God suffices us. He is the best advocate. It is completed."
Subject (Name):
Azʹharī, Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān, active 1688., Ibn Ghānim, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad, -1279?, Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?, and Quṭrub, Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr, -821 or 822.
Najjār, Ibrāhīm ibn Jirjis, 19th cent نجار، إبراهيم بن جرجس، 19th cent
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 757
Image Count:
52
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Manuscript in an unidentified hand of the Book of Psalms, with some commentaries and suggestions on the medical, magical, talismanic, etc. benefits of each psalm; undated but most likely from the early part of the 19th century
The author is from the city of Fayyūm in Egypt; a Christian, as his name indicates, probably Coptic. The title states that the number of Psalms are 151 (not 150, as is the case in the current versions)., In Arabic; probably translated from Coptic., The Arabic title translates: Guide to the 151 Psalms and their benefits., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-raʼūf al-raḥmān al-raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīnu ʻalá kull amr ʻasīr. Nabtadī bi-ʻawnihi taʻālá wa-ḥusn tawfīqihi bi-naskh Kitāb Dallāl al-Mazāmīr al-miʼah wa-iḥdá wa-khamsīn mazmūr wa-manāfiʻihim. Wa-ʻalayhi taʻālá al-tawfīq wa-ḥusn al-khitām. Taʻalluq kātibihi al-faqīr ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-mustaghfir li-dhanbihi Ibrāhīm ibn Jirjis ibn Ibrāhīm al-Najjār min madīnat al-Fayyūm.", 16 x 24 cm.; written surface: 20-22 lines per page., Modern binding., In clear naskhī script; in black ink up to the middle of page 38b, from there to the end in violet ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and marking in red or larger script; catchwords and numerous magical symbols and magic squares., and Ends abruptly with Psalm 150: "... Wa-hādhā huwa al-Mazmūr. Sabbiḥū al-Rabb yā qiddīsīh. Sabbiḥūhu fī jidd qūwatih. Sabbiḥūhu ʻalá jabarūtihi li-kathrat ʻaẓamatih ... Sabbiḥūhu bi-ṣalāṣil shajīyat al-ṣawt. Sabbiḥūhu bi-ṣalāṣil ..."
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century, author مغربي، أبو سعيد بن إبراهيم، ناشط قرن 12، مؤلف
Published / Created:
23 Ramaḍān, 1021 H [17 November, 1612]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 3
Image Count:
504
Resource Type:
text
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Manuscript on medicine and pharmacology by Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mutaṭabbib al-Maghribī, a little known physician and pharmacologist who seems to have lived in the 12th century. The name of the author is given as "Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī" in one of his medical/pharmacological manuscript works: "Kitāb fatʹḥ al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī fī mufradāt al-ʻaqāqīr, [17--?]" which he dedicated to the Amīr Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn ʻAyn al-Dawlah, the son of Amīr Ghāzī who seems to be the Danishmendid ruler Dhū al-Qarnayn, d. 557 H/1162 CE (OCLC 244629229). In the printed editions with slightly different titles: "Taqwīm al-adwīyah al-mufradah, aw, al-Munjiḥ fī al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī" as Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Saʻīd al-ʻAlāʼī (OCLC 785065773) and "Taqwīm al-adwīyah, aw, al-Munjiḥ fī al-tadāwī min ṣunūf al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī" as Abī Saʻīd Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Saʻīd al-ʻAlāʼī al-Maghribī (OCLC 796221762). The manuscript was read and collated with the copyist (whose name is not mentioned), as mentioned in the colophon, by the physician ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī (?) al-Khurāsānī (an obscure physician) on 23 Ramaḍan, 1021 H (17 November, 1612). Place of copying not mentioned, probably in Iran
In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi thiqatī. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn ḥamda al-shākirīn wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. al-Kitāb al-awwal yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ḥadd al-ṭibb wa-maʻrifat juzʼayhi al-ʻilmī wa-al-ʻamalī wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-umūr al-jawharīyah [?] lil-abdān min al-ʻanāṣir wa-al-amzijah wa-al-akhlāṭ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-mutashābihat al-ajzāʼ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-ālīyah wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-qiwá al-ṭabīʻīyah wa-al-ḥayawānīyah wa-al-nafsānīyah ...", 18 x 30 cm ; written surface: 11.3 x 20 cm, 25 lines per page., Islamic red leather binding., In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and marking in red; catchwords. Part 3 of the manuscript on pharmacology is profusely illustrated on the margins with beautifully colored drawings of the plants and animals mentioned in the text., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On title page an ownership seal in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Mūsawī., and Colophon: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Balagha qibālan wa-taṣḥīḥan wa-tadrīsan fī al-thālith wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Ramaḍān al-mubārak sanat iḥdá wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah. Wa-anā al-ʻabd aqall al-mutaṭabbibīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī [?] al-Khurāsānī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh. 1021. Balagha muqābalatan maʻa muntasikhih."
Subject (Name):
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Animal, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Arab, and Pharmacology
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
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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
History of the caliphs, Preceded by 3 leaves of notes, and Copied in Sanʻa, Yemen, in A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615).
Alternative Title:
Tārīkh al-khulafāʼ 880-02, Taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ, تاريخ الخلفاء 240-02/r, and تأريخ الخلفاء
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Available on microfilm, Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān. Ammā baʻd ḥamd Allāh alladhī waʻada fa-wafá wa-awʻada fa-ʻafā ...", Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Occasional marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., Colophon: "Wāfaqa al-farāgh min raqm hādhā al-taʼrīkh ... yawm al-Jumʻah, ghurrat shahr Ramaḍān ... ʻām arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf ... bi-maḥrūs madīnat Ṣanʻāʼ al-Yaman ... bi-rasm ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... bi-yad ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This history book was completed ... on Friday, the beginning of the month of Ramaḍan ... of the year 1024 [of the Hijrah = 31 January 1615] ... in the protected city of Ṣanʻāʼ of Yemen ... for ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... by the hand of ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ..."
