The book of History of states and countries and the antiquities and monuments of ancient people in the World and Islamic region by al-Qaramānī. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619254Condition: Good condition. The first page is repaired.
A Book of early Arabic chemistry. It explains the characteristics of gems and ruby and their chemical reaction. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2611301Condition: Good condition. Missing pages at the end of the manuscript.
History of Islamic Empire in Syria, Irak and Egypt during the Omeyyads, Abbasids, Ayyubids and Ottoman periods. The manuscript is written by an Indian historian Abdel-Malek Isami, who added various poems praising the rulers and sultans with some of their biographies. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2610338Condition: Some pages are repaired. 16 pages are added by the owner Isa Iskandar Ma'luf including a biography of the author, 8 of them are blank .
An encyclopedic work in history and literature of the Islamic Empire. The author\’s most comprehensive work. Only volume 14 out of all the 46 volumes has been published. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2610184An encyclopedic work in history and literature of the Islamic Empire. The author\’s most comprehensive work. Only volume 14 out of all the 46 volumes has been published. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2610184Condition: First pages are missing. Pages 3-4 are missing, 87 pages are torn.
The Crowns of the honor by al-Rashidi is biographies of pioneers in the Islamic Empire. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619254Condition: The ink in all pages is fading and the top of the pages are blurring due to the water. The first lines of the first page are not readable.
The essay of Ibn Zaydun, the Andalusi visir and poet who addressed sarcastic poems at Ibn Abdus, his antagonist and rival for his beloved Wallada bint al-Mustakfi. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2617145Condition: Good condition.
Poems of savvy and notable scholars |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619142Condition: Good condition.
Characteristics of traditional Arabic medicine and drugs. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2616861Condition: Good condition, missing pages at the end.
Collected correspondence and letters during the Ayyubid dynasty era discussing administrative and public services issues. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2611252Condition: Bad condition. Some pages are repaired. The last page is torn.
The book of the Selection of the intellectuals biographies by ibn al-Jawzī. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619254Condition: The ink in the 17 last pages is fading and the top of the pages are blurring due to the water.
Islamic ways and means to get forgiveness by doing good actions, charitable giving and praying during the month of Ramadan.|If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2611234Condition: Bad condition. Some pages are repaired. Edges of the manuscript are burned.
Abstract: "Collection containing two glosses on al-Shirwānī's commentary on Samarqandī's Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth."Binding note: Stiffened brown leather. Each cover has an outer ruled border made of three blind fillets; half of the upper cover is missing.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-34a: Risālah ʻalá Mawlá al-ʻImād al-muḥashshī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Fāḍil Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Ibn Shujāʻ al-Dīn al-shahīr bi-Khazramah.Contents: 2. fol. 34b-37b: blank.Contents: 3. fol. 38a-56a: Risālah ʻalá Sharḥ al-fāḍil Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.17 lines per page. Written in small but very clear naskh in black ink with use of red for "qāla" and "qawluhu", and to overline important words. In text no. 2, notes on content written in red in the margin. European glazed paper with watermarks; fol. 9 prev. 8 is a later replacement. Contains a few notes in the margin and some collation notes. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (starts on fol. 2; between fol. 35 and 38 prev. 34 and 35, two fol. blank).Collation: Paper, fol. 56 + i (modern endpaper) ; 1⁸ (+1, fol. 9) 2-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6⁸ (+1, fol. 48) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Copied by al-Ḥājj Qāsim in Qusṭanṭinīyah in 963 (from colophons, fol. 34a and 56a).
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: Description in part based on Savage-Smith, E. and Rapoport, Y. (2013), An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe, pp. 2-4.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team. Image descriptions based in part on CarboniRecord origin: S. (1988)Record origin: Il Kitab al-bulhan di Oxford."
Incipit: (بعد البسملة) َاشْتَا َاشْ اُنْمَامُرَيَلْذَا / لُشْبَّارَانْسِبَّلَاشْ مَنْدَ / مِيَانْتُشْ اِذَابَاذَمِيَانْتُشْ / ذَا نُوَاشْتَرَشَنْتَ لَايْ اِسُنَّExplicit: َانْلَمَا / سْ كِذَ دَالَذِيجَّ سِبْذَد / ءَانَالَّنُّ دَا مِلْ اِكُوَتْرُسِيَانْتُسْ / اِشَاشَانْتَ اِذُشْ اَنُّشْ كُنْبَانْغَ // لُى ءَالْشُبَارَنُ اَشُشَنْتُ / شَارْبِسِيُ ءَامِينْ لِصِلِى / شُبْرَا مُحَمَّد ءَالُّنْرَّذُTinta marrón oscura y roja (para títulos y frases que se quieren resaltar). A estas se añaden el ocre y el verde para algunas decoraciones. Desde f. 77, solo tintas marrones.Copista: Desconocido.Colofón: «Cunpliose este libro* que á [por] nonbre Bebraryo [sic] çunní que con{n}sideró i cunplió el onrado y discreto Icasedīl, alfaqí y muftí mayor de los moros de castilla, alimam de los onrados alḥamaca [sic] de los moros de Segovia. Y él lo fizo i coligió en la meçquida de la dicha cibdad [de Segovia] en el año de [m]il i cuatrocientos y sesenta i dos años.Ilustración: No.Ilustraciones: ‘Unwân con título. Palmetas enfrentadas y motivos geométricos y vegetales a modo de cenefas para diferenciar partes de texto y completar líneas de escritura. Tres puntos y calderones. Manecillas en el margen externo. Motivos circulares emulando los coránicos, más o menos complejos, con y sin policromía, en el margen exterior.Características especiales: En ocasiones se emplea un trazo más grueso para palabras o frases en árabe.Tipo de cuaderno: 21 cuaterniones, 3 sexternos y 1 de nueve bifolios.Deterioros: Gran mancha de humedad en el pliegue de los primeros cuadernos y en esquina superior externa. Galerías de insectos en primeros y últimos folios. En algunas hojas, la tinta metalogálica rompe el papel e imposibilita la buena lectura de algunos pasajes.H. en blanco: Ir-IIv, 216v-217v.H. dañadas, mutiladas, sueltas: Ninguna.H. faltan o añadidas: Ninguna.Foliación: Ff. 1-217. De época, a tinta, en la parte superior del margen derecho del vuelto. Repetición de f. 52 [=f. 52bis]. «1011» en vez de 111, «2010» en vez de 210, «2011» en vez de 211 y «2012» en vez de 212.Reclamos: En horizontal, en verso de último folio del cuaderno. No se conservan todos, probablemente por guillotinado.Signatura de cuaderno: No.Pautado: A punta seca. Difícil de apreciar.Filigrana: No identificable.Signatura antigua: Junta 1Anotaciones: Correcciones, inserciones de texto que falta, aclaraciones de la misma mano. En 32r, nota moderna a lápiz.Ff. 1v-217r. Breviario sunní.No se conserva. Lomo con tres nudos sobre tira de cuero y dos cadenetas.
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.
Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the
al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb(الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9). A copy of this commentary is found in Oxford, Bodleian MS Selden superius 36.The text has almost no diacritical points.Begins (f. 2v, lines 3-4):فائدة وكثرًا ما يستعمل في الأعمال النجومية المذكورة في الرسمات (؟)وفي غير المجومية أيضًا (؟) كمعرفة سموت البلدان وأبعاد ما بينها بعض من بعضEnds (f. 3v, 16-18):... وذلكنافع لطالب البراهين في الأعمال وصاحب علم القياس (؟) في الأحوالرزقه الله وجميع الطالبينFf. 2v-3v
Abstract: Collection of traditions, compiled from the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim and al-Bukhārī. Incomplete at the beginning and the end.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger (following R. Mach, Yahuda).The name of the author appears in the numbering of the quires as al-Ḥumaydī (see fol. 117a).The copy begins with the last ḥadīths transmitted through Ibn ʻUmar, followed by the ḥadīths transmitted through Abū Ḥamzah (fol. 1a). It comprises the ḥadīths transmitted through ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbbās (see fol. 59a), Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (fol. 70b), and the ḥadīths transmitted by Muslim through Companions of the Prophet such as ʻAbd al-Muṭallib ibn Rabīʻah (fol. 136a).17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink ; headings in a larger script. The text is vocalized. Light cream paper with laid lines visible (chain lines hardly visible on some leaves). Collation notes. Audition statements on some folio (see fol. 92b, 105b, 117b, 125b). Audition and collation statement signed by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Yūnīnī (fol. 1b and 119b; collated with a copy read in front of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ). Some leaves are missing (see between fol. 8-9, 16-17, 24-25, 26-27, 36-37, 43-44, 45-46, 47-48, 50-51, 54-55, 59-60, 63-64, 70-71, 80-81, 86-87, 115-116, 125-126, 126-127). The quires are numbered in the form "al-rābiʻah ʻashrah min al-thānī min al-Ḥumaydī", see fol. 117a). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Incipit: هذا واطوعنا بعده اللهمّ انت الصاحب فى السفر والخليفة فى الاهل اللهمّ اى أعوذ بك من وعثاء السفرExplicit: \\\\ وكانت عليك حُلّة وعليه حلّة فمسح رأسى وقال اللهمّ بارك فيه يا بن
Abstract: Al-Shamāʾil al-Nabawīyah, a treatise on the sīrah of the Prophet, by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892).Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.12 lines per page. Written in elegant large Andalusian Maghribi in brown ink with use of red and blue ink and gold leaf for headings and paragraphs. Text within a triple-line frame ruled in red and blue ink. Catchwords on verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Extensive marginal notes in at least two different hands. European paper. No titlepage and a portion of the beginning of the text missing. Extensive water and insect damage to the paper, but the text legible throughout.Label in Arabic on fol. 1a: "Raqm 66".Incipit: مالك بن أنس عن ربيعة بن ابي عبد الرحمان عن أنس بن مالك أنّه سميعه يقول كان رسول الله ... ليس بالطويل البائن ولا بالقصير ولا بالأبيض الأمهوقExplicit: حدثنا محمد بن علي قال سمعت ابي يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر حدثنا محمد بن علي اخبرنا النضر اخبرنا ابن عون عن ابن سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عن من تأخذون دينكم ... و الحمد لله اولا واخرا و الصلاة والسلام على صاحب المقام ... وسلم تسليما
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Abstract: History of the conquest of North Africa from Qayrawān to Zāb.Binding note: Modern Western type binding of pasteboards covered with paper.Ms. codex.Title from rubric (fol. 1b).16 to 17 long lines per page. Written in Maghribi script, in brown ink with some use of red and occasional green; with catchwords on the verso of each leaf, and on the recto of each leaf from fol. 7a. European paper. Modern foliation using Western numerals. There is a ḥabūs mark (fol. 109b). Good condition with water staining and some minor insect damage. Some wear on final leaves.Copied by ʻAlī ibn Abī Muʻizz al-Rajrājī on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1140 (colophon, fol. 109b).Incipit: قال وسميت القروان قروان ... عقبة ابن عامر رضي الله عنه نزل بافريقيةExplicit: قال الراوى لهذا الحديث هذا ما وجدنا في السفر١ من فتوح افريقية من بلاد المهدية الى بلاد زاب وفي السفر الثانيمن بلاد زاب الى اخر المغرب ... وكان النصر للمسلمين من فضل الله وبركته ... وصلى الله على نبينا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثير.Opening rubric: (هذا تاليف فتوح افريقية من مدينة القروان الى زاب ببلاد طانة (؟
Binding: The volume is bound in a European binding of pasteboards covered with brown leather. The covers have frames formed of two gold fillets. There are five cords on the spine, with two gold fillets either side of each cord. The pastedowns are modern and are blank except for annotations of the manuscript number and a bookplate for St John’s College and E Libris Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt. Oxon. on the back pastedown.Contents note: Annotations by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8), fols. 12a/b, 13a, 15a.Contents note: Contents described on fol. iii b: Collatio Mensium Arabicorum, Cophticorum, Græcorum, & Judaicorum. Vide pag. 1. ubi habes hunc titulum doctissimi ipsius Pocockij a later hand has crossed out the last two words, and written in pencil: Gul. Laudi manuscriptum. Nec non Tabulæ quædam Astronomicæ. Omnia imperfecta. In margine passim occurrunt Notæ Viri eruditissimi Joan. Grauij, Prof. Astronom. Sauil.Contents note: In item 1, it is evident from numbers placed on each table that there were originally 23, though tables 5–6, 14–15, and 20–1 are now missing and two tables carry the number ‘9’. Ff. 10a/b, 11a and 17b are blank except for frames formed of two black-inked lines.Dimensions: 21.3 × 13.9 (text area 17 × 10.2) cm.Hand: Both items written in a variable (small to medium) Arabic naskh using black and red inks. The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red- and black-inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table.Layout: The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red and black inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table. Lines per page vary.Origin note: "No copyist's signature or date(s) or place(s) of copying."Record origin: "Descriptions abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entries. Nos. 4 and 10Record origin: pp. 19-22Record origin: 41-2."
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."
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."
Abstract: 'A work on Ḥanafī law and jurisprudence, being a redaction from the author\'s al-Muntakhab min ʻulūm al-madhhabAbstract: and several commentaries such as Sharḥ al-Karkhī and al-Isbījābī (see beginning of textAbstract: fol. 2b). The text is followed on fol. 229-230b by an incomplete text written by another handAbstract: entitled "Majlis amlāhu muṣannif hādhā al-kitāb".'Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (prfessional hand) in black ink (faded to brown), with larger script for headings. The text is vocalized. Dark cream paper, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Table of contents on fol. 1a-b. Several short excerpts on fol. 2a. Foliation in black ink (faded to brown) using Arabic numerals.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 10 Rajab 621 July 1224 by Bashīr ibn Ḥāmid ibn Sulaymān al-Jaʻfarī al-Tabrīzī (fol. 228b). According to notes on the margin of fol. 228b, collated on an autograph.Incipit: الحمد لله الاحد القديم الصمد الدايم ذي الكمال والدوام والجلال والاكرام والآلاء والنعم وصلى الله ... اما بعد فقد اختصرنا هذا الكتاب من كتابنا المنتخب من علوم المذهب ومن شروح بسيطة كشرح الكرخى ... كتاب الطهارات قال الله تعالى ياءيها الذين آمنوا اذا قمتم الى الصلوة فاغسلوا وجوهكم ... 3أ ففرض الله عز وجل في الوضوء غسلExplicit: لكل واحدة ثلثة اسهم وللاخت النصف اربعة وعشرون سعمًا وللاعمام اثنى عشر سهمًا لكل واحد سعمان تم الكتاب والحمد لله المنعم القديم المحمود العظيم وصلى الله على محمد رسوله الكريم ونبيه الحليم وعلى آله واصحابه وسلّم آخر عبارة المصنف الامير الامام الزاهد ايده الله وسدده
An abridged copy of a history of several Arab dynasties, ending with the Almohads. This volume contains three partial chapters: the end of an abridgement of chapter 1, chapter 2, and the beginning of chapter 3. The text begins and ends abruptly. Chapter 2 (f. 47v-90r) is about the Prophet Muhammad. Chapter 3 starts with the first four Caliphs, continues through the Umayyads (f. 103r-120v), tours briefly through the Abbasid rulers (f. 120v-142v), mentions the Fatimids (f. 143v), then follows up with brief accounts of the Almohad rulers through al-Ḥasan al-Saʻīd ibn Yaʻqūb al-Manṣūr (d. 646 A.H = 1249).
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
List of names with Coptic numerals (perhaps contributors and their contributions).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 18 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Recto: accounts in Arabic. Verso: few letters in Hebrew and Arabic.Condition: badly torn, rubbed, badly stainedLayout: 4 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Accounts of expenditures and income, mentioning dancers, and names such as Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-ʿAzz and Elijah, with Hebrew, Coptic (?) and Arabic numerals.Condition: torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: various lines
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faraj Mardūk and Abū Isḥāq, and several sums of money.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 14 lines (verso)
Accounts and lists, mentioning prices, weights, currency, place names such as Būṣīr and names such as Ṣalaḥ. Hebrew numerals. Arabic jottings on f. 1r.Condition: torn, rubbed, fadedLayout: 2-16 lines
Accounts and expenditures of the synagogue, including removal of rubbish, the collection of alms (jibāya) and the cantor.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Recto: accounts, obviously written on Arabic scrap paper. Verso: elaborate, fully vocalised Arabic, starting with the basmala, between the Arabic lines Judaeo-Arabic written transversely and upside down.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: numerous lines
Recto: accounts, obviously written on Arabic scrap paper. Verso: elaborate, fully vocalised Arabic, starting with the basmala, between the Arabic lines Judaeo-Arabic written transversely and upside down.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 13 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Building expenditures, written in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Šeḵanya, dated Muḥarram [43]6 of the Islamic Era (= 1044 CE).Condition: torn, holesLayout: 16 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Fragmentary record of building expenditures of the heqdeš (charitable foundation), mentioning the supply of different materials, as well as payments to masons, carpenters, plasterers, and others. Mentions al-Quṭayd and Ibn al-Jabbān. According to Gil (1976, 161), dated 1037 CE.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 24 lines
Detailed accounts of a ritual slaughterer from Fusṭāṭ, specifying the various community officials and other persons to whom he had made payments of 7 dirhams weekly over a full year. Dated 1179 or 1183.Condition: Badly torn, holes, slightly fadedLayout: 44 lines + marginalia (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Recto: Judaeo-Arabic accounts, mentioning nuts. Verso: Arabic jottings or small fragment of a document.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 5 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Recto: accounts, mentioning names such as Abū Naṣr. Verso: part of an Arabic petition, addressed to the Amir (?).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 8 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Accounts in Hebrew and Arabic script, mentioning names such as Abū l-Barakāt, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Saʿd, and quantities of currency. On verso jottings written across the Arabic accounts.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 10 lines + marginalia (recto); various lines (verso)
Accounts of the owner of a shop, recording the prices of grocery items, such as rice, sugar, sumac, almonds, hazelnuts, pomegranate seeds, bread and cheese. The names of some customers are mentioned, including Ibn al-Ramlī, Abū l-Faḍl and Naṣir b. Ṯābit, and whether they owe money. Parts of the account, which is written in large, crude characters, are repeated in a smaller and better trained hand. In addition, individual words are repeated in Arabic script, probably as a writing exercise. On recto, there are some jottings.Condition: Holes, slightly stainedLayout: various lines
Fragment from a notebook with drafts (of a letter) and accounts. Mentions Ḥayyā [Yaḥyā] ha-Kohen ha-Melammed and Abū l-Ḥasan and measures such as qirrāṭ.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 8 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Lists of names with Hebrew numerals, possibly wages. Mentions the different days of the week and repeats the same names such as Ibrahim, Ḥusayn, Joseph and al-Ḥallāl.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: various lines
List of names of contributors and amounts of their contributions in figures, mentioning approximately 50 proper names.Condition: holes, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 21 lines (recto); 16 lines + marginalia (verso)
Possibly an account of auctioning the right to read a paraša: a list of parašot from Exodus and Leviticus with the words ‘dirhem’ or ‘two dirhems’ written next to each one of them in Arabic script. The text at the top of recto, which may not be related to the account, mentions the names of Abū Naṣr al-Dalāl and Abū l-Faḍl. With jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: various lines
Recto: Arabic accounts, mentioning expenses for things such as good olive oil, firewood, melon, beans etc. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic note concerning the sale of books.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 4 lines
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīth arranged by topics.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. 2a.Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Red tear-drop text stops. Thick light cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves darker. On these leaves, ink corrosive. Marginal annotations (collation notes and glosses). Fol. 1 is a later addition. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including a price, two lines of poetry in praise of the text, and ownership statements. Table of contents by a later hand on fol. 1a-b.Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each quire; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "al-Khāmisah" on fol. 36a).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 27". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 130".Two leaves of another manuscripts were placed in the volume. They are now shelved separately in Fragments, leaves, etc. (Yahuda Series).Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Dūghān Sibṭ al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Badrānī, Thursday 12 re-written Dhū al-Qaʻdah ("khalat min") 846 March 14, 1443, from a copy copied from a copy collated on an autograph copy (fol. 180a, followed by a biographical note on the author and by the words: "Thānī nuskhah min al-Adhkār").Incipit: بسم ... اللهم صل على محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما ابدا الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار مقدر الاقدار مصرف الامور ... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم العزيز الحكيم فاذكروني اذكركمExplicit: قال ليس لاهل الشام حديث اشرف
ff. 86. 182 x 130; 125 x 85 mm. 15 lin. 732 H. ?.Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 580 (8, 4: Kitāb al-mustaghīthīn).The ms. is divided into 4 juzʼ each with special title page and title in the form given above; title page of the first juzʻ and the commencement of the text are missing.Incip. (as extant): ... قال ما ترىد الى دمى شأنك بالمال قال اما المال فلست ارىدThese words agree with ms. Garrett 1893, fol. 2a, lin. 13.
Title from f. 1r.According to the colophon (f. 10v), copy completed on 5 Rabīʻ al-awwal 990 AH [March 22, 1582 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Abūṣīrī al-Azharī.Unbound.Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.Cream laid paper. 18 x 13 cm. (13 x 9 cm.).MS Arab 252. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
ff. 23. 210 x 155; 145 x 90 mm. 15 lin. the author completed his work 4 Rabīʻ II, 1131; probably autograph.Incip.: ... قوله ىعنى اشراط الساعة تفسىر للبعض کما هو ظاهر
Abstract: A collection of hadith with sound isnads and contents and their use for determining correct action.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.الاجزاء من الاول وحتى الرابع من كتاب شفاء الاوام للتمييز بين الحلال والحرامLater additions and repairs dated February 1917. Sale note and multiple reading notes. Includes fragments by ʻAlī ibn Abī ṭālib.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جلدي كبير سقطت منه بعض الأوراق في آخره وتم استبدالها بأوراق أحدث منها. وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرليلة الجمعة 23/صفر/سنة1049هـ; ليلة الخميس الرابع شهر ربع الآخر1049ه; 2/جماد الأول/سنة1049هـ; نهاية نسخ الأوراق المستبدلة من اللقطة رقم (527-534): عشية الأحد لعشر خلت من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة1335هـNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Final pages added later in different hand.31 lines.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فهو حبي اكفي الحمد لله الملك العزيز في ملكه واقتذاره الذي ملك الوجود يقوته واوجد بارادته واختياره... :IncipitWritten in Naskhi hand, in one column, 20 lines per page, in black and red, framed within double red and black lines. First leaves framed within golden and double black lines.Original cover, blind stamped red leather with flap, in red leather and board pouch, in separate protective case.21 x 15.5 cm. (16.5 x 10 cm.)According to the colophon (f. 325r), copy completed on 10 Rabīʻ al-Akhar 1146 AH [September 29, 1733 AD] in the hand of Ḥijāzī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūlūnī.MS Arab SM162. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 271Origin: Versified chronogram at end (fol.182b, "اخلاق محسنى") gives dating for completion of composition; this reading, without the preposition "ز", yields the more widely accepted date of 900 H. As appears in colophon on fol.182b, copied by Maḥmūd ibn Najīb. Transcription finished ("tamma al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb taḥrīran fī tārīkh...") 12 Rabīʻ I 922 [ca. 15 April 1516].Binding: Pasteboard covered in red-brown leather; Type II binding (with flap); upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central mandorla (Déroche class. NSh1) with pendants and simple gold rule-border; smaller mandorla on envelope flap; doublures in light-blue coated paper embossed with vegetal pattern; in good condition.Support: Persian laid paper; laid lines oriented vertically but too faint to count; chain lines not visible; flyleaves are fashioned from a light-blue coated paper, embossed with a vegetal pattern, that is also used for the doublures.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece on fol.2b; marvelously rendered in two rectangular panels; lower panel contains the basmalah, executed in red nastaʻlīq, in a central cartouche flanked by two, smaller palmette-like lozenges; lower panel is framed by an elaborite golden braid; background is predominantly lapis-lazuli, with vegetal/floral patterns executed in gold, red, pink, green, black, and white; upper panel continues the background motif and color palette; three small, predominantly black, palmette-like lozenges serve as the pivot for the repeating vegetal pattern in this panel, but these are subdued figures and are rather absorbed into the lapis-lazuli background and intriquate vine patterns; upper panel is surmounted by five verticle, decorative stalks; written area framed by a rule-border in dark blue, black, and gold; gold frames set off verses and some chapter titles; text is polychrome, with main text in black, Arabic quotations in dark blue, gold, and occasionally red, and chapter titles in dark blue or gold; the words "شعر" and "بيت" as they occur throughout the text introducing verses of poetry are rendered in red and blue, and occasionally, gold; main text of incipit page decorated with gilt cloudbands.Script: Main text in nastaʻlīq; chapter headings in tawqīʻ; Arabic quotations of Qur'anic verses and Hadith in naskh and vocalized; basmalah in cartouche of illuminated headpiece in nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: ii, 23 IV (184), i; quaternions; cacthwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ١ on fol.3a (Western pagination) and concludes with ١۸۰ on fol.182a; fihrist of chapter titles (fol.6a-7a) corresponds with foliation.Dedication: Composed for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin (شاه ابو المحسن ), one of the sons of the Tīmūrid pādishāh Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, on the occasion of his coming to court (in Herat) from Marv (see fol.4a-4b, Western pagination).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads: "رب اختم بالخير والحسنى تمت [كذا] الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا في تاريخ اثنى عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنه اثنى عشرين و تسعمايه بخط العبد الحبيب [المجيب ؟] محمود بن نجيب"Explicit: "با خامه گفتم ای كه زهر ساختى قدم وز مقدم تو چشم سخن يافت روشنى اخلاق محسنى بتامى نوشته تاريخ هم نويس ز اخلاق محسنى"Incipit: "حضرت يادشاه على الاطلاق غرت كلمته و جلت عظمته منشور دولت سلطان المرسلين"Title from opening on fol.5a.Ms. codex.A work on ethics in 40 chapters, composed by Kāshifī for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin, a son of Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander.
