Bahnasī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan, d. 1286 or 7. Naẓm Muthallathāt Quṭrub Maḥallī, Ibrāhīm ibn Hibat Allāh, d. 1321 Quṭrub, Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr, d. 821 or 2. Kitāb al-muthallath
Published / Created:
[17-?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 489
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bahnasī's versification of Muḥammad Quṭrub's Kitāb al-Muthallath (treatise on words which have three different meanings, depending on whether the first syllable has the vowel a, i, or u).
Alternative Title:
Sharḥ naẓm Muthallathāt Quṭrub
Description:
Ex-libris of al-Ḥasan al-Jabartī on leaf 1 recto., Fair 18th century naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, paper covered., and ʻUnwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 recto; gold borders.
Subject (Name):
Bahnasī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan,--d. 1286 or 7.--Naẓm Muthallathāt Quṭrub and Jabartī, Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm,--1698 or 9-1774?--Ms. notes
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Lexicography and Islamic binding
Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين، ناشط قرن 16.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 619
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection of two treatises. 1. Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb (folios 1b-78b), "Commentary on Twenty chapters of the astrolabe" (in Persian), a treatise on the astrolabe (a medieval astronomical instrument used to observe the position of celestial bodies) by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (active 16th century), an astronomer and a Ḥanafī "faqīh" (Islamic law scholar), who wrote in both Arabic and Persian, being a commentary on Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb "Twenty chapters on knowing the uses of the astrolabe" of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (1201-1274), a prolific author in many disciplines and the leading scholar at the court of the Mongol ruler Hulagu Khan (Hülegü, 1217-1265) in Marāghah (Āz̲arbāyjān-i Khāvarī, Iran). Copied on Tuesday night, 3 Ramaḍān, 1307 Hijrīyah (23 April, 1890) at al-Madrasah al-Nāṣirīyah, in Tehran (Iran). Name of copyist not mentioned (probably "Mullā ʻAbd al-ʻAlī Parjadī" who is mentioned in the incipit, but this could be a distortion of the name of the author "ʻAbd al-ʻAlī al-Birjandī"). 2. Followed by a short Arabic treatise (folios 78b-79b), a mathematical "lughz" (riddle or puzzle), by al-Shaykh Bahāʼ al-Dīn (Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī, 1547-1621), a Shīʻī scholar, who wrote in both Arabic and Persian on different subjects including mathematics and astronomy, born in Baʻalbak (Baʻlabakk, Lebanon) and lived and died in Iṣfahān (Iran). Name of copyist not mentioned, probably by the copyist of the first manuscript, and on the same date and in the same place.
Alternative Title:
Kitāb-i Sharḥ-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb, Kitāb-i Sharḥ-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i qawāʻid-i fann-i asṭurlāb, Sharḥ-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb, Sharḥ-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i qawāʻid-i fann-i asṭurlāb, شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب : مخطوطة / عبد العلى بن محمد بن حسىن البرجندى., شرح بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب, شرح بىست باب در معرفت قواعد فن اسطرلاب, کتاب شرح بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب, and کتاب شرح بىست باب در معرفت قواعد فن اسطرلاب
Description:
16.5 x 21 cm; written surface: 10 x 15 cm; 18-19 lines per page., Binding: In red leather binding, some tooling to the covers., Colophon of Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb: "al-Ḥamdu lillāh awwalan wa-ākhiran, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Rasūlihi dāyiman mutawātiran. Qad faraghtu min taswīd hādhihi al-awrāq fī Dār al-Khilāfah al-Ṭahrān, fī al-Madrasah al-Nāṣirīyah, al-laylah al-Thulāthāʼ min Ramaḍān, fī sanat 1307 Hijrīyah, ʻalá ṣāḥibihā al-salām.", Colophon of the Mathematical "lughz": "... Wa-linaqtaṣir ʻalá hādhā al-qadr min al-iṭnāb fī awṣāf dhālika al-kitāb, wa-al-ʻāqil yakfīhi al-ishārah, wa-al-jāhil lā yatanabbah bi-alf ʻibārah. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh awwalan wa-ākhiran. Tamm.", In small naskh taʻlīq script, in black ink, on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; numerous notes on the margins; numerous astronomical and geometrical diagrams; catchwords., Incipit of Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb: "Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb. Muḥaqqiq mudaqqiq Mullā ʻAbd al-ʻĀlī Parjadī. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Fātiḥat-i khiṭāb dar sih bāb va khātimat-i maqāl dar hamah-i ḥāl-i sipās ... Ammā baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-faqīr ilá rabbihi al-hādī ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Barjandī, sharaḥa Allāh ṣadrahu wa-atamma ʻalá samāʼ al-saʻādah badrahu ... bi-muṭālaʻat Kitāb Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb ... sulṭān al-ḥukamā al-mutaʼallihīn, mukammil ʻulūm al-awwalīn, makhzan asrār al-ḥikam wa-al-kamāl min maṭliʻ al-anwār al-mayāmīn wa-al-saʻādāt Khawājah Naṣīr al-Ḥaqq wa-al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī ṭayyaba Allāh mashhadah ...", Incipit of the Mathematical "lughz": "Hādhā lughz min al-Shaykh Bahāʼ al-Dīn, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Akhbirūnī ʻan ism kitābin aqalluhu min al-ḥurūf al-nūrānīyah wa-aktharuhu min ḥurūf al-zubālīyah, wa-aḥad niṣfayhi yukmilu al-rajul, wa-bi-al-niṣf al-ākhar takmulu al-shahādah ...", On folio 1a: Short paragraphs about: Eclipse of the Sun and the Moon (in Arabic); Talismans (in Arabic); Simple way to know the hour of the day (in Arabic); Time spent by "Ahl al-Kahf" "the Seven Sleepers" (in Persian); Mathematical calculations on the beginning of the Hijrī year (in Persian); Quotation from a certain musician "Mūsīqī Mīrzā Muḥammad ʻAlī" (could not be identified) about arithmetic and astronomy (in Persian)., On folios 80a-80b: Some mathematical and geometrical notes and criticism of "al-Muḥaqqiq al-Dawwānī" (probably Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī, 1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513), in Persian., On the margin of folio 78b: "... fa-yaqūlu aḥwaj al-khalq ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-ghanī Muḥammad al-mushtahir bi-Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī, ʻufiya ʻanhu ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio of Sharḥ bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb: kih raqm-i zadah-i kalk., Secundo folio of the Mathematical "lughz": al-Shams ʻan al-ufuq., Title of Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb from folio 1a., Translation of the colophon of Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb: "Praise be to God in the beginning and in the end. Prayer and peace be upon His messenger, continuously and repeatedly. I finished copying these leaflets at the Abode of the Caliphate, Tehran, at al-Madrasah al-Nāṣirīyah, on Tuesday night, 3 Ramaḍān, 1307 [1890] of the Hijrah [of the Prophet Muḥammad], may peace be upon Him.", Translation of the colophon of the Mathematical "lughz": "... Let us limit ourselves to this much of verbosity in the description of that book, for the wise understands from a hint, but the ignorant cannot be alerted even with a thousand statements. Praise be to God in the beginning and in the end. It is completed.", آغاز دومىن برگه شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب: که رقم زده کلک., بداية "اللغز" الرياضي: "هذا لغز من الشيخ بهاء الدين، عليه الرحمة. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. أخبروني عن اسم كتابٍ أقله من الحروف النورانية وأكثره من حروف الزبالية، وأحد نصفيه يكمل الرجل، وبالنصف الآخر تكمل الشهادة ...", بداية الورقة الثانية لـِ: "اللغز" الرياضي: الشمس عن الأفق., بداية شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب: "شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب. محقق مدقق ملا عبد العالى پرجدى. بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. فاتحة خطاب در سه باب و خاتمة مقال در همه حال سپاس ... أما بعد، فىقول الفقىر إلى ربه الهادى عبد العلى بن محمد البرجندى، شرح الله صدره وأتم على سماء السعادة بدره ... بمطالعة کتاب بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب ... سلطان الحکما المتألهىن، مکمل علوم الأولىن، مخزن أسرار الحکم والکمال من مطلع الأنوار المىامىن والسعادات خواجه نصىر الحق والدىن محمد الطوسى طيب الله مشهده ...", خاتمة "اللغز" الرياضي: "... ولنقتصر على هذا القدر من الإطناب في أوصاف ذلك الكتاب، والعاقل يكفيه الإشارة، والجاهل لا يتنبه بألف عبارة. والحمد لله أولًا وآخرًا. تم.", خاتمة شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب: "الحمد لله أولًا وآخرًا، والصلوة والسلام على رسوله داىمًا متواترًا. قد فرغت من تسوىد هذه الأوراق فى دار الخلافه الطهران، فى المدرسه الناصرية، اللىله الثلاثاء من رمضان، فى سنة 1307 هجرية، على صاحبها السلام.", and على هامش الورقة 78ب: "... فيقول أحوج الخلق إلى رحمة ربه الغني محمد المشتهر ببهاء الدين العاملي، عفي عنه ..."
Subject (Name):
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,--1547-1621, Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,--active 16th century, Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb., Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1201-1274.--Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb., برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين،--ناشط قرن 16., طوسى، نصىر الدىن محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274. بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب., طوسى، نصىر الدىن محمد بن محمد،--1201-1274.--بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب., and عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين،--1547-1621.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Astrolabes, Mathematical recreations --Early works to 1800, Persian manuscripts., and Riddles, Arabic
Anonymous Commentary on the Qurʼān, being an addition (takmilah) to the commentary of Jalāl al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥallī, 1389-1459 (an Egyptian Islamic law scholar). al-Maḥallī's commentary (from Sūrat al-Baqarah to Sūrat al-Isrāʼ) is part of the well-known commentary on the Qurʼān titled "Tafsīr al-Jalālayn" (Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī). The present manuscript starts with the commentary on Sūrat al-Baqarah (Chapter 2) and ends with part of verse 6 of Surat al-al-Māʼidah (Chapter 5). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
تكملة تفسير القرآن الكريم : مخطوطة.
Description:
18 x 27.5 cm; written surface: 11.5 x 18 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Modern black cloth binding., Colophon: Colophon missing; ends with: "... wujūhakum wa-aydiyakum ilá al-marāfiq ...", In fair naskh script (Jawī style), in black ink, with the text of the Qurʼān in red, on Indonesian paper called "Daluang" which is manufactured from the bark of a certain native tree called "saeh". The last leaf is heavily damaged., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh ḥamdan muwāfiyan li-niʻamih, mukāfiyan li-mazīdih, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbih wa-junūdih. Hādhā mā ishtaddat ilayhi ḥājat al-rāghibīn fī taklimat [takmilat] tafsīr al-Qurʼān al-Karīm alladhī allafahu Sayyidunā al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻallāmah al-muḥaqqiq Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Abī [ibn] Aḥmad al-Maḥallī al-Shāfiʻī, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-tatmīm mā fātahu, wa-huwa min awwal Sūrat al-Baqarah ilá ākhir al-Isrá [al-Isrāʼ], bi-tatmīmihi ʻalá namaṭihi min dhikr mā yufhamu bi-hi kalām Allāh taʻālá wa-al-iʻtimād ʻalá arjaḥ al-aqwāl ...", On folios 1b-3a prayers and invocations in Arabic in different hands., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: Allāh aʻlam bi-murādih., Text folios 3b-114b., Title from Incipit (folio 3b)., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله حمدًا موافيًا لنعمه، مكافيًا لمزيده، والصلات [والصلاة] والسلام على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وجنوده. هذا ما اشتدت إليه حاجة الراغبين في تكلمة [تكملة] تفسير القرآن الكريم الذي ألفه سيدنا الشيخ الإمام العلامة المحقق جلال الدين محمد أبي [بن] أحمد المحلي الشافعي، رحمه الله، وتتميم ما فاته، وهو من أول سورة البقرة إلى آخر الإسرى [الإسراء]، بتتميمه على نمطه من ذكر ما يفهم به كلام الله تعالى والاعتماد على أرجح الأقوال ...", الخاتمة: الخاتمة مفقودة؛ ينتهي النص بـِ: "... وجوهكم وأيديكم إلى المرافق ...", and بداية الورقة الثانية: الله أعلم بمراده.
Subject (Name):
Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459. Tafsīr al-Jalālayn. Selections., Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad,--1389-1459.--Tafsīr al-Jalālayn.--Selections., محلي، جلال الدين محمد بن أحمد، 1389-1459. تفسير الجلالين. مختارات., and محلي، جلال الدين محمد بن أحمد،--1389-1459.--تفسير الجلالين.--مختارات.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Qurʼan--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.
A purported Arabic translation of the Psalms; the text, however, is entirely different from that of the Biblical original. The author was a Muslim., Copied in A.H. 1001 (A.D. 1593)., and Preceded and followed by 1 page of notes.
Alternative Title:
Bible. O.T. Psalms. Arabic.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, paper covered, flap missing., and Title supplied by a modern hand inside front cover.
Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1423-approximately 1520. أنصاري، زكريا بن محمد، حوالي 1423-حوالي 1520.
Published / Created:
1739
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 581
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī (approximately 1423-approximately 1520), a famous Egyptian Shāfiʻī Islāmic law scholar, Shaykh al-Islām and Qāḍī al-Quḍāh during the rule of Qāʼit Bāy (Sultan of Egypt and Syria, d. 1496), on his own compendium of Islamic law according to the Shāfi'ī school, entitled "Taḥrīr Tanqīḥ al-lubāb", an epitome of "Tanqīḥ al-lubāb" of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-ʻIrāqī (1361-1423), itself an abridgment of a larger work by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Maḥāmilī (died 1024), entitled al-Lubāb fī al-fiqh al-Shāfiʻī. Copied on Wednesday, 26 Ṣafar, 1152 Hijrī (4 June, 1739) by Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ṭībī al-Shāfiʻī. Place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Sharḥ Taḥrīr tanqīḥ al-Lubāb, تحفة الطلاب بشرح تحرير تنقيح اللباب : مخطوطة / أبو يحيى زكريا بن محمد الأنصاري., and شرح تحرير تنقيح اللباب
Description:
16 x 21.5 cm; written surface: 9.5 x 15 cm; 17 lines per page., Binding: In brown leather binding with flap; covers and flap embossed with central medallions., Colophon: "Katabahu al-faqīr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ṭībī baladan, al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban li-nafsihi wa-li-man shāʼa min baʻdihi, rājiyan min Allāh al-thawāb al-jazīl min al-Malik al-Jalīl, wa-dhālika yawm al-Arbaʻ al-mubārak, sādis ʻishrīn shahr Ṣafar al-Khayr, min shuhūr sanat 1152, alf wa-miʼah ithnayn wa-khamsīn baʻda al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah, ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-atamm al-taslīm.", In clear naskh script, in black ink on white paper; with the phrases of Taḥrīr Tanqīḥ al-Lubāb in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Qāla Sayyidunā wa-Mawlānā qāḍī al-quḍāh, shaykh mashāyikh al-Islām, malik al-ʻulamāʼ al-aʻlām, Sibawayh zamānih, farīd ʻaṣrihi wa-awānih, Zayn al-Dīn, lisān al-mutakallimīn, ḥujjat al-munāẓirīn, muḥyī sunnat Sayyid al-Mursalīn, Abū Yaḥyá Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī, taghammadahu Allāh bi-raḥmatih wa-nafaʻanā wa-al-Muslimīn bi-barakatih ... wa-baʻd, fa-hādhā sharḥ ʻalá mukhtaṣarī al-musammá bi-Taḥrīr tanqīḥ al-Lubāb fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Imām al-mujtahid al-Shāfiʻī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu, yaḥullu alfāẓahu wa-yubayyinu murādahu wa-yuḥaqqiqu masāʼilahu wa-yuḥarriru dalāyilahu, wa-sammaytuhu Tuḥfat al-ṭullāb bi-sharḥ taḥrīr tanqīḥ al-Lubāb. Wa-Allāh al-karīm asʼalu an yajʻalahu khāliṣan li-wajhihi al-karīm ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: bi-jannāt al-naʻīm., Title from folio 1b., Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the poor Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ṭībī baladan, al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban for himself and for whomever he wills after him, requesting from God, the Majestic King, to grant him abundant reward, on blessed Wednesday, the twenty sixth of Ṣafar, 1152 [4 June, 1739] of the Hijrah of the Prophet, may the best of prayer and the most perfect of peace be upon him.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. قال سيدنا ومولانا قاضي القضاة، شيخ مشايخ الإسلام، ملك العلماء الأعلام، سبويه زمانه، فريد عصره وأوانه، زين الدين، لسان المتكلمين، حجة المناظرين، محيي سنة سيد المرسلين، أبو يحيى زكريا الأنصاري الشافعي، تغمده الله برحمته ونفعنا والمسلمين ببركته ... وبعد، فهذا شرح على مختصري المسمى بتحرير تنقيح اللباب في الفقه على مذهب الإمام المجتهد الشافعي، رضي الله عنه، يحل ألفاظه ويبين مراده ويحقق مسائله ويحرر دلايله، وسميته تحفة الطلاب بشرح تحرير تنقيح اللباب. والله الكريم أسأل أن يجعله خالصًا لوجهه الكريم ...", الخاتمة: "كتبه الفقير محمد بن إسماعيل الطيبي بلدًا، الشافعي مذهبًا لنفسه ولمن شاء من بعده، راجيًا من الله الثواب الجزيل من الملك الجليل، وذلك يوم الأربع المبارك، سادس عشرين شهر صفر الخير، من شهور سنة 1152، ألف ومائة اثنين وخمسين بعد الهجرة النبوية، على صاحبها أفضل الصلاة وأتم التسليم.", and بداية الورقة الثانية: بجنات النعيم.
Subject (Name):
Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad,--approximately 1423-approximately 1520., Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad,--approximately 1423-approximately 1520.--Taḥrīr Tanqīḥ al-lubāb., Ibn al-ʻIrāqī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm,--1361-1423.--Tanqīḥ al-Lubāb., Ibn al-Maḥāmilī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1024.--Lubāb fī al-fiqh al-Shāfiʻī., ابن العراقي، أحمد بن عبد الرحيم،--1361-1423.--تنقيح اللباب., ابن المحاملي، أحمد بن محمد،---1024.--لباب في الفقه الشافعي., أنصاري، زكريا بن محمد،--حوالي 1423-حوالي 1520., and أنصاري، زكريا بن محمد،--حوالي 1423-حوالي 1520.--تحرير تنقيح اللباب.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Islamic law--Early works to 1800., and Shafiites--Early works to 1800.