- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 595
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- An amulet on long scroll of vellum or snake skin, rolled around a central axis into a silver hexagonal tube with a cap; niello etched in an arabesque pattern in gold, with three loops where a chain can go through, so that it can be worn as a necklace. The scroll is written in a long central column surrounded by eight different rectangular compartments in different colors. The central column contains Surat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97), followed by Surāt al-Fātiḥat (Qurʼan: Chapter 1), followed by the Creator's verse of Sūrat al-Ḥajj (Qurʼan: Chapter 22:65), followed by a long invocation asking God for help and guidance, followed by a Shiʻī invocation asking for the intecession of Imām ʻAlī, followed by a magic square. The amulet is meant to have magical powers to protect the owner. Name of copyist (and/or creator) and place and date of copying/and or production not mentioned, probably from the 18th or 19th century.
- Description:
- 39.5 x 6 cm., Incipit: Starts with Sūrat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97): "Innā anzalnāhu fī Laylat al-Qadr ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., The central part of the amulet is written in ruqʻah/naskh script and the compartments in thulth script, in black, blue, red and gold., and Title supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Topic):
- Amulets (Islam)--Early works to 1800., Arabic manuscripts., Islamic magic--Early works to 1800., Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Fātiḥah--Early works to 1800., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Ḥajj--Early works to 1800., and Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-qadr--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Amulet : manuscript.
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- Creator:
- Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 295
- Image Count:
- 512
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Various theological tracts: Tafsīr āyāt ashkalat (leaf 30 recto), Tafsīr tabbat (leaf 70 recto), Faṣl fī āyat al-ribāʾ (leaf 72 recto), al-Risālah al-Ḥamawīyah (leaf 98 verso), fatāwá, etc.
- Alternative Title:
- Faṣl fī āyat al-ribāʾ., Fatāwá [Ibn Taymīyah]., Risālah al-Ḥamawīyah., Tafsīr āyāt ashkalat., and Tafsīr tabbat.
- Description:
- Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Marginalia., Several modern (18th century) hands, in red and black., and With: 2 other titles.
- Subject (Topic):
- Islamic binding and Theology--Dogmatics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Jumlat rasāʾil / li-shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah. -- [17--?].
- Creator:
- Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 295
- Image Count:
- 47
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Tract endeavoring to show that the Koran is neither the word of Muḥammad nor of the Archangel Gabriel, but of God Himself.
- Description:
- Fair modern (18th century) naskhī, in red and black., Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and With: 2 other titles.
- Subject (Topic):
- Islamic binding and Theology--Dogmatics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Kitāb al-Baʻlabakkīyah / min muṣannafāt ... Taqī al-Dīn ... Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah al-Ḥarrānī. -- [17--?].
- Creator:
- Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 295
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Tract endeavoring to show that the sacred places in Palestine are of secondary sanctity, and that pilgrimage thither and prayer there are of subordinate importance.
- Description:
- Fair modern (18th century) naskhī, in red and black., Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and With: 2 other titles.
- Subject (Topic):
- Islamic binding and Theology--Dogmatics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Qāʻidah fī ziyārat Bayt al-Maqdis / taṣnīf ... Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah. -- [17--?].
- Creator:
- Hippocrates.
بقراط. - Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 650
- Image Count:
- 454
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- A commentary on a work by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, and other medical treatises. It is not certain what books by Hippocrates the present manuscript covers and who is the commentator but it appears to deal with the whole field of medicine. It is divided into ten sections: 1. Cures and methods of treatment (folios: 1b-21b). 2. Treatment of swelling (folios: 21b-30b). 3. Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah (folios: 301b-70a) (A book by this title is attributed to ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās al-Majūsī (active 10th century-11th century)). 4. Treatment of eye sores (folios: 71b-89a). 5. Treatment of small pox and measels (folios: 91a-124b). 6. Methods for treating each member of the body (folios: 125b-160b). 7. Avoiding epidemic diseases (folios: 161b-169a). 8. Preparing travelers on land and sea and equipping them with the necessary advice, caution and medicine (folios: 169b-172a). 9. Treatment of arthritis, gout, knee and hand pain, hip and spine pain, treating varicose veins, etc. (folios: 175b-188a). 10. The pharmacology of Ibn Māsawayh (Yūḥannā ibn Māsawayh, d. 857 or 858) and the pharmacology of Niqulāwus (Nicolaus Myrepsus, active 13th century) (folios: 189b-222a). The name of copyist and the place and date of copying are not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
- Alternative Title:
- شرح مقدمة المعرفة لبقراط ورسائل في الطب، [17--؟].
- Description:
- 15 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 11.8 x 18 cm; 21-25 lines per page., Bound., In an anusual naskh script which tilts to the left, in black ink on white paper; edges rubbed, rebacked, slightly soiled, leaves 159-188 are affected by dampness, mainly marginally; both covers embossed with central medallion; catchwords., In Arabic., Incipit: "Ibtidāʼ al-maqālah al-thāniyah min al-juzʼ al-thāmin al-kāmil. al-Bāb al-awwal fī taqsīm al-mudāwāh wa-ṭuruq al-ʻilāj. al-Bāb al-sābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn fī mudāwāt al-awrām. al-Maqālah al-thālithah fī kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. al-Bāb al-rābiʻ wa-al-thalāthūn min al-Kāmil fī mudāwāt al-ramad. al-Bāb al-awwal fī mudāwāt al-judarī wa-al-ḥaṣbah. al-Maqālah al-khāmisah min al-juzʼ al-thānī wa-hiya ithnayn wa-thamānūn bāban: al-Bāb al-awwal fī al-ṭuruq al-maslūkah ilá mudāwāt kull wāḥid min al-aʻḍāʼ idhā ḥadathat fīhi al-ʻillah. al-Bāb al-sādis wa-al-ʻishrīn min al-maqālah al-ūlá fī al-taḥarruz, min al-taḥarruz min al-amrāḍ al-wabāʼīyah. al-Bāb al-ḥādī wa-al-thalāthūn fī tadbīr al-musāfir fī al-barr wa-al-baḥr wa-mā yuḥtāju ilayhi fī hādhā al-tadbīr alladhī yaṣluḥu li-istiʻdād al-safar wa-al-taḥarruz min an yanālahu al-ḍarrar fī safarih. Amrāḍ al-mafāṣil, wa-hiya al-niqris wa-awjāʻ al-rukbatayn wa-awjāʻ al-yadayn wa-wajaʻ al-wirk wa-ʻirq al-nasā ...al-maqālah al-ūlá min Aqrabādīn Ibn Māsawayh wa-Niqlāwus wa-al-tarākīb allatī tustaʻmalu fī zamāninā bi-bilād al-Ifranj.", Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009., Title supplied by vendor., and البداية: "ابتداء المقالة الثانية من الجزء الثامن الكامل. الباب الأول في تقسيم المداواة وطرق العلاج. الباب السابع والعشرون في مداواة الأورام. المقالة الثالثة في كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية. الباب الرابع والثلاثون من الكامل في مداواة الرمد. الباب الأول في مداواة الجدري والحصبة. المقالة الخامسة من الجزء الثاني وهي اثنين وثمانون بابًا: الباب الأول في الطرق المسلوكة إلى مداواة كل واحد من الأعضاء إذا حدثت فيه العلة. الباب السادس والعشرين من المقالة الأولى في التحرز، من التحرز من الأمراض الوبائية. الباب الحادي والثلاثون في تدبير المسافر في البر والبحر وما يحتاج إليه في هذا التدبير الذي يصلح لاستعداد السفر والتحرز من أن يناله الضرر في سفره. أمراض المفاصل، وهي النقرس وأوجاع الركبتين وأوجاع اليدين ووجع الورك وعرق النسا ...المقالة الأولى من أقربادين ابن ماسويه ونقلاوس والتراكيب التي تستعمل في زماننا ببلاد الإفرنج."
- Subject (Name):
- Hippocrates. and بقراط.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic manuscripts. and Medicine, Arab.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sharḥ muqaddimat al-maʻrifah li-Buqrāṭ wa-rasāʼill fī al-ṭibb, [17--?].
- Creator:
- ʻAlamī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá.
علمي، ضياء الدين أبو الهدى. - Call Number:
- Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 188
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- A treatise about "Ahl al-Dhimmah" or "Dhimmis" (the protected minorities, mainly Christians and Jews) according to Islamic law, by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá ʻAlamī who wrote his work for al-Amīr Sayf al-Dīn al-Mihrānī (probably Sayf al-Dīn Balabān al-Mihrānī, the overseer of the stables of al-Malik al-Ẓahir Baybars (Baybars I, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1223?-1277). No reference could be found for the author or his work. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
- Alternative Title:
- الأحكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة : مخطوطة / ضياء الدين أبو الهدى علمي.
- Description:
- Binding: Unbound (in 1 quire)., Colophon: Colophon missing; the author ends his work with: "... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam.", Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh munshiʼ saḥāb al-maʻrifah fī samāʼ al-adhhān wa-muṭliʻ shams al-ʻināyah min mashriq al-fahm wa-maṭlaʻ al-bayān wa-munawwir al-jawāriḥ bi-ṣifāt al-ʻibādah wa-anwār al-īmān, wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh shahādata man waḥḥadahu ʻalá al-mushāhadah wa-al-ʻayān wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan ʻabduhu wa-rasūluhu al-mabʻūth lil-kāffah min ḍiʼḍiʼ Maʻadd ibn ʻAdnān, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-makhṣūṣīn bi-al-riḍwān ... fa-qaṣada al-Amīr al-kabīr Sayf al-Dīn al-Mahrānī al-muʻadd la-hum wa-al-muḥakkam fīhim al-muʻayyan bayna al-aʻyān an adhkura la-hu mā warada fī dhālika min al-shurūṭ li-yakūna ḥujjah ʻinda al-imtiḥān fa-istakhartu Allāh wa-jamaʻtuhu bi-ḥaythu lā yaṭʻanu fīhi insān wa-sammaytuhu al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah ...", On folio 1a: "al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah takhrīj al-faqīr ilá Allāh subḥānahu wa-taʻālá al-Mawlá Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abī al-Hudá ʻAlamī ḥam [ḥāmī] al-Sunnah, raḥimahu Allāh.", On folio 5b, an anecdote about the thirteen "mamsūkhūn" (those transformed into animals and inanimate objects and the reasons for their transformation), quoted from Ḥashiyat al-ʻAlqamī (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1492-1556) ʻalá al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr (of al-Suyūṭi, 1445-1505): al-Fīl (elephant), al-dubb (bear), al-khinzīr (pig), al-qird (monkey), al-jirrīth (eel), al-ḍabb (lizard), al-waṭwāṭ (bat), al-ʻaqrab (scorpion), al-Zuhrah (Venus), al-duʻmūṣ (tadpole), al-ʻankabūt (spider), al-arnab (rabbit), Suhayl (Canopus)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-Iskandarīyah ḥamāhu Allāh, Text: Folios 1a-5b; folio 6 is blank., Title from incipit., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله منشئ سحاب المعرفة في سماء الأذهان ومطلع شمس العناية من مشرق الفهم ومطلع البيان ومنور الجوارح بصفات العبادة وأنوار الأمان، وأشهد أن لا إله إلّا الله شهادة من وحده على المشاهدة والعيان وأشهد أن محمدًا عبده ورسوله المبعوث للكافة من ضئضئ معدّ بن عدنان، صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه المخصوصين بالرضوان ... فقصد الأمير الكبير سيف الدين المهراني المعدّ لهم والمحكّم فيهم المعيّن بين الأعيان أن اذكر له ما ورد في ذلك من الشروط ليكون حجة عند الامتحان فاستخرت الله وجمعته بحيث لا يطعن فيه إنسان وسميته ال'حكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة ...", بداية الورقة الثانية: الإسكندرية حماه الله, and على وجه الورقة 1: "الأحكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة تخريج الفقير إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى المولى ضياء الدين أبي الهدى علمي حام [حامي] السنة، رحمه الله."
- Subject (Name):
- ʻAlamī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá. and علمي، ضياء الدين أبو الهدى.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic manuscripts, Dhimmis (Islamic law), and Minorities (Islamic law)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah : manuscript / Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá ʻAlamī.