Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
Alternative Title:
Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page., and Mounted on page 16 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,, and Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo,
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Agriculture, Rites & ceremonies, and Views
Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534 كمال پاشازاده، 1468 أو 1469-1534
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 516
Image Count:
196
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of Hanafi law, consisting of the main text (al-Iṣlāḥ, being a revision of Maḥmūd al-Maḥbūbī's Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah) and the commentary (al-Īḍāḥ, being a revision of Sharḥ Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah of ʻUbayd Allāh Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Thānī)., Preceded by 1 leaf of notes, and Copied in A.H. 947 (A.D. 1540 or 1541).
Description:
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Aḥmaduhu fī al-bidāyah wa-al-nihāyah ʻalá al-hidāyah wa-al-wiqāyah ...", Fair nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʼunwān in gold and blue on leaf 1 verso., Extensive marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb ... 947.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed ... 947 [of the Hijrah = 1540/1541]."
Subject (Name):
Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534., Maḥbūbī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1344 or 1345., and Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, -1346 or 1347.
Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? خليل بن إسحاق الجندي، -1365؟
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 198
Image Count:
30
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of Maliki law
Description:
Incomplete at end., Title from: Brockelmann, II, 84., Compared in parts with the lithographed edition of 1900., Compared with Ahlwardt 4599, the last chapter heading is found on leaf 316 recto, so that probably only one or two leaves are missing., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu ... Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Mālikī ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh ḥamdan yuwāfī mā tazāyada min al-niʻam ...", Two coarse Maghribī hands, fairly modern (18th century?)., Profuse interlinear and marginal notations throughout., and Loose leaves.
"al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah", a textbook of miscellaneous vocabularies and glossaries in Arabic with their corresponding equivalents in Ottoman Turkish, written for the benefit of a certain "Aḥmad", the son of a high ranking, unnamed dignitary, by Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (Molla Sâlih, Mullā Ṣāliḥ, Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ), referred to as Shaykh al-Arwām, who was teaching at the Eşrefiyye medrese (al-Madrasah al-Ashrafīyah) in Cairo, and was alive in the year 1029 of the Hijrah (1619/1620). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 17th century
Description:
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish., Name of the author: "Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ" from folio 2a., Title from (folio 3a): "... wa-tarjamtuhā bi-al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa al-insān wa-zayyanahu bi-al-nuṭq wa-al-lisān, wa-karramahu ʻalá sāʼir al-makhlūqāt, wa-faḍḍala man shāʼa min ʻibādihi bi-al-faṣāḥah wa-al-ihtidāʼ ilá tamyyuz al-lughāt. Wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahu lā sharīka la-hu, shahādatan tuḥaqqiqu li-qāʼilihā al-tamassuk bi-al-awāmir, wa-al-ijtināb ʻan al-manhīyāt. Wa-ashhadu anna Sayyidanā wa-Nabīyanā Muḥammad al-mabʻūth ilá sāʼir al-umam, Sayyid al-ʻUrb wa-al-ʻAjam, afṣaḥ man naṭaqa bi-al-Ḍād ...", Secundo folio: bi-ḥurūf al-suyūf min kalimāt al-bāṭil., 14 x 21 cm; written surface: 10 x 16 cm; 15 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather; cover tooled with broad golden frame., The translation of this work into modern Turkish "Eş-şüzûr-üz-zehebiyye vel-kıtaiʼl-Ahmediyye fil-lûgat-it-Türkiyye", was published in Istanbul, in 1949., The name of the author and the title of the work is mentioned in Brockelmann (S II:632:13)., On folios 48b and 50a: Texts in Ottoman Turkish in a different hand., Folio 49 is blank., In beautiful and large naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; the Ottoman Turkish terms are written beneath the Arabic terms in red; catchword., Colophon (folio 48a): "Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah. Tammat wa-bi-al-khayr kamulat.", and Translation of the colophon: "Praise be to God alone. It is completed and well concluded."
