سبحة الأبرارFihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Carpet pages, decorative borders, ten miniatures.Dimensions: 10⅜ × 7⅛ in.Hand: Large and very distinct Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
مهر و مشتریBinding: Lacquered boards with floral decoration.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Carpet page, decorative borders, miniatures.Dimensions: 10 × 5⅝ in.Hand: Very distinct Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Manuscript. Persian. Caption title on fol. 1a. Written by ʻAbbāsʻalī [illegible]. Gift of Amir Jafar and Parvindokt Hasheminejad, donated by their son, Mehdi Hasheminejad, item belonged to Amir Jafar Hasheminejad's collection and originated from Qajar era minister, Mehdi Lahooti, Badaye Negar's holdings. May 31, 2019. Written in Iran. Paper; coarse, unpolished, light greyish tan color commercial paper; black ink; catchwords. Nastaʻlīq; 10 lines in written area 13.5 x 6 cm. Fol. 1b-51a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding; thin brown leather over cardboard; leather lacking on spine. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Manuscript. Persian; first 67 leaves have Turkish translation and there is a brief poem in Ottoman Turkish at end. Title based on comparison with printed editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; manuscript is incomplete lacking an unknown number of leaves at the beginning; leaves 1a-67b have interlinear Turkish translation and extensive marginal notes; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area Fol. 1a-134a, 2 leaves. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript. Contemporary brown leather binding with embossed center medallions.
Manuscript. Persian Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Written in Iran? Paper; unpolished cream color paper with not visible watermarks; text of fol. 1b-3a enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold, rest of manuscript is without borders; black ink with rubrication and red overlining; numerous notes, corrections, etc. written on squares of very thin blue paper and pasted over parts of the text; catchwords. Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, I, 337 Nastaʻliq; 37 lines in written area 30.5 x 14 cm. Fol. 1b-348b (incomplete). Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M95. Disbound; originally bound at top edge. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from unwan. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in Iran or India. Paper: cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and gold highlighting between lines of text on first two leaves; black ink with red section titles; blue and gold borders; few marginal corrections and additions; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 12 lines in written area 10.5 x 5.5 cm. Folios 1b-129a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M57. Contemporary dark brown leather binding; exterior is elaborately embossed, interior embossed with gold and blue medallions in center and at corners. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Manuscript. Chagatai; some Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran; possibly between Tabriz and Shiraz. Paper; cream color laid paper; opening page (detached) has unwan in blue and gold; text enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold; pages divided into two columns separating the text, each framed with a blue and gold border; black ink. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines. Library of Congress. Turkic manuscript, M33. Binding; binding is dark brown leather with originally gold, now bronze color embossed medallions; front cover and opening pages completely detached; inside covers also brown leather decorated with blue medallions; end papers have grafitti. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World"Persian manuscript of Nizami's poem Lailā and Majnūnillustrated by Mughal Indian artists."'Extent: pp. 110.'Layout: Written in 4 columns of 21 lines.Hand: Nastaʿlīq.Decoration: 9 miniatures, pp. 27, 35, 41, 47, 53, 65, 66, 82, 105; illuminated frontispiece.Binding: European pigskin, with gilt tooling toward edges of inner boards, gilt spine title and label: "MS circa A.D. 1563".
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 271Origin: Versified chronogram at end (fol.182b, "اخلاق محسنى") gives dating for completion of composition; this reading, without the preposition "ز", yields the more widely accepted date of 900 H. As appears in colophon on fol.182b, copied by Maḥmūd ibn Najīb. Transcription finished ("tamma al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb taḥrīran fī tārīkh...") 12 Rabīʻ I 922 [ca. 15 April 1516].Binding: Pasteboard covered in red-brown leather; Type II binding (with flap); upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central mandorla (Déroche class. NSh1) with pendants and simple gold rule-border; smaller mandorla on envelope flap; doublures in light-blue coated paper embossed with vegetal pattern; in good condition.Support: Persian laid paper; laid lines oriented vertically but too faint to count; chain lines not visible; flyleaves are fashioned from a light-blue coated paper, embossed with a vegetal pattern, that is also used for the doublures.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece on fol.2b; marvelously rendered in two rectangular panels; lower panel contains the basmalah, executed in red nastaʻlīq, in a central cartouche flanked by two, smaller palmette-like lozenges; lower panel is framed by an elaborite golden braid; background is predominantly lapis-lazuli, with vegetal/floral patterns executed in gold, red, pink, green, black, and white; upper panel continues the background motif and color palette; three small, predominantly black, palmette-like lozenges serve as the pivot for the repeating vegetal pattern in this panel, but these are subdued figures and are rather absorbed into the lapis-lazuli background and intriquate vine patterns; upper panel is surmounted by five verticle, decorative stalks; written area framed by a rule-border in dark blue, black, and gold; gold frames set off verses and some chapter titles; text is polychrome, with main text in black, Arabic quotations in dark blue, gold, and occasionally red, and chapter titles in dark blue or gold; the words "شعر" and "بيت" as they occur throughout the text introducing verses of poetry are rendered in red and blue, and occasionally, gold; main text of incipit page decorated with gilt cloudbands.Script: Main text in nastaʻlīq; chapter headings in tawqīʻ; Arabic quotations of Qur'anic verses and Hadith in naskh and vocalized; basmalah in cartouche of illuminated headpiece in nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: ii, 23 IV (184), i; quaternions; cacthwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ١ on fol.3a (Western pagination) and concludes with ١۸۰ on fol.182a; fihrist of chapter titles (fol.6a-7a) corresponds with foliation.Dedication: Composed for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin (شاه ابو المحسن ), one of the sons of the Tīmūrid pādishāh Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, on the occasion of his coming to court (in Herat) from Marv (see fol.4a-4b, Western pagination).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads: "رب اختم بالخير والحسنى تمت [كذا] الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا في تاريخ اثنى عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنه اثنى عشرين و تسعمايه بخط العبد الحبيب [المجيب ؟] محمود بن نجيب"Explicit: "با خامه گفتم ای كه زهر ساختى قدم وز مقدم تو چشم سخن يافت روشنى اخلاق محسنى بتامى نوشته تاريخ هم نويس ز اخلاق محسنى"Incipit: "حضرت يادشاه على الاطلاق غرت كلمته و جلت عظمته منشور دولت سلطان المرسلين"Title from opening on fol.5a.Ms. codex.A work on ethics in 40 chapters, composed by Kāshifī for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin, a son of Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 631Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. would suggest perhaps 15th or 16th century for some sections, with other sections likely replacements perhaps 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and fore edge flap label, "IL 95a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; from inner front cover date stamp "22 Jull 1906."Binding: Pasteboards covered in comb marbled paper (in salmon, blue, yellow, etc.) with dark red leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper with watermark of three hats (top hats with feathers, resembling tea cups) ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and yellow, tailband gone though headband remains in good condition ; overall in fair condition with some staining and abrasion, losses to lower corner of spine, etc.Support: non-European and European laid paper of several types ; mainly a type (likely Arab) with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with 11-13 mm. between chains and 33 mm. between groups, sturdy, well-burnished and quite smooth ; another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and bull's head watermark (see p.180, etc.) ; still another European type with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (vertical) and anchor in circle watermark (see p.406, etc.), quite sturdy ; some leaves tinted light blue or yellow.Decoration: Keywords and some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; some overlining in red ; textual divders in the form of disc, inverted comma, and hāʼ in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; several elegant Turkish hands ; opening hand (through p.178 and then from pp.207-287) nastaʻlīq (talik), serifless, with effect of tilt to the right, very slight effect of words descending to baseline, contrast in thickness between vertical and horizontal strokes, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc. ; hand of next and other sections (see pp.179-206, pp.287-326, 367-386) naskh, a few compact Turkish hands, serifless, with effect of tilt to the left, closed counters, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc. ; toward close (pp.327-366, 387 to close) again nastaʻlīq (talik), two other hands, serifless, with slight effect of tilt to the right, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled ; some marginalia in decorative shapes, artistically arranged.Collation: V-1 (9), 8 V(89), VII (103), 8 V(183), IV (191), I (193), V (203), III (209) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "والتذكير للاحكام المذكورة في علمي المعاني والبيان انما لم يتعرض للبديع لكونه خارجا عن البلاغة تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرح صدور ارباب الاذهان لايضاح معان الكلم ببديع البيان ... الهمنا حقائق المعاني والدقائق البيان الاقرب الى الفهم ان المراد بالالهام في هذا المقام معناه اللغوي وهو الاعلام مطلقا لا يحتاج ارادة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Fanārī's (Hasan Çelebî) gloss on al-Sharḥ al-muṭawwal, the longer commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān). Includes preamble.
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite law and doctrine.Binding note: Full golden-brown leather; yellow paper doublures; front cover almost completely detached.Contents: 1. leaves 1a-82a: al-Fawāʼid al-Ḥāʼirīyah. Incomplete at beginning.Contents: 2. leaves 84a: Table of contents for volume.Contents: 3. leaves 84b-132b: al-Fawāyid al-jadīdah.Contents: 4. leaves 133a-135a: Fihrist fī al-Fawāyid al-Ḥāʼirīyah al-mashhūrah bi-Fawāyid al-ʻatīqīyah.Contents: 5. leaves 135b-136a: Fihrist fī al-Fawāyid al-jadīdīyah.Contents: 6. leaves 140b-186b: Risālat ijtihād akhbār.Contents: 7. leaves 186b-187a: Aṣl al-ashyāʼ al-ṭahārah.Contents: 8. leaves 187b-206a: Fawāyid rijālīyah.Contents: 9. leaves 206a-210a: Fī radd al-Ashāʻirah al-qāʼilīn bi-al-iḍṭirār wa-al-ijbār.Contents: 10. leaves 210b-223b: Aṣl al-barāʼah.Contents: 11. leaves 223b-228a: al-Istiṣḥāb.Contents: 12. leaves 228a-231a: Fī ʻibādat al-jāhil.Contents: 13. leaves 231a-232b: Fī al-muʻāmalāt.Contents: 14. leaves 232b-235b: Risālah fī al-qarḍ.Ms. composite codex.Edge title.Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 3, 15 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq in black on glazed laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Remaining texts, 19 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed laid European paper; catchwords. Leaves 1-78 almost entirely detached. Mild staining and smudging.Origin: Text 1 completed 22 Ṣafar 1227 H 7 March 1812, by Aḥmad ibn mawlānā Mullā Muḥammad Hādī navādah-i Mullā Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ shahīr bih Bihishtī (leaf 82a). Text 3, 15 Rajab 1235 H 28 April 1820, by Muḥammad Rafīʻ Nūrī (leaf 132b). Remaining texts likely early 19th century.
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 2(bis)b-36a: Risālah fī ḥujjīyat khabar al-wāḥid wa-al-ijmāʻ / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sarāb.Contents: 2. leaves 36b-38b: Risālah fī al-ijmāʻ.Contents: 3. leaves 39a-53b: Persian treatise on ṣalāh. Incomplete at beginning and end; consists of at least three fuṣūl.Contents: 4. leaves 54a-58a: Arabic treatise of advice and admonishments. Incomplete at beginning.Contents: 5. leaves 58a-58b: Namāz-i sāʻat-i ghaflat. In Persian.Contents: 6. leaves 59a-61b: Manqūl min Kitāb Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah / min taṣānīf ... Aḥmad al-Aradabīlī. In Persian.Contents: 7. leaves 63b-83b: al-Risālah al-qadīmah fī ithbāt al-wājib / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī.Ms. composite codex.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the third leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description, texts 1-2: 21 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 1 in small naskh and text 2 in nastaʻliq. Catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, texts 3-6: 15 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, text 7: 21 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords and marginal notes. Marginal damp staining; several leaves have heavier water damage and are somewhat smudged.Origin: Text 1 completed in Ramaḍān 1105 H April-May 1694, by the author (leaf 36a); text 2 likely completed around the same time. Text 4 completed on 20 Rabīʻ I 1093 H 29 March 1682 (leaf 58a); texts 3, 5, 6 likely completed around the same time. Text 7 completed in 972 H 1564 or 1565 in Mashhad Imām al-Ḥusayn Karbalāʼ, by ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Māzandarānī (leaf 83b).