Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks along upper edge) of Ps.-Dionysius the Aereopagite, De ecclesiastica hierarchia, translated into Latin by John the Scot
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a stylized gothic script., Spaces for decorative initials left unfilled. Headings, paragraph marks and running headlines in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown leather with olive green paper sides. Parts of edges daubed bluish-green.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Erigena, Johannes Scotus, approximately 810-approximately 877. and Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.
Subject (Topic):
Mysticism, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390 ابن عباد، محمد بن إبراهيم، 1332 or 1333-1390
Published / Created:
1717.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 489
Image Count:
464
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Ghayth al-mawāhib al-ʻalīyah bi-Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" (also called "Sharḥ al-Nafazī ʻalá matn al-Sakandarī"), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Ḥimyarī al-Nafazī al-Rundī (1332 or 1333-1390.), a Ṣūfī and scholar from the city of Rundah (Ronda, Má́laga, Spain), who journeyed in cities of al-Maghrib and resided in Fès (Morocco) where he assumed the position of "khaṭīb" (preacher) at Jāmiʻ al-Qarawīyīn, and died there, being a commentary on "al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah", a collection of Sufi and mystical aphorisms of Tāj al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Sakandarī (died 1309 in Cairo), an Egyptian Shādhilī and Ṣūfī scholar and author, an ardent opponent of the well-known Ḥanbalī scholar Ibn Taymīyah (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328). Copied on Thursday, 19 Shaʻbān, 1129 of the Hijrah (29 July, 1717). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam, Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah, كتاب شرح الحكم, and شرح الحكم العطائية
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir. Qāla al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá, al-muʻtamid fī ghufrān dhunūbihi ʻalá Allāh taʻālá, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Nafazī al-ʻArsawī [?], laṭafa Allāh taʻālá bi-hi wa-raḥimahu wa-ghafara la-hu. Āmīn: al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-munfarid bi-al-ʻaẓamah wa-al-jalāl, al-mutawaḥḥid bi-istiḥqāq nuʻūt al-kamāl, al-munazzah ʻan al-shurakāʼ wa-al-nuẓarāʼ wa-al-amthāl, al-mutaqaddis ʻan simāh [simāt] al-ḥadath min al-taghyīr wa-al-intiqāl wa-al-ittiṣāl wa-al-infiṣāl, ʻālim al-ghayb wa-al-shahādah, al-kabīr al-mutaʻāl, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-hādī min al-ḍalāl ...", Secundo folio: ḥaqāʼiquhā illā bi-al-talaqqī., 15.5 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 9.5 x 15.5 cm; 21 lines per page., Binding: In cardboard binding (in 23 numbered quires), In fair naskh/ruqʻah script, in black ink, on white paper; with the phrases of "al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam li-Ibn ʻAbbād, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-hi wa-al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Āmīn.", On folio 1a: Two verses of poetry, quoted from "Kitāb Ḥusn al-tanabbuh li-mā warada fī al-tashabbuh" of al-Najm al-Ghazzī (Ghazzī, Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1570-1651), On folio 1a: Two verses of "Mawwāl [a form of popular folk poetry], li-Sayyidī al-ʻārif billāh wa-Sayyid al-ʻĀrifīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, quddisa sirruhu.", On folio 1a: Ownership statement: "Āla ilá nawbat al-ḥaqīr Muḥṣṭafá al-Ḥalabī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAraḍī al-Ḥusaynī al-Muṭṭalibī, jammala Allāh aḥwālahu wa-min ʻatharātihi aqālahu. Fī 12 Sh. [Shʻbān/Shawwāl], 1269 [of the Hijrah = 21 May 1853 or 19 July, 1853].", On folio 1a: Five illegible ownership statements and two illegible seals., On folio 228a: A reader's statement: "Qad tammat qirāʼat hādhā al-kitāb al-ʻadhb al-mustaṭāb bayna al-ʻishāʼayn fī Jāmiʻ Banī Umayyah bi-Dimashq al-maḥmīyah, wa-dhālika laylat al-Khamīs al-thāniyah ʻasharī shahr Jumādá al-Thānī, sanat arbaʻah wa-sabʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf [28 January, 1858]. Katabahu al-faqīr Sulaymān ibn Jaʻfar Āghā, ʻufiya [ʻanh].", On folio 228b: A reader's note: "Naẓara wa-ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb afqar al-ʻibād wa-aḥwajuhum ilá al-Malik al-Jawwād, al-ʻabd al-musīʼ Saʻīd ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhā ibn Yāsīn al-Qudsī, nahār al-khamsīn [?] al-Khamīs alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat iḥdā [iḥdá] wa-sittīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [Thursday, [?]1748]." Followed by invocation by him in seven verses of poetry., Colophon (folio 228a): "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah yawm al-Khamīs al-mubārak, tāsiʻ ʻashar Shaʻbān al-mubārak, min shuhūr sanat alf wa-miʼah wa-tisʻah wa-ʻishrīn min al-Hijrah ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām. M.", and Translation of the colophon: "This blessed copy was completed on blessed Thursday, 19 blessed Shaʻbān 1129 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [29 July, 1717], may the best prayer and peace be upon Him."
Subject (Name):
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390. and Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1309.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Mysticism, Shādhilīyah, and Sufism
Manuscript on parchment of The Horloge de Sapience, a loose translation and adaptation into French of Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae. With a Colophon, in French verse, stating that the translation was made by a French Franciscan master of theology at Neufchateau in 1389
Description:
In French., Script: Written in batarde script, below top line., Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, foliation and underlining, all in red., and Binding: 1800-1810, France. Diced brown calf, blind-and gold-tooled. Edges gilt. Stains from turn-ins of early binding on original front parchment pastedown. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Devotional literature, French, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
Manuscript on parchment of Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae, translated into Italian. With Office of Eternal Wisdom (Cursus de aeterna sapientia), composed by Henry Suso; and several anonymous, miscellaneous texts
Description:
In Italian., Script: Main text written in gothic bookhand, below top line., For main text divisions good blue initials with plain parchment designs and red penwork flourishes; elsewhere 2-line initials alternate red with blue harping designs and blue with red. On f. 11r red rectangular page filler at bottom of text space. Small plain 1-line initials alternate red and blue. Headings and paragraph marks in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Remains of guide letters., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on four tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of wooden boards to channels on the outside and nailed. A tawed skin endband core is laid in grooves and covered with plain, wound primary and red secondary embroidery. Spine: supports outlined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Covered in light brown goatskin with corner tongues, and decorated with interlace squares on their points within concentric frames. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the lower board and the upper one cut in for a red fabric strap attached with star-headed nails. The cover has been varnished.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of Hilton's Scale of Perfection. Volume also contains the complete text of Hilton's brief tract, Of angels' song
Description:
In Middle English., Ownership inscription of John Price on recto of front flyleaf., Ownership inscription of Samuel Courthope Bosanquet on recto of second front flyleaf., Layout: single columns of approximately 30 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: contemporary white tawed leather over wooden boards; remains of hardware. Modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hilton, Walter, -1396.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
Manuscript on paper of 1) Pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia, translated into Greek by Demetrius Cydonius; first leaf missing. 2) Creed of St. Athanasius. 3) Various prayers and hymns, some by John of Damascus and Macarius, but most anonymous
Description:
In Greek., Watermarks: Harlfinger Chapeau 74., Script: Written by a single scribe in tall, upright minuscule., Decorative initials, 6- to 5-line, in red with simple floral designs; rubrics throughout., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Three original chain-stitched supports, the thread laced into square-edged, flush, wooden boards grooved on the edges. The beaded, colored endbands are sewn on cords which are attached in holes in the edges of the boards. The edges are painted with a red and black interlace design, the spine smooth and round. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric borders, different on each board, the central panels filled with flowers and small diamonds. One pin hole in the edge of the upper board, three holes for a strap in the lower. Rebacked. According to A. R. A. Hobson, the binding originated in Crete.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Augustinus. and Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Creeds, Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mysticism, and Prayers
