Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717 أحمد بن علي سعيد، -1717
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 428
Image Count:
652
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on Manār al-anwār (principles of law) of ʻAbd Allāh al-Nasafī. and Beginning and end missing. Probably with lacunae
Description:
Leaves misbound; the concluding part of the incipit, with the title, appears on leaf 278 recto., Fair modern (18th century?) naskhī., and Islamic binding, in black.
Subject (Name):
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717. and Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310.
Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556 واعظ المكي، عبد الرؤوف بن يحيى، -1556
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 293
Image Count:
53
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Versification of al-Nuqāyah (concise encyclopedia) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī. and Followed by 2 leaves of notes
Description:
Available on microfilm, The title, scrawled in a later hand on leaf 217 recto, confused the author with ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Munāwī., The author's full name is given in the colophon (explicit)., Kâtip Çelebi (ed. Flügel) misprinted ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz as covering fann al-tafsīr only., Kâtip Çelebi gives the author's surname as al-Zamzamī al-Makkī. Brockelmann, S II, p. 509, lists a Naẓm ʻilm al-tafsīr under ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī al-Zamzamī, d. 1568, possibly the same work. (But Hitti, 7, gives his death date as A.H. 963 / A.D. 1556)., Kâtip Çelebi gives the death date as A.H. 963 (A.D. 1555 or 1556)., According to the colophon the author was a pupil of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (d. 1565?)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu muḥtāj al-Ghanī al-Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Raʼūf najl Yaḥyá al-Wāʻiẓ: Aḥmadu man ajāda bi-al-aḥkām ...", Modern (18th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black, sparsely pointed., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and No. 3 of 3 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505., Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556., Zamzamī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī, -1568., and Zamzamī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Yaḥyá, -1556.
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic and Islamic learning and scholarship
Jawī Zādah, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, -1547 or 1548 جوي زادة، محمد بن إلياس، ت. 1547 أو 8.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 715
Image Count:
39
Abstract:
Manuscript on Islamic law dealing with how to establish evidence when two or more claiments are asking for shares in someone's inheritance by Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ilyās Jawī Zādah (d. 1547 or 8), a prolific Ḥanafī scholar, muftī and qāḍī of Turkish origin. Copied by Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Fayḍ Allāh, probably in the 17th century, in Turkey
Alternative Title:
Mīzān al-muddaʻīn fī iqāmat al-bayyinatayn, Kitāb Mīzān al-muddaʻīyīn, Mīzān al-muddaʻīyīn, ميزان المدعين في إقامة البينتين, كتاب ميزان المدعيين, and ميزان المدعيين
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "... Iʻlam anna al-rajulayn idhā iddaʻayā ʻaynan wa-barhanā fa-lā yakhlū immā an iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan muṭlaqan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan bi-sabab wāḥid bi-an iddaʻayā irthan aw shirāʼan min ithnayn aw min wāḥd aw iddaʻá aḥaduhumā mulkan muṭlaqan wa-al-ākhar natājan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā natājan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan bi-sababayn mukhtalifayn min wāḥid aw bi-sababayn mukhtalifīn min ithnayn ...", 15.5 x 21.5 cm; written surface: 7.5 x 15 cm, different lines per page., Modern binding., In clear unified naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper; with headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Preceded by an introduction in Ottoman Turkish (folio 1b-3a) and a table of contents (folios 3b-6b)., Folios 1a and 28b-34b contain advices, proverbs, prayers, poems, invocations, etc. in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian., Several dates are found in the manuscript; the earliest are: [1]101 H [1689 or 1690] (folio 29a) and [11]57 H [1744 or 1755] (folio 31 b)., Ample notes on the margins., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kalām bi-ʻawn Allāh al-Malik al-ʻAllām min taḥrīrāt al-fāḍil zubdat al-anām al-marḥūm al-maʻrūf bi-Jawīʹzādah bayna al-khawāṣṣ wa-al-ʻawām ... Tammat hādhihi al-risālah al-sharīfah ʻan al-ḥaqīr al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-qadīr Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Fayḍ Allāh ..."
Subject (Name):
Jawī Zādah, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, -1547 or 1548.
Subject (Topic):
Evidence (Islamic law), Hanafites, Inheritance and succession (Islamic law), and Islamic law
Mārūnī, Anṭūniyūs ibn Mubārak, active 18th century ماروني، أنطونيوس بن مبارك، ناشط قرن 18.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 351
Image Count:
778
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Forty-six sermons, composed at Rome, in 1720 and Preceded by 2 leaves of notes
Description:
Author's colophon at end gives his name, place and date of composition., Graf, III, 436, composed in 1976, is presumably another collection of sermons., Of the two manuscripts referred to by Graf, the first (ʻAyn warqah), composed in 1716, contains only 16 sermons; the other contains sermons also by other authors, and the number of Antonius' sermons and the date of composition are not given., Incipit: "al-ʻIẓah al-ūlá: Fī fāʼidat al-waʻẓ wa-sharafihi wa-fī istimāʻ kalām Allāh wa-ẓarūrīyatih [wa-ḍarūrīyatih] ...", Fair modern (18th century) Karshūnī/Garshūnī (Arabic in Syriac script), in red and black., Islamic binding, in black., Author's colophon: "Ḥurrira bi-Rūmiyah al-Kubrá, fī Madrasat al-Mawārinah, fī al-yawm al-thāminʻashar min shahr Kānūn al-Awwal, sanat sabʻimiʼah wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf lil-tajassud al-Ilāhī. Anṭūniyūs ibn Mubārak al-Mārūnī.", and Translation of the author's colophon: "Written in Great Rome, at the School of the Maronites, on 18 Kānūn al-Awwal [December], the year 1720 after the Divine Incarnation. Anṭūniyūs ibn Mubārak al-Mārūnī."
Subject (Name):
Mārūnī, Anṭūniyūs ibn Mubārak, active 18th century.
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197 مرغيناني، علي بن أبي بكر، -1196 or 1197
Published / Created:
1523 or 1524.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 603
Image Count:
560
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Mukhtārāt al-nawāzil" (Selected new issues), a treatise on Islamic law according to the Ḥanafī tradition, by Burhān al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī, a prominent and prolific Ḥanafī scholar, whose "nisbah" (affiliation) is to Marghīnān, a locality in the district of Farghānah (Marghilon, Farghona, Uzbekistan), being a collection of selected "nawāzil" (new issues which require fatwás (advisory or legal opinions), from a "faqīh" (Islamic law scholar)). Copied in the year 930 of the Hijrah (1523 or 1524), by Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim. Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit (folio 4b): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. "al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-al-ʻāqibah lil-muttaqīn, wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūlihi al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn ajmaʻīn. Kitāb al-Ṭahārāt. al-Ṭahārah fī al-lughah ʻibārah ʻan al-naẓāfah, wa-fī al-Sharīʻah, ʻibārah ʻan ghasl aʻḍāʼ makhṣūṣah bi-ṣifah makhṣūṣah, wa-hiya anwāʻ: Ṭahārat al-ṣughrá wa-Ṭahārat al-kubrá, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-ḥadath, wa-ṭahārat al-thawb wa-al-badan, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-khabath. Bāb mā yajūzu bi-hi al-wuḍūʼ, wa-mā lā yajūz. Faṣl fī al-miyāh ...", Secundo folio: Yūsuf, annahu lam yujawwiz fī al-badan., 14.3 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 12 cm; 14lines per page., Binding: Cover missing; dark brown leather on spine., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in red and large black script; some notes on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a-3b: Miscellaneous quotations on Islamic law., At the head of folio 4a: "Hādhā kitāb Mukhtārāt nawāzil, li-ṣāḥib al-Hidāyah.", At the head of folio 5a: An endowment statement: "Waqf Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-Chakmajlī.", Text ends abruptly on folio 276b, as follows: "... rawá al-Ḍaḥḥāk ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās, rḍ, annahu qāl: Yakūnu baʻd al-Nabī nūr yukanná Abū Ḥ, yaḥya dīn Allāh wa-Sunnat Rasūl Allāh ʻalá yadih. Wa-ʻan Anas, qāl, qāla Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam: Yakūnu fī ākhir al-zamān rajul yukanná bi-Abī Ḥanīfah, yaḥyá dīn Allāh taʻālá wa-Sunnatī ʻalá yadih. Thumma shurrifa bi-al-dhikr fī Ḥadīth ākhar: Muliʼa qalbuhu ʻilman wa-ḥikmah ...", Folio 277 is bound upside-down and contains miscellaneous quotations., At the head of folio 277a: "ʻAdad masāʼil hādhā al-kitāb alf wa-khamsmiʼat wa-ithnān wa-thalāthūn, wa-dhakar al-khilāf fī miʼah wa-sabʻīn, wa-lam yadhkur al-qiyās illā fī [...?].", Colophon (at the lower right margin of folio 276b): "Tammat al-kitāb, bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb, ʻalá yad ʻAbd [al-ʻabd] al-ḍaʻīf, al-muḥtāj, al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-Ghanī, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-aḥsana ilayhimā wa-ilayhi. Tārīkhuhu sanat thalāthīn wa-tisʻimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed by the help of the Abundant Giving King, by the hand of the feeble, needy and poor to Gracious God, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, may God forgive him and his parents and treat them and him favorably. Dated in the year 930 [of the Hijrah = 1523/1524]."
Subject (Name):
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197.
Ibn Ghānim, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad, -1279? ابن غانم، عزّ الدين عبد السلام بن أحمد، -1279?
Published / Created:
1657.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 224
Image Count:
108
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A collection of two treatises: 1. Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azhār "Unveiling of secrets on the sagacity of birds and flowers" (folios 1a-47a), a treatise on sufism, in the form of "maqāmah" genre, by ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (died 1279? in Cairo), a ṣūfī author, preacher and poet. Copied in the middle of Jumādá al-ākhir (31 March, 1657). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned. 2. Naẓm "Muthallath Quṭrub" (folios 47b-52b), by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān al-Azʹharī al-Ḥanafī, active 1688, a little known author (See Brockelmann: G II, 215; Suppl. I, 161: "al-Manẓūmah al-sannīyah fī bayān al-asmāʼ al-lughawīyah" [Illustrious poem presenting the linguistic nouns]). The treatise is a versification of "al-Muthallath" of Quṭrub (Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr, died 821 or 822, a well-known grammarian and philologist, from Baṣrah, Iraq), enumerating the trilateral homonyms in Arabic which have different meanings according to the three Arabic vowels (fatḥah, ḍammah, kasrah). Quṭrub was the first author to write on the "Muthallath" genre. The author added to the materials of "Muthallāth Quṭrub" words which he selected from extensive dictionaries, such as "Ṣiḥāḥ al-Jawharī". Copied by Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī (?). Place and date of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azhār 880-02, Kashf al-asrār fī ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār, Kitāb al-Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār, Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār, كشف الأسرار عن حكم الطيور والأزهار 240-02/r, كشف الأسرار في حكم الزهور والأطيار, كتاب المختار لكشف الأسرار في مناقشة الطيور والأزهار, and مختار لكشف الأسرار في مناقشة الطيور والأزهار
Description:
In Arabic., Title of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār from folio 3a., Title of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah lisān al-fuṣaḥāʼ wa-al-mutakallimīn ʻIzz al-Dīn Ghānim ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Maqdisī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu wa-arḍāh wa-jaʻala al-Jannah mathwāh: al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-baʻīd fī qurbih al-qarīb fī buʻdih, al-mutaʻālī fī rafīʻ majdih ʻan al-shayʼ wa-ḍiddih, alladhī awjada bi-qudratihi al-wujūd baʻda an kāna ʻadaman, wa-awjada kull mawjūd ḥukman, wa-jaʻala al-ʻaql baynahumā ḥakaman ...", Secundo folio of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: wa-mā yukābiduhu min wijdān., Incipit of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Yā Rabbī yassir yā karīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāhi alladhī hadānā // li-millati al-Islām wa-ijtabānā ... Wa-baʻda taslīmī ʻalá khayri nabī // naẓamtu min Muthallathāt Quṭrubi. Urjūzatan ladhīdhatan fī al-mashrabi // wa-zidtuhā min kutubin ṭiwāli ...", Secundo folio of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "Taḥīyat al-nāsi hiya al-salāmu., 15 x 20 cm; written surface: 8 x 14.5 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: In reddish blue cardboard binding., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; with headings and markings in red and green; catchwords., On front cover a statement in Arabic and English by Duncan Black Macdonald, 1863-1943, professor of Semitic languages at Hartford Theological Seminary, as follows: "Kashf al-asrār fī ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār li-ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Maqdisī. Bought at Damascus, Aug. 1908. D.B. Macdonald. Hartford.", On folio 1a: "Ḥasbiya Allāh. Kitāb al-Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār lil-shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah ʻIzz al-Dīn Ghānim ibn ʻAbd al-Salām, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu, wa-ʻafá ʻanhumā.", On folio 3a: "... wa-sammaytuhu: Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār ...", Colophon of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "Tammat nuskhat hādhā al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb fī awāsiṭ shahr Jumādá al-Ākhir, sanat sabʻ wa-sittīn wa-alf.", Translation of the colophon of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "The copy of this book was completed by the help of the Benevolent King, in the middle of the month of Jumādá al-Ākhir, 1067 [31 March, 1657].", Colophon of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: " Tammat wa-bi-al-khayr ʻammat ʻalá yad al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr, al-muʻtarif bi-al-ʻajz wa-al-taqṣīr Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī [?], ʻufiya ʻanhumā. Balagha al-muqābalah ḥasba al-ṭāqah wa-al-imkān. Wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-niʻma al-wakīl. Tamm.", and Translation of the colophon of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "It is completed. May it be wide-spread with goodness, by the hand of the poor and despised, who confesses his inability and shortcoming, Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī [?], may they both be pardoned. It was collated to the best of [my] ability, as far as possible. God suffices us. He is the best advocate. It is completed."
Subject (Name):
Azʹharī, Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān, active 1688., Ibn Ghānim, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad, -1279?, Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?, and Quṭrub, Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr, -821 or 822.
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century, author مغربي، أبو سعيد بن إبراهيم، ناشط قرن 12، مؤلف
Published / Created:
23 Ramaḍān, 1021 H [17 November, 1612]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 3
Image Count:
504
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on medicine and pharmacology by Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mutaṭabbib al-Maghribī, a little known physician and pharmacologist who seems to have lived in the 12th century. The name of the author is given as "Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī" in one of his medical/pharmacological manuscript works: "Kitāb fatʹḥ al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī fī mufradāt al-ʻaqāqīr, [17--?]" which he dedicated to the Amīr Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn ʻAyn al-Dawlah, the son of Amīr Ghāzī who seems to be the Danishmendid ruler Dhū al-Qarnayn, d. 557 H/1162 CE (OCLC 244629229). In the printed editions with slightly different titles: "Taqwīm al-adwīyah al-mufradah, aw, al-Munjiḥ fī al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī" as Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Saʻīd al-ʻAlāʼī (OCLC 785065773) and "Taqwīm al-adwīyah, aw, al-Munjiḥ fī al-tadāwī min ṣunūf al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī" as Abī Saʻīd Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Saʻīd al-ʻAlāʼī al-Maghribī (OCLC 796221762). The manuscript was read and collated with the copyist (whose name is not mentioned), as mentioned in the colophon, by the physician ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī (?) al-Khurāsānī (an obscure physician) on 23 Ramaḍan, 1021 H (17 November, 1612). Place of copying not mentioned, probably in Iran
In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi thiqatī. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn ḥamda al-shākirīn wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. al-Kitāb al-awwal yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ḥadd al-ṭibb wa-maʻrifat juzʼayhi al-ʻilmī wa-al-ʻamalī wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-umūr al-jawharīyah [?] lil-abdān min al-ʻanāṣir wa-al-amzijah wa-al-akhlāṭ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-mutashābihat al-ajzāʼ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-ālīyah wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-qiwá al-ṭabīʻīyah wa-al-ḥayawānīyah wa-al-nafsānīyah ...", 18 x 30 cm ; written surface: 11.3 x 20 cm, 25 lines per page., Islamic red leather binding., In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and marking in red; catchwords. Part 3 of the manuscript on pharmacology is profusely illustrated on the margins with beautifully colored drawings of the plants and animals mentioned in the text., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On title page an ownership seal in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Mūsawī., and Colophon: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Balagha qibālan wa-taṣḥīḥan wa-tadrīsan fī al-thālith wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Ramaḍān al-mubārak sanat iḥdá wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah. Wa-anā al-ʻabd aqall al-mutaṭabbibīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī [?] al-Khurāsānī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh. 1021. Balagha muqābalatan maʻa muntasikhih."
Subject (Name):
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Animal, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Arab, and Pharmacology
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 ..."
History of the caliphs, Preceded by 3 leaves of notes, and Copied in Sanʻa, Yemen, in A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615).
Alternative Title:
Tārīkh al-khulafāʼ 880-02, Taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ, تاريخ الخلفاء 240-02/r, and تأريخ الخلفاء
Description:
Available on microfilm, Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān. Ammā baʻd ḥamd Allāh alladhī waʻada fa-wafá wa-awʻada fa-ʻafā ...", Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Occasional marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., Colophon: "Wāfaqa al-farāgh min raqm hādhā al-taʼrīkh ... yawm al-Jumʻah, ghurrat shahr Ramaḍān ... ʻām arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf ... bi-maḥrūs madīnat Ṣanʻāʼ al-Yaman ... bi-rasm ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... bi-yad ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This history book was completed ... on Friday, the beginning of the month of Ramaḍan ... of the year 1024 [of the Hijrah = 31 January 1615] ... in the protected city of Ṣanʻāʼ of Yemen ... for ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... by the hand of ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ..."
Vocabularies, Arabic-Turkish-Italian (in Arabic letters); apparently based upon al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah of Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ., Followed by 1 leaf of notes, and Copied in A.H. 1143 (A.D. 1731).
Alternative Title:
Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah wa-al-ʻArabīyah and شذور الذهبية في اللغة التركية والعربية
Description:
Available on microfilm, In Arabic, Turkish, and Italian (in Arabic letters)., For Ibn Muḥammad Ṣālih's work see also British Museum, Turkish Mss., pp. 150-51; and Munich catalog 768, which agrees with the British Museum copy., The incipit is the same as in Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ's work, but the latter is divided into 4 rukns, not faṣls, and has an extensive introduction, etc., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Kitāb al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah wa-al-ʻArabīyah. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa al-insān wa-zayyanahu bi-al-nuṭq wa-al-lisān ...", Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh minhu yawm al-khāmis ʻashar min shahr Kānūn al-Thānī, min shuhūr sanat wāḥid wa-thalāthīn wa-sabʻimiʼah wa-alf, al-muwāfiq li-niṣf Rajab, sanat 1143.", and Translation of the colophon: "Completed on 15 January, 1731, corresponding to the middle of Rajab, 1143 [of the Hijrah]."
Subject (Name):
Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language, Italian language, and Turkish language
