Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of genealogies of families of Curtiss, Barnes, Newell, Potter, Woodruff, and Hart in Connecticut, particularly from the towns of Southington and Farmington. The volume includes copies of wills; land deeds; detailed accounts of where they resided; and personal anecdotes, including family members' involvement in religious activities; the American Revolution; and the Civil War. The manuscript notes the marriage of Hawkins Hart of Wallingford to Mary Widow of Street, "grand daugthter of Rev John Eliot the Apostle to the Indians, Author of a translation of the Bible into the Indian language ..."
Description:
In English., Tipped in: dealer's description of manuscript., Seventeen leaves at the beginning left blank., Laid in at p. 178: newspaper clipping of "the only complete record now existing of citizens of Southington who enlisted in the late War of the Rebellion.", Laid in at p. 341: small square of embroidered cloth., Paper blind-embossed stamp: Congress J. Smith., and Binding: machine-grain black morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and Missouri
Subject (Name):
Andrews, Gad, b. 1803., Barnes family., Curtis family., Hart family., Newell family., Potter family., Woodruff family., and Yale College (1718-1887)
Subject (Topic):
Alumni and alumnae, Genealogy, History, and Religious life and customs
ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378 عثماني، محمد بن عبد الرحمن، ناشط 1378
Published / Created:
1498.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 610
Image Count:
484
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aimmah "Mercy of the nation in the differences of the scholars." A treatise on the different opinions and interpretations of leading Islamic law scholars pertaining to legal matters, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻUthmānī (active 1378), a Shāfiʻī Islamic law scholar, originally from Damascus (Syria) who became the Qāḍī (Chief Judge) of Ṣafad. The author finished writing his treatise on Tuesday, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī (9 March, 1379), in Ṣafad (Tsefat, Israel). Copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī (or al-Jaʻbarī ?) al-Hāshimī on Saturday, 12 Ramaḍān, 903 (13 May, 1498) in the city of Salānīk (Selânik, Turkey), from the copy which had been copied in Muḥarram, 855 Hijrī (February/March, 1451) by Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqriʼ al-Azʹharī (1407 or 1408-1489), a well-known Egyptian muqriʼ "Qurʼan reciter" and Qurʼanic scholar
In Arabic., Title from folio 2a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī ajzala iḥsānah wa-anzala Qurʼānah wa-bayyana fīhi qawāʻid dīnih wa-arkānah, thumma jaʻala ilá Nabīyih bayānah, wa-awḍaḥa dhālika li-aṣḥābih fī ḥayātih, thumma tafarraqū baʻda wafātih yabtaghūna faḍlan min Allāh wa-ruḍwānih ...", Secundo folio: ṭarīqah wa-aḥsan namaṭ., 12.5 x 17.5 cm; written surface: 8.5 x 12.5; 15 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather binding with flap (in 24 numbered quires), central medallion on both covers., In good naskh script; in black ink, on white paper; headings and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords. Some parts of the manuscripts are replaced in different hands: folios 1b-7b (written surface: 9 x 15 cm, 21 lines per page, in fair naskh taʻlīq script); folios 53a-54b (written surface: 9.5 x 14.5, 15 lines per page, in fair ruqʻah script)., Pages also numbered in Indian numerals: 1-474., Text folios 1b-236b (pages 1-472)., Includes an elaborate index of contents: Folios 237a-237b (pages 473-474)., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah, taʼlīf al-ʻĀlim al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī, taghammadahu Allāh bi-ruḍwānih. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Āmīn.", On the margin of page 472: "... Ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sibāhī bi-Dimashq al-maḥrūsah, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-man daʻá la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Fī tāsiʻ wa-ʻshrīn shahr al-Ḥijjah sanat arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn [year not mentioned].", Author's colophon: "Qāla muʼallifuhu, raḥimahu Allāh raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-barakatihi wa-ʻilmih, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī: Faraghtu min taʼlīf hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak fī laylah yusfiru ṣabāḥuhā ʻan nahār al-Thulāthāʼ, ḥādī ʻashar Dhī al-Qaʻdah al-ḥarām, sanata thamānīn wa-sabʻimiʼah bi-rabḍ Ṣafad, ḥamāhā Allāh taʻālá.", Translation of the author's colophon: "The author (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, the Chief Judge of Ṣafad), may God have abundant mercy upon him, and may He benefit us by his blessing and knowledge, said: I finished writing this blessed book on Tuesday morning, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī [9 March, 1379], in the city of Ṣafad, may God protect it.", Copyist colophon: "Qāla kātibuhu al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-muʻtarif bi-al-dhanb wa-al-taqṣīr, al-rājī ʻafwa rabbihi al-qadīr, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban: Katabtuhu min nuskhah waqaʻat bi-yadī bi-madīnat Salānīk min arḍ al-Rūm, maktūb fīhā: Qāla kātib hādhihi al-nuskhah bi-yadihi al-fāniyah li-nafsih wa-liman shāʼa Allāh min baʻdih, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī nazīl al-Qāhirah al-maḥrūsah, fī shahr Allāh al-Muḥarram al-ḥarām, sanat khams wa-khamsīn wa-thamānimiʼah. Wa-faraghtu min kitābatihi yawm al-Sabt baʻda al-ẓuhr bi-madīnat Salānīk al-madhkūrah fī thānī ʻashar min shahr Ramaḍān min shuhūr sanat thalāth wa-tisʻmiʼah. Allāhumma ighfir lanā wa-li-wālidaynā wa-li-mashāyikhinā wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn, yā Rabba al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Translation of the copyist colophon: "The copyist ... Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban, said: I copied this copy from a copy I saw in the city of Salānīk ... in which was written: The copyist of this book, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī, copied it for himself ... in Muḥarram, 855 [February/March, 1451]. The present copy was completed on Saturday afternoon, in the afore mentioned city of Salānīk on 12 Ramaḍān, 903 Hijrī [13 May, 1498] ..."
Subject (Name):
Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489. and ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378.
Published on April 15, 1755 and written largely single-handedly by Samuel Johnson. Sometimes published as "Johnson's Dictionary." The first edition was published in two folio volumes; later editions were published in four volumes.
Description:
Four volume printer's proof with manuscript notes throughout.
Publisher:
Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton [etc.]
Opera, with libretto by Philippe Quinault, after Tasso. First performed and published in 1686. and Score, copyist's manuscript with revisions, dated 1702 May 10 at end. Annotated with the inital "L," possibly by Lully, on endpaper.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Binding: contemporary marbled calf., Blanks not digitized., Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer., Pages 139-147 excised., Pages numbered 1-138, 147-366., and Title from caption.
Subject (Name):
Lully, Jean Baptiste,--1632-1687, Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688, and Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 --Musical settings
Published on April 15, 1755 and written largely single-handedly by Samuel Johnson. Sometimes published as "Johnson's Dictionary." The first edition was published in two folio volumes; later editions were published in four volumes.
Description:
Four volume printer's proof with manuscript notes throughout.
Publisher:
Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton [etc.]
Manuscript copy, made in the 18th century, sometime after 1723. "Un des quelques MS complets de l’ouvrage devenu celebre sous le titre de Testament du cure Meslier.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church --Controversial literature
Subject (Topic):
Atheism, Christianity --Controversial literature, and Religion --Controversial literature
