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- Treatise on Ethics Confirmed by Passages from the Koran., Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: XI quires, odd quires of 12 leaves, even of 8 leaves. Catchwords in inner bottom corner of verso. Foliation in pencil, lower right corner, in descending order from 111., Origin: Near East, 19th Century., Script: Turkish written in Arabic in 1 hand of black ink with red pointing and overscoring., Decoration: Inscription on bottom edge of pages in Turkish., Binding: Original half roan, pasted with marbled paper. Inscription on lower edge.
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- A Missal, with Rituals, of the Maronites, a Christian sect of Syrian origin, mainly living in Lebanon, and speaking Arabic, which when written in Syriac characters is called Karshuni. They derive their name from the Syriac Christian Saint Maron (d. 410 CE), whose followers migrated in the 7th c. to the area of Mount Lebanon from their previous location of residence around the area of Antioch, establishing the nucleus of the Syriac Maronite Church. Pages 1-73 I. Missal. Opening page, under heading, begins with three red lines: The Beginning of the Ritual of the Mass, 'In the Name of the Father ... ' At first the priest says, while he takes off his clothes, after washing his hands ... 'Divest me, O Lord, of the sinful garments with which Satan hath clothed me, and clothe me with the chosen garments which are suitable for thy service, and to the praise of thy praiseworthy righteousness, O Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and in all time forever.' II. Rituals (each decorated by a headpiece of strapwork) according to: 1. St. Kusostas Baba; 2. St. John the Apostle; 3. St. Murush, Bishop of Tekrit; 4. St. James, Brother of Christ; 5. St. Mark; 6 St. Peter (contents per Professor Kraeling, Dept. of Semitic Languages, Columbia University, 1920 (Probably Emil Gottlieb Heinrich Kraeling (1892-1973), American Lutheran biblical scholar and Aramaicist), Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Quires of 10. Catchwords at inner corner, end of each quire. No signatures or numbers. 8 sewing stations. Paper repairs on some pages., Script: Bold, legible, in black ink with rubricated lines, words, and page titles throughout., Decoration: First recto has three-quarter border (top and sides) of geometric interlaced strapwork outlined in black ink and colored with red and grey ink wash; the title is written within the border in red and black capitals. Before each of the six rituals, there is a panel along the top of the page in the same colors and style. Each text page is outlined in red and black. Seven-page section in a different hand written with a thinner pen, sans rubrication., Binding: Re-used parchment over boards, attached with thongs. Marbled edges. Title on spine in brown ink: Missale Maroni. Syriac. Interior title: Missale Maronitarum Syro- /idiomate /Manoscritto.
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- Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Single quire, 8 sewing stations. Verso of each page has catchword for the next recto at bottom edge., Script: Coptic book script, with headings and occasional passages in Arabic. Text mainly black with some passages in brown ink. On f. 7v, part of a line in silver ink. Decorative swashes on descenders., Decoration: Introductory initials in black with red. Red figures or notations at ends of some lines; some ornamental penwork section dividers., Binding: Limp binding in cream-colored paper; cover consists of external sheet, two lining sheets, and pastedown. Cover edges bound with folded strip of brown paper along head, tail, and fore edge; now missing on tail edges. Spine covered with a strip of brown leather. Both covers have a floral design drawn (not printed) in green ink, with red flowers and green leaves crudely colored with ink wash., Numerous notations and marks on front inside cover. Pasted label Edward S. Burgess. Round label with picture of the Tower of Babel and text Maisonneuve et Cie, editeurs, a la Tour de Babel, Maisonneuve ink stamp, and pencil note Maissonneuve [sic] 1891 cat/6542. Pencil note: Guilmoto/7744. Probably E. Guilmoto, 19th c. publisher, Paris, also associated with the Librarie Orientale et Américaine. Inside back cover, typed label pasted in: 5369 - Prayers in Coptic and Arabic. In the original limp boards. Written on 22 pp., small 4to. 18th century and written in ink, W.[ilberforce] Eames' Sale, Apr. 11, '07, And[erson's]. Wilberforce Eames (1855-1937) was a noted librarian and bibliographer who purchased from Anderson
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- Scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by Avicenna.
5. Al Koran
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- Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Catchwords at foot of each leaf, no signatures or numbers., Script: Nashki script in black with rubrication and some gold lettering., Decoration: Double-page illumination at beginning: each page has an outer border with red and gold floral motifs and curvilinear forms, the background mainly blue and lighter blue, with red areas at outside corners, and touches of black; this border is edged by gold trefoils. Inside this, a border outlined in red and gold with a horizontal panel at top and bottom with gold-on-gold writing, red and gold flowers on blue background, and narrow yellow border; narrower vertical rectangles in red and gold flower and vine motif on blue. Within the borders, a tiny text block of seven lines in black script, interspersed with gold circles bordered by red and green dots. Written throughout in gold-framed panels, interspersed with gold circles bordered by red and green dots. Gilt panel headings on all chapters; gilt marginal headings. Last page written in gold., Binding: Dark red morocco with flap, both covers and flap stamped with all-over floral motif with rectangular border. Inside covers have floral medallion and gold line border. Inside flap has small gold medallion and geometric border. Marbled flyleaves in combed blue, black, red, and yellow on white. Three newer flyleaves at front and back. Gilt and gauffered edges., Annotations: rear free endpapers: The MS was written by the poor Husain Zabd, son of the Sheikh Abdu-r-remez son of the Sheikh Sedru-ddin of the children of Sultan Bedru-d-din. ... agha ibu Mohammed. May god pardon him, his parents, and all Muselmans. Prayer be to God for the Prophet and his family all of them. In the year 1066 (A.D. 1655). G.C.R. At top page: G.C.R.N. 101, New cat. No. 63. John Fiott. Aleppo. Purchased of M.[onsieur Jean Louis] Burckhardt at Aleppo for the same price that he paid for it. Sir John Barker the British Resident at Aleppo, promised it for Burckhardt from Constantinople soon after he arrived in Syria, and having become possessed of one smaller and of less weight, he disposed of it to me, on his departure from Aleppo to Arabia. J. Lee. Repaired. London. In ink in another hand: On leaving Aleppo for Arabia and Egypt, he took nothing with him, but what he could carry on his mare, and had no extra baggage. I accompanied him to Hama and Tripoli and took leave of him there at the English Consul's house. He proceeded to Lebanon and Damascus and returned by Aradus-Latichem [probably Arwad (Arados) island and Latakia, Syria] and Antioch to Aleppo. Date at top of rear free endpaper in pencil: 5/10/37 or 31. Other pencil notes on free endpaper: 366, 825, 15/0.
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- Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., No translation of the text has been made but it has been described as, A ritual, not very old. by Dr. Louis Ginzberg of the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1921. This work also contains psalms and hymns., Collation: Quarto in quires varying in number; I, III, V⁶; II, IV¹⁴; VI¹²;VII-XII¹⁰. Catchwords in bottom margin, folio numbers in pencil added later., Origin: Samaria, Mount Gerazim, Nablus, 19th Century. Date given as Ragab 1265, that is, March-April 1887., Script: Samaritan square hand. Intermittent rubrication in same Samaritan Square Hand with some red in Arabic. 118 leaves of text, 2 of index & notes., Decoration: Abecedarion of Samaritan into Arabic inside front cover. Various colophons with staggered rubrication., Binding: Original leather with oriental flap 203 x 165 mm rag paper pasted onto both covers.
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- This bifolium preserves two pages of a liturgical Pentateuch, or humash, containing the Hebrew Masoretic text and the Aramaic translation of the Targum, alternating verse by verse, with the grammatical notes of the Masora parva between the columns. Despite the losses sustained from its later use as binding scrap, this item is mostly intact., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet of 2 leaves (4 pages)., Origin: Germany?, Layout: Double column, 34 lines., Script: written in a square script., Decoration: None., Annotations: A few marginal notations and a line of text in Italian in a later hand., Disbound; manuscript binding waste recovered from a binding and therefore quite browned and with the text on the one side of the sheet obscured (but legible) by binder's glue; small losses to the gutter and the corners filled with modern paper.
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- One leaf (two pages) from a manuscript astronomical table, also known as a Zij, measuring and recording the movement of the constellations, the fixed stars, and the longitudes and latitudes for certain cities in the Muslim world. Compiled by the astronomer Ibn al-Raffa. On wove machine made paper. Recto: 18 rows and 10 columns to the page, in black, red, and blue ink, within ruled borders. Verso: 19 rows and 8 columns to the page, in black, red, and blue ink, within ruled borders., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Date and place of production from bookdealer's description., Collation: Paper, single sheet, two pages., Origin: North Africa., Layout: Tabular data., Lettering: Unidentified script., Binding: Disbound.
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- One leaf (two pages) from an illuminated manuscript Qur'an, containing text from surah XXXII, As-Sajdah (the Adoration) and including verses 32.16-17: Their sides draw away from (their) beds, they call upon their lord in fear and in hope, and they spend out of what We have given them. So no soul knows what is hidden for them of that, which will refresh the eyes; a reward for what they did. The leaf includes a Persian interlinear translation in red., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Date and place of production from bookdealer's description., Collation: Paper, single sheet, two pages., Origin: India., Layout: Single column of 12 lines, with interlinear translation., Lettering of Arabic text: Naskh, with thuluth in the headings. Persian text in unidentified script., Decoration: Text within border of foliage in red and gold, with frames in red, black, gold, and green; verso has decoration in lower right margin, in gold, black, blue, and red., Annotations: Possible annotations on verso, far right edge., Binding: Disbound.
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- Two leaves (four pages) from a late 18th/early19th century Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper. Each leaf has on one side seven lines written in nadkhi script in black ink, with interlinear Persian translation, surrounded by 22 lines written diagonally in outer margins in nada'liq script, primarily in black ink, with significant words and sentences in red; and on the other side three lines of Arabic text, with interlinear Persian translation within broad, richly illuminated arabesque margins in blue, turquoise, orange, and two shades of gold. The text comes from one of the prayers of Muhammad from the hadith. A hadith consists of the accounts of words, deeds, or silent approval of Muhammad during the period of his preaching. The primary text loosely translates to: Lord, I am fighting with you, and I am trying with you., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Date and place of production from bookdealer's description., Collation: Paper, two sheets, four pages., Origin: North India., Layout: Single column of 7 lines, with interlinear translation; 22 lines written diagonally in outer margins., Lettering: Nadkhi script with Sura headings; Nada'liq script., Decoration: Significant words and sentences picked out in red, double interlinear gold rules, interlinear Persian translation in red ink, arabesque margins in blue, turquoise, orange, and two shades of gold., Binding: Disbound.
