Title from spine.Text rubricated and vocalized and enclosed in gold border; marginal commentaries and foliations in hand of copyist; table of contents on pp. [1-75]; illuminated ʻunwān on p. [79]; edges gilded in foliate patterns.Date and copyist's name in colophon: waqaʻa al-farāgh ... min kitābat al-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī waqt al-ḍuḥá fī al-yawm al-tāsiʻ wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Rajab al-fard sanat sabaʻ wa-sittīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [i.e. 22 May 1754] ... ʻalá yad ... al-sayyid al-ḥājj Muḥammad ibn al-sayyid al-ḥājj Pīrī ... sanat 1167.For a commentary on the Ṣaḥīḥ by an unidentified author, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 182.His most famous work, arranged in 97 books with 3450 bābs (chapters) containing 2762 prophetic traditions.
Paginated 1-24.Copy completed in 16 Ṣafar 1322 [May 2 1904] in the hand of Aḥmad al-ʻAṭṭār "naqlan ʻan nuskhat al-muʼallif."Bound with: Kitāb al-Fawāʼid al-jalīlah fī musalsalāt Ibn ʻAqīlah / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ʻAqīlah.MS Arab 112. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
complete copy (4 parts in 1 vol.). ff. 305. 290 x 192; 222 x 122 mm. 37 lin. Rajab 1201.GALS II, 584 (no. 2).Incip.: ... نحمدك ىا من تجلى لغباده فى کتابه
Abstract: Biographical dictionary of sufī masters. The text is followed by several short texts in maghribī script on fol. 256a-257b.Binding note: Bound in red leather with flap. Both covers ahev an outer border consisting of guilloche outlined by fillets in gold, defining a central panel with gold stamped corner pieces and a gold stamped central scalloped mandorla with pendants on the vertical axis. Portion of the same decoration on the envelope flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).Physical description: 31 lines per page. Written in clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized, and it is framed within a double line in red. European paper with watermark. Table of contents on fol. 1a-b. Two notes with biographical details, one on Abū Madyan quoted from ʻUnwān al-dirāyah (Maghribī script). Title on tail of text block. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals.Inscription in Roman script on a spine label : "25Y" (repeated on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, and on fol. (i)a).Origin: According to colophon, copy completed at the end of Jumādá II 1010 Dec. 1601 for Sharaf al-Dīn Yaḥyá najal al-Shaykh Manṣūr al-Zurqānī (fol. 256a-b, followed by verses of poetry and a prayer).Patronage: Copied for Sharaf al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Manṣūr al-Zurqānī.Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين الحمدل لله الذى خلع على اوليائه خلع انعامه ... وبعد فهذا كتاب لخصت فيه طبقات جماعة من الاولياء الذين يقتدى بهم فى طريق الله عز وجلExplicit and colophon: والامام الرافعى والامام النووى فاكتفينا بشهرتهم بذلك رضى الله تعالى عنهم اجمعين قال المؤلف ... الشيخ عبد الوهاب بن احمد بن على الشعواوى الانصارى ... وكان الفراغ من كتابتها خامس عشر رجب الفرد سنة اثنين وخمسين وتسعماية بمصر المحروسة والحمد لله رب العالمين قال القير على الحموي احد تلامذة سيدى الشيخ رضى الله تعالى عنه وقد وقع الفراغ من كتابتها على يدي ... فى يوم الثلاثا المبارك سادس عشرين شهر شعبان سنة اربع وخمسين وتسعماية ... 255ب ... مما عمل برسم سيدنا ومولانا سيد شرف الدين يحيى محب الصالحين ... نجل مولانا الشيخ منصور الزرقانى ... بتاريخ اوخر جمادي الاخر من شهور سنة عشرة بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية ... وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم تم تم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 500Origin: As appears in colophon for Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah on p.365, transcription completed 8 Muḥarram 1096 [ca. 15 December 1684]. Neither colophon names the copyist.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 244" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards now covered in several layers of paper including untinted laid paper (manuscript waste) and purple wove paper with dark brown leather over spine and at fore edge of lower cover (likely part of a repair to the flap, now lost) ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in layers of untinted laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked endbands in yelllow and red, only traces remain ; overall in quite poor condition with loss of flap, significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, moisture damage, shrinkage in lower cover, etc.Support: European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (horizontal), three crescents watermark (90 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.48, etc.) and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.76, 77, etc.) ; lightly burnished, sturdy and fairly thick though crisp ; staining and cockling.Decoration: Section headings and keywords mainly rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ.Script: Naskh ; angular, compact Egyptian or Syrian [?] hand in a bold line ; serifless with pointing in distinct dots, bowl of final nūn usually closed to form a complete circle surrouning the dot, descenders rather rectilinear (some sweeping), elongated in the horizontal, kāf mabsūṭah preferred.Layout: Written in 20-22 lines per page.Collation: V+1 (11), 17 V(181) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in brown ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: [Ṭahārat al-qulūb] "وهذا انتهى الينا من طهارة القلوب والخضوع لعلام الغيوب رحم الله قارئه وكاتبه وسامعه وغفر الله لمن دعا لكاتبه بالمغفرة ... تم م م م م م" ; [Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah] "وكان الفراغ من النسخة المباركة نهار الجمعة ثامن محرم الحرام سنة ستة وتسعين والف م م م"Explicit: "فاسقنا الغيث يا ارحم الراحمين قال فارخت السماء بمطر عظيم حتى تساوت الحفر والاكام وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبيه بعده "Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي تفرد قبل وجود اللغات بالاسماء الحسنى وتوحد في محامد الصفات بالمجد الاسنى الذي وله اليه القاصدون رغبة وطلبا ... وبعد فهذا كتاب فيه فصول يتذكر بها من اصغى اليها بسمع قابل وينتفع بها من كان قلبه روضة فضبها [؟] الظل والوابل ... وسميته كتاب طهارة القلوب والخضوع لعلام الغيوب وانما سميته بهذا الاسم لأني لما اكملته رأيته في المنام وهذا الاسم مكتوب عليه فسميته بذلك ..."Title from oppening matter (p.12) and colophon (p.363).Ms. codex.4. p.366 : [blank].3. p.364-p.365 : Min kalāmih raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu fī Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah / ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd al-Dīrīnī.2. p.8-p.363 : Ṭahārat al-qulūb wa-al-khuḍūʻ li-ʻallām al-ghuyūb / ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd al-Dīrīnī.1. p.5-p.7 : [table of contents].Careful copy of the Ṣūfī work by ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd al-Dīrīnī (d.1295), followed by an excerpt from his al-Miṣbāḥ al-munīr fī ʻilm al-tafsīr supplying commentary on the Fātiḥah.
Abstract: Collection of texts mostly by ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayḍawī.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of red leather over paper pasteboard. Traces of an envelope flap. Marbled paper pasted on both covers. Paper pastedowns. Traces of a label on the spine.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-114a: Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār / ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayḍawī, d. 1286?Contents: 2. fol. 117b-185b: Minhāj al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl / ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayḍawī, d. 1286?Contents: 3. fol. 187b-323a: Īḍāḥ al-asrār fī sharḥ al-Minhāj / ʻAlī ibn Rūzbihān al-Khunjī, d. 1307.Contents: 4. fol. 323b-324a: Taḥqīq masʼalat al-tjzī fī al-ijtihād mentioning a Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar al-ʻAḍudī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Written in medium small naskh in black ink, except the last text, written in a small nastaʻlīq. Title on the lower edge of the text block (hardly legible). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counting the first fly-leaf as fol. 1). On fol. 2a: Several inscriptions and ownership statements; stamp from the library of Majd al-Dīn; inscription "1273" using Arabic numerals, in red ink. On fol. 117a: Seal. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription "95" using Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover.According to the colophons, texts 1, 2 and 3 were copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad in Madrasah Kāmūyah in 699 (see fol. 113b-114a, 185b, 322b). Collation statement dated 2 Muḥarram 710 (fol. 323a).
fol. 1b-11a. 206 x 134; 133 x 72 mm. 17 lin. 1262 H.Commentary on Shudhūr al-dhahab: Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 908 (2: commentary 4). The ms. contains the 8th and 9th maqālahs from the third jumlah.Text is followed by an unidentified Turkish text beginning on leaf 11b.Incip.: ... المقالة الثامنة من الجملة الثالثة من کتاب طوالع البدور فى رموز المتعلقة بتدبىر الاجساد على طرىق المماثلة فقط مرتبة على الاصول. الاصل الاول ان العقد المعدنى
Abstract: A treatise on Paracelsian medicine, preceded and followed by several folios with notes and excerpts on medicine and alchemy. The copy also contains two sheets of paper with notes.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Wear.Contents: 1. Pastedown of upper cover: Uns al-nafas short text in Ottoman Turkish on water parsley.Contents: 2. fol. 2a: Inscriptions and notes in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.Contents: 3. fol. 2b-3a: Table of contents of main text.Contents: 4. fol. 3b-7b: Notes in Ottoman Turkish on remedies (maʻjūn) and potions and drinks, such as lemon and apple syrup, etc..Contents: 5. fol. 8a-b: Fī bayān al-awzān wa-al-makāʼīl al-mashhūrah al-mustaʻmalah fī kutub al-ṭibb wa-ghayrihā.Contents: 6. fol. 8b-11a: Short excerpts in Ottoman Turkish on questions pertaining to medicine and remedies, some attributed to Ṣāliḥ Efendi in his Ghāyat al-bayān (= Ghāyat al-itqān by Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm?).Contents: 7. fol. 11b: Poem in Arabic on alchemy, 25 lines.Contents: 8. fol. 12a-13b: Risālah al-Zaynīyatah fī ḥall bayt al-Qaṣīdah al-Nūnīyah.Contents: 9. fol. 13b-20a: Several excerpts and notes in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish on questions pertaining to medicine and remedies, including a long excerpt from Shams al-maʻārif.Contents: 10. fol. 20b-102a: al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kimiyāʼī / Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm.Contents: 11. fol. 102b-112b: Short excerpts and notes in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic on plants and questions pertaining to medicine and alchemy, some attributed to Jābir in his Kitāb al-Sabʻīn (fol. 106a) and to Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qunawī (fol. 110b).Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from title of main text.Physical description: The main text (fol. 21a-102a) is written in a neat medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 19 lines per page (written surface: 125 x 65 mm.). European paper with watermark. Marginal annotations. Fol. 1 and 113 are later added fly-leaves. On fol. 2b-3a is a table of contents for the main text. Foliation in red pencil using Arabic numerals on fol. 21a-102a (main text). This foliation is used in the table of contents fol. 2b-3a.Inscription "584" in Arabic numerals on the upper cover and on fol. 1a.Origin: According to a note on the margin of the end of the main text, this was copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-shahīr bi-ZīrakʹZādah (fol. 102a).
Abstract: Treatise in verse and prose on the eminence of the Ethiopians (Abyssinians, Ḥubūsh), incomplete at the beginning.Binding note: European binding with leather spine and upper and lower covers made of cloth over pasteboards with a central gold-stamped decoration and blind-stamped corner pieces.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, in red ink).17 lines per page. Verses of poetry in two columns. Written in medium small naskh, in black ink with some use of red for headings and punctuation. European glazed paper with watermark. The original first leaf is missing. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. On a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, inscription in Arabic script : "Shīn 121", repeated on a label pasted on the upper cover.Incipit: الاحرار وخلاصة الابرار الذي ظلل بالغمامة واذّن بين يديه بلال ابن حمامه وجاهد فى الله حق الجهادة ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الىالله الصمد ابو المعالى علاى الدين محمد ... البخارى المكّي الخطيب بالمديمة المنورة سابقا ... خطر لي في هذه الايام الشريفة والاوقات الرايقة اللطيفةExplicit: و تيمر مهجتي لكن بشرط وكان الشرط اخره اللامه تمت