Marriage contract, manuscript, engraving, ink, and green and blue paint on vellum, dated 8th Adar 5450 at Nitsa (1690). The text is written in Italian block letters. The text is surrounded by two registers, which include cartouches in which biblical scenes are depicted. Immediately above the text is a cartouche above which is a crown. Within the cartouche is a representation of the tree of life, and the name of the groom and the priestly blessing are written in micrography ...
Description:
Bride: Rosa bat Joseph Cohen. and Bridegroom: Jacob ben Samson Vallabrega.
Subject (Geographic):
Nice (France) --Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Rosah bat Yosef Kohen and Ya'akov ben Shimshon Valabregah
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --France --Nice and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Contains correspondence between George Platt Lynes and various correspondents (box 1); autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of "The Love of New York" and "The Sailor" by Glenway Wescott, with autograph manuscript notes from Wescott to Lynes, and a copy of Harper's Bazaar (December 1943) that includes Wescott's essay "I Love New York" (box 2); and photographs of Jean Cocteau and Katherine Anne Porter by Lynes (box 1). Correspondents include Webster Aiken, Mary Butts, Paul Cadmus, Condé Nast Publications, René Crevel, William Flores, Jared and Margaret French, Bernadine Szold Fritz, Dora and Kiko Harrison, Christopher Isherwood, Lincoln Kirstein, Warren Lowenhaupt, Alexander Liberman, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry McIlhenny, Marianne Moore, Allen Porter, Katherine Anne Porter, François Reichenbach, Perry Ruston, Diana Sheean, Laurence Sickman, Getrude Stein, Pavel Tchelitchew, Barbara and Lloyd Wescott, and John Wisner.
Description:
George Platt Lynes, American fashion and commercial photographer. and Gift of Bernard Perlin, 1958 and Russell Lynes, 1976. Other material was acquired from various sources and provenance information is filed in the collection.
Treatise on words which have three different meanings, depending on whether the first syllable has the vowel a, i, or u.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., Hitti 2003(27) is a versified version, and Ahlwardt 7072 a shorter one, without the shawāhid., Islamic binding, in brown, front cover and flap missing., and With: 1 other title.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Lexicography and Islamic binding
Fables translated by ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Muqaffaʻ from the Pehlevi version of Bīdpāī's Panchatantra., Lacuna between leaves 40 and 41., and Leaves 1 verso-2 verso contain a preface by Silvestre de Sacy.
Alternative Title:
Fables of Bidpai. Arabic. and Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. Arabic.
Description:
Islamic binding, in black., Modern (19th century) naskhī., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Name):
Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, -approximately 760. and Silvestre de Sacy, A. I. (Antoine Isaac), 1758-1838.
Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī, ca. 1327-1370
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 323
Image Count:
564
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 816 (A.D. 1413). Leaves 247 verso-275 verso copied in A.H. 851 (A.D. 1447 or 8)., Followed by 1 leaf of notes., and Principles of Shafiʻi law.
Alternative Title:
Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʾir
Description:
Hasty naskhī; leaves 1-5 supplied (with lacuna) by a later hand., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Marginalia.
Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black. and The author's name is spelled ibn Waghīlān on leaf 1 recto, and as Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Zighlān in Brockelmann.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Poetry and Philosophy--General
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.
Includes letter of introduction, carbon copy, from Knopf for Marie Picha to CVV (1930); third-party letters by and concerning Clement Richer, Anita Loos, Chester Himes, Edward Jablonski (1951-1954); notes from Margo Boucher, the Knopf's cook, to CVV (1954-1959)
Subject (Name):
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984, Marinoff, Fania, 1890-1971, and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964