Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Nuzhat al-nadīm (Picnic of the Boon Companion), a treatise on "Ḍurāṭ" (Farting). The work ends on leaf 52 recto, and is followed by additions by Yūsuf ibn al-Wakīl al-Mīlawī about "Nawādir al-ḍ...
Description:
Copied about 1736.
Subject (Topic):
Flatulence, In literature, and Arabic wit and humor
Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Raṣf al-laʼāl fī waṣf al-hilāl, an anthology of poetical pieces on "al-Hilāl" (the new moon), by Khalīl al-Ṣafadī and others
Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038 أبو نعيم الإصبهاني، أحمد بن عبد الله، 948-1038
Published / Created:
1765.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 1072
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Juzʼ fī faḍl al-dīk", a treatise on the traits and virtues of the domestic rooster, by Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038), a prolific author, a Ḥadīth scholar, a historian, a biographer, and frequent traveler, teacher of the well...
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038.
Holograph of a tour through Derbyshire, the Lake District, and nearby cities such as Liverpool, Shrewsbury and Worcester by an unidentified young woman in the company of "Mr.Pinchback and dear Eliza." Written in a highly literary style, the journal de...
Description:
Index of places visited and miles traveled on p. 136-137.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Lake District (England), and Peak District (England)
Camera lucidas, Female friendship, Iron-works, Landscape, Picturesque, The, In art, In literature, Romanticism, Sentimentalism, Sublime, The, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Tours
Cymbeline's palace in Britain: Standing behind a pillar, Posthumus ties a keepsake around Imogen's wrist as she looks over her shoulder fearfully at the king on the right as he angrily throws aside a curtain, catching them in the act
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
John & Josiah Boydell
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, and Cunobelinus, King of the Britons, -43?
Facius, Georg Sigmund, approximately 1750- printmaker
Published / Created:
[1795]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 14
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the palace in Alexandria, Antony holds his hand to his head in despair on the right, while Eros tries to draw his attention to the distraught Cleopatra, who approaches from the left, half fainting, sustained by her women. Also depicted: Charmian, I...
Description:
Title from later state in the British Museum.
Publisher:
John & Josiah Boydell
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,, Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C.,, and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.,
Subject (Topic):
Characters, Antony, In literature, Cleopatra, Charmian, and Eros
