Abstract: Defective copy of a treatise on the interpretation of dreams attributed to Avicenna.Binding note: Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboard. The covers are similarly tooled with a central gold-painted mandorla linked to the outer frame by a vertical blind-tooled fillet. The envelope flap has a blind tooled outer frame similar to that on the covers.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).15 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red for headings. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Short text in Persian on fol. 92b. Fāʾidah in Arabic on fol. 94b. Inscriptions in Persian and Arabic on fol. 1a-b and 91b. Inscription on fol. 96b. Ownership statements and seals on fol. 2a and 91a. Three first leaves defective. Leaves missing between fol. 9 and 10, between fol. 67 and 68, and between fol. 76 and 77.Copied in 892 by Isḥāq ibn Muslim al-Ṭālibī (colophon, fol. 91a).Incipit: بسم ... وبه الثقة وعليه التوكل قال ... ابو علي بن عبد الله بن سينا ... الغريزات الاودية التي استمدت الأمواه من العيونExplicit: بيكون عونا لمن يريد استخراج الرويا الغريبة الحقيقة بتوسطها واد قد وفينا بما وعدنا
Abstract: Collection consisting of a text on Shiʻite fiqh and two commentaries upon it.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central design and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-38a: Kitāb Khalīfat al-Sulṭān / Ḥusayn ibn Rafīʻ Sulṭān al-ʻUlamāʼ.Contents: 2. leaves 40b-135b: Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Maʻālim al-dīn / Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shīrwānī.Contents: 3. leaves 137b-235b: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Origin: Text 2, Rajab 1231 H June 1816 (leaf 235b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Treatise on the properties of precious stones in 25 chapters (bāb), followed by a short anecdote, excerpts from a treatise on precious stones attributed to Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī and a note about the characteristics and skills accorded during creation to various nations attributed to Kaʻb al-Aḥbār.Binding note: Leather over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Decorated blue paper pasted over the covers and envelope flap. Re-used paper pasted on the inner covers. Disbound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-75a: Kitāb al-Khawāṣṣ al-mulūkīyah / Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī.Contents: 2. fol. 76b-77a: Anecdote.Contents: 3. fol. 77a-81b: Text on precious stones / Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī.Contents: 4. fol. 82a: Short text on the characteristics and skills accorded during creation to various nations / Kaʻb al-Aḥbār.Contents: 5. fol. 83: Blank.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).11 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream glazed paper with laid lines visible ; frame-ruled. Fol. 7 and 38 are a later replacements. Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in blue, red and gold (fol. 1a). A few notes on the margin quoting other sources (see fol. 6a, 9a). Inscription on the fly-leaf of the upper cover. Catchword on the verso of each leaf except the central folio of a quire. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Incipit text 1 (fol. 1b): قال العبد الفقير الى الله عز وجل احمد بن يوسف التيفاشى هذا كتاب غريب الوضع عجيب الجمع عظيم النفع ضمنته ذكر الاحجار الملوكيةExplicit text 1 (fol. 75b): فانّه يصير كانّه لون الدرّ قيمته الاوقية من جيّده بدهرم نقره و هذا آخر الكتاب والحمد لله وجده وضُلوتُه وسلامُه على سيّدنا مجمد وآله وصحبه وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيلIncipit text 2 (fol. 76b): قال بعض العلمآ انى اخترت الزيارة بالبيت المقدس فسلكت بعض شوارعه فوجدت بعض الاطبا جالسا على بعض الدكاكينExplicit text 2 (fol. 77a): وايارج التملق وجنضل التوكل وشبرم الاعتراف وبنادق التسليم وحسنا الله ونعم الوكيل قال العابد نعم ما وصفتَIncipit text 3 (fol. 77a): ومما وُجد مناسق لمعنى الكتاب من تصنيف الشيخ ... يعقوب بن اسحق المعروف بالكندى ... قال الجوهر ينقسم الى قسمين احدهما من الحيوان والآخر ارضىExplicit text 3 (fol. 81b): جعل مع الفضّة والذهب عند سبكه شعب ذلك السبكه لما فيه من الرصاص والله اعلم بذلك تم ذلك بعون الله تعالىIncipit text 4 (fol. 82a): قال كعب الاحبار ... وجدتُ فى بعض الكتب المنزّلة عن الله ... انّه لما قسم الله ... الاخلاق وفرّقها فى الآفاق قال للعقل اين تختارُ قال العراق قال العلم وانا معكExplicit text 4 (fol. 82a): وقال الهندسة اين تختارى فقالت الهند قالت الحكمةُ وأنا مَعكExplicit (fol. 82b): وهذه احسن ما خُتم به هذا الكتاب فسبحان مدبّر الامور على ممرّ الاوقات وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمّد وآله وصحبه اجمعين حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
Abstract: Text on Shiʻite fiqh preceded by a short text meant as its introduction.Binding note: Full red-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 2b-5b: al-Wajīzah.Contents: 2. leaves 6a-275b: al-Ḥabl al-matīn fī iḥkām aḥkām al-dīn.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17-21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal damp-staining; a few repairs. Leaves 1-2 detached.Origin: Likely 18th century.
Abstract: A biography of Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Shādhilī, 656 1258, the great Ṣūfī and the founder of the religious order of the Shādhilīyah, together with recital of his excellences, miracles and prayers.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-stamped design in black and reddish-tan."A few marginal notes. Following the colophon is a brief genealogy of al-Shādhilī. The folio after the colophon has a prayer to prevent one from decaying in one's tomb."'Collation: Paper ; fol. 155 + i (labelled "(156)") ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.'Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; watermarks (shield with face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG", three crescents) ; MS in good condition.Layout: 19 lines per page.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Colophon: تم تقييد بعض ما لسيدنا ومولانا وصفوة الابرار سيدي ابا ابي الحسن علي بن عبد الجبار المعروف بالشاذلي تأليف الامام العالم العلامة محمد بن ابي القاسم المعروف بابن الصباغ رحمهم الله تعالى ورضي عنهم ونفعنا بهم في الدارين امين امين امينIncipit: بسم الله ... يقول العبد الفقير ... محمد بن ابي القاسم
جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد به نقشة محفورة على لسان جلد الغلاف"al-Asānīd al-Yaḥyawīya wa-Ṣaḥīfat ʻAlī ibn Mūsá" written on the bottom edge of the manuscript.14-21 lines.
جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد وبه آثار اتساخ وبلل وآثار الأرضة في بعض الصفحات وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرالسبت 5/رمضان/سنة 1054هـ"al-Asānīd al-yaḥyawīyah"; "al-Kāmil"; "al-Munīr"; and "Matn al-Asās" written on the bottom edge of the manuscript. Some traces of moisture and worm holes.19 lines.
Poems with eulogy and praise of the Caliph al-Mansur. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2601362Condition: Good condition.
Christian ethics and morals including the therapy of the soul by avoiding negative vibes and return to the religious beliefs and good behavior. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2603164Condition: Good condition.
Abstract: Treatise on fiqh according to the Shāfiʻī school, based on the Minhāj al-ṭālibīn by Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676/1278). R. Mach mentions another copy: Chester Beatty, no. 3087. The text is followed on fol. 195a-196b by several short appendices (fāʼidah and qāʻidah), and short excerpts from Sharḥ al-Minhāj by Ibn al-Mulaqqin (d. 804/1401)and from Sharḥ al-Minhāj by al-Ḥiṣnī (Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn, d. 829/1425?).Binding note: Panel defined by a large border consisting of fillets and a running pattern, with corner pieces. Central roundel on a ground left plain. The roundel is filled with a geometrical pattern developing from a star, filled with impressions of a small poincon and of a small semi-circular stamp (gold lost). Embossed leather doublure. Envelope flap wanting. Rebacked, in poor condition.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. The last letters of some words at the end of a line are written on the margin. The text is partially vocalized. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines (in groups of three) visible. Fol. 197 is a later added fly-leaf (European paper). Ḥāshiyah on the margin and on a few small pieces of paper pasted between the leaves. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (one fol. blank after fol. 55). Stained with water.Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "thālithah" on fol. 20a).Origin: According to colophon, copy (taʻlīq) completed on Sunday ʻĀshūrāʼ 10 Muḥarram, corresponding to 21 Kānūn al-Thānī, 857 Jan. 21, 1453. The end of the colophon (or a later note?) is scratched out (fol. 195a).Incipit: بسم ... وما توفيقي الا بالله عليه توكلت الحمد لله الذي شرح صدورنا للاسلام وانزل علينا كتابا هدانا به الى سبل السلام وارسل الينا محمدا ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب ذكرت فيه دلايل المنهاج للشيخ العلامة محيي الدين النووى قدس الله روحه ونور ضريحه وجمع بيني وبينه فى دار كرامته من الكتاب والسنة ورتبته على ابوابه ومسايله لكني خالفته في بعض التراجمExplicit: اللهم صل على محمد وعلى آل محمد كما صليت على ابراهيم وعلى آل ابراهيم انك حميد مجيد اللهم بارك على محمد وعلى آل كما باركت على ابراهيم وعلى آل ابراهيم انك حميد مجيد
A book based on questions and answers to Druzes sect believers about the doctrine and the right religious practices. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2623199Condition: Good condition.
Arabic version of
De materia medica(Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς;
Kitāb mawādd al-‘ilāj), by Pedanius Dioscorides (Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, ديسقوريدس; ca AD 40- ca 90) of Anazarbus (modern Anavarza in south-central Turkey).This copy was completed at Baghdad on 10 Rabī‘ I 735/8 November 1334 (see colophon on f. 181r, transcribed below).Contents:Book 3 (المقالة الثالثة; ff. 2r-115v);Book 4 (المقالة الرابعة; ff. 116v-181r).Begins (f. 2r, lines 1-3):مستقيمة والذكر منه مستدير وليس بذي طبقات بل هو شيء واحدوكلاهما في الطعم متشابهين أوّل ما بدا فإن يوجد في طعمهاحلاوة ثمر من بعد يتغير طعمه فيه شيء من مرارة ...Ends (f. 181r, lines 5-8):سڡورٮٮوٮداسوهو ذنب العقرب ويسمى صامريوما هو نبات له ورققليل وبزر شبيه بأذناب العقرب وهذا البزر إذا صمد به نفعالملسوعين من العقاربColophon (f. 181r, lines 9-11):تمت المقالة الرابعة من ديسقوريدس من نسخها ونقشها يوم الخميسعاشر ربيع الأول من سنة خمس وثلثين وسبعمائة هجرية على يدي العبدالضعيف الحاج النقاش بمدينة السلم بغداد حامدًا ومصليًا ومسلمًاCodex; ff. ii+182+iiMaterial: PaperDimensions: 244 x 165 mm leaf [192 x 116 mm written]Foliation: Arabic-Indic foliation in black ink; British Museum foliation in pencil; quire signatures with catchwords only at quire breaksRuling:
Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cmScript:
Naskh; mostly vocalised; many transliterated foreign words unpointed; the copyist was also the illuminator as indicated in the colophon (f. 181r)Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headingsDecoration: 287 colour illustrations of plants; 52 spaces left blank for illustrations (note the outlines for an unfinished illustration on f. 88r)Binding: Ottoman binding (19th century?) in brown leather with envelope flap and blocked stamped mandorla with pendants; marbled doublureCondition: Excellent condition, but some water damage especially to illustrations on first 19 foliosMarginalia: Very occasional marginalia