Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d. 1015 or 16.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 600
Image Count:
185
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Accounts, in prose and verse, of men and women who were, or pretended to be, seized with madness. and Copied in Ḥimṣ, Syria in A.H. 740 (A.D. 1340).
Description:
Compared with Berlin catalog 8328, the verses with which the incomplete Berlin copy begins are on leaf 6 verso of this manuscript., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap.
Date assigned by C. Landberg ("X. Jahrh.")., Good fairly modern (16th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; copious genealogical tables., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Original foliation: [13bis] not counted; 46 omitted.
Subject (Name):
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661 and Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
Subject (Topic):
Biography--Biography of Muḥammad, Biography--General biography, Biography--Prophet's companions, and Islamic binding
Munāwī, ʻAbd al-Raʾūf ibn Tāj al-ʻĀrifīn, d. 1621.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 250
Image Count:
304
Abstract:
Commentary on Unmūdhaj al-labīb fī khaṣāʾiṣ al-Ḥabīb (on the virtues of the Prophet) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Description:
Incipit of the matn compared with Ahlwardt 2577., Islamic binding, in black., Modern (19th century) naskhī, in red and black., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Beginning and end missing. and Manual of Shafiʻi law. Volume VIII (?) only.
Description:
Fair old (14th century?) naskhī., For the author see Brockelmann, I, 387; S I, p. 669. On the Taʻlīqah, cf. also al-Subkī, Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah, III, 155 ff; Ibn Khallikān (ed. Cairo), I, 145., Islamic binding, in brown, loose, the back cover supplied from a smaller book., and The identification of the work is uncertain. Title, as written on the lower edges, is partly rubbed off and indistinct.
Copied after the Mahdī's death, since his name is occasionally followed by the formula ʻalayhi al-salām. and Letters and proclamations.
Description:
"Registre des lettres et proclamations du Mahdi qui se trouvent dans [ce] manuscrit"; 4 leaves, in C. Landberg's hand, in pocket, inside front cover., Cf. JAOS, 31(1911), 368-69, from where it would seem that C. Landberg's original manuscript 543 (a volume of "170 Seiten") is now in the Egyptian Intelligence Office in Cairo and that it was captured at the battle of Toski in 1889., Fair Sudanese hand, in red and black., Imperfect: pp. 252-351 wanting., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Leaves numbered as pp. 1-503 (not counting the first page; pp. 495-503 are blank except for page-numbers).
Leaves 117-118, containing a supplementary prayer by a later hand, dated A.H. 1282 (A.D. 1865). and Prayers for the Prophet.
Alternative Title:
Dalāʾil al-khayrāt
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwāns in colors., Loose in Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Marginalia., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and With drawings, in color, of the holy places in Medina on leaves 25 verso and 26 recto.
Followed by two letters by Silvester, patriarch of Antioch to an English merchant, 1733 (leaf 12 recto) and 1732 (leaf 13 recto), and an edict of the synod (majmaʻ) of Constantinople against Euthymius Ṣayfī, bishop of Tyre and Sidon, 1718 (leaf 18 verso). and Polemical correspondence with an English merchant named Sherman (?), in 1734.
Description:
Fair 18th century naskhī, in red and black., For the author see Graf, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, III, 134., Islamic binding, in black., No. 4 of 5 titles bound together., On Euthymius Ṣayfī see Graf, III, 179., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Name):
Euthymius Ṣayfī,--Bishop of Tyre and Sidon, Sherman, and Silvester, Patriarch of Antioch, d. 1766