[Miscellaneous Arabic texts].

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1786-1855]
Description
227 leaves, bound : paper ; 227 x 185 mm. bound to 227 x 188 mm.

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    Contains 44 short texts, including poems, religious treatises, legal texts, and medical tracts. It appears that the manuscripts were collected and bound in the region of Azerbaijan by a Muslim scholar for his own use. Description from dealer.
    Notes
    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Physical description: Written in naskhī and ruqʻah scripts by a variety of hands on white glossy paper. Marginal and interlinear notes; rubrication in green and orange.
    Binding note
    Mid-19th cent. full brown morocco with a flap in the Islamic bookbinding tradition. Both covers are embossed with central medallion; edges rubbed.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1b-26a: al-Sabʻīyāt fī mawāʻiẓ al-barīyāt / ʻAyn al-Quḍāh al-Hamadhānī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad (d. 1131). Dated 1257 AH (1842 AD).
    • 2. fol. 26b-28a: [A poem on the virtues of asceticism].
    • 3. fol. 28b-31b: Jawharat al-tawḥīd / Laqānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm (d. 1631 or 2).
    • 4. fol. 32a-34a: Waṣīyat al-Ṣarṣarī / Ṣarṣarī, Yaḥyá ibn Yūsuf (d. 1258). Dated 1257 AH (1842 AD).
    • 5. fol. 34b-35a: Manẓūmah fī al-kabāʼir / Mizzī, Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (1256-1341). Dated 1259 AH (1844 AD).
    • 6. fol. 35a-36a: [Risālah fī īmān abaway al-Nabī]. Dated 1259 AH (1844 AD).
    • 7. fol. 37a-64a: Takhmīs al-Burdah / Fayyūmī, Nāṣir al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad. Dated 1248 AH (1832 AD).
    • 8. fol. 65b-69a: Farḍ ʻayn.
    • 9. fol. 69b-70a: Mukhtaṣar fīmā dhukira ʻan al-Khiḍr wa-Dhī al-Qarnayn ʻalayhimā al-salām wa-mā fassarū fī al-ikhtilāj jamīʻ al-aʻḍāʼ.
    • 10. fol. 70b-71a: Mukhtaṣar taʻbīr al-ruʼá.
    • 11. fol. 71b-72b: [A section on the geneology of prophets from Bustān al-ʻārifīn] / Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad (d. 983?).
    • 12. fol. 73a-74b: [Notes on the medical disadvantage of drinking while standing].
    • 13. fol. 75a-80a: Hādhā taʼlīf ... Saʻīd fī arkān wa-shurūṭ wa-ādāb al-wuḍūʼ wa-lā budda minhu li-ṭālib al-ākhirah / Saʻīd.
    • 14. fol. 80a-83b: Risālah fī sunan al-ṣalāh / ʻAlījī al-Qulhānī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm.
    • 15. fol. 84a-95a: al-Najāt fī taḥrīr al-makhārij wa-al-ṣifāt wa-inqādh al-nafs ʻan ifsād al-ṣalawāt al-khams. Dated 1229 AH (1814 AD).
    • 16. fol. 95b: al-Wāḍiḥah fī tajwīd al-Fātiḥah / Jaʻbarī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar (1242 or 3-1331 or 2).
    • 17. fol. 96a-97a: [A Sufi supplication in poetic form] / Yarāʻī, Mullá Muḥammad.
    • 18. fol. 97a-97b: [An explanation of the fate of those who hoard gold and silver].
    • 19. fol. 98a-104a: Hādhihi Risālah fī iṣṭilaḥāt al-mutaʼakhkhirīn wa-fī jawāz al-taqlīd wa-sharāʼiṭihi musammāh bi-al-Tadhkirah li-Muḥammad al-ʻAlījī qad jamaʻahā fī al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah fī sanat 1194 / ʻAlījī al-Qulhānī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm.
    • 20. fol. 104b-112b: [A poem on inheritance].
    • 21. fol. 113a: Ḥikāyah. A story about greed.
    • 22. fol. 113b-115b: [A poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad].
    • 23. fol. 116a: Jadwal manāzil al-rūḥ fī al-badan.
    • 24. fol. 116b-118a: [Quotations from various books of jurisprudence].
    • 25. fol. 118b-122b: al-Mawḍūʻāt / Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad (1181-1252).
    • 26. fol. 123a-123b: [Quotations regarding theoretical questions].
    • 27. fol. 124a-155b: Aṭbāq al-dhahab / Iṣfahānī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Hibat Allāh (d. 1203 or 4). Dated 1202 AH (1788 AD).
    • 28. fol. 155b-156a: al-Durar wa-al-ghurar. An alphabetical list of 100 proverbs. Dated 1202 AH (1788 AD).
    • 29. fol. 156a-156b: [An extract on lawful food, drinks, and tobacco from Sharḥ Jawharat al-tawḥīd] / Saḥīmī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī (d. 1765).
    • 30. fol. 157a-161b: [A treatise of advice and admonition].
    • 31. fol. 161b-162a: Arbaʻūn ḥadīth / Qārī al-Harawī, ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad (d. 1605 or 6).
    • 32. fol. 163b-167b: [A collection of quotations and commentaries, including a description of hell from Tanbīh al-Ghāfilīn by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī (d. 983?)].
    • 33. fol. 168a-194a: Risālah bi-jalāʼ al-qulūb / Birgivî Mehmet Efendi (ca. 1522-1573).
    • 34. fol. 194b-196b: Iʻlām al-tilmīdh bi-aḥkām al-nabīdh / ʻAymakī, Abū Bakr ibn Muʻāwiyah.
    • 35. fol. 197b-201b: Tanbīh al-ṭālib ʻan taḍyīʻ ʻumrihi al-ghālib. A short treatise on tajwīd.
    • 36. fol. 201b-203b: [A collection of quotations and commentaries, including an elaborate description of heaven].
    • 37. fol. 204a-205a: [Selections from al-Rawḍ al-nāḍir bi-Sharḥ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr] / Munāwī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Tāj al-ʻĀrifīn (d. 1621).
    • 38. fol. 205a-205b: [A poem on the virtues of Prophet Muhammad, composed in 1199 AH (1785 AD)].
    • 39. fol. 205b-207a: [A collection of quotations and commentaries, including the story of ahl al-kahf].
    • 40. fol. 207b-211b: Kanz al-akhbār.
    • 41. fol. 211b-213b: [Section 3 on protecting the body from disease from Kitāb al-Rasmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah].
    • 42. fol. 213b-214b: [A collection of medical remedies].
    • 43. fol. 215b-217a: [A collection of quotations and commentaries, including a poem written in 1239 AH (1823 AD) by Muḥammad al-Jankūʼī].
    • 44. fol. 217b-227b: [Same as no. 34 above, with slight differences]. Dated 1200 AH (1786 AD).
    Source acquisition
    Purchase; Worldwide Antiquarian, 2003/4/8 2003-109.
    Other title(s)
    • Risālah fī īmān abaway al-Nabī.
    • رسالة في ايمان ابوي النبي.
    • Farḍ ʻayn.
    • فرض عين.
    • Mukhtaṣar fīmā dhukira ʻan al-Khiḍr wa-Dhī al-Qarnayn.
    • مختصر فيما ذكر عن الخضر وذي القرنين.
    • Mukhtaṣar taʻbīr al-ruʼá.
    • مختصر تعبير الرؤى.
    • Najāt fī taḥrīr al-makhārij wa-al-ṣifāt wa-inqādh al-nafs ʻan ifsād al-ṣalawāt al-khams.
    • نجات في تحرير المخارج والصفات وانقاذ النفس عن افساد الصلوات الخمس.
    • Jadwal manāzil al-rūḥ fī al-badan.
    • جدول منازل الروح في البدن.
    • Durar wa-al-ghurar.
    • درر والغرر.
    • Tanbīh al-ṭālib ʻan taḍyīʻ ʻumrihi al-ghālib.
    • تنبىه الطالب عن تضىىع عمره الغالب.
    • Kanz al-akhbār.
    • كنز الاخبار.
    • Rasmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah.
    • رسمة في الطب والحكمة.
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    449886103
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