Recto: poem written by Abraham b. Yijū in praise of Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan (i.e. Maḍmūn b. Yefet), cursing his enemies. Probably written in Aden, c. 1140-41 CE. Verso: crossed-out list of commodities such as metals and their quantities in Arabic script.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 24 lines (recto); 13 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Ḥalfon b. Naḥum in Ashkelon to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Ḥayyim (c. 1090 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 26 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Incipit: (بعد البسملة) قال الفقيه ابو عبد / الله بن ابي زمنين [...] / كَا بَّرْتِذَ ذَا لَش الاَاشْ ذَابَلُّ اَلَاا ذَالَّشْ اَنْتَاشْ كَا اَلَاءَ اُتْرَ.Explicit: كُنْ لُكَا اُبْرَنْ / درجت من نشا. ان ربك حكيم عليم. شُشْشِيَاربُش.Tinta marrón oscuro.Copista: DesconocidoColofón: No.Características especiales: Texto árabe en trazos más gruesos; texto aljamiado, más finos.Ilustración: Dos círculos concéntricos que indican 10 versículos; una “hā’” ornamentada, que indica 5 versículos. Motivos circulares en los márgenes laterales, para indicar las diferentes partes de la recitación: ruba’a, nisf, ḥizb. Cenefa ornamentada con florón semicircular en el margen que marca el cambio de azora.Ilustraciones: Manecillas. Motivos vegetales; palmetas enfrentadas para completar línea de escritura. Motivos geométricos; serie de tres puntos en forma de pirámide. ‘Unwān con títulos. Panel simple en forma de ángulo recto en margen superior y lateral, que encuadra el texto.Tipo de cuaderno: Quinión y sexternosDeterioros: No.H. en blanco: I, 1r. II hojas de guarda fijas y una volante, al principio y final del volumen, insertadas con nueva encuadernación.H. dañadas, mutiladas, sueltas: La tinta, matalogálica, dificulta en ocasiones la lectura del texto. En algunos casos de texto árabe con cálamo más grueso, la tinta ha roto el papel y ha sido restaurado.H. faltan o añadidas: Falta cuaderno 13.Foliación: 1-152. Moderna, a lápiz, en la esquina superior izquierda del recto. F. 76 repetido.Reclamos: En horizontal, en la esquina inferior izquierda del verso del último folio del cuaderno.Sign. cuad.: Numeración a la derecha de reclamos, que coincide con la que aparece en el margen superior derecho del cuaderno siguiente.Pautado: A punta seca en el vuelto. Prácticamente imperceptible.Filigrana: Pequeño símbolo ¿alfanumérico? del que solo se distingue un “6”, ya que el otro carácter es apenas imperceptible.Anotaciones: Al margen, por la misma mano, para completar información.Signatura antigua: Junta 511v-152v. Comentario de las 6 primeras azoras del Corán a partir del Tafsir de Yaḥyà b. Salām al-Baṣri.Moderna, en cartera. Piel marrón sobre tabla de cartón endurecido. Decoración rectangular simple con doble filete estampado en seco. Motivos florales en los cuatro ángulos.
ff. 300 (acephalous) 245 x 167; 193 x 120 mm. 18 lin. Rabīʻ I, 605, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn ḥasan ibn Wāfī for the library of ʻIzz al-Quḍāh Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Dimyāṭī.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 168; S I, 267.Contains the riwāyah of al-Luʻluʻī; the contents correspond to vol. 2, p. 219 - v. 4, p. 246 of ed. Muḥammad Muhyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ḥamīd, Cairo, 1935.
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīths and letters by Abū Dāʼūd Sulaymān al-Sijistānī.Binding note: Lower and upper covers and envelope flap made of brown leather with a similar blind and gold tooled decoration, with a central roundel and an elaborate outer frame made of several fillets and running patterns. Rebound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents of the ms..Contents: 2. fol. 1b- 222a: Sunan / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 3. fol. 222b-223a: Risālah / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 4. fol. 224a-238b: Kitāb al-Marāsil / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 5. fol. 239a-243b: Tasmiyat shuyūkh Abī Dāʼūd ... al-Sijistānī / al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Jayyānī.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.41 lines per page. Written in Maghribī(?) script in black ink with larger script for headings. Glazed light cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible. Collation notes. Marginal notes. Some pages are carefully mended. Title on the lower edge of the text block (hardly egible). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.In the colophon of Text 1 (fol. 222a), it is stated that the copy was completed on Friday 25 Ramaḍān 589. The only other date in the ms. is 1241 H., the date of a collation by Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd (fol. 222a).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 495Origin: As appears in the audition statements on the margins of fol.9a (p.17) and fol.19a (p. 37), and fol. 36b (p. 72) seemingly copied by al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá ibn al-Ḥasan al-Lakhmī, who died in the year 699 [1299 or 1300] in Cairo. Either this copy or its exemplar appears to have been authorized by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bakrī al-Taymī al-Nīshābūrī thumma al-Dimashqī (d.656 in Cairo). Thus, the ms. was very likely copied in the mid to late 13th century. The audition statement/ijāzah in the margin of fol.19b (p.38) appears to be in the hand of al-Lakhmī's son Aḥmad.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on interior of upper cover, "IL 162" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth and black leather (modern Western quarter binding) ; board linings in sky blue paper ; in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper, approx. 32 mm for 20 vertical laidlines ; chainlines are difficult to estblish definitively ; on fol. 13a (p.25) there appear to be 5 sets of 2 chainlines, with 7-9mm between chainlines and 25-40 between sets.Decoration: Lacks decoration or rubrication ; ink has faded to brown.Script: Naskh ; one main hand, Egyptian (?) ; serrifed with a prominent rightward tear-drop serif on free-standing alif ; the lām-alif al-muḥaqqaqah is often used ; counters are inconsistent ; kāf often lacks bar ; mainly pointed ; audition statements, etc. are unpointed.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-5 (5), V-6 (9), 7 V(79) ; chiefly quinions ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals attests to the fragmentary nature of the present artifact ; catchwords lacking ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتبه لنفسه الحسن بن علي بن عيسى بن الحسن اللخمي ..."Explicit: "باب الحلف بالأنداد حدثنا ابو داود ثن الحسن بن علي قال ثنا عبد الرزاق قال أخبرنا معمر عن الزهري عن حميد بن عبد الرحمن عن أبي هريرة قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من حلف فقال في حلفه واللات فليقل لا إله إلا الله ومن قال لصاحبه تعال أقامرك فليتصدق بشىء"Incipit: "فأحكم الله عن ذلك ونهى عن ذلك حدثنا ابو داود ثنا أحمد بن شبوية المروزي ثنا عبد الله بن عثمان عن عيسى بن عبيد عن عبيد الله مولى عمر عن الضحاك بمعناه قال فوعظ الله [ في ] ذلك باب في الاستئمار "Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine early copy of a section of Abū Dāʼūd's Sunan, from roughly the middle of Kitāb al-Nikāḥ (just before Bāb fī al-istiʼmār) to the early part of Kitāb al-īmān wa-al-nudhūr (Bāb al-Ḥalf bi-al-andād). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Abstract: Stories about Abū Nuwās, and some of his poems about wine, told by Abū Hiffān.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue embossed paper.Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 + (1) ; catchwords.Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; watermarks (circle with a cross inside, crown) ; MS in good condition.Layout: 21 lines per page.Marginal notes and glosses. Poems by various authors on fol. 1b and 2a.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Colophon: تم والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلمIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ابو هفان قال اخبرني
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1036Origin: As appears in final colophon on fol.210a, copied by Faḍīl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Nāʼīnī (see colophon at the close of juzʼ II for his full name "فضيل بن جلال الدين بن ابن حاجى محمد طاهر ابن خواجه احمد ولد سلغور شاه ولد عماده شاه ولد سلغور شاه نائينى"). Transcription finished ("tamma kitāb Baṣāʼir al-darajāt...) 1 Rabīʻ II 1072 [ca. 24 November 1661]. According to colophon following juzʼ III on fol.173a (p.345), copied in a school in the quarter / district (محله) of al-Karrān (perhaps in Isfahan).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 185Binding: Pasteboards faced in blue-green paper with red goatskin over spine and board corners (half-bound); Type III (without flap); pastedowns and flyleaves in what appears to be European wove paper with an embossed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne. TSL[?]"; very worn, upper cover detached from text block, entire case detaching from textblock at spine; poor condition.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with laid lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., no chain lines visible plainly enough for measuring; many inclusions; flyleaves and pastedowns in a European wove paper with impressed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne. TSL[?]".Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlinings and occasional textual dividers in the form of numeral khamsah in red.Script: Naskh ; fine, neat Persianate hand; essentially serifless (though occasionally serif on alif of lām alif ligature), point of final and free-standing nūn set down within wide, angled bowl (reminiscent of nastaʻlīq), pointing in distinct dots, curvilinear descenders, superscripting of final letters and words.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 25 IV (200), IV+2 (210), i; chiefly quaternions; catchwords present; leaves between each of the four ajzāʼ left partially blank and unmarked, but with no apparent loss of text; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied in cataloguing).Colophon: [final] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم كتاب بصائر الدرجات بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده [؟] والصلوة على من لا نبي بعده وذلك في غرة شهر ربيع الثاني سنة اثنان وسبعين والف وكتبه العبد الاذل المحتاج الى رحمة الله الغني ابن جلال الدين اكبر فضيل نائيني عفي عنهما" ; flanked by scribal verses in Persian, reading: "اي انكه ته اطالع مسعود بود دانى كه مرا از توچه مقصود بود يك فاتحه ازبهر نويسنده بخوان تاعاقبت كار تو محمود بود ان شاء الله" and duʻāʼ in Arabic, reading: "اللهم اغفر وارحم لكاتبه ولصاحبه برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Explicit: "قال قلت للرضا ان قوما من مواليك سالوني في ان تدعو الله لهم فقال والله اني لاعرض اعمالهم على الله في كل يوم"Incipit: "باب في العلم ان طلبه فريضة على الناس محمد بن الحسن المعروف بمموله عن ابراهيم بن هاشم عن الحسن بن محبوب يزيد بن علي بن الحسين عن ابيه عن ابي عبد الله عليه السلام قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه واله طلبه العلم فريضة على كل مسلم الا وان الله يحب بغاة العلم"Title from final colophon on fol.210a.Ms. codex.Collection of Traditions on the characteristics of the Ithná ʻasharī Shīʻī Imams by Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār (d.902 or 3), divided into four ajzāʼ (juzʼ 1 through juzʼ 4) with a colophon following each.
Work connecting people's names to the place from which the name is taken. The work was composed in 918 or 928 A.H. (1512 or 1522 CE) according to the colophon copied into this copy. This copy is missing some pages at the beginning; the first complete entry is "Arak"; most of a quire of leaves is missing between f. 10 and f. 19; several pages at the end (f. 280-297) have had their inner, outer and lower edges trimmed, cutting off some text.
Letter from Abū Manṣūr b. Abū Saʿd to Abraham, sent to the Palestinian synagogue in Fusṭāṭ. Mentions, among others, Joseph b. Abū ʿImrān, Ezekiel the judge and Sitt Rayḥān.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)