Account of the caliphs and other royal personages who performed the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina., Annotated by Ramaḍān Ḥalāwah about A.H. 1300 (A.D. 1882 or 3)., Copied in A.H. 1018 (A.D. 1609)., and Lacunae between leaves 41 and 42, and 61 and 62.
Description:
Coarse naskhī, in red, green, and black., Marginalia., and With: 2 other titles.
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.
Copied about 1736., Followed by other traditions., and Two traditions related by Abū Ḥanīfah on the authority of Mālik ibn Anas.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Theology--Tradition--Corpuses
Ibn Mammātī, Asʻad ibn al-Muhadhdhab, 1149-1209 Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 258
Image Count:
19
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied about 1736., Followed by 2 leaves of notes., and Satyrical essay on Bahāʾ al-Dīn Qarāqūsh.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., With: 10 other titles., and Wrongly ascribed in the title to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Treatise intended to show that the caliphate is firmly rooted in tradition.
Description:
Good modern (ca. 1700?) naskhi, in red and black., Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Leaves 8-13, Modern foliation., and Second of 5 titles bound together.
Followed by short chapters on the description and preparation of medicines, pastes and drinks. and On the body and sickness. Ends abruptly in Maqālah 7, faṣl 43 (of 60).
Description:
According to most sources, Hippocrates did not write a work with this title; Dioscurides did, but the text differs from the present one., May be later than sixteenth century., Purchased from Hassan Sami in 1991 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Water-stained and badly worm-eaten, affecting text., and With: 1 other title.
A Sufi tract. and Copied about A.H. 1150 (A.D. 1737).
Description:
Coarse naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 3 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Imaginary dialogue between the cities of al-Rawdah and Cairo, each extolling its own excellence.
Description:
Fourth of 5 titles bound together., Good modern (ca. 1700?) naskhi, in red and black., Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Leaves 27-31, and Modern foliation (skips ff. initially numbered 27 as blank).
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
