Copied about 1736. and On the questioning which is administered to the dead in their graves concerning their belief in the Prophet.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Miscellanea--Death and burial
A Christianized version, the names of the two principal figures being spelled Barlām and Yuwāṣaf. and Beginning missing.
Alternative Title:
Barlaam and Joasaph. Arabic.
Description:
Fairly modern (18th century?) calligraphic naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Title as above supplied by a modern hand inside front cover.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Belles lettres., Christian literature., and Islamic binding.
Ibn Sabʻīn, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Ibrāhīm, 1216 or 1217-1270.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 12
Image Count:
275
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 784 (A.D. 1382). and Tract in Sufi theology.
Description:
Brockelmann gives the author's honorary title as Muḥyī al-Dīn (S I, p. 844); the manuscript gives it as Quṭb al-Dīn., Cairo catalog, VII, 682 does not give the incipit for the Kitāb al-daraj. Nor in Ḥājjī Khalīfah., Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black, generously vocalized., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Presumably not the same as the author's Kitāb al-daraj (Brockelmann, I, 466)., The manuscript vocalized "darj" for "daraj" in the beginning of the work, but has "daraj" on leaf 131 recto., and Title page in gold and colors.
Copied in A.H. 1065 (A.D. 1655)., Preceded by 1 leaf of notes., and Treatise on the river Nile.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Not identical with Fī manbaʻ al-Nīl (Brockelmann, S III, p. 1255) of al-Akfahsī (d. 1405), since this work mentions events which occurred much later (cf. leaf 62 recto, where mention is made of the year A.H. 897, and of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī)., and On leaf 8 recto is a map of the Mountain of the Moon and of the source of the Nile.
Tract in refutation of the claim of the Jews that the Messiah had not yet come.
Description:
Composed after 1700 (cf. leaf 138 recto, middle, where it is stated that "it has now elapsed more than 1700 years" since the coming of Jesus., Fair modern (18th century) naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in black., No. 3 of 5 titles bound together., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Anecdotes concerning the simpleton Juḥā. and Copied about 1736.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Biography--General biography, Islamic binding., and Nasreddin Hoca (Legendary character)
Copied about 1736. and Life of Muzabbid, the miser.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., For Muzabbid see al-Kutubī, Fawāt al-wafayāt, II, 303., For the author see Brockelmann, S II, p. 414., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
