Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Ibn Khalaf, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1453-1532 ابن خلف، علي بن محمد،
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Oversize Ms. Codex 42. 1695. Two commentaries with the source-text in red and the commentary in brown. The first is on law and the Maliki madhhab and the second is on the orthography and readings of the Qurʼān. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islamic law, Malikites, Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century, Codices (bound manuscripts), Qurʼans,...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1500
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Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197 مرغيناني، علي بن أبي بکر
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Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 143. 1500. Legal treatise written as a commentary on another of al-Marghīnānī's works, Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ. Extensive tables of contents added to beginning of work. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islamic law--Early works to 1800, Hanafites--Early works to 1800, Codices (bound manuscripts),...
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 164. A collection of anonymous astrological and magical treatises. Also bound together with this manuscript is a lithographed copy of Kitāb fī al-tamām wa-al-kamāl by Abū Maʻshar. This book is in two parts, the first dealing with horoscopes of men and their signs the second with women. Each part has 12 sections. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Astrology--Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800, Islamic magic--Early works to...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403 دميري، بهرام بن عبد الله،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 27 v.1. 1570. Commentary on the Mukhtaṣar of Shaykh Khalīl. This copy is very neatly written in 4 volumes in the same hand; fairly extensive worm damage though mostly confined to the margins; approximately 30 leaves missing from the beginning of volume 3, according to the earlier foliation. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islamic law--Early works to 1800, Malikites--Early works to 1800, Islamic law, Malikites,...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 268. Spain, 1381. An extensive treatise on Aristotelian astronomy, considering the motion of the stars and planets in a spherical, geocentric universe. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, 14th century, Manuscripts,...
Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris 70. 1800. An Arabic-Persian dictionary arranged alphabetically by last root letter; a few leaves missing at the front and the back; the last section being Faṣl al-mīm inside of Bāb al-wāw wa-al-yāʼ. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Arabic language--Dictionaries--Persian, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts,...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1300
1300
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Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137 جرجاني، اسماعيلبن حسن،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 189. 1300. Medical encyclopedia in 9 books, with discussions of physiology, anatomy, pathology, diagnosis, fevers, specific diseases, surgery, fractures, poisons, and antidotes. Includes indexes, although some leaves are missing. Most leaves re-margined with pink paper; a few leaves have original margins and extensive marginal notes or commentary (f. 255v-261r). Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Medicine, Persian--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, 14th century,...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1570
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Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403 دميري، بهرام بن عبد الله،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 27 v.2. 1570. Commentary on the Mukhtaṣar of Shaykh Khalīl. This copy is very neatly written in 4 volumes in the same hand; fairly extensive worm damage though mostly confined to the margins; approximately 30 leaves missing from the beginning of volume 3, according to the earlier foliation. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islamic law--Early works to 1800, Malikites--Early works to 1800, Islamic law, Malikites,...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780 بناني، محمد بن الحسن،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 21 v.4. 1268. A commentary on Zurqānī's commentary on the Mukhtaṣar of Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī. This copy is in 4 volumes, with the fourth volume being in a less formal hand and of smaller dimensions. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islamic law--Early works to 1800, Malikites--Early works to 1800, Islamic law, Malikites,...
Special Collections, BV 56. 1924. Small notebook of invocations and talismans, some associated with the name ʻAbd Allāh al-Arḍī (p. 1, [13]). Pages are written on one side only. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Islamic magic, Talismans, Manuscripts, 20th century, Manuscripts, Arabic, Codices (bound...
Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris 63. 1836. Book 4 of 5 from a Latin theological compendium that was extremely popular among Catholics in Arabic Garshuni (Arabic in Syriac script) translation. This copy includes Part 10, on the sacraments generally and Part 11, on the sacraments individually. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Sacraments--Catholic Church, Manuscripts (documents), Codices (bound manuscripts), Tables...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1718
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Khaṭīb al-Tamartāshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1532 or 1533-1595 or 1596 خطيب التمرتاشي، محمد بن عبد الله،
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Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris 56. 1718. Neatly written copy of a book on Ḥanafī jurisprudence and followed by a second work, an abridgment of Wiqāyah al-riwāyah fī masā'il al-hidāyah, on the same topic. A table of contents and an introduction with marginal text precede the main text, with a second, less formally formatted table of contents right before the main text (f. 34). Some collation notations are visible in the far outer margins along with...
Topics: Hanafites--Early works to 1800, Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800,...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1674
1674
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Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 978 or 979-1071 ابن عبد البر، يوسف بن عبد الله،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 26 v.1. 1674. A copy in two volumes, in good condition, of Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr's compilation of companions of the Prophet Muḥammad. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Hadith--Authorities--Early works to 1800, Hadith--Authorities, Friends and associates, Early works,...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 386. 1250. Substantial sections from an illustrated treatise on the measurement of weight, with a historical introduction to theories of gravity and weighing in Greek and Arabic science; tables of densities of substances including metals, precious stones, solids, and liquids; and descriptions of different types of balances. 26 diagrams and 18 tables with a few marginal notes. A few catchwords have been added by later hands....
Topics: Balances (Weighing instruments)--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--13th century, Scales...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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730
1852
1852
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Ibn Kabūlakh, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá ابن كبولخ، محمد بن علي بن عيسى
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 43. 1852. Book on Shiʻī esoteric wisdom. Relates to the Alawī Ghulāt community. Concerning doctrines and beliefs. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Nosairians, Codices, Stamps (Provenance), Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
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Topics: Qurʼan -- Use -- Early works to 1800, Islamic magic -- Early works to 1800, Talismans -- Religious...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286 بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 45 v.1. 1550. Commentary on the Qurʼān in two volumes, copied in the same hand. Marginal additions in the same and later hands. A table of contents was added to the front flyleaves in nastʻaliq by a later hand. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Early works, Criticism, interpretation, etc, Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century, Manuscripts,...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 459. Mosul?, Iraq, 1193. Early copy of the long form of this popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great on statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine. The ending of the manuscript is missing; the text breaks off during a discussion of magical alphabets. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Education of princes--Early works to 1800 Codices, Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800...
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Topics: Sufism -- Early works to 1800, Religious life -- Islam -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic,...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1710
1710
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Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1301-1349 ابن فضل الله العمري، احمد بن يحيى،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 447. Aleppo, 1710. Descriptions and illustrations of domestic and wild animals, birds, insects, marine animals, plants, stemless plants, and herbs. Sources include Dioscorides, Galen, and Ibn al-Bayṭār. The larger, encyclopedic work of which the text of this manuscript is a part, also includes cosmography, geography, history, and biography. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic, Zoology--Pictorial works--Early...
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Penn Museum 29-201-710. 1778. In the introduction, the author says that this is a retelling of the conquest of Syria and Iraq (Futūḥ al-Shām wa-al-ʻIrāq). The author states that 'the people of this time of ours' (ahl zamāninā hādhā) like reading conquest literature, so he has borrowed from the futūḥ works of both Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭalamankī [al-Maʻāfirī] and Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar...
Topics: Fascimiles, Islamic bindings (Binding), Full covers, Envelope flaps (features), Manuscripts,...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 400. Iran?, 1494. Commentary on the Zīj Gūrgānī, also known as the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sulṭānī, which comprised tables of calendar calculations, trigonometry, planets, and stars compiled from observations made at the observatory in Samarqand, completed in 1447. The tables themselves are not included. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Codices (bound manuscripts), Commentaries, Diagrams, Annotations...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1400
1400
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Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ابن البهاء، ابو عبد الله محمد
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 455. Egypt?, 1400. Two treatises on alchemy. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Alchemy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Treatises, Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century, Manuscripts,...
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Topics: Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Biography -- Early works to 1800, Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Prayers...
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 150. 1689. Neatly copied selections from Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn, includes the 10 chapters from rubʻ al-muhlikāt. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800, Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800,...
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Topics: Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Turkish, Sufism -- Early works to 1800, Islam -- Prayers and...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1963. 1772. Work on alchemy. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Divination--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800, Islamic magic--Early works to 1800,...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 478. 1228. Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand. Penn Libraries...
Topics: Astrolabes--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic, Astronomical instruments--Early works to 1800...
Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris 36. 1784. Copy of the New Testament; missing leaves at the front; begins with the third word of Matthew 1:22. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Christianity, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, 18th century, Codices (bound manuscripts),...
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 170. 1800. Gospel of Luke in Arabic copied in several different hands. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, 19th century, Bibles, Codices (bound manuscripts), Annotations...
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Topics: Geography, Arab -- Early works to 1800, Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works, Manuscripts, Turkish
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 40. 1750. Collection of prayers, including several based on the Āyat al-Kursī, and several others for each day of the week. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic, Islamic magic--Early works...
Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris 58. 1888. A detailed treatise on grammar, in prose, in 4 books: I. Nouns (22 chapters), II. Verbs (nine chapters), III. Particles (four chapters), IV. General (on phonetics and orthography, six chapters). OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Syriac language--Grammar--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts (documents), Codices (bound...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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732
1500
1500
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Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ابن ملك، عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز
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Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 147. 1500. Commentary on Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh; table of contents added to the beginning. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800, Hanafites--Early works to 1800,...
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Topics: Arabic language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- New York (State) -- New...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1731
1731
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Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -1549 or 1550 حلبي، ابراهيم بن محمد،
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Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 285. 1731. Copy of a compendium of Ḥanafī law. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islamic law--Early works to 1800, Hanafites--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts,...
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Topics: Calligraphy, Persian -- Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian --...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 278. Deccan, India, 1595. Illustrated herbal with detailed descriptions of the physical appearance and the medicinal effect of many plants, as well as some trees, minerals, and substances derived from animals. The manuscript is not complete: it comprises text and illustrations from parts of Chapter 1, substantial parts of Chapters 2-4, and parts of Chapter 5. Many leaves have extensive repairs at the edges or...
Topics: Materia medica--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian, Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361 جلدكي، ايدمر بن عبد الله،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 441. Aleppo, 1562. Two works on alchemy copied together in different hands. The first, a 14th-century treatise based on the work of the 8th-century alchemist and chemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, copied in A.H. 970 (1562); the second, a pseudo-Platonic work on alchemy with commentary (tafsīr) attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Some marginal notes. The first work may be missing leaves after folio 51. Penn Libraries...
Topics: Alchemy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, 16th century, Manuscripts,...
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Topics: Islamic magic -- Early works to 1800, Talismans -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283 قزويني، زكريا بن محمد،
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Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department, Lewis O 41. 1827. Copy of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt in Persian with diagrams and many color illustrations showing constellations, animals, plants, creatures and other wonders; the Arabic in the text is overlined in red. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Geography, Arab--Early works to 1800, Zoology--Pre-Linnean works,...
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Topics: Persian literature -- 747-1500, Fables, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian, Persian literature
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Topics: Astronomy -- Tables -- Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800, Calendars --...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 426. Iran?, 1375. First book of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, comprising an introduction to general knowledge of medicine, anatomy, temperament, and the effect of environment on health and disease. Frequent marginal annotations, some affected by trimming. The first 40 leaves and the last 10 are later replacements. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Medicine--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century, Medicine, Arab Manuscripts,...
Special Collections, BV 68. 1794. Copy of a set of works on Islamic theology and ritual practice written in Tashelhit (Shilha) in Arabic letters. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800, Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800, Islamic...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 403. Herat, Afghanistan, 1499. Working notes of an alchemist, who signs himself as the compiler and composer of the manuscript (f. 127v). Lacking at least one leaf at the beginning, if not more (early pagination begins at 2, f. 1r), with repairs on extant first and last leaves. Includes a commentary on an unknown text and references to the concept of balance found in the work of 8th-century alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān...
Topics: Alchemy--Early works to 1800 Codices (bound manuscripts), Anthologies, Commentaries, Stamps...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1412
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Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294 ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 295. Iran?, 1412. Composite manuscripts with two works. The first is a Persian translation of al-Urmawī's treatise the theory of music, including division of frets, ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud or lute (f. 1v-38v). The second is a short, anonymous work on the science of letters (ʻilm al-ḥurūf) (f. 41r-61v). Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Music--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian, Music theory--Arab countries--Early works to 1800...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 409. 1600. Two brief alchemical works written by a father for his son. Encoded alphabets are used occasionally in the manuscript, and a key is included (f. 3r). Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Alchemy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic, Islamic magic--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts,...
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Topics: Zoroastrianism -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Avestan
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Topics: Persian poetry -- 747-1500, Manuscripts, Persian, Persian poetry
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Topics: Astrology, Arab -- Early works to 1800, Talismans -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800,...
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Topics: Zoroastrians -- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Avestan, Manuscripts, Persian, Zoroastrians
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 1150-1210 رازي، فخر الدين محمد بن عمر،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 404. Iran?, 1200. Summary of the branches of knowledge, including the Qurʼān, ḥadīth, and history of Islam; grammar, rhetoric, and logic; medicine, anatomy, and pharmacology; gems and talismans; agriculture and veterinary science; geometry, geodesy, weight, arithmetic, and algebra; music; astronomy, astrology, and magic; theology, ethics, and political science. Marginal notes in a later hand. Pages missing at...
Topics: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Persian--Early works to 1600 Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts,...
Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris 35. 1700. Devotional book containing prayers and selections from the Qurʼān. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, 18th century,...
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Topics: Islamic magic, Talismans -- Religious aspects -- Islam, Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn ʻAlī, -approximately 1412 or 1413 صبنري، مهدي بن علي،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 960 Item 6. Collection of seven medical works, mostly treatises but also including a qaṣīdah describing medical treatments (Work 2) and a work presented as a historical account concerning medical treatments (Work 3). The first work is an herbal by al-Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṣubunrī (whose name is recorded in the text as al-Mahdī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanbarī), which comprises nearly half the...
Topics: Medicine, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric, Codices (bound manuscripts),...
Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris 30. 1794. Western rite liturgical texts for each day of the week, begins and ends abruptly; main body of the Šḥīmō in Syriac; additional liturgies and prayers in Arabic Garshuni, including funeral and baptism liturgies, (f. 231r-286r, 289v-293v); Church calendar in Arabic Garshuni for 1794-1843 (f. 286v-289r); some leaves pasted over. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Liturgies--Texts, Syriac language--Texts, Manuscripts (documents), Codices (bound manuscripts),...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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1523
1523
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Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 411. 1523. Commentary on the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sulṭānī, which comprised tables of calendar calculations, trigonometry, planets, and stars compiled from observations made at the observatory in Samarqand, completed in 1447. Includes some tables, marginal commentary attributed to Mullah Muẓaffar (f. 239v), 7 generally contemporary diagrams tipped in, and 1 diagram and 1 small note laid in. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to...
Topics: Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, 15th century, Manuscripts,...
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Topics: Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Biography -- Early works to 1800, Muḥammad, Prophet, -632,...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1918. 1500. Set of texts about geomancy. The second is a commentary and abridgement of a longer work on geomancy (ʻilm al-raml) by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Khitāʼī. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Divination--Religious aspects--Islam, Geomancy, Codices (bound manuscripts), Tables (documents),...
Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris 38. 1800. Arabic-Syriac glossary divided by topic. Each entry consists of an Arabic word, its Syriac equivalent and the transliteration of the Syriac into Arabic letters. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Syriac language--Dictionaries--Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Syriac, Manuscripts, 19th...
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002
Topics: Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Turkish,...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1764-1827 or 1828 عطار، محمد بن حسين،
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1893.. 1818. Short treatise on artillery containing an introduction, three topics, and a conclusion (f. 2r). Contains eight diagrams (f. 4r, 5r, 7v, 10r, 11v, 12r, 13r, 21v) and two tables (f. 14v, 19v); composition dates given in fractions (f. 2v and 21r). Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Artillery--History, Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century, Codices (bound manuscripts), Diagrams,...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 486. Egypt, 1320. Compilation of riddles drawn from early Islamic and pre-Islamic poetry, arranged in alphabetical order by their answers. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Riddles, Arabic--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic, Arabic poetry--622-750 Manuscripts,...
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197 مرغيناني، علي بن ابي بكر،
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Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 144. 1700. First volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his own Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law, comprising Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf. A leaf is missing between f. 1 and 2 and the copy has several inserted leaves of differing sizes. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Islamic law--Early works to 1800, Hanafites--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts,...
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002
Topics: Qurʼan -- Manuscripts, Qurʼan, Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800,...
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002
Topics: Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic, Islam
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
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Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn, ǂd -1406 or 1407 ابن القنفذ، أحمد بن حسين، ǂd -1406 or 1407
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 481. Morocco?, 1400. Commentary on the summary of arithmetical operations by the late 13th- and early 14th-century scholar Ibn al-Bannāʼ. Demonstrates with examples the calculation of sums involving fractional numbers and square roots. Extensive marginal notes on a few leaves (p. 20-35). The first leaf is missing and the text ends abruptly. Several leaves have restored outer margins. Pages 189-194 missing text...
Topics: Arithmetic--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century, Mathematics, Arab--Early works...
Special Collections, BV 67. 1800. Syriac-English dictionary arranged according to the order of the Syriac alphabet. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Syriac language--Dictionaries--English, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, 19th century, Codices...
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002
Topics: Geomancy -- Islamic countries -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian, Geomancy, Islamic...
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 280. 1600. Copy of the Qurʼān. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin
Topics: Codices (bound manuscripts), Illuminations (painting), Qu'rans, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts,...
Special Collections, BV 47. 916. Copy of the Psalms with 9 other prayers at the end; leaves are missing at the beginning, the first complete Psalm is number 4. OPenn: go to OPenn
Topics: Christian literature, Arabic--Early works to 1800, Christians--Middle East--Prayers and...
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002
Topics: Islamic occultism -- Early works to 1800, Numerology -- Islamic countries -- Early works to 1800,...
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 51. Syria?, 1400. Collection of encrypted correspondence between the compiler and various correspondents, in approximately 150 alphabets, accompanied by transcriptions of the letters in Arabic. The compiler cites Shihāb al-Dīn al-Jindī al-ʻAlāʼī, Burhān al-Dīn al-Qudsī, and Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥusaynī as authorities for some of the alphabets. The manuscript is incomplete, lacking...
Topics: Alphabets--Specimens Codices, Alphabets (symbols), Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century, Manuscripts,...
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002
Topics: Qurʼan. Selections, Qurʼan, Prayer -- Islam -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic, Prayer...
