Maqqarī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ẓāfir, 11th cent.? Saraqusṭī, Ismāʻīl ibn Khalaf, d. 1063
Published / Created:
[13th century?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 112
Image Count:
26
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Treatise on the orthography of the Koran.
Alternative Title:
Mukhtaṣar mā rusima fī al-Qurʾān al-sharīf.
Description:
Brockelmann (S I, p. 721) lists a Mukhtaṣar mā rusima fī al-Qurʾān al-sharīf (Cairo catalog, I, 27), perhaps the same work., C. Landberg suggested that the author may possibly be identical with Ismāʻīl ibn Khalaf al-Muqriʾ (Berlin catalog, 591; Brockelmann, I, 407; S I, p. 720)., Islamic binding, paper-covered, with flap., Marginalia., and Old (13th century?) calligraphic naskhī, in red and black.
Manuscript on parchment of Pierre de Peckham, La lumiere as lais. All of Books I and VI, and part of Books II and V are missing.
Description:
Binding: Thirteenth century, England. Original wound, caught up sewing with heavy thread, on four tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of oak boards and wedged. The natural color endbands are sewn on leather cores which are laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and pegged. The spine is back bevelled. Covered in tawed skin, originally white, but now dark brown on the outside. The turn-ins of the upper board are serrated. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins (traces only) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the fabric-reinforced leather straps. Some sewing supports broken, one board detached, and some covering leather and straps wanting., Many leaves stained, damaged, but with little loss of text, except on bottom of f. 1 and top of f. 36, which are torn with loss of text., Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue for each chapter. Headings in red. Guide letters for decorator., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Pierre,--de Peckham,--d. 1293
Subject (Topic):
French literature--To 1500, Laity--Books and reading--England, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Study and teaching
Manuscript binding fragment, on parchment, of part of the text of Lancelot du Lac.
Description:
Accompanied by three unidentified manuscript fragments that were part of the 2002 sale lot., Decoration: illuminated initial with brown penwork., Script: gothic script., and Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., Lancelot (Prose romance), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment (thick, repaired) of a Collection of original documents, copies, translations (from Greek and Turkish) of other documents of the Venetian doges of Candia, dated between 1299 and 1472, mostly in Latin with some later documents in Venetian dialect.
Description:
Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 11868). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Ca. 1800, Italy. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a gold-tooled red label on spine: "Monum. di Cand. Sotto il Dom. Ven. Cod. Memb"., Many of the leaves are illegible due to severe water damage and damp rot throughout; the codex emits a foul odor., and Script: Written throughout by multiple scribes in mercantesca scripts.
Subject (Geographic):
Crete (Greece)--History, Ērakleion (Greece), and Venice (Italy)--History--697-1508
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment, composed in two parts of different age and origin, of 1) Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung, c. 1070), De viribus herbarum. 2) Fragments of a Missal: (a) Third Sunday of Lent. (b) Saturday after the first Sunday of Lent. (c) Second Sunday of Lent.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Wooden boards and brown calf spine. Endleaves are fragments of a Missal (Italy, 15th century)., Part I: Red (?) chapter headings in larger script written at the right of the text. Red paragraph marks. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 1r and 10 v only. 2-line (exceptionally 1- or 3-line) early flourished initials in red with red flourishing (red filling on f. 10r). 5-line red, blue and white initial with strapwork decoration on f. 1r. Part II: Chapter headings in red, centered. Red 2-line plain initials (Capitalis)., Part II adapted to the size of part I by pasting strips of parchment to the bottom of the bifolios. The five outer bifolios (ff. 11-15 and 18-22) are palimpsest: leaves from a manuscript in two columns, the text transversal to the textus rescriptus; the inner bifolium (ff. 16-17) is of bad quality; the upper corners of ff. 11 and 22 are missing with loss of text and have been repaired with blank parchment., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-10): Copied by one hand writing Praegothica with wide distance between the lines. Part II (ff. 11-22): Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria.
Subject (Name):
Macer,--Floridus
Subject (Topic):
Herbs, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Science, Medieval
Manuscript, in several hands, of the Martyrology of Usuard, with a tabulated martyrology arranged according to the calendar, with numerous added obituary notices for St. Nicholas, Beauvais.
Description:
Binding: later medieval brown leather over beveled boards; some damage to upper board where a chain has been removed., Decoration: rubricated., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: main text in early gothic. Additional obituaries in a variety of book and cursive scripts.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Usuard, -876 or 877
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Martyrologies--Early works to 1800, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Necrologies--France--Beauvais