Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp orange-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets and blind-tooled central star.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-10a: al-Riḍāʻīyah / al-Muḥaqqiq al-Thānī.Contents: 2. leaves 10b-15b: al-ʻAwīṣ / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Mufīd.Contents: 3. leaves 16a-87b: Sharḥ ʻalá risālah fī al-ṭahārah.Contents: 4. leaves 88a-212b: Sharḥ Alfīyat Shahīd / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: Texts 1-2, 21 lines per page; written in casual naskh in brown on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 3, 21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 4, 21 lines per page; written in small, casual naskh in brown (switches to black on leaf 198b) on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Upper edge damp-stained and moldered. Leaves 1-15, 214 detached.Origin: Text 1, 6 Jumādá II 1088 H 6 August 1677 (leaf 10a). Text 4, 8 Jumādá II 1088 H (8 August 1677), by Saʻd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Dīn ibn Tamām al-Jazāʼirī (leaf 212b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Abī Turāb al-Sirḥānī. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Possibly written in northern Iran. Paper: tan colored glazed laid paper with horizontal chain line and obscured armorial watermark, and countermark G M ; black ink in Naskh; catchwords; lacuna from Folio 1-10 caused by worm damage at top of page, with no loss of text. Naskh; 13 lines in written area 15 x 8.5 cm. Folio 1b-9b; 10a notes. With: Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Sirr-i bakhyah. [December 1853, Year of the Rat]. Bound together subsequent to publication. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M307b. Binding: medium brown leather with embossed gold center medallions front and back.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 834Origin: Pertains to the Jalālī year 1235 [1856-1857] suggesting a date of transcription around this time ; watermarks consistent with such a dating. Illuminated heading on opening horiscope suggests transcription in Istanbul.Binding: Limp cover in heavy coated and textured paper, surface-dyed a pale yellow and embossed with pattern of plumes, scrolls, and floral motifs ; sewn in spring green and dark blue thread, six stations, through paper cover ; overall in fair condition with staining and abrasion ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of lion rampant guardant (see p.2, 8, 28, etc.) and initials "NR" in arms (see p.4, 6, 26, etc.) very similar to Eineder no.1018 dated 1806 but with "NR" rather than "AB" ; creamy buff in color (yellowish hue), crisp and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Written area and tables throughout defined by gold bands and black lines ; heading of opening horiscope diagram chrysographed "لع يل ١٢٧٢ سال عالم بأفق دار السلطنه العلية العثمانيه" ; many headings and keywords / symbols rubricated.Script: Mainly naskh and naskh with elements of ruqʻah ; clear Turkish hands ; elegant naskh employed for most headings, some entries and some annotations ; more compact naskh with elements of ruqʻah used for other annotations and some headings ; forms resembling siyakat letterforms used in table entries ; elucidation of symbols employed entered on opening page (p.1) above and alongside the horiscope diagram.Layout: Written area divided to accommodate tables of 14 columns and 16 rows (with 15 of the rows carrying two lines each corresponding to the days of the month), headed by outlines of square charts divided to 12 (4 central squares and 8 triangles corresponding to the celestial houses) ; prickings for ruling the tables evident in the outer and lower margins.Collation: VII (14) ; single septenion ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful copy of an astronomical almanac (natījah / rūznāmah / ephemeris) for the Jalālī year 1235 (indicated as the 778th, see p.2) preceded by horiscope (ṭāliʻ) for the year (given in the corresponding Hijrī / Rūmī value, 1272, see p.1). Presumably observed at Istanbul. Corresponding Hijrī, Rūmī, old Yazdagardī and Coptic calendars dates are given. Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 463 v.6Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest late 16th and 17th century.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on fore edge flap, "IL 91 VI" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip in Isl. Ms. 463 v.2).Binding: Pasteboards now covered in green-blue paper-backed cloth over dark brown leather with tan leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; traces of stamped mandorlas on upper and lower covers (now covered by cloth) ; board linings in dull yellow paper ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations, sewing in final quires gone ; worked chevron endbands in cream and dull pink, fairly good condition ; ill-fitting with flap too small ; overall in poor condition with lifting and losses of cloth, abrasion, staining, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of four main types ; opening type (also appearing elsewhere in codex) with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle with star above watermark (see p.16, 17, etc.), sturdy though crisp, well-burnished to glossy ; next type (second quire and elsewhere) with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and angel in circle with leaf above watermark (see p.38, 39, etc.) ; next type (pp.253-294) with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.262, 263, etc.) ; still another type (from p.601) with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 14-32 mm. apart (horizontal), and three circles watermark, quite thin and transluscent, very well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Some keywords rubricated or accent with red ink ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least four clear Turkish hands ; opening and main hand (appearing multiple places throughout codex), a serifless naskh, rounded with inclination to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes (occasionally more exaggerated), pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn sitting above or assimilated with bowl, extensively vocalized ; next hand (from p.29 and elsewhere) a naskh showing influence of nastaʻlīq, serifless with long, fluid ascenders, marked effect of words descending to baseline and of inclination to the left, some elongation of 'horizontal' strokes and sharp, flat descenders (mainly rāʼ, wāw, dhāl, etc.), free assimilation of letters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; from pp.253-294 still another naskh approaching nastaʻlīq (talik), partially seriffed with inclination to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn set above or assimilated with bowl ; from p.601 still another naskh approaching nastaʻlīq (talik), bold, compact and serifless with inclination to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, quite rounded with free assimilation of letters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; incipit page (p.6) in a different hand.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V+2 (12), 4 V(52), V+1 (63), 5 V(113), 2 V+1(135), V (145), V-1 (154), 14 V(294), 4 (298), 24 (538), iii ; chiefly quinions ; two quires (pp.911-950) numbered ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips from p.769 to p.780, thereafter off by ten pages).Explicit: "قوله تمنون عليكم ان اسملوا او الباقون بالحطاب نظرا الى قوله قل لا تمنوا على اسلامكم ويتلوه سورة القاف"Incipit: "سورة طه مكية وهي مائة واربع وثلثون اية قوله لاستعلائه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.Careful copy of the sixth of seven volumes (v.1 and v.4 now lacking) of the commentary by Shaykhʻzādah Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Qūjawī (d.1544 or 5) upon al-Bayḍāwī's commentary on the Qurʼān, Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, covering Sūrat Ṭāhā (20) through Sūrat al-Ḥujurāt (49).
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon of first work. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-105a (18 lines); 2nd work: fol. 105b-155b (16-18 lines); 3rd work: fol. 157a-249b (14 lines) First work written by Muḥammad Mahdī al-Kāshānī. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in India? Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords. 1st work: Naskh; 18 lines in written area 15 x 9.5 cm.; 2nd work: Naskh; 16-18 lines in written area 14.5 x 10 cm.; 3rd work: Nastaʻliq; 14 lines in written area 16.5 x 13 cm. Folio 1b-95a; 95b-105a poems; 105b-155b; 157a-249b. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain line and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; interlinear Persian translation in cursive Naskh; catchwords. Naskh; 11 lines in written area 15.5 x 9 cm. Folio 1b-337a; 337b-338 notes and a poem. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather with embossed gold center medallions front and back, spine repaired, rebacked in tan leather.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-26a (14 lines); 2nd work: fol. 27b-43a. (15 lines) First work written by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī; scribe of second work not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. First work written in al-Ṭihrān [Tehran], Iran; second work written in Iran, city not identified. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink, with rubrication and some overlining in red; some pages folded over; catchwords. First work: Cursive Naskh; 14 lines in written area 16 x 9 cm.; second work: Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 16.5 x 9.5 cm. First work: Cursive Naskh; second work: Nastaʻliq. Astronomical drawings throughout in red and black. Folio 1b-26a; Folio 27b-43a. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M305. Binding: blue grain over cardboard sides, dark blue cloth spine.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color, unpolished laid-paper; with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; manuscript appears to be an older manuscript (perhaps 18th century) with missing sections and conclusion added by a later hand and dated 1238 [1822 or 1823], paper of newer section is also laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no watermarks but of a more recent date; older section has text within a ruled border in gold and red ink; newer sections lack border; some interleaved pages; both sections written in black ink with rubrication; numerous marginal glosses; catchwords on some leaves. Nastaʻliq and naskh; 11 lines (nastaʻliq pages), and 13 lines (naskh pages); in written area 15.3 x 10 cm. Text: fol. 2b-136b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M81b. Disbound; original marbled cardboard binding included in case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 237Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by İbrahim Rodosi ; date of transcription not specified, though calligrapher's activity (acquiring his icazet shortly after the death of his first teacher İsmail Zühdî in 1731) suggests mid to late 18th century.Former shelfmark: "559 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "116" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather with spine in a lighter red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla filled with symmetrical vegetal composition (compare binding ornament on cover of Isl. Ms. 230), as well as tooled border consisting of guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets ; panels hinged together with red-brown leather ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting of leather, spine split near head, etc.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (in some cases surface-dyed pink) pieced, set into frame consisting of other surface-dyed and gold-flecked papers in combinations of orange and green, blue and pink, orange and magenta, yellow and green, green and magenta, lavender and orange, etc. (papers of facing pages match) set off by gold bands and white fillets.Decoration: Decorative illuminated pieces consisting mainly of scalloped semi-circular pieces (domes) overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern in gold, red, pink, white, blue, etc. flank the compact central lines ; other illuminated flanking pieces of different vegetal composition appear on some panels ; written area surrounded by frame in bands of gold varying thickness ; textual divders in the form of illuminated rosettes with accents in pink, white, blue, etc.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; two large lines of each page in thuluth ; two central lines of each page in naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of text though both open in alphabetic exercises.Layout: Written in four lines per page, two large lines in thuluth (sülüs) and two more compact lines in naskh (nesih) ; written area divided into upper and lower panels accommodating the large lines and a central panel divided to accomodate the two more compact lines.Collation: Ten 'panels' (mounted leaves) edged in and hinged together with red-brown leather ; opens vertically.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "مشقه اضعف الكتاب ابراهيم الردوسي"Explicit: [in thuluth / sülüs] "سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجل ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك" ; [in naskh / nesih] "فان امارتي بالسوء ما اتعظت من جهلها بنذير الشيب"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) executed by the Ottoman calligrapher İbrahim Rodosi (d.1787). Comprises a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) in two scripts (thuluth / sülüs and naskh / nesih) employing the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat), composed word exercises (mürekkebat) with the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı), invocations, and a portion of the text of al-Buṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-Burdah.
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-64b: Hādhihi Kitāb al-Wāfiyah fī al-uṣūl / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūnī.Contents: 2. leaves 65b-103a: Fawāʼid al-ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Ms. codex.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the sixth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation. First four leaves contain notes and extracts or are blank.Physical description: Text 1, 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black. Text 2, 26 lines per page; written in small naskh in black; script changes to nastaʻliq on leaf 90a. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; upper outer corner moldered.Origin: Text 1 dated 1221 H 1806 or 1807 (leaf 64b). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-88b: Fawāʼid ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Contents: 2. fol. 89b-113b: Kitāb Zubdat Shaykh Bahāʼī fī al-uṣūl / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Ms. composite codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 15 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; edges moldered.Origin: Text 1, 17 Rabīʻ II 1240 H 9 December 1824 in Iṣfahān, by Qurbān ʻAlī ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Rafīʻ al-... ? (leaf 88b). Text 2, 4 Rabīʻ I 1240 H 27 October 1824, by Muḥammad Ḥasan (leaf 113b); likely in Iran.
Abstract: Collection of texts on a variety of topics.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; salmon paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-17a: Kitāb Balad al-amīn / Jaʻfar ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Kashfī.Contents: 2. leaves 19b-111b: Kitāb al-Iqtirāḥ fī ʻilm uṣūl al-naḥw / al-Suyūṭī.Contents: 3. leaves 111b-113b: Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.Contents: 4. leaves 113b-121a: Risālah al-qawsīyah / Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād ibn Wazīrān al-Iṣfahānī.Contents: 5. leaves 121a-123a: Risālat al-sikkīn / Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī.Contents: 6. leaves 123a-126b: Risālah fī fāʼ al-faṣīḥah.Contents: 7. leaves 126b-143b: Risālah fī madḥ al-Sulṭān.Contents: 8. leaves 147b-160b: Risālah fī bayān ṣiyagh al-ʻuqūd wa-al-īqāʻāt.Contents: 9. leaves 160b-162a: Risālah fī al-jadhr al-aṣamm.Contents: 10. leaves 163a-170b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-Sajdah.Contents: 11. leaf 171a: Exchange between the Caliph al-Maʼmūn and Imam al-Riḍā concerning ʻAlī.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: Texts 1-7, 15 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on grayish glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text 1 in two columns. Texts 8-11 are written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 8, 22 lines per page, written in small naskh with rubrication and catchwords and a few marginal notes. Text 9, varying lines per page, written in shikastah with catchwords. Texts 10-11, 20 lines per page, written in small naskh with catchwords. Outer edge moldered.Origin: Text 1, 21 Ṣafar 1244 H 2 September 1828 in Iṣfahān (leaf 17a). Text 4, 24 Rabīʻ I 1244 H 4 October 1828 (leaf 113b). Text 7, 3 Rabīʻ II 1244 H 13 October 1828 (leaf 143b). Texts 1-7 copied by the same scribe. Text 8, 1243 H 1827 or 1828 (leaf 160b).