Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 315Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; on the whole, perhaps later 18th or even early 19th century with carpet pages possibly 17th (opening double-page) and later 18th century (second double-page).Former shelfmark: "191 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "257" in pencil, "6" in ink, all on recto of opening leaf.Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork, spine in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in fine painted lacquerwork featuring tall narcissus-like plant with leaves in shades of green and flowers and buds in yellow with pink accents at the head of a central stalk, accompanied by other flowers in blue, white and shades of pink, all on a red ground with border in black with gold accents (composition of upper doublure mirrors that of lower doublure) ; upper and lower covers bear paintings evoking traditional bookcover design with scalloped mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces and elaborate borders all filled with swirling vegetal design with floral motifs in shades of gold, red, pink, blue, yellow, and white on grounds of green, yellow, black and red ; now sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and white, some damage to headband ; overall in poor condition with significant losses of lacquer, pigment and board sustained by upper and lower covers, crazing and cracking in doublures, some delamination of boards, etc.Support: Written area possibly in non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper and mounted in leaves of non-European (5-6 laid lines per cm., horizontal, curved, no chains visible, quite sturdy and well-burnished) and occasionally European laid paper (10 laid lines per cm., vertical, chain lines spaced 30-32 mm. apart, horizontal, scrollwork watermarks) ; margins mainly surface-dyed pink or yellow ; some breakthrough at frames ; thin, orange surface-dyed slips protect illumination at later section opening and tailpiece.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated carpet pages (anepigraphic frontispieces) at opening ; initial double-page illumination with each page consisting of central ornament in the form of an eight-pointed star, pendants and cornerpieces filled with arabesques and floral accents in gold, turquoise, red, blue, etc. on grounds of blue (lapis), black and gold set in a field of gold floral vegetal motifs, likely taken from another manuscript and mounted here ; next double-page illumination with each page carrying central eight-pointed star with pendants filled with small floral motifs in pink, yellow, blue, white, etc. on a gold ground set in a narrow central panel defined by elaborate borders and filled with rich floral vegetal decoration (with sāz leaves, large floral motifs, etc.) in gold with red, blue and yellow accents, also likely taken from a different manuscript ; double-page illumination at opening carries text in 13 lines per page set off by gold cloud-bands (written area set into page) surrounded by a border richly decorated with small floral motifs in shades of pink, yellow, blue, orange, etc. on a field of blue defined by bands of yellow, blue and gold interlace with outermost vertical stalks (tīgh) in gold and blue ; written area elsewhere throughout surrounded by heavy band of blue with gold vegetal design and outermost bands of red, gold and blue, divisions within defined by gold bands and vegetal designs, additional bands define outer margin ; simple illuminated headpieces (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) in the form of small rectangular pieces with empty gold cartouches appear at section openings ; text throughout set off by gold cloud-bands.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite hand in a medium line ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written mainly in 29 lines per page, with written area divided to three columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: 4 (4), 8 II(36), II+1 (41) ; almost exclusively binions ; catchwords present in lower left corner of written area ;Explicit: "تیغ زبان بیش نشاید کشید سخن کن چوبمقطع رسید تمت كتاب روضه الانوار افضل المتكلمين كمال الملة والدين خواجو كرمانى نور الله قبره بعون الله تعالى وفضله وجوده"Incipit: "زینت الروضة في الاول بسم آله الصمد المفضل"Title from close.Ms. composite codex.Splendid copy of the Ṣūfistic poem in 20 maqālahs and 2,224 bayts composed by Kamāl al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAṭāʼ Maḥmūd ibn ʻAlī Khvājū-yi Kirmānī (d.1352) for Shams al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Ṣāʼin, vizier of the Injūʼid ruler Abū Isḥāq Injū (r.1341-53). Fourth part of Khvājū's Khamsah, modeled on the Khamsah of Niẓāmī.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 444Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration and paper certainly suggests 18th century and date in watermark may suggest ca. 1742.Former shelfmark: "465 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "234" inscribed in pencil on 'title page’.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in light brown leather with gold-tooled rule-borders ; flyleaves in gold-flecked marbled paper (in red, blue, black, grey, etc.), hinges in a different marbled paper (yellow and dark blue) ; upper and lower covers carry superb stamp and gold-painted recessed mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, and borderpieces framed by a series of roll borders ; design continues on envelope flap ; edges of text block gold-painted with repeated strokes design ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, good condition ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion and staining ; subtle repairs at spine (rebacked), fore edge flap and board edges in similar dark red leather gold tooled with rules and greek key pattern (compare unrepaired edges of envelope flap), as well as two fills in dark red leather on lower cover.Support: European laid paper of several different types including many with raisin watermarks ; one type with 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart (vertical) and grapes under crown watermark ; another type with 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of grapes under cartouche with "P C" and crown above ; still another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of grapes under long cartouche with crown above and date "1742" [?] below ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 21-23 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of lion statant guardant and cross-bow ; some leaves tinted pale orange, pink, bright yellow, buff, beige, etc.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on fol.1b consisting of rectangular panel with empty gold cartouche surrounded by vegetal pattern in gold with floral accents in pink and red surmounted by a scalloped rectangular piece filled with the same intricate vegetal pattern and itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, red, and gold ; the entire piece is set into a well of rich gold interlace ; a second illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) consisting of w-shaped piece of similar composition to opening headpiece appears at opening of biographical sketch on fol.6b ; written area surrounded by heavy gold frame with any divisions of the written area and margin outlined by a gold rule ; keywords, text of ḥadīth, headings, titles, etc. rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas ; in opening of "تضمين مصرع عرفى" written area gold-flecked.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with closed counters, descent of words to baseling, pointing in distinct dots, and elongation of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in roughly 11-17 lines per page ; roughly five lines of ḥadīth text and eight of the elucidation (on the diagonal) ; column of written area is divided to two columns to accept the lines of elucidation while ḥadīth text fills the width of the column ; biographical sketch and works of prose and verse are arranged in various layouts, including 11-13 lines per page on the diagonal filling the entire written area, 11-17 lines per page with written area divided to two columns (often alternating with a line centered or filling the column width), roughly 12 lines per page on the diagonal with written area divided to two columns, etc.Collation: i, 5 V(50), I+1 (3), II (57), V (67), VII (81), IV (89), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present.Incipit: "قال عليه السلام السماح رباح اى اولان كاركاه عالمده طالب وستمائة اعمال ..."Title from inscription on 'title page'.Ms. codex.Stunning copy of a collection of works by Münîf of Antakya (d.1743 or 4), opening with a collection of thirty-nine ḥadīth accompanied by his Turkish paraphrase and followed by a biographical sketch for him, a collection of letters, his Zafernâme on the Belgrade campaign of 1152 [1739], and his collected poems (divan).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1045Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; contents, paper, etc. would suggest mid to late 17th century.Accompanying materials: Descriptive notes on University of Michigan letterhead in hand of Eleazer Birnbaum, signed ("E. Birnbaum") and dated May 26 1964, "Turkish MS. written in a taʻlīk hand. 204 ffol. 'Title' on first flyleave مجموعه دواوين شعرا = Memūʻa-yı Devāvīn-i Şuʻarā | 'Collection of Turkish Divans.' Contains 1. Divan of Riyāzī Efendi and his Sāḳī-nāme and his Rubāʻīyat (Quatrains) 2. Yaḥyā Efendī's Sāḳī-nāme 3. Dīvān of Nādirī Efendi 4. Divan of Ḥaletī Ef. 5. Tezkere-i Şuʻarā of Riyāzī Efendi (incomplete) [= Biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets] 6. Divan of Sabrī [d. 1645] 7. Dīvān of Nevʻīzāde ʻAtāʼī [1583-1634] 8. Divan of Veysī Efendi [1561-1628] 9. Muḳaddime of Ḳaysūnzāde | Copy ca. 17-18th cent."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in shell marbled wove paper (mainly in shades of blue) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped lozenge ornament filled with symmetrical vegetal composition set off by gold-painted accents, as well as gold-painted rule borders ; now sewn in white thread, six stations, tightly bound ; worked chevron endbands in white and olive green, excellent condition ; overall in fair condition with some negative draw in covers, abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, minor delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to spine (rebacked) and board corners in dark mauve-brown leather ; housed in custom box for protection.Support: European laid paper of several types ; main type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20-22 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of latin cross in heart with initials "B S" above (see p.74, 388, etc.) ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced roughly 33 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of three circles with crescent in uppermost and initials in middle, cross above (see p.110, 120, 130, 150, 244, etc.) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced roughly 25 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of paschal lamb (see p.154, 156, etc.) ; all thin and quite transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy ; some leaves tinted yellow, pale blue or pink ; other watermarks include "V d" / "b V" under trefoil countermark (p.6), crossbow in circle (p.10) and maltese cross in circle (p.108, 128) ; flyleaves in European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), watermark of crown-star-crescent (see front flyleaf, p.2) and countermark of "S S" under trefoil (see back flyleaf, p.400).Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated ; overlining in red (often of names appearing in the verses, i.e. of poet, etc.) ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; mainly an elegant Turkish / Ottoman hand in a medium line ; spacious and serifless with slight effect of inclination to the right, gentle descent of words to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in strokes.Layout: Highly variable, but as many as 41 lines per page, typically in two columns, occasionally on the diagonal with further lines up the center ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, II (4), 4 V(44), II+3 (51), 6 V(111), II+2 (117), V (127), IV+1 (136), V (146), V+1 (157), 3 V(187), V-1+1 (197), iii ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (often obscured by guards) ; leaves between sections often left fully or partially blank ; foliation in pencil, Western numerals (possibly supplied by bookseller) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing (includes some flyleaves and mistakenly skips two pages between pp.307-308).Incipit: "معراجية ومدح حضرت سيد الكونين صلى الله تعالى عليه وسلم كم ايتدى جوهرن خاك انجره خورشيد جهان آرا انى بولماغه غريال ايتدى حاضر طارم والا ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.2).Ms. codex.Fine "agenda" format volume containing assorted excerpts from the collected poems of several Turkish poets, including Riyâzî (d.1644), Zekeriyazade Yahya Efendi (d.1644), Ganîzâde Nâdirî Mehmet Efendi (d.1626), Azmîzade Mustafa Haletî (d.1631), Sabrî (Mehmet Şerîf b. Ahmed İlmî Edirnevî, d.1646), Nevizade Atayi Ataullah b. Yahya (d.1635), and Veysî (Üveys b. Mehmet Alaşehrî, d.1628), as well as from Riyâzî's biographical dictionary of poets ; contents listing on added leaf at opening (p.3). Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 424Origin: As appears in colophon on p.197, transcription completed by the author in Muḥarram 1216 [May-June 1801]. A note on the 'title page' (p.1), "مترجم مرحوم خطيله", also indicates that the manuscript is in the hand of the author.Former shelfmark: "329 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings and flyleaves in orange-tinted, silver-flecked European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite stamped mandorla (gold-painted recessed onlays, vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) and pendants, as well as gold-tooled accents and guilloché roll border ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition with tailband and primaries detaching from textblock but still well-attached to spine lining ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion, some lifting of spine leather, spine lining detached from most of text block, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct, curved), no chain lines visible, cloudy formation with fibers and inclusions visible, quite sturdy, transluscent and crisp, highly sized and burnished, beige to light brown in color ; board linings and flyleaves in European laid paper with large scrollwork watermark (difficult to make out).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of the preface on p.2, consisting of scalloped w-shaped piece with gold cartouche (carrying the title "مرح المعالى فى شرح الامالى" in white) surrounded by swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold with red, blue, and light blue accents on a gold ground, entire piece set in an elaborate well of pink, black and light blue bands flanking a heavy band of gold interlace with red and turquoise accents and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red ; second superb illuminated headpiece at opening of the main text ( beginning with introduction, مقدمۀ كتاب) on p.8 ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy gold frame with divisions within defined by narrow gold bands ; elsewhere written area (and divisions within) surrounded by light blue (evoking silver) band defined by inner and outer red rules ; keywords and text being commented upon rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact hand in a heavy line ; serifless, with effect of words inclining to the right and descending to baseline, closed counters, elongated horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; text being commented upon fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V+1 (11), 9 V(101), i ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages each between pp.9-10 and 183-184).Dedication: As appears in opening matter (preface, see p.5) dedicated to Sultan Selim III (r.1709-1807).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular reads "نجز بقلم شارحه الحقير فى م سنه ١٢١٦"Explicit: "مفهوم بيت بو در كه بر كمسنه بنم ايچون بر كون كه مراد بر وقتدر دعاى خير ايدرسه مدت عمرمده زمايت قدرتمى آنك خير دعاسنده افراغ ايدرم فنرجو من الله العميم المراحم البسيط المكارم ان يعفو عنا وعن الناظم ويرحمنا ويرحمه ويرحم آبائنا وامهاتنا ومشايخنا واحبائنا وجميع المؤمنين بحرمة رسوله الامين ولله الحمد اولا واخرا"Incipit: "سبحان من توحد فى ذاته القديم سبحان من تفرد فى وصفته القويم ... اما بعد صورت مقدمۀ اتيه ده بيان اولنديغى اوزره جملۀ علوم شريفه وجلمۀ فنون منيفه دن علم كلام ايله معلم اولان ... بو عبد مكزين يعنى در مائده اواصر قواصم السيد احمد عاصم جعله الله من عصبة المعاصم ... شرح وامل سنه وضع قلم ابتدا اولنوب اسلوب مطلوب ومنهج مرغوب اوزره توفيق رب منعامله قرين حسن ختام ومرح المعالى فى شرح الامالى ايله بنام ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2 and in opening matter on p.4.Ms. codex.Elegant, apparently autograph copy of the commentary by the celebrated Ottoman offical historiographer (vak’anüvîs / vakanüvîs) Ahmet Asım Efendi, also known as Mütercim Asım (d.1820) on al-Ūshī's (fl. 12 cent.) renowned theological poem in lām, Badʼ al-amālī or Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʻabd fī badʻ al-amālī.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1021Origin: As appears in colophon on p.146, opening work copied by Muḥammad ...[?] Munshī ( محمد ... منشي [?] ) with transcription completed 20 Ramaḍān 1203 [?] [ca. 14 June 1789 ?]. As appears in colophon on p.217, transcription of second work completed 1 Muḥarram 1203 [?] [ca. 2 October 1788]. Use of same or very similar paper in each work suggests such nearly contemporary dates of transcription.Accompanying materials: a. Used call slip with notes in handwriting of Jameson on reverse "'Coal-cellar' MS | Sulaiman purchase | 10-20-70" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip with notes in handwriting of Eilts [?] and Jameson "1253 AH 1837 or 8 =colophon | Persian | title – ? | author – ? | Brought to RBR on 10-27-70 by Mr. Eilts. | Purchased by Mr. Sulaiman from Librarie Tunisienne in 1967. Letter & invoice in MSS file. [actually, this manuscript does not appear in the inventory listing in the administrative files and was not purchased from Librarie Tunisienne but from Haziq-n-Mohi Rare Book Sellers of Hyderabad ; likely mistakenly assigned to "Sulaiman Purchase" manuscripts]| See inscription in book" (paginated pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 170Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (with yellow-tinted paper onlays) mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces and borders defined by 'gold'-painted fillets ; epigraphic stamps used for cornerpieces ; sewn in heavy white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and now dull cream, fairly good condition, primaries stitched through spine lining ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion and staining, lifting and losses of onlays, cover detaching at upper hinge and spine lining (except where primaries stitched), minor delamination of boards, etc.Support: non-European (likely Indian) laid paper of at least two types ; mainly a type (appearing in opening work and bulk of second work) with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct, some curving) and chain lines only faintly visible (see p.148), cloudy formation, many fibers and inclusions visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, lightly burnished, dark cream in color ; final type (appearing at close of second work) with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct, some curving) and no chain lines visible, slightly thicker and sturdier than main type.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas.Script: Shikastah-nastaʻlīq ( شكسته نستعليق ) ; two bold Indian hands ; opening work supplied in fluid though somewhat angular hand in a medium line, freely ligatured and casually pointed with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, etc. ; second work supplied in a graceful hand in a medium line, freely ligatured with effect of words descending to baseline, quite rounded with smooth curvilinear descenders (some dramatically sweeping), pointing (though somewhat casual) mainly in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15 and 16 lines per page.Collation: 13 IV(104), II (108) ; exclusively quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in black in the upper-outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower-outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: [Mukātabāt] "كتبه محمد ... منشي ... تحرير بستم شهر رمضان المبارك سنه ١٢٠٠٣ [؟] هجرى"; [Ruqʻāt-i ʻInāyat Allāh Kanbūh] "... ... رقم الحروف ... تاريخ غره ماه محرم سنه ١٢٠٣ [؟] هجرى"Incipit: [Mukātabāt] " بر راز شناسان سخن نهفته نماند مکاتباتی که از زبان خدیو پاک روان سیفخان به بعضی خوانین..." ; [Ruqʻāt-i ʻInāyat Allāh Kanbūh] "این مکتوبات چند از شیخ عنایت الله کنبوه که منشی عهد بود نوشته شد جزو اغارید است ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.5. p.219-p.220 : [assorted excerpts including "recipe containing sesame, ginger and sugar, etc. to help gain weight and have a bright complexion," a charm, etc. from description of Connie Bobroff].4. p.218 : [blank].3. p.149-p.217 : Ruqʻāt-i ʻInāyat Allāh Kanbūh / ʻInāyat Allāh Kanbūh.2. p.147-p.148 : [blank].1. p.6-p.146 : [Mukātabāt] / Navāb Sayf Khān.Composite manuscript carrying two works comprising collections of correspondence, the first of Faqīr Allāh Navvāb [Navāb] Sayf Khān (d.1683) with his pupil the prince Dārā Shikūh (Dārā Shukūh, d.1659) son of Shāh Jahān (r.1628-57), and the second of ʻInāyat Allāh Kanbūh (d.1671). Contributions to the cataloguing from Connie Bobroff (including identification and transcription) and Abdullah Ghouchani. See another ms. copy of the first work in Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University, no. 1335.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 42Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Paper would suggest late 18th or early 19th century. Date in seal impression on fol.75b (p.148) provides a rough terminus ante quem of 1846 or 7.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 149. Al-Hizb al-azam, Dalail al-khairat, etc."Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers bear fine stamped, red and gold-painted scalloped mandorla with vegetal composition (compare Deroche class. NSd 7) and gold painted accents, along with gold-painted roll border in a series of s-shaped stamps and gold fillets ; sewn in dingy grey thread (once pink?), two stations ; endbands virtually lost, only traces of primaries remain ; in poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting and detaching of leather (particularly at spine), flap lost, boards exposed and delaminating at corners, etc.Support: European laid paper with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermark of grapes with crown above ; staining and smudging.Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.1) and on p.72 (nearly identical) consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular (dome) piece ; rectangular piece carries the basmalah in a cartouche defined by flanking accents in gold ; scalloped semi-circular piece carries swirling floral vegetal pattern in white, pink, red and black on a field of gold, outlined in blue and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; headpiece is set in a well of red and gold bands outlined by black fillets with blue and white circular accents ; written area of incipit and facing page bordered in gold frame ; elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs ; incomplete diagram showing the tombs of Muḥammad, Abū Bakr and ʻUmar on fol.43a (p.83) ; text rubricated with section headings, keywords, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Naskh influenced by nastaʻlīq ; fine Turkish or Persian hand ; sans serif ; effect of tilt to the right ; words often descending to baseline ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; horizontal strokes usually in heavier line and often elongated.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: 3 V(30), V-4 (36), V-1 (45), 2 V(65), VI (77) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords occasionally present (last word of final line recto repeating on following verso) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.1-2, mistakenly repeats p.91, and skips from p.107 to 109).Explicit: [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "اللهم صلى على محمد عبدك ورسولك النبي الامي الذي آمن بك وبكتابك واعطه افضل رحمتك واته الشرف على خلقك يوم القيامة واجزه خير الجزاء والسلام عليه ورحمة الله وبركاته" [Dalāʼil al-khayrāt] "صلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وامام المرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليمأ والحمد لله رب العالمين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل"Incipit: [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "الحمد لله الذي دعانا للايمان وهدانا بالقرآن واجاب دعوتنا بالفضل والاحسان ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الداعي الراجي مغفرة ربه الباري علي بن سلطان محمد القاري ستر عيوبهما لما رايت بعض السالكين يتعلقون باوراد المشياخ المعتبرين ... فخطر ببالي ان اجمع الدعوات الماثورة في الاحاديث المشهورة ... وسميته الحزب الاعظم لانتسابه واستناده الى الرسول الاكرم ..." [Dalāʼil al-khayrāt] "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم قال الشيخ الفقيه الامام العالم سيدي ابو عبد الله محمد بن سليمان الجزولي رحمه الله تعالى الحمد لله الذي هدانا للايمان والاسلام والصلاة والسلام على محمد نبيه ... وبعد فالغرض في هذا الكتاب ذكر الصلاة على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وفضائلها اذكرها محذوفة الاسانيد ليسهل حفظها على القاري وهي من اهم المهمات لمن يريد القرب من رب الارباب وسميته بكتاب دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار صلى الله عليه وسلم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.5. fol.76a-fol.77b : [assorted prayers, originally blank].4. fol.37b-fol.75b : Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār / al-Jazūlī.3. fol.32b-fol.37a : [assorted prayers, originally blank].2. fol.2b-fol.32a : al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham / al-Qārī al-Harawī.1. fol.1a-fol.2a : [assorted prayers, originally blank].Fine prayerbook containing al-Qārī al-Harawī's al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam followed by the celebrated Dalāʼil al-khayrāt of al-Jazūlī, with numerous assorted prayers and remedies on the remaining leaves.
Abstract: Collection of texts on time-keeping and the use of various astronomical instruments. The volume consists of two distinct parts. The first part (fol. 1-20) contains a text in Ottoman Turkish copied in Edirne in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667. The second part (fol. 21-124) contains several texts in Arabic copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī, Egypt ("al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533, except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown leather and marbled paper.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-18b: Teshil ül-mikât Tasʹhīl al-mīqāt / Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī al-muwaqqit.Contents: 2. fol. 19a-20b: Several inscriptions and tables.Contents: 3. fol. 21a-25a : Muqaddimah fī maʻrifat al-ḥudūd / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 4. fol. 25b-34b: Risālat laqṭ al-jawāhir fī maʻrifat al-dawāʾir / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 5. fol. 35a-43a: al-Risālah al-gharbanīyah(?) fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 6. fol. 43b-44a: Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-taqwīm bi-ṭarīq al-ḥisāb.Contents: 7. fol. 45b-51b: Muqaddimah ʻalá al-rubʻ al-shamālī al-kāmil / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 8. fol. 52a-61a: ʻUmdat dhawī al-albāb fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-aʻmāl al-falakīyah bi-al-ḥisāb wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb / Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī.Contents: 9. fol. 62b-65a: Risālah āfāqīyah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-nisbah al-sittīnīyah.Contents: 10. fol. 65b-66b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ṭūl al-balad.Contents: 11. fol. 67a-73a: Risālat Niṣf dāʾirat al-muʻaddil / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī.Contents: 12. fol. 73b-75b: Fāʾidah Hādhihi al-thalāthah al-abwāb min ākhir al-Risālah al-sittīnīyah alladhī ilá al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Māridīnī.Contents: 13. fol. 75b-76a: Dāʾirah of "mā taṣādaqa min al-burūj wa-mā tabāghaḍa wa-mā taṣādaqa min al-nujūm wa-mā tabāghaḍa", with introduction.Contents: 14. fol. 76b: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-ʻulwīyah".Contents: 15. fol. 77a: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-suflīyah".Contents: 16. fol. 78b-96a: Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir / Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī.Contents: 17. fol. 97a-112b: Kitāb al-Luʾluʾ al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 18. al-Waḍʻ ʻalá al-jihāt fī al-basāʾiṭ wa-al-munḥarifāt.Contents: 19. fol. 125b: Verses of poetry in Ottoman Turkish and other inscriptions.Ms. codex.Title from table of contents on fol. (i)a (later hand).Physical description: First text written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 12 lines per page (147 x 80 mm.). Laid European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 300 mm.). The other texts written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, with 13 lines per page (140 x 100 mm.). Yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. Zād al-masāfir has 15 lines per page (fol. 78b-96a). European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 400 mm.). Contains tables and a circular diagram (fol. 76a). Fol. i is a later addition with a table of contents. Fol. 125 is a later addition with inscriptions. Stained with water.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻUlūm riyāḍīyah 32". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1019".Origin: According to colophons, Text 1 copied in Edirne, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667 (fol. 18b). The other texts are copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī (ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Barisī Kū(?) on fol. 66b), Egypt ("bi-al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 1533 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533 (fol. 34b, 66b, 73a, 112b, 113b), except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533 (fol. 94b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 114Origin: As appears in colophons on p.126 and p.181, transcription of the second and third work finished in 1108 H [1696 or 1697 M]. Copyist for the second and third works may be the author of the statement on the 'title page' (p.1), ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad. All papers suggest 17th century.Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes, etc. (paginated pp.39-40).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 129. Adab al-bahth, with 3 commentaries."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid marbled paper (in salmon, yellow, and green) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; envelope flap in different marbled paper ; sewn in once pink [?] thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and yellow, fair condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, some lifting and losses of leather, envelope flap detaching from fore-edge flap, fore-edge flap ill-fitting (small), some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: European laid paper of roughly three types ; first work supplied on a European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart (horizontal), three circles watermark with initials 'A R' [?] and cross above, only lightly burnished ; second and third works supplied on two papers, one a thick and burnished European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (compare Heawood 1133) the other a European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark ; some staining.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq ; two hands, with first work provided in one hand and second and third works provided in another hand ; both virtually serifless with mainly closed counters and slight effect of words descending to baseline (more exaggerated in second hand) ; some exaggeration in thickness of horizontal strokes (more so in bolder first hand).Layout: Written in 21 and 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V (10), V+1 (21), 4 V(61), I+1 (64), 2 V(84), IV (92) ; chiefly quinions ; leaves left blank between works and at close ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and skips two pages between pp.33-34).Colophon: [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī] "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت الحاشية الشريفة لمولانا عمر بن احمد الجلي الامدي [؟] على حاشية الفتحية في الاداب سنة ۱۱۰۸" ; [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الاوراق بعناية الخلاق سنة ۱۱۰۸ م"Incipit: [Ḥāshiyat Ḥamzah Afandī ] "يا محسنا لمن نادب في مقام العبودية بخير الاداب ويا هاديا لمن جاهد في الطاعات سبيل الصواب ... لما كانت الفوائد مشتهرة بين العلماء ... علقت عليها ما يكشف عن وجوه فرائدها ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī] "يا من وفقنا لاداب البحث والمناظرة في الكلام وعصمنا من الخلل والقصور في تحرير المدعى والمرام ... فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالچلي ان الحاشية الفتحة في الاداب لما كانت لدلتها متوارية عن الاذهاب ... فضمت اليه ما يتمم به النقصان ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah] "الحمد لمن رفع قوله من تأدب لاظهار الصواب ... وبعد فيقول الراجي من ربه الفوز بالسعادة يحيى بن عمر المشتهر بمنقاري زاده تحرير التقرير ان صدرت على اداب مذاكرة الرسالة الحنفية وحاشيتها الفتحية في الاداب ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.6. p.182-p.184 : [blank].5. p.130-p.181 : [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah ʻalá al-Ḥāshīyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / Minkarizade Yahya Efendi.4. p.127-p.129 : [blank].3. p.44-p.126 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.2. p.42-43 : [blank].1. p.1-p.41 : [Ḥāshiyat Ḥamzah Afandī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / Hamza Efendi.Fine copy of three superglosses by Hamza Efendi (d.1712), ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.), and Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (d.1678) each on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī's (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 380Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.990-991, copied by Mahmut, the translator/author's son, for the vizier Hazret Osman Paşa ( حضرت عثمان پاشا) with transcription completed 1 Ṣafar 1112 [ca. 18 July 1700].Accompanying materials: Slip of blue wove paper carrying notes in black ink (between pp.202-203).Former shelfmark: "٢٤٧" in black ink on spine label ; "362 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis] on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan / light brown leather framed in black leather (over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures / pastedowns and flyleaves in heavy laid paper with a speckled ebru design (marbled) in red, white, blue, green, purple, and black ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped (with gold-painted, red recessed onlays) scalloped mandorla and pendants, as well as wide, tooled and gold-painted border in a series of s-shaped stamps (forming guilloché roll) flanked by gold rules ; design continues on flap ; sewn in blue thread, broken for many of the gatherings in the first half of the text and sometimes repaired with red thread ; worked chevron endbands in brown and light blue, losses exposing cores of head and tailband ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, lifting (particularly where cover flanges overlap on spine) and losses of leather, envelope flap detaching from fore edge flap, etc.Support: European laid paper of at least three types ; first type with roughly 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) roughly 28 mm. apart, well-burnished, thick and creamy (see p.20, etc.) ; second type with roughly 14 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 23 mm. apart, well-burnished, thin and crisp, scrollwork / arms watermark (see p.571, etc.) ; third type with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 14 mm. apart, well-burnished, thin and crisp, watermark with grapes surmounted by a cartouche with "...RBE..." written inside surmounted by a crown (compare to Heawood 2385, see p.791, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in green and red on a gold ground, surmounted by a scalloped, semi-circular piece (dome) with floral floral designs in pink, lavender, red, and teal on a gold ground, itself surmounted by delicate vertical stalks (tīgh) in dark blue and flecked with gold above ; entire piece set in a well of white crosses on a thin red band ; text of written area surrounded by frame consisting of a heavy gold band flanked by black fillets and outermost gold rule ; section headings, keywords, notabilia and some vocalization rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of discs and inverted commas in gold (incipit and facing page, pp.4-5) and red ; edges of text block decorated with floral-vegetal motifs in gold.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline and elongated horizontal strokes, fully vocalized at times.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV+1 (9), 48 V (489), III+1 (496), ii ; chiefly quinions ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "قد استراحت قديمة القلم عن السياحت في ميادين الرقم ... على يد افقر من مشى تحت الخضرا... محمود ابن مترجم هذا الكتاب المستطاب ... وجعله هدية لخزانة كتب الوزير المكرم والدستور المفخم ... حضرت عثمن پاشا اناله الله بما يحبه ويشا وكثر من المستعدين من اولاه وجعل اخراه اولى من اوليه ... حرر في غرة صفر المظفر ختم بالخير والظفر من شهور سنه اثنى وعشرة و مائة بعد الالف من هجره من انزل عليه القران حرفا بعد حرف"Explicit: "وضلع امرأه ايله تعبير اولنور زيرا رسول اكرم غرابه فاسق الطلاق ومراه يي ضلعه تشبيه بيورديلر والله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وله و صحبه اجمعين"Incipit: "ان احسن الاحاديث بعد الحمد لمن جعل السقف الاخضر مرفوعا ... وبعد بو كمينۀ كم بضاعه وفقير قصير الباعه ..."Title from titlepiece on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the extensive Ottoman Turkish rendering (with commentary) by İshak Hocası Ahmet b. Heyreddin (d.1708) of al-Tirmidhī's (d.892) Kitāb al-Shamāʼil, a collection of traditions comprising the Prophet’s characteristics. Copy apparently executed by the author's son (see colophon) and collated by the author himself (see collation statement on p.1). Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 291Origin: Date, copyist and place of transcription are not specified in colophon of fol.360a (p.720 ; paper and hand would suggest a dating of 16th to early-mid 17th century.Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather (pebbled quality of shagreen) with edges/turn-ins and spine in tan leather (sheep) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in red leather (sheep) with filigree in gold leather over red and blue paper and green silk ; upper and lower covers bear central scalloped mandorla with floral vegetal pattern (compare Déroche class. OAi2 7), pendants and corner pieces (in complementary floral vegetal pattern) along with tooled border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps framed by scored fillets ; doublures bear scalloped mandorla, pendants and corner pieces with vegetal pattern in elaborate gold leather filigree applique over red and blue paper and green silk along with gold painted accents and rule border ; fine chevron endbands in blue-green and purple ; sewing mainly in same blue-green or blue (middle quires) with two sewing stations ; a few early quires sewn in white with two stations ; primaries in same blue-green ; in quite fair condition with some abrasion and edge wear, staining, minor pest damage, some lifting and losses of leather and paper (covers and filigree of doublures), and loose quires.Support: non-European (Persian, 16th or early 17th century - prior to 1650 [?]) laid paper with fairly distinct laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 8-9 laid lines per cm., some curving/sagging ; virtually no chain lines visible, though sporadically a single chain line is visible ; some undissolved fibers; thick ; crisp ; highly burnished with some burnisher's marks ; some pigment breakthrough along central frame of fol.1 ; some page repairs in same paper as flyleaves (apparently added later as evidenced by the traces of the doublure filigree design on fol.1a and fol.360b ; burn on fore edge of textblock ; some accretions, soiling, staining, etc.Decoration: Superbly executed illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) appears at the opening of each main section (see fol.1b/p.2, fol.183b/p.366, fol.280b/p.560, and fol.325b/p.650), each includes a cartouch bearing the work or section title ; elaborate frame consisting of bands of green, red, light blue, gold, blue and red with black fillets appears throughout ; incipit and facing page (as well as opening and facing page for each of other main sections) bear additional blue band with white crosses around written area and dividing the columns of the written area a band in lapis lazuli with floral pattern in gold ; written area throughout is gold-flecked ; cloud bands with floral vegetal pattern in green, blue and red appear on incipit and facing page (as well as on opening and facing page for each of the other main sections) ; margins (even inner margin) of incipit and facing page bear elaborate design of flowers, vines and birds in gold (as does opening and facing page for third main section - see p.560-561) ; opening and facing pages for second main section (see p.366-367) bears essentially the same design but with what appears to be faces of lions rather than birds ; opening and facing pages for final main section bear similar design with large blossoms rather than animal motifs ; text rubricated with section headings, etc. in red.Script: Nastaliq ; fine Persian hand ; sans serif with characteristic sloping of words to baseline, final words or letters of each line superscript, closed counters, and characteristic letterforms.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV+1 (9), 34 V (349), IV (357), I+1 (360), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present, though occasionally lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, chiefly in Arabic, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب تمام شد كليات افصح المتكلمين كمال الدين اسمعيل اصفهانى عليه الرحمه تم تم تم"Explicit: "جوياى كمالند بجان اهل هنر انگاه بجان كمال جوينده ست"Incipit: "اى صفات تو بيانهار ازبان انداخته عزت ذاتت يقين را در كمان انداخته"Title from cartouche in ʻunwān on fol.1b (p.2).Ms. codex.4. fol.325b-360a : رباعيات خلاق المعانى كمال الدين اصفهانى غفر الله ذنوبه3. fol.280b-325a : غزليات كمال الدين اسماعيل2. fol.183b-fol.280a : مقطعات خلاق المعانى كمال الدين اسماعيل1. fol.1b-fol.183a : القصايد والمراثى من كلام افصح الفصحا كمال الدين اسمعيل اصفهانىExquisite copy of the collected poems of the noted panegyrist, Kamāl al-Dīn Ismāʻīl known as Khallāq al-Maʻānī, including qaṣāʼid, marās̲ī, muqaṭṭaʻāt, ghazalīyāt and rubāʻīyāt.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 364Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. would suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip of paper with descriptive notes in pen in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "364 | Dīvān of Ṣāʼib | Probably late 18th century | Contemporary binding | Copied probably in Turkey" (not paginated) -- b. Numerous inserts carrying excerpts and glosses (paginated pp.5-6, 9-10, 15-16, 19-20, 25-26, 29-30, 33-34, 39-40, 45-46, 51-52, 55-56, 63-64, 77-78, 91-92, 97-98, 151-152, 163-164, 169-170, 173-174, 179-180, 183-184, 187-188, 189-190, 193-194, 205-206, 209-210, 213-214, 217-218, 221-222, 225-226, 235-236, 241-242, 247-248, 253-254, 257-258, 363-366, 493-494, etc.).Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now detached) ; doublures in red-brown leather with central lozenge and pendants outlined in gold and flecked with silver, as well as gold-tooled border and rosette and stroke accents ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite stamped (with gold-painted red leather recessed onlays) central lozenge and pendants (filled with symmetrical vegetal design incorporating cloud bands, red-painted, compare Déroche class. NSd), along with gold-tooled accents and a heavy guilloché roll border in gold ; design continues on flap ; edges of text block gold-painted with vegetal designs ; sewn in pink thread, two stations, sewing failing ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, damaged with core of headband exposed ; overall in somewhat poor condition with flap fully detached, lifting and losses of spine leather and lining, minor pest damage at spine, spine split through toward center of text block, minor abrasion, staining, etc. ; repair to upper joint in mauve textile ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of perhaps a few types ; mainly with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20-22 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) below cartouche and crown (see p.84, 104, 122, 124, 198, 199, etc.) ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of lion statant guardant (see p.280-281, 384-385, etc.) ; another type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of a lion [?] passant with curled tail ; all thin and crisp though sturdy, well-sized and burnished to glossy, mainly light cream in color with a few leaves tinted pink, yellow, etc.Decoration: Superbly executed illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche (oriented vertically) set in a scalloped dome overlaid with exquisite swirling floral vegetal motifs in shades of pink, blue, red-orange, yellow, white and gold on grounds of black, gold and slate blue with turquoise accents, all set in a well of narrow gold bands flanking a heavy light blue band with dark blue crosses and surmounted by a row of vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red ; second illuminated headpiece at opening of final section on p.534 (opens "نه احتیاج که ساقی ویرا شراب سنکا ..."), consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surmounted by scalloped dome overlaid with elegant floral vegetal motifs in gold with white, turquoise, and red accents on a gold ground, all set in a well of narrow gold bands flanking a heavy light blue band with dark blue crosses and surmounted by a row of vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red ; written area throughout surrounded by gold frame with narrow gold bands defining divisions within ; red rule border defines margin ; headings, keywords and some marginalia rubricated ; occasional textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) with some element of shikastah (شكسته نستعليق) ; elegant, compact Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless, with marked effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, elongated horizontal strokes, final nūn often reversed or recurved.Layout: Written mainly in 23 lines per page with written area divided to two columns, headings centered in written area and a variable number of lines glossing the margins ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 5 V(59), V+2 (71), 14 V(211), IV+2 (221), IV (229), III-1 (234), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "عمر من در سایه آن قامت دلجو گذشت از چنان حیرت فرا سروی چسان این جو گذشت ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a selection from the collected poems of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʻAlī Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī (d. between 1080/1669-70 and 1088/1677-8).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 855Origin: As appears in colophon on p.624, bulk of manuscript (p.51 to close) copied by Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Qāḍī Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad Rāzī (Hafız Ebülfatih b. Kadı Ziyaettin Mehmet Razi) with transcription completed 24 Shaʻbān 1000 [ca. 5 June 1592]. Replacement section (first three gatherings, through p.50) likely dates to early 19th century (ca. 1807-1830) as suggested by paper, hand, and decoration.Accompanying materials: a. Pink card with typed description "[Muḥammad ibn Suleimān, Fuẓulī, d. c. 1562] | Ḥadīqat al-suʻadāʼ. | Turkish. Ms." -- b. Bits of unused "gold" leaf found between pp.384-385 and 412-413 -- c. Pen shaving found between pp.508-509.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 4Binding: Pasteboards covered in a cut velvet printed with a colorful floral pattern incorporating boteh (بوته) and other designs (in shades of blue, red, yellow, and green on grounds of red, white and dark blue) with spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins in dark brown leather (textile faced, leather edged framed binding / frame covers) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in pink-tinted, gold-flecked laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted border ; fore edge flap carries gold-painted designs ; envelope flap also covered in cut velvet ; sewn in dark pink to mauve thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and white, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition though upper cover fully detached, some staining and losses to textile, minor abrasion and staining of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, quite faint and indistinct) and occasional chain lines faintly visible, cloudy formation, inclusions and fibers visible, thin though quite sturdy, lightly burnished, dark cream to beige in color, some staining and tide lines ; replacement leaves of opening section (through p.50) in European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29-30 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermarks of lion passant guardant (see p.6,7, 22, 32, 46, 50, etc.) and "AFG" (see p.4,9, 26, etc. i.e. Antonio et Fratelli Galvani, see pp.88-89 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan" and compare Eineder nos. 997, 1003, etc. dated 1807), medium cream with a yellow hue, sturdy, and well-burnished ; flyleaves also in European laid paper.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of scalloped dome filled with floral vegetal composition in gold, set in a well of pink, blue and gold bands and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs on incipit page ; keywords and headings rubricated (red inks of each section distinct).Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; two elegant hands ; both serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots ; hand supplying replacement section at opening (pp.1-50) slightly finer, larger and more compact along the line with large, open and sometimes sweeping descenders, and exaggerated elongation of some horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1+1 (8), IV+1 (17), IV (25), IV-1 (32), 4 IV(64), III (70), 23 IV(254), III+1 (261), 6 IV(309), I+1 (312), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present, plainly visible in opening section (through p.50) but mainly cutoff in bulk of codex (p.50 to close) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا فى چهار شنبه اربع وعشرين من شهر شعبان المعظم سنه الف كاتبه الفقير الحقير كثير التقصير حافظ ابو الفتح بن قاضى ضياء الدين محمد رازى غفر ذنوبهما"Explicit: "كل اى حال تكلمدن خبردار ترحم قيل تعرض اتمه زنهار"Incipit: "يا رب ره عشقنده بنى شيدا قيل احكام عبادتى بكا اجرا قيل ..."Title from inscription above headpiece at opening on p.2.Ms. composite codex.Elegant composite copy of Fuzulî’s rendering of the suffering of the prophets, particularly Imām Ḥusayn in the tragedy at Karbalāʼ, drawn from Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī’s Rawz̤at al-shuhadāʼ, a Persian martyrology of ʻAlī and his family.