Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 652
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
272
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Volume II only and Incomplete at beginning and end
Alternative Title:
Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ
Description:
The identification of author and title of this volume is uncertain., Title given on the lower edges., Fair naskhī, probably of the 14th century., Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the front cover is preserved., and Other volumes wanting.
Manuscript on parchment (leaves are very uneven due to irregular trimming) originally composed of roughly executed full-page illustrations and diagrams that constitute the Speculum theologie
Description:
In Latin., Script: Inscriptions written in gothic bookhand, additions in either textura or running scripts (ff. 2r. 7v)., The illustrations on ff. 1r-7v are drawn in red ink, heightened with green, orange, and yellow. The diagram on f. 8r is drawn in brown and red, touched with blue, red, yellow and gold., Folio 8r darkened and rubbed with some loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in mottled brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with a red label. Marbled paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, ending abruptly
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe., Red and blue split initial, 10-line, at beginning of text (p. 11) with fine penwork flourishes within body and length of inner margin, in red, blue, and purple. Similar initials, 6- to 3-line, without penwork extensions, on pp. 68, 130, 284. Small initials, 5- to 2-line, alternating red with purple penwork and blue with red, throughout. Headings in red; running titles in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on five double, tawed thongs laced into flush oak boards through tunnels in the edge and pegged with rectangular pegs. The back board is cracked and mended. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin. Plain, wound endbands sewn on twisted, tawed skin cores laced into the boards. Added embroidery is sewn through the cover and shows on the spine and the edge, with whip-stitching around the entire endband. Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with corner tongues. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the lower board. Five foliate bosses on each board. A pin, straps and two bosses wanting. Original front pastedown: incomplete alphabetical index, 14th century, of subjects from amor through uita (no entries for x). Original back pastedown, also contemporary with main text: fragment of a theological text on the biblical prophets, on recto; unfinished diagram of the books of the Bible, divided into categories in mandata diuisio, in exempla diuisio, in ammonitiones diuisio, in reuelationes diuisio (with material from Old Testament only), on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Dominicans.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Scholasticism, and Theology
Manuscript on paper of texts on the Psalms and Canticles, and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: apparently four hands: A writing a bold Gothica Hybrida Libraria copied ff. 1r-186r and 201r; B writing Gothica Cursiva Currens copied ff. 189r-199va15; C writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens copied ff. 199va16-200v; D writing Gothica Semihybrida Currens copied ff. 203r-299v; the document on f. 226v is probably in the same handwriting. Scribe D is the unrecorded Hinricus Landesberch in Wernigerode., Red underlining, paragraph marks, heightening of majuscules and plain initials, generally 2 lines, at the head of various texts larger. Pointing hands., The manuscript contains: 1) Honorius Augustodunensis (Honorius of Autun, c. 1090- c.1150), Expositio in psalmos CI-CL et in cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 2) Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202), Glosatura super cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 3) Notes on the Book of Psalms, its subdivisions, significance, on Ps. 1 and Ps. 150, etc. 4) Extracts on the Psalms from a florilegium of the works by or attributed to St. Augustine, called Summula Florigeri sancti Augustini. 5) Treatise on the virtues and vices arranged according to the course of the sun through the signs of the Zodiac; the names of the months and of the zodiacal signs are given in Latin and in German, with examples from the Bible and legend. 6) Miracles and legends. 7) Copy of a notarial document. 8) Isidorus Hispalensis (Isidore of Seville, d. 636), Quaestiones in vetus testamentum. 9) Vision of the horrors of Hell shown to St. Paul of Thebe (Paulus Eremita, 228-341). 10) Rabbi Samuel, De adventu Messiae praeterito, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353). 11) Two sermons on the Immaculate Conception, quoting many exempla. 12) Incomplete legend of St. Catharine of Alexandria. 13) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, De essentia divinitatis: an excerpt from Eucherius Lugdunensis (Eucherius bishop of Lyons, d. c. 450), Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae, chapter 1., and Binding: original undecorated white deerskin over bevelled heavy wooden boards, sewn on three double thongs; spine with plaited headbands; in its upper compartment a paper label with a 17th-century indication of the content; in the second compartment a paper label with the number "VIII". On each cover five small brass bosses on indented square plates; marks of two leather straps attached to the rear cover, the holes of the pins visible in the front cover. At the top of the front cover a contemporary Table of Contents is written in ink in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, now badly legible; at the bottom of the same cover, in a large Gothica Hybrida Formata: "Tractatus Honorii pape" [sic]. The rear pastedown (half detached) consists of a large fragment and scraps on paper from a 15th-century Latin register of personal interdicts attached to persons with German names; the handwriting is Gothica Cursiva Currens.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alanus, de Insulis, -1202., Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint., Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156., Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636., Paul, the Hermit, Saint, -approximately 341., Pseudo-Augustinus., and Samuel, Marochitanus.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
Manuscript on parchment and paper containing theological and ascetic treatises and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various scribes in Gothica Semihybrida or Hybrida Libraria; the last section only (art. 11) is copied in a more rapid Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, by Henricus de Benthem., The decoration differs from section to section. Red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red underlining. Headings in red or black, sometimes in Textualis. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) plain initials in red. 4-, 5- or 6-line flourished initials in red with black penwork on ff. 2r (art. 2), 50v (littera duplex, art. 4), 72r (littera duplex, art. 5), 146r (littera duplex, art. 8), 178r (art. 9)., The manuscript contains: 1) Guillelmus Peraldus (Guillaume Peyraud, s. XIII), De professione monachorum. 2) Requirements for the priest who is proceeding to the consecration of the Eucharist. 3) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione et de arte moriendi. 4) Anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments. 5) A short treatise on the Canonical Hours, being an annex to art. 5. 6) Henricus de Coesvelt OCarth. (d. 1410), De sacramento eucharistiae. 7) Anonymous treatise on the preparation to mass. 8) Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353), Historia Ioseph. 9) Thomas de Cantimprato (Thomas of Cantimpré, d. before 1266?), Vita sanctae Christinae Mirabilis (d. c. 1224). 10) Guido Vicentinus OP (d. 1332), Margarita Bibliae (Biblia metrica), without the prologues. 11) Table of contents., and Binding: circa 1900. Tan morocco binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; the covers decorated with a blind-tooled roll, and gold-tooled frames. Five decorated brass bosses with cornerpieces, of an undetermined age (16th century?), on each cover, and two brass clasps, equally much older than the binding, attached to the rear cover. Spine with four raised bands. Six leather tabs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, History, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, from an unidentified theological work. Subjects include prayer, the Trinity, creation, and Revelations 6:21.
Description:
In Latin., Bottom of sheets trimmed with loss of margin and at least one line. One column of each bifolium largely cut away., Recovered from a binding., Script: small cursive gothic hand., Decoration: rubricated., and Layout: 20 columns, originally 50 lines each?, now 49 lines.
Treatise on the Prophet's ascension to heaven. Incomplete at beginning
Description:
Title found on slip pasted to front cover., Fair modern nastaʻlīq (17th century?), except for the first leaf in naskhī script., With colored miniatures., and Limp Islamic binding; blind tooling with the name Muḥammad Bāqir.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 283
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
125
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only, The beginning of both volumes is missing, and Holograph
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Considerably worm-eaten., Fair naskhī., and Other volumes wanting.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 283
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
215
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only, The beginning of both volumes is missing, and Holograph
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Considerably worm-eaten., Fair naskhī., and Other volumes wanting.
