Rabbinical manuscripts of Judah Monis, ca. 1700s

This leather-bound volume contains ten handwritten Hebrew texts presumably compiled by Judah Monis in the early 18th century. The pieces range from three to 150 pages on different sized leaves and appear to be in multiple hands. The last page of the volume has the struck-through inscription, "Judah Monis' Book" and accompanies a 44-page text. The texts are unattributed and undated, but have been identified as transcriptions of cabalistic writings and include a short biography of Isaac Luria (1533-1572) and extracts from the work of Luria, Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah, Abraham ben Isaac of Granada, and Naphtali Bachrach. The transcriptions appear to be unattributed and undated.

A synopsis of naturall philosophy according to the method of the ancients, but improved & augmented with the notions of later philosophers : manuscript, 1677-1679

Possibly autograph, dated at end of volume: Finitu[m] mart: 14, 1678/9. Imperfect copy with title page missing; supplied from a MS copy, dated 29 March 1680, now in the Bodleian Library.

Awrād al-Ustādh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī

"Ṭabʻ ibn Shaṭṭī ʻAbd al-Salām".

Asar-i Şeyh Seyyid Mustafa Beyzade

Terceme-yi ahval-i Beyzade Mustafa Efendi -- Mevlid ün-Nebi -- Menasik ül-hac -- Naẓm al-nāṣiḥīn -- Silsilat al-Naqshabandīyah -- Muqaddimat al-Qaṣīdah al-durrīyah -- al-Qaṣīdah al-durrīyah -- Qaṣāʼid -- Şeyh Hafiz Mehmed al-Hisari'nin tarih-i irtihali -- Taqrīḍ Sharḥ al-Qāmūs -- Taqrīḍ Sharḥ al-Iḥyāʼ -- Murtaza Efendi'nin kaside-yi sabikaya takrizidir -- Beyzade Efendinin Yusufzade'ye verdiği icazetname -- Murad Molla Tekyesi şeyhi Abdülhalim Efendi'ye verdiği izinname -- Boluvi el-Hac Mustafa Efendi'ye verdiği icazetname -- Halil Efendi'ye verdiği icazetname -- Rizevi Ali Efendi'ye verilen icazetname -- Murtaza Efendi'nin Beyzade Efendi'ye i[r]sal eylediği mektub -- Beyzade Efendi'den Murtaza Efendi'ye tahrir olunan mektub -- Geyve Müftüsü Efendi'ye tahrir olunmuştur -- Kastamonu Müftüsüne irsal olunan mektubudur -- Hafiz Efendi'nin Beyzade Efendi'ye yazdıkları tezkire -- Beyzade Efendi hazretlerinin tezkireye cevapları -- Risālat al-Sulūk lil-Shaykh Beyzade -- Çorumlu Ebubekir Efendi'nin risale-yi manzumelerine takrizdir -- Cevab-ı mektub -- Medhiye-yi Abdülkadir el-Geylani -- İşbu salat-i şerife Beyzade Efendiden mervidir -- Risālat al-maʻlūm wa-al-majhūl.

Kashf al-qināʻ fī taḍmīn al-ṣunnāʻ

[al-Ḥasan ibn Raḥḥāl al-Tadlāwī].

Hādhā kitāb Īḍāḥ al-dalālāt fī samāʻ al-ālāt

li-ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī.

The Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa: dividid into all its governments, together with the other territories that are tributary to it, as also the dominions of ye Emperor of Marocco [sic] according to the newest and most exact observations

by H. Moll.

Hādhā kitāb Kurūm ʻarāyis al-tahānī sharḥ Ṣalawāt Ibn Mashīsh al-Dānī / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Fāḍil al-Ṣūfī al-Humām al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Khalwatī : manuscript, 1840

Author's own abridgement of his longer commentary on Moroccan sufi Ibn Mashīsh's prayer book known as Ṣalawāt. Longer version is titled: Rawḍāt al-ʻarshīyah fī al-kalām ʻala al-Ṣalawāt al-Mashīshīyah.

Hādhihi taʻlīqah laṭīfah fī-mā yataʻallaq bi-qawl al-Nabīy ṣallá Allāhu ʻalayhi wa-sallam "ḥubbiba ilayya min dunyākum al-nisāʼ wa-al-ṭīb wa-juʻilat qurrat ʻaynī fī al-ṣalāt" / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Ālim al-Allāmah wa-al-baḥr al-fahhāmah Shaykh al-Islām wa-al-muslimīn ʻumdat al-fuqahāʼ wa-al-muḥaddithīn Sayyidī Abū al-Suʻūd ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zakī al-Dīn al-Khazrajī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1685

Written in one column, 15 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Title written in green and red ink.

Hādhā Rūznāmah-ʼī maʻahu mīqāt layl wa-nahār wa-sāʼir al-awqāt al-maʻlūmah / naqalahu Shaykh Wafā : manuscript, undated

Calendar with times for the five daily prayers of Islam for each month of the year.

Kitāb Mufarriḥ al-nafs / taṣnīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Sharaf al-Dīn Abī Naṣr Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Abī al-Futūḥ al-Baghdādī thumma al-Māridīnī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Marah : manuscript, [ca. 1530]

The author's name appears as ابن المره in title page (f. 1r) and ابن المراه at the beginning of the book (f. 1v).

Sharḥ Arbaʻīn ḥadīth Imām Nawawī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column framed within double red lines, from 15 (ff. 1r-16v) to 19 (ff. 17r-63v) lines per page, in black and red.

Risālat Taʻrīf al-ṣirāh fī sulūk al-ghuzāh / min taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Hindī al-mashhūr bi-al-Muttaqī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 9 lines per page, in black ink.

Kitāb Tuḥfat al-silāk fī faḍl al-siwāk / min kalām sayyidinā al-Shaykh al-ʻĀrif billāh taʻālá al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-Zāhid : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one column, 23-24 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

Sharḥ abyāt al-Muṭawwal : manuscript, 1703

Written in one column, 19 lines per page, in black and red.