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    [Qurʼān] Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān....
    • Date: 1695
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    al-Sifr al-thālith min al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ al-mukhtaṣar min umū...
    السفر الثالث من الجامع الصحيح المختصر من امور رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وسبفه واقامه تاليف الامام ابي عبد الله محمد بن اسماعيل البخاري رحمه الله تتلوه في السفر الرابع تفسير القرءان | Title in ʻunwan folio 1b: Kitāb badʾ al-khalq     Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari (810-70) was born in Bukhara, in present-day Uzbekistan, and died in Khartank, near Samarkand. He is considered by Sunni Muslims to be the most authoritative collector of hadiths--reports of statements or deeds attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. This work, completed in 846, is al-Bukhari's best-known collection. It was the first work of its kind exclusively dedicated to hadiths, and is...
    • Contributor: Bukhārī, Muḥammad Ibn Ismāʻīl
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 406 pages
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    Tuḥfat al-salāt
    تحفة الصلوات | Kitāb tuḥfat al-ṣalāt     Treatise in eight chapters on ritual prayer.
    • Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
    • Date: 16??
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    Kitāb-i Majālis al-muʼminīn
    کتاب مجالس المؤمنين     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Ibn Murād al-Ḥusaynī Muḥammad Zamān. Probably written in Iran. Paper; unpolished, slightly yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, light blue, red and dark blue; title in red in gold cartouche; text on fol. 1b-2a has interlinear gold design; text enclosed in ruled border...
    • Contributor: Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh Ibn ʻabd Allāh
    • Date: 1658
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    Durrat al-tāj
    درة التاج     Shiite prayer book; consists of prayers to be said on the visitation of Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib's tomb. This manuscript of Durrat al-tāj (The crown jewel) is a Shiite prayer book, consisting of prayers to be said when making a visitation to the tomb of Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (circa 601-61). 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib is one of the most revered religious...
    • Contributor: Ibn Rustam Khān Ṣafī Qulī
    • Date: 16??
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    Az̲ān-i ṣuḥb
    اذان صبح     Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of A.A. Kachif, Nov. 20, 1930. Written in Iran. Paper; thick, polished light cream color paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue, red, and white with wide borders of a similar floral pattern and similar colors of fol. 1b and 2a; an outer border of two very thin lines accompanies all...
    • Date: 16??
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    Zubūr Āl Muḥammad
    زبور آل محمد | Zubūr Ahl al-Bayt | Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah | Zābūr Āl Muḥammad, 1064 A.H., Ad'iyah wa-mawāiẓ | Also known as: Zubūr Ahl al-Bayt | Also known as: Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah | Title on container: Zābūr Āl Muḥammad, 1064 A.H., Ad'iyah wa-mawāiẓ     Collection of doxologies and prayers, ascribed to ʻAlī or to his grandson Zayn al-ʻĀbidin ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn
    • Contributor: Zayn Al-ʻābidīn ʻalī Ibn Al-Ḥusayn - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
    • Date: 1654
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    ʼPhags pa bskal pa bzaṅ po pa źes bya ba theg pa chen poʼi mdo 17th century manuscript; written on both sides of leaves of composite Tibetan paper completely died blue and subsequently over-painted black and varnished on a central panel, written in gold ink in 7 lines per page with the opening pages containing respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 lines of script in graded sizes. With 22 fully painted miniatures and more than 600 roundels...
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    [Five illuminated leaves from an Armenian Gospels book with s... Ink: black, red, green, blue, purple-red. Manuscript illuminations and texts. Vellum.
    • Date: 16??
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    [Armenian Lectionary fragments] Ink: black, blue, red. Manuscript texts. Paper. In Armenian. Near East scanned
    • Date: 16??
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    al-Mujallad al-avval min kalām Mīr Khvand ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
    المجلد الاول من كلام مير خوند عليه الرحمة     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in India. Paper; thin, polished laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; both sections have almost identical carpet pages with floral unwan in gold, blue, reddish orange and white, with titles in white in gold cartouche, carpet pages have elaborate floral design in margins; text enclosed in a ruled...
    • Contributor: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad Ibn Khāvandshāh
    • Date: 1625
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    Pādishāhnāmah.
    پادشاهنامه     Contains a biography of Shāhjahān from his birth through the first 10 years of his reign by Qazvīnī. This work is followed by the second and third parts of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh's ʻAmāl-i Ṣāliḥ's history, starting with the 11th year of Shāhjahān's reign and including the wars of succession and his death. Cf, the similar composite manuscript ms. no. 566 in Bankipore, Bengal. Oriental...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh - Muqīm, Muḥammad - Muḥammad Amīn Ibn Abī Al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī
    • Date: 1650
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    Xin ding Jiu yu zhi : shi juan, juan shou
    新定九域志 : 十卷, 卷首 / | Jiu yu zhi     There were two versions of this work in the Song Dynasty: the original version, compiled in ca. 1078-1085, presented to the Emperor, and recorded in the "Si ku quan shu"; and this, the popular version, edited and with supplements in ca. 1107-1110 (and not presented to the Emperor).
    • Contributor: Wang, Cun - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1644-01-01
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    Yang shan zhi : san juan
    陽山志 : 三卷 /     The introduction by the author, dated 1530, states that there was also a woodblock edition extant at that time.
    • Contributor: Yue, Dai - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1644-01-01
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    Īn kitāb-i Kanz-i daqāʼiq
    اين كتاب كنز دقائق | Kanz al-daqāʼiq | Tarjumah-i Kanz al-daqāʼiq     Persian translation of Nasafī's Kanz al-daqāʼiq.
    • Contributor: Kirmāni, Naṣr Al-Dīn Ibn Muḥammad - Jamāl Muḥammad Valad-I Muḥammad Ashraf - Nasafī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad
    • Date: 1626
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    Majmūʻ-i khānī
    مجموع خاني     Islamic law as practiced in India.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynī, Yaḥyá
    • Date: 1606
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    Abridgment of the common law.
    On Manuscript Division finding aid, (not numbered): Abridgement of the common law | Described in Handbook of manuscripts in the Library of Congress, 1918: Early law notes     Title from Sowerby. Manuscript written in an unidentified 17th century hand. Incomplete: the text begins with "Forfeiture". Passages have been crossed-out. The original binding (preserved) measures 21 cm. The manuscript leaves have been encapsulated in plastic sleeves, and divided in 2 volumes. Several pages have holes and are missing text. Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1795 Library of Congress. Manuscript...
    • Contributor: Jefferson, Thomas - Byrd, William - Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 16??
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    Nuevo mundo : descripcion des las Indias occidentales sacado ...
    Title in Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca d. Thomae Phillipps: Baltazar Conrado de Nuevo Mundo, or, Description de las Indias Occidentales en Anno 1649 | De Nuevo Mundo | Descripción de las Indias occidentales | Description de las Indias Occidentales | Baltazar Conrado de Nuevo Mundo, or, Description de las Indias Occidentales en Anno 1649     Autograph manuscript describing North America, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Conrrado describes himself as an official of the Inquisition, an honorary officer of the tribunal in Robaina, and translator of reliable works in a variety of languages on the discovery and exploration of the Americas. Conrrado drew upon works in Latin, Dutch, Portuguese, Castilian, French and English, as well as letters and...
    • Contributor: Phillipps, Thomas - Conrrado, Baltasar - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Laet, Joannes De - Del Caretto, Ottone Enrico
    • Date: 1649
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    Supplemental prayers for the High Holy Days Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [תפילות נוספות לימים נוראים] Supplemental prayers, mainly for Rosh ha-Shanah and especially for Kippur (ff. 10r-69r). Includes many piyyutim, none of them recorded in I. Davidson's Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry, inter alia, אשא קולי בקול רינה לזמר לה' אלקי ישראל (f. 2v), אקדמך ה' אלקי בתושבחך (ff. 3r-4r), להתחנן לפניך בקר קדמתי (ff. 6r-v), בשיר...
    • Date: 16??
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    Me'il Tsedakah Owners: Questo Libro e di me Raffael Morello Di Casale (front flyleaf). On the back flyleaf and cover a list of provisions and their prices in Italian, headed: "Lista Del Sig. Leon Della Morello". Deinard 1914. MMW. Wormed and damaged at the beginning. Italian semi-cursive script.. Description based on finding aid [מעיל צדקה] Me'il Tsedakah, supplications for each day of the week compiled by...
    • Date: 16??
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    Responsa Previous signature at LC: Hebr. MS 229. Deinard 1914. MMW. Oriental-Sephardic semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [שאלות ותשובות מהר"י וייל] Responsa by Jacob Weil. Incomplete. Includes only 12-40, 73-75 and 89-108 or parts of them. There are minor variants from the editions. These leaves were separated from LC Hebr. Ms 27 in which they were scrambled. Other leaves from this manuscript exist,...
    • Date: 16??
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    Pirkei Shirah Previous signature at LC: Hebr. MS 102. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Pirke Shirah with commentary by Hananiah Jaghel of Montelisce and שפתי רננות by his son Gamliel. Copied from the Mantua 1661 edition. The beginning is missing until the middle of chapter four (=f. 137b in the edition) and a leaf or two is missing from the...
    • Date: 16??
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    Ma'amar ha-Nefesh LC Hebr. Mss 75, 81, 85, 113 and 122 are written in different Italian scripts on paper of the same size and with the same watermark. LC Hebr. Ms 81 was copied by the same scribe who copied this manuscript. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [מאמר הנפש] Ma'amar ha-Nefesh from Menahem Azariah Fano's Amarot Tehorot. Divided into seven...
    • Date: 1600
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    Sefer Moshi'a Hosim Sefer Moshi'a Hosim by Abraham Jaghel. Sermons including remedies for the plague incorporating the Pittum ha-Ketoret service by Joseph of Argento. Copied, with the title page, from the Venice 1587 edition. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid
    • Date: 16??
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    Abridgement of Jacob Zemah's Lehem min ha-Shamayyim Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [קיצור לחם מן השמים] An abridgement and redaction of Jacob Zemah's Lehem min ha-Shamayyim on kabbalistic mystical intentions. Begins: להיות כי לימים שעברו בא לידי ספר לחם מן השמים... ובעיוני בו מצאתי כולו מלא שבושים וטעיות... ויען שנמצא אצלי ספר הכוונות של... האר"י זלה"ה תקנתי אותו וחסרתי וחלפתי ויתרתי.... Missing material from middle of שער השבת....
    • Date: 16??
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    Azharot Oriental semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [אזהרות יצחק בן ראובן עם פירוש משה מועטי] Azharot by Isaac b. Reuben al-Bargeloni with the commentary by Moses Mu'ati. Printed several times. Only from the end of the commentary on letter tet of the second alphabet to the middle of the commentary to the letter tzadi near the end of the third and final alphabet....
    • Date: 16??
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    Amarot Tehorot (portions of) Italian semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid Owners: Abraham Jona purchased the first part of the manuscript from Reuben Joseph Mondovi לי למקנה מאת הק' ראובן יוסף מונדווי, אברהם יונה (f. 1r). Mondovi, a resident of Modena, owned several other manuscripts now in different libraries, some of them purchased by him approximately 1762. Another owner, יח"ק (Isaac Hayyim or Israel Hayyim Carpi?) noted...
    • Date: 1600
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    Mevo ha-She'arim Owners (f. 1r): "Fratelli Jona de Biella" Deinard 1914. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Mevo ha-She'arim by Hayyim Vital. Preceded by a table of contents called מפתחות מבוא השערים (ff. 1r-2v) and Hayyim Vital's preface to his Ez Hayyim הקדמת ס' עץ חיים (ff. 5r-8r). Includes glosses by Nathan Spira copied by the scribe in "windows", and, in the margins in...
    • Date: 16??
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    Derushei Eliyahu ve-Elisha Executed in: [Jerusalem]. Formerly MS Hebr. 17 MMW. Oriental semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid The first two leaves are missing and the Hebrew foliation begins with three (ג). There are variations from the only printed edition in the author's book Tsemah Tsedek (Korzec 1785). It seems that the text is an autograph written by Zemah who made some corrections and added notes...
    • Date: 16??
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    Collection of short treatises Between ff. 6 and 7 there is a stub from a torn leaf with remnants of an owner's inscription. Collection of short treatises partly (nos. 1-5) copied from the Mantua 1623 edition of Tapuhei Zahav by Jehiel Melli. One of five manuscripts in the same script in the LOC. Two more of these manuscripts, LC Hebr. Mss 7 and 96, were also copied from...
    • Date: 1625
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    Yesod Olam Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Yesod Olam, rhymed drama by Moses Zacuto. Printed. Deinard, 1914.
    • Date: 16??
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    Collection of Karaite writings in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Karaite semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Collection of Karaite writings in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. The manuscript is not bound and many of the pages are loose and damaged. The upper parts of most of the leaves are torn and text is missing, so that it is difficult to determine the proper order of all the leaves. Work 1: Ff. 1r-8v: [הלכות שחיטה...
    • Date: 16??
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    Totsa'ot Hayyim Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Elijah de Vidas' abridgement of his Reshit Hokhmah With the introduction. Probably copied from one of the printed editions One of five manuscripts in the same script in the LC copied around 1625. Some of the other manuscripts (nos. 7, 13 and 96) were copied from a book printed in Mantua in 1623. Deinard, 1914.
    • Date: 1625
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    Ma'ayan Ganim Owner: "Questo libro di me Io lazzaro Vita Sacer[dot]o". The same person owned MS Oxford, Bodleian Library Mich. 119 and possibly also MS Budapest, Academy, Kaufmann 427. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Ma'ayan Ganim, an anonymous abridgement of Elijah da Vidas' Reshit Hokhmah. The title page reads; מעין גנים, הם כללים קצרים ביראת ועבודת ה' יתברך אשר יעשה...
    • Date: 16??
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    Extracts from Menahem Azariah Fano and Solomon b. Moses Alkabets Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Work 1: Ff. 1r-38v: יין הרקח Yen ha-Rekah by Menahem Azariah Fano, an epitome of his Pelah ha-Rimon. The scribe copied only until Part 8, chapter 3. This is not the work by the same name and by the same author found in MS Cincinnati, HUC 545 and other manuscripts. Other copies are found in MSS...
    • Date: 16??
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    Extracts on Lurianic kabbalah Ff. 1-66 were written by two hands. They were foliated in Hebrew by the scribes. On most pages the ink has penetrated the paper. A different hand added some glosses and numbered the paragraphs in this section. Ff. 67-85 are in a different script and were not foliated originally. A folio or two are missing at the beginning and the end is missing as...
    • Date: 16??
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    Ibbronot Tooled leather binding Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [עברונות] Ibbronot, a treatise on calculating the Hebrew calendar. Many similar works were composed in the 17th century, often incorporating the same materials. In several places the compiler stated the current year 5416 or 5417=1656/7, e.g., כגון עתה בשנת תי"ו (f. 47r) or כגון עתה בשנת תי"ז לפ"ק (f. 49v). He also included...
    • Date: 16??
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    Collection of works of Lurianic kabbalah Italian semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid Deinard 1914. Work 1: Ff. 3r-4v: [אגרת אל יוסף אירגאס] Letter with philosophical and kabbalistic content addressed to Joseph Ergas, probably Joseph b. Immanuel Ergas (1685-1730). The anonymous author of the letter did not sign his name. Work 2: Ff. 5r-32v: [תיקון שובבי"ם לרמ"ז] Tikkun Shovevim by Moses Zacuto based on the teachings of Benjamin ha-Levi...
    • Date: 16??
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    Sha'ar Ruah ha-Kodesh from Hayyim Vital's Shemoneh She'arim Sephardic-Oriental semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Sha'ar Ruah ha-Kodesh, the Seventh Gate from Hayyim Vital's Shemoneh She'arim (Eight Gates). Another hand added at the beginning that the manuscript was copied from the writing of Samuel Vital and was proofread letter by letter from the writing of Hayyim Vital הועתק מכ"י הר"ש ויטאל זלה"ה והוגה מכ"י הרח"ו זלה"ה אות באות. Deinard 1914.
    • Date: 16??
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    Laws of shehitah Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [שחיטות לר"י וייל] Laws of shehitah (ritual slaughter) by Jacob Weil. On f. 4r in another hand, a permit to serve as a shohet issued to Samuel b. Solomon Jedidiah of Padua הבחור כמ' שמואל בכמ' שלמה ידידיה מפדובה by Mordecai b. Berekhiah Reuben Jare of Perugia מרדכי בכמוהר"ר ברכיה ראובן ירא זצ"ל מפירושא. According to...
    • Date: 1622
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    Sefer Shemen Mishhat Kodesh Deinard 1914. MMW. Lower portion of leaves at the beginning of the manuscript have decomposed. The leaves have been laminated and bound in a modern cloth binding. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Sefer Shemen Mishhat Kodesh, by Aaron Berekhiah Modena. Autograph. Kabbalistic work comprising teachings by Isaac Luria and his followers. Incomplete and partly bound out of order. The beginning including...
    • Date: 16??
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    Model letters for students of Hebrew Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [כתבים] Model letters for students of Hebrew. These samplers were used especially in Italy to teach the proper usage of Hebrew. Many of the letters copied are authentic and some still bear the names of the authors or addressees. The setting for the letters is the Jewish communities in Piedmont. The letters were numbered 1-127 by...
    • Date: 16??
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    Marpe la-Nefesh Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Marpe la-Nefesh by Abraham b. Isaac Zahalon. Probably copied from the Venice 1595 edition but without the introductory poems. Copied by Abraham b. Mattathias Treves (not to be confused with a scribe by the same name who copied manuscripts in the 1480s) and completed in Tammuz 5369=1609. Colophon (f. 27r): הועתק על ידי אני הצעי' אברהם...
    • Date: 1609
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    Responsa Executed in: Salonica. Oriental semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid [שאלות ותשובות מאת אברהם בן יוסף לבית הלוי] Responsa by Abraham b. Joseph ha-Levi (le-Bet ha-Levi) of Salonica, some dated from 1604-1615. Many of the responsa are autographs in the author's hand. Includes concurrences by other contemporary rabbinical authorities, often with their autograph signatures, among them Abraham Hazzan ( ff. 13-16, 85v-87v, 111v-114r...
    • Date: 16??
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    Collection of kabbalistic works Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Written by several different scribes. Ff. 1-4 are part of a quire on different paper (16 x 12 cm.) bound with the manuscript. Original[?] leather binding. Work 1: Ff. 1r-3v: סדר פטום הקטרת שאומרים בזמן הדבר בר מינן Seder Pittum ha-Ketoret. Prayers recited at the time of a plague. Work 10: Ff. 107r-125v: [דרוש על העקודים]...
    • Date: 16??
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    Novellae and Responsa Several different Oriental-Sephardic scripts. Description based on finding aid [חידושים ותשובות] Novellae and responsa by Isaac b. Moses di Trani (MaHaRI"T). Incomplete. Some leaves loose. There is no indication of the name of the author in the manuscript. Myron Weinstein established that several of the responsa were published under different numbers in various collections and attributed to MaHaRI"T. Furthermore, as Weinstein noted, the author...
    • Date: 16??
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    Collection of Kabbalah texts Maghrebic semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid On many pages there are glosses by another hand signed אב"ץ (ff. 2r, 48r, 52r, 71r etc.) or אבצ"ן (ff. 19v, 49r, 53r, etc.). Glosses by the same author are found in several other mss of kabbalistic texts written in the Maghreb. Bound out of order. Ff. 26-37 are misbound at the end of the volume...
    • Date: 16??
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    Responsum on kiddushin Executed in: Lebanon. Oriental Sephardic script. Description based on finding aid [תשובה בענין קידושין] Responsum on the validity of the kiddushin (betrothal) of two daughters who were betrothed by their father to another man. The beginning and end of the responsum are missing, but from the mention of places in Lebanon it seems that the event took place in that area. The places named...
    • Date: 1675
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    Ashkenazic rite prayerbook according to Lurianic kabbalah Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [סידור לכל השנה עם כוונות ומנהגים ע"פ קבלת האר"י] Ashkenazic rite prayerbook (Siddur) with mystical intentions and customs according to Lurianic kabbalah. First two leaves missing; and material from the middle of the liturgy for the first day of Passover is missing at the end. Deinard 1914.
    • Date: 16??
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    Mystical intentions (kavvanot) Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [כוונות] Mystical intentions (kavvanot). Most of the text was copied or abridged from Ma'ayan Ganim, part of Menahem Azariah Fano's Asarah Ma'amarot. On ff. 2r-7v: various other kavvanot, quoting Fano's Kanfei Yonahכ"י , and Israel Sarug כמהר"ר ישראל סרוק נר"ו. On ff. 10r-14r other extracts copied from a book by Samuel Bassan נעתק מספר הר"ר שמואל...
    • Date: 16??
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    Eshkol ha-Kofer Executed in: [Crimea?]. Many headings in red ink. The end of the original manuscript is missing and pp. 525-527 and 547-553 were added by later hands. There are also a few pastedowns on some pages replacing defective text. Original leather binding. On the flyleaves at the beginning there are some notations in Russian and Polish dated 1834 and a note by A. Ellenbogen. Karaite...
    • Date: 16??
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    Kavvanot Small fine Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [כוונות לרמ"ע מפאנו] Kavvanot (mystical intentions) by Menahem Azariah Fano for rituals and prayers recited mainly in the daily and Sabbath services, but also for other occasions. Quotes: פי' הר"ר שמואל הכהן (f. 23v, 26r); עיין מסברת הה"ר חיים נר"ו (f. 24r). On a flyleaf at the beginning: ס' הכוונות לרמ"ע. Deinard 1914.
    • Date: 16??
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    Collection of Kabbalah texts Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Owners: אני מנחם כהן יצ"ו Menahem Kohen (on the vellum cover); Graziado Salamon Foa (?). On the inside back cover some accounts, one of them mentioning ברוך לבית ברוך מניצא Barukh Barukh of Nizza Monferrato. Deinard, 1914. MMW. Work 1: Ff. 1r-9v: מעיל צדקה Me'il Zedakah by Aaron Berekhiah Modena. Beginning missing until the middle of...
    • Date: 16??
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    Arguments for an appeal to annul a will Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [טיעונים לבית דין בענין ביטול צוואה] Arguments presented to a rabbinical court מבוררים for an appeal to annul a deceased man's will. In Hebrew, with a few lines in Italian in Latin script.
    • Date: 16??
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    Fragment from a Karaite prayer-book Karaite script. Description based on finding aid [סידור קראי (קטע)] Fragment from a Karaite prayer book. Includes part of the services for Shavuot. Ff. 5-6 are in a different hand and include a text in Arabic in Hebrew script.
    • Date: 16??
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    Otserot Hayyim Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid At the beginning of the manuscript, on the inner binding, on the flyleaf (f. ii) and on ff. 1-3, later hands added extracts on similar subjects, a few signed אבי"י perhaps one of the Jona family. Owner (inner binding): Prestato dal ... Jona a Moise d'Acqui, Biella il 20 Agosto 1858. Cf. LC Hebr. Ms 40....
    • Date: 16??
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    Laws of shehitah (ritual slaughter) Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [הלכות שחיטה] Laws of shehitah (ritual slaughter). Divided into roots (שורש) and branches (ענף).The scribe included a few drawings of knives used in the process and of a lung, and he left space for additional drawings that were never inserted. He also drew the border for a title page, but did not write the title or...
    • Date: 16??
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    Tapuhei Zahav Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [תפוחי זהב] Tapuhei Zahav by Jehiel Melli, an abridgement of Reshit Hokhmah by Elijah de Vidas. Incomplete. About 40 leaves missing at the beginning until the middle of שער האהבה. About 12 leaves missing between ff. 16 and 18. Leaf 17 should be inserted between ff. 8 and 9. Copied from the Mantua 1623 edition with...
    • Date: 1625
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    Zohar Hadash Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Original[?] leather binding. זהר חדש ומדרש הנעלם, שיר השירים ומדרש רות שניתוסף וקצת איכה ותיקונים... בתוספת ברכה מהנדפס כבר בסאלוניקי בהנהגות נכונות מקובלות מהרב... יצחק לוריא אשכנזי זלה"ה אשר נמצאו בגנזי הרב... מנחם די לונזאנו ז"ל והביאו אל הדפוס החכם... יוסף חמיץ נר"ו הוגה ע"י... משה זכות נר"ו שנת למען תחיה וירשת in Venezia ... Zohar...
    • Date: 16??
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    Notebook of an Italian kabbalist Executed in: [Italy], approximately. It seems that LC Hebr. Ms 85 was either once part of this codex or was copied by the same scribe at about the same time as the paper in both manuscripts bear the same watermark. Similar, though not identical watermarks are found in documents from northern Italy dated 1565-1584 (cf. Briquet 9616 and 9674), but since Ottolenghi studied under...
    • Date: 1600
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    Collection of Kabbalah texts Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid On f. 56r some additional notes on the Zohar in another script. Some jottings on the flyleaves, blank pages and front cover. An owner, probably Jehiel Hayyim (Vivante) Viterbo, signed his initials יח"ו on f. 4r. Deinard 1914. Work 1: Ff. 4r-22r: חדושים מוהר"ר צמח נר"ו Kabbalistic novellae from the writings of Jacob b. Hayyim Zemah....
    • Date: 16??
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    Totsa'ot Hayyim and Sabbath Hymns Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Work 1: Ff. 1r-45v: תוצאות חיים Totsa'ot Hayyim. Elijah de Vidas' abridgement of his Reshit Hokhmah. Without the introduction included in the printed edition. Begins טוב לגבר כי ישא עול בנעוריו. Work 2: Ff. 46r-50v: תקוני שבת שדרש החכם הה"ר אברהם הלוי בעל ראשית חכמה ותוצאות חיים Tikkunei ha-Shabbat, kabbalistic service for the Sabbath by Abraham...
    • Date: 16??
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    Otserot Hayyim Oriental-Sephardic scripts. Description based on finding aid Otserot Hayyim by Hayyim Vital as redacted by Jacob Zemah. With many glosses by Nathan Spira נלעד"ן, Moses Zacuto קול הרמ"ז, Hayyim Vital מהר"ח, Benjamin ha-Levi בנימן הלוי ז"ל, Benjamin ha-Kohen Vitale בנימן הכהן and from the book Mevo She'arim בספר מ"ש. Seems to be close to the version edited in Jerusalem 1995 based on MS Sassoon...
    • Date: 16??
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    Ma'ayan Ganim C92 Ma'ayan Ganim from Menahem Azariah Fano's Amarot Tehorot. Incomplete. Begins with the kavvanot for Rosh ha-Shanah. The section on Passover is very brief (f. 52r-v). There are several redactions of this work and this seems to be one of the later redactions, perhaps the one before the final edition. Includes glosses and corrections by the author himself and by his pupil Isaac ha-Levi of...
    • Date: 1600
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    Kavvanot, according to Lurianic kabbalah Oriental semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [כוונות] Kavvanot, or mystical intentions according to Lurianic kabbalah. Collected and arranged from the writings of Hayyim Vital. Not identical to any of the earlier redactions of Vital's writings. Begins: עניין ציצית כונות. ענין הציצית הוא לעולם הציצית הוא סוד אור מקיף שידעת. Deinard 1914.
    • Date: 16??
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    Collection of Kabbalah texts Executed in: [Italy]. It seems that LC Hebr. Ms 75 was either once part of this codex or was copied by the same scribe at about the same time as the paper in both manuscripts bear the same watermark. The same glossators added notes and glosses in both manuscripts. On the date and the identity of the scribe cf. LC Hebr. Ms 75. Mss...
    • Date: 1600
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    Derush Mat'i ve-lo-Mat'i Oriental-Sephardic semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid Ff. Ff. 17-20 by another contemporary, or somewhat earlier hand on different paper. Deinard 1914. Work 1: Ff. 1r-15v: [דרוש מט"י ולא מט"י] Derush Mat'i ve-lo-Mat'i or Derush Nishmat ha-Adam by Hayyim Vital. Beginning missing. J92 Work 2: Ff. 17r-19v: ספר יצירה Sefer Yetsirah. Many variations from the standard printed editions. Work 3: F. 20r: [זוהר...
    • Date: 16??
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    Collection of Lurianic Kabbalah texts Italian semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid Fols. 216-222 are bound upside down and backwards. A different hand copied ff. 206v, line 13 to the end. On f. [i]v there is a note by Isaac Shalom Ghiron of Casale [Monferrato] writing on 15 Sivan 5584=1824 on behalf of Gabriel Jona stating that this manuscript was lent by the said Gabriel Jona of Biella...
    • Date: 16??
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    Tomer Devorah Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid One of five manuscripts in the same script in the LC. This manuscript and LC Hebr. Mss 7 and 13 were probably all copied from the same 1623 edition. LC Hebr. Mss 15 and 172 were also copied by the same scribe. Deinard 1914. MMW. Tomer Devorah. Kabbalistic treatise by Moses Cordovero. First edition Venice 1589.
    • Date: 1625
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    [Calligrapher's sample book.]
    Huwa al-rashīd     Calligrapher's sample book.
    • Contributor: Daylamī, ʻabd Al-Rashīd
    • Date: 1650
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    [ʻArūz̤-i] Mawlānā Jāmī ; Qāfiyah-ʼi Mawlānā Jāmī ; [Anonymous...
    [عروض] مولانا جامى ؛ قافية مولانا جامى     This Persian manuscript dated 1025 AH (1616) contains two works on prosody by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī (1414-92), as well as an incomplete, anonymous work on astronomy. Jāmī was a great poet, scholar, and mystic who lived most of his life in Herat, present-day Afghanistan. The 69 leaves of the manuscript are on a variety of papers: thin, pink-colored laid paper (folios 1a-31b);...
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1616
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    Collection of choicest poems Incomplete collection of poems.
    • Date: 16??
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    [Gulistān]
    [گلستان]     Manuscript. Persian. Title determined by comparison with editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Written by ʻAbd al-Bārī Muḥammad Maḥmūd Lārī. Probably written in Iran. Date from colophon written in pencil in a later hand. Paper: cream colored lighly polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; unwan in gold, blue, red, white and green; text enclosed blue and gold ruled border; black ink with rubrication;...
    • Contributor: Saʻdī - Lārī, ʻabd Al-Bārī Muḥammad Maḥmūd
    • Date: 1602
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    Dīvān-i Shāhī
    ديوان شاهي     Collected poems of Amīr Shāhī Sabzavarī. Dīvān-i Shāhī (Collection of poems by Shāhī) is a divan (collection) of verse by Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (died 1453; 857 A.H.), a prominent Persian poet of the Timurid era who composed in many of the classical forms of Persian poetry. Amīr Shāhī's poetry belongs to the tradition of Persian mystical love poetry. The collection includes poems composed in...
    • Contributor: Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī - Ṣadafī, Muṣṭafá
    • Date: 1600
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    Shah-nameh by Firdausi Shahnameh (Book of kings) was composed by the revered Iranian poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). The book recounts in verse the mythological history of ancient Persia and tales of the famous heroes and personalities of Iranian history, from legendary times to the 7th-century reign of Yazdegerd III, the last king of the Sassanid dynasty. Considered the national epic of Iran, the book was widely...
    • Contributor: Firdawsī
    • Date: 1600
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    Muntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi...
    منتخب شاهنامه حكيم ابو قاسم فردوسى، عليه الرحمة و المغفرة     Selections from the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī. This manuscript from the early 17th century contains selections from the Shāhnāmeh (Book of kings), the epic-historical work of Persian literature composed at the end of the tenth century by the poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). This beloved epic of pre-Islamic Persia (present-day Iran) was widely read in Persia, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. The manuscript contains three half-page...
    • Contributor: Firdawsī
    • Date: 1618
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    Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī
    حافظ شيرازي | Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī | fiẓ Shīrāzī     The poems of Ḥafiẓ.
    • Contributor: Persian Manuscript Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥāfiẓ - Fiẓ
    • Date: 1600
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    [Selections from Ḥāfiẓ by the calligrapher ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-... Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Colophon: ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī. Written in India. Paper; thick, cream color oriental paper; black ink; decorated unwan on fol. 1b in blue and gold; six lines to the page; text of each line in text-box alternatingly aligned right and left; entire text within an outer gold border near the page edges; and a second smaller gold border surrounding...
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ - Daylamī, ʻabd Al-Rashīd
    • Date: 16??
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    Ḥikāyat-i Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl
    حكايت سيف الملوك و بديع الجمال | Qiṣṣah-i Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl     Tale of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badiʼʻ al-Jamāl, also recorded in an Arabic version in the Arabian Nights.
    • Date: 1625
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    Khāvarānʹnāmah
    خاوراننامه     Long poem on the Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
    • Contributor: Ibn Ḥusām, Muḥammad
    • Date: 16??
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    Subḥat al-abrār
    سبحة الابرار | Sohbo alabrar     Manuscript. Persian. Title from unwan. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in Iran or India. Paper: cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and gold highlighting between lines of text on first two leaves; black ink with red section titles; blue and gold borders; few marginal corrections and additions; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 12 lines in written area...
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 16??
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    Yūsuf va Zulaykhā min taṣnīf-i Ḥaz̤rat Mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān-...
    يوسف و زليخا من تصنيف حضرت مولانا عبد الرحمان جامي     Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in India. Paper; dark cream-color unpolished, coarse laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; severely worm damaged; no borders; black ink with some rubrication. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 18 x 11 cm. Folio 1b-136b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M40. Dark brown leather binding; text partially disbound; poor condition. Also...
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1643
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    Dīvān-i Kalīm
    ديوان كليم | Díván-i Kelím     Abū Ṭālib Kalīm Hamadānī (or Kāshānī, died 1651; 1061 A.H.) was one of the foremost Persian poets of the 17th century. He was born in Hamadan (present-day Iran) but appears to have lived in Kashan (also in Iran) for a sizeable portion of his life--hence the appellation Kāshānī. He received his education in Kashan and in Shiraz before moving to India to serve the...
    • Contributor: Kalīm, Abū Ṭālib
    • Date: 1695
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    [Khamsah]
    [خمسة] | Khamseh : lyric and romantic poems     Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied from container. Scribe not identified. Written in India? Paper; thin, lightly polished laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral carpet page in blue, gold, pink, and black surrounded by three borders: the outer of a gold floral design, the next of a repeating design in blue and gold and the inner of...
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
    • Date: 16??
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    Ban Ma zi lei : wu juan
    班馬字類 : 五卷 / | Shi Han zi lei     Created in the style of a Song Dynasty or Ming Dynasty text; includes a preface by Lou Yue dated 1182 two postscripts by the author dated 1181.
    • Contributor: Lou, Ji - Lou, Yao - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1644-01-01
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    Er ya tang jia cang shi shuo : bu fen juan
    爾雅堂家藏詩說 : 不分卷 / | Er ya tang shi shuo     According to volume 115 of 'Jing yi kao' by Zhu Yizun, this book, 'Er ya tang shi shuo', written by Gu Qiyuan, originally consisted of four chapters.
    • Contributor: Gu, Qiyuan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1644-01-01
    • Resource: Juan 1 - 126 pages
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    Xi fan yi yu
    西番譯語 /     Chapter one, astronomy, geography, calendar, people; chapter two, people, bodies, palaces, utensils; chapter three, utensils, clothes, sound and color, classics; chapter four, documents from the Hui State, documents translated from foreign countries, documents from the Gaochang State, documents from Myanmar (Burma), documents from eight hundred states, documents from the Tartar State, documents from India.
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600-01-01
    • Resource: Juan 1 - 87 pages
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    Shigure
    しくれ     LC set imperfect: white pigment on illustrations partially coming-off. Ms. (shahon), the copier and the date not known. Oriental style binding (tetchōsō). Original covers (retained) have floral designs and clouds (or mists) painted in gold on bluish-black background, with title piece in red. Sakanishi collection. Title from title piece. With no borders, text chiefly in 10 vertical lines. Also available in digital form on...
    • Contributor: Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Soga monogatari
    曽我物語     Caption title. LC set incomplete: v. 5 wanting. Ms. (shahon), the copier and the date not known. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). Original covers (retained) have floral designs and clouds (or mists) painted in gold on bluish-black background, lined with silver paper; with title piece in green. With no borders, text chiefly in 13 vertical lines. Kokusho sōmokuroku, v. 5, p. 298 (Soga...
    • Contributor: Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Hādhihi risālah li-Ibn al-Hāʼim al-musammāt [sic] Nuzhat al-ḥ...
    هذه رسالة لابن الهائم المسمات نزهة الحساب المختصرة من المرشدة     According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār. The manuscript contains an introduction, two chapters, and an epilogue. On fol. 1a is a table of written numbers for use in official documents as well as verses (in code?). On fol. 33b, verse 6:115 of the Qur'an is...
    • Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 64 pages
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    Sharḥ al-Khulāṣah fī al-ḥisāb
    شرح الخلاصة في الحساب /     Text is a commentary on al-Khulaṣah fī al-ḥisāb by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Two poems attributed to ʻAmr ibn al-ʻĀṣ on title page in a different hand. Last page includes a note in a third hand on a different topic. The present manuscript preserves an extensive commentary on the 17th-century mathematical treatise Al-Ḫulāṣa fī al-Ḥisāb (The abridgment on calculus), which was composed...
    • Contributor: ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn - ʻamr Ibn Al - Baytūshī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Muḥammad - ʻabāyī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn ʻīsá Ibn Ismāʻīl - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jazarī, Ramaḍān Ibn Abī Hurayrah - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1665
    • Resource: - 125 pages
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    Zīj
    زيج     The present manuscript is a commentary entitled Anwār al-nujūm (The lights of the stars) by an author who appears to have stated his name as Jamist al-Rumi (Jamist the Byzantinian). The work is based on Al-zīj al-jadīd (The new astronomical tabulations) by Alī ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Shāṭir (died 1375), the most-distinguished Muslim astronomer of the 14th century. Ibn al-Shāṭir was active as muwaqqit (timekeeper)...
    • Contributor: ʻabd Allāh, Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad - Ibn Al-Shāṭir, ʻalī Ibn Ibrāhīm - Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 782 pages
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    Qāḍīʹzādah ʻalá al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah
    قاضي زادة على الملخص في الهيئة     A commentary on al-Jighmīnī's book on astronomy, al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah. The author of this commentary, Ṣalāh al-Din Musa ibn Muḥammad, also known as Qādī Zāda (the son of the judge), was born in Bursa (present-day Turkey) in 1364 and died in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) in 1436. His first teacher, al-Fanāri, suggested that he move to the scientific centers of the time, Herat in Khorasan...
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Salīm, Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad - ʻabd, Muḥammad Riḍā
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 267 pages
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    Jāmiʻ al-qawāʻid fī al-misāḥah
    جامع القواعد في المساحة | Binder's title: Fann al-thālith min kitāb jāmiʻ al-qawāʻid fī ʻilm al-misāhah     The text deals with the precise measurement of the size and shape of the earth, mapping points on the earth's surface, and the study of the earth's gravitational fields. The manuscript includes only three chapters on the third topic. On the last page is a note written in a different script about measuring with different kinds of cubits. This manuscript, probably dating from the...
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - ʻayyād, Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 37 pages
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    Kitāb azhār al-afkār fī jawāhir aḥjār
    كتاب أزهار الافكار في جواهر الاحجار / | Kitāb al-jawāhir lil-Tifāshī     Azhār al-Afkār fī Jawāhir al-Ahjār (The blossoms of thoughts regarding precious stones) is considered the most detailed and complete treatise of the Middle Ages on stones and their properties. Lapidaries, or treatises devoted entirely to the discussion of precious stones and their features, can be traced to ancient Greece. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historia (Natural history), mentions at least 20 authors as sources of...
    • Contributor: Muḥammad ʻabduh - Nīshī, Maḥmūd Ibn Ḥasan - Jawharī, Muḥammad Abū Hādī - Tīfāshī, Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 140 pages
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    Kitāb Mā lā yasaʻu al-ṭabīb jahluh
    كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله     A well-organized medical treatment manual explains the evolution of the healing art in the Middle Ages. It is an abridgement of Ibn al-Baytar's "Kitāb al-Jāmiʻ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah," with some additions dealing with nutrition and medicine. This manuscript was copied in 1682 by Ibn ʻAbd al-Nabī Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd al-Nabī, as noted in the colophon of the manuscript. It preserves a comprehensive pharmacological compendium by...
    • Contributor: Ibn Al-Kutubī, Yūsuf Ibn Ismaʻīl - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Bayṭār, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Ibn ʻabd Al-Nabī, ʻabd Al-Nabī Muḥammad
    • Date: 1682
    • Resource: - 700 pages
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    Kitāb zubdat al-ṭibb
    كتاب زبدة الطب /     Text is an Arabic medical treatise in fomat of a symoptic chart in two parts: the first is devoted to theoretical medicine and discusses diagnosis by means of the pulse and urine; the second discusses anatomy and the treatment of disease. The second part is divided into 20 chapters and deals systematically with the anatomy and physiology of the human body and the treatment...
    • Contributor: Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl Ibn Ḥasan - Ibn ʻuthmān, ʻumar - Yamanī, Maḥmūd Ibn Ḥasan
    • Date: 1677
    • Resource: - 528 pages
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    [Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortificatio... Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered. Title devised by Library staff. Mainly pen and ink diagrsams and drawings, some painted with water colors. The text accompanying part of the illustration is in Italian, a few pages are in Spanish. Francesco Tensini, whose work La fortificatione was first published in 1624, is quoted on leaves 29 and [102]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Hommes illustres, peintres, sculpteurs, et graveurs. Manuscript. On title page: Tome 29. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1422 LC copy: Provenance: Ex libris: Howard C. Levis. LAC ddw 2022-02-15 no edits (1 card)
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1600
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    An exact and compendious discourse concerning the arte of min... Manuscript. Described in M. Hardie's introduction to his edition of Norgate's Miniatura, Oxford, 1919, p. xxii. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1551 LC copy: Provenance: Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland? (his coat of arms, perhaps from original cover, mounted on modern binding), Francis Wellesley, Howard C. Levis (bookplate). LAC ddw 2022-03-07 no edits (1 card)
    • Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Fane, Mildmay - Wellesley, Francis - Norgate, Edward - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600