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
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4.
Published / Created:
[15--?]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 575
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
In the center of the map is Mecca; the ocean is located on each side along the outer edge of the sheet with the pillars of the earth in the four corners. Great emphasis is placed on Africa and the Nile river. Other places of interest include: Wasteland where nobody lives, Mountains of the Moon, Land of the Slavs and Franks, Gog and Magog, Land of the Turks (Central Asia), Red Sea (rectangular water mass), the Source of life.
Description:
Gift of Thomas E. Marston, Yale '27, in honor of Alexander O. Vietor, Yale '36, in November 1978., Removed from a bound volume., and Tempera and ink.
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).
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
43
Abstract:
Copied in Constantinople about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525)., Philosophical epistles, some by al-Dawwānī, some anonymous., and Titles of the epistles: 1) Abḥāth fī al-ʻillah wa-al-maʻlūl (by al-Dawwānī); 2) Risālah fī mawḍūʻ al-kalām (by al-Dawwānī); 3) Risālah fī nisbat al-baṣīrah (anonymous); 4) Risālah fī al-tashakhkhuṣ (extracts from the Sharḥ al-mawāqif, anonymous); 5) Risālah ukhrá fī al-tashakhkhuṣ (extracts from the Risālah juzʾīyah, anonymous).
Alternative Title:
Risālah fī nisbat al-baṣīrah., Risālah juzʾīyah., and Sharḥ al-mawāqif.
Description:
Extensive marginalia in the beginning., Hasty nastaʻlīq, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 11 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Subject (Name):
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13. Abḥāth fī al-ʻillah wa-al-maʻlūl. and Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13. Risālah fī mawḍūʻ al-kalām.
Followed by 1 leaf of notes. and Treatise on exception (syntactical figure), being an extract from the author's Sharḥ Sharḥ Dībājat al-Miṣbāḥ.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 7 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and The text corresponds to leaves 225 verso-226 verso of Arabic MSS 120.
Subject (Name):
Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid,--1144-1213.--Kitāb al-miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Grammar. and Islamic binding.
Kitab mut awwal / Sa'd al-Taftazani. -- 1826 or 27.
Image Count:
8
Abstract:
Commentary, in the longer version, on Talkhis al-Miftah (manual of rhetoric, abridged from the Mifta¯h al-'ulum of al-Sakkaki) of Muh ammad Khat ib Dimashq.
Description:
Only partial work scanned. and Profuse interlinear and marginal notations in earlier part of the manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Qazwini, Jalal al-Din Muh ammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhis al-Miftah. and Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr, b. 1160. Miftah al-'ulum
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature --Rhetoric and Islamic binding
