Ibn Sabʻīn, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Ibrāhīm, 1216 or 1217-1270.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 12
Image Count:
275
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Tract in Sufi theology.
Description:
Brockelmann gives the author's honorary title as Muḥyī al-Dīn (S I, p. 844); the manuscript gives it as Quṭb al-Dīn., Cairo catalog, VII, 682 does not give the incipit for the Kitāb al-daraj. Nor in Ḥājjī Khalīfah., Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black, generously vocalized., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Presumably not the same as the author's Kitāb al-daraj (Brockelmann, I, 466)., The manuscript vocalized "darj" for "daraj" in the beginning of the work, but has "daraj" on leaf 131 recto., and Title page in gold and colors.
Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco, gilt., Decoration: some initials, line fillers, underlining, in red ink., Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Script: gothic bookhand., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Foyle, William A.--(William Alfred),--1885-1963--Bookplate., Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership., and Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Christian life--Early works to 1800., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New
In Latin., Script: Written by Franciscus de Oddis, in an elegant italic., On f. 1r, a full vine-scroll border, in purple ink with grapes and highlights in gold, outlined in double purple lines; a 5-line initial, gold, with purple and gold vines. Headings and names of persons in humanistic bookhand or square capitals, in gold., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown leather wrapper, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Padua (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval