Abstract: "Collection of sixteen texts of the Druze communityAbstract: comprising texts 41-55 in Sylvestre de Sacy's description of Druze writings in Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838)."Binding note: Acquired from Brill, leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).Contents: 1. fol. 2a: Table of contents, written in black, red, and yellow.Contents: 2. fol. 2b-21b: al-Juzʼ al-awwal min al-sabʻah ajzāʼ.Contents: 3. fol. 21b-35b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Tanbīh wa-al-taʼnīb wa-al-tawbīkh wa-al-tawfīq.Contents: 4. fol. 35b-39a: Mathalan ḍarabahu baʻḍ ḥukamāʼ al-diyānah tawbīkhan liman qaṣura ʻan ḥafẓ al-imānah.Contents: 5. fol. 39a-44b: Risālah Banī Abī Ḥammār(?).Contents: 6. fol. 44b-49a: Taqlīd lāḥiq al-taqlīd al-awwal ilá al-Shaykh al-mukhtār.Contents: 7. fol. 49a-53b: Taqlīd al-Sikkīn.Contents: 8. fol. 53b-55b:Taqlīd al-Shaykh Abī al-Katāyib.Contents: 9. fol. 55b-58a: Taqlīd al-Amīr Dhī al-maḥāmid kafīl al-Muwaḥḥidīn Abī al-Fawāris Muʻḍad Ibn Yūsuf al-sākin bi-Fallajīn.Contents: 10. fol. 58a-60b: Taqlīd Banī Jarrāḥ.Contents: 11. fol. 60b-66a: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Jumayharīyah.Contents: 12. fol. 66b-69b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Taʻnīf wa-al-tahjīn li-Jamāʻat man bi-Sunhūr min Katāmat al-kātimīn al-ʻajīsiyīn.Contents: 13. fol. 69b-74a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-Wādī.Contents: 14. fol. 74a-91a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-Qusṭanṭinīyah al-munfadhah ilá Qusṭanṭīn mutamallik al-Naṣrānīyah.Contents: 15. fol. 91b-104b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Masīḥīyah wa-Umm al-qalāʼid al-niskīyah wa-qāmiʻat al-ʻaqāʼid al-shirkīyah.Contents: 16. fol. 104b-116b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Taʻaqqub wa-al-iftiqād li-idāʼ mā baqiya ʻalaynā min hadm sharīʻat al-Naṣārá.Ms. codex.Title from first text (fol. 2b).Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Red dots text-stops. Title written in red ink with black vocalization and fillings. Change in paper and script from fol. 50 to fol. 76, and from fol. 87 to fol. 116 (later replacement?, see fol. 76b-77a). Inscriptions on pastedowns and fol. 1a-b. Seriously worm damaged. Extremely fragile.
Watermark: GiorMagnani Almasso with scrollwork. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 3748.Contains geometrical diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; borders in blue and red; marginal notes in hand of copyist.For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 731 and 815,2."A compendium of arithmetic." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermark: Three hats. Cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2593 and 2597.Contains geometrical diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; substantial marginal notes in hand of copyist.Date, copyist's name, and provenance in colophon: qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr al-risālah al-ḥisāb ʻalá yad ... ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʻqūb al-Muftī Bayburd Arḍurūm sābiqan fī yawm al-khāmis ʻashar min shahr Muḥarram al-ḥarām fī waqt qarīb ghurūb zakāʾ fī madrasat Sulṭān Sulaymān al-marḥūm ... sanat 1112 [2 July 1700].For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 732 and 815,2."Treatise on arithmetic, in a muḳaddima and 10 bābs, with glosses and marginal commentary (unidentified) through the eighth bāb, and a number of loose leaves and slips laid in." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 119Origin: As appears in colophon on p.224, copied by ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá. Transcription of second work completed 12 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 17 December 1716]. As appears in colophon on p.248, transcription of third work completed 28 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 12 January 1717]. As appears in colophon on p.262, transcription of fourth work completed 23 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 7 January 1717]. As appears in colophon on p.285, transcription of fifth work completed 15 Ṣafar 1126 [ca. 2 March 1714]. As appears in colophon on p.354, transcription of final work completed 20 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 4 January 1717].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 141. Risalah fi 'l-hisab."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in pink and green, poor condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, severe lifting and losses of paper and leather (especially upper cover), delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three hats watermark ; well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, numerals, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; occasional textual divders in the form of red discs ; some geometric diagrams in red.Script: Naskh ; clear, bold Turkish hand ; seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on nearly all vertical shafts ; effect of tilt to left ; many closed counters ; tapered descenders ; portion of text on p.300 supplied in a different hand.Layout: Written in 17 and 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 2 V(20), IV (28), 7 V(98), 2 VI(122), V (132), IV+1 (141), 2 V(161), IV (169), III (175), ii ; chiefly quinions ; lacks proper catchwords, but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.355-356).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في الشهر المحرم في يوم ۱ ۲ على يد علي بن مصطفى غفر الله لهما ولوالديهما امين تم" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر محرم في يوم ۲٨" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم تم تم في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر محرم في يوم ۲۳" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم تم تم سنة ۱۱۲٦ في ص ۱٥" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر م في يوم ۲۰"Incipit: [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجميع نعمه عدد ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في الحساب مرتبة على مقدمة وعشرة ابواب" ; [Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "يا من عجز عن جميع تضاعف نعمه اقلام افهام العقلاء ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالمائي والچلي رسمت فيما مضى في ايام التحصيل واثناء التدريس والتعطيل تعليقات على المواضع المشكلة وتنبيهات على رموز المباحث المفصلة في الرسالة البهائية في الحساب المشهور فيما بين اولى الالباب ..." ; [Risālah fī fī asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ...] "الحمد لله حمدا يليق بجلاله والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وبعد فهذه رسالة مختصرة اذكر فيها اسماء الرسوم المرسومة على الالة المسماة بالاسطرلاب الشمالي ذات الصفائح وبعض اعمالها ..." ; [Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-marsūm bi-al-qanṭarāt] "قال الشيخ ...شهاب الدين احمد بن المجدي ... الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين وصلوته على سيدنا محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين وبعد فهذه رسالة في العمل بالربع المرسوم بالقنطرات ..." ; [Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab] "الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب مشتملة على مقدمة وعشرين بابا ..." ; [Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-mukhtaṣarah ...] "اي الف والاسم مشتق في السمو وهو العلو ..."Title supplied by catloguer.Ms. codex.13. p.288-p.354 : [Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj aʻmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār min rubʻ al-dāʼirah].12. p.287 : [blank].11. p.286 : ["Jadwal ṭūl al-buldān ..."].10. p.270-p.285 : Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.9. p.269 : [Excerpt addressing "maʻrifat darajat al-shams bi-al-taqrīb"].8. p.263-p.268 : [blank].7. p.250-p.262 : Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-marsūm bi-al-qanṭarāt / Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn al-Majdī.6. p.249-250 : [Excerpt from "Risālah min rasāʼil al-asṭurlāb," etc.]5. p.226-p.248 : [Risālah fī asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-ālah al-musammāh bi-al-asṭurlāb al-shamālī dhāt al-ṣafāʼih].4. p.225 : [blank].3. p.62-p.224 : [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Bahāʼīyah fī al-ḥisāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.2. p.58-p.61 : [blank].1. p.6-p.57 : Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Fine copy of a collection of treatises pertaining to mathematics and astronomy, including Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's manual of arithmetic, a commentary on the same by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.), an anonymous treatise on the astrolabe, a treatise on the astrolabic quadrant by Ibn al-Majdī (d.1447), a treatise on the use of the sine quadrant by Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (b. 1423), and an anonymous commentary on a treatise on time reckoning by Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaṭṭāb (d.1586 or 7). Brief excerpts (as well as a table) on astronomical topics are found between these main works.
Two treatises on mathematics, copied together. The second work, al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah, contains only the first maqālah and seems to be the Arabic translation of al-Qūshjī's Persian Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.
Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist.Date on p. [34]: ithnay ʻashar shahr Jumādī al-awwal sanat 964 arbaʻ wa-sittīn wa-tisʻumiyah [13 March 1557].Text (not this copy) published.Pp. [1-36]. Bound with a list of traditions regarding the relative merit of prayer in the four holiest mosques, pp. [37-40]."A treatise on arithmetic." Cataloging by Elinor M Husselman, 1945.
Watermarks: Anchor in circle; initials HA. For the former see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated and enclosed in thin red double border; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; written on p. [1]: min al-majmūʻ/kurrās 5.Date and name of copyist in colophon: [?]... li-nafsihi wa-li-man shāʾa Allāh min baʻdihi Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUthmān al-Miṣrī thumma al-Buḥayrī thumma al-Kh[?] thumma al-Azharī thumma al-Ḥanafī wa-kāna ibtidāʾ kitābatihi ṣubḥīyat yawm al-Jumʻah thānī shahr Ṣafar sanat sabaʻ wa-alf wa-kāna tamāmuhu yawm al-ithnayn al-ḍuḥá Khamīs al-shahr al-madhkūr [7 September 1598].For other commentaries by Ibn al-Hāʾim on his al-Muqniʻ, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 701 and 703. Another commentary by an unidentified author is Mich. Isl. Ms. 700."A commentary on the poem by Ibn al-Hāʾim entitled Al-Muḳniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. The other two works listed on the title page are absent from the item in hand.
Title and text rubricated.For other abridgments of and commentaries on Ibn al-Hāʾim's Muqniʻ, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 700,2, 702, and 703."al-Musriʻ, an abridgement of al-Mumtiʻ, compiled in 810 H [1407]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 69."A poem on algebra with unidentified commentary [not the same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 702]." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Title and text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others.Origin: As appears in colophon on p.46, copied by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn [?] Mūsá al-ʻUmarī al-Shāfiʻī with transcription completed 17 [?] Rabīʻ I 932 [ca. 1 January 1526]."An abridgement of the author's Murshidat al-ṭālib. In a muqaddima, two bābs, and a khātima." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.
Set of works on mathematics and astronomy copied together in what appears to be the same hand. The second work has a supercommentary copied in the margins. Several leaves of calculations and notations tipped or laid in; two tipped in pages have been foliated along with the leaves (f. 26, 33). Also includes one page in Ottoman Turkish (f.94v).
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone (f. 1 only). See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Contains astronomical and mathematical tables and geometric diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist and others; some pp. missing, f. 1 supplied in different paper in different hand."Extended commentary with some tables" on author's Qalāʾid al-laʾālī fī ʻamal al-ayyām wa-al-layālī, "a poem on timekeeping in unnumbered faṣls." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 104.
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated; bayts numbered by copyist; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 715,2).Date and name of copyist and client in colophon: kamala al-kitāb wa-tamma ... ʻalá yad mālikihi al-ḥaqīr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ lil-shaykh al-Ḥusaynī al-Mālalī[?] al-Qāsimī al-Jadīdī bi-al-Azhar al-muʻammaq 12 Ramaḍān al-muʻaẓẓam sanat 1032 [10 July 1623].Pp. [1-10]. Bound with: Kitāb fī al-taksīr fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb, pp. [11-14].A poem on arithmetic.
Recto: letter with substandard orthography, dealing with a consignment of clothes. Verso: commentary on BT Qiddušin 26a and a general explanation of mathematical matters.Condition: torn, holes, faded, stainedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 14-15 lines in 2 columns (verso)
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.