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.
Binding: 19th century paper boards (pink); with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine.Contents note: Incomplete: includes the books of Hosea, Joel and parts of Amos.Contents note: The book was printed between 1485 and 1486 in Italy but a later owner has added a marginal annotations in Hebrew, in his 16th or 17th century hand (probably in Italy).Dimensions: 268 × 197 × 10 mm (size of binding); ca. 262 × 187 mm (size of leaf).Layout: Main biblical text has been printed in square script, the commentary surrounds the main text and is printed in semi-cursive script.Record origin: Material Evidence in Incunabula catalogue: http://data.cerl.org/mei/02124375.
Binding: Late 18th or early 19th century calf over pasteboards, with gold-tooled borders; sewn onto five supports; with imprint details (in gilt) and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges stained red.Contents note: Includes the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Hezekiel.Contents note: The book was printed between 1485 and 1486 in Italy but a later owner has added incipit to the book of Isaiah, vocalisation, marginal annotations and corrections in Hebrew, in his 16th century hand (probably in Italy).Dimensions: 241 × 194 × 35 mm (size of binding); ca. 234 × 175 mm (size of leaf).Layout: Main biblical text has been printed in square script, the commentary surrounds the main text and is printed in semi-cursive script.Record origin: Material Evidence in Incunabula catalogue: http://data.cerl.org/mei/02124374.
Binding: Late 18th or early 19th century calf over pasteboards, with gold-tooled borders; sewn onto four supports; with imprint details (in gilt) and shelfmark on the spine.Contents note: Incomplete: includes only Prophets and Writings; some text in manuscript.Contents note: The book was printed in 1494 in Italy but later owners have added marginal annotations and personal notes in Hebrew, in 16th and 17th century hands (probably in Italy).Dimensions: 155 × 114 × 71 mm (size of binding); ca. 144 × 102 mm (size of leaf).Layout: Main biblical text has been printed in square type script, with vocalisation.Record origin: Material Evidence in Incunabula catalogue: https://data.cerl.org/mei/02124063.
"Contents: Middle commentary on Aristotle's Physics (ff. 1r-94(iii)v and 141v-143v). Middle commentary on Aristotle's De anima (ff. 95v-141r). Middle commentary on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione (ff. 144v-179v)."
Written by several hands in semi-cursive and cursive Sefardic scripts. The manuscript does not include the end of the commentary. Several pages contain glosses.For a detailed description, please see www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-and-archives/digital-library.
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."
Epitome of Tanḥum ben Joseph's commentary on the Prior Prophets and on parts of Isaiah (the latter agrees with Abū al-Walīd Marwān Ibn Janāḥ's Kitāb al-Ussūl)
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).
Katuv sham (glosses on Zerahiah ben Isaac ha-Levi Gerondi's Sefer ha-Maʼor, on Talmud Bavli Giṭin, Yevamot, Ketubot, the three Bavot, Sanhedrin and Makot)
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.
Miscellany (Abraham Maimonides's answers to Daniel ha-Bavli's questions on the Mishneh Torah. Abraham Maimonides's answers to Daniel ha-Bavli's questions on Maimonides's Sefer ha-Mitsṿot)
Miscellany (Abraham ben Jacob Saba's Eshkol ha-kofer, a commentary on Ruth; Joseph Caspi's Ḥatsotserot kesef, a commentary on Ecclesiastes; Shem Tov ben Joseph ben Shem Tov Ibn Shem Tov's commentary on the Hagadah)
Miscellany (David ben Joshua ben Abraham Maimonides's al-Murshid ilá al-tafarud ṿa-al-murfid ilá al-tag arud; Ibn Gabirol's Tiḳun midot ha-nefesh in Judaeo-Arabic translation)
Miscellany (David ben Joshua ben Abraham Maimonides's commentary on Maimonides's Mishneh Torah (Sefer ha-zemanim: Hilkhot ḳidush ha-ḥodesh); commentary on the Sefer yetsirah, attributed to Abraham ben David of Posquières)
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Rosellini expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
The Champollion expedition is an invaluable and irreplaceable record because it contains information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country. It is one of the oldest and most important publications to include accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions and is still regularly consulted for many of them.
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.
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.
Dimensions: 142 mm wide × 195 mm high (size of leaf).Hand: Ashkenazi cursive.Record origin: Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 2205, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 2205, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
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