Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah, 1350 or 51-1430 or 31.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
8
Abstract:
Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525)., Preceded by 1 leaf of notes., and Treatise on the nature of Satan, extracted from the author's Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., Leyden catalog does not give any citations from the work, but states that it is an extract from the Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah, a fact which Brockelmann does not mention., No. 6 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., Sporadic marginalia., Text in Arabic, notes in Arabic and Turkish., The text is presumably identical with, or part of, the author's Risālah fī māhīyat al-shayāṭīn wa-al-jinn, likewise extracted from the Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah., and Title according to the first sentence of the treatise. On the top margin (leaf 137 recto): Tafsīr Fātiḥah li-mawlānā Fanārī.
Subject (Name):
Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah, 1350 or 51-1430 or 31. Risālah fī māhīyat al-shayāṭīn wa-al-jinn. and Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah, 1350 or 51-1430 or 31. Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah.
A mystical allegory., Copied in Baghdad in A.H. 680 (A.D. 1282)., and Preceded by 2 leaves of notes.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black., Incipit same as in Tübingen catalog 89 (12)., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and With: 6 other titles.
Ḥanbalī, ʻAlī ibn al-Bahāʼ, 1419 or 1420-1494 or 1495.
Published / Created:
1488
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 319
Image Count:
564
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wajīz (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. The second half of the work. and Copied in A.H. 893 (A.D. 1488).
Description:
C. Landberg gave the author's name (from Shadharāt al-dhahab) as Alāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbalī, d. A.H. 899, and the title as Fatḥ al-malik al-ʻazīz bi-sharḥ al-Wajīz (confusion with al-Rāfiʻī's commentary; cf. Berlin catalog, 4470). The explicit gives the author's name, and the date of completion, A.H. 887., First half wanting., Good naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, paper covered, flap missing.
Subject (Name):
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. Wajīz. and Ghazzālī,--1058-1111.--Wajīz.
A literary work, in prose and verse. and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
Fairly modern (17th century?) naskhī, in red and black., For Ibn Abī Ḥajalah's Sukkardān al-sulṭān see Berlin catalog 8377 and Brockelmann, II, 13., Loose in Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Title, as above, occurs in the text, leaf 3 verso; the title, in a later hand, on leaf 1 recto as Kitāb al-sukkardān li-Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, is an obvious error.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Belles lettres and Islamic binding.
Ibn Abī ʻAṣrūn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1099-1189.
Published / Created:
[12--?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 512
Image Count:
557
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Compendium of Nihāyat al-maṭlab (manual of Shafiʻi law) of ʻAbd al-Malik al-Juwaynī. Volume II, from the Kitāb al-buyūʻ through the Kitāb al-shufʻah. and Preceded by 2 leaves of notes.
Description:
Badly water-stained, faded, and corroded in part., Brockelmann omits "Abī" in the author's name; cf. the autograph of vol. I, Bankipore catalog, XIX, 2, no. 1822, where also is found the spelling "min" (not "fi") in the title., Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Old (13th century?) naskhī, for the most part entirely unpointed., and The Bankipore manuscript has 33 lines per page, and the measurements are somewhat smaller than this manuscript, so presumably this is not a holograph.
Commentary on the Koran., Copied in A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1668)., and The work ends on leaf 157 recto, and is followed by another comment on sūrah I.
Description:
Fair Yemenite naskhī, in red and black., For the additional piece see Berlin catalog, 10224., Islamic binding, in black, with flap., Supposed authorship., and With: 1 other title.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding., Theology--Koran--Commentaries., and Theology--Sects--Zaydi.
Ibn Karrāmah, al-Muḥassin ibn Muḥammad, 1022-1101
Published / Created:
1289
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 550
Image Count:
117
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 688 (A.D. 1289)., Defense of the character of the prophets and imams., and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
For the author see Brockelmann, S I, p. 731., Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black., Imperfect: wormed with slight loss of text., and Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the front cover has been preserved.
