Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1037Origin: As appears in colophon at close of ghazalīyāt on p.241, transcription completed Rajab 1244 [January 1829]. Close of muqaṭṭaʻāt on p.257 also dated 1244 [1828 or 9].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 186Binding: Dark brown (to black) leather (limp binding, without boards) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; now stab sewn in white thread, five stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and pink, good condition ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, losses of leather, minor pest damage, etc. ; repair to spine (rebacked) in brown leather.Support: European laid paper, mainly a type (perhaps machine laid) with chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), "laid lines" in a mesh / cross-hatch pattern, and watermark of "NICCOLO BRUZZO" under scrollwork with tower and star (see p.6, 8, 12, 14, 251, etc.) ; another type with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "F. PAPINI" under arms or scrollwork (see p.2, 232, etc.) ; all transluscent, sturdy, quite well-sized and burnished.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Shikastah (shikastah-nastaʻlīq / شكسته نستعليق ) ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, sweeping descenders and elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, final nūn occasionally recurved (reversed), yāʼ often uncurved, etc.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: Composition difficult to examine, originally bifolia may now be split ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.29-30).Colophon: [ghazalīyāt] "تمت الغزليات بتاريخ شهر رجب المرجب من شهور سنه ١٢۴۴ م م م " ; [muqaṭṭaʻāt] "فى سنه ١٢۴۴ م م م"Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.4.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collected poems (mainly ghazalīyāt and muqaṭṭaʻāt) of one Harātī [?].
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 409Origin: According to colophon on p.276, copied by the Ottoman historian Mustafa Naima (مصطفى نعيما / Muṣṭafá Naʻīmā, d.1716) with transcription of opening sections completed in the final days of Rajab 1120 [October 1708] ; inscription on front flyleaf (p.1) also indicates that the mecmua is in the hand of Naima, "مجموعۀ نفيسه با خط مرحوم المبرور نعيمآى باهر الفضائل رحمه الله" as does the inscription on the head edge of the text block "مجموعۀ غريبه با خط نعيما افندى" ; date of 1123 [1711 or 12] appears on p.341 and date of 1121 [1709 or 10] appears on p.500.Former shelfmark: "76 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "٢١٧" on tail edge of text block.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; doublures in brown leather with tooled and gold-filled central ornament following the outline of the stamped lozenge and pendants on each cover and filled with floral motifs, set off by gold-tooled accents and gold-painted borders ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (recessed onlays in red leather) and gold-painted central lozenge (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition) and pendants, as well as gold-tooled accents and border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue and pink, tailband gone, headband damaged with some losses ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: European and non-European laid paper (most gatherings composed of bifolia in both) in several types ; main European type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-29 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of crown above cartouche with initials (difficult to make out) and diamond-shaped medallion reminiscent of grapes below (see p.58, 246, 298, 436, 484, 498, 510, etc. and compare Raisin no.6 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans, appearing in ms. copied in Istanbul 1710) ; other watermarks include mount of six coupeaux with "GB" [?] below (see p.502, 506, etc.) and crown above cartouche with "PSD" and grapes (raisin) below (see p.518 and compare Raisin nos. 7-8 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans, appearing in mss. copied in Istanbul 1711) ; main non-European type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct) and no chain lines visible ; all quite well-sized and burnished, mainly cream or dark cream with some leaves tinted blue or yellow ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, hāʼ, etc. ; in some sections, written area and columns within surrounded by a gold frame outlined in black fillets.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Turkish / Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless with slight effect of inclination to the right, gentle descent of words to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing mainly in conjoined dots.Layout: Varies, though mainly in as many as 27 lines per page, divided to two columns ; elsewhere in as many as 41 lines across the diagonal ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V+1 (11), VI (23), II+1 (28), III+1 (35), IV (43), IV+1 (52), 6 V(112), III+1 (119), 6 V(179), IV (187), IV+1 (196), 4 V(236), V-1 (245), V (255), V-1 (254), V (264), i ; many quinions ; numerous lacuna, with many leaves left fully or partially blank between sections ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد وقع الفراغ من تسويده على يد عبد الفقير مصطفى نعيما عامله الله بلطفه العميم وذلك فى اواخر رجب الفرد سنه ١١٢٠"Title from rubricated inscription on opening leaf (p.3).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a collection (mecmua / majmūʻah) of poetic extracts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish, apparently compiled and copied by the Ottoman historian Mustafa Naima (d.1716), opening with selections from the Dīvān of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʻAlī Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī (d. between 1080/1669-70 and 1088/1677-8). Later additions in at least two other hands.