Abstract: Collection of texts on kalām and lexicology.Binding note: Paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards. Leather spine (damaged). The upper cover is wanting.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-34b: al-Kalām fī al-iʻtiqād al-khāliṣ min al-shakk wa-al-intiqād / ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʻAṭṭār.Contents: 2. fol. 35a-38a: Ḥukm masʼalat al-qadar / Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah.Contents: 3. fol. 38a-39b: Qaṣidah fī madḥ Ibn Taymīyah.Contents: 4. fol. 40a-138b: al-Alfāẓ al-kitābīyah.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.16 to 19 lines per page (17 lines fol. 40a-137b). Written in two different scripts: fol. 1a-39b in thick medium small naskh in black ink with re-inking in red ink for headings; fol. 40a-137b in thiner small naskh in black ink with larger script for headings. Even if the dates mentioned in the colophon are different, these two scripts might be from the same hand. Fol. 1a-39b: light cream glazed paper with vertical laid lines and chain lines (grouped by two?) visible. Some leaves are smaller (see fol. 14, 17). Fol. 40a-137b: thick light cream glazed paper. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.There are two dates of copy in the ms.: Muḥarram 788 (colophon text 1, fol. 34b) and Jumādá al-Ulá 623 (colophon text 4, fol. 137b).
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Naskh and Nastaʻlīq in various hands.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 609Origin: As appears in colophon at conclusion of final gloss, transcription completed ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah...") end of Muḥarram 897 [December 1491], which would imply quite an early copy. Other sections appear to be contemporary with this final gloss.Accompanying materials: Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf (p.1) and spine label "IL 183" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in light blue, salmon, light yellow) with black textile over spine (quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in purple wove paper ; resewn in white thread, six stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, deterioration of textile, etc.Support: non-European laid paper of perhaps several types ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes with 10-11 mm. between chains and 39 mm. between groups, possible group of four at 27 mm. from adjacent group of three ; another type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, quite distinct) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes (and perhaps fours) with 10 mm. between chains and 28-40 mm. between groups (see p.80, 94, etc.) ; at close, a type very similar to the opening if not the same with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes (and perhaps fours) with 9-10 mm. between chains and 39-42 mm. between groups ; all thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; written area and occasional marginalia surrounded by red rule-border in opening three works ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; three fine Turkish or Persianate hands ; Sharḥ Īsāghūjī and opening Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī (through p.76) in a fine naskh, serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, free assimilation of letters (initial kāf and following alif, point of final nūn with bowl, alif lām of definite article, etc.), somewhat elongated in the vertical, shaqq of kāf often sweeping dramatically upwards, pointing (of multiple dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots ; second ḥāshiyah (of Qarajah Aḥmad, pp.80-114) in a compact and delicate naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with marked tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders (rightward descenders tapered and sweeping somewhat dramatically) ; final ḥāshiyah (also of al-Bardaʻī, pp.120-140) in a bold, compact naskh, serifless with effect of tilt to the left (mainly) and of words descending to baseline, some extension of horizontal strokes, freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 15, 16 and 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 2 V(29), IV (37), 2 V(57), VI (69), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب كاتبه كشفى [؟] بن عيسى ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت بعون الله وحسن التوفيق وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة في اخر شهر محرم من شهور سنة سبع وتسعين وثمانمائة تم اين نبشتم تا بماند روزگار من نمانم اين بماند يادگار"Incipit: [Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] "الحمد لله الواجب وجوده الممتنع نظيره الممكن سواه وغيره ... وبعد فان كتاب الشيخ الامام قدوة الحكماء اثير الدين الابهري ... الشهير بايساغوجي لما كان علي بعض الاخوان متعسرا ونقضه [؟ وعلى بعضهم] متيسر [متيسرا] اردت ان اكتب بالتماسهم اوراقا لتنزيل تعسره وتعمم تيسره ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. composite codex.7. p.120- p.140 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bardaʻī.6. p.115-p.119 : [originally left blank, now carry a few brief excerpts].5. p.80-p.114 : [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] / Qarajah Aḥmad.4. p.75-p.79 : [originally left blank, now carry a few brief excerpts].3. p.48-p.76 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bardaʻī.2. p.47: [originally left blank, now carries a few excerpts].1. p.4-p.46 : Sharḥ Īsāghūjī / Ḥusām al-Dīn Ḥasan al-Kātī.Fine composite copy of the commentary by Ḥusām al-Dīn Ḥasan al-Kātī (d.1359) on the Īsāghūjī, a collection of definitions for terms used in logic adapted from the Isagoge of Porphyry by Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. between 1263-5), followed in the same hand by the gloss [lacking preface] upon al-Kātī's commentary by al-Bardaʻī (d.1521), next the gloss of Qarajah Aḥmad (d.1450 or 51) in a different hand, and finally in still a different hand, another apparently quite early copy of the gloss by al-Bardaʻī.
Manuscript. Persian with passages in Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in either Iran or India. Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a cross within a circle; black ink with minimal rubrication and some red overlining; catchwords. Naskh; 14 lines in written area 14 x 9.5 cm. Fol. 1a-69b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M140. Flexible brown leather binding. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 506Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.346b (p.692), copied by ("katabahu...") ʻAbd al-Faqīr. Date of transcription is not specified.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 366" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; on tail-edge "١٦٤".Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather with patches of light brown leather at edges of upper and lower covers and in repairs to spine ; Type II binding (with flap) ; paper pastedowns and flyleaves in rough brown paper ; interior of flap in yellow paper and the same red-brown leather leather ; upper and lower covers each carry a blind-stamped, scalloped (17 lobes) mandorla 52 mm. high (compare Déroche class. NSd 9) accompanied by pendants and a double border consisting of a series of fillets ; three pendants appear on the envelope flap and two on the fore-edge flap ; sewn in red thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, immaculate condition ; threads broken in table of contents and final bifolium ; in fair condition with abrasion and typical wear ; repairs.Support: A number of papers appear in the various parts of the codex ; [1] primary paper is an Oriental laid paper (possibly 15th century Egyptian or Persian paper?) with 3/3/2 chainlines, 8-11 mm. between chainlines, 46 mm. between the sets of 3 and 43 between the sets of 3 and 2 ; the laidlines are very closely set and not very distinct ; [2] table of contents supplied in a European laid paper with horizontal chainlines approx. 25 mm. apart and watermark, namely a 6-pointed star approx. 32 mm. high, centered on a chainline, with the letters C and S (?) beneath, each aprrox. 25 mm. high ; [3] initial replacement folia (quire following the table of contents) on a European laid paper with indistinct chainlines and no apparent watermark ; [4] other replacement folia (fourth quire and final three quires) in a European laid paper with chainlines approx. 24 mm. apart and watermark, namely a lion rampant in a shield with a trefoil above and writing beneath, "T O S C O L A N O".Decoration: Text rubricated with mainly overlining appearing in red ; a number of small diagrams appear in the margins of the book ; those on pp.332, 366, and 376 are extremely rudimentary and seem to deal with simple geometrical concepts ; two sets of circles on p.415 and p.416 occupy a section on astronomy, and the somewhat more elaborate and partially rubricated geometrical diagrams on p.458 and p.459 accompany a discussion of optics ; another oblong figure appears on p.466.Script: Naskh ; three Persianate hands ; [1] primary hand is a rather small, neat Persianate naskh, quite casually pointed and unvowelled ; alifs are almost vertical and sans serif ; The dot of the nūn is incorporated to the point of being non-existent ; ʻAlá written with a rightward-pointing descender ; [2] table of contents is in a very casual Persianate naskh, largely unpointed and totally unvowelled ; [3] replacement hand is a late Persianate naskh, pointed, unvowelled, with nūn having the incorporated dot.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page (main in 25, replacement folia at beginning in 24, replacement folia close in 21-23) ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah evident).Collation: III(6), 1+I (9), 1+II (14), III-1 (19), 16 V(179), VI(191), VII(205), 11 V(315), VI(327), V(337), IV+I (347) ; foliated in red Hindu-Arabic numerals, generally in the top left corner of each recto, begins with ١ on p.17 and ends with ۳۳۸ on p.691 ; obviously done sometime after the glossing and trimming of the ms. ; catchwords present, though many lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب كتبه عبد الفقير"Explicit: "ولكن هذا اخر الكلام من كتاب المواقف ونسأل الله تعالى أن يثبت قلبنا على دينه ولا بزيغه بعد الهداية ويعصمنا عن الغواية ويوقفنا للاقتداء برسول الله واصحابه والتابعين لهم باحسان ويعفو عن طغيان القلم وما لا يخلق [كذا] عنه البشر من السهو والذلل وان يعاملنا بفضله ورحمته انه هو العفو الرحيم قد تمت"Incipit: "ضمن خطبة كتابه الإشارة إلى مقاصد علم الكلام رعاية لبراعة الإستهلال فبسمل اولا يتمنا ثم قال الحمد لله العلى شانه إلى أخره وحاله في ذاته وصفاته وأقعاله فانه جامع لجهات علو الشان "Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine early copy of the commentary (completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand) on Kitāb al-mawāqif fī ʻilm al-kalām, the renowned work on theology by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ʻAḍūḍ al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 555Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Codex is comprised of large sections from a ms. dating to possibly the 14th (or even 13th century), supplemented by large sections of replacement leaves the bulk of which perhaps date to the 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 404" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western-style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; spine gold-tooled with title and fillets flanking raised bands ; resewn and fairly tightly bound such that sewing is difficult to examine ; in good condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: Original, older manuscript on non-European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, curved) and chain lines only faintly visible (as well as rib shadows) but possibly grouped with 9-10 mm. between chains, quite thick, soft and floccular ; opening replacement on non-European laid paper of perhaps two other distinct types, one with 8 laid lines per cm. (curved and sagging, horizontal) and no obvious chain lines, and another which may have grouped chain lines (see pp.17-18) ; the remaining replacement sections are on European laid paper of several types, including type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), 33-35 mm. between chain lines (vertical) and watermarks cross above triple mount in circle (see, p.22, etc., 85 cm. tall, compare Heawood 889) and bull's head with eyes, ears and snake on cross above (see p.24, 44, etc.), as well as "PA" or "BA" countermark (see p.180) ; another type with wheeled cart or "char à deux roues" watermark (see p.202, for design compare Briquet, "Papiers et filigranes des archives de Gênes 1154 à 1700," no.72) and at close type with cross above orb and three hats watermarks (for design compare Heawood 2593) ; staining and tide-lines.Decoration: Section headings, keywords, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; basmalah and ḥamdalah at opening in purple ink ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least three hands in both black and brown inks ; opening replacement section in a fine naskh, compact 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand in a thin line, serifless, with curivlinear descenders and pointing in distinct dots ; main replacements first seen at p.21 in a compact nastaʻlīq (talik) in a medium line, serifless, with mainly curvilinear descenders, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn typically assimilated with bowl, tilt to the right, etc. ; other hands in naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) make up the remaining replacement sections and are similar, but more compact ; main hand of older sections (in brown ink) first seen at p.27, a large naskh, 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand, serifless with mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, shaqq of kāf usually left off (and supplied later in black ink), final hāʼ often assimilated with preceding dāl or rāʼ, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in mainly in 21 lines per page (some sections in 29 lines) ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident in some sections).Collation: Rough assemblage of made quires (additions supplementing what lacked in the older, original manuscript) with sewing nearly impossible to examine ; only a few gatherings of original, older manuscript are intact and these appear to be quinions ; final leaves left blank ; occasional catchwords ; traces of quire numbering in older sections (see p.219) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, at least two different schemes with one following numerals on upper corner of the verso of the leaf, the other of the recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.453 and 454).Explicit: "ولان الحاجة تشتمل الغني والفقير الشرب والنزول والغني لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلة لغناه والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعائر الشرع واحكامه ... وقد جرى على الوعد في مبدأ بداية المبتدي ان اشرحها بتوفيق الله شرحا ارسمه بكفاية المنتهى فشرعت فيه والوعد يسوغ بعض المساغ وحين اكاد اتكئ عنه اتكاء الفراغ تبينت فيه نبذا من الاطناب وخشيت ان يهجر لاجله الكتاب فصرفت العنان والعناية الى شرح اخر موسوم بالهداية ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.4.Ms. composite codex.Composite copy of the first part (from Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf) of al-Marghīnānī’s celebrated commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law. Codex is comprised of large sections from an older manuscript supplemented with later replacements. Contents listing on 'title page' (p.3).
Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Mīrzā Muḥammad Shīrāzī. Gift of Amir Jafar and Parvindokt Hasheminejad, donated by their son, Mehdi Hasheminejad, item belonged to Amir Jafar Hasheminejad's collection and originated from Qajar era minister, Mehdi Lahooti, Badaye Negar's holdings. May 31, 2019. Written in Iran. Paper; polished, cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords. Naskh; 15 lines in written area 12 x 5.5 cm. Fol. 1b-51b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding; cloth reinforced lavender and black marbled paper.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. 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. Naskh; 15 lines in written area 15 x 9 cm. Folio 1b-119b. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: brown leather, spine repaired, rebacked in Morocco leather. With: Kirmānī, Muḥammad Karīm Khān. Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Sulṭānīyah. Bumbay : Dādūmiyān Dahāyilī, 1277 [1861]. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Abstract: A general license to teach.Contents.وأنا الفقير الى الله يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى عبدالله الديلمي اروي بهذا السند اجازة وقراءه على المولى العلامة الصفي احمد علي عبدالرحمن الكحلاني لقطة 12إجازة عامة من القاضي أحمد بن أحمد بن محمد بن حسين السياغي الحيمي للسيد العلامة يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلميAutograph copy. Reading note from a certain ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kaḥlānī. Includes an isnad for the Sharḥ al-Azhār by Ibn Miftāḥ, dated 20 March 1970.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوطات أو ورقات ليس له غلاف، حيث أن عليه أثر تخريم ملف، تم كتابة خطه بالمداد الأسود، خطه نسخي مع فارسي متوسطشهر الحجه الحرام سنة 1377هـIncipit: بسم الله... وبه استعين الحمدُ لله الذى جعل العلم الشريف لاهل الارض سراجا وهّاجا... وبعد فان سيدى العلامه العماد يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلمي عافاه الله قرا عليّ من علوم الحديث صحيح مسلم وسنن ابي داود وموطا الامام مالك بروايه يحيى بن يحيى الليثي وسبل السلام للبدر الامير...Explicit: وعليه التثبت في الروايه والدرايه والعمل بالسنه النبويه وعدم تقديم اقوال الرجال والوقوف عند المتشابهات وان لاينساني من صالح الدعوات سيما في اوقات الاجابات واوصيه بتقوى الله وسلوك طريقة العلما العارفين وملازمة العلم والعمل وصلى الله وسلم علا سيدنا محمد والهNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black ink. Unbound, with some holes in the paper.28-32 lines.فائدة مكتوبة بالمداد الأزرق وهي كالآتي: سند شرح الأزهار أرويه عن شيخي العلامه السيد أحمد بن علي الكحلاني رحمه الله وهو يرويه عن شيخه السيد العلامة محمد بن زيد الحوثي من أوله الى عتق ... وكتب يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلمي بتأريخ 12/ محرم / 1390هـ لقطه12
Abstract: Fatwas of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī, collected in four parts (qism) by his pupil Kamāl al-Dīn Isḥāq al-Maghribī (see fol. 2a and 2b).Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).18 to 20 lines per page. The script changes from fol. 76b on. Written in black ink with use of red in medium small casual naskh with larger script for the headings. From fol. 76b on, medium large naskh. Light cream glazed paper with laid lines visible. Between fol. 26 and 27: Note on a smaller piece of paper probably by the same hand. Fol. 35b blank. Fol. 1a-2a: inscriptions, seals, short texts. Fol. 126a-129b: several short texts and inscriptions.Collation: Paper, fol. 129 ; 1-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (-1, at the end) ; horizontal catchword at the end of most quires.Copied in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 718 by Ismāʻīl ibn Sharaf ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 125b).Incipit: بسم ... اللهم يسر لااله الا الله عده للقا الله ربنا ... هذه الفتاوى التى صدرت من الشيخ ... الشهرزورى المعروف بابن الصلاح رتبها الشيخ ... كمال الدين اسحاق ... على اربعة اقسام قسم فى شرح ايات من كتاب اللهExplicit: و يذكر نحوهما من مزيلات الملك ومن الفرق بين ذلك و بين الابرآء وصحّ فلن يتعقبه ما يُزيلُ حُكمه فلمْ يحتجْ الى يمين تنفع احتمال ذلك والله اعلم هذا ما اتفق للشيخ ... ابن الصلاح رحمه الله تعالى
Abstract: A collection of literary, scholarly, historical and poetic texts, with the beginning part of the dīwān of ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAnsī.Contents.سفينة أدبية تحتوي في أولها على ديوان العنسيIncludes numerous fragments and poems, among them excerpts from the Sharaf asrār al-ṭibb lil-ʻayān by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥamawī, a history of the Ayyubid dynasty in Yemen, a letter by Abū Bakr al-Khwārizmī to the people of Ṭabaristān, selections of poetry by Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā Ḥillī, and an excerpt on astronomy.عبارة عن مجلد بني اللون تمت حباكته من أعلى المخطوط وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرالجمعة 18/ذي الحجة/سنة 1218هـIncipit: واحد بعد واحِد . ومما اتَّفَق للشيخ العلامه عبدالرحمن بن محَمد الذهبى تمام دخوله صنعا المحميَّه أنه طلب من القاضى العلامه البَليغ ذو اللطايف التى لعبت بالعقول...على بن محمد العنسى رحمهما الله ان يرسل اليه بدِيوان شعره فأرسله اليه وكتب بهذين البيتين ضمَّن فيهما قول امرء القيس اَيَا مَن لَهُ النظم الذى نُسِيَت به قفا نبك من ذكرى حبيبِ ومَنْزِلِ...Explicit: تذيع دموعى سر وجدي كانها لنص احاديث الغرام شروح ولولاك ما هب النسيم معطراً ولا راح نشر المسك منك يفوح. لقطة رقم (148).Naskh, Persian naskh and thuluth scripts, written in black and red ink.12-37 lines.1-منقول من كتاب شرف أسرار الطب للعيان تأليف محمد بن أحمد بن علي الحموي. لقطة رقم (149-151). 2-فوائد متفرقة منها: تاريخ مختصر في ذكر أيام بني أيوب ودولتهم في اليمن .من كلام الشيخ أبو بكر الخوارزمي رسالة كتبها إلى أهل طبرستان. مختارات من أشعار الصفي الحلي.نقول في علم الفلك. أشعار متفرقة لعدد من الشعراء. من اللقطة رقم (152-208).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 908 v.2Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 57Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title, owner and decorative accents over raised bands "الاسفار | 2 | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine but appears to be over cords, in white thread, five stations ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined wove paper of several types.Decoration: Some headings rubricated.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; both in a medium to bold line ; naskh, a clear, modern hand, mainly serifless (though right-sloping head-serif appears on lām of occasional lām alif) and rounded with curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; ruqʻah, compact, quick hand, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the left, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 26 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in pencil and black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "قد لا يكون في غير محله ان نطيل البيان في هذا الملخص الاجمالي فنضيف الى ذلكم [ذلك] التبيان السالف مجملا من العبارات عما وقع الكلمة فلسفة في هذه المملكة من التحريف تارة ومن التطور في الاطوار المختلفة التي تقلبت فيها الى الوقت الحاضر تارة اخرى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful (though seemingly acephalous) draft copy (مسودة) of an introductory work on philosophy addressing the history of philosophy (p.5), the Eastern philosophers (p.15), the Ancient Greek philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, etc.) (p.24), Medieval philosophers (p.145), Modern philosophy (p.191) and contemporary philosophy (p.497).
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Place of writing not determined; probably Iran or Turkey. Paper; light cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue and red; text enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold; numerous illustrations; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords. Naskh; 21 lines in written area 17 x 8.5 cm. Numerous illustrations and tables on fol. 2-19; some small illustrations in body of text. Fol. 2b-238a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, [unnumbered]. Modern dark brown leather binding. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 150Origin: As appears in colophon on p.397, copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Khiḍr [?]. Colophon lacks year transcription was completed ; paper suggests early 17th century.Accompanying materials: Slip carrying notes (paginted pp.21-22).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 71. Hasan Chelebi's glosses on the Mutawwal." ; "۲٤" on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) and 'title page' (p.3) ; "٤١٦" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (orange-red, blue, yellow) with spine, foreedge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper pastedown in laid paper, lower board lining in pink-tinted laid paper ; interior of envelope flap in marbled paper ; sewn in cream thread, two and four stations (alternating) ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, some lifting and losses of paper and leather, staining, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs in red leather.Support: European laid paper in several types ; first type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-30 mm. apart (horizontal), anchor in circle watermark with trefoil above (compare Heawood 2), quite thick, sturdy and well-burnished ; second type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), crossbow in circle watermark with trefoil above (compare Piccard 123860 and 123861), thinner but sturdy and well-burnished ; next type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), crown with star and crescent above watermark (compare Heawood 1132), thick, sturdy and well-burnished ; final type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart, angel in circle watermark with flower/leaf above ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; occasional textual dividers in red and black.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh, several hands ; mainly naskh-nastaʻlīq virtually serifless with mainly closed counters, effect of tilt to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), elongation of horizontal strokes, final nūn occasionally reversed (re-curved) ; naskhs fairly compact with mainly closed counters, rounded and freely ligatured, some with tilt to the right others to the left (see pp.283-306 and pp.347-370).Layout: Written in 23, 25 and 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 V(80), II (84), 4 V(124), IV (132), IV+1 (141), VI (153), V (163), IV+2 (173), 2 VI (197), I (199) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and insert ; skips two pages each between pp.265-266 and pp.271-272).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم هذا الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب في ليلة يوم الثلثاء في شهر المرجب عن يد عبد الضعيف الشيخ مصطفى بن خضر [؟] غفر الله له ولوالديه"Explicit: "والتذكير للاحكام المذكورة في علمي المعاني والبيان انما لم يتعرض للبديع لكونه خارجا عن [البلاغة]"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي الهمنا حقائق المعاني ودقائق البيان الاقرب الى الفهم ان المراد بالالهام في هذا المقام معناه اللغوي وهو الاعلام مطلقا لا يحتاج ارادة ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Fine copy of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Fanārī's (Hasan Çelebî) gloss on al-Sharḥ al-muṭawwal, the longer commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 968Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; though possibly copied for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), likely in Egypt in the late 1930s.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 117Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in dull gold ; cover gold-stamped with "كشف الاسرار" ; sewn in heavy white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Machine laid and wove papers of a few different types ; opening type (pp.1-4, 17-20) machine laid, lined and with watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see p.101 to close and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91) ; next type (pp.5-8, 13-16) also machine laid and lined but without watermark visible ; next type (pp.9-12, 21-40) a machine wove paper, brown in color, somewhat acidic ; finally (p.41 to close) still another machine wove type, cream in color.Decoration: Some headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Naskh ; two main modern hands, though possibly supplied by the same copyist ; opening and final works in a careful, compact naskh in a medium to thin line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; middle work in a larger, bolder naskh, seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs mainly on lām, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15, 11-14, 11, and 15-21 lines per page ; some sections frame-ruled (see p.42 and following).Collation: i, 3 V(30), 3 II(42), i ; quaternions and binions ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (distinct for each work) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: [Kashf al-asrār] "وجواهر العلم المخزونة المصونة وانه في ظاهره يحكي عن معنى" ; [Jawāhir al-asrār] "واذا جاء روح القدس المعزي الذي يرسله ربي باسمي فهو يعلمكم كل شيء ويذكركم كل ما قلت لكم" ; [Lawḥ min al-nuqṭah al-ūlá] "وقد اطلعت على مغزاه وزبدته ولا من مبشرة الا بعثت بها اليك انتهت هذه الريحانة التي اقتطفناها من باقة لوح من الواح النقطة الاولى الناظمة في عقدها كل معنى ثمين ومبحث سمين والله مهدي من يشاء الى صراط اليقين وهو حسبنا ونعم الامين ... الضمين"Incipit: [Kashf al-asrār] "بحمد ربنا العلي الاعلى الحمد لله الذي اظهر الشمس بقدرته والاح النور بقوته واطلع الوجه من قمص الامر بحكمته ..." ; [Jawāhir al-asrār] "هو العلي الاعلى يا ايها السالك في سبيل العدل والناظر الى طلعة الفضل قد بلغ كتابك وعرفت سؤالك سمعت لحنات قلبك في سرادق فؤادك ..." ; [Lawḥ min al-nuqṭah al-ūlá ] "لوح من النقطة الاولى الحمد لله الذي اظهر الشمس بقدرته والاح النور بقوته واطلع الوجه من قمص الامر بحكمته ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' for opening work (p.1).Ms. codex.3. p.53-p.84 : Lawḥ min al-Nuqṭah al-ūlá [or Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār] / Baháʼuʼlláh [?].2. p.41-p.52 : Jawāhir al-asrār fī maʻārij al-asfār / Baháʼuʼlláh.1. p.1-p.40 : Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār / Baháʼuʼlláh [?].Careful copy of a small collection (majmūʻah) of Bahai works namely Jawāhir al-asrār fī maʻārij al-asfār, a concise treatise by Baháʼuʼlláh (Bahāʼ Allāh), Mīrzā Ḥusayn ʻAlī Nūrī (d.1892), flanked by Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār, in incomplete form at the opening of the codex and then apprently repeated at the close under the title Lawḥ min al-Nuqṭah al-ūlá, possibly also of Baháʼuʼlláh.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 536Origin: According to colophon on fol.40a, copied ("katabtuhu") in Shīrāz by al-ʻArshī, 746 [1345 or 1346].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from YahudaBinding: Covered in blue cloth without boards; Type III (without flap); modern, certainly not original.Support: non-European laid paper; laid lines sometimes run vertically, sometimes horizontally; no chain lines visible; 20 laid lines in 17mm; watermarked European laid paper is used for the substituted leaf at fol.28 as well as for the repairs at the top of fol.40; chain lines spaced roughly 21 mm. apart and running horizontally; watermark may be pot with grapes.Decoration: Text of fol.12a is rubricated.Script: Mainly naskh with elements of taʻlīq; medium Persian hand with words descending onto the baseline, partially pointed and with rare vocalization, somewhat difficult to read; fol.21 and fol.28 are in a small, neat Persian naskh.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page except for the inserted folia (fol. 21 and fol. 28) which range from 23-26 lines per page.Collation: iv, 4 V (40) ; chiefly quinions; catchwords present; pagination added later in pencil, Western numerals.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتبته بشيراز سنة 746 العرشي غفر الله له"Explicit: "والفطنة والذكاء يشعر [كذا] بسرعة الادراك [؟] لما غاب عن المدرك والمعرفة قد [كذا] سبق نكرة فلا يمنع عن اطلاق شيء منه الا شيء مما ذكرناه فان حقق لفظ لا يوهم اصلا بين المتفاهمين ولم يرد الشرع بالمنع منه فانا نجوز اطلاقه قطعا والله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ابو حامد محمد بن محمد بن محمد الغزالي نعمة الله ورضوانه عليه فالحمد لله المتفرد بكبريائه وعظمته المتوحد بتعاليه وصمديته الذي قصر اجنحة العقول ... بعد فقد سألني اخ في الله يعين [؟] في الدين اجابته شرح معاني اسماء الله الحسنى ..."Title from recto of first flyleaf.Ms. codex.Treatise on the divine attributes, or ninety-nine names of God, and whether men may imitate them. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Abstract: A commentary on a work of Arabic grammar.Title from introduction.Contents; ownership note on p. 1.ضحوة السبت 11/رمضان/سنة 897هـالفوائد الضيائيهOwnership notes. Dedication to ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥaymī. Includes excerpts from the dīwān of al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī Habal.بعناية مالكه: عبدالرحمن بن حسن الحيميجيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه نقشة محفورة على الجلد تم استبدال الصفحات الأولى منه بورق حديث يبدو أنه كتب بخط صاحب المكتبة السيد العلامة محمد بن محمد بن محمد الكبسي وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وبداية الصفحات الأصلية عليها إطار مزدوج من اللقطة رقم (51-128)بعد صلاة العصر يوم الخميس لعله 15/جماد الآخر/سنة 1086هـIncipit: بِسْمِ اللهِ...الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيئه وعلى اله واصحابه المتادبين بآدابه اما بعد فهذه فوائد وافيه بحل المشكلات الكافيه...Explicit: المفتوح ما قبلها يقلب الفا كقولك اضربن اضربا تشبيها لها بالتنوين...اللهم اجعل خاتمه امورنا خيرا ولا تلحق بنا من تبعه سرورنا ضيرا...لقطة رقم 290Naskh script, written in black and red ink, with the text enframed in red. Some pages have been replaced, written in Persian naskh script. Two torn pages.25 lines.نقول من ديوان القاضي الشيعي شرف الدين الحسن بن علي بن جابر الهبل. لقطة رقم (291) أولها: حب علي وبنيه اهل التقى والرشد فرض على كل الورى من والدٍ أو ولد
Abstract: Composite volume, comprising two glosses on al-Talwīḥ ilá kashf ḥaqāʼiq al-Tanqīḥ, a commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 791/1389) on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346), on uṣūl al-fiqh, written by two distinct hands.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in green paper and brown leather (marbled paper on envelope flap). Red-dyed paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 2a-137b: al-Tarjīḥ ḥāshiyat al-Talwīḥ / Burhān al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīwāsī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 919.Contents: 2. fol. 138a-437b: Ḥāshiyat ʻalá al-Talwīḥ / Aḥmad ibn Kamāl Pāshā. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 924.Ms. codex.Title from table of contents on fol. 1a (later hand).Physical description: Text 1 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 17 lines per page (133 x 104 mm.). Cream paper, soft, with chain lines and laid lines visible ; quaternions. Text 2 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 17 lines per page (112 x 65 mm.). Light cream paper, glossy, with a few chain lines visible and European paper with watermark ; quinions. Fol. 1 is a later addition. Table of contents and biographical note from Kashf al-ẓunūn on fol. 1a.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl thānī 26". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 250".Origin: According to colophon, Text 1 copied in 841 H. (fol. 137b). Text 2 appears to date to a later period.
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Irshād al-adhhānAbstract: a work on Shiʻite fiqh."Binding note: Volume 2, full olive green leather with red leather doublures; front cover detached. Volume 3, full black leather with red leather doublures. Volume 4, full red leather with black leather doublures; covers detached.Contents: Volumes 2-3: kitāb al-ṣalāh -- Volume 4: kitāb al-zakāh through kitāb al-ṣawm.Ms. codex.Title from colophon, leaf 230a, volume 3.Volume 2 erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description, volumes 2-3: 23 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; a few leaves detached.Physical description, volumes 4: 23 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; partially disbound.Origin: Volumes 2-3 copied by the same scribe, likely early 18th century. Volume 4 dated 1125 H 1713 or 1714, by Ibn Mullā Ḥusayn Muḥammad ʻAlī Hirminjardī vocalization? (leaves 127b, 215a).الحمد لله ... کتاب الصلوة الصلوة لغة هي الدعا قال الله تعالى وصل عليهم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 240Origin: As appears at close, executed by Mustafa el-Haşimî known as Kadızade in 1195 [1780 or 1].Former shelfmark: "550 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on upper board lining ; "107" in pencil on recto of opening panel.Binding: Pasteboards faced in gold-flecked, pale yellow paper and framed in tan leather (covering board edges / turn-ins and likely spine at one time) now with dark purple leather (and Japanese paper repair) over spine (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; opens vertically ; board linings in magenta paper ; gold rule-borders on leather edging ; overall in fairly good condition ; repairs in Japanese paper ; occasional repair to hinges in same dark purple leather.Support: Written area on well-burnished laid paper, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (pale peach-tinted, pink-tinted, light blue-tinted, orange-tinted, etc. with colors of facing panels matching) and mounted.Decoration: Written area (and divisions within) surrounded by gold frame set off by black and white fillets ; written area set into a frame of tinted paper (colors of facing panels match).Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; in thuluth (sülüs) and naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in four lines per page ; two large lines thuluth and two smaller centered lines in naskh, constituting two distinct streams of textCollation: Eleven 'panels' hinged together with tan leather.Colophon: "مشقه اضعف العباد السيد مصطفى الهاشمى المعروف بقاضى زاده سنه ١١٩٥ه"Explicit: "وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجد ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير ا ب ت ج ح د ز ذ ر س ش ص ط ع و ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) in this case a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) employing first (in seventeen kıt'alar) the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat) and closing with three kıt'alar of mürekkebat exercises employing the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı) and a prayer.
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 2(bis)b-36a: Risālah fī ḥujjīyat khabar al-wāḥid wa-al-ijmāʻ / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sarāb.Contents: 2. leaves 36b-38b: Risālah fī al-ijmāʻ.Contents: 3. leaves 39a-53b: Persian treatise on ṣalāh. Incomplete at beginning and end; consists of at least three fuṣūl.Contents: 4. leaves 54a-58a: Arabic treatise of advice and admonishments. Incomplete at beginning.Contents: 5. leaves 58a-58b: Namāz-i sāʻat-i ghaflat. In Persian.Contents: 6. leaves 59a-61b: Manqūl min Kitāb Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah / min taṣānīf ... Aḥmad al-Aradabīlī. In Persian.Contents: 7. leaves 63b-83b: al-Risālah al-qadīmah fī ithbāt al-wājib / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī.Ms. composite codex.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the third leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description, texts 1-2: 21 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 1 in small naskh and text 2 in nastaʻliq. Catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, texts 3-6: 15 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, text 7: 21 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords and marginal notes. Marginal damp staining; several leaves have heavier water damage and are somewhat smudged.Origin: Text 1 completed in Ramaḍān 1105 H April-May 1694, by the author (leaf 36a); text 2 likely completed around the same time. Text 4 completed on 20 Rabīʻ I 1093 H 29 March 1682 (leaf 58a); texts 3, 5, 6 likely completed around the same time. Text 7 completed in 972 H 1564 or 1565 in Mashhad Imām al-Ḥusayn Karbalāʼ, by ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Māzandarānī (leaf 83b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 400Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.166-167, Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî copied by al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad (Hacı İbrahim bin Hacı Mehmet), keeper of the two lamps in the service of the sultan [?] ("الخليفة على السراجين المخصوصين بالخدمة السلطانية"), with transcription completed Jumādá I 1135 [February-March 1723]. Index lacks dated colophon though transcription likely executed around the same time ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: Inserts carrying continuation of glosses (paginated pp.73-74, 155-156).Former shelfmark: "٣۰٣" inscribed in black ink on upper cover ; "۱۷٥" inscribed in black ink on front flyleaf ; "550 [?] T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on back flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown to black leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings in marbled paper (mainly in blue-green, lavender, orange, and red), leather hinges (not extension of spine lining in this instance) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (red recessed onlays), gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) and pendants, along with tooled accents (mainly rosettes) and border (guilloché roll defined by gold fillets) in gold ; design continues on flap ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and light blue, damaged with cores exposed ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor staining and abrasion.Support: European laid paper of several types ; in opening work (through p.60), mainly a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24-26 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of crown with heart above grapes (raisin, see p.42, 44, 45, 48, etc.) and countermark "AS" [?] (see p.52, etc.), quite sturdy, beige in color, burnished, and a thinner and smoother type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) with cartouche and crown above (see p.22, etc.) ; in second work (p.61 to close), mainly a type with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (vertical, more distinct), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (horizontal, more distinct), and watermark of grapes under crown (see p.86, 88, 100, 102, etc.), transluscent and crisp though quite sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, beige to buff in color, and another thinner type, lighter in color, with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of lion rampant [?] watermark (see p.62, 126, 130, 162, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of index on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche (carrying the opening heading in red "باب الالف مع الباء") flanked by vegetal motifs in gold, surmounted by scalloped dome or semi-circular piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in gold ; splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî on p.62, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in pink, lavender, red and orange on a blue and pale gold ground, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with elegant swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, pink, white, blue, lavender, orange, red, etc. on a pale gold and blue ground, itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents, entire piece set in a well of light blue, pink and gold bands ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets, divisions within and margins defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords, sections headings, numerals, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least two elegant Ottoman hands ; bulk of index in a delicate naskh, partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, freely ligatured (with point of final nūn usually conjoined with bowl), fully vocalized ; final portion of index (see p.58) in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik) ; Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî in another elegant naskh in a bolder line, mainly serifless (though serif rarely appears) with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, fully vocalized ; glosses accompanying Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî in a quite compact naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik).Layout: Written mainly in 13 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; for every other leaf, entire written area (at roughly the ruled marginal dimensions) is devoted to gloss ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III+4 (10), IV (18), V (28), I+1 (31), 5 V(81), I+1 (84), i ; chiefly quinions ; occasional lacuna on leaves ruled for glosses ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and skips opening leaf).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "ولما من الله على محرر هذه السطور بتنميق الحروف على قواعد الرسم المخبور حمده على انعامه وفضله وكرمه اذ اهله لنعم عليه منها ملابس وكل نعمة منها عنده هي انفس النفايس وكان محررها الفقير الاواه الحاج ابراهيم بن الحاج محمد الخليفة على السراجين المخصوصين بالخدمة السلطانية الراجى كل منهما عفو مولاه فى تاريخ سنة خمس وثلاثين ومائة والف من شهر جمادى الاولى من السنة المزبورة غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة ولجميع المسلمين م م م"Explicit: [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] "فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلات بو كتابى اوكرن ايج آب حيات شاهدى يه هركيم ايلرسه دعا ايده محشرده شفاعت مصطفا"Incipit: [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] "بنام خالق وحى وتوانا قديم وقادر وبينا ودانا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.3. p.62-p.167 : [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] / Şahidî İbrahim Dede.2. p.60-p.61 : [blank].1. p.2-p.59 : [index for the vocabulary of Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî].Elegant copy of the well-known versified Persian-Turkish vocabulary of Şâhidî İbrahim Dede of Muğla (d.1550) with extensive glosses (occupying every other leaf), preceded by an index of the vocabulary arranged by letter.
Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Large, clear Naskh.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp golden-brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 12.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and smudging.Origin: According to note on leaf 1a, this copy is a holograph.Incipit: الحمد لله فياض عوارف المعارف
Manuscript. Turkish (Arabic script) and Persian. Title from bottom edge. Name of scribe not indicated Probably written in Turkey. Paper: very light cream-color polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate floral unvan in blue, gold and red; text enclosed in a fine ruled border of black and gold ink; rubrication with overlining; few marginal corrections; catchwords on rectos. Naskh; 23 lines in written area 16.5 x 7.5 cm. Fol. 1b-378b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M77?. Contemporary reddish-brown polished binding with gold medallions and borders front and back. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Manuscript. Persian Title from pasted label on cover. Scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper: lined notebook paper, lines running vertically to the text; black ink. Text breaks off after the first line of "al-bāb al-awwal min al-wāḥid al-rābiʻ." Naskh; 17 lines in written area approximately 15.5 x 11.5 cm. 165 pages. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M5. Contemporary blue cardboard binding with black leather spine. With a small manuscript fragment 19 x 12.5 cm, 16 pages (25-28 lines), in very small nastaʻliq script. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Incipit: بسم الامنع الاقدس Explicit/Colophon: في ان للنقطة مقامين مقام ينطق عن الله ومقام ينطق عما دون الله ذلك مقام
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from folio 3a. Pagination: 6 blank leaves; 1st work: fol. 1b-168a (15 lines); 3 blank leaves; 2nd work: fol. 172b-175a (12 lines) Autograph copy. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: yellowish, cream color paper with visible watermark; black ink with rubrication and overlining in red; catchwords. Naskh; First work: 15 lines in written area 12.5 x 6.5 cm.; Second work: 12 lines in written area 12 x 6 cm. 6 blank leaves; fol. 1b-168a (1st work); 3 blank leaves; fol. 172b-175a (2nd work) Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: flexible red leather binding with embossed frame lines.
Manuscript. Persian. Title based on comparison with printed edtions. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Turkey. Papaer; light cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; text enclosed in and divided by single red lines; gold unwan; black ink with section headings in red ink; catchwords. Manuscript appears to be unfinished as section titles end at the first section on fol. 17a; blank section dividision title box blank through the rest of the work. Naskh; 17 lines in written area 12.3 x 6.7 cm. Fol. 1b-29a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M129. Contemporary deep red morocco Turkish binding with gold borders and center gold medallion. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Abstract: Commentary on al-Fiqh al-nāfiʻ by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Samarqandī.Ms. codex.Title from rubric on fol. 1a.Physical description: Fol. 5-89 and 119-245 written in thick medium small naskh in black ink, with 29 lines per page (250 x 140 mm.), on dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 91-118 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 27 lines per page (195 x 125 mm.), on cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Collation notes on the margin. . Fol. 4 is a later replacement. According to catchword and foliation in black ink in Arabic numerals, several leaves missing between fol. 4 and 5 (fol. 5 is numbered "12" in the foliation in Arabic numerals). Fol. 58 (65 in the foliation in Arabic) is the beginning of the ninth quire. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements and a table of contents. Stained with water, with loss of text.Label pasted on upper cover with illegible inscription. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 506". Inscription in Arabic script on fol. 1a, reading: "Numrah 9".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by Burhān ibn Ismāʻīl Shaykh ibn QYMS(?) Ḥājjī al--ūR-āṭī on Wednesday, the first night (ghurrah) of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 703 July 1304 (fol. 245b).Copyist: Burhān ibn Ismāʻīl Shaykh ibn QYMS(?) Ḥājjī al--ūR-āṭī.Incipit: الحمد لله الذى امدّ اولياه فى العاجلة بانواع النعم واعدّ اعداه فى الاجله باصناف النقم ... وبعد فان كتاب النافع فى كثرة جواهره ودرره كبحر لجي وسماء ذات درارى ... قال الامام ... ناصر الدين المدينى ... الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا امده للابد الحمد وصف بالجميل على جهة التفضيل
Abstract: Copy of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī. Just after colophon, prayer, starting with "Yā Khāliq al-khalq".Binding note: Marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Dark brown leather spine and outer edges of the covers. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the tail of the text block.'15 lines per page. Fol. 1-29 are later replacements on European glazed paper with watermark, written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Fol. 30-203 on thick light cream paper with pulp and lines visible (frame-ruled), in medium small naskh in black ink (faded), with use of red. Interlinear and marginal annotations by a later hand. Pagination in black ink using Arabic numerals (starting with "1" on fol. 1b). Several inscriptions and short excerpts on the pastedown of the upper cover and fol. 1a. Inscription in Western numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "79" (corresponds to Brill\'s catalog. See HoutsmaM. Th. Catalogue d\'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcsno. 132).'Copy completed in ---? al-Khalīl, on 19 Muḥarram 768 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn al-Khalīlī al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 203b).Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام ابو محمد القاسم بن علي بن محمد بن عثمان الحريري البصرى رحمه الله تعالى اللهم انا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان والهمت من التبيان ... 2أ ... وبعد قد جرى ببعض اندية الادب الذي ركدت في هذا العصرِ ريحهExplicit: فقال اجعل الموت نصب عينك وهذا فراق بيني وبينك فودعته وعبراتي تتحدرن من المأقي وزفراتي يتصعدن من التراقي وكانت هذه خاتمة التلاقي تمت قال الرييس ابو محمد القاسم بن علي رحمه الله هذا اخر المقامات التي انشاتها للاغترار وامليتها 203أ بلسان الاضطرار وقد الجيت الى ان ارصدتها للاستعراض وناديت عليها في سوق الاعتراض هذ مع معرفتي بانها من سقط المتاع ... ولكن كان ذلك في الكتاب مسطورًا وانا استغفر الله تعالى مما اودعتها من اباطيل اللغو واضاليل اللهو واسترشده الي ما يعصم من السهو ... وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والاخره والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته وسلامه على سيدنا محمد عبده ورسوله ... ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 482Origin: As appears in colophon on p.515, transcription completed 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1116 [ca. 15 April 1705] by Bakīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Scrap with notes and seal impression between pp.40-41.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, 'title page' (p.1), and spine label, "IL 350a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in perhaps once-tinted laid paper with edges/turn-ins in red-brown leather and spine covered in paper (manuscript waste) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear visible impression of stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration) ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations, gone from many quires ; worked endbands in blue, damaged with core exposed ; overall in quite poor condition with significant abrasion and staining, upper cover fully detached, probable loss of flap, lifting and losses of paper (particularly at spine), delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (vertical), and grapes (raisin) under cartouche with "P A" [?] and crown above watermark (see p.1, etc.), quite thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished ; another sturdier type with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (vertical), no watermarks visible (see pp.377-416, etc.) ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; at least three hands ; opening hand through p.177 a nastaʻlīq (talik), bold Turkish hand, virtually serifless and quite compact with marked tilt to the right, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; hand supplying by p.177 through p.301 a small and rather compact naskh, partially though irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters ; hand supplying p.302 to p.446 another nastaʻlīq (talik) similar to the opening hand, also compact with dramatic inclination to the right ; at p.447 reverts back to the naskh and continues in this hand to the close.Layout: Written mainly in 34-35 lines per page.Collation: V-1 (9), 25 V(259) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between pp.3-4).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تم بعون الله وحسن توفيقه على يدي افقر الورى واحوجهم بكير بن محمد بن اسماعيل تمه في يوم الثاني بعد صلوة الظهر العشرون من شهر ذي الحجة في سلك سنة ستة عشر ومائة والف من الهجرة المصطوية [كذا] عليه افضل التحية واكمل الثنية واسأل الله العفو والعافية ... واحشرنا معهم بلطفك يا رب العالمين"Explicit: "ولانه ثبت فضيلتهم على القرن الثاني بدلائل بكثيرة من الايات والخبار"Incipit: "احمد الله ملأ السموات وملأ الارض وما يشاء بعد هذه الاشياء ... وبعد فقد الح علي زمرة خلاني وثلة خلصاني ان اشرح لهم كتاب المصابيح تصنيف الامام الهمام ... ركن الشريعة محيي السنة ابي محمد الحسين بن مسعود الفراء ... فاجبتهم الى ذلك واوردت في اول الكتاب مقدمة في اصطلاحات اصحاب الحديث وانواع علوم الحديث واوردت فيه كل راو لم يكن مذكورا في متن المصابيح وتركت ذكر من هو مذكور فيه وسميته بكتاب المفاتيح في شرح المصابيح ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.2.Ms. codex.Careful copy of a commentary on Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah, the ḥadīth collection compiled from various sources and arranged by subject and degree of authority by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Farrāʼ al-Baghawī (d.1117?).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 220Origin: As appears in colophon at end of roll, main section copied by Ḥusayn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Khurāsānī with transcription completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 727 [?] [October-November 1327?] ; opening section (and repairs to main section) certainly much later than main section, perhaps 18th or 19th century.Accompanying material: a. Metal case in the form of a cylinder decorated with incised diamond pattern with lid (only slightly convex) ; case retains one ring through which a cord may have passed, a second ring has been lost -- b. Waxy, brown oil cloth now in two pieces which once wrapped roll inside case.Support: Each section in a distinct paper type ; opening section (first 895 mm., roughly 104-107 mm. wide, three pieces of paper) in type with roughly 10-11 laid lines per cm. (parallel with the length of the roll, fairly distinct) and no chain lines or watermarks plainly visible, dense and sturdy, burnished ; bulk of roll (roughly 3530 mm., 110-112 mm. wide, at least six pieces of paper) on a non-European (likely Persian) paper, highly sized and burnished, reinforced with further paper backing and repairs.Decoration: Text of opening section bordered by red double-rule border, table / jadwal with ninety-nine names ruled in red, border texts defined by red rules, openings with depiction of the "seal of prophecy" (مهر نبوت) here "صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی" ; main section opens with a long cartouche (oriented along the length of the roll) with illuminated heading "اسماء الله تعالى" in thuluth and basmalah in plaited and knotted kufic, a central field filled with floral and vegetal designs executed in micrography, bordering lozenges and alternating circles filled with further micrography (mainly chrysographed, some in blue and black) and Qurʼānic texts in large tawqīʻ approaching thuluth (chrysographed), and further border of rubricated Qurʼānic text in fine riqāʻ ; an even longer cartouche appears next, with illuminated headings for each of several sections ("من اسماء الله تعالى نودونه نام،" "هذا دعاء حرز الاماني،" اسماء الاربعون") which are each in a different layout incorporating the nintey-nine names, Qurʼānic and prayer texts in ghubār, naskh, thuluth, tawqīʻ, etc. in gold, red, black and some blue in a highly symmetrical fashion, with the various elements defined by heavy bands of gold flanked by red double-rules.Script: [opening section] Naskh and tawqīʻ ; [main section] Naskh, thuluth, tawqīʻ, riqāʻ, ghubār, plaited and knotted kufic.Layout: [opening section] central written area in a single column (text written perpendicular to length of the roll) bordered in Qurʼānic and ḥadīth texts along the length of the roll, ninety-nine names arranged in a ruled table / jadwal (five cells wide by twenty cells tall), text following the heading for "the prayer of the bāzūband" ("دعا بازوبند حضرت شاه ولايت پناه") in 26 lines ; [main section] an elaborate arrangement of text consisting of a central narrow panel filled with text first arranged in a series of diagonal arrays (each read across in a zig-zag fashion), next in a series of five circles executed in micrography, and finally in rectangular fields of roughly nine horizontal lines, all interspersed with headings and surrounded by two heavy borders of cartouches, circles and rectangles filled with Qurʼānic and prayer texts in various scripts, closing with dedication and colophon.Dedication: "اللهم وخل بدخلك [؟] دوله الامير الاعدل الاعظم الاعلم الاشجع الاكرم سلطان الامراء في العالم انك دولت همه از دولت اوحي طلبنا والملك العادل ... خلد الله تعالى ملكه ودولته الى يوم الدين"Colophon: "كتبه العبد حسين ابراهيم ابن محمد الحسيني الخراساني في ذي الحجة سنه سبع وعشرين وسبعمائة [؟]"Incipit: "صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. roll.[main section] اسماء الله تعالى -- من اسماء الله تعالى نودونه نام -- هذا دعاء حرز الاماني -- اسماء الاربعون[opening section] صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی -- نودونه نام باری تعالی -- دعا بازوبند حضرت شاه ولایت پناهComposite talismanic scroll (rotulus, i.e. opening vertically) consisting of two sections of distinct production, now joined. Originally wrapped in oil cloth and housed in metal case.
Origin: Lacks dated colophon, though paper would suggest late 13th (final decade) or 14th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. Slip with notes in German (following p.68), including general description of the codex and claiming that, from the 24 maqāmah onwards, the text includes an otherwise unknown commentary written by al-Ḥarīrī himself ; N. Gardiner believes this refers to the three sections marked تفسير, the first of which appears immediately following the 24 maqāmah ; these texts do in fact appear in the printed edition.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 353" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; from red-bordered label on upper cover, "۱٦".Binding: Pasteboards covered in European laid paper (over stamped scalloped mandorla) with spine and edges/turn-ins in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now missing) ; board-linings in European laid paper (tre lune watermark visible) ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, primaries in red ; in poor condition with much staining and abrasion with significant losses to covers ; spine is damaged at the head and tail ; endbands are entirely gone ; most threads are broken and the majority of the leaves are loose ; many of the bifolia have split ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with 20 laid lines in 32 mm. or 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) ; chain lines are difficult to distinguish but a set of 3 with 15-16 mm. between lines can be seen ; replacement folia in another Oriental laid paper, but with lines too indistinct to measure ; some pest damage to some leaves, though not so badly as to obscure text ; edges of a number of leaves are badly damaged.Decoration: Text rubricated with section headings (for each maqāmah, occasional sections of tafsīr) in red.Script: Naskh ; a few graceful Syrian and or Egyptian hands ; primary hand is a highly readable naskh, probably Egyptian, plainly very old (13th-14th century), fully pointed and vowelled, with shaddah, hamzah, etc. ; hands of the replacement folia at the beginning and end of the textblock another very nice naskh, probably Egyptian and no later than 16th century, fully pointed and mostly vowelled, with shaddah, hamzah, etc. ; replacement folia from p.21-24 in a distinct hand, larger, more extended in the horizontal, likewise fully pointed and vowelled.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; single column divided to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV (8), I (10), V-1 (19), 2 V(39), V-1 (48), V (58), V-1 (67), 2 V(87), IV (95), 2 III(107), I (109), V (119), V-3 (126), I (128), VII (142), V (152), ii ; chiefly quinions ; leaves appear to be missing from the quires 13, 14, 17 and 18 ; catchwords lacking ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert).Explicit: "ويحظي بالعفو انه هو اهل التقوي واهل المغفرة وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والآخرة. هذا اخر المقامات التي انشأتها بالاغترار ... والحمد لله على نعمائه والصلوة والسلام على خير انبيائه ومبلغ انبائه وعلى آله وصحبه واوليائه تم الكتاب بحمد وحسن توفيقه قابلته فصححته الا ما زاغ عنه البصر. ويتلو المقامات رسالتان ايضا على التزام حرف السين والشين في كل كلمة ... ويشرح ويشدخ بمشيته الشديد البطش الشامخ العرش وتشريفه لبشير البشر والشفيع المشفع في المحشر تمت والحمد لله وحده"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الرئيس ابو محمد القاسم بن علي بن محمد بن عثمان الحريري البصري رضى الله عنه اللهم انا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان والهمت من التبيان كما نحمدك على ما اسبغت من العطاء واسبلت من الغطاء ونعوذ بك من شرة اللسن وفضول الهذر ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Ḥarīrī's celebrated Maqāmāt or Sessions modeled after those of al-Hamadhānī, accompanied by brief commentary and followed by two brief epistles (even maqāmahs) in which the letters sīn and shīn appear in every word of the respective passage. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 484Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. of original sections suggest 17th century and date in seal impression provides only approximate terminus ante quem of 1684. Replacement sections likely 18th century as suggested by paper and hand.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2).Former shelfmark: From spine label and inner front cover, "IL 312" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in light blue, blue-green, blue, pink and yellow) with dark purple leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in fuschia surface-dyed laid paper ; bronze / gold tooling on interior and exterior of fore edge flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and purple, quite good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (spine in particular), staining, etc. ; fore edge flap far too narrow.Support: European laid paper of several types ; one type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (horizontal), and hand / glove watermark (see p.39, 186, etc.), sturdy and fairly thick, burnished ; another type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal, quite thick), and crown-star [possibly crown-star-crescent] watermark (see p.33, 43, 242, 243, etc.) ; staining and tidelines ; replacement sections on paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal) and grapes (raisin) under crown watermark ; watermarks of "P & G" under double-headed eagle with single crown above (see back flyleaf) and shield likely with crescent with face inside (see front flyleaf).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouched flanked by floral accents in red (now pinkish), white, orange and lavender, surrounded by pinkish red border and surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece with floral vegetal decoration (in white, orange, gold, and pink) on fields of gold and blue, itself surmounted by crude vertical stalks (tīgh) with blue accents ; keywords and abbreviation symbols (mainly sigla) rubricated ; some overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs ; text of written area (through p.88) surrounded by gold frame.Script: Naskh ; two main Turkish hands ; original sections (including opening to p.88, 109-308, etc.) in an elegant Turkish naskh, seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on most ascenders (even free-standing alif), effect of tilt to the left, rounded with manily curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes ; replacement sections (pp.89-108, 309-392, 477-519, 531 to close except where some original leaves appear) mainly in a clear Turkish naskh, virtually serifless with effect of only slight tilt to the left (fairly vertical), occasional words descending to baseline, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page.Collation: ii, VI+1 (13), 5 V(63), VII (75), 15 V(225), I (227), V (237), V+1 (247), 3 V(277), IV+2 (287), I (289), IV+1 (298), ii ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and mistakenly skips two pages each between pp.205-206 and pp.241-242).Explicit: "وكان اشد بالنصب خبر كان وامسه ضمير عائد الى المفعول المحذوف ما"Incipit: "الحمد لله على هدية الهداية والاسلام وعطية الدراية والاعلام ... وبعد يقول الضعيف العويز عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز المعروف بابن الملك ... لما وضح وجوه المقال وصح النظر في المآل صودف العلم اعلاها منارة ومنالا ... ومما صنف فيه من الكتب الفاخرة ... كتاب مشارق الانوار في صحاح الخبار ... وكانت له شروح ... فصرت ادير في نفسي واستخير الله يومي وامسي ان اشرحه شرحا ... سميته مبارق الازهر في شرح مشارق الانوار ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.5.Ms. composite codex.Fine composite copy of the commentary by Ibn Malak on al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghānī’s (d.1252) collection of traditions from Bukhārī and Muslim. Incomplete, ending abruptly.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1009Origin: Lacks dated colophon though manner of calligraphy, decoration, layout, etc. are characteristic of the Qurʼānic manuscripts produced in Kashmir from the 17th into the 19th centuries (see Bayani, et al. pp.228-57 and Blair, pp.550-52). Perhaps 18th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 158Binding: Boards covered in dark green leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; upper pastedown and flyleaf in a shell 'marbled' paper (mainly in blue and brown), lower pastedown and fly leaf in untinted paper ; upper and lower covers gold-tooled in mitred-panel style with vegetal borders and three floral sprays in the central panel ; spine gold-stamped "SS" ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, in quite good condition ; overall in poor condition with upper cover fully detached, minor abrasion, lifting of leather at spine, etc.Support: non-European (likely Indian) laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and no chain lines visible for the most part ; grey in tone and fairly translucent ; only slight curving of laid lines.Decoration: Splendid double-page illumination (illuminated 'frontispiece') at opening (pp.8-9) consisting of a series of scalloped domes in gold filled with floral vegetal designs in gold with black outline on a bright blue ground defined by heavy borders in bands of gold, black with white accents, and gold interlaced with red, blue and green accents, written area (in 8 lines per page with the Fātiḥah and opening of Sūrat al-Baqarah) is flanked by upper and lower rectangular pieces with gold cartouches (carrying the sūrah headings in blue riqāʻ or naskh, not extensively ligatured) and set off by gold floral accents on a bright blue ground ; similar double-page illumination at opening of Sūrat al-Isrāʼ / Juzʼ 15 (pp.204-205) and at close (pp.446-7) though here design affects a larger scalloped dome with cornerpieces and accommodates fewer lines in the written area (6 per page) with larger flanking upper and lower rectangular pieces (gold cartouches also lack sūrah headings) ; sūrah headings in blue and typically outlined in black bands with white accents ; written area and ruled margin throughout surrounded by frame in a series of gold bands defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule ; Qurʼānic text executed on bands of gold defined by black fillets and separated at some distance from one another (in other manuscripts has contained interlinear translation) ; marginal decorations in gold and blue mark ajzāʼ ; marginal juzʼ headings, notabilia (marking niṣf, thulth, etc.), abbreviation marks, mainly curved strokes and sigla for pauses "ط", large "ع" in margin to indicate bowing (rukūʻ), etc. and keywords in the commentary (mainly text being commented upon) are all rubricated ; verse dividers in the form of small red dots or discs ; text of commentary set off by gold cloudbands with floral accents in gold on blue grounds in the triangular spaces at the corners and center of the marginal area.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq ; elegant Indian hands in a heavy line ; Qurʼānic text in a fine, bold naskh, partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed (occasional right-sloping head-serif appearing on lām of definite article, barbed left-sloping serif on alif of lām-alif ligature, etc.), fairly vertical though with occasional very slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct dots, fully vocalized ; marginal commentary in a bold, compact and well-formed nastaʻlīq, serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, mainly closed counters.Layout: Written mainly in 18 lines per page, with roughly 46 lines of commentary on the diagonal in the ruled margins ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, I (2), 12 IV(98), I (100), 7 IV(156), I (158), IV (166), 2 III(178), I+1 (181), 4 IV(213), III (219), 2 I(223), iii ; chiefly quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black oblique strokes in upper outer and lower outer corners of the center opening of each quire ; final single bifolium ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Splendidly illuminated copy of the Qurʼān (muṣḥaf) with marginal commentary in Persian.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 637Origin: As appears in colophon on p.108, transcription completed 9 Shaʻbān 1246 [ca. 23 January 1831]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.108), composition completed 5 Rabīʻ II 1030 [ca. 27 February 1621].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 247" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in dark red cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light blue-green wove paper ; upper cover bears gold-stamped title "العرف الندي" ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; overall in good condition.Support: European laid paper in at least two types ; one type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents and "I M C" watermarks (see p.16, 17, 38, 108, 109, etc.) ; another type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and crescent with face watermark (see p.62, etc.) ; all well-burnished, fairly stiff and sturdy ; some staining and tears ; repairs in wove paper.Decoration: Keywords, some abbreviation symbols (stroke over keywords), and passages of text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; two clear Turkish or 'Syrian' hands ; opening hand (through p.26) a naskh, mainly serifless (though very slight right-sloping head-serif appears on some free-standing alifs) with curvilinear descenders, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, medial hāʼ sharply mudghamah, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred (even final kāf, without hamzah-like miniature kāf), bowl of final nūn fairly wide with point set just inside ; following hand (p.27 through close) a slightly more elegant naskh, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif mainly on free-standing alif (also occasional joined alifs, lām of definite article, etc.), tilt to the left, elongation in the vertical, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, initial hāʼ in nice wajh al-hirr (more pointed, with path of the penstroke quite evident), final kāf without shaqq and with hamzah-like miniature kāf.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, II-1 (3), II (7), III (13), II (17), 3 (20), 3 V(50), I (52), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "قال مؤلفه رحمه الله تعالى ورضي عنه فرغت منه يوم الجمعة المبارك خامس شهر ربيع الثاني لسنة ثلاثين والف من الهجرة النبوية ه" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاحد المبارك تسعة مضت من شهر شعبان المعظم الذهو من شهور سنة ۱۲٤٦ ستة واربعون ومائتين والف من الهجرة امين م"Explicit: "وقد تقدم انها من بحر الرمل وتقدم تفصيله وفي هذا القدر كفاية ونسأل الله ان يتقبل منا ذلك وان يسلك بنا احسن المسالك ... انك سميع قريب مجيب الدعوات يا رب العالمين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين ه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي نسج في الازل شقة النصيحة باعتزال ذكر الاغاني والغزل ... وبعد فان القصيدة الوردية اللامية المنظومة من بحر الرمل ووزنه فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلاة ثلاث مرات المسماة بنصيحة الاخوان ومرشدة الخلان ... وكنت ممن اطلع عليها مرارا عديدة وفي كل حين يظهر لي منها فوائد جليلة وقد حاولت نفسي المرة بعد المرة ان اكتب عليها ما فيه للعيون قرة ... وشرعت في شرح لطيف يحل الفاظها ... وسميته العرف الندي في قصيدة بن الوردي ..."Title from 'title page' (p.7) and opening matter (preface) on p.9.Ms. codex.Careful copy of the commentary by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Khaṭīb al-Ghamrī (fl. 1621) on Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī's (d. 1349) qaṣīdah called al-Lāmīyah or Naṣīḥat al-ikhwān wa-murshidat al-khillān, a moral poem of 77 verses in the ramal metre.
جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير مغلف بقماش أحمر مقلم باللون الأصفر وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وكثير الحواشيPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink.
Abstract: Treatise on usurpation.Binding note: Full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Jumādá I 1271 H January-February 1855 (leaf 102b).Incipit: کتاب الغصب والکلام في موضوعه واحکامه ولواحقه
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaf 2b.Binding note: Full black leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces and blind-stamped fillets; violet paper doublures; back cover missing.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 6a, line 7.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Incipit: الحمد لله ... اما بعد فيقول ... ان ما حداني الى تصنيف هذا الکتاب
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full black leather with marbled paper doublures; back cover missing.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Occasional staining. Leaves 324b-345b blank.Origin: Likely early 19th century.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي مهد لنا طريق اصلاح العمل ... فيقول ... هذا کتاب جمعت فيه مسائل الحلال و الحرام
Abstract: "The author's commentary on his poem on Islamic law."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; salmon paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Orginal text overlined in red; catchwords. Occasional staining.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي نوهنا اي رفعنا رفعاً معنويا
Abstract: A work on the principles of logic.Title from title page.Title from the edge of the manuscript.بلغ مقابلة لقدر الوسع والطاقه بتاريخ من رجب سنة 1156هـ، كتبه عبدالرحمن ابن اسلم الحسنى لقطة 165.كتاب سلم العلوم في المنطق/ للعلامه المحقق محب الله الجنفوريBrockelmann, G II 420; S II 622. Reading note, dated September 1743. Multiple ownership notes, dated between 1811 and 1957. Includes various fragments, among them lines of poetry by Ismāʻīl ibn Ibrāhīm Ḥajjāf Jaḥḥāf? and some writings about the shahādah.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط صغير الحجم مجلد بغلاف جلدي، في معظم صفحاته عليها آثار بارزه من بلل حتى في بعض الصفحات أثر على النص كما عليه في بعض صفحاته آثار معالجه كما في صفحة العنوان، تم كتابته بالمداد الأسود وعليه حواشي كثيره.Incipit: بسم الله... سبحانه ما اعظم شانه لا يحد ولا يتصّور... امّا بعد فهذه رساله في صناعة الميزان سمّيتها بسلم العلوم اللّهم اجعلها بين المتون كالشمس بين النجوم مقدّمة العلم التصور...Explicit: وان قابل الجدلّى فمشاغبى والمؤلف من الراحج والمرجوح مرجوح فتدبر خاتمه اخراء؟ العلوم هي المسائل والمبادى من الوسايل بحمد الله تمت تمامNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black ink. Numerous marginalia and interlineal notes. Traces of significant water damage and some repairs.7 إلى 9 lines.1-أبيات للسيد العلامة ضياء الدين إسماعيل بن إبراهيم حجاف في تاريخ دخول الماء الحرام في شوال سنة 1055هـ وهو سيل عظيم...& بيتين لله القايل حيث قال: شلغنا بكسب العلم عن مكسب الغنا**كما شغلواعن مكسب العلم بالوفر...لقطه3فائدة: عدّة ايداعات الكتاب شهادة لا إله إلا الله وأن محمد رسول الله... لقطه 166
Abstract: A commentary of a work on logic, divided into two parts, the first of which contains an additional introduction to epistemology.Title from title page.1-شروع قراءة لدى القاضي العلامة يحيى بن محمد العنسي حرر في 9جمادى الآخرى سنة 1354هـ، كتبه أحمد بن علي حمزة لقطة1.2-كان الفراغ من قراءته لدى شيخنا العلامة السيد أحمد بن علي الكحلاني حفظه الله كتبه أحمد بن علي حمزة بتأريخ آخر صفر /1355هـ لقطه64شرح التهذيب/ لعبدالرحمن الشيرازي والتهذيب/ لسعد الدين مسعود التفتازانيMultiple reading and ownership notes. Includes various poetic fragments, among them lines of poetry about the work by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī Wazīr, and lines of poetry by Abū Bakr al-Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl Ṣanʻānī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Shijnī.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مختصر صغير ليس لديه غلاف، تم كتابة خطه بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر والفاتح والأصفر المذهب حيث أن المتن وبعض الجمل التي تحتاج إلى توضيح تكتب بالمداد الأحمر والأخضر الفاتح والأصفر المُذهب وباقي الشرح بالمداد الأسودقبيل ظهر يوم الأحد الموافق أول ربيع الثاني سنة 1355هـIncipit: بسم الله...رب يسِّر واعن ياكريم بعدَ حمد الله سبحانه خالِق الأَشخاص والماهِيَّات،... فاعلم ايها الطالِب الراغِب المتحلي بحلية الحقآئِق والمعارف، والمرتقي في غوامِض الدّقايق والعوارف، أَنَّ هذا شرح تهذيب المنطق للمولا الاءِمام الهُمام، ... مسعود التفتازاني، ... وبعد _ _ جعلته تحفة للمجلس السَّامي ،والمحضَر المكَّرم العالي،...Explicit: اشبه أي مشابهة هذى القسم مع المسآئِل اكثر من الأقسام الأُخر معها وذلك لاءَن إحتياج المسائل اليه اشد حيث يطلبُ فيها اليقين لأنه هو المقصد الاءَقصى من العِلم والمطلب الأَعلى من الكتاب ولأنه اثبت من البواتى لقلة تطرق الزوال اليه بخلافها والله اعلم واحكم بالصَّواب وهذى آخر، ما اوردناه مِن شرح الكلام في التهذيبNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black, red, green and yellow ink. No cover.24-25 lines.فوائد شعرية متفرقة في صفحة العنوان وهي كالآتي: 1- بيتين لعبدالله بن علي الوزير في التهذيب.2- أبيات للسيد أبو بكر التريبى، وهي صغيرة ومتفرقة.3- بيتين لسيدي العلامة محمد بن اسماعيل الأمير.4- بيتين للقاضي العلامة محمد بن حسن الشجني. 5-ثلاثة أبيات في الأشكال الأربعة، وأبيات صغيرة متفرقة.لقطة1