Manuscript, on parchment, in Gothic script, produced in Flanders during the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century.
Description:
Binding: dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth century)., Decorations include a half-page initial on f. 43r (six other half-page initials have been cut from the manuscript) and illustrations of the labors of the months in the calendar., On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century., and The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be."
A mystical allegory., Copied in Baghdad in A.H. 680 (A.D. 1282)., and Preceded by 2 leaves of notes.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black., Incipit same as in Tübingen catalog 89 (12)., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and With: 6 other titles.
Ibn Karrāmah, al-Muḥassin ibn Muḥammad, 1022-1101
Published / Created:
1289
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 550
Image Count:
117
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 688 (A.D. 1289)., Defense of the character of the prophets and imams., and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
For the author see Brockelmann, S I, p. 731., Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black., Imperfect: wormed with slight loss of text., and Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the front cover has been preserved.
A philosophical tract. and Copied some time after A.H. 680 (A.D. 1282).
Description:
Brockelmann and Goldziher (Steinschneider Festschrift, p. 111) ascribe the authorship to Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, and the latter evidently without any proof, since he apparently knew of this tract from this manuscript only., Fair naskhī., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and With: 6 other titles.