Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Published / Created:
A.H. 1295 (A.D. 1878)
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 431
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 1295 (A.D. 1878)., Short poem in praise of the Prophet., and The attribution to al-Būṣīrī is probably fictitious; the meter (basīṭ) is the same as in al-Būṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-burdah.
Description:
Copied in the form of a primer of calligraphy; calligraphic hand., Islamic binding, in maroon., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Poetry, Arabic language and literature--Primers (Calligraphy), and Islamic binding.
ʻAdawī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʻīl, d. ca. 1727 ʻĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān, ca. 709-796 or 7
Published / Created:
A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1676)
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 183
Image Count:
173
Abstract:
Holograph, written in A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1676)., On the Koranic reading of ʻĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, transmitted through Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān., and Preceded and followed by 2 leaves of notes.
Description:
Extensive marginalia., For date of the author's death see Bankipore catalog, XVIII, no. 1271., Good naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in red, with flap.
Avicenna, 980-1037, author ابن سينا، 980-1037 مؤلف
Published / Created:
1055 H [1645 or 1646]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 6
Image Count:
1030
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
al-Qanūn fī al-ṭibb, a comprehensive manuscript on Arabic medicine by al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Sīnā (980-1037), commonly known by the Latinized version of his name Avicenna who was born near Bukhara in Persia (present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna was the most famous and influential of the many Islamic scholars, scientists, and philosophers of the medieval world. He was foremost a physician but was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, psychologist, philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and poet. His al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Canon of medicine) became the authoritative reference on medicine in the Middle Ages, not only in the Islamic world but, in Latin translations, in Europe as well. Presented in this manuscript is the second half of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (from al-fann 11 "the 11th art" of the third book to the end of the fifth book). The whereabouts of the first part of the Canon are not known.The colophons indicate that the copy was copied in 1055 H (1645/1656) in the city of Shīrāz, Iran by Muḥammad Qulī al-Shīrāzī al-muʻallim. The manuscript was a gift of Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), a Yale-educated neurosurgeon, whose collection of rare medical books forms a key part of the Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. 1645 Selections. 880-02 and قانون في الطب. 1645 مختارات. 240-02/r
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "al-Fann al-ḥādī ʻashar min al-kitāb al-thālith min al-Qānūn fī aḥwāl al-qalb wa-huwa maqālatān: al-Maqālah al-ūlá minhumā fī mabādī wa-uṣūl li-dhālika tashrīḥ al-qalb. Ammā al-qalb fa-innahu makhlūq min laḥm qawī li-yakūna abʻada min al-āfāt muntasij fīhi min aṣnāf al-līf qawīyah shadīdah al-ikhtilāf al-ṭawīl al-jadhdhāb wa-al-ʻarīḍ al-daffāʻ wa-al-muwarrab al-māsik li-yakūna la-hu aṣnāf min al-ḥarakāt ...", 26 x 45.5 cm ; written surface: 17.5 x 32.8 cm, 21 lines per page., Islamic black leather binding., In elegant, rather large naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings and keywords in gold, some markings in red; magnificently illuminated heading to opening chapter; text within gold and blue frames; catchwords., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On leaf 1a an ownership note in the name of Muḥammad Taqī [ibn] Muḥammad Bāqir, dated 1076 H [1665/1666], Colophon at the end book 3 of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (leaf 238a): "Tamma al-kitāb al-thālith min kutub al-Qānūn al-mushtamil ʻalá al-amrāḍ al-wāqiʻah. Wa-li-wāhib al-ʻaql al-ḥamd wa-al-minnah wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Nabīyihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. Qad faragha yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ, panjum shahr Rabīʻ al-Awwal, sanat 155 [i.e. 1055 = 1 May 1645] ḥāmidan muṣalliyan.", Colophon at the end of book four (leaf 436a): "Tamma kitāb al-zafanah wa-huwa ākhir al-kalām min al-kitāb al-rābiʻ fī baldat Shīrāz sanat khams wa-khamsūn wa-alf bi-khaṭṭ Muḥammad Qulī al-Shīrāzī al-muʻallim, ghafara Allāh dhunūbahum wa-li-jamīʻ al-muʼmīn wa-al-muʼmināt bi-Muḥammad wa-ālih.", and Colophon at the end of book five (leaf 509b): "Tamma kitāb al-aqrābādīn wa-bi-tamāmihi tammat al-kutub al-khamsah al-mushtamilah ʻalá al-Qānūn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ḥaqqa ḥamdihi ḥamdan kathīran dāyiman. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá khayr khalqihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi ajmaʻīn."
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections 880-02, Qānūn fī ḥadd al-ṭibb, قانون في الطب. مختارات 240-02/(3/r, and قانون في حد الطب
Description:
Covers book 1 and 2 only. Book 2 misbound before book 1 (121, 121 leaves). Copied in various naskh hands. The date probably 1226 H/1811 M. The written surface measures 13.5x21 cm. Some marginalia. Contains dozen or so crude drawings in the margin. The paper is light brown and glazed. Some loss of text. The leather binding had no flap., Manuscript., Arabic., and Gift of Harvey Cushing. Purchased from Dr. Saʻīd Kurdustānī.
A full copy of the Qurʼān, copied on 10 Rabīʻ Awwal 1086 (Tuesday, 4 June, 1675); name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan., القرآن، [1675]., and قرآن
Description:
6.5 x 9.5 cm; written surface: 4.8 x 6.8 cm, 13 lines per page., In Arabic., In small and elegant naskh script, in black ink with headings and markings in red; text framed in blue and gold; catchwords., Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., and Red leather binding with flap.
A full copy of the Qurʼān, copied by Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf in 1238 H (1822 or 1823); place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan., القرآن، [1822 أو 1823]., and قرآن
Description:
10.5 x 16.3 cm; written surface: 6 x 10.8 cm, 15 lines per page., Bound., Colophon: "Sawwadahu al-mudhnib Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-laṭīf ḥāmidan lillāh taʻālá wa-muṣalliyan ʻalá Nabīyihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Sanat thamān wa-thalāthūn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf.", In Arabic., In elegant naskh script, in black ink with markings in red; text framed in red, blue and gold; colorful decorations on leaves 1b and 2a and on the margins of some leaves; leaves 301a-305b contain "Duʻāʼ khatm al-Qurʼān" (prayer of conclusion of the reading of the Qurʼān) and other supplications; catchwords., Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., and الخاتمة: "سوّده المذنب إبراهيم العفيف المحتاج إلى رحمة ربه اللطيف حامدًا لله تعالى ومصليًا على نبيه محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين. سنة ثمان وثلاثون ومائتين وألف."
A full copy of the Qurʼān, copied by ʻAlī al-Turābī, a student of Muḥammad al-Shukrī al-maʻrūf bi-Rīḥān Dhādah and ʻAlī al-Miṣrī who is burried in Istanbul, in 1250 H (1834 or 1835); place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan., القرآن، [1834 أو 1835]., and قرآن
Description:
11 x 16 cm; written surface: 5.5 x 9.5 cm, 15 lines per page., Bound with flap., Colophon: "Katabahu al-ḥaqīr al-faqīr al-mudhnib al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat rabbihi al-qadīr al-maʻbūd ʻAlī al-Turābī min talāmīdh Muḥammad al-Shukrī al-maʻrūf bi-Rīḥān Dhādah wa-ʻAlī al-Miṣrī al-madfūn fī Islāmbūl ghafara Allāh dhunūbahu wa-dhunūbahumā wa-satara ʻuyūbahumā wa-li-wālidayhi wa-aḥsana ilayhimā wa-ilayhi sanat 1250.", In Arabic., In elegant naskh script, in black ink with markings in red; text framed in red, blue and gold; colorful decorations on leaves 1b and 2a., Leaves 304b-306a contain prayers and supplications., Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005., and الخاتمة: "كتبه الحقير الفقير المذنب المحتاج إلى رحم ربه القدير المعبود علي الترابي من تلاميذ محمد الشكري المعروف بريحان ذادة وعلي المصري المدفون في إسلامبول غفر الله ذنوبه وذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما ولوالديه وأحسن إليهما وإليه سنة 1250."