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.
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.
On the pronunciation of the vowel fatḥah in the Koran.
Description:
Fair modern (ca. 1800) Yemenite naskhī, in red, green, and black., For the author's brother see Brockelmann, S II, p. 99., and Islamic binding, in brown, with flap.
Ibn al-Farrāʾ, Abū Yaʻlá Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 990-1066
Published / Created:
[11--?].
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 221
Image Count:
406
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Beginning and end missing; also lacunae between leaves 6 and 7, 7 and 8, 9 and 10, 94 and 95. and Legal decisions.
Description:
Fair 12th century naskhī, scantily pointed., For the author see Brockelmann, S I, p. 686., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Title, as above, supplied on leaf 1 recto by a later hand.
Ibn Aṣbagh, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, 1167 or 8-1223 or 4.
Published / Created:
1224
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 238
Image Count:
182
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Arabic glossary, in verse, arranged by subjects., Copied in A.H. 621 (A.D. 1224)., and The main work ends on leaf 39 recto, and is followed by a supplement, entitled Naẓm al-jumal al-muʻaqqibah min al-ṣifāt li-Kitāb al-mudhhabah.
Description:
Badly worm-eaten., Brockelmann spells mudhahhabah, but Berlin catalog has mudhhabah, and the meter requires this spelling in the prefatory verses on leaf 1 recto (verse 5, 2d half) and in the verses on leaf 40 recto and in the colophon (which also spell ḥulá, Brockelmann: ḥilā). Also al-muʻaqqibah so spelled on leaf 40 recto (Brockelmann: al-muʻaqqabah)., Considerable marginalia., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Incipit same as in Berlin catalog 5370 and Bankipore XX, 1989.
Subject (Name):
Naẓm al-jumal al-muʻaqqibah min al-ṣifāt li-Kitāb al-mudhhabah.
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
Commentary on al-Risālah (epistle) of Ibn Zaydūn. and Copied according to the colophon in A.H. 960 (A.D. 1553).
Alternative Title:
Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn.
Description:
From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 191). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Good naskhī, in red and black. First and last (colophon) leaves supplied by a later hand., The proper title of the work is: Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn., and With autograph note by Rifāʻah Bak al-Ṭahṭāwī.
Subject (Name):
Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1003 or 4-1071. Risālah al-Zaydūnīyah, Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh,--1003 or 4-1071.--Risālah al-Zaydūnīyah, Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Presentation inscription from R. al-Ṭaḥtāwī, and Ṭahṭāwī, Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ,--1801-1873--Presentation inscription to A. I. Silvestre de Sacy
Tract in refutation of the claim of the Jews that the Messiah had not yet come.
Description:
Composed after 1700 (cf. leaf 138 recto, middle, where it is stated that "it has now elapsed more than 1700 years" since the coming of Jesus., Fair modern (18th century) naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in black., No. 3 of 5 titles bound together., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
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
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Published / Created:
1755
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 349
Image Count:
45
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Copied in A.D. 1755., Followed by 2 leaves of notes., Followed by: ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī's introduction to his translation of the Psalms (leaf 11 recto); 24 ethical maxims, ascribed to St. Gregory of Nyssa (leaf 14 verso); and other pieces., and Questions and answers, ascribed to St. Basil and St. Gregory of Nyssa.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For al-Anṭākī's version of the Psalms, cf. Graf, I, 116., For the ethical maxims, cf. Graf, I, 344, 608 (where, however, reference is made to Berlin catalog, 10181 (16), which is a different text)., and No. 5 of 5 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Anṭākī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, 11th cent. and Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394.
Three tracts dealing with the Ismaʻilis and the Karmatians: an extract from Kitāb manāhij al-tawassul fī mabāhij al-tarassul; an untitled collection of 4 sermons, which, although undated, are probably all contemporary; and 2 fragments of a conversation between Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Bākir, the fifth Imām, and an unidentified Khālid ibn Zayd al-Juʾfy.
Modern 19th century naskhī, in red and black., Presented to Edward Elbridge Salisbury by Henry A. DeForest. Presented to Yale by Salisbury in 1870., and The first text in this volume was extracted from a book obtained by the Rev. Eli Smith from Mekhaîl Meshâka of Damascus. The second text was obtained through the courtesy of Louis von Wildenbruch, Prussian Consul General of Syria (died before Oct. 25, 1849), whose dragoman, Mr. Catafago, found it near Aleppo. The third text was also obtained through von Wildenbruch.
Subject (Name):
DeForest, Henry A.--Presentation inscription to E. Salisbury and Salisbury, Edward Elbridge,--1814-1901--Presentation inscription from H. DeForest
Subject (Topic):
Theology--Sects--Ismaʻili and Theology--Sects--Karmatian
Commentary on ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá (tract on the principles of faith) of Muḥammad al-Sanūsī. The beginnig of the work only.
Alternative Title:
al-Manhaj al-farīd fī maʻrifat ʻilm al-tawḥīd
Description:
Loose leaves., Modern (19th century) Maghribī (Sudanese) hand., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and The matn is the same (with longer titulature) as in Berlin catalog 2006.
Subject (Name):
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, ca. 1427-ca. 1490. ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá. and Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf,--ca. 1427-ca. 1490.--ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá.
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.
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).
