Calligraphic naskhī, in red, green, and black; ʻunwāns in gold and colors. and Islamic binding, in brown, elaborately gilt, in Oriental slip-case. In brown morocco case.
Manuscript on paper, containing Shihāb al-Dīn Muhammad's al-Rawdah al-munawwarah, The illuminated garden. The text discusses the building of the Taj Mahal, including the materials used, their cost, and other architectural details
Description:
In Urdu., Layout: 1 column of around 9 lines., Script: Nasta'liq., Decoration: Rubrication., Binding: Contemporary brown gold-tooled leather binding., Modern pencil foliation., and Catchwords.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Urdu, Urdu language and literature, and Taj Mahal (Agra, India)
Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294.
Published / Created:
[after 1268]
Call Number:
Salisbury MSS 73
Image Count:
196
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The colophon, dated A.H. 666 (A.D. 1268), is presumably that of the original from which this manuscript was copied, probably not many years afterwards. and Treatise on music.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī., Copious diagrams., From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 88, wrongly ascribed to al-Fārābī). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Islamic binding, in brown., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Natural and social sciences--Music.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
13
Abstract:
Commentary on the author's own al-Risālah al-zawrāʾ (a Sufi tract). and Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).
Description:
Hasty nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 14 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., Sparse marginalia., and Title supplied by a modern hand in laid-in slip.
Subject (Name):
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13. Risālah al-zawrāʾ. and Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad,--1426 or 7-1512 or 13.--Risālah al-zawrāʾ.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
5
Abstract:
Copied in Constantinople about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525)., Essay in praise of the reed pen., and Preceded by 1 page of notes.
Alternative Title:
Risālat al-yarāʻah.
Description:
Alternate title: Risālat al-yarāʻah., Hasty nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 13 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355?
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525). and Tract on the expression of ideas.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 9 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, b. 1160. Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
Published / Created:
1347?
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 533
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Commentary on pt. 3 of al-Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
Description:
1347 is perhaps the date of composition., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Profuse marginalia., and Purchased from Oskar Rescher in 1968 on the Library Associates fund.
Subject (Name):
Rescher, Oskar--1883-1972--Ownership and Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr,--b. 1160.--Miftaḥ al-ʻulūm
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Commentary on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah (on the expression of ideas) of ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī. and Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 8 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and The ḥamdalah is the same as in Berlin catalog 5311 (7) (variant form of al-Qūshjī's commentary) but the incipit is different.
Subject (Name):
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355? Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. and Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad,--d. 1355?--Risālah al-waḍʻīyah.
