ALS, written at Leiden, discussing Landberg's manuscript of al-Balādhurī's Futūḥ al-buldān (now Ms. Landberg 33), and other matters. and Inserted is a note (1 leaf, 17 x 10.5 cm.) by Count Landberg, describing the manuscript.
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ al-buldān., Letter to Count Carlo Landberg, and فتوح البلدان.
Description:
Gift of Charles C. Torrey in December 1951.
Subject (Name):
Balādhurī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, -892--Futūḥ al-buldān, Goeje, M. J. de (Michael Jan), 1836-1909, Landberg, Carlo, 1848-1924, بلاذري، أحمد بن يحيى، -892. فتوح البلدان., بلاذري، أحمد بن يحيى،---892., and بلاذري، أحمد بن يحيى،---892.--فتوح البلدان.
Manuscript of the famous Maqāmāt (Orations, literally sittings, sessions, meetings); a genre of highly developed Arabic rhythmic prose intended to amuse and entertain but also with critical social, moral and political undercurrents, by Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī (1054-1122), from al-Baṣrah (Iraq), one of the most celibrated and prolific authors of the 11th/12th centuries. The Maqāmāt have been translated into many European and Oriental languages. They are also known by the titles: al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah and Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Surūjī (a fictitious charachter). They are fifty in number. The manuscript was a gift from Abū Bakr, a Chinese Muslim teacher of Arabic in Beijing, to Samuel Zwemer (probably the missionary Samuel M. Zwemer, 1867-1952) on 4 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 1335 (22 August 1917). According to Abū Bakr's letter written in Arabic and pasted on the back of the front cover, the manuscript was copied more than two hudred years ago probably in China.
Alternative Title:
al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah., Maqāmāt, Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Surūjī., المقامات الحريرية., مقامات, مقامات أبي زيد السروجي., and مقامات الحريري، [17--?] / للقاسم بن علي الحريري.
Description:
22.5 x 30.5 cm; written surface: 14 x 22.5 cm, 13 lines per page., Bound., Folios 163a-167b are blank., In elegant naskh script, on yellowish paper with interlinear and marginal notes and explanations., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Allāhumma innā naḥmaduka ʻalá mā ʻallamta min al-bayān wa-alhamta min al-tibyān kamā naḥmaduka ʻalá mā asbaghta min al-ʻaṭāʼ wa-asbalta min al-ghiṭāʼ wa-naʻūdhu bi-ka min sharah al-lasan wa-fuḍūl al-hadhar kamā naʻūdhu bi-ka min maʻarrat al-lakn wa-fuḍūḥ al-ḥaṣr wa-nastakfī bi-ka al-iftitān bi-iṭrāʼ al-mādiḥ wa-ighḍāʼ al-musāmiḥ kamā nastakfī bi-ka al-intiṣāb li-izrāʼ al-qādiḥ wa-hatk al-fāḍiḥ ...", Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., The Maqāmāt ends with: "Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥarīrī raḥimahu Allāh: 'Hādhā ākhir al-Maqāmāt allatī anshaʼtuhā bi-al-ightirār wa-amlaytuhā bi-lisān al-iḍṭirār wa-qad uljītu ilá an arṣadtuhā lil-istiʻrāḍ wa-nādaytu ʻalayhā fī sūq al-iʻtirāḍ hādhā maʻa maʻrifatī bi-annahā min saqaṭ al-matāʻ wa-mimmā yastawjibu an yubāʻ wa-lā yubtāʻ wa-law ghashiyanī nūr al-tawfīq wa-naẓartu li-nafsī naẓara al-shafīq lil-shaqīq la-satartu ʻuwwārī alladhī lam yazal mastūran wa-lakin kāna dhālika fī al-kitāb masṭūran wa-anā astaghfiru Allāh mimmā awdaʻtuhā min abāṭīl al-laghw wa-aḍālīl al-lahw wa-astarshidu ilá mā yaʻṣimu min al-sahw wa-yaḥẓá bi-al-ʻafw innahu huwa ahl al-taqwá wa-ahl al-maghfirah wa-walī al-khayrāt fī al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá khayr khalqihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi.", There are some Chinese inscriptions on the top margin of folios 1 and 2, probably by Abū Bakr himself., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اللهم إنّا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان وألهمت من التبيان كما نحمدك على ما أسبغت من العطاء وأسبلت من الغطاء ونعوذ بك من شره اللسن وفضول الهذر كما نعوذ بك من معرّة اللكن وفضوح الحصر ونستكفي بك الافتتان بإطراء المادح وإغضاء المسامح كما نستكفي بك الانتصاب لإزراء القادح وهتك الفاضح ...", and تنتهي المقامات بـ : "قال الشيخ الإمام أبو محمد القاسم بن علي الحريري رحمه الله: 'هذا آخر المقامات التي أنشأتها بالاغترار وأمليتها بلسان الاضطرار وقد ألجيت إلى أن أرصدتها للاستعراض وناديت عليها في سوق الاعتراض هذا مع معرفتي بأنها من سقط المتاع ومما يستوجب أن يباع ولا يبتاع ولو غشيني نور التوفيق ونظرت لنفسي نظر الشفيق للشقيق لسترت عواري الذي لم يزل مستورًا ولكن كان ذلك في الكتاب مسطورًا وأنا استغفر الله مما أودعتها من أباطيل اللغو وأضاليل اللهو وأسترشد إلى ما يعصم من السهو ويحظى بالعفو إنه هو أهل التقوى وأهل المغفرة وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والآخرة. وصلى الله على خير خلقه محمد وآله."
Collection of prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection from the enemies, with many verses from the Qurʼān. Name of the author not mentioned. Copied and illuminated in 1267 Hijrī (1850 or 1851) by the calligrapher al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir nicknamed "Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān" (Memorizer of the Qurʼān). Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ...", Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn., 10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt., In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame., Text folios 1b-11b., Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances)., Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H.", and Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851]."
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Invocation, Religious aspects, Islam, and Prayer
Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad مهفني، الحسين بن أحمد
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 156
Image Count:
36
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Short manual of the law of marriage, Preceded by 1 page of notes, and Copied in A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808).
Alternative Title:
Arkān al-nikāḥ and أركان النكاح
Description:
Also known as: Arkān al-nikāḥ (Brockelmann, S II, p. 628, taken from Ahlwardt, 4681, where it is made up)., The author is a Javanese, and is presumably of the Shafiʻi persuasion (cf. Brockelmann, II, 422)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-Malik al-Dayyān ... Qāla ... Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mahfanī ... Ammā baʻd, fa-qad saʼalanī baʻḍ aḥibbāʼī ... an uṣannifa lahum kitāban mukhtaṣaran nāfiʻan fī arkān al-nikāḥ ...", Fair naskhī, in red and black., With: 1 other title., Colophon: "Tammat al-kitāb, taʼrīkh yawm al-Khamīs, al-khāmis min shahr Jumād al-Awwal, min sanat thalāth wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼatayn baʻd al-alf.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed on Thursday, 5 Jumād al-Awwal of the year 1223 [of the Hijrah = 29 June 1808]."
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225 بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225
Published / Created:
1874.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 759
Image Count:
528
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá (Larger Sun of knowledge), by Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (died 1225), a well-known Ṣufī scholar from the city of Būnah (Bône), now ʻAnnābah (Annaba, Algeria), who died in Cairo. This work is designated "al-kubrá" (the larger) to distinguish it from the author's two other treatises: "al-wusṭá"́ (the middle) and "al-ṣughrá" (the smaller). It is also listed in the text under the title "Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif" (Sun of knowledge and intricacies of diviners), a treatise on magic, alchemy, astrology, divination, Islamic occultism, the name of God (including 'al-Asmāʼ al-Ḥusná', the 99 beautiful names of God), the magical use of the Arabic Alphabet, and talismans. The present work is a lithographed edition, printed from an original copy from India, in four parts, as follows: al-Juzʼ al-awwal (Part one: Pages 1-132), al-Juzʼ al-thānī (Part two: pages 1-116), al-Juzʼ al-thālith (Part three: pages 1-124), al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (Part four: Pages 1-148), followed by an index of contents for the four parts (Pages 1-7). The work was printed on 20 Shawwāl, 1291 of the Hijrah (30 November, 1874). Place and name of the printer not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif and شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف
Description:
In Arabic., Title from cover., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Shahādat azal, fa-min nūr hādhihi al-shahādah ightarafa al-muṣannifūn ʻilman. Fa-ifham dhālik. Wa-al-tartīb al-abadī fī al-shahādatayn al-muttaṣilatayn bi-al-malāʼikah al-kirām. Wa-awwal al-ʻilm fa-hādhihi shahādat al-abad. Fa-man fahima sirr hātayn al-shahādatayn shāhad al-malakūtayn wa-mā awdaʻāhu bi-sirr al-ittiṣāl bi-al-kashfīyāt ...", Secundo folio: Ammā baʻd, fa-lil-ḥaqq aʻlām., 16.5 x 23.5 cm; written surface: 12 x 20 cm; 31 lines per page., Binding: In green cardboard cover and dark brown paper on the spine., In naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; many illustrations and magic squares; text within double frames; catchwords. At the head of the opening page of each of the four parts is a decorative design., On cover: "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá", printed in silver., On page 1 of al-Juzʼ al-awwal: "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif, fī arbaʻat ajzāʼ, lil-Quṭb al-Imām Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī, wa-bi-nihāyat al-arbaʻat kutub, [al-kutub] al-ātiyah: 1. Kitāb Mīzān al-ʻadl fī maqāṣid aḥkām al-raml. 2. Kitāb Fawātiḥ al-raghāʼib fī khuṣūṣīyāt awqāt al-kawākib. 3. Kitāb Zahr al-murūj fī dalāʼil al-burūj. 4. Kitāb Laṭāʼif al-ishārah fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-kawākib al-sayyārah." "Maṭbūʻ ʻalá al-nuskhah al-Hindīyah al-aṣlīyah." These four books are not included in this codex and seem to serve as an advertisement for works to follow., al-Juzʼ al-thānī (Part two), starts with: "al-Faṣl al-khāmis ʻashar. Fī al-shurūṭ al-lāzimah li-baʻḍ dūna baʻḍ fī al-bidāyāt wa-al-nihāyāt.", al-Juzʼ al-thālith (Part three), starts, after al-Basmalah, with: "al-Faṣl al-ḥādī wa-al-ʻishrūn. Fī Asmāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusná, wa-anmāṭihā, wa-mā li-kull namaṭ min al-daʻawāt.", al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (Part four), starts, after al-Basmalah, with: "al-Faṣl al-thāmin wa-al-thalāthūn. Fī istikhdāmāt al-ḥurūf wa-khalawātihā.", Colophon: "Tamma Kitāb Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá lil-Imām al-Būnī fī ʻishrīn min Shawwāl, sanat 1291 Hijrīyah. Wa-lammā kādat shams ṭabʻihā tabzughu lil-ṭulūʻ arrakhahā baʻḍ al-madmīyīn [al-mādiḥīn] bi-qawlihi, shiʻr [in Ḥisāb al-jummal (Alphabetical reckoninig)]: ... Wa-fīhā ará al-tārīkh jāda bi-qawlihi // yufīdu al-amānī ṭabʻu Shams al-maʻārif. Sanat 1291.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book 'Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá' of al-Imām al-Būnī was completed on 20 Shawwal, 1291 of the Hijrah [30 November, 1874]. When the sun of its printing started to rise, someone praised it and mentioned the date of printing, in verse [using Ḥisāb al-jummal "Alphabetical reckoning"], saying: ... In it I see the date, saying generously: The printing of Shams al-maʻarif satisfies the wishes. The year 1291."
Subject (Name):
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Arabic alphabet, Astrology, Divination, God (Islam), Name, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, Lithographed books, Magic, and Talismans
Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336 ابن الحاج، محمد بن محمد، -1336
Published / Created:
1887.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 549
Image Count:
212
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār" (Suns of lights and treasures of secrets), a treatise on Islamic magic and occultism, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Fāsī al-ʻAbdarī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh (died 1336), a Mālikī Islamic law scholar, from al-Maghrib (North Africa), who came to Egypt and died in Cairo. Copied on Friday, 2 Jumād al-Ākhir, 1304 (26 February, 1887) by Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī. Place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār and كتاب شموس الأنوار وكنوز الأسرار
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 1b., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī awdaʻa ruqūm al-ḥurūf badāʼiʻ asrārih, wa-rakkaba minhā maʻāniya asmāʼih, wa-fajjara minhā yanābīʻ al-aʻdād wa-buḥūr al-awfāq bi-mawāhib anwārih, wa-wakkala rūḥānīyatan taqūmu wa-takhdumu arbābahā fī jamīʻ al-maṭālib, tadullu bi-surʻatihā ʻalá faradānīyatihi, fa-fataḥa bisāṭ al-uns, wa-aṭlaʻa man shāʼa min al-ins ʻalá ʻajāʼib malakūtihā mimman akhlaṣa min ʻibādih ...", Secundo folio: ward wa-misk alf marrah., 15 x 22 cm; written surface: 9 x 17.7 cm; 25 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather with flap; cover and flap embossed with central medallion., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in purple; many magic squares and a magic circle; on some leaves a seal with the phrase "Dawāwīn maṣraf"; some corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār li-Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Maghribī, ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá kull ḥāl. M.", On folio 1b: "... wa-sammaytuhā bi-Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār ...", Colophon: "Tamma bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnih. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Jumʻah al-mubārak, al-muwāfiq ithnayn Jumād al-Ākhir, sanat 1304, arbaʻah wa-thalāthmiʼah wa-alf, min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah, ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-atamm al-salām. Wa-kāna dhālika ʻalá yad kātibihi wa-nāqilihi al-faqīr ilá al-Karīm al-Wahhāb, ʻabduhu Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-lil-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, al-Nabī al-ummī, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. M.", and Translation of the colophon: "It is completed by the praise of God and His help. The copying of this book was completed on blessed Friday, 2 Jumād al-Ākhir, 1304 of the Hijrah of the Prophet, may the best prayer and the most perfect peace be upon Him. Copied and transcribed by the hand of the poor to the Generous and Abundant Giving One, His servant, Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī, may God forgive him, his parents and all Muslims. Amen. Amen. Praise be to God Lord of the Universe. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, the Illiterate Prophet, and on his family and companions and grant them peace. Amen. M."
Fashnī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥijāzī. فشني، أحمد بن حجازي
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 156
Image Count:
336
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on Nihāyat al-tadrīb fī naẓm al-Taqrīb of Yaḥyá al-ʻAmrītī, which in its turn is a versification of Ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār (also known as: al-Taqrīb fī al-fiqh), concise manual of Shafiʻi law, of Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī. The 2nd half only, Followed by 4 leaves of notes, and Copied in A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808).
Alternative Title:
Sharḥ naẓm Ghāyat al-taqrīb and شرح نظم غاية التقريب
Description:
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Hādhā kitāb al-niṣf al-thānī min Tuḥfat al-ḥabīb bi-sharḥ naẓm Ghāyat al-taqrīb, lil-Shaykh ... Aḥmad ibn Ḥijāzī ibn Badīr al-Fashnī ... Kitāb al-farāʼiḍ. Hiya jamʻ farīḍah ...", Fair naskhī, in red and black., Part 1 wanting., 1 of 2 titles bound together., Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābatihi ḍaḥwat yawm al-Jumʻah, al-rābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrīn, min shahr Rajab, fī taʼrīkh alf wa-miʼatayn wa-thalāthah wa-ʻishrīn ...", and Translation of the colophon: "The copy was completed on Friday morning, the 24th of the month of Rajab, of the year 1223 [of the Hijrah = 15 September 1808] ..."
Subject (Name):
ʻAmrīṭī, Yaḥyá ibn Mūsá, active 1581., Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, approximately 1042-, and Fashnī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥijāzī.
Copied by Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī in A.H. 660 (A.D. 1261 or 1262).
Description:
On the scribe, cf. Huart, Les calligraphes et les miniaturistes de l'Orient Musulman, Paris, 1908, p. 84 ff., Pasted in is an ALS by Richard J.H. Gottheil in October 29, 1931 to Henry Fletcher describing this manuscript., Calligraphic microscopic naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in blue and gold on leaf 1 verso., Islamic binding, much younger, gilt, with flap., Colophon: "Katabahu Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī sanat sittīn wa-sittimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "Written by Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī in the year 660 [of the Hijrah = 1261/1262]."
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, Henry Prather, 1873-1959., Gottheil, Richard J. H. 1862-1936. (Richard James Horatio),, and Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī, -1299?
Najjār, Ibrāhīm ibn Jirjis, 19th cent نجار، إبراهيم بن جرجس، 19th cent
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 757
Image Count:
52
Abstract:
Manuscript in an unidentified hand of the Book of Psalms, with some commentaries and suggestions on the medical, magical, talismanic, etc. benefits of each psalm; undated but most likely from the early part of the 19th century
The author is from the city of Fayyūm in Egypt; a Christian, as his name indicates, probably Coptic. The title states that the number of Psalms are 151 (not 150, as is the case in the current versions)., In Arabic; probably translated from Coptic., The Arabic title translates: Guide to the 151 Psalms and their benefits., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-raʼūf al-raḥmān al-raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīnu ʻalá kull amr ʻasīr. Nabtadī bi-ʻawnihi taʻālá wa-ḥusn tawfīqihi bi-naskh Kitāb Dallāl al-Mazāmīr al-miʼah wa-iḥdá wa-khamsīn mazmūr wa-manāfiʻihim. Wa-ʻalayhi taʻālá al-tawfīq wa-ḥusn al-khitām. Taʻalluq kātibihi al-faqīr ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-mustaghfir li-dhanbihi Ibrāhīm ibn Jirjis ibn Ibrāhīm al-Najjār min madīnat al-Fayyūm.", 16 x 24 cm.; written surface: 20-22 lines per page., Modern binding., In clear naskhī script; in black ink up to the middle of page 38b, from there to the end in violet ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and marking in red or larger script; catchwords and numerous magical symbols and magic squares., and Ends abruptly with Psalm 150: "... Wa-hādhā huwa al-Mazmūr. Sabbiḥū al-Rabb yā qiddīsīh. Sabbiḥūhu fī jidd qūwatih. Sabbiḥūhu ʻalá jabarūtihi li-kathrat ʻaẓamatih ... Sabbiḥūhu bi-ṣalāṣil shajīyat al-ṣawt. Sabbiḥūhu bi-ṣalāṣil ..."
Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288 ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم، 1210 or 1211-1288
Published / Created:
22 Rajab, 745 H1055 H [29 November, 1344]
Call Number:
ManuscriptArabic 23
Image Count:
222
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb, a compendium of medicine by Ibn al-Nafīs, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī al-Mutaṭabbib (1210 or 1211-1288), an illustrious and prolific scholar of the 13th century and a prominent physician and a practical and experimental medical researcher who refused to accept the previous medical opinions of Greek and Muslim scholars (including Galen and Avicenna) without proof and to whom is attributed the discovery of the micro cardiovascular system. He was born in Damascus, Syria but lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt. He depended in his treatment of illnesses mostly on nutritious foods rather than medications. The present manuscript is an abridgement and explantion of Avicenna's al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb "Canon of medicine" (excluding the chapters on anatomy and physiology) based on his own observations and experimentations. Copied by al-Muhadhdhab al-Musayyijī on Monday 22 Rajab, 745 (29 November, 1344). Place of copying not mentioned, probably Egypt
Alternative Title:
Hādhā kitāb ʻulum al-ṭibb min jamīʻ al-aṣnāf, al-amrāḍ, al-ʻilāj ʻan al-ḥukamāʼ al-qudamāʼ and هذا كتاب علم الطب من جميع الأصناف، الأمراض، العلاج عن الحكماء القدماء
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ḥabr qudwat al-ʻulamāʼ wa-raʼīs al-fuḍalāʼ farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī al-Mutaṭabbib qaddasa Allāh rūḥahu: qad rattabtu hādhā al-kitāb ʻalá arbaʻ funūn. al-Fann al-awwal fī qawāʻid juzʼay al-ṭibb, aʻnī ʻilmahu wa-ʻamalah bi-qawl kullī ...", 13 x 24.5 cm ; written surface: 8.5 x 18.5 cm, 25 lines per page, In loose dark brown leather binding; a substitute cover., In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings and keywords in red; catchwords., Some collations and commentaries on the margins., On leaf 1a an ownership note in the name of Anṭūn walad Jirjis., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-mannih. ʻAllaqahu li-nafsih wa-li-man shāʼa Allāh baʻdah al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá raḥmat Allāh wa-ruḍwānih al-Muhadhdhab al-Musayyijī ʻafā Allāh ʻanhu wa-raḥima man naẓara fīhi wa-ṣafaḥa ʻan zalalih wa-daʻā la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Waqaʻa al-taḥrīr min taʻlīqihi yawm al-Ithnayn, thānī ʻishrīn shahr Rajab al-mubārak sanat 745 [Monday, 29 November, 1344]. Balagha muqābalatan wa-taṣḥīḥan"
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037. and Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288.