Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1325-1374 or 1375
Published / Created:
1885
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 69
Image Count:
52
Abstract:
Appeal to contemporary poets for information about their life and works, for use in the anthology compiled by the author, entitled Mujtabá al-udabāʾ (including specimens from the anthology). and Copied in A.H. 1302 (A.D. 1885).
Description:
Considerable marginalia. and Fair naskhī, in red and black.
Subject (Name):
Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá,--1325-1374 or 1375.--Mujtabá al-udabāʾ
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Poetry--Anthologies
Handbook of geography, based on the Kitāb al-ashkāl of Aḥmad ibn Sahl Balkhī.
Description:
2 p. l., 23, [1] p.; 2 l., facsim.: (126 p., XIX maps), 127-132 p., 1 l., Liber climatum auctore scheicho Abu-Ishako el-Faresi vulgo el-Issthachri. Ad similitudinem codicis Gothani (= Pertsch 1521) accuratissime delineandum et lapidibus exprimendum curavit Dr. J. H. Moeller. Praemissa est dissertatio de Libri climatum indole, auctore et aetate. Gothae, In libraria Beckeriana, 1839., and This copy comprises the facsimile only (1 l., 126 p., and maps). It is not clear whether it is imperfect, or whether it was issued for the Oriental trade, with the Latin matter omitted.
Subject (Name):
Balkhī, Aḥmad ibn Sahl, 849 or 850-934
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Geography and travel
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.
Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, 1116 (ca.)-1201.
Published / Created:
1835
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 691
Image Count:
413
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on one hundred verses from the Koran., Copied in A.H. 1250 (A.D. 1835)., and Preceded by 2 leaves of notes.
Alternative Title:
Muntakhab fī al-mawāʻiẓ wa-al-ādāb.
Description:
Fair Yemenite naskhī, in red and black., Loose in Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Title, as above, is given in the incipit, leaves 1 verso-2 recto; the title on leaf 1 recto reads: al-Muntakhab fī al-mawāʻiẓ wa-al-ād[]̄ab.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Theology--Koran--Commentaries.
Collection of prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection from the enemies, with many verses from the Qurʼān. Name of the author not mentioned. Copied and illuminated in 1267 Hijrī (1850 or 1851) by the calligrapher al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir nicknamed "Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān" (Memorizer of the Qurʼān). Place of copying not mentioned.
Description:
10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt., Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H.", In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ...", Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn., Text folios 1b-11b., Title supplied by cataloger., Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851].", البداية: "بسم االله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين، الرحمن الرحيم. إيّاك نعبد وإيّاك نستعين. اهدنا الصراط المستقيم، صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم، غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالّين ...", الخاتمة: "كتبه المذنب السيد محمد راسم من تلاميذ محمد ذاكر [الملقّب] بحافظ القرآن، غفر لهما، سنة 1267 ھ.", بداية الورقة الثانية: ننجي المؤمنين., and تتكرر خلال النص، بحبر أحمر، عشر مرات، لازمة الدعاء التالية: "أعداؤنا لن يصلوا إلينا بالنفس ولا بالواسطة، لا قدرة لهم على إيصال السوء إلينا بحال من الأحوال."
Subject (Name):
Rāsim, Muḥammad, Active 1850. and راسم، محمد، ناشط 1850.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Illumination of books and manuscripts., Invocation--Religious aspects--Islam., Prayer--Islam., and Qurʼan.--Selections.