Three tracts dealing with the Ismaʻilis and the Karmatians: an extract from Kitāb manāhij al-tawassul fī mabāhij al-tarassul; an untitled collection of 4 sermons, which, although undated, are probably all contemporary; and 2 fragments of a conversation between Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Bākir, the fifth Imām, and an unidentified Khālid ibn Zayd al-Juʾfy.
Modern 19th century naskhī, in red and black., Presented to Edward Elbridge Salisbury by Henry A. DeForest. Presented to Yale by Salisbury in 1870., and The first text in this volume was extracted from a book obtained by the Rev. Eli Smith from Mekhaîl Meshâka of Damascus. The second text was obtained through the courtesy of Louis von Wildenbruch, Prussian Consul General of Syria (died before Oct. 25, 1849), whose dragoman, Mr. Catafago, found it near Aleppo. The third text was also obtained through von Wildenbruch.
Subject (Name):
DeForest, Henry A.--Presentation inscription to E. Salisbury and Salisbury, Edward Elbridge,--1814-1901--Presentation inscription from H. DeForest
Subject (Topic):
Theology--Sects--Ismaʻili and Theology--Sects--Karmatian
Copied after the Mahdī's death, since his name is occasionally followed by the formula ʻalayhi al-salām. and Letters and proclamations.
Description:
"Registre des lettres et proclamations du Mahdi qui se trouvent dans [ce] manuscrit"; 4 leaves, in C. Landberg's hand, in pocket, inside front cover., Cf. JAOS, 31(1911), 368-69, from where it would seem that C. Landberg's original manuscript 543 (a volume of "170 Seiten") is now in the Egyptian Intelligence Office in Cairo and that it was captured at the battle of Toski in 1889., Fair Sudanese hand, in red and black., Imperfect: pp. 252-351 wanting., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Leaves numbered as pp. 1-503 (not counting the first page; pp. 495-503 are blank except for page-numbers).
In metal box, which has magnifying glass set into cover and ring to receive string or chain; the whole probably to be worn as an amulet., Printed from the copy of the calligrapher Ḥāfiẓ ʻUthmān Effendi. Cf. p. 819., and Without t.p.; imprint supplied from colophon, p. 819.
Publisher:
al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻUthmānīyah, and المطبعة العثمانية،
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, b. 1160. Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
Published / Created:
1804 or 1805
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 210
Image Count:
8
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 1215 (A.D. 1804 or 5); parts of the manuscript seem older than 1804. and Exhaustive commentary on al-Qazwīnī's Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, which is an excerpt of part 3 of al-Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
Description:
Islamic binding, covered in green fabric, with flap., Profuse marginal and interlinear notes throughout., and Purchased from Oskar Rescher in 1972 on the Edwin J. Beinecke fund.
Subject (Name):
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān,--1267 or 8-1338.--Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Commentary on ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá (tract on the principles of faith) of Muḥammad al-Sanūsī. The beginnig of the work only.
Alternative Title:
al-Manhaj al-farīd fī maʻrifat ʻilm al-tawḥīd
Description:
Loose leaves., Modern (19th century) Maghribī (Sudanese) hand., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and The matn is the same (with longer titulature) as in Berlin catalog 2006.
Subject (Name):
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, ca. 1427-ca. 1490. ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá. and Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf,--ca. 1427-ca. 1490.--ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá.
Books four and five of "al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb" (Canon of medicine), a comprehensive work on Arabic medicine, by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, 980-1037) who was born near Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna was the most famous and influential scholar, scientist, and philosopher of the medieval world. He was foremost a physician, but was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, psychologist, philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and poet. His al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb became the authoritative reference on medicine in the Middle Ages, not only in the Islamic world, but, in its Latin translations, in Europe as well. The present manuscript consists of book four (folios 1b-156b) and book five (folios 157a-211a) of a five volume set. Book five is called "al-Aqrābādhīn" (pharmacology, materia medica). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 19th century.
Alternative Title:
Aqrābādhīn., Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections, أقراباذين., الكتابان الرابع والخامس من القانون في الطب : مخطوطة / ابن سينا., and قانون في الطب. مختارات
Description:
16.5 x 30.5 cm; written surface: 12.5 x 22.5 cm; 29 lines per page., Binding: In modern dark brown leather binding with flap; spine and flap embossed with central medallions; covers embossed corner decorations., Colophon: "Tamma kitāb al-Aqrābādīn bi-tamāmih min kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá dhālika ḥamdan lā ghāyah la-hā wa-ṣallá [Allāh ʻalá] al-Nabī al-Hāshimī Abṭaḥī [al-Abṭaḥī] wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi ṣalātan lā mithla la-hā. Ḥarrarahu wa-fī sanat thamāniyat ʻashar.", In good medium naskh script, in black ink on white paper; headings and keywords in red; text within frames in red, blue and gold; many wormholes, mostly on the margins; some corrections and notes on the margins; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Fī al-amrāḍ allatī lā takhtaṣṣu bi-ʻuḍw dūna ʻuḍw. al-Kitāb al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn. Kalām kullī fī al-ḥummīyāt wa-huwa sabʻat funūn ...", On folio 156b: "Fa-hādhā ākhir kitāb [...?] wa-huwa ākhir al-kalām min kitāb [al-kitāb] al-rābiʻ wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh shukran kathīran. Wa-yatlūhu kitāb [al-kitāb] al-khāmis fī al-anqrābādīn. Tammat al-jild al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn [... ... ... ...] Allāh sākin Kashmar, ghafara Allāh [la-hu] wa-li-wālidayh. 14.", On folio 157a: "al-Kitāb al-khāmis min al-Qānūn lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-huwa akhir al-kutub minhu.", On folio 157b: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir wa-tammim bi-al-khayr. al-Kitāb al-khāmis min kutub al-Qānūn wa-huwa al-Aqrābādīn. Laqad faraghnā min al-kitāb al-arbaʻah ʻan dhikr al-ʻilam al-naẓarī wa-al-ʻamalī al-ḥāfiẓ lil-ṣiḥḥah wa-ḥāna la-nā an nakhtuma kitāb al-Qānūn, al-kitāb al-khāmis, al-muṣannaf fī al-adwiyah al-murakkabah, li-yakūna kamā al-qarābādīn lil-kitāb ...", On folio 1a: "al-Kitāb al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-yalīhi al-kitāb al-khāmis minhu wa-huwa al-Aqrābādhīn.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-ḥammāmāt fa-yuḥammī judrānah., Title supplied by cataloger., Translation of the colophon: "The book of al-Aqrābādīn of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb [Canon of medicine] of the Grand Master [Avicenna] is completed in its entirety. Praise be to God for this without end. May God pray on the Hashimite and Abṭaḥite Prophet [Muḥammad] and his family and companions, a prayer without equal. Copied in the year eighteen.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. في الأمراض التي لا تختص بعضو دون عضو. الكتاب الرابع من القانون. كلام كلي في الحميات وهو سبعة فنون ...", الخاتمة: "تم كتاب الأقرابادين بتمامه من كتاب القانون في الطب للشيخ الرئيس والحمد لله على ذلك حمدًا لا غاية لها وصلى [الله على] النبي الهاشمي أبطحي [الأبطحي] وعلى آله وأصحابه صلوةً لا مثل لها. حرره وفي سنة ثمانية عشر.", بداية الورقة الثانية: الحمامات فيحمي جدرانه., على ظهر الورقة 156: "فهذا آخر كتاب [...؟] وهو آخر الكلام من كتاب [الكتاب] الرابع والحمد لله شكرًا كثيرًا. ويتلوه كتاب [الكتاب] الخامس في الانقرابادين. تمت الجلد الرابع من القانون [... ... ... ...] الله ساكن كشمر، غفر الله [له] ولوالديه. 14.", على ظهر الورقة 157: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر وتمم بالخير. الكتاب الخامس من كتب القانون وهو الأقرابادين. لقد فرغنا من الكتاب الأربعة عن ذكر العلم النظري والعملي الحافظ للصحة وحان لنا أن نختم كتاب القانون، الكتاب الخامس، المصنّف في الأدوية المركبة، ليكون كما القرابادين للكتاب ...", على وجه الورقة 1: "الكتاب الرابع من القانون للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا، رحمه الله، ويليه الكتاب الخامس منه وهو الأقراباذين.", and على وجه الورقة 157: "الكتاب الخامس من القانون للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا، رحمه الله، وهو آخر الكتب منه."
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and ابن سينا،--980-1037.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Materia medica, Medicine, Arab, and Medicine, Medieval