Qur'an

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  Qur'an

  Manuscripts

  The volume is autograph in Arabic script; 6 pages with illuminated borders, in a tooled-leather binding with flap closing. The bookplate with signature of Theodora Duncan pasted down to first end page; some pages with old repairs made by a previous owner.

  mssHM 82922

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  Leaf from the Qur'an and one leaf from a Persian poem

  Manuscripts

  One illuminated calligraphy leaf from the Qur'an, in Arabic with red interlineations translating the text into Persian (Farsi), with an autograph date of circa 1790 in pencil. One illuminated leaf of a Persian poem: "Poem on Beauty and Love," in Arabic, with gold decoration, dated 1265 A. H. [1847].

  mssHM 64536-64537

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  Stock label: Orange with red, white, blue and gold ornament

  Visual Materials

  Image of an orange with leaves and blossoms, ribbon text panel, and red, white, blue and gold ornamental design.

  ephJLC_CIT_000983

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  Horoscope for Sultan Amir Zadeh Rustam

  Manuscripts

  This volume is the horoscope of Sultan Amir Zadeh Rustam. It was written in 822 AH in Persian (with some Arabic) by Yahya ibn Imad bin Yahya Al-Munajjim al-Kashi. It is probably the copy presented to the Sultan. It includes finely illuminated borders and sarlauh on initial pages but dampstained. Some color is fading. The volume also includes some notes about the manuscript, probably from the 1940s.

  mssHM 71897

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  Cyrurgia parua Guidonis : Cyrurgia Albucasis cu[m] cauterijs [et] alijs instrumentis. Tractatus de oculis Iesu hali Tractatus de oculis Canamusali

  Rare Books

  Imprint from colophon. Work includes Abulcasis' [i.e. Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī] Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum, translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis on leaves a6r-f6r; Jesus filius Hali's [i.e. 'Alī ibn 'Īsá al-Kahhāl] De oculis, translated from Arabic into Latin by Dominicus Marrochinus, on leaves aa1r-bb9v; David Armenicus' De oculis, translated into Latin by Canamusali de Baldach [i.e. 'Ammār ibn 'Alī al-Mausili?], on leaves bb10r-cc8r. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29 x 20.2 cm. Printed in 2 columns; 65 lines; types, 180G., 130G., 74G.; spaces for capitals with guide letters; woodcut initials; woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments; printer's device at end. Foliation errors: leaves 5 and 39, first sequence, misnumbered as 4 and 41 respectively. Signatures: a⁶ b-d⁸ e-f⁶ aa⁸ bb¹⁰ cc⁸. Binding: 17/18th century sprinkled calf.

  86256

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  Qur'an

  Manuscripts

  The auction description, which accompanies the manuscripts, states that the manuscript was written by an enslaved person of Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of West Africa.

  mssHM 1114