Calverley mss., 1359-1799

Papers of Various at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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Title: Calverley mss.
Collection No.: LMC 2432
Dates: 1359-1799
Quantity:

Quantity: 2 Boxes

Quantity: 2 standard

Abstract: The Calverley mss., 1359-18/19th cent., consist of Arabic manuscripts collected by Edwin Elliott Calverley, 1882-1971, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, whose notes about the documents are occasionally found inscribed thereon.
Location: Lilly - Stacks
Language: Materials are in Arabic .
Repository: Lilly Library
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500
Business Number: 812-855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu
URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library

Biographical Note

Formerly a missionary in Arabia, 1909-1930, Edwin Elliott Calverley, 1882-1971, became a trustee of the American Research Center in Egypt and of the American University at Cairo. He was the author and editor of several books. Calverley also famously translated Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali's The Mysteries of Worship in Islam . This collection is on permanent loan from the E.E. Calverley Arabica Collection of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.

Scope and Content Note

See cataloging notes prepared by James Pollock, Near East cataloger for Indiana University libraries, in the collection's vertical file.

Restrictions

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Indexed Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item], Calverley mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Acquisition Information

Permanent loan: 1982

Collection Inventory

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[al-Dhahabī, Muhammad ibn Ahmad], 1274-1348, author. Kitāb al-Kāshif fī ma' rifat man lahu riwāyah fī al-kutub al-sittah. , 1359 -

Physical Description: Document 218 leaves 27 cm.

General:

  1. Bound in 1955 in Cairo according to unsigned note by Edwin Elliott Calverley inside front cover
  2. Missing first pages replaced by photocopy of 11 leaves from hologaph copy in Taymurīyah Collection in Cairo
  3. Arabic language, clear naskh script
  4. Copied at Hamāh, Syria
  5. Text consists of author's abridgment of his own Tadhhīb Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (the Hadith or oral tradition regarding the deeds and sayings of the Prophet)
  6. Published in Cairo as Dār al-Kutub al-Hadīthah in 1972 in 3 vols. (Wells BP136.48 .D528)
  7. No. A523 from the E.E. Calverley Arabica Collection of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
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[al-Jurjānī, 'Alī ibn Muhammad al-Sayyid al-Sharīf], 1340-1413, theologian, philosopher. [Hāshīyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf 'alá sharh al-Rāzī al-Tahtānī 'alá al-Matāli' lil-Urmawī fī al-mantiq]. , 1442 -

Physical Description: Document 141 leaves 19 cm.

General:

  1. Bound in paper over boards; spine and front in morocco
  2. Title formulated from flyleaves and from bibliographies
  3. Arabic language, riq'ah script
  4. Text consists of gloss by al-Jurjānī on al-Razi al-Tahtani's commentary Lawami' al-asrar fi sharh Matali' al-anwar, upon the treatise on logic by al-Urmawi entitled Matali' al-anwar
  5. Corrections to erroneous notes in French on front pastedown by Edwin Elliott Calverly
  6. No. A455 from the E.E. Calverley Arabica colection of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
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[al-Bistāmī, 'Abd Allāh ibn al-Khalīl al-Asadābādī], 15th century, author. Mishkāt al-misbāh fī bayān awrād al-masā'wa-al-sabāh. , 17th/18th? century -

Physical Description: Document 22 leaves 20 cm.

General:

  1. Disbound, lacking end of text
  2. Arabic language, clear naskhi with elements of riq'ah
  3. Manual for the cultus of the Bistāmīyah Sufi order based on the ten principles of its founder
  4. Author's name found in spiritual genealogy on f.20r-v
  5. No. A488 from the E.E. Calverley Arabica Collection of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
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[al-Munāwī, 'Abd al-Ra'ūf ibn Tāj al-'Ārifīn], ?-1622, author. al-Ithāfāt al-sanīyah bi-al-ahādīth al-Qudsīyah. , 1769 -

Physical Description: Document 32 leaves 22 cm.

General:

  1. Bound in cloth boards with eroded title on spine
  2. Arabic language, naskhi script
  3. Copyist: Ibrāhīm al-Suwayfī al-Shāfi'ī
  4. The text, concerned with Hadith (collections), is discussed in "Das sogenannte Hadīt qudsī" von S.M. Zwemer...Sonderdruck aus "Der Islam" Bd. XIII, 1923 (p. 53-65), pasted in at front flyleaf
  5. Published at Beirut in 1974 (Wells BP135 .A3 M956)
  6. Loose page of cataloguing notes laid in
  7. Provenance: Samuel M. Zwemer, 1922 (Bookplate and note); Edwin Elliott Calverley, 1936 (Note across Zwemer bookplate); No. A433 from the E.E. Calverley Arabica Collection of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
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Koran. Selections. [Majmū'at awrāq ashtāt min makhtūtah Qur'ānīyah]. , 18th/19th? century -

Physical Description: Document 14 leaves 18.4 cm.

General:

  1. Paper cover
  2. Arabic language, naskhi script
  3. Collection of miscellaneous leaves from a Koranic manuscript, including portions of Surahs 12, 14, 17, 57, 82
  4. Text enclosed in gold frame with wide gold bands and occasional floral decoration in margin
  5. No. A300 from the E.E. Calverley Arabica Collection of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
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Majmū'at rasā'il. , 1879 -

Physical Description: Document 166 leaves 23 cm.

General:

  1. Unbound signatures laid in folder of contemporary red morocco boards
  2. Arabic language, clear naskh script
  3. Text consists of thoughts on Sufism by Arabic writers of the 10th-18th centuries
  4. Presented to Edwin Elliott Calverley by Hasan Mahmūd 25 February 1955 as noted on leaf 1r
  5. No. A2 from the E.E. Calverley Arabica Collection of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
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Isfahani's commentary on Baydawi's Tawali' al-anwar min matali' al-anzar. , 1470 -

General:

  1. Referred to by Calverley as MS 875