"Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 993 April 1585apparently from author's copy."'From the books of Abd ʻal-Salām al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī al-Atharī16 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1279 December 81862.'Foliated 176-182; paginated 1-12, both in Arabic numerals.With: Sharḥ al-Asmāʼ al-Ḥusná.MS Arab 337. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Title from f. 1r.According to the colophon (f. 10v), copy completed on 5 Rabīʻ al-awwal 990 AH March 22, 1582 AD in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Abūṣīrī al-Azharī.Unbound.Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.Cream laid paper. 18 x 13 cm. (13 x 9 cm.).MS Arab 252. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Abstract: Al-Khawāṭir al-ḥisān fī al-ma‘ānī wa-al-bayān (Excellence in the rhetorical arts) is an introduction for students to the elements of Arabic composition. The work emphasizes the correct choice of words and the importance of the sentence as the basic building block of written composition and formal speech. The author, Jabr Dumit (1858−1930), was a teacher at the Syrian Evangelical College in Beirut. In this primer of grammar and usage he introduces students to the various kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, and so forth), giving examples of grammatical construction and pointing out pitfalls, such as confusion over use of pronouns and their antecedents. He moves from simple prescription to the handling of more complex conditional sentences and embellishments. The work no doubt was intended for use at the mission schools in the Levant. This printing at Al-Hilal Press in Egypt indicates that it was adopted more widely in the region. Dumit was born in Safita (in present-day Syria, near the border with Lebanon). He was educated at American missionary schools and spent much of his teaching life at the schools in Beirut. In 1882 he travelled to Egypt, where he was employed first at the newspaper Al-Mahrusah (The protected one [i.e. Cairo]) and later as a translator with the British armed force sent to the Sudan in 1884−85. He returned to Lebanon, where he died in 1930. Dumit dedicated the book to the memory of American missionary Mrs. Samuel Jessop, whose home he frequented as a child.Physical description: 1276 pages ; 24 centimeters
Copy completed on 20 Shaʻbān 772 AH March 9, 1371 AD in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd in Khanqāh al-Amīr Shaykhū.Ownership statement: Muṣṭafá ibn ... erased ..s.khī Afandī, al-Mudarris bi-Madrasat Khiḍr Chalabī bi-Qusṭanṭīnīyah.MS Arab 298. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in one column, from 6 to 23 lines per page, in black and red.According to the colophon (f. 46v), copy completed in 1093 AH 1682 AD.On inside front cover, ownership statement in Latin signed Ludovicus Fredericus Salomon dated 1683. And on inside back cover, seal of Buchhandlung und Antiquariat Th. Stauffer, Leipzig.With: al-Qaṣīdah al-MunfarijahIbn al-Naḥwī (with interlinear Turkish translation) (ff. 47v-49v) -- Taʻallam yā fatá fa-al-jahl ʻār (with interlinear Turkish translation) (ff. 50v-61v) -- al-Burdahal-Būṣīrī (ff. 62v-72v) -- Risālah li-abyāt al-Kāfiyah (ff. 73v-75r) -- Risālah ḥāllah li-abyāt Sharḥ dībājat al-Miṣbāḥ (ff. 75v-76v) -- Sharḥ li-abyāt al-Miṣbāḥ (ff. 77r-78v) -- Sharḥ abyāt Marāḥ al-arwāḥ (ff. 79r-80v) -- Badʼ al-amālīal-Ūshī (ff. 80v-82v).MS Arab SM332. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic; two poems with interlinear Turkish translations.
Title from f. 1v.According to the colophon (f. 7v), copy completed on 22 Muḥarram 1269 AH November 5, 1852 AD in the hand of Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad al-ʻUrḍī al-Ḥalabī, most probably in Damascus. "Manāsik sharīfah" completed by the same copyist on 25 Muḥarram 1269 AH November 8, 1852 AD.Written in one column, from 20 to 21 lines per pages, in black rubricated in red.Unbound.With: Beginning of a text by Khālid ibn Aḥmad al-Shahrazūrī al-Naqshbandī al-Mujaddidī on the theological question of kasb (ff. 4v-5r) ; Manāsik sharīfahjamʻ al-Mawlá al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻUmar al-Ghazzī (ff. 5v-7v).MS Arab 151. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic
Title from f. 1r.Written in a naskh hand, 29 lines per page, in one column. The text of al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah is in red, commentary in black ink.Cream laid paper with watermarks. 21.5 x 16.3 cm. (18.2 x 10.2 cm.).Cloth binding with flap. Red leather over spine and fore-edge flap.According to the colophon (f.11v), copy completed on 10 Jumādā al-ūlá 1266 AH March 24, 1850 AD in the hand of Muḥammad Anīs ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ṭālawānī (?).Probably copied in Egypt.From the books of Muḥammad Anīs ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ṭālawī (?) (ownership statement and seal on f. 1r).MS Arab 89. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.