Abstract: "A manuscript commentary on the AlmagestAbstract: the classical 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary pathsAbstract: probably prepared by Mirza Qazi bin Kashif al-Din al-Yazdi (d. 1664/5 CE)Abstract: Sheikh al-Islam and son of a physician to Shah 'Abbas I."
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).
Abstract: "An account of travels to Buenos AiresAbstract: CubaAbstract: Vera CruzAbstract: Mexico CityAbstract: West AfricaAbstract: and MartiniqueAbstract: together with a missionary's description of islands in the Strait of Malacca."'"Relation d\'une isle nouvellement habitée ... par le R. P. Maximilien missionnaire" p. 297-352.'Ex copy: Evidence for assigned physical description heading(s) discovered by staff during 2014 survey. For more exact details consult book.
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 (؟
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
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