"The first comprehensive description of ancient and modern Egyptcompiled by the 165 members of the Institut de l'Egypte established by Napoleon to accompany his expedition to Egypt in 1798-1801. This exhaustive survey of all aspects of ancient and modern life in Egypt was carried out under the supervision of the mathematician Gaspard Mongethe appointed President of the new Institute (of which Napoleon was Vice-President)."
Mémoires d'histoire et de géographie orientalesContains '
Mémoire sur les carmathes du Bahraïn et les fatimides'(pages 1-232)
.Edition: No.1 second edition.Author: Michael Jan de GoejePublisher: E J Brill, Leide, 18861 volume (499 pages)Dimensions: 200mm x 140mm
The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century, translated from the author’s own manuscript, and collated with one preserved at the Library of Eton College by Sir William Ouseley.Publication details: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co., Wild-Court, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, for T Cadell Junior and W Davies, Strand, London, 1800.Physical description: One volume, initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxxvi), 327 pages, fold-out map.1 volume (327 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume.Dimensions: 280mm x 220mm.
https://libraries.aub.edu.lb/xtf/data/aco/LeBAU_b12768030/thumb.jpg"Part of the Arabic Collections Online (ACO) projectcontributed by American University of Beirut's Jafet Memorial Library"'Electronic reproduction'137، c-h، 48 صفحة لوحات غير مرقمة : مصورات (معظمها ملون)، صور طبق الأصل (معظمها ملون) ؛ 25 سم"وللأستاذ مروان نصر، رئيس مصلحة الصناعة في وزارة الإقتصاد الوطني، وواضع هذا الكتاب لغتيه العربية والإنكليزية..." --صفحة 6
Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. Iby Captain Sir Richard F Burton, edited by his wife, Isabel Burton, with an introduction bu Stanley Lane-Poole.Publication Details: London, George Bell and Sons.Edition: The third edition with preface.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxx).1 volume (436 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations.Dimensions: 185mm x 110mm
Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. IIby Captain Sir Richard F Burton, edited by his wife, Isabel Burton, with an introduction bu Stanley Lane-Poole.Publication Details: London, George Bell and Sons.Edition: The third edition with preface.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii).1 volume (414 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations and an alphabetical index at the back of the volume, beginning on page 415.Dimensions: 185mm x 110mm
Sifat Jazīrat al- ʿArab / li-Abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb in Yūsuf ibn Dāwūd al-Hamdānī. صفة جزيرة العرب / لأبي محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب بن داود الهمدانيBy Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Hamdānī / الحسن بن أحمد همدانيPublication details: Leiden: E.J Brill / ليدن : بريلVariant Title: Al-Hamdânî's Geographie der Arabischen Halbinsel Variant Title: Geographie der Arabischen HalbinselTitle on added t.p.: Al-Hamdânî's Geographie der arabischen Halbinsel nach den Handschriften von Berlin, Constantinopel, London, Paris und Strassburg . herausgegeben von David Heinrich Müller. Partially vocalized.Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.1 volume (279 pages)Dimensions: 235mm x 150mm
Tagbuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien. Erster Theilby Julius Euting.Publication Details: Leiden, E J Brill.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-viii); 8º.1 volume (240 pages)This volume contains a German alphabetical index giving page references on page 241 and an Arabic alphabetical index giving page references on page 249.Dimensions: 257mm x 168mm
Tagbuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien. Zweiter Theilby Julius Euting.Publication Details: Leiden, E J Brill.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii); 8º.1 volume (284 pages)This volume contains a German alphabetical index giving page references on page 285 and an Arabic alphabetical index giving page references on page 299.Dimensions: 257mm x 168mm
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Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys Collected During his Travels in the East, by the Late John Lewis Burckhardt.Edited by Sir William Ouseley.Publication details: London: Henry Coburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1830. Published by Authority of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa.Physical description: Quarto.1 volume (439 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headlines and page references.Dimensions: 280mm x 220mm
Description de l'Arabie d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays mêmeby Carsten Niebuhr, translated from the German by F L Mourier.Publication Details: At Amsterdam by S J Baalde and at Utrecht by J Vam Schoonhoven and Company.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xlii); 4º.1 volume (372 pages)The volume contains an alphabetic index with page references. This is found at the back of the volume, following page 372.Dimensions: 285mm x 230mm
Relation des voyages faits par les Arabes et les Persans dans l'Inde et à la Chine dans le IXe siècle de l'ère chrétienne. : Texte arabe imprimé en 1811 par les soins de feu Langlès, pub. avec de corrections et additions et accompagné d'une traduction française et d'éclaircissements par M Reinaud.Publication Details: Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1845.Ownership: With stamp of the East India Company Library.Arabic text, with French translation, of Silsilat al-tawārīkh. In two books, the first said to be taken down from statements made by a merchant named Sulaimān, the second a continuation of the first, by Hasan. Appended to the Arabic text are extracts from the Marūj al-ḏahab and the Kitâb Altanbîh by Maʿsúdí.1 volume (504 pages)Dimensions: 125 mm x 80 mm.Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-clxxx); (book I: 1-154; book II: 1-105, Arabic text: 1-202 [these numerals appear in Arabic]).
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Paper. 15.7 x 11.4 cm. (13.3 x 9.3 cm.).Bound with: Khulāṣat siyar Sayyid al-bashar / li-Muḥibb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭabarī (ff. 1r-19r).MS Arab 362. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Holograph copy, completed on 5 Shaʻbān 1253 AH [November 4, 1837 AD] according to colophon (f. 28v).The mss is later owned by the author's son Aḥmad Abū al-Fatḥ al-ʻAjlūnī. Ownership statement, dated Rabīʻ al-Awwal, [12]87 AH [1870]. Seal reads Aḥmad Abū al-Fatḥ, 1280 AH [1863/4 AD] (f. 1r).Written in one column, 20 lines per page, in black and red. Catchwords and comments in the margins.MS Arab SM7087. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Table of Contents: 1- al-Durrah al-zāhirah bi-taḍmīn al-Burʼah al-fājirah / lil-Shaykh Qāsim (printed text, paginated 1-15; ff. 1r-8r) -- 2. Afḍal al-zād li-yawm al-maʻād fī al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá khayr al-ʻibād (ff. 9r-28v) -- 3. On miracles of the Prophet (ff. 29r-32r) -- 4. Commentary on a verse from the Qurʼān (ff. 32v-34v) -- 5. Hādhihi Qaṣīdat Sayyidinā Muḥammad [A poem in praise of the Prophet] (f. 35r) -- 6. Hādhā Mawlid Sayyid al-awwalīn wa-al-ākhirīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib, 25 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1274 AH [November 12, 1857 AD] (ff. 36r-40v).
cum interpretatione latina & notis Thomae Erpenii.In Arabic and Latin.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانة فصل اعلم ان الناظم لم يتعرض. :IncipitWritten surface: 13.2 x 16.3 cm; 17 – 20 lines per page, in clear naskhi script in black ink, on beige paper, with headings, keywords, and markings in red.It is meant as an emendation to another urjuzah (poem), but the latter is not mentioned here. The present poem specifically deals with the inheritance of relative on the mother's side, who were neglected in the original poem.Title supplied by cataloger.Part of a longer work; incomplete at the end.Recent cloth, in excellent shape.Undated but most likely from the nineteenth century.MS Arab 430. 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).
Translated by Muḥammad Bāqir Khurāsānī Biranjirdī (?) in 1223 [1808] in Hyderabad Deccan for Henry Russell.Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.Title from double title page (f. 4v).30.6 x 23 cm. (21 x 13 cm.)Cream laid paper. Cloth binding.MS Persian 11. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Written in one column, from 17 to 23 lines per page, in black.According to a note on f. 39r, copy completed on 13 Ramaḍān 686 AH [October 21, 1287 AD] in the mosque of Damascus from the copy of al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū ... al-Birzālī.Bound in brown morocco, stamped in blind.Ownership statement on inside front cover signed Benjamin Duprat (Librarian of the French Institute of the Imperial Library).With this is bound: Juzʻ fīhi ʻAsharat majālis min amālī al-Shaykh al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Khallāl (ff. 41r-58v) -- Juzʼ fīhi Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (ff. 63r-77r) -- Juzʼ fīhi thamānūn ḥadīthan ʻan thamānīna shaykhan / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (ff. 81r-96v) -- Juzʼ fīhi aḥādīth Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʻAyyāsh ... al-Tūnī ʻan shuyūkhih (ff. 98r-122r) -- al-Juz al-awwal min Asmā al-mubhamah fī al-anbā al-muḥkamah / al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (ff. 126r-144v).MS Arab SM55. 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).
Bound with ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAsākir, Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-buldānīyah, and other hadith collections.MS Arab SM55. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Copy completed in the beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijja 1013 [1605].Cream laid paper with watermarks. 19.9 x 14.3 cm (16.5 x 10 cm.)MS Arab 225. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Bound with: al-Taʻarruf / lil-Kalabādhī (ff. 1v-57v).