Recto: note from Abū Riḍā to Abū Zikrī, acknowledging the receipt of the purse of Ibn ʿAlī and promising to send perfume with Ibn ʿAlī. Verso: draft of a Judaeo-Arabic letter and lines in Arabic script.Condition: holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 11 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 12Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Between pp.80-81, machine-made paper with accounts -- b. between pp.172-173, a commendation slip dated 1318 [1900] issued by a civil primary school in Erzurum and carrying the director's seal -- c. between pp.390-391, accounts slip on laid paper.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 67. Commentary on Kuran."Binding: Pasteboards covered in untinted laid paper with spine light brown leather (effective quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in maroon, intact at head and tail ; in fair condition with only minor abrasion on at corners and some red rot on spine leather.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertial) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal) ; pot watermark in at least three designs, one with empty interior except for bisecting line, two handles, four feet, with lid and surmounted by stalk and crown, another carrying "M" with lid surmounted by stalk and crescent, and another carrying "P B" with lid surmounted by stalk and floral motif.Decoration: Qur'ānic text overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, use of both freely ligatured with waw and lām occasionally assimilated, etc. ; chapter headings seriffed with rightward serif on alif and lām ; occasional vocalization added to Qur'ānic quotations by glossator ; glosses in several other hands.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page.Collation: i, 25 IV(200), IV + 1 (209) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "اله الناس من شر الوسواس اي الموسوس الوسواس بفتح الواو و"Incipit: "قوله تعالى والسماء ذات البروج الى اخر السورة قال الشيخ ابو الحنيفي رحمة الله عليه اعلم ان في هذه السورة كلاما من خمسة اوجه احدها في فضائل قرأتها والثاني في عدد اياتها وكلماتها وحروفها والثالث نزولها والرابع في تفسيرها والخامس فيما يتصل بها"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Clear copy of an odd final volume of a commentary on the Qurʼān attributed to Abū Saʻīd al-Ḥunayfī (al-Ḥanīfī), beginning in Sūrat al-burūj (85) and continuing through Sūrat al-nās (114). Incomplete with final leaves missing (ends in verse four of the final sūrah). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Letter from Abū Saʿd al-Maḡribī, possibly in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1060 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd in Alexandria to his father in Fusṭāṭ, with greetings to Sayyid al-Ahl, Abū l-Faraj, Michael, the teacher Isaac, Sahlān, Mūsā b. Ḥassūn and their relatives.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 11 lines (verso)
Recto: note from al-šaykh Abū Saʿīd dealing with a monthly wage that partially consisted of an ounce of myrobalan, possibly for medicinal purposes. Verso: unidentified Arabic text, very fragmentary.Condition: TornLayout: 4 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Letter to Abū l-Barakāt b. Yefet from ‘his brother’ Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-[...], sent via the perfumer’s market and Abū l-Faḵr Ibn al-Maššāṭī (the flax comber). Mentions the death of Abū Naṣr and his sister Zayn (who the writer apparently had hoped to marry), and refers to Alexandria, with greetings to various family members and individuals including Joseph and Abū Y[...] Ibn al-Sabbāk (the caster).Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines + marginalia (recto); 16 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī in the Maghreb to his brother Abū l-Barakāt in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1098 CE).Condition: torn, holesLayout: 16 lines (recto); 7 lines + jottings (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. [...] in Palermo to Abū l-Barakāt b. [...] (known as Ṭāriq). The letter opens with biblical citations such as 1 Samuel 25:6, Psalms 121:7 and 121:8 (c. 1060 CE). Letter continues on verso where there is a writing exercise in Arabic script.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 7 lines (verso)
Abstract: Second part of a commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have an elaborate outer frame and a central stamped mandorla. Portion of the same frame on the envelope flap, with small stamp on its point. Paper doublure. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. First two leaves damaged with loss of text. The text has been collated on an autograph copy by the author (see collation note on the margin of the colophon, fol. 205a).Copy completed on Sunday 12 Jumādá al-Awwal 719 July 1, 1319 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Mashhadī (colophon, fol. 205a).Incipit: سورة النساء وكوفيهم تسالون مح-- وحمزة والارحام بالخفض حملا نصف هذا البيت هو نصف --- قصيدة اي الكوفيونExplicit: وهو عندى اطيب والزرنب والقرنفل دون المسك والمندل فى الطيب فحسن تشبيه الصلاة على الصحابة بذلك لانهم في الصلاة تبع لرسول الله ... فلهذا اصابتهم نفحاتها وبركاتها رضي الله عنهم ورضي عنّا بهم امين يا ربّ العالمين
Copied A.H. 979 A.D. 1571.Fols. 225; 19.4 x 13.4 cm.; written surface 14 x 9 cm.; 15-17 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in clear naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; headings in red and green.A collection of discourses arranged in four divisions: (1) on morals and good conduct; (2) on politics; (3) on canon law and religion; (4) on miscellaneous themes. Dedicated to al-Malik al-Saʻīd Najm al-Dīn Ghāzī ibn Urtuq, who reigned A.H. 637-658 A.D. 1239-1260.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم ... ىقول العبد الفقىر الى مولاهColophon: وکان الفراغ من تحصىله نهار الخمىس بعد صلوة الظهر خامس شهر صفر من سنة تسع وسبعىن وتسعمائة من الهجرة النبوىة على صاحبها افضل الصلوة والسلامMarginal notes and glosses; the first 2 folios are by a later hand; also folios 139-225 are by a different hand. MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended and several are stained with dampness; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2440; A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 661; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1882/3; Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1950; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8779.Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1283, 1306, 1310.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 433Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely 19th century as suggested by paper, cover, date in seal impression, etc.Binding: Pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork with spine in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in painted lacquerwork ; doublure hinges in black leather ; upper and lower covers in painted lacquerwork of nearly identical composition consisting of swirling floral vegetal pattern of carnations, poppies, etc. in bronze on a field of olive green bordered in a floral vegetal pattern in gold on a wide band of black, flanked by bands of bronze ; upper and lower doublures in painted work of nearly identical composition consisting of floral vegetal pattern in green, pink, and yellow, outlined in gold on a field of red ; entire panel is bordered in a series of gold bands ; sewn in lime green, yellow, and dark blue (or black) thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light green and yellow ; in fair condition with some cracking, crazing, and loss of laquer ; upper board split and delaminating ; doublure hinges cracked and split ; abrasion.Support: non-European laid paper (likely Persian) ; quite transluscent, crisp and grey in tone ; no chain lines visible ; laid lines quite distinct, mainly oriented horizontally but occasionally vertically, spaced roughly 11-12 laid lines per cm. ; flyleaves in European laid paper, watermark eagle with "E A F" ; one of back flyleaves in wove paper ; many loose quires and dog-eared pages with some blocking due to moisture damage and tacky ink.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas ; gold cloud-bands and other accents surrounded basmalah and between two columns on incipit and facing page ; frame consisting of a gold band outlined in black fillets and outermost blue fillet surrounds the written area ; thin gold bands outlined in black fillets demarcate the columns within the written area and border the margin ; text partially rubricated with some section headings, portions of the gloss, textual dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; large clear Persianate hand ; mainly serifless with occasional left-sloping head serifs appearing on alif and lam of definite article ; mainly closed counters ; strong vertical character (somewhat elongated in vertical) ; occasional superscripting of letters and words ; some swooping tails ; fully vocalized in same ink ; gloss in a entirely different hand ; script more of a shikastah-nastaʻlīq with characteristic descent of words to baseline, elongated horizontal strokes, and characteristic long final yāʼ, etc.Layout: Written in roughly 14 lines per page plus lines of the gloss which vary widely ; single column divided to two column to set off poetry ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, IV+2 (10), II (14), 2 IV(30), 2+IV (40), 11 IV(128), 2+II (134), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; several blanks left between verses, likely for rubricated headings ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil Western numerals supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "كانما لبست او البست فنكا فقلصت من حواشيه عن السوق قد تم"Incipit: "لو كنت من مازن لم تستبح البى بنو اللقيطة من ذهل بن شيبانا اذا لقام بنصرى معشر خشن عند الحفيظة ان ذولوثة لانا"Title supplied by cataloguer from opening on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the famous anthology of poetry collected by Abū Tammām with a partial gloss in Persian.
Abstract: A collection of original poems of eulogy, satire and elegy.Binding note: Later half-bound type III binding (without flap) in red leather dark brown spotted paper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Marginal notes and glosses. On title page is the date and place of birth of author as mentioned by Ibn Khallikān. After colophon are several poems by Abū Tammām not included in the dīwān, a story about the author mentioned by Ibn Khallikān and two verses by al-Subkī. Name of copyist is obliterated.Collation: Paper ; fol. ii +135 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 19 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; ruled ; first few folios frame-ruled in red.Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red in early part of ms ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition."Origin: According to colophon copied from 24 Shaʻbān to 24 Ramaḍān. Copyist's name obscured. (fol. 134a)."'Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر يا کريم. قال الاديب الشاعر المشهور ابوتمام حبيب ابن اوس الطائي.'Colophon: تم الکتاب المبارك يوم الاربعا عشرين من رمضان بعد مضي أربع ساعات وثلاثة عشر درجة وکان الشروع في کتابته يوم الاربعا رابع عشرين شعبان المعظم على يد الفقيرالى الله تعالى الباري ... الله له ولوالديه والمسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم