Islamic history; volume X(?), covering the years A.H. 628-693 (A.D. 1230-1294). and Copied in A.H. 1270 (A.D. 1854).
Description:
Available on microfilm, For the identification of the work see note on last page; the author's name appears on leaf 47 verso. , Good naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in red, with flap.
Muslim history to A.H. 1033 (A.D. 1624). and Copied in A.H. 1068 (A.D. 1658).
Description:
Available on microfilm, The title is given in the incipit, leaf 2 recto., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in brown, flap missing.
Versification of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ (Arabic grammar) and Hamʻ al-hawāmiʻ (commentary to it). and Copied in A.H. 1051 (A.D. 1641).
Description:
The title appears on leaf 3 recto., Fair naskhī, in red and black. Some leaves supplied in a later hand., and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap.
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.
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.
Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 576
Image Count:
438
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of cosmography
Description:
Title from: Brockelmann, II, 131. In manuscript on title page: ʻAjāʾib-i makhlūqāt., Fair naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and blue on leaf 10 verso. Leaves 10-13 with gold rectangular borders. Rubricated., Illustrated with a map of the world related to the group known as the "Seven Seas" maps, and a chart giving the qiblah to Mecca (leaf 12 verso)., 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.
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.