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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialIntermediate commentary on Aristotle's Physics Sephardic semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [ביאור אמצעי על ספר מה שאחר הטבע של אריסטו] Fragment from Treatise 4 of the Intermediate commentary on Aristotle's Physics by Averroes, in the translation by Kalonymos b. Kalonymos. Incomplete. Cf. M. Steinschneider, Hebr. Uebersetzungen, pp. 160-161. This fragment is part of the same manuscript as MS New York, JTS 2303 that includes Treatises 5-10 of...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic verses (107-9, 110-112) Quranic Pages in Thuluth (headings) and Masahif (verses) scripts. Recto: Dimensions of Written Surface: 21.4 (w) x 28.9 (h) cm. Verso: Dimensions of Written Surface: 21.5 (w) x 29.3 (h) cm. The calligraphy used for the verses is masahif, a cursive script that is a smaller and less stiff version than muhaqqaq. Its name, which means "codices"or "volumes," reflects its common use for copying...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSa'di,"The Chinese Girl and the Slave" Story 40 from Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden), "The Chinese Girl and the Slave" written in black nasta'liq script during the Timurid and Safavid periods in Persia (Iran), i.e., during the 15th and 16th centuries. Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: 10.4 (w) x 19.5 (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: Verso: 10.5 (w) x 19.8 (h) cm The text is written in...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb Ikhtiyār sharḥ al-Mukhtār
كتاب اختيار شرح المختار / | Ikhtiyār sharḥ al-Mukhtār Commentary on Mawṣiliʾs own work titled al-Mukhtār. This manuscript copy is a commentary on al-Mukhtār lil-fatwá (The chosen one in edicts), one of four authoritative works in Hanafi Islamic jurisprudence. Both the original work and the commentary are by ʻAbd Allah ibn Mahmud al-Mawsili (1202 or 1203-84), also known as al-Buldahi or Ibn Mawdud. A one-page introductory note traces his teachers from Mawsil (Mosul,...- Contributor: Mawṣilī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Maḥmūd
- Date: 1400
- Resource: - 496 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMas̲navī maʻnavī
مثنوي معنوي Masnavi-e Manawi (Spiritual rhyming couplets) is the famous poetic collection of the medieval ecstatic mystic scholar and Sufi, Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207-73), known in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran as Mowlana or Mawlānā Jalaluddin Balkhi and in the West as Rumi. This Persian manuscript in nastaliq script is a complete 15th century copy of Masnavi, with all six volumes. Narratives, homilies, and commentaries...- Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī
- Date: 1441
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialEnd of a maqama on wine Oriental (Near Eastern) semi-cursive script in black and red ink. Description based on finding aid [מקאמה] End of a whimsical maqama on wine (ff. 1r-5v). The participants in the maqama are wine, another beverage, a goblet, bowls, a pitcher and meat. On ff. 5v-6r there is another poem or piyyut by the same anonymous author headed וקאל איצא and beginning אלהי העלה זכרי לטובה...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDiwan (portions of) Heavily wormed. Deinard 1914. MWW Formerly Or. Hebr. 16. Sephardic current semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [דיואן שלמה בן משולם דאפיירה] Part of the Diwan of Solomon b. Meshullam Dapiera. Includes poems and letters by and to the author. Beginning and end missing. A later hand added a heading on f. 1r: חלק שלישי. Appears to include portions not yet published anywhere....- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDie ghetide van Onser Lieuer Vrouwen Ms. Written in the Netherlands. In Dutch. Former owners: Cornelia Theresa van Langhe?; Hermann and Clara Collitz. Bequest of Clara H. Collitz, 1947. For detailed description see Medieval and renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, by Svato Schutzner. Library of Congress. Medieval and renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, 63 De Ricci, p. 857, no. 4- Contributor: Catholic Church
- Date: 1400
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic verses Quranic page in the Muhaqqaq script in the "Baysunghur" style, made either in Herat or Samarqand ca. 1400 A.D. [How will God guide those who reject faith] after they accepted it and bore witness that the Messenger was true? (3:86) Dimensions of Written Surface: 20.7 (h) x 36.2 (w) cm In its simplicity and grandeur, it recalls the famous "Baysunghur" Qur'an made either in...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic Verses Qur'anic verses 190-191 of the 3rd chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat Al 'Imran (The Family of 'Imran), written in the Muhaqqaq script, during 15th cent. Central Asia. Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth and alternation of night and day, there are indeed signs for men of understanding. (3:190). Dimensions of Written Surface: 35 (w) x 16 (h) cm The...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSa'di's "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden) Shirazi style Safavid Persian illuminated manuscript in Nasta'liq. At the very bottom of the text frame appears a barely legible square seal impression. Some of the decipherable words in the impression include hamid ("the praised"), 'azim ("the great"), and 'abduhu ("his servant"). Dimensions of Written Surface: 9.4 (w) x 7.3 (h) cm Reader! For him who wrote this book, ask grace; / And let...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic verses (9:33-36) Qur'anic verses in the Masahif style of Arabic calligraphic writing. In the upper left corner of the folio appears a section (hizb) marker, consisting of gold and blue concentric circles, blue finials on its perimeter, and the word hizb written in its center (see Selim 1979, 155). The ayah marker that appears in the center of the uppermost line consists of a flower with...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLibro de arte coquinaria
Libro de arte coqvinaria Ms. codex. Italian. Title from caption, leaf 2. The 64 textual leaves are preceded by one blank leaf and followed by 18 blank leaves. Manuscript recipe on rear pastedown in a different hand. Foliated in pencil in a modern hand. Written in a humanistic hand in two tones of brown ink; 31 lines; vertical catchwords; scribal practice on the verso of leaf 83. The...- Contributor: Maestro Martino - Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection (Library of Congress) - Vehling, Joseph Dommers - Bitting, A. W. (Arvill Wayne) - Bitting, K. G. (Katherine Golden)
- Date: 1460
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLarbre des batailles : autreme[n]t dit Larbre de douleur
Arbre de douleur | Larbre de douleur Differs from other mss. in having only 17 chapters in book 2 and 137 in book 4; numerous variant readings. Ms. One large col. ill. on leaf 7a; coat of arms on leaf 1a; decorative frames on leaves 1a, 7a; illuminated initials; rubricated. Prefatory text (leaf 1a) begins: Ce liure est deuise en quatre parties ... Text of the work begins (leaf 7a): La...- Contributor: Bonet, Honoré
- Date: 1400
- Resource: - 234 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Book of hours : fragments] Ms. Written in France. Most sections of the text are incomplete. In Latin. Modern binding has spine title: Psalterium. Library of Congress. Medieval and renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, 47 Gift of Mrs. Carley Dawson, 1967.- Contributor: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection (Library of Congress) - Catholic Church
- Date: 1400
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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Juzʼ al-thālith ʻashar min al-rubʻah al-sharīfah
الجزو الثالث عشر من الربعة الشريفة This manuscript preserves the 13th juz' (section) of the Qur'an, which starts at ayah (verse) 53 of Surat Yusuf (Joseph, chapter 12). The section also includes all of Surat al-Raʻd (The thunder, chapter 13), and ends at verse 52 of Surat Ibrahim (Abraham, chapter 14). The story of Joseph is the longest single story in the Qur'an. It shares the general outline of that...- Date: 14??
- Resource: - 40 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Bible in Latin]
Byname: Biblia latina | Text begins, vol. 1: Incipit epistola beati Iheronimi presbiteri ad Paulinu[m] de omnibus diuine historie libris Capl'm primum | Text begins, vol. 2: Incipit Prefacio b[ea]ti Iheronimi presbiteri In libro ysaie prophete Ms. codexes. Latin. Title and description taken from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 1, p. 41-61, by Svato Schutzner. Very regular littera textualis formata, one hand throughout. Ink black to grayish black. Two columns, 60 lines. Decoration: initials, mostly unfinished, and some borders. Several historiated initials ... probably by more than...- Contributor: Mainzer Dom - Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius) - Bernhard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1452
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKunnāsh al-Manṣūrī
كناش المنصوري | Binder's title: Maqālāt al-Manṣūrī Text is a well-known medical encyclopedia in 10 chapters, covering diseases of various organs and their treatment as well as a description of anatomy and physiology. This manuscript preserves one of the most famous medieval Arabic medical treatises, the Kitab al-Mansouri fi al-Tibb (The book on medicine dedicated to al-Mansur), which was composed by the well-known Persian physician, natural scientist, philosopher, and alchemist Abu...- Contributor: Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā
- Date: 14??
- Resource: - 346 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBihari Qur'an Interlinear Qur'an, Arabic with Persian interpretation. Most Qur'ans written in bihari script make us of strong orange or red and blue colors for illuminated motifs, as well as for the main body of the text. This particular fragment repeats lines of script in the following manner: one line of gold, two lines of black, one line of blue, two lines of black, one line...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDivan of Sultan Husayn Mirza Sultan Bayqara, ruler of Khurasan, based in Herat. A découpage work in the Chagatai Turkish or (chg (jag) language. Although the technique of découpage emerges during the second half of the 15th century, it became a popular tool for the making of Ottoman kalips (calligraphic perforated sheets) during the 16th-18th centuries (Safwat 1996: 142-43 and 194). Other extractive calligraphic techniques also include painting a...- Contributor: Sultan 'Ali Al-Mashhadi
- Date: 1492
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Benedictine rule for nuns in Middle English ; a Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus ; an anonymous Middle English exposition of the Apostles' Creed.] Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by Svato Schutzner. Three scribes: scribes 1 and 2 use an old-fashioned vertical Gothic; scribe 3 uses a small anglicana currens with thorn. Decoration (on fol. 1-63 only): blue display-type letters, blue...- Contributor: Benedict - Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1400
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb-i Rūmī al-Mawlawī
كتاب رومي المولوي Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Copied by ʻAlī ibn Ḥaydar al-Qāsimī. Probably written in Turkey. Paper; thin cream color lightly polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and first 3 leaves with decordations in blue and gold; text in 3 columns with text of Masnavi in 2 columns and a commentary written diagonally in the third; text enclosed in narrow ruled...- Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī - ʻalī Ibn Ḥaydar Al-Qāsimī
- Date: 1498
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialṢuwar al-kawākib
صور الكواكب | سور الكواكب Text is an excellent authority on Arabic names for the stars and constellations; includes depictions of celestial constellations. Persian note before beginning of text claims that this book written in 820 H [1417], but the note probably dates from the 18th century when the book was rebound. The astronomer 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Umar al-Sufi, commonly known as al-Sufi, was born in Persia (present-day Iran)...- Contributor: Ṣūfī, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn ʻumar
- Date: 1417
- Resource: - 374 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic verses (44:56-59, 45:1-4) Qur'anic verses in the Masahif style of Arabic calligraphic writing. Below the chapter heading in gold executed in pseudo-eastern Kufi script, a cursive transcription of the same heading is written in blue thuluth. It states that the chapter consists of thirty-seven ayat and was revealed in Mecca. The blue transcription was probably added at a later date to clarify the rather illegible surah heading,...- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic verses Qur'anic verses writen in Thuluth (headings) and Masahif (verses) from Mamluk era Egypt, 14th-15th centuries. At the top of the fragment appears the text, though not the chapter heading, of the 101st chapter entitled al-Qari'ah (The Calamity). This particular surah describes the Day of Judgment, when men's deeds will be weighed to determine whether they will dwell in an abode of pleasure (Heaven) or...- Date: 14??
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