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    Sharḥ Mawāqif
    شرح مواقف Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    al-Jurjānī's commentary on al-Ījī's Mawāqif on Islamic theology and philosophy.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jurjānī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1482
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    Sharḥ al-Miftāḥ.
    شرح المفتاح | Qism al-thālith min al-kitāb fī ʻilmay al-maʻāni wa-al-bayān, amīn Catalog Record Only
    Commentary on the thrid section of Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jurjānī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1469
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    Bihari 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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    Kitāb 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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    Qur'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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    Qur'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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    al-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...

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    [Two supercommentaries on Quṭb al-Taḥtānī's commentary on al-Qazwīnī's Risālah al-Shamsīyah.]
    Hādhihi nuskhah laṭīfah li-mawlānā ʻAbd al-Ẓāhir bayyana fīhā kalām al-Quṭb shāriḥ al-Shamsīyah | Hādhihi nuskhah li-Abī Shāmah al-Kurdī ʻafá ʻanhu bayyana fīhā mā ẓahara min kalām al-fāsil al-Sayyid quddisa sirruhu ʻalá sharḥ al-Shamsīyah lil-Quṭb Catalog Record Only
    Two commentaries by otherwise unidentified authors on Quṭb al-Taḥtānī's Sharḥ Shamsīyah.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - ʻabd Al-Ẓāhir - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Abū Shāmah Al-Kurdī
    • Date: 1489
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    Ṣuwar 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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    Kitāb al-Ṣalāh : bāb al-mwāqīt
    كتاب الصلاه : باب المواقيت | Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah lil-Baghawī Catalog Record Only
    Collection of ḥadīth arranged by topic. Incomplete work of the book Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah of al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Baghawī on work of ḥadith starting of Kitāb al-Ṣalāh, bāb al-mwāqīt.
    • Contributor: Baker, Richard Brown - Baghawī, Al-Ḥusayn Ibn Masʻūd - Baker Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1400
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    Hādhā Sharḥ al-Miftāḥ
    هذا شرح المفتاح / | Sharḥ al-qism al-thālith min al-Miftāḥ Catalog Record Only
    Commentary on the thrid section of Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jurjānī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1436
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    Qur'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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    Sharḥ Ibn Malak ʻalá Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-multaqá al-nahrayn li-Ibn al-Sāʻātī.
    شرح إبن ملك على مجمع البحرين وملتقى النهرين لإبن الساعاتي Catalog Record Only
    Ibn Malak's commentary on Ibn al-Sāʻātī's Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn on Hanafi fiqh.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Ibn Malak, ʻabd Al-Laṭīf Ibn ʻabd Al-ʻazīz
    • Date: 1400
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    Hādh[ā] al-kitāb Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar Saʻd al-Dīn al-Qāḍī al-Taftāzānī ...
    هاذ[ا] الكتاب مسعود بن عمر سعد الدين القاضي التفتازاني Catalog Record Only
    Taftāzānī's commentary on al-Zanjānī's Mabādiʻ al-taṣrīf.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Taftāzānī, Masʻūd Ibn ʻumar - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1400
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    Kunnāsh 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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    al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ min al-rubʻah
    الجزء التاسع من الربعة Catalog Record Only
    Manuscript. Arabic. Title from colophon (fol. 3a). Written by al-faqīr Khalīl. Place of writing not determined; perhaps Egypt. Paper; heavy, cream color polished paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, black, blue and red; fol. 3a and 36a have gold floral design in borders; in remainder of the work, the text is in black ink from the...
    • Contributor: Minassian, Kirkor - Khalīl - Kirkor Minassian Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 14??
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    Qur'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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    Qur'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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    [Qurʼān] Catalog Record Only Manuscript. Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in Turky. Text is completely vocalized. Fol. 1b-2a Two opening pages which has a magnificent double frontispiece; these carpet pages decorated in gold and bright blue pigments and fine scroll ornamentation with attribution to the treasury official Firuz Agha in the reign of Bayezid II was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481...
    • Date: 1475
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    Kitāb sharḥ al-farāyiḍ
    كتاب شرح الفرايض / Catalog Record Only
    Manuscript. Arabic. Title from fol. 1b. Scribe not identified. Place of writing not determined. Paper; cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; title in blak; black ink with rubrication and overlining; several diagrams; catchwords. Naskh; 21 lines in written area 16.2 x 8 cm. Fol. 1b-181b. "37. IV 2105 = 4.462." Library of Congress. Richard Baker Collection, no. 13-A. Binding;...
    • Contributor: Baker, Richard Brown - Baker Collection (Library of Congress) - Jurjānī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1400
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    al-Taftāzānī ʻalá al-Kashshāf.
    التفتازاني على الكشاف Catalog Record Only
    al-Taftāzānī's glosses on Zamakhsharī's commentary on the Qurʼān titled al-Kashshāf.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Taftāzānī, Masʻūd Ibn ʻumar - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1414
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    Fawāʼid wāfīyah fī ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfīyah l
    فوائد وافية في حل مشكلات الكافية ل | Fawāʼid al-Ḍiyāʼīyah Catalog Record Only
    Manuscript. Arabic. Title from fol. 1b. witten by Abd-al-Rahmān al-Jāmī. Place of writing not determined. Paper; stiff, cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with use of red with rubrication; catchwords; modern foliation in pencil using Hindu-Arabic numerals. Naskh; 21 lines in written area 12.7 x 5.1 cm. Fol. 1b-220a. Library of Congress. Richard Baker Collection, no. 15....
    • Contributor: Baker, Richard Brown - Baker Collection (Library of Congress) - Jāmī
    • Date: 1492
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    Qur'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??