Record origin: Description based in part on Emilie Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Vol. 1: Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 794-796, Entry 242.A single folio taken from a copy of Sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-Munfarijah lil-Tawzarī on which a painting of a ‘toothworm’ has been over-painted. Underlying text: 18th century CE(?). Over-painting: 20th century CE(?).
أوله : بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله على محمد وسلم باع بال وجب لابي جعفر احمد بن سعيد ابن مساعد قبل احمد بن علي بن محمد [...]آخره : وعرفا قدره وشهدا من عرفه بحال صحة وجواز في اليوم [الثلاث والعشرين؟] لدي حجة متم احد وخمسين وثمانماية وله نظيرSe encontraba en una carpeta con el título Antigua Colección "Luque", dentro de una carpetilla donde está escrito: Universidad B. Antigua Colección "Luque" nos. 11, 71, 91, 95 y 107Abū Ŷaʻfar Aḥmad b. Saʻīd b. Musāʻid se compromete a pagar 20 dinares de oro al cambio de plata corriente a Aḥmad b. ʻAlī b. Muhammad en el plazo de 10 [meses] a contar desde el momento de la firma de este documentoMaterial: PapelTinta: NegraHay una cuartilla con unas líneas del documento transcritas a manoEn el verso: 107 - Luque
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Vol. 1 only.Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."1 copy of Alf laylah wa-laylah.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldAl-Khuwārizmī is famous for introducing the Indian numerals and method of numeration by position into the Islamic world. His other contribution was to algebra (Arabic al-jabr), which came to Europe through the 12th century CE Latin translation of his book. The manuscript shows geometrical solutions to two quadratic equations: right x2 + 21=10x; left x2 = 3x + 4.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldThe greatest influence on the development of Arabic astronomy was the Almagest of Ptolemy (2nd century). The Almagest was translated several times into Arabic in the 9th century, and in the ensuing centuries attracted countless commentaries &c.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."An Arabic alphabet and vocalised syllabary
Signatura antigua: AEEA, Caja 29Tinta negra, roja y azul en el texto. ;Incipit: [بسملة وتصلية] قال الشيخ الامام العلامة العام سيدي محمد الحراق رحمه الله. نحمدك اللهم على ان شرحت بانوار معرفتك افرة وصرودا.Explicit: وكَادَ يغضى سَقَمَا.حتى ترقى وسمَا عن الخَيَالCopista: 1 copista desconocido.Colofón: نَجَزَ الديوَان المُبَرَك بحَمْدِ الله تَعَلَى ةحُسْن عوْنِهِ وتوفيقِهِ الجَمِيل وَبمنه والصَّلاَةُ وَالسَّلاَم على سَيدنا مُحَمدِ واله صَحْبه ولا حوب ولا ولا قُوة اِلَا بالله العلي العظيم.Características especiales: El tipo de escritura da al manuscrito una apariencia de texto persa, con los puntos diacríticos formando triángulos.Ilustración: Caja textual enmarcada por dos líneas finas azul y roja. Texto vocalizado en rojo. Algunas frases en rojo y azul.Ilustraciones: Ilustraciones f. 1v: Cenefa horizontal con motivos vegetales en verde, rojo, marrón, azul y dorado, con el comienzo del texto: قال الشيخ الامام العلامة العام سيدي محمد الحراق رحمه الله Medallón como prolongación marginal de la cenefa. f. 64v: encabezamiento de la segunda parte: cenefa horizontal en rojo, dorado, azul y verde con motivos vegetales, con un medallón como prolongación marginal, con texto en el interior: وله ايضا رضى الله عنهTipo de cuaderno: Tipo de cuaderno 9 cuadernos de 5 bifolios.Deterioros generales: Buen estado general, algunas galerías por insectos en el papel y en la encuadernación.H. en blanco: 46 r.H. dañadas, mutiladas, sueltas: Galerías por insectos en todos los folios. Texto prácticamente intacto.H. faltan o añadidas: No.Foliación: 1-89. Se ha foliado a lápiz en el margen superior izquierdo del recto.Reclamos: En el verso de todos los folios.Sign cuad: No.Pautado: A punta seca. Distancia interlineal: 1,1-1,2 cm.Filigrana No.Anotaciones: 3ª hoja de guarda: a lápiz, “Diwán de Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥirāf al-Ḥasanī al- ʽIlmī. Fechado 1246 hégira. Letra magrebí”. -f. 4v: a lápiz: “محمد بن مجمد الحراف الحسنىّ العلمىّ Año 1246 de la hégira.” -f. 88v: sello azul de la Escuela de Estudios Árabes. -Última hoja de guarda: “Donativo del ministro Beigbeder 2-3-1940” -En el margen superior izquierdo del recto de todos los folios: "اللهم صلى على سيAntología de textos de ʽAl. M. b. M. al-Ḥarrāq b. ʽAbdalwāḥid al-Ḥasanī (GAL, S. II, 881), dividida en dos partes: la primera contiene cartas (Rasāʼil) y la segunda, poemas (Diwān).En cartera de piel marrón sobre cartón. Grabada con cenefas geométricas y vegetales. Medallón en el centro de la portada y la contraportada en rojo y beige.
Translated by Muḥammad Bāqir Khurāsānī Biranjirdī (?) in 1223 [1808] in Hyderabad Deccan for Henry Russell.Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.Title from double title page (f. 4v).30.6 x 23 cm. (21 x 13 cm.)Cream laid paper. Cloth binding.MS Persian 11. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Abstract: Short biographies of the great Muslim Imāms and the four orthodox caliphs. It contains the lives of Abū Ḥanīfah 699-767, Mālik ibn Anas 713-795, al-Shāfiʻī 767-820 and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal 780-855, after which occurs a section on the love of God followed by one on the virtues of the four orthodox caliphs. This is followed by a section on the asceticism of Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī, one on the excellences of ʻĀshūrāʼ, one on the birth of the Prophet, one on prayer and a section on the death of the Prophet. Following the colophon, further chapters are added on the Nile, saints, and in eulogy of the Prophet, apparently in the same hand.Binding note: Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-6a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Imām Abū ḤanīfahContents: 2. fol. 6a-10a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Imām al-Mālik ibn Anas.Contents: 3. fol. 10a-15b: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Shāfiʻī.Contents: 4. fol. 15b-19b: Faṣl fi manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.Contents: 5. fol. 20a-29b: Bāb fī maḥabbat Allāh.Contents: 6. fol. 29b-35a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-khulafā al-arbāʻah.Contents: 7. fol. 35a-38b: Faṣl fī manāsik al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Abī ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī.Contents: 8. fol. 38b-40b: Bāb fī faḍl ʻāshūrā.Contents: 9. fol. 40b-45b: Bāb fī mawlid Rasūl Allāh.Contents: 10. fol. 45b-50b: Bāb fī faḍl al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūl Allāh.Contents: 11. fol. 50b-57a: Bāb fī wafāt al-Nabī.Contents: 12. fol. 57b-60b: Faṣl fī dhikr Nīl Miṣr.Contents: 13. fol. 61a-88a: Faṣl fī dhikr al-awliyāʼ al-abrār wa-al-ṣāliḥīn wa-al-fuqarā al-akhyārīn.Contents: 14. fol. 88b-89b: Madīḥ fī al-Nabī ʻ.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Collation: Paper ; fol. 89 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 17-19 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; entries in red, green and yellow ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness and foxed, a few folios are mended.Origin: According to colophon copied 14 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1058 by Burhān al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mubārak al-Dāribī sic al-Baḍghānī (fol. 57a).Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل العلم للعلماء انساب انساباColophon: ووافق الفراغ من تعليق هذا الکتاب المبارك نهار الجمعة رابع عشر الحجة سنة ثمانية وخمسين والف وکتبه الفقير الى الله تعالى برهان الدين بن محمد بن احمد بن مبارك الداربي البضغاني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة والرحمة ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين آمين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Abstract: Arabic-Turkish glossary arranged alphabetically.Binding note: Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Blind-stamped mandorla. Cover heavily worn and mended.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Marginal and interlinear notes in Arabic and Turkish throughout. Immediately after the colophon and on the page and four folios that follow occur several Turkish words with their explanations and several Turkish notes. On the page before the first occur a charm, several verses of poetry and several traditions. On the inside of both covers occur several verses of poetry, some Turkish statements and other writing. This text is not the same as Hitti no. 288, though it is described as such; however, it is identical to no. 290-291.Collation: Paper ; fol. 185 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 10-11 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition but stained with dampness.Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. باب الالف آذانColophon: تمت اللغات بعون الله الملك الوهاب
Cream laid paper with watermarks. 19.9 x 14.3 cm (16.5 x 9.2 cm.)MS Arab 225. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Bound with: al-Taʻarruf / lil-Kalabādhī (ff. 1v-57v).
A collection of anonymous astrological and magical treatises. Also bound together with this manuscript is a lithographed copy of Kitāb fī al-tamām wa-al-kamāl by Abū Maʻshar. This book is in two parts, the first dealing with horoscopes of men and their signs the second with women. Each part has 12 sections.
