Abstract: This manuscript dating from the late 17th century is a collection of hadiths, or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, by the Egyptian polymath Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (1445−1505). The work is carefully written in naskh script. The title is enclosed in a decorative headpiece, not exquisitely drawn but nonetheless colorful yet restrained. In contrast to his comprehensive Jamiʻ al-jawamiʻ (Compilation of compilations), in this work al-Suyuti promises “the short, abbreviated essence of hadiths and early records, ignoring the shell and taking only the nut.” He accomplished this objective by providing only brief quotes from each hadith and abbreviations for its sources. He was expressly writing for students rather than fully formed experts. He arranged the work alphabetically by the first word of the quotation, listing Muhammad's supposed manahi (thou shalt nots) under the letter nūn for the verb naha (to forbid). Al-Suyuti is known for his prodigious memory, which assisted him in his specialized work on hundreds of thousands of hadiths, some 11,000 of which are included here. Brilliant, combative, controversial, and self-assured as he was, Al-Suyuti aroused hostility on the part of his scholarly competitors, which ultimately drove him from public life. He spent the last decades of his life in seclusion at Rawdah, an island in the Nile at Cairo, where he continued to work on his books and carried out an influential correspondence. Although best known for his works on hadith and other Islamic subjects, he also wrote on the natural sciences, medicine, and the Arabic language.Physical description: 380 items
Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 260 x 160 mm leaf [190 x 115 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 33 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cmScript:
Nasta‘līqInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in redDecoration: Illuminated frontispiece (f. 1r), text frame with illuminated
basmallah(f. 1v)Binding: British Museum half-leather bindingCondition: F. 1 mutilated, tide marks at head and tail, brown stain at head of f. 150 affecting surrounding foliosMarginalia: Notes by many handsSeals: Ff. 1r, 1v and 286v
ملخص: مجلد مُجمّع يضم مخطوطتين عن الأدوية.المحتويات:(١) إسفراييني، محمد - تقويم العدوية (صص. ١و-١٣٥ظ)؛
(2) تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي - دراسة عن الأدوية (صص. ١٣٦و-٢٣٧ظ).ملخص: Composite volume containing two manuscripts on drugs.Contents:(1) Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad (إسفراييني، محمد),
Taqwīm al-adwīyah(تقويم العدوية; ff. 1r-135v);(2) Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī (تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي), Treatise on drugs (ff. 136r-237v).الوصف المادي: المادة: ١و-١٣٥ظ: ورق مسلّك شرقي؛ ١٣٦و-٢٣٧ظ: ورق غربي مسلَّكالأبعاد: حجم الورقة ٢٧٥ × ١٥٥ مم [١و-١٣٥ظ: مساحة الكتابة ١٧٠ × ٨٥ مم (أوراق غير مُجَدْوَلة)، ١٣٦و-٢٣٧ظ: مساحة الكتابة ١٦٥ × ٩٠ مم]ترقيم الأوراق: ترقيم المتحف البريطاني بالقلم الرصاصالتسطير: ١و-١٣٥ظ: لا يوجد تسطير واضح، ١٤ سطرًا في كل صفحة، مسافة تباعد عمودية ٩ أسطر لكل ١٠ سم؛ ١٣٦و-٢٣٧ظ (أوراق غير مُجَدْوَلة):
مسطرة، ١٩ سطرًا في كل صفحة، مسافة تباعد عمودية ١٢ سطرًا لكل ١٠ سمالخط: ١و-١٣٥ظ:
نستعليق؛ الناسخ هو ابن عبد الله أبو الحسن الشيرازي (انظر حرد المتن، ص. ١٣٤و، السطران ٨-٩)؛ ١٣٦و-٢٣٧ظ:
نستعليقالحبر: حبر أسود، مع تحمير العناوين والخطوط الأفقية أعلى النصالزخرفة: ١و-١٣٥ظ: صفحتان متواجهتان مزخرفتان (صص. ٣ظ-٤و) مع رسم مزخرف باللونين الأزرق والذهبي مع تصميم على شكل ورود وتشجير بالأحمر والأصفر والأخضر والأبيض، وأشكال الورود والتشجير باللون الذهبي والأزرق والأخضر والأحمر في الهوامش وما بين أسطر النص؛ الأوراق التي تليها مؤطرة باللونين الأزرق والذهبي؛ ١٣٦و-٢٣٧ظ: كافة الأوراق مؤطرة باللون الأزرق والأحمر والذهبيالتجليد: تجليد المتحف البريطاني من قماش البقرم الأحمر؛ غلافان جلديان للتجليد السابق من الجلد الأحمر مع جامة متعددة الألوان وأذيال جامات مُلصقان على جانب اللوحين الحاليين الأيمن والأيسرالحالة: بقع مائية طفيفة على زوايا الحافة السفلى باتجاه بداية المجلد ونهايته؛ زوايا الحافة السفلى في صص. ١٣٤، ١٣٥ مقطوعة وتم إصلاحهاالحاشية: قليلة جدًاالأختام: ٣و، ٤٠و، ١٣٤و، ١٣٥والوصف المادي: Material: 1r-135v: Eastern laid paper; 136r-237v: Western laid paperDimensions: 275 x 155 mm leaf [1r-135v: 170 x 85 mm written (untabulated folios), 136r-237v: 165 x 90 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling: 1r-135v: no ruling visible, 14 lines per page, vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm; 136r-237v (untabulated folios):
Misṭarah, 19 lines per page, vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cmScript: 1r-135v:
Nasta‘līq; the scribe is Ibn ‘Abd Allāh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shīrāzī (ابن عبد الله أبو الحسن الشيرازي, see colophon, f. 134r, lines 8-9); 136r-237v:
Nasta‘līqInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in redDecoration: 1r-135v: illuminated opening (ff. 3v-4r) with head piece in blue and gold with floral and foliate design in red, yellow, green and white, floral and foliate pattern in gold, blue green and red in margins and between lines of text; subsequent folia framed in blue and gold; 136r-237v: all folia framed in blue, red, and goldBinding: British Museum red buckram binding; leather covers of previous binding of red leather with multicoloured medallion and pendants pasted to inside current right and left boardsCondition: Minor tidemarks to lower edge corners towards front and back of volume; lower edge corners of ff. 134 and 135 mutilated and repairedMarginalia: Very fewSeals: 3r, 40r, 134r, 135r
Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 227 x 130 mm leaf [135 x 67 mm written]Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink; India Office Library foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and side heads and overlinings in redDecoration: NoneBinding: India Office Library half-leather binding, with marbled paper on external face of boardsCondition: Tidemarks at head throughout, worse and also at tail towards back of volume; insect damage throughout, especially in edge margin, repaired in places, worse towards back of volume with some loss of textMarginalia: Numerous throughout by at least two handsSeals: ff. 1r and 269v
Abstract: Collection of several treatises on medicine, translated into Arabic by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. The ms. contains two main parts: the first text which is a later addition and texts 2-10, all written by the same hand. There seems to be two parts in this last section, the first called "al-Jawāmiʻ" (texts 2-6, see colophon, fol. 244b) and the last four texts.Binding note: Dark brown leather over pasteboards. Upper and lower covers have a simple outer frame made of single fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-40a: Kitāb Jālīnūs al-maʻrūf bi-al-Ṣināʻah al-ṣaghīrah / Galen.Contents: 2. fol. 41a-58b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-buḥrān / Galen.Contents: 3. fol. 59b-68a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-buḥrān / Galen.Contents: 4. fol. 69b-83a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayāt / Galen.Contents: 5. fol. 83b-84a: Blank.Contents: 6. fol. 84b-197b: Jumal min jawāmiʻ Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-ḥīlat lil-burʼ / Galen.Contents: 7. fol. 198a: Blank.Contents: 8. fol. 198b-244b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī tadbīr al-aṣiḥḥā / Galen.Contents: 9. fol. 245a-262a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī firaq al-ṭibb / Galen.Contents: 10. fol. 262b-263a: Blank.Contents: 11. fol. 263b-278b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-nabḍ ilá Ṭūtharun lil-mutaʻallimīn / Galen.Contents: 12. fol. 279a-281a: Blank.Contents: 13. fol. 281b-342b: Kitāb Jālīnūs ilá Aghlūqun fī shifāʼ al-amrāḍ / Galen.Contents: 14. fol. 343a: Blank.Contents: 15. fol. 343b-377b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Usṭuqusāt ʻalá raʼy Buqrāṭ / Galen.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the lower edge of the text block.21 lines per page. The first text is written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for the headings on European glazed paper with watermark. From text 2 on: written in careful and professional vocalized medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) on light cream glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible ; frame-ruled. Marginal notes (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, copied by the same hand, see fol. 42b, 53a). Smaller leaves are inserted between the ms. leaves, with inscriptions by the same hand as the main text (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, see between fol. 51 and 52; 112-113; 211-212). On fol. 1a: Obliterated seal. On fol. 41a (i.e., fol. 1a of the original ms.): Table of contents; several ownership statements, one dated 623 H., one dated 8 Muharram 902 H. in Dār al-Islām Qusṭanṭinīyah; one signed Kamāl al-Dīn al-mutaṭabbib al-Mūsawī. On fol. 377a: Seal with waqf inscription signed Dāmādzādah Fayḍ Allāh Afandī, dated 1174 H. On fol. 377b: Ownership statements. The quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in the form "7 min 3" (often cut off due to the trimming of the leaves, but still visible on some quires, see fol. 96a, 126a, 136a, 146a, 156a). Signs in the upper corner and lower corner of the opposite leaf marking the middle of the quire (see fol. 130-131; 220-221). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied by ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī in 572 H. (colophon of text 6, fol. 244b), except the first text, copied for Dāmādzādah by Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḥasanī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tūqātī in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1138 H. (colophon, fol. 40a).
Abstract: This volume contains copies of two works by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī: Aghdhīyat al-marḍā (Nourishment for the ailing) and Aghdhīyat al-aṣiḥḥa’ (Nourishment for the healthy). Al-Samarqandī was a Persian scientist who lost his life during the cataclysmic Mongol invasions of the early 13th century. He appears to have died during the siege of Herat in 1222. He was a famous physician and the author of many medical texts. Nothing more is known of his life. The frontispiece of each of the books in the volume is illuminated with a scroll and vine design and a medallion in which the name of the author and the title of the book appear. The pages of both books consist generally of 25 lines of text, set in a rectangular border. The copyist has signed his name as ‘Abd al-‘Alī al-Kātib al-Shirāzī. The copying of the first work was completed on April 12, 1601. Both works contain numerous explanatory notes and marginalia in Arabic, as well as some in Persian. There are also notes recording the purchase of the book by previous owners and an elaborate but effaced seal.Physical description: 24 x 13.5 centimeters
Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 210 x 140 mm leaf [152 x 95 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire signatures in black ink are occsionally visibleRuling:
Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: Black, with illustrations in red, yellow and blackBinding: Morocco leather Islamic binding, without flap; blind tooled medallion, pendants and borderCondition: Minor insect damage, some grime, minor repairs to f. 1Marginalia: Very few
Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 186 x 106 mm leaf [135 x 80 mm written]Foliation: Eastern Arabic pagination in black ink; British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: BlackDecoration: NoneBinding: British Museum half-leather bindingCondition: All folios guarded; minor tidemarks at head;ff. 2-9 and 103-128 mutilated and repaired with minor loss of textMarginalia: Few by multiple hands (see e.g. ff. 49v-50r)Seals: F. 2r
Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 174 x 124 mm leaf [130 x 94 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 4v-27v);Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm (ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r);No ruling visible; average 18 lines per page; 16 lines per 10 cm (ff. 105v-108v)Script: NaskhInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over lining in redBinding: British Museum binding in brown leatherCondition: minor waterstains, some foxing and light grime from thumbing, some folios torn and repaired (e.g. ff. 10, 11 and 68)Marginalia: Occasional marginal annotations and corrections
Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 253 x 160 mm leaf [175 x 115 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire numeration (quinions) visible towards gutter margin (beginning on f. 10r); quire signatures visible in upper edge corners of some foliaRuling:
Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: Brown iron-gall ink, with some rubricated division numbers and overlinings in red especially towards back of volumeDecoration: NoneBinding: British Museum half-leather bindingCondition: Edge margins of ff. 1-8 mutilated and repaired; water damage obscures the text in some places (e.g. ff. 113-116 and 179-188); f. 190 is a replacementMarginalia: Numerous by many handsSeals: f. 1r