Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and With marginal notes by ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Nāfiʻ and Naṣr al-Hūrīnī (cf. leaves 8 verso, 130 recto, 192 recto).
Subject (Name):
ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Nāfiʻ--Ms. notes. and Hūrīnī, Naṣr,--d. 1874 or 5--Ms. notes.
Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 2
Image Count:
693
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
According to C. Landberg, this copy probably belonged to Ibn Taymīyah himself, or else was corrected by him., Ex-libris of Muḥammad ibn Khalīl(?) ibn Quṭuz al-Ẓāhirī on leaf 1 recto dated A.H. 759 (A.D. 1358)., and Polemic against the Shīʻah and the Qadarīyah, in refutation of the Minhāj al-karāmah of Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.
Sayfī Āqbāy, Muḥammad ibn Jānī Bak, 15th cent.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 31
Image Count:
366
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Anthology, in prose and verse, on the subject of virtues and vices, being an abridgment of the Ghurar al-khaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiḥah wa-ʻurar al-naqāʾiṣ al-fāḍiḥah of Muḥammad al-Waṭwāṭ., Copied in A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1692)., Followed (leaves 174-76) by a fāʾidah on the subject of coffee by one al-Ujhūrī., and Followed by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black.
Subject (Name):
Ujhūrī. Sharḥ al-ṣaghīr. and Waṭwāṭ, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá, 1235-1318. Ghurar al-khaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiḥah wa-ʻurar al-naqāʾiṣ al-fāḍiḥah.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Belles lettres. and Miscellanea--Coffee.
A literary work, in prose and verse; followed (33-38) by some minor pieces, supposedly by the same author. and Copied in A.H. 603 (A.D. 1206).
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black. and On leaf 1 recto is written: "E. Scheidius. 1767." From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 163). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870.
Subject (Name):
Scheidius, Everard,--1742-1794--Ownership. and Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Ownership.
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.
Ḥanbalī, ʻAlī ibn al-Bahāʼ, 1419 or 1420-1494 or 1495.
Published / Created:
1488
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 319
Image Count:
564
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wajīz (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. The second half of the work. and Copied in A.H. 893 (A.D. 1488).
Description:
C. Landberg gave the author's name (from Shadharāt al-dhahab) as Alāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbalī, d. A.H. 899, and the title as Fatḥ al-malik al-ʻazīz bi-sharḥ al-Wajīz (confusion with al-Rāfiʻī's commentary; cf. Berlin catalog, 4470). The explicit gives the author's name, and the date of completion, A.H. 887., First half wanting., Good naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, paper covered, flap missing.
Subject (Name):
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. Wajīz. and Ghazzālī,--1058-1111.--Wajīz.
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."
Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين، ناشط قرن 16.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 619
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection of two treatises. 1. Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb (folios 1b-78b), "Commentary on Twenty chapters of the astrolabe" (in Persian), a treatise on the astrolabe (a medieval astronomical instrument used to observe the position of celestial bodies) by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (active 16th century), an astronomer and a Ḥanafī "faqīh" (Islamic law scholar), who wrote in both Arabic and Persian, being a commentary on Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb "Twenty chapters on knowing the uses of the astrolabe" of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (1201-1274), a prolific author in many disciplines and the leading scholar at the court of the Mongol ruler Hulagu Khan (Hülegü, 1217-1265) in Marāghah (Āz̲arbāyjān-i Khāvarī, Iran). Copied on Tuesday night, 3 Ramaḍān, 1307 Hijrīyah (23 April, 1890) at al-Madrasah al-Nāṣirīyah, in Tehran (Iran). Name of copyist not mentioned (probably "Mullā ʻAbd al-ʻAlī Parjadī" who is mentioned in the incipit, but this could be a distortion of the name of the author "ʻAbd al-ʻAlī al-Birjandī"). 2. Followed by a short Arabic treatise (folios 78b-79b), a mathematical "lughz" (riddle or puzzle), by al-Shaykh Bahāʼ al-Dīn (Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī, 1547-1621), a Shīʻī scholar, who wrote in both Arabic and Persian on different subjects including mathematics and astronomy, born in Baʻalbak (Baʻlabakk, Lebanon) and lived and died in Iṣfahān (Iran). Name of copyist not mentioned, probably by the copyist of the first manuscript, and on the same date and in the same place.
Alternative Title:
Kitāb-i Sharḥ-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb, Kitāb-i Sharḥ-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i qawāʻid-i fann-i asṭurlāb, Sharḥ-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb, Sharḥ-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i qawāʻid-i fann-i asṭurlāb, شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب : مخطوطة / عبد العلى بن محمد بن حسىن البرجندى., شرح بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب, شرح بىست باب در معرفت قواعد فن اسطرلاب, کتاب شرح بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب, and کتاب شرح بىست باب در معرفت قواعد فن اسطرلاب
Description:
16.5 x 21 cm; written surface: 10 x 15 cm; 18-19 lines per page., Binding: In red leather binding, some tooling to the covers., Colophon of Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb: "al-Ḥamdu lillāh awwalan wa-ākhiran, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Rasūlihi dāyiman mutawātiran. Qad faraghtu min taswīd hādhihi al-awrāq fī Dār al-Khilāfah al-Ṭahrān, fī al-Madrasah al-Nāṣirīyah, al-laylah al-Thulāthāʼ min Ramaḍān, fī sanat 1307 Hijrīyah, ʻalá ṣāḥibihā al-salām.", Colophon of the Mathematical "lughz": "... Wa-linaqtaṣir ʻalá hādhā al-qadr min al-iṭnāb fī awṣāf dhālika al-kitāb, wa-al-ʻāqil yakfīhi al-ishārah, wa-al-jāhil lā yatanabbah bi-alf ʻibārah. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh awwalan wa-ākhiran. Tamm.", In small naskh taʻlīq script, in black ink, on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; numerous notes on the margins; numerous astronomical and geometrical diagrams; catchwords., Incipit of Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb: "Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb. Muḥaqqiq mudaqqiq Mullā ʻAbd al-ʻĀlī Parjadī. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Fātiḥat-i khiṭāb dar sih bāb va khātimat-i maqāl dar hamah-i ḥāl-i sipās ... Ammā baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-faqīr ilá rabbihi al-hādī ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Barjandī, sharaḥa Allāh ṣadrahu wa-atamma ʻalá samāʼ al-saʻādah badrahu ... bi-muṭālaʻat Kitāb Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb ... sulṭān al-ḥukamā al-mutaʼallihīn, mukammil ʻulūm al-awwalīn, makhzan asrār al-ḥikam wa-al-kamāl min maṭliʻ al-anwār al-mayāmīn wa-al-saʻādāt Khawājah Naṣīr al-Ḥaqq wa-al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī ṭayyaba Allāh mashhadah ...", Incipit of the Mathematical "lughz": "Hādhā lughz min al-Shaykh Bahāʼ al-Dīn, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Akhbirūnī ʻan ism kitābin aqalluhu min al-ḥurūf al-nūrānīyah wa-aktharuhu min ḥurūf al-zubālīyah, wa-aḥad niṣfayhi yukmilu al-rajul, wa-bi-al-niṣf al-ākhar takmulu al-shahādah ...", On folio 1a: Short paragraphs about: Eclipse of the Sun and the Moon (in Arabic); Talismans (in Arabic); Simple way to know the hour of the day (in Arabic); Time spent by "Ahl al-Kahf" "the Seven Sleepers" (in Persian); Mathematical calculations on the beginning of the Hijrī year (in Persian); Quotation from a certain musician "Mūsīqī Mīrzā Muḥammad ʻAlī" (could not be identified) about arithmetic and astronomy (in Persian)., On folios 80a-80b: Some mathematical and geometrical notes and criticism of "al-Muḥaqqiq al-Dawwānī" (probably Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī, 1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513), in Persian., On the margin of folio 78b: "... fa-yaqūlu aḥwaj al-khalq ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-ghanī Muḥammad al-mushtahir bi-Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī, ʻufiya ʻanhu ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio of Sharḥ bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb: kih raqm-i zadah-i kalk., Secundo folio of the Mathematical "lughz": al-Shams ʻan al-ufuq., Title of Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb from folio 1a., Translation of the colophon of Sharḥ-i bīst bāb-i asṭurlāb: "Praise be to God in the beginning and in the end. Prayer and peace be upon His messenger, continuously and repeatedly. I finished copying these leaflets at the Abode of the Caliphate, Tehran, at al-Madrasah al-Nāṣirīyah, on Tuesday night, 3 Ramaḍān, 1307 [1890] of the Hijrah [of the Prophet Muḥammad], may peace be upon Him.", Translation of the colophon of the Mathematical "lughz": "... Let us limit ourselves to this much of verbosity in the description of that book, for the wise understands from a hint, but the ignorant cannot be alerted even with a thousand statements. Praise be to God in the beginning and in the end. It is completed.", آغاز دومىن برگه شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب: که رقم زده کلک., بداية "اللغز" الرياضي: "هذا لغز من الشيخ بهاء الدين، عليه الرحمة. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. أخبروني عن اسم كتابٍ أقله من الحروف النورانية وأكثره من حروف الزبالية، وأحد نصفيه يكمل الرجل، وبالنصف الآخر تكمل الشهادة ...", بداية الورقة الثانية لـِ: "اللغز" الرياضي: الشمس عن الأفق., بداية شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب: "شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب. محقق مدقق ملا عبد العالى پرجدى. بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. فاتحة خطاب در سه باب و خاتمة مقال در همه حال سپاس ... أما بعد، فىقول الفقىر إلى ربه الهادى عبد العلى بن محمد البرجندى، شرح الله صدره وأتم على سماء السعادة بدره ... بمطالعة کتاب بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب ... سلطان الحکما المتألهىن، مکمل علوم الأولىن، مخزن أسرار الحکم والکمال من مطلع الأنوار المىامىن والسعادات خواجه نصىر الحق والدىن محمد الطوسى طيب الله مشهده ...", خاتمة "اللغز" الرياضي: "... ولنقتصر على هذا القدر من الإطناب في أوصاف ذلك الكتاب، والعاقل يكفيه الإشارة، والجاهل لا يتنبه بألف عبارة. والحمد لله أولًا وآخرًا. تم.", خاتمة شرح بىست باب اسطرلاب: "الحمد لله أولًا وآخرًا، والصلوة والسلام على رسوله داىمًا متواترًا. قد فرغت من تسوىد هذه الأوراق فى دار الخلافه الطهران، فى المدرسه الناصرية، اللىله الثلاثاء من رمضان، فى سنة 1307 هجرية، على صاحبها السلام.", and على هامش الورقة 78ب: "... فيقول أحوج الخلق إلى رحمة ربه الغني محمد المشتهر ببهاء الدين العاملي، عفي عنه ..."
Subject (Name):
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,--1547-1621, Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,--active 16th century, Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb., Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1201-1274.--Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i aʻmāl-i asṭurlāb., برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين،--ناشط قرن 16., طوسى، نصىر الدىن محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274. بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب., طوسى، نصىر الدىن محمد بن محمد،--1201-1274.--بىست باب در معرفت اعمال اسطرلاب., and عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين،--1547-1621.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Astrolabes, Mathematical recreations --Early works to 1800, Persian manuscripts., and Riddles, Arabic