Accounts in Hebrew and Arabic script, mentioning names such as Abū l-Barakāt, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Saʿd, and quantities of currency. On verso jottings written across the Arabic accounts.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 10 lines + marginalia (recto); various lines (verso)
Accounts of the owner of a shop, recording the prices of grocery items, such as rice, sugar, sumac, almonds, hazelnuts, pomegranate seeds, bread and cheese. The names of some customers are mentioned, including Ibn al-Ramlī, Abū l-Faḍl and Naṣir b. Ṯābit, and whether they owe money. Parts of the account, which is written in large, crude characters, are repeated in a smaller and better trained hand. In addition, individual words are repeated in Arabic script, probably as a writing exercise. On recto, there are some jottings.Condition: Holes, slightly stainedLayout: various lines
Fragment from a notebook with drafts (of a letter) and accounts. Mentions Ḥayyā [Yaḥyā] ha-Kohen ha-Melammed and Abū l-Ḥasan and measures such as qirrāṭ.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 8 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Lists of names with Hebrew numerals, possibly wages. Mentions the different days of the week and repeats the same names such as Ibrahim, Ḥusayn, Joseph and al-Ḥallāl.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: various lines
List of names of contributors and amounts of their contributions in figures, mentioning approximately 50 proper names.Condition: holes, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 21 lines (recto); 16 lines + marginalia (verso)
Possibly an account of auctioning the right to read a paraša: a list of parašot from Exodus and Leviticus with the words ‘dirhem’ or ‘two dirhems’ written next to each one of them in Arabic script. The text at the top of recto, which may not be related to the account, mentions the names of Abū Naṣr al-Dalāl and Abū l-Faḍl. With jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: various lines
Recto: Arabic accounts, mentioning expenses for things such as good olive oil, firewood, melon, beans etc. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic note concerning the sale of books.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 4 lines
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīth arranged by topics.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. 2a.Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Red tear-drop text stops. Thick light cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves darker. On these leaves, ink corrosive. Marginal annotations (collation notes and glosses). Fol. 1 is a later addition. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including a price, two lines of poetry in praise of the text, and ownership statements. Table of contents by a later hand on fol. 1a-b.Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each quire; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "al-Khāmisah" on fol. 36a).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 27". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 130".Two leaves of another manuscripts were placed in the volume. They are now shelved separately in Fragments, leaves, etc. (Yahuda Series).Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Dūghān Sibṭ al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Badrānī, Thursday 12 re-written Dhū al-Qaʻdah ("khalat min") 846 March 14, 1443, from a copy copied from a copy collated on an autograph copy (fol. 180a, followed by a biographical note on the author and by the words: "Thānī nuskhah min al-Adhkār").Incipit: بسم ... اللهم صل على محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما ابدا الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار مقدر الاقدار مصرف الامور ... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم العزيز الحكيم فاذكروني اذكركمExplicit: قال ليس لاهل الشام حديث اشرف
ff. 86. 182 x 130; 125 x 85 mm. 15 lin. 732 H. ?.Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 580 (8, 4: Kitāb al-mustaghīthīn).The ms. is divided into 4 juzʼ each with special title page and title in the form given above; title page of the first juzʻ and the commencement of the text are missing.Incip. (as extant): ... قال ما ترىد الى دمى شأنك بالمال قال اما المال فلست ارىدThese words agree with ms. Garrett 1893, fol. 2a, lin. 13.
Title from f. 1r.According to the colophon (f. 10v), copy completed on 5 Rabīʻ al-awwal 990 AH [March 22, 1582 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Abūṣīrī al-Azharī.Unbound.Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.Cream laid paper. 18 x 13 cm. (13 x 9 cm.).MS Arab 252. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
ff. 23. 210 x 155; 145 x 90 mm. 15 lin. the author completed his work 4 Rabīʻ II, 1131; probably autograph.Incip.: ... قوله ىعنى اشراط الساعة تفسىر للبعض کما هو ظاهر
Abstract: A collection of hadith with sound isnads and contents and their use for determining correct action.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.الاجزاء من الاول وحتى الرابع من كتاب شفاء الاوام للتمييز بين الحلال والحرامLater additions and repairs dated February 1917. Sale note and multiple reading notes. Includes fragments by ʻAlī ibn Abī ṭālib.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جلدي كبير سقطت منه بعض الأوراق في آخره وتم استبدالها بأوراق أحدث منها. وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرليلة الجمعة 23/صفر/سنة1049هـ; ليلة الخميس الرابع شهر ربع الآخر1049ه; 2/جماد الأول/سنة1049هـ; نهاية نسخ الأوراق المستبدلة من اللقطة رقم (527-534): عشية الأحد لعشر خلت من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة1335هـNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Final pages added later in different hand.31 lines.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فهو حبي اكفي الحمد لله الملك العزيز في ملكه واقتذاره الذي ملك الوجود يقوته واوجد بارادته واختياره... :IncipitWritten in Naskhi hand, in one column, 20 lines per page, in black and red, framed within double red and black lines. First leaves framed within golden and double black lines.Original cover, blind stamped red leather with flap, in red leather and board pouch, in separate protective case.21 x 15.5 cm. (16.5 x 10 cm.)According to the colophon (f. 325r), copy completed on 10 Rabīʻ al-Akhar 1146 AH [September 29, 1733 AD] in the hand of Ḥijāzī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūlūnī.MS Arab SM162. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
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.