Holograph manuscript, with corrections and a table of contents, providing an account of Christian missionarary work among the Iroquois, Cherokees, California Indians, Eskimo, Wyandots, Objibwas and other American Indians. Includes sections on Hans Egede's work among Greenland's Eskimo population, the efforts of Presbyterians in Alaska, and the Franciscan's California missions. Includes an incomplete chapter about Richard Henry Pratt and the schools he established in St. Augustine, Florida, Virginia, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Description:
Margaret Winslow authored numerous young adult novels between 1875 and 1892 while living in Boston, Massachusetts and Saugerties, New York. She also published promotional stories about the American women's gospel temperance movement and the YMCA. and Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Egede, Hans,--1686-1758, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.), Pratt, Richard Henry,--1840-1924, and United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians--Missions, Cree Indians--Missions, Eskimos--Missions--Greenland, Franciscans--California, Indians of North America--Missions, Indians of North America--Missions--California, Indians of North America--Missions--Northwest Territories, Iroquois Indians--Missions, Ojibwa Indians--Missions, Presbyterians--Missions--Alaska, and Wyandot Indians--Missions
Autograph diary of a tour through Germany and Italy, with a return voyage by way of Malta, Algiers and Gibraltar, taken by Trollope between September 1843 and April 1844 in the company of his friend Edward Davies. Trollope describes travel arrangements; monuments, works of art, and various tourist sights, particularly in Rome; church services attended and sermons heard; flowers and trees; shipboard activities; the quarantine of his steamer at Ryde; and the weather. He concludes his account by noting that ""I have seen quite enough to be able to value and prize the Institutions of our own country more than those I have left behind.""
Description:
40 etched, lithographed and aquatinted prints (3 hand-colored) of various subjects, including 5 of Malta. Several bills, tickets, passes and newspaper clippings pasted in, including an article on ""The Ghetto at Rome"" from Jewish Records), September 1857 (
Subject (Geographic):
Coblentz (Germany) and Ehrenbreitstein (Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Boats and boating, Coast defenses, Fortification, Tourism, Travelers, and Travelers writings, English
Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389. تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر،, 1322-1389؟.
Published / Created:
1818 or 1819.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 628
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A treatise on Arabic rhetoric being a summary of an extensive commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī (1322-1389?), a famous and prolific Arabic language philologist, rhetorician and logician from Taftāzān (North Khurāsān Province, Iran) who was exiled by Tīmūr, the Mongol ruler to Samarqand where he died and was buried in Sarakhs (Iran) on "Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm" of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qazwīnī (1267 or 1268-1338) entitled "Sharḥ Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm", itself a summary of the third part of "Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm" of Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (born 1160). According to the colophon the author finished writing his work on a Thursday noon, 22 Ramaḍān [year not mentioned]. Copied by Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Ḥusayn al-Zawrī [al-Zūrī] in the year 1234 Hijrī (1818 or 1819). Place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
مختصر شرح تلخيص مفتاح العلوم : مخطوطة / مسعود بن عمر التفتازاني.
Description:
14.5 x 24. cm; written surface: 8 x 16.5 cm; 19 lines per page., Binding: Islamic binding with four central medallion embossed on both covers., Colophon: "Faraghtu min taswīd hādhā al-mukhtaṣar bi-ʻawn Allāh al-Malik al-Akbar waqta al-ẓuhr yawm al-Khamīs min al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrīn shahr Ramaḍān al-mubārak wa-razaqanā fī ṣawmihi wa-ṣalātihi al-khushūʻ wa-al-idhʻān wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Nabīyihi alladhī khalaqa li-ajlihi al-kawn wa-al-makān wa-ʻalá ālihi alladhīna sabaqūnā bi-al-īmān wa-aṣḥābihi alladhīn ittabaʻūhum bi-iḥsān. al-Kātib al-faqīr al-mudhnib al-ʻāṣī afqar khalq Allāh Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Ḥusayn al-Zawrī [al-Zūrī]. Allāhumma ighfir la-hu sanat 1234. [Seal: Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn].", In clear and neat nastaʻlīq script, in black ink on white paper with markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Naḥmaduka yā man sharaḥa ṣudūranā li-talkhīṣ al-bayān fī īḍāḥ al-maʻānī wa-nawwara qulūbanā bi-jawāmiʻ al-bayān min maṭāliʻ al-mathānī wa-nuṣallī ʻalá Nabīyika Muḥammad al-muʼayyid dalāʼil iʻjāzihi bi-asrār al-balāghah wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-muḥrizīn qaṣabāt al-sabq fī miḍmār al-faṣāḥah wa-al-barāʻah. Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-ghanī Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-madʻū bi-Saʻd al-Taftāzānī hadāhu Allāh taʻālá sawāʼa al-ṭarīq wa-adhāqahu ḥalāwat al-taḥqīq qad sharaḥtu fī mā maḍá Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: wa-inna hādhā al-fann, Title supplied by vendor., Translation of the colophon: "I finished drafting this abridgment by the help of God the Great King on Thursday noon, the twenty second of the blessed month of Ramaḍān, may we be granted in it, by our fasting and prayer, humility, submissiveness and the praying on His Prophet for whom the universe and space was created and on his family who preceded us in faith and on his companions who followed them graciously. The copyist is the poor sinner and rebellious, the poorest of God's creatures Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Ḥusayn al-Zawrī [al-Zūrī]. O God forgive him. The year 1234 [Seal: Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn].", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. نحمدك يا من شرح صدورنا لتلخيص البيان في إيضاح المعاني ونور قلوبنا بجوامع البيان من مطالع المثاني ونصلي على نبيك محمد المؤيد دلائل إعجازه بأسرار البلاغة وعلى آله وأصحابه المحرزين قصبات السبق في مضمار الفصاحة والبراعة. وبعد، فيقول الفقير إلى الله الغني مسعود بن عمر المدعو بسعد التفتازاني هداه الله تعالى سواء الطريق وأذاقه حلاوة التحقيق قد شرحت في ما مضى تلخيص المفتاح ...", الخاتمة: "فرغت من تسويد هذا المختصر بعون الله الملك الأكبر وقت الظهر يوم الخميس من الثاني والعشرين شهر رمضان المبارك ورزقنا في صومه وصلوته الخشوع والإذعان والصلوة على نبيه الذي خلق لأجله الكون والمكان وعلى آله الذين سبقونا بالإيمان وأصحابه الذين اتبعوهم بإحسان. الكاتب الفقير المذنب العاصي أفقر خلق الله زين العابدين بن حسين [؟] الزوري [الزوري]. اللهم اغفر له سنة 1234. [خاتم: زين العابدين].", and بداية الورقة الثانية: وإن هذا الفن
Subject (Name):
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān,--1267 or 1268-1338.--Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ fī ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-badīʻ wa-al-bayān., Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr,--1160---Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm., Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar,--1322-1389., Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar,--1322-1389?--Sharḥ Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm., تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر،,--1322-1389؟., تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر،,--1322-1389؟.--شرح تلخيص مفتاح العلوم., سكاكي، يوسف بن أبي بكر،,--1160---مفتاح العلوم., and قزويني، جلال الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن،,--1267 أو 1268-1338.--تلخيص المفتاح في علم المعاني والبديع والبيان.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language--Rhetoric. and Arabic manuscripts.
Notebook or diary containing pen-and-ink sketches and autograph manuscript captions and text documenting the activities and interests of a young, New Haven, Connecticut-area woman over a five month period from September 1893 into January 1894. Sketches and captions depict and refer to objects, friends, school, and social activities. Activities include meetings with others, meals, church, drawing, dancing, shopping for gifts, the gym, the circus, Yale University events, and specific games, such as charades, chess, cards, parchisi, hide-and-seek, and paper dolls. Includes loose material and material pasted in: one autograph letter, signed, addressed to Hastings at a New Haven address, additional sketches, one clipping, printed ephemera, and manuscript notes.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French., From cover: The Keystone Note Book., Katharine P. Hastings (circa late 1870s-) of 248 Bradley St., New Haven, Connecticut., Purchased from James Arsenault & Company on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2015., and Title from title page.
Subject (Geographic):
New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Katharine P. and Yale University
Subject (Topic):
Board games, Games--United States, Paper dolls, Women--United States--Social life and customs--19th century, and Young women--United States
The account covers an 1851 trip from Oregon to Salt Lake City by way of Vancouver, the Columbia River, the Blue Mountains, Fort Boise, and Fort Hall. Jennings stayed at Fort Vancouver and wrote about the Rifle Regiment, the Hudson's Bay Company, and Indians. From Vancouver he went by river with R. Wilson, A. McKay, A. McArthur, K. Pritchette, and Lt. W. Wood, and later with Maj. J. Owen. The diary describes Mormons and notes figures in Oregon history. There is a sketch of Mt. Hood. and Typed transcript completely digitized.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe. and Oliver Jennings, daguerreotypist.
Subject (Geographic):
California National Historic Trail, Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Washington (State)--Description and travel, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hudson's Bay Company, Jennings, Oliver, McKay, Alexander, Ogden, Peter Skene, 1790-1854, Pritchette, Kintzing, Wilson, Robert, fl. 1851, Wood, William, fl. 1851, and Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Washington (State), Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific, and Mormons--Utah