Numb. fols. 40; 19.8 x 8 cm.; written surface 15 x 8.5 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in good naskhi; with full vowel signs; with catchwords; headings in red; with illumination.A collection of discourses, wise sayings and proverbs on good government, divided into 8 divisions: (1) good policy, (2) virtue in knowledge and action, (3) elements which aid in religious devotion and worship, (4) aids to the discipline of the tongue, (5) self discipline, (6) good conduct, (7) good behavior, and (8) aids to eloquence.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. قال الوزىر السىد ابو الحسىن بن احمد بن الحسن بن عليColophon: تم کتاب ىتىمة الدهر والحمد لله على اتمامه والثناء على توفىقه وانعامه والصلاة على محمد واله خىر انامهMarginal notes; first page illuminated in red and blue; ruled marginal lines in red and blue on first page and in red throughout the rest. On title page and on inside of front cover are several autographs of owners and some scribblings. On inside of back cover occur a magical table and some smeared writing. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8709².
Copied A.H. 1154 A.D. 1741.Fols. 159; 20.4 x 15.5 cm.; written surface 13.5 x 7.2 cm.; 15 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.The title appears as Kitāb Muqaddamat Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. MS in good condition but worm-eaten; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Abstract: The famous book Kalīlah wa-Dimnah, which is a translation, into Arabic from Pahlavi, of fables which are adaptations of the Indian tales of the Panchatantra originally brought from India in the time of Chosroes I.Binding note: Type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and and paper with a block-printed design. Text block wrapped in later paper, not connected to cover.Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 96 + i ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-8.Description: Written in naskhi ; vowel signs ; rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition with some staining, some pages mended.Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a), the rest frame-ruled in red.Marginal notes; marginal summaries in red. Table of contents on fol. 1b. On fol. 1a occur an obliterated ownership autograph along with a seal impression, the signature of ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī al-Fārisī, two verses of poetry, and kabīkaj (invocation against bookworks).Ms. codex.Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 24 Muḥarram 997 by Maḥmūd ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Maḥallī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 96b).Title from text (fol. 1b).Colophon: نجز في اليوم المبارك وهو يوم الثلاث المبارك رابع عشرين محرم الحرام افتتاح عام سنة سبع وتسعين وتسعماية على يد کاتبه فقير رحمة ربه المستنشق نسيم حضرة قربه محمود بن ابي الحسن بن شمس الدين المحلي الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهم واليه امينIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. وما توفيقي الا بالله عليه توکلت. هذا کتاب کليلة ودمنة
Copied A.H. 1176 A.D. 1762 by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ʻAṭāʼ Allāh.Fols. 30; 21.8 x 15.5 cm.; written surface 16 x 9.7 cm.; 25 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in Maghribi; with catchwords; entries in red.A treatise on arithmetic containing an introduction, four parts and a conclusion. The first part treats of the arithmetic of whole numbers. The second part deals with fractions; the third, with roots; and the fourth, with unknowns. It is stated in the preface that the work is an abridgment of the authorʼs own work Kashf al-jilbāb ʻan ʻilm al-ḥisāb.Beg.: بسم الله ... ىقول عبدالله تعلى تعالى علي بن محمدColophon: وکان الفراغ منه صبىحة ىوم الجمعة ىوم ثلاثة وعشرىن في شهر جمادى الاولى رزقنا الله خىره ووقانا شره امىن عام 1176 م ستة وسبعىن ومائة والفA few marginal notes and glosses. MS in good condition.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900."Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-KhudaywīyahVp. 185VIIp. 570; Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846)418; Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale2473; RosenLes manuscrits arabes de l'Institut des langues orientales193."'Printed in CairoA.H. 1309; FāsA.H. 1315.'
Fols. 102; 20.3 x 12.4 cm.; written surface 13.3 x 6.8 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords; entries in red.A commentary on al-Wāfiyah.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم وبه نستعىن رب تمم بالخىر لك الحمد ىا من صرف قلوبنا نحو المعاني والبىانColophon: ولنختم الکلام بهذه الاىة الشرىفة ونحمد الله اولا واخرا على شرفنا بالوصل ان الاتمام وتفضل علىنا بشىر الاختتام انه وىاء الانعام والموصل الى المرام وجد القلم فراغا عن سکب عبراته على وجود الصحفات الصفحات وسلب وجناته نجمش الناطقات تأرىخMarginal and interlinear notes and glosses; marginal summaries in red. The last folio is trimmed and a part of colophon is missing. MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 8; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6567; Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4040; Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 713.
Anonymous.Fols. 3; 21.3 x 14.5 cm.; written surface 15 x 8.2 cm.; 25 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A brief treatise on the nature of revelation as it came to the Prophet, a kind of exegesis of Sūrah XXII:50 - 52.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله مزىل الرىبColophon: فلىنظر هو اىضا ما ىرتضىه فهمه الثاقب اعانه الله على جمىع الخىرات والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم. مMS in good condition; Arabic binding. Probably from the XlXth century.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Fols. 58; 20.9 x 15.3 cm.; written surface 14.8 x 9.5 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.An urjūzah on medicine.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. ىقول راجي کرم الله العليColophon: ولنختم القول بحمد الله * حمدا اذا عدّ بلا تناهي * مصلىن دائم الاىام * على النبي المصطفى التهامي * وآله وصحبه وعترته * وکل من اخلص في محبتهA few marginal notes. MS in fair condition; stained with dampness; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Fols. 42; 18.3 x 11.5 cm.; written surface 13 x 7.3 cm.; 10-15 lines to page; on Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords.A treatise in verse on the meaning and use of the particles.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. احمد ربي حالة الضراء * حمدي له في حالة السرّاءEnding: ممن لهم حسنى الله عمت * وفىهم کل المزاىا تمتMarginal and interlinear notes and glosses. MS in good condition; Arabic binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6794.Printed in Constantinople, A.H. 1289.
Fols. 131; 26 x 18 cm.; written surface 21 x 13.5 cm.; 27 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; headings in red.Vol. I of a work on the description and history of al-Rawḍah, an island in the Nile now a part of Cairo, together with a description of the Nile.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم ... سبحان الله فاتق الانهارColophon: هذا اخر ما اردت اىراده في هذا الجزؤ الجزء الاول من هذا الکتابMarginal notes and glosses. Evidently the last folio is by a later hand. On the page after the colophon and on the folio following occur two verses of poetry in praise of the book, a statement by the author that he composed this work A.H. 875 A.D. 1470, and several poems called ʻʻpoems of joyʼʼ. MS in fair condition but some folios are worm-eaten.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6111; Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2366-73; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1530/1; Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 416; Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 913; Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 953.
Abstract: Aceph. copy of a commentary on al-Misbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by al-Muṭarrizī (d. 610/1213).Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of marbled paper pasted on paper pasteboards with edges in brown leather, and brown leather spine. Yellow paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.'13 lines per page. Light cream paper with laid (and chain?) lines visible. Before the beginning of the original text, seven leaves on European paper (2 complete, the others with pieces cut off). Fol. 26 is a blank leaf on the same paper. After the end of the text, one leaf on another type of European paper. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover. Inscription in Western numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "63", repeated in red ink on the pastedown of the upper cover (corresponds to Brill\'s catalog. See HoustmaM. Th. Catalogue d\'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcsno. 303).'Copy completed on a Friday in 868 (colophon on the margin of fol. 28b).Incipit: قولك زيد مقيم فى ظنى ولو قلت زيد أعْطيت درهم ... الباب الرابع فى القوامل المعنويةExplicit: لان اهانة المولى من لوازم ضرب الغلام وهذا باب ال---؟ فيه محال لكنه يقتضى(؟) الى ال---؟ فاقتصرت على هذا القدر فليس الدى الدى عن التشاق
ff. 66. 196 x 153; 148 x 111 mm. 25 lin. Ṣafar 989.Commentary on al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah: Brockelmann, GAL, I, 470 (commentary 2); S I, 650.Incip.: ... قال المصنف ... الحمد لله .. الحمد الثناء بعد الاحسان بخلاف المدح