An anonymous treatise on the Arab conquest of North Africa under the leadership of ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir (died 678), a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad who became the governor of Egypt and died there. The present manuscript is the first book (al-sifr al-awwal) of the original work, dealing with the conquest from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf (localities in North Africa). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm of Banū Ṣāliḥ on Wednesday, 1 Shaʻbān, 1083 Hijrī (22 November, 1672). Place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ Ifrīqīyah, فتوح إفريقية, and قصة فتوح إفريقية. السفر 1 : مخطوطة.
Description:
14 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 14 cm; 17 lines per page., Binding: In modern brown cloth binding., Colophon: "Wa-hādhā muqtaḍá al-sifr al-awwal min al-Mahdīyah wa-ilá Sāṭīf ... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-ikmāl ʻalá yad ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm min Banī Ṣāliḥ ... Wa-kāana al-farāgh minhu ʻashīyah yawm al-Arbaʻ awwal shahr Shaʻbān ʻām thalāth wa-thamānīn wa-alf ...", In fair Maghribī script, in brown ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; the first ten leaves are in a different hand and seem to have replaced the original; catchwords. The leaves are affected by dampness, but the text is legible, some are repaired without loss of text., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi. Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. Bi-ʻawn Allāh wa-barakat Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Qāl fa-kharaja ilayhā ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, yakūnu amīr al-jaysh, wa-kharrajahu Mawlānā ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wa-huwa amīr al-Madīnah [madīnat] al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam, wa-yakūnu ʻAlī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wazīrahu. Wa-lam yuqtal aḥad baʻda mawt al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Fa-kharaja bi-sittīn alf fāris min bilād al-ʻArab ...", On folio 10b an invocation in a different hand., On folios 1a an advice on generosity, written in light blue ink, bearing the name and signature of al-Sayyid al-Ṭūfī al-Mālikī, Mudīr ʻĀmm Maʻhad al-Futūḥ al-Malakī, starts with: "Kun karīman kay tanāla bi-qurbinā nūran wa-ʻilman ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: miʼat alf fāris., Text folio 1a-155b., Title from folio 1a., Translation of the colophon: "This is the end of the first book dealing with [the conquest] from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf ... Praise be to God on completing its copying by ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhim of Banī Ṣāliḥ ... The copying was completed on Wednesday evening, the beginning of Shaʻbān, 1083 [22 November, 1672] ...", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله. قصة فتوح إفريقية. بعون الله وبركة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم. قال فخرج إليها عقبة بن عامر، رضي الله عنه، يكون أمير الجيش، وخرّجه مولانا عثمان بن عفان، رضي الله عنه، وهو أمير المدينة [مدينة] النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم، ويكون علي، رضي الله عنه، وزيره. ولم يقتل أحد بعد موت النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم. فخرج بستين ألف فارس من بلاد العرب ...", الخاتمة: "وهذا مقتضى السفر الأول من المهدية وإلى ساطيف ... والحمد لله على التمام والإكمال على يد ... أحمد بن إبراهيم من بني صالح ... وكان الفراغ منه عشية يوم الأربع أول شهر شعبان عام ثلاث وثمانين وألف ...", بداية الورقة الثانية: مائة ألف فارس., على ظهر الورقة 10 دعاء بخط مختلف., and على وجه الورقة 1 نصيحة عن الكرم، مكتوبة بحبر أزرق فاتح، تحمل اسم وتوقيع السيد الطوفي المالكي، مدير عام معهد الفتوح الملكي، بدايتها: "كن كريمًا كي تنال بقربنا نورًا وعلمًا ..."
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, North--History--647-1517--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Islam--Africa, North--History--Early works to 1800.
Selections from the Qurʼān: Starts with verse 53 of Sūrat Yūsuf (Chapter 12), Sūrat al-Raʻd (Chapter 13) to the end of Sūrat Ibrāhīm (Chapter 14). The manuscript was illuminated and copied in China in a Chinese style Arabic calligraphy. Qurʼān manuscripts from China are very rare. Name of copyist and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan. Selections.
Description:
19 x 27.5 cm; written surface: 12.5 x 16 cm; 5 lines per page., Binding: In brown leather binding with flap; covers embossed with central medallions and borders are embossed in floral designs; a little worn; slight smudging., Ends with: "Hādhā balāghun lil-nās wa-li-yundharū bi-hi wa-li-yaʻlamū annamā huwa ilāhun wāḥidun wa-li-yadhdhakkara ulū al-albāb." "Ṣadaqa Allāh al-ʻAẓīm.", In beautiful large Arabic script (Chinese style), in black ink on white paper; text vocalized throughout, with recitation marks in red; all headings of the chapters are written in red; the opening two chapters are illuminated in gold, blue; green, red and other colors; the last page is also illuminated in green, gold, brown and other colors; text within double red frames; some pages are repaired with glued pieces of paper from modern Chinese publications; catchwords., On folio 63 an attempt to practice copying part of verse 5 of Sūrat al-Raʻd., On folio 63b an inscription in classical Chinese., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: Rabbī ghafūrun raḥīm., Starts with: "Wa-mā ubarriʼu nafsī inna al-nafsa la-ammāratun bi-al-sūʼ ...", Title supplied by cataloger., بداية الورقة الثانية: ربي غفورٌ رحيم., تبدأ بـِ: "وما أبرئ نفسي إن النفس لأمارةٌ بالسوء ...", and تنتهي بـِ: "هذا بلاغٌ للناس ولينذروا به وليعلموا أنما هو إله واحدٌ وليذكّر أولوا الألباب." "صدق الله العظيم."
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Raʻd., Qurʼan.--Sūrat Ibrāhīm., and Qurʼan.--Sūrat Yūsuf.
Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, d. 1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, d. ca. 1436
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 436
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (handbook of astronomy) of Maḥmūd al-Jighmīnī. and Incomplete at end.
Description:
End of leaf 50 corresponds to leaf 162 recto (numbered 166) of Ms. Landberg 361; probably only one leaf is missing., Fairly old (16th century?) hasty nastaʻlīq, almost entirely unpointed., In manuscript on fly-leaf: "Comprado en el Cairo 27/12/28. T[eodoro] B[ecu]." With Becu's bookplate., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 1 of 2 items bound together., Purchased from V.G. Simkhovitch in January 1955., With copious diagrams, some with background-pictures representing the constellations in the form of human and animal figures., and With: 1 other title.
Subject (Name):
Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Autograph, Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Bookplate, and Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad,--d. 1221?--Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding and Natural and social sciences--Astronomy and astrology
Ṣabbāgh, Mīkhāʾīl ibn Niqūlā, 1775 or 6-1816 Zawzanī, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, d. 1093 or 4
Published / Created:
[ca. 1810]
Call Number:
Salisbury MSS 48
Image Count:
45
Abstract:
Commentary on the Muʻallaqāt. and Copied by Mīkhāʾīl Ṣabbāgh, about 1810.
Alternative Title:
Muʻallaqāt.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For the author see: Brockelmann, I, 288., From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 141). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Interleaved with 84 leaves, containing copious annotations by Silvestre de Sacy., and Mīkhāʾīl Ṣabbāgh's dates are 1784-1816 (Brockelmann, II, 479).
Subject (Name):
Silvestre de Sacy, A. I. (Antoine Isaac), 1758-1838
Commentary on al-Risālah (epistle) of Ibn Zaydūn. and Copied according to the colophon in A.H. 960 (A.D. 1553).
Alternative Title:
Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn.
Description:
From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 191). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Good naskhī, in red and black. First and last (colophon) leaves supplied by a later hand., The proper title of the work is: Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn., and With autograph note by Rifāʻah Bak al-Ṭahṭāwī.
Subject (Name):
Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1003 or 4-1071. Risālah al-Zaydūnīyah, Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh,--1003 or 4-1071.--Risālah al-Zaydūnīyah, Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Presentation inscription from R. al-Ṭaḥtāwī, and Ṭahṭāwī, Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ,--1801-1873--Presentation inscription to A. I. Silvestre de Sacy
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