Carl Van Vechten papers relating to African American arts and letters
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | 144-145
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
[Invitation to wedding of Countee Cullen and Nina Yolande Du Bois]
Subject (Name):
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946, Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465. جزولي، محمد بن سليمان، -1465
Published / Created:
1793 or 1794.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 616
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A well-known collection of prayers and devotions to the Prophet Muḥammad, by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, a Moroccan Muslim scholar and well-known Sufi of the Shadhilīyah Sufi order, of Berber decent, who had many devotees called "Jazūlīyah" after his own name. Copied in 1208 Hijrī (1793 or 1794) by the calligrapher Muṣṭafá al-Ḥalīmī, a student of the well-known Ottoman calligrapher Muṣṭafá al-Kūtāhī (died 1787). Place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt, Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār, دلائل الخيرات, دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في الصلاة على النبي المختار : مخطوطة / محمد بن سليمان الجزولي., and كتاب دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في الصلاة على النبي المختار
Description:
11 x 17 cm; written surface: 5.5 x 11; 13 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather binding with central medallion and gilt decorations., Colophon: "Katabahu aḍʻaf al-ḍaʻīf, khādim al-dīn al-ʻarīf, Muṣṭafá al-Ḥalīmī, min talāmīdh Muṣṭafá al-Kūtāhī, ghafara Allāh dhunūbahumā wa-satara ʻuyūbahumā, wa-li-man naẓara ilayhi. Āmīn. Fī sanat thamān wa-miʼatayn wa-alf.", In elegant naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; keywords and markings in red; text completely vocalized; pages are ruled in several lines of gold, black, red, and blue throughout; all sentences are separated with rosettes in gold and other colors; the opening two pages are highly illuminated in gold, brown, blue, and other colors; head and tail pieces illuminated in gold, blue, red, and other colors on folios 8b, 13b, 14a, 15b, 16a, 24a, 31b, 35b, 39b, 44a, 48a, 53a, 53v, 56b, 57b, 62a, 65b, 75a, and 81a; the different names of the Prophet are written in an intricate design of medallions in gold and other colors (folios 8b-13a); folios 14b and 15a contain two full-page miniatures, one of them representing the Kaʻbah in Mecca, the other representing the tomb of the Prophet Muḥammad in the Medina Mosque; few marginal notes in tiny but very legible script., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī hadānā lil-īmān wa-al-Islām, wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Muḥammad nabīyihi alladhī istanqadhanā min ʻibādat al-awthān wa-al-aṣnām wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-nujabāʼ al-bararah al-kirām ...", On folio 2a: "... wa-sammaytuhu bi-Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: hādhā al-kitāb dhikr al-ṣalāh., Title from folio 2a., Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the weakest of the weak, servant of the leading religion, Muṣṭafá al-Ḥalīmī, a student of Muṣṭafá al-Kūtāhī, may God forgive the sins of both of them and cover their shortcomings, may He also forgive those who look into it [the manuscript]. Amen. In the year one thousand two hundred and eight.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. الحمد لله الذي هدانا للإيمان والإسلام، والصلاة على محمد نبيه الذي استنقذنا من عبادة الأوثان والأصنام وعلى آله وأصحابه النجباء البررة الكرام ...", الخاتمة: "كتبه أضعف الضعيف، خادم الدين العريف، مصطفى الحليمي، من تلاميذ مصطفى الكوتاهي، غفر الله ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما، ولمن نظر إليه. آمين. في سنة ثمان ومائتين وألف.', بداية الورقة الثانية: هذا الكتاب ذكر الصلوة., and على وجه الورقة 2: "... وسميته بكتاب دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار."
Subject (Name):
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān,---1465., Muḥammad,--Prophet,---632--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800., and جزولي، محمد بن سليمان،---1465
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800., Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800., and Shādhilīyah--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part III: Nicetas of Serres, Commentarius in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes. Part IV: Theophanes Cerameus, Homiliae (text of 13 sermons). Part V: Andrew of Crete, Encomium in Martyres X. Part VI: Nicephorus Blemmydes, De anima. Part VII: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum, extract (ch. 14-15).
Description:
Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9480). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked., In Greek., Part I: Carefully executed woven headpieces in black and red on ff. 1r and 7r; beginning of each portion of the text marked by large initial in red, accompanied by flowers outlined in red and filled with pale yellow. Rubrics stop on f. 22v. Part II: Crude headpiece (in imitation of that on f. 7r?) occurs on f. 100r. Large painted initials, in red, with vine-leaf appendages, mark sections of the text. Part III: Delicate floral headpiece on f. 138r: each flower is outlined in red and painted with pale grey and red washes; details added in black. More modest headpiece in similar style, but painted with yellow, occurs on f. 148v; intricate initials in same colors on ff. 138v and 148v. Part IV: Simple woven headpieces, in red, on ff. 266r and 269r. Initials with floral motifs accompany rubricated titles for each sermon; decoration is incomplete (stops on f. 320r). Part V: One initial, in black, occurs at the beginning of the text (f. 330r). Part VII: Small decorative initial and heading, in red, at the beginning of the work., and Script: The codex is composed of several small manuscripts and booklets, each copied by a different scribe but all written in similar styles of minuscule, that were originally bound together in the 17th century shortly after being copied.
Subject (Name):
Andrew, of Crete, Saint, approximately 660-740, Dionysius, of Halicarnassus, Dionysius,--the Areopagite, Saint,--1st cent, Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, Nicephorus, Blemmydes, 1197-1272, and Pachymeres, George, 1242-ca. 1310
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholia, Sermons--Early works to 1800, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
5
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: II labelled IV., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: III labelled II., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: IV labelled III., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae.
Description:
Binding: Date? Original sewing on two thick, slit leather straps, the endbands sewn on leather cores. Flush beech boards with straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels slanted up to the outer face. The ends of the straps therefore protrude well above the face. Straps nailed and endband cores laid in V shaped grooves and nailed. The spine and about one quarter of the boards covered by brown calf with a nailed parchment strip at the edge, fragments only remaining. No adhesive on the spine. Channels for straps cut in the upper board. Holes for pins in the lower, but no marks of pin plates. This binding could be contemporary or 19th-20th century. It is interesting to note that the manuscript was bought because of the binding and not because of the text., Historiated initial with partial border contains the portrait of Boethius (f. 14r); four illuminated initials of similar design and colors (dark red, red-orange, green, blue, gold) on ff. 6r, 12v, 22r, 29v (beginning of Books II-V). Small initials and paragraph marks in red throughout., and Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by one scribe.
Subject (Topic):
Consolation--Early works to 1800, Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (warped and stained by moisture) of Cicero, De divinatione.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 182, 212., Copied in Italy, perhaps in Rome, in 1456 (see colophon in art. 1) by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri probably for his personal use, Imperfect: Water stained at end, f. 57 marginalia excised at fore-edge margin., On parchment, One illuminated initial, 6-line, on f. 28r, gold against blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, joined to a partial border, white vine-stem ornament curling around a thin gold bar on blue, green and deep red ground with white dots on blue, grey on red and pale yellow on green. Headings and running titles in red., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand., and Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De divinatione and Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Divination--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library