Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 652
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
272
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Volume II only and Incomplete at beginning and end
Alternative Title:
Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ
Description:
The identification of author and title of this volume is uncertain., Title given on the lower edges., Fair naskhī, probably of the 14th century., Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the front cover is preserved., and Other volumes wanting.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 53a
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
702
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Beginning and end missing, and Perhaps a holograph (cf. Landberg MSS 283).
Description:
Fair naskhī. and Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, flap and back missing.
Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, 1086?-1153
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 615
Image Count:
165
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Treatise on the various religious sects and philosophical schools, Beginning missing; end (leaf 163 verso) pasted over, and A note on leaf 163 verso is dated A.H. 699 (A.D. 1299) at Taʻizz, Yemen
Description:
Compared with Cureton's edition., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the back cover is preserved.
Shihāb al-Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1388 or 1389-1470 or 1471
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 49a
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
204
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
A literary anthology in prose and verse and Beginning and end missing, also lacunae elsewhere in the text
Description:
The author's name and the title are written in a later hand on leaf 40 recto., Heading of faṣls (as listed by Brockelmann): 4). Fī al-nathrīyāt (leaf 20 recto); 5) Fī al-ḥikāyāt (leaf 51 verso)., Leaves probably in part out of order., Fairly old (16th century?) naskhī, in red and black., and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered.
Universal history, presumably abridged from (the Persian compendium of?) the Akhbār al-rusul wa-al-mulūk of al-Ṭabarī., Beginning and end missing, and The volume covers the years A.H. 7-240 (A.D. 628-854).
Description:
Old (14th century?) naskhī, in red and black. and Islamic binding, in brown, flap missing.
History of the construction of the Aya Sofya palace
Description:
In Persian., The manuscript was probably copied not long after the date of composition of the treatise, A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574 or 75)., Fair nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and blue on leaf 229 verso; leaves 229-230 with gold rectangular borders., Islamic binding, in contemporary brown calf., and With: 2 other titles.
A genealogical account of the legendary and historical Persian and Arab kings before Islam and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes
Description:
Text in Arabic, some notes in Persian., The manuscript was probably copied not long after the date of composition of the final treatise, A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574 or 75)., Fair naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and blue on leaf 1 verso. Leaves 1-2 with gold rectangular borders., A note pasted in the front cover lists the contents of the volume in French., Islamic binding, in contemporary brown calf., Bookplate of Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco., Bookplate of Thomas E. Marston., Unidentified bookstamp in Turkish on title page., and With: 2 other titles.