Recto: letter from Abū Maymūn Yaʿqūb in Jerusalem to his son Abū ʿImrān in Fusṭāṭ, describing how he is bedridden after the death of another son and how he wishes to see him before his death. Verso: Arabic address to Abū ʿImrān.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
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.
Collection of recipes taken from works by Abū Maʿālī ibn Tammām, Ibn Al-Tilmīḏ, Dāwūd ibn Abī al-Bayān and Ibn Jumayʿ, dealing with illnesses of the stomach and the intestines.Condition: Torn, tiny holesLayout: 13 lines
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist (?) and others.Date in colophon: taḥrīran fī awākhir shahr Dhī al-Qaʻdah ʻām sabʻah wa-ʻishrīn wa-alf min hijrat al-nabawī [i.e. November 1618].Pp. [5-19]. Bound with: [2] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bannāʾ, Abwāb yastadillu bi-hā ʻalá al-awqāt wa-al-sāʻāt wa-yuʻlam bi-hā awqāt al-ṣalāh, pp. [20-47]; [3] Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qalaṣādī, Kashf al-asrār ʻan ʻilm ḥurūf al-ghubār, pp. [48-116].On timekeeping and the conversion of calendars.
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Abraham informing the addressee that Judah ha-Levi set sail on Wednesday, the first day of Šavuʿot (= 1141 CE), after leaving him a letter for the Nagid Samuel b. Ḥananya, which accompanies this letter; dated 12th Sivan. Arabic on verso describes someone who went up to Cairo and met the leader of the community.Condition: torn, slightly rubbed, stainedLayout: 9 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Recto: begging letter from Abū Naṣr, ‘son of the doctor’, acknowledging receipt of letters from the addressee and from Abū l-Maʿālī. Verso: jottings in a crude hand in Arabic script.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Fols. 171; 26.7 x 18.5 cm.; written surface 20.5 x 12.5 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Maghribi; headings and entries in red.Parts IV-XI of Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʼ.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم صلى الله ... اخبرنا الشىخColophon: اخر الجزء من الاصل وبتمامه تم الجزء الحادي عشر من الکتاب والحمد لله حق حمده وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد واله وسلم تسلىماA few marginal notes. MS contains eight parts. In the colophon the copyist states that it is the conclusion of the 11th part. Accordingly MS begins with the 4th part. MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Abstract: Last parts of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū al-Faḍl Ḥamd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Iṣbahānī from Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Khalīl Mufarraj(?) Mawlá Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd ibn al-Ḥarīrī al-Tajībī al-Ṭulayṭulī (fol. 17a, 32a, 51a). Incomplete at the beginning (contents correspond to ed. Cairo (1938), vol. 8, p. 77, l. 3 - end of the work; entries no. 369-689).Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather over cloth for the spine. The cloth extends as doublure of the upper and lower covers. Disparate pieces of paper as pastedowns. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a central medallion (different pattern on each cover) and an outer frame made of fillets with the inner corners delineated by fillets and stamped with a small flower motif.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of juzʼ 64 (fol. 17a).31 lines per page. Written in medium small script in black ink, with use of red for some punctuation and decoration of verses and re-inking of headings. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. The no. of the entry is written in red ink in the margin. Collation notes (collation statement on fol. 378a, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 566 H. 1171). End and beginning of parts (juzʼ) indicated on fol. 16a,17a, 32a, 51a, 67a (with a collation statement dated Mecca, Friday 18 Jumādá al-Ākhira 566 H.). Fol. 68-77 repaired with loss of text. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (fol. between 138 and 139: blank).On last fol. (fol. 378b): two reading certificates (samāʻ and ijāzah) for several persons, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī, the first dated Aleppo, 11 Rajab 624 H. 1227.Copied in Mecca at the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 566 (colophon, fol. 378a).Incipit: قال سمعت ابا تراب الزاهد يقول سمعت حاتما الاصم يقول قال لى شقيق البلخي اصحب الناس كما تصحب النارExplicit: والخلق الحسن الجميل رزقنا الله تعالى ما رزقهم من الاقبال عليه والانقطاع اليه وجمعنا وإياهم بطوله فى ساحة قدسه وبحبوحة جنته انه على ما يشاء قدير وهو حسبنا و نعم الوكيل
ff. 2 (incompl.). 176 x 131; 150 x 117 mm. 18 lin. Shaʻbān 591; on fol. la autogr. certificate of reading by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī, dat. Ṣafar 897; on fol. 2a samāʻ of the copyist Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn ʻImād, dat. 21 Rabīʻ I, 638, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh (al-Dimashqī, d. Jumādá II, 648: Shams al-Dīn V, 243); six other notes on fol. 2b.Incip.: ... اخبرنا ... شمس الدىن ابو الحجاج ىوسف بن عبد الله بن خلىل بقراتى علىه