Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 241Origin: As appears at the close of each piece (kıta), executed by es-Seyit el-Hac Mustafa İzzet. In three of the signatures he includes "known as Reisülulema". He has signed the final piece "Bende-yi Al-i aba, Seyit İzzet Mustafa," a modest expression which, according to M. Uğur Derman (see Letters in gold, p.118), he preferred to use in his later years. Only one of the pieces is dated 1282 [1865 or 6] with the others likely completed around the same time or slightly later.Former shelfmark: "570 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "93" in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Boards now covered in green and black mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look, traces of another paper underneath) with dark purple to black leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; boards lined in same mottled paper ; panels hinged together in accordion format with same dark purple to black leather and hinged into case ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion and staining.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into frames of blue and orange-tinted paper, and mounted.Decoration: Written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by further gold and black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red and green-blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large opening line of each panel in thuluth (sülüs), followed by four lines in naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line of thuluth and four smaller lines of naskh.Collation: Four panels hinged together in accordion (concertina) format ; opens vertically.Colophon: [1] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [2] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه امين سنة ١٢٨٢" ; [3] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [4] "بندۀ آل عبا سيد عزت مصطفى"Incipit: "اذكروا الله ذكرا كثيرا قال رسول الله صلوات الله عليه وسلامه مثل الذي يذكر ربه والذي لا يذكر ربه مثل الحي والميت ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) of four kıtalar employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 235Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by one Ḥamdī [Hamdî] with possible date or number for this piece.Former shelfmark: "567 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in golden olive-tinted and gold-flecked paper with black leather over board edges/turn-ins (leather edged / framed binding) ; board linings in yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled and gold-painted rosettes and guilloché roll border ; panels hinged together with dark brown to black leather ; in fair condition with some abrasion and lifting of leather at board edges and joints/hinges (some split).Support: Well-burnished European laid paper bordered by strips of marbled paper and tinted-frame (orange, pink, etc. though papers of facing panels match) ; watermark faintly visible in final panel but difficult to make out.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of strips of marbled paper (in pink, blue, and white) flanked by white and green fillets and heavy and narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; panels within written area surrounded by narrow gold band ; textual dividers in the form illuminated rosettes with white, pink, red and blue accents ; additional illuminated floral accents appear above elongated horizontal strokes and elsewhere to set-off text.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening line of each page in thuluth ; four centered lines thereafter in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line in thuluth and four more compact lines in naskh ; written area divided to upper panel (accommodating the large line) and centered lower panel (for the shorter lines).Collation: Ten 'panels' (consisting of written area and border pieces mounted on another leaf) hinged together in accordion format (opens vertically) ; 'pagination' in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears in the upper left-hand corner of each panel.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب حمدى ۷۹"Explicit: "وللخازن مثل ذلك لا ينقض بعضهم اجر بعض شيئا اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق محمد واله الطاهرين"Incipit: "قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن ابي هريرة رض قال قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم اذا مضى شطر الليل او ثلثاه ينزل الله تبارك وتعالى الى سماء الدنيا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing the text of assorted ḥadīth, executed by one Hamdî.
Abstract: Collection of three texts comprising a commentary on the commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī (d. 907/1501) on the Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa-al-kalām by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 791/1389), the commentary by al-Dawwānī and the text by al-Taftazānī.Binding note: Marbled paper over pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Leather spine and fore-edge flap.Green paper pastedown and endleaf.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-141a: Ḥāshiyat Mīr ʻalá Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb fī al-manṭiq li-Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī / Mīr Abū al-Fatḥ al-Saʻīdī.Contents: 2. fol. 141bis b-188b: Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Contents: 3. fol. 188b-194a: Matn al-Tahdhīb / Saʻd al-Dīn al-TaftazānīMs. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.17 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red, text 1 in medium small naskh ; text 2 and 3 in thick small naskh. The text is framed within a single red fillet (up to fol. 71b), with two columns of gloss around it. Glazed European paper; frame-ruled. Gloss (ḥāshiyah) mostly by the same hand as the main text on the margins and on a few small pieces of paper pasted between the leaves, signed Aḥmad, Maḥmūd, Zayn al-Dīn, Chalabī, Mīr Ghayās! al-Dīn, Ḥusayn Khalkhalī, ʻAbd Allāh etc. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Falsafiyāt 82". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1180/2 Ḥāʼ".Text 1 copied by Ḥamzah ibn ʻUmar ibn Walī on a Friday in the first ten days i.e., 7? of Ramaḍān 1111 1700 (colophon, fol. 140b). Text 2 copied by Muṣṭafá Ibn Ismaʻīl Ibn Ḥusayn near Ṭarḥalah at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 1164 1751. Text 3 seems to be written by the same hand as text 2.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 999Origin: 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. 148Binding: Boards covered in dark blue textured cloth with dark blue leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "العلم والعرفان" ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands in brown ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of at least two different types (and cut to different sizes), ruled and unruled.Decoration: Text of opening and closing sections entered in a pinkish red ink.Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; opening and closing sections in a quick, compact hand in a thin to medium line , serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; central section in first an elegant modern naskh (see pp.98-142), and then a heavy ruqʻah (see pp.142-172).Layout: Written mainly in 15-20 lines per page.Collation: i, V (10), IV (18), VII (32), VI (44), II (48), VI (60), VII (74), IV (82), 4 (86), III (92), i ; catchwords present in opening sections (through p.95) ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals through p.8 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "ولما كانت الموارد اربعة كان العرش محمولا على اربعة اركان"Incipit: "قال الله تعالى ومن يؤت الحكمة فقد اوتى خيرا كثيرا وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم الحكمة يمانية والعلم يمان اشراة الى انهما آتيان من قبل القوة النظرية فانها الجهة اليمنى والتي منها اليمن والبركة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.Careful copy a selection of philosophical extracts and commentary in sections under the headings al-ʻIlm wa-al-ʻirfān (see p.1), Sharḥ qiṭʻah min awwal al-Fuṣūṣ al-ʻArabīyah (see p.56), al-ʻĀlam wāḥid (see p.65) and Shudhūr min al-Fann al-rubūbī min Funūn al-ḥikmah al-ʻulyā (see p.98). Sections from the opening text appear also in the final transcript (e.g. compare text of p.7 and p.121 under the heading "انقسام العلم على النظري والعلمي").
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Abstract: Composite codex consisting of three distinct parts: the beginning of the Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī , a commentary by Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī (d. 658/1259 or 60) on a compendium on Ḥanafī law (incomplete at end) ; a copy of the Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī by al-Jurjānī, on grammar, and the beginning of a text explaining difficult words (fol. 60b), both written by the same hand ; and an added leaf with portion of a text mentioning the Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn (fol. 61).Binding note: Coarse dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-18b: Kitāb-i Zāhidī sharḥ-i Qudhūrī Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī -- Kitāb al-Ṭahārah and first lines of Kitāb al-Ṣalāh / Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 989.Contents: 2. fol. 19a-60b: Sharīf Sharḥ ʻalá al-ʻIzzī Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī / al-Jurjānī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3508.Contents: 3. fol. 60b: Kalimāt mushkilah.Contents: 4. fol. 61a-b: Portion of a text.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1a and fol. 19a.Physical description: Text 1 written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red, with 15 lines per page (written surface: 165 x 110 mm.), on European paper with watermark ; the text is framed within a single red line on fol. 1b-3a. Text 2 and 3 written in medium small round naskh in black ink with use of red (written surface: 155 x 105 mm.), on thin European paper with watermark. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a in Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish. Leaves of Text 2 stained with water (text legible).Inscription in Roman script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "61 Bl.".Origin: The copy of Text 2 is dated 1051 H. 1641 or 2 (colophon, fol. 60b). R. Mach reads "1151" 1738 or 9.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 960Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 18th century for transcription of opening works ; transcription of final work perhaps late 18th or early 19th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 109Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "موقد الاذهان" ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: European laid paper of three different types ; opening work on type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart, three crescents watermark (perpendicular to the chains, 90 mm. long, and "M" visible in p.2, light cream, burnished to glossy ; next work on a type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-23 mm. apart, and crown-star-crescent watermark with "[?] B" underneath (see pp.38, 44), burnished, dingier cream color ; final work on a type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and three crescents watermark (perpendicular to chains, 75 mm. long), fairly rough.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and passages of text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots.Script: Naskh and Sūdānī ; opening work in a distinctive naskh with influence of Maghribī, a clear, spacious hand in a medium line, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and initial lām, fairly vertical, quite blocky with rectilinear descenders, some elongation of horizontal strokes, flat strokes preferred to curves, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; second work in naskh, a clear, compact Egyptian hand in a medium line, mainly serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left, and of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; final work in Sūdānī script, carefully executed in a bold line, with slight inclination of words to the left and gently sweeping rectilinear descenders.Layout: Written in 17, 23 and 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah visible in opening work).Collation: i, V (10), III (16), IV (24), 2 II(32), IV (40), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: [Mūqid al-adhhān] "قال الشيخ الامام العلامة جمال الدين عبد الله بن يوسف بن هشام رحمه الله اما بعد حمد الفاتح عقد الاعوان المانح بالايجاز جاعل علم العربية في العلوم كالطراز فيه تفك مقفلات الالغاز ... وسميته موقد الاذهان وموقظ الوسنان ..." ; [Sharḥ qaṣīdat Muthallath Quṭrub] "قال الفقيه سديد الدين ابو القاسم عبد الوهاب بن الحسن ابن بركات المهلبي نظمت مثلث قطرب في قصيد قلتها ابياتا على حروف المعجم ... يدل كل بيت على شرح ما نظمته من اللعة اشارة واختصارا ..." ; [Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd] "قال الفقير الى رحمة ربه ابو بكر بن محمد بن ابي بكر ... فهذه مختصرة جمعتها ترجمة للوتار سميتها حجة المسؤول على علم التوحيد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.4. p.65-p.80 : Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd / Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr.3. p.33-p.64 : Kitāb Sharḥ qaṣīdat Muthallath Quṭrub fil-lughah al-ʻarabīyah /Ibrāhīm al-Lakhmī.2. p.32 : [blank].1. p.1-p.31 : Kitāb Mūqid al-adhhān wa-mūqiẓ al-wasnān / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf Ibn Hishām.Composite codex opening with two grammatical works, the first Mūqid al-adhhān wa-mūqiẓ al-wasnān of Ibn Hishām (d.1360) and the second an incomplete commentary on the versification by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bahnasī (d.1286 or 7) of the Muthallath, a work by the lexicographer and grammarian Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr known as Quṭrub. The codex concludes with Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd, a theological work by Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Mālik.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 995Origin: 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. 144Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "معتقدات الهائية [كذا، اي البهائية]" ; sewing in white thread, apparently over three recessed cords, tightly bound ; overall in fairly good condition, with boards curving around text block at fore edge.Support: Machine wove paper of three main types ; opening work (through p.192) in a sturdy type, cream in color ; opening section of following collection in another sturdy type, beige in color, ruled in blue, edges in red ; concluding section of collection in still another type, dark cream to beige in color, thin though sturdy.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated in opening work ; large passages of texts in majmūʻah (from p.192) executed entirely in red or pinkish red ink, elsewhere only headings rubricated.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; opening work in an elegant modern naskh in a medium line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, final yāʼ usually left unpointed ; following collection (majmūʻah) of works (from p.192 on) mainly in ruqʻah, a quick, compact hand in a medium line , serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; final works of collection in naskh similar to that in the opening work.Layout: Written mainly in 12-15, 21 and 31 lines per page.Collation: i, 12 IV(96), VIII (112), VIII+1 (129), VIII (145), 2 VI(169), i ; opening gatherings (carrying Bahai tracts) exclusively quaternions, opening section of following collection in octonions and concluding section in senions ; pages between sections of text occasionally left blank (see pp.268-269) ; quire numbering in purple pencil, black ink or red ink in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals accompanying letter ك just below the end of the final line of the opening recto of each quire in the opening section of Bahai tracts ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (opening section) ; pagination in red ink or pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (final works, from p.291) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (referenced in description).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.14. p.317-p.337 : Matn al-Fuṣūṣ / al-Fārābī.13. p.309-p.316 : Hādhihi Risālat ʻUyūn al-masāʼil / al-Fārābī.12. p.303-p.308 : Risālat ādāb ṭālib al-ḥikmah, aw Risālat Mā yanbaghī an yuqaddamu qabla taʻallum al-falsafah / al-Fārābī.11. p.299-p.303 : Maqālah sharīfah fī al-ibānah ʻan jawāmiʻ maḍāmīn Kitāb al-Muʻallim al-Awwal al-mawsūm bi-al-Ḥurūf wa-bi-Kitāb Mā baʻda al-ṭabīʻah wa-al-kashf ʻan aqsāmih wa-ʻan aghrāḍ kull qism / al-Fārābī.10. p.291-p.298 : [on eight treatises of al-Fārābī that appeared in print in 1325, i.e. 1907 or 8].9. p.282-p.290 : Min Miṣbāḥ al-uns sharḥ Miftāḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī.8. p.280-p.281 : Fuṣūl min Miftāḥ al-ghayb / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.7. p.279 : [blank].6. p.260-p.278 : Fuṣūl min Sharḥ naẓm al-Tāʼīyah al-Kubrá al-Fāriḍīyah.5. p.258-p.259 : [blank].4. p.218-p.257 : Risālah fī al-Ḥashr / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.3. p.194-p.217 : Risālat al-Nuqṭah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.2. p.193 : ['title page' with contents listing for following majmūʻah].1. p.1-p.192 : Muʻtaqadāt al-Bābīyah wa-al-Bahāʼīyah / Mīrzā ʻAbbās al-Bahāʼ.Composite collection (majmūʻah) of several works opening with tracts on the Bahai faith and followed by extracts from several philosophical treatises by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d.1273 or 4), Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī (d.1430 or 31) and al-Fārābī (d.950).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 260Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; decoration, paper, etc. may suggest 16th century ; authorial colophon on p.418 indicates date of composition Ṣafar 890 [February-March 1485].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with notes (paginated pp.17-18) -- b. Blank slip (paginated pp.53-54) -- c. Slip with notes (paginated pp.99-100).Former shelfmark: "١٢٦" possible former inventory mark on recto of front flyleaf ; "331 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark maroon leather with black leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (likely repairs) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark brown leather with central gold-painted four-lobed floral motif ; fore edge flap lined in green silk ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche OAi 6), pendants, and corner pieces, along with gold-painted border ; sewn in dark green-blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in brown and cream (head) and dark green and cream (tail), fair condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper mainly with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and no chain lines clearly visible, well-burnished to glossy, sturdy, transluscent, medium to dark cream in color ; toward close another crisp type with many inclusions (see p.387 to close) ; flyleaves in European laid paper (surface-dyed lavender and gold-flecked) ; added leaves at opening on European laid paper with watermarks of eagle, "GFA" and lion rampant in arms (see pp.1-4) ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) appears at opening on p.6, consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the basmalah in white, overlaid with arabesque in green, surrounded by further vegetal decoration in gold, pink, blue, yellow, green, etc. on a field of lapis lazuli, and surounded by decorative band with blue crosses on a field of white and band of interlace in gold ; surmounted by another narrow rectangular piece containing similar vegetal design evoking arabesque on a field of lapis lazuli and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; keywords, abbreviation symbols, and text being commented upon in rubricated (light and dark red) ; textual dividers in the form inverted commas, letter hāʼ, etc. in red ; written area throughout surrounded by frame consisting of gold band flanked by black fillets with outermost blue rule (frame on incipit and facing page includes additional gold band) ; occasional diagrams in red and black (see p.20, 57, 87).Script: Nastaʻlīq and naskh ; text of sharḥ in nastaʻlīq, excerpts of Arabic poetry being commented upon in naskh ; nastaʻlīq compact with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq ; Persianate naskh mainly serifless, quite vertical and somewhat stiff though descenders are mainly curvilinear, with pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), *IV (9), 24 IV(201), IV+1 (210), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; first two leaves of opening quaternion affixed to each other ; added leaves at opening of codex ruled for table of contents but left blank ; on pp.43-44 area within written area left blank (perhaps for diagrams or illustrations never realized) ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and added leaves and skips two pages each between pp.239-240, 237-238, and 267-268).Explicit: "مهما ترى صف عقد من مديحهم في نظمه ود زهر الحق تضمينا"Incipit: "سپاس وسعادة اساس وشكر عبادة لباس معبودى را كه اعلام نبوة وولاية در ميدان فتوة وهداية ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the commentary by Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Maybūdī al-Yazdī (d.1504?) on the collection (dīwān) of Arabic poetry attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ca. 600-661), opening with the Favātiḥ-i sabʻah.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1028Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand, paper, etc. would certainly suggest 18th century and dated watermark may suggest ca. 1757.Accompanying materials: Small scrap torn from a printed Arabic page (between pp.106-107).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 177Binding: Pasteboards faced in block-printed paper (now gray on yellow) with red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (decorative paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; possibly once Type II binding (with flap, though now lost [?]), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings in block-printed paper (silver on dark blue) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and light blue, damaged with some thread losses and cores exposed ; overall in poor condition with upper cover and first few gatherings fully detached, moisture damage, staining, abrasion, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of a few different types ; opening type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24-26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of horn / bugle in arms / shield with crown above (see p.4, 46, 55, 190-191, etc.) and of "... P ACHARD EN DAUPHINE 17[5?]7" (see p.10, 36, 50-51, 116, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished, dark cream in color ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of grapes with stem under crown (see p.82, 90-91, 118, 178, 310, etc.), well-burnished, beige in color ; final quires on a type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (about 120 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.414, 440, etc.), sturdy, fairly thick and cream in color.Decoration: Section headings, notabilia and some keywords rubricated, others overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ ; written area of incipit page surrounded by red double rule-border ; text being commented upon overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; two main hands ; opening hand through p.407 a compact, neat naskh in a thin line, partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping tear-drop head-serif on occasional free-standing alif, lām, etc., curvilinear descenders, slight effect of tilt to the left, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ unpointed ; from p.408 to close a compact, crowded naskh in a thin line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvlinear descenders, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, bar of kāf (shaqq) sweeping dramatically, point of final nūn set deep in bowl.Layout: Written in 23 and 26-31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 20 V(200), II+1 (205), 5 V(255), III (261) ; almost exclusively quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of double stroke looking like "٧" in upper outer corner of left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (drops ten pages by following p.455 with p.446).Explicit: "يوصل الى قبر عثمان ابن عفان ويزوره ويدعو الله ويسأل حاجته بحرمته ويستغفر الله العظيم من جميع زلاته ونقصانه ويدعو لوالديه واخوانه وجميع المؤمنين والحمد لله اولا واخرا وظاهرا وباطنا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه وازواجه وذرياته وعلى جميع اخوانه من النبيين والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "قال مولانا وسيدنا الامام العلامة ... محمد بن عبد الله بن احمد بن محمد بن ابراهيم التمرتاشي الغزي ان اجدر الخ رب يسر وتمم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ان اجدر ما افتتحت به الكتب والدفاتر ... حمد الله الذي رفع معالم الدين واعلا مناره ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الغريق في بحار الخطاء ... محمد بن عبد الله ... ان اعز ما ... الذليل في تحصيله ويرام ... علم الفقه الذي يقوم به العباد المصالح ... فالفت مختصرا جامعا لجملة من المتون المشهورة ... وسميته بتنوير الابصار وجامع البحار ثم لما افرغته في قالب التحرير والتمام ... سنح لي ان اكتب عليه شرحا لطيفا يحل مشكلاته ... عازما على ان اسميه بعد تمامه بمنح الغفار شرح تنويف الابصار ..."Title from opening matter on p.3.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the first volume of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Timirtāshī's own commentary upon his compendium of Ḥanafī law, Tanwīr al-abṣār wa-jāmiʻ al-biḥār.
Ownership notes for the Ghashm family, dated 1867 and 1906.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جيب صغير ، كتب بخط حسن جميل وعليه آثار بلل واضحةIncipit: كتاب كنز الرشاد وزاد المعادExplicit: كتاب عدة الحصن الحصين من كلام سيد المرسلينNaskh script. Obvious traces of water damage.
متوسط ،وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مجلد بغلاف جلدي ممزق ويحتاج لإعادة حباكة، تم كتابته بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وهو باهت وعلى بعض صفحاته إطار خُط بالمداد الأحمر، خطه نسخي متوسط غير منقوطNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Frame around the text on some pages.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: "This copy is the author's autograph."Hand: 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: Green paper over boards.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a, line 3.Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive interlinear and marginal notes. Damp-stained, ragged and some repairs.Origin: Shaʻbān 1138 H April 1726 (leaf 134a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Text consists of poetry dealing with Sulaymān the Magnificent, the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus, and other topics. Text lacks beginning and end.Title from accompanying materials.Text not completely collated.Ms. in naskh script on glazed paper. 20.3 x 15.2 cm. Headings, some vocalization, some punctuation in red ink. Text partially vocalized. Catchwords; some marginalia.Paper bears watermark depicting an anchor with two flukes in a circle and a star at the top outside the circle. Some sections damaged by insects but damage is limited primarily to gutters and margins.
Binding note: Full red leather with gold fillets; black leather doublures; spine repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 17.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes.Origin: Likely 17th century.Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك واشكرك
Abstract: Section of a treatise on Shiʻite law; contains Kitāb al-makāsib up to Kitāb al-mawarīth.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; pink paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Occasional staining.Origin: First half of the 19th century.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law in 79 unnumbered bāb; incomplete at end.Ms. component part.Title from leaf 186b, lines 2-3.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Extensive staining and a few paper repairs.Incipit: الحمد لله ... انى قد صنفت هذا الکتاب و جمعت فىه بىن الحکم و نظىره وسمىته نزهة الناظر
Abstract: "Abridgement of the author's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām."Binding note: Limp orange-brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 15-21 lines per page; written in naskh in black by different hands on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Several leaves are detached. Mild staining.Origin: Jumādá II 1254 H October-September 1838 (leaf 98b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي صغرت في عظمته عبادة العابدين
Abstract: A dīwān.Binding note: Purple and blue marbled paper on covers with red leather on spine.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.21 lines per page. Written in a medium small casual naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick cream paper with "three crescents" watermark.Incipit: عفى الله عن عينيك كم سفكت دما وكم مزقت نحو الجوانح اسهماExplicit: فلا صبرن على جفاه فريما فاز المتيم بالوصال بصبره
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite rituals.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamping; recycled from a larger cover.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-77a: Risālah fī fiqh al-ṣalāh al-yawmīyah.Contents: 2. leaves 78b-168b: Risālah fī fiqh al-ṣiyām.Ms. codex.Physical description: 12 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: 10 Shaʻbān 1250 H 12 December 1834 (leaf 168b). Text 1 originally completed on 11 Rajab 1242 H 8 February 1827 (leaf 77a).
Abstract: Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Golden-brown leather with tooled central star and fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 5.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces left for rubrication not completely filled in. Mild damp-staining; lower edge moldered. Leaves 292-300 and back cover detached.Origin: Likely mid-19th century.Incipit: ... الحمد لله ... اما بعد فيقول ... اني حين قرائتي کتاب معالم الدين
Abstract: A treatise on Sufi doctrines and beliefs, copied by Aḥmad Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, and dated 15th of Rabiʻ al-Awwal 1202 (1787).Ms. component part.Title from fol. 8a.31 lines per page. Written in very small naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Dark cream European glazed paper.Incipit: حمدنا مبسملا ربنا الذي خثر لواء الادآب بالادبExplicit: بجاه حبيبك فصل اللهم على سيد المرسلين وسلم وعلى سائر النبيين وآلهم اجمعين
Abstract: Short poem on Arabic grammar.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page fol. 1a.13 lines per page. Written in elegant small naskh in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper.Incipit: قال مجهد العصر وعلامة الدهر جلال الدين عبد الرحمن ... الي اله الانام من نخلاء افضاله كل امل املا ارغبExplicit: واله المعرفين في الكرم وصحبه الغر خيره الاممم فاتبع طريقا لهم قد انتحلا ولاتمار امرا اذا جهلا تتعب تمت الموشحة
Abstract: An unknown work on genealogy.Contents.مجهول في الأنسابIncludes a table on timekeeping, possibly unfinished, with explanatory notes on its use.عبارة عن عشر أوراق مكتوبة بالمداد الأسود والبنفسجي والورديIncipit: كنانه بن حريمه بن مدركه بن الياس بن مضر بن نزار بن تارخ...Explicit: عثمن بن عبد غيم بن زهير بن سداد بن ربيعه عمرو بن الحرث بنPersian naskh script, written in black, purple and pink ink.23 lines.جدول للأوقات يتكون من ست صفحات عليه تعليق للسيد العلامة محمد بن محمد بن محمد الكبسي-صاحب المكتبة-في أوله عن كيفية استخدامه. ويبدو أنه غير مكتمل حسب ترقيمه لصفحات الجدول من أعلى الصفحات. لقطة رقم (13-18).
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law; completed through Kitāb al-iʻtikāf.Binding note: Full brown leather with flap; blind-tooled fillets; red leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1(bis)b, line 10.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 24 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; rubricated through leaf 15a. A few marginal notes. Occasional staining.Origin: 18th century?Incipit: الحمد لله محق الحق ومظهره ... اما بعد فاني لما وقفت
Abstract: A dīwān.Binding note: Red marbled paper on covers with red leather on spine.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.15 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick cream paper with "three crescents" watermark.Incipit: عفى الله كم سفكت دما وكم فرقت نحو الجوانح اسهماExplicit: فلا صبرن على جفاه فريما فاز المتيم بالوصال بصبره
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from title page (Folio 1a). Scribe not identified. Date of acquisition by former owner on fol. 1a: 18 shahr-i Ṣafar al-khayr 1335 [14 December 1916] Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: bluish, polished laid paper with horizontal chain line and visible watermarks; some pages have Russian countermark SUTF; floral unwan in gold, blue, green, red and pink; paper water damage to foredge; minor worm damage with no loss of text; black ink with rubrication and overlining in red; no catchwords. Naskh; 18 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm. Painted floral design on folios 1b and 170a; tabular charts in red and black ink on fol. 113b-114b and 140a-141a. Folio 1a-192b. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather binding with embossed frame lines, many gatherings loose.
Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Aḥmad al-Nayrīzī. Written in Iran. Paper; thin, cream color polished paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, black, blue and red; fol. 1b and 2a have gold floral design in borders; in remainder of the work, the text is enclosed in an elaborate ruled border of blue, gold, red and blue; the text has an interlinear Persian translation in red ink from the beginning to the end of Sūrat al-Baqarah, 278; verses separated by gold medallions; black ink; catchwords. Naskh; 12 lines in written area 25 x 13.5 cm. Fol. 1b-336b. Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, M132. Binding is black laquer with orangish gold floral designs; border around center panel contains Qur'anic verses. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Explicit/Colophon: حرره الداعي لابود الدولة القاهرة الماهرة احمد النيريزي في 1120.
Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in India. Paper; thin, polished laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; both sections have almost identical carpet pages with floral unwan in gold, blue, reddish orange and white, with titles in white in gold cartouche, carpet pages have elaborate floral design in margins; text enclosed in a ruled border of blue, gold and orange; black ink with rubrication and some overlining in red; catchwords. Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, I, 91 Small naskh; 32 lines in written area 24 x 13.5 cm. Fol. 1b-170a, 171b-199b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M149. Binding; lacquered morocco leather with embossed center medallions with a wide embossed gold inner border and a narrow stamped floral outer border front and back; text block loose in binding. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Introductory treatise on logic in form of commentary on Porphyry's "Isagoge" (d. 305).According to colophon (f. 7v), copy completed on 26 Cemâziye'l-âhir 1207 AH [February 8, 1793 AD] in the hand of Ahmed Âmidî.Written in naskh script, in one column, 19 lines per page, in blakc rubricated in red. Overlined words.20.8 x 15.2 cm (16.5 x 8.5 cm).Thin cream laid paper. No cover. Water-damaged: folios stuck to each other.MS Turk 33. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Title from the edge of the manuscript.Ownership and sale notes for Yaḥyá ibn ʻAlī Dhāriḥī.جيدة محبوكة، مغطى جلدها بقماش أبيضCodex copied in naskh script.
جيده ، وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير الحجم بني اللون عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضرNaskh script, written in black, red and green ink. "Fākihī wa-Baḥraq" written on the edge of the manuscript.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 5.Physical description: 24 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Original text completed on 11 Shawwāl 430 H 6 July 1039; this copy, 1257 H 1841 or 1842 (leaf 114b).Incipit: الحمد لله حمد الشاکرين الذاكرين
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full teal and golden-brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, lines 11-12.Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Leaves 110-113, 119, 212-214 are replacements. Marginal damp staining and some paper repairs, particularly to first few leaves.Origin: Likely 17th century.Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh. Incomplete at end; breaks off at the Kitāb al-diyāt, faṣl 10. Fihrist on leaf 2a.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped fillets; pink paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, lines 5-6.Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in naskh in black on heavy glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Some staining.Incipit: الحمدلله القديم سلطانه العظيم شانه الواضح برهانه المنعم على عباده بارسال انبيائه
Abstract: Two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Contemporary full red leather with blind-stamped fillets.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 19-20 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Mild staining.Origin: Text 2, 23 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1300 H 25 September 1883, by Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn ʻAbbās al-Gulpāygānī (leaf 257b). Text 1 copied by the same scribe, likely around the same time.1. leaves 1b-74a: Taqrīrāt fī uṣūl al-fiqh / Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn ʻAbbās al-Gulpāygānī.2. leaves 76a-257b: Badāʼiʻ al-afkār / Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rashtī.
Abstract: "Part of a commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title from spine and edges.Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication. Mild insect damage.Origin: Ramaḍān 1246 H February-March 1831 (leaf 282a).
Abstract: "Gloss on al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on al-Lumʻah al-Dimashqīyah."Binding note: Full black leather with red leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp-stained and mildewed.Origin: Likely 18th century.Incipit: الحمد لله ... في الحاشية ما کان متعلقة عاما اي من الافعال العامة
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law. Contains Kitāb al-ṭahārah through Kitāb al-ṣalāh and is incomplete at end; preceded by a fihrist on leaf 1b.Binding note: Orange paper over boards; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from text on leaf 2b, line 10.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive marginal notes on some leaves. First few leaves stained and ragged; remainder of manuscript mildly stained.Origin: 16th century?Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرع الاسلام وسهل شرايعه للواردين
Abstract: "Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūl."Binding note: Limp brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a.Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Original text in red. Mild staining.Origin: Likely first half of the 19th century, by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Burūjirdī (leaf 186a).Incipit: الحمد لمن اصول نعمائه ظاهرة
Abstract: Text on Shiʻite fiqh preceded by a short text meant as its introduction.Binding note: Full red-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 2b-5b: al-Wajīzah.Contents: 2. leaves 6a-275b: al-Ḥabl al-matīn fī iḥkām aḥkām al-dīn.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17-21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal damp-staining; a few repairs. Leaves 1-2 detached.Origin: Likely 18th century.
Abstract: "Abridgement of the author's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām."Binding note: Blue cloth over stiff paper.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes. Marginal damp-staining; repairs to first and last leaves.Origin: 9 Rajab 999 H 3 May 1591 in Ardabīl, by Saʻd Allāh ibn Amān Allāh (leaf 221b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي صغرت في عظمته عبادة العابدين
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite doctrine and fiqh.Binding note: Full black leather with pink paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from lower edge.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. First leaf detached. Mild staining.Origin: 1239 H 1823 or 1824 in Mashhad, by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mīrzā Ismāʻīl (leaf 264b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اختص بالازلية والقدم وابرز نور الممكنات والقد من ظلمة العدم
Abstract: "Commentary on Kitāb al-ṭahārah from al-Shahīd al-Awwal's Durūs al-sharʻīyah fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah; incomplete at end."Binding note: Quarter leather with green paper covers.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; rubrication on leaves 1b-8b. Leaf 8 detached. Mild damp-staining.Origin: Likely early 18th century.
Abstract: Treatise in verse on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Full green leather with blind-stamped fillets; peach paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a.Physical description: 12 lines per page, in two columns; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Origin: Shaʻbān 1313 H January-February 1896 (leaf 99b).Incipit: افتتح المقال بعد البسملة * بحمد خير منعم والشكر له
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law in 79 unnumbered bāb; missing first leaf.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a, line 13.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and gold. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Light staining; first leaf detached.Origin: According to Mach, likely 16th century. Copied by Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Sabzawārī (leaf 81b).Incipit (first faṣl): فصل العبادة کل فعل مشروع لا يجري الا بنية التعظيم
Abstract: Leaf from the Jāmiʻ al-tavārīkh depicting nine emperors of the later Liang dynasty. A-side contains mention of the Late Chou (950-960) and Northern Song (960-1122) Dynasties. B-side contains mention of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279).Ms. leaf.Physical description: Written in medium naskh in black on heavy, beige glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in double red lines; headings in red. Illuminations in gold and color. The recto is blank.Origin: The script and artistic style closely match that of Garrett no. 89G.
Abstract: Leaf from the Jāmiʻ al-tavārīkh. Contains mention of the Liang Dynasty (502-556) and Hsüan-ti, founder of the Late/Western Liang Hou Liang,(555-562).Ms. leaf.Physical description: Written in medium naskh in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and red; headings in red. Illuminations in gold and color."Origin: The paper qualitycalligraphyand measurements seem to correspond to the stipulations in the author's waqf (Blairp. 14)which would indicated that this copy was produced in his scriptorium in Tabriz in the 14th century."
Abstract: "Abridgement of the author's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām."Binding note: Full red-brown leather; back cover has blind-stamped central mandorla; spine and some edges repaired..Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b by a later hand.Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive interlinear and marginal notes. Some staining and a few repairs.Origin: Ramaḍān 1044 H February-March 1635, by Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Shūlistānī al-Fahlitānī ? (leaf 195a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي صغرت في عظمته عبادة العابدين
Abstract: Collection of texts on a variety of topics.Binding note: Loose in folder consisting of golden-brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-133a: Ḥawāshin ʻalá al-sharḥ al-mashhūr li-Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī.Contents: 2. fol. 134b-179a: Kitāb Nibrās al-ḍiyāʼ / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Dāmād.Contents: 3. fol. 180b-227a: Muqaddimat wājib / Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Khuwānsārī.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. First two leaves detached; top edge moldered.
Abstract: Collection of two Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp golden-brown leather with blind-tooled central star and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-101a: Sharḥ Mabādī al-uṣūl / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī.Contents: 2. leaves 102b-153b: Sharḥ Dirāyat al-ḥadīth / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. codex.Spine title.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Records follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild insect damage.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh, incomplete at end.Binding note: Limp brown leather with blind-tooling.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 3a, lines 3-4.Physical description: 12 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; rubricated through leaf 63. Some staining and a few leaves detached.Origin: Likely late 18th/early 19th century.Incipit: الحمد لله المتعالي في عز جلاله عن مطارح الافهام فلا يحيط بكنهه العارفون
Abstract: Leaf from the Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān, with a miniature depicting two crows, one of which stands on a rock, and a fruiting tree in the background.Ms. leaf.Title from heading.Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on tan Arabic paper. Text framed in double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords. Heading in large, dark blue Kufic script. Lower outer corner repaired. On verso is a miniature measuring 110 x 96 mm.Origin: According to Moghadam, the leaf is from the late 13th century; likely from Iran.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather; edges and spine repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 6.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Mild staining on outer edge and repairs to first eight leaves and last leaf.Origin: Beginning of Jumādá I 1010 H October 1601, by Ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Rāzī (leaf 299a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي دلنا على الطريق القويم
Manuscript. Arabic and Persian; colophon in Turkish (Arabic script). Title from container. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color paper with no visible watermarks; elaborate unwans on fol. 1b and 2a with text enclosed in a wide ruled border of gold red and green; remainder of text enclosed in ruled border in gold black and red; interlinear Persian translation in red ink; verses are separated by gold discs. Individual sūrahs have titles in red and gold; extensive commentary in Persian in the margins throughout; black ink; Persian translation in red ink; catchwords. The Holy Koran in the Library of Congress, 17 Naskh (Qurʼānic text); nastaʻliq (Persian translation); 12 lines in written area 21 x 11.5 cm. Fol. 1b-325a. Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, M133. Binding lacking; marbled endpapers in pastel colors and tan. Explicit/Colophon: Kemal Paşa merhumun ve çocuğum vakf olunmuṣtur, sene 1304, Recep. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Manuscript. Arabic. Title suppllied by cataloger. Written by Muṣṭafá al-Khaṭīb in the Sulṭanīyah mosque. Written in Iran. Paper; polished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate decoration on fol. 1b and 2a in gold, dark blue, red, and light blue; remainder of text enclosed in wide ruled border of gold and black; individual sūrah's have titles in white ink on gilt; verses separated by gold medallions; numerous pages have gold, blue and red medallions in margins; black ink; catchwords. The Holy Koran in the Library of Congress, 1993, 9 Naskh; 13 lines in written area 12.3 x 6.7 cm. Fol. 1b-348b. Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, M135. Binding; dark brown leather with embossed borders and medallions in gold on both covers and flap; envelope binding. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Explicit/Colophon: في سنة اثنى وخمسين ومائة والف من هجرة النبوية ... كتبه الفقير المحتاج الى ربه القدير مصطفى الخطيب في جامع سلطانية ...
Manuscript. Persian Caption title. Name of scribe not indicated; perhaps written by Captain William Franklin. Written in India. Paper; think, polished, cream-color laid paper; no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with some marginal notes in English; red ink in caption only; catchwords on rectos. Note on flyleaf: [2 words illegible] Guiliemi Franklin Liber Kissa Camarùp vel Historia Canaropi principiis ex antiquo descritte[sic] in Persicam versionen et redditam. Auctore Mahomed Sale A.D. 1770 celeberrimi apud Berhampore [illegible] Allah Shah Jelal Abâdi. Translated by me and sent to Capital in December 1790 by Hc [illegible] Capt a Millet, W Fr. Note on page preceding manuscript (in a different hand): Kissah Camroop. An Indian tale, Translated from Sanscrit into Persian and thence into English By Captain Franklin. Naskh; 11 lines in written area 15 x 10 cm. Pages numbered 1-393; 6 page glossary at end. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M116. Modern tan 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. 248Origin: As appears in colophon on p.69, copied by Ḥamzah ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb in 828 [1424 or 1425], likely in Egypt. As appears in patronage statements/ex libris on p.6 and in titlepiece on p.13, copied for Karīm al-Dīn, perhaps al-Wazīr al-Ṣāḥib Karīm al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Kātib al-Manākh (d.852/1448) (see Ibn Taghrībirdī, Ḥawādith al-duhūr, sanat ithnatayn wa-khamsīn wa-thamānimiʼah, shahr Rabīʻ al-Ākhir).Former shelfmark: "۱۱۹" on paper label on upper cover (repeated in pencil on titlepage for al-Asmāʼ al-ḥusná, p.7).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather with spine and edges/turn-ins in dark brown leather of similar color ; Type III binding (without flap) ; flyleaves and pastedowns in yellow-tinted European laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. NSd 7) ; sewn in red thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition with staining, abrasion, some lifting of leather at edges, etc.Support: non-European laid paper (likely Egyptian) with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes (vertical) with 9-11 mm. between the chains and 37-42 mm. between the groups ; alternating tinting of the bifolia ; flyleaves in a yellow tinted European laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) and moon in shield with face in profile and 'B G' watermark as well as in an untinted European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of spread eagle and coat of arms with lion rampant in shield with crown above ; numerous repairs.Decoration: Rectangular panel at opening (p.6) carries poetic patronage statement (خدمت بها من قد سما بفعاله واقواله ما بين قارئ وكاتب كريم يعادي الباخلين وانه بمصر عزيز صاحب وابن صاحب) accented by cloud bands and swirling arabesque ; on p.7, illuminated titlepiece for al-Asmāʼ al-ḥusná in the form of a rectangular panel with accompanying ansa (in this case, roundel) carries title in white (الاسما الحسنى نفع الله بها) with gold outline set among gold vegetal design on a field of blue ; entire piece is framed by a heavy gold band and blue rule ; on p.12, at close of al-Asmāʼ al-ḥusná a fine illuminated tailpiece in gold and blue in the form of an almond-shaped panel flanked by illuminated rosettes carries inscription in white (تمت الاسما) ; on p.13, exquisite illuminated titlepiece for al-Burdah consisting of a large rectangular panel divided to smaller rectangular panels carrying the title and ex libris (الكواكب الدرية في مدح خير البرية صلى الله عليه وسلم برسم خزانة المقر الاشرف العالي المخدومي الصاحبي الكريمي كريم الدين عظم الله شأنه) in white set in lozenge-shaped cartouches with flanking roundels filled with vegetal design in gold on fields of blue ; ansa in the form of a roundel accompanies uppermost panel ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes with blue and red accents appear throughout ; keywords occasionally chrysographed ; for each of bayt of al-Burdah, saṭr in black and ʻajuz rubricated ; written area of incipit and facing page of al-Burdah surrounded by frame consisting of gold band and heavy blue rule ; tailpiece in the form of a rectangular panel carrying the colophon follows al-Burdah on p.69 and closely resembles opening rectangular panel (p.6).Script: Text of al-Asmāʼ al-ḥusná in fine Mamlūk naskh, tailpiece in script resembling 'Eastern Kufic' ('broken cursive' or New Abbasid Style, NS) ; titlepiece for al-Burdah in thuluth, saṭr of each bayt in muḥaqqaq, ʻajuz in fine Mamlūk naskh ; fully vocalized ; glosses (takhmīs, mainly in Turkish, ending abruptly at p.28) in naskh-nastʻalīq, varying hands.Layout: Written in 6 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, II (4), III (10), VII (24), III+3 (33), ii ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals begins with incipit page (p.14) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت البردة الشريفة بحمد الله تعالى وعونه على يد الفقير الى الله تعالى حمزة بن عبد الوهاب غفر الله له ولوالديه وللمسلمين اجمعين وذلك في عام ۸۲۸".Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of Qaṣīdat al-Burdah by al-Būṣīrī (d.1294–7?) with later takhmīs mainly in Ottoman Turkish. Preceded by al-Asmāʼ al-ḥusná (with numerical values for each name) and following by notes and excerpts.
Poetry on astrological significance of each day depending on positions of stars and times of day when various stars exert their influence. Arranged according to days and hours of appearance of each star.With: Kitâb-ı usûl-i melhame (ff. 2r-19r).17 x 12.8 cm (13.5 x 9 cm).Light-cream laid paper.Written in vocalized naskh, in two columns, in black rubricated in red, 13 lines per page.Copied in the hand of Yūnus ibn Saqqā, most probably in 841 AH [1438 AD], the date of the first title in the volume(see f. 18r).MS Turk 13. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.
Commentary on Yūsuf Sīneçāk's "Cezīretü'l-Mes̈nevī". Aknowledges indebtedness to Şeyḫ Ġālib's and ʻAbdullāh Bosnevī's commentaries on the work.17.2 x 11.5 cm (13.1 x 7.5 cm).Written in naskh script, in one column, 17 lines per page in black and red, framed within a red line.With: Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ Celâleddin (ff. 1v-10r) ; Hall-i ebyât-ı müşkilât-ı Celâleddin Rûmî (ff. 101r-107r) ; Risâle-yi esrâr-ı tarîk (ff. 107v-111v).According to colophon (f. 100r), copy completed on 21 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1243 AH [October 11, 1827 AD] in the hand of Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm Imām Aghā ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Qayṣarī.MS Turk 53. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 558Origin: As appears in colophon on p.645, transcription completed 7 Rajab 1124 [ca. 10 August 1712].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Two inserts carrying notes (paginated pp.281-82 and pp.633-34).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and fore edge flap, "IL 133" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi) ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in dull pink or light brown thread, two stations ; endbands virtually gone, though traces of headband remain ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), watermarks including three crescents (81 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.12, 17, etc.) and crown-star-crescent (76 mm. tall, see p.10, 19, etc.), and countermark of "V G" under trefoil (see p.12) ; light cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; mainly a fine, compact Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly serifed with right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and other ascender letters, effect of tilt to the left, occasional effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders with some sweeping, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured with assimilation of initial alif with following lām, dot of final nūn with bowl, etc. ; hand changes at p.629, from there to p.649 text supplied in a nastaʻlīq (talik), sans serif with effect of tilt to the right ; final two leaves of the text in still a different naskh ; opening excerpt in a naskh with some influence of nastaʻlīq (talik), a clear Turkish hand, virtually serifless with effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated) and tilt to the left, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; opening excerpt in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: I (2), 32 V(322), I (324) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some inserts and mistakenly skips ahead from p.275 to p.277 and from p.277 to p.279).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "سوده [الحرف الاخير مشطوب] الحقير [كذا] هذه الاوراق في سنة اربع وعشرين ومائة والف السبع في شهر رجب المرجب في نصفه يوم پنجشنبه قرب غروب الشمس"Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى..."Title from opening matter on p.12.Ms. codex.7. p.653-p.654 : [blank].6. p.652 : [listing of notabilia].5. p.650-p.651 : [authorial colophon].4. p.649 : [excerpt].3. p.646-p.648 : [table of contents].2. p.9-p.645 : Dhakhīrat al-ʻuqbá fī sharḥ Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-ʻUẓmah / Akhī Chalabī.1. p.1-p.8 : [gloss upon a commentary on Sūrat al-Qadr].Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebī (Ahi Çelebî) on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. (see Isl. Ms. 86 and Isl. Ms. 97 for other ms. copies of this work). Preceded by an excerpt of a gloss upon a commentary on Sūrat al-Qadr (pp.1-8) and followed by table of contents (pp.646-648), closing excerpt (p.649), and authorial colophon in different hand (pp.650-651).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 115Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; paper and date in what appears to be authorial colophon on p.137 (1090, i.e. 1679 or 1680) suggest early 18th century.Accompanying materials: Slip with notes (paginated pp.117-118).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 8. Glosses (Hashiyah) on Al-Iji's work on dialectics."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in marbled paper (in shades of salmon, blue, and yellow) with hinges in a different marbled paper ; upper and lower covers bear large blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with gold-painted accents, filled with floral vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi 8) and accompanied by border in tooled and gold-painted fillets ; design continues with rosette and border on envelope flap ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in white and pink, good condition ; overall in poor condition with paper label applied over upper cover design, some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather (at board corners and fore-edge flap in particular), fore-edge flap completely detached from lower cover, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of perhaps two types ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; thick and well-burnished ; crown with star and crescent above watermark (compare Heawood 1133) and countermark with initials and trefoil above ; some staining.Decoration: Keywords (such as قوله), section headings, and some notabilia rubricated ; a few textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh, two main hands ; opening work in naskh, a fine, clear and compact Ottoman hand ; virtually serifless ; effect of tilt to the left ; many open counters ; kāf mashkūlah (masqūqah) preferred ; freely ligatured with pointing for many final letters assimilated with the letters themselves (see final nūn, fāʼ, etc.) ; remaining works in a naskh showing more influence of nastaʻlīq ; virtually serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline ; extension of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 V(60), IV (68), 3 V(98), IV (106) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaves and insert, mistakenly skips two pages between pp.103-104 and repeats pp.117-118 twice).Colophon: [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī ] "Authorial," rectangular, reads: "تمت الحاشية الواقعة على مير ابي الفتح المنسوبة الى ابن مائى المشهور بچلى زاده في بلدة قسطنطنية في مدرسة ابراهيم پاشا في شهر رمضان المبارك سنة ۱۰۹۰"Explicit: "فصار الكل مضاعفا وهو اثنان وثلثون الوفا وستمائة واربعون احتمالا تمت رسالة حمدية تم تم تم"Incipit: [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī] "يا من وفقنا لاداب البحث والمناظرة في الكلام وعصمنا من الخلل والتصور في تجريد [كذا] المدعى والمرام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالچلي ان الحاشية الفتحية في الاداب لما كانت لدقتها متوارية عن الاذهاب ولتحجيبها عن العثور مفتقرة الى الايضاح والبيان ... فضمت اليه ما يتمم به النقصان ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī] "نحمدك يا من فتح الابواب للمتفرع السائل ... وبعد فهذه حاشية لطيفة يليق ان تكتب باقلام الذهب على صحائف الفضة للفاضل المرحوم عبد الرحمن ... على الحواشي المنسوبة الى المحقق ابي الفتح الامير ... على شرح الرسالة العضدية للشيخ محمد الحنفي ... فكانت غير مدونة فجمعتها للاخوان الطلاب بعون الله الوهاب ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.6. p.213-p.214 : [blank].5. p.209-p.212 : Risālah ḥamdīyah / Minkarizade Yahya Efendi.4. p.205-p.209 : Risālat Shāh Ḥusayn lil-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah / ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Shāh Ḥusayn ʻAjamī [?].3. p.140-p.205 : [Ḥāshiyat ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī.2. p.138-p.139 : [blank].1. p.6-p.137 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.Fine copy of the superglosses by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.) and ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī’s (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics. Followed by two brief treatises, Risālat Shāh Ḥusayn lil-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah, perhaps another gloss on al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī's commentary by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Shāh Ḥusayn ʻAjamī (d.1514 or 5) [?] and Risālah ḥamdīyah attributed to Minkarizade Yahya Efendi.
Abstract: Commentary by the author on his Alfīyah, a versification of Kitāb Maʻrifat anwāʻ al-ʻulūm or Muqaddimah fī ʻulūm al-ḥadīth, a treatise on ḥadīth by Ibn al-Salāḥ al-Shahrazūrī (d. 643/1243). The versification was completed in Medina on Thursday 3 Jumādá II 768 Feb. 1367, the commentary in Cairo on Saturday 29 Ramaḍān 771 April 1370 (see end of text, fol. 245a).Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower cover, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers have a blind-stamped central mandorla linked by an horizontal and a vertical single fillet to the outer border, which consists of blind tooled fillets. Similar border on the envelope flap with a smaller stamp on its point. The fore-edge flap is too narrow for the text block. Red dyed paper doublure. Spine broken and partly wanting. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).19 lines per page. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red (first 24 leaves in medium small naskh). Ḥāshiyah by the same hand as the main text on the margin. Soft dark cream paper with pulp, laid and chain lines visible (first 24 leaves on European glazed paper with watermark).Copied by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-...(?), and completed on Thursday 14 Ṣafar 868 Oct. 1463 (colophon, fol. 245a).Collation: Paper, fol. 245 ; 1-2¹⁰ 3⁴ (later addition, on European paper) 4-24¹⁰ 25¹⁰ (+1, fol. 245) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals and ordinals, the latter in the form "al-rābiʻ" (see fol. 25a), from the fourth quire on ; from the eleventh quire on, Arabic numerals only (see fol. 95a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي قبل بصحيح النيّة حسن العمل وحمل الضعيف المنقطع على مراسيل لطفه فاتصل ورفع ... وبعد فعلم الحديث خطير وقعه كثيرExplicit: وافضل الصلاه والسلام على النبي سيد الانام ش اي وكملت هذه الارجوزة بطيبة مدينة سيدنا رسول الله ... وكان الفراغ منها يوم الخميس ثالث جمادى الاخرة سنة ثمان وستّين وسبعماية ... وكمل هذا الشرح عليها في يوم السبت التاسع والعشرين من شهر رمضان المعطم قدره سنة احدى وسبعين وسبعماية بالخانقاه الطشتمرية خارج القاهرة واجرت لكل من سمع مني الارجوزة المذكورة او بعضها ان يروي على جميع هذا الشرح عليها وجميع ما يجوز لي وعني روايته
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn, and Shīʻī doctrine of imāmate, the later apparently incomplete at end.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible). Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with a floral motif with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of a running pattern and fillets. Rebacked.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-6a: Short excerpts from Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif by Jurjānī; a commentary on Āyat al-Nūr; a text on Wājib al-wujūd; Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ; Ibn Ḥajar; Bayḍāwī.Contents: 2. fol. 6b-7b: Table of contents of Kitāb Arbaʻīn by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, followed by a short biographic note on the author.Contents: 3. fol. 8a: Short excerpt on al-imkān al-khāṣṣ and al-imkān al-ʻāmm; inscriptions in Persian.Contents: 4. fol. 8b-136a: al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.Contents: 5. fol. 136b-182a: al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.Contents: 6. fol. 182b: Blank.Contents: "7. fol. 183a-184a: Short text on God's attributes apparently by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Bakr ibn MuḥammadContents: see end of textContents: fol. 184a)."Contents: '8. fol. 185a-188b: Excerpts from Itqān al-ʻulūm by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī reporting from Ṣawāʼiq al-muḥriqah by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī; Bayḍawī; Sharḥ al-Shmasīyah; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif by Jurjānī.'Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 183a-184a written in thick small naskh. Fol. 8-184 : European glazed paper. Fol. 1-7 and 185-188: fly-leaves on woven paper, with short excerpts written diagonally. Text 1 has been collated (see collation statement dated 17 Jumādá al-Thānī 1116 1704 on the margins of fol. 136a). Short excerpts and annotations on the margins. Long biographic note on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī after the colophon of text 1 (fol. 136a, 11 lines). Between fol. 135 and 136: Text in Persian on a small piece of paper. Some leaves loose.Copy of text 1 completed in 1115 by ʻAlī(?) ibn ʻAlī Akramghār(?) (colophon, fol. 136a).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 234Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh, likely Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731), who was a favorite pupil of the celebrated calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698). He received his icazet in 1102 [1690 or 91] and died around 1144 [1731]. Undated but most likely executed between 1690 and 1731.Former shelfmark: "109" inscribed in pencil at opening ; "542 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on hinge of lower cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) in marbled paper (mainly in pink, brown, yellow, blue, and white) ; upper and lower covers carry incised and gold-painted (with red leather inlay) symmetrical scalloped panel resembling four-lobed flower or lozenge with domes emerging from the long edges, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps with gold-painted accents ; panels hinged together with dark brown leather ; in somewhat poor but fair condition with significant staining, some abrasion and lifting of leather, etc.Support: Well-burnished European laid paper mounted on heavy laid paper (roughly 8 laid lines per cm.) with marbled frame (several variations in dark green, red, light blue, yellow, dark lavender, etc. ; papers of facing panels match).Decoration: Written area and panels within surrounded by frame consisting of heavy and narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; textual dividers in the form illuminated rosettes with red and blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening line of each page in fine thuluth ; five centered lines thereafter in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 6 lines per page, one large line in thuluth and five more compact lines in naskh ; written area divided to upper panel (accomodating the large line) and centered lower panel (for the shorter lines) ; opens vertically with writing parallel to spine.Collation: Six 'panels' (two leaves each) hinged together ; 'pagination' in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears toward the left of each panel apart from the last.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير السيد عبد الله رضي عنه مولاه"Explicit: "اللهم صل وسلم على نبي الرحمة وشفيع الامة الضعيفة محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين اجمعين"Incipit: "روي عن ابي سعيد الخدري رضي الله تعالى عنه قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الا ان رجب شهر الله الاصم فمن صام من رجب يوما ايمانا واحتسابا استوجب رضوان الله الاكبر ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing the text of assorted ḥadīth, executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731), favorite pupil of the celebrated calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).
Abstract: "Casual copy of a commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-UṣūlAbstract: on the principles of jurisprudence."Binding note: Quarter bound in marbled paper and burgundy leather. Paper pastedowns. Worn; damaged.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a, in red ink).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red to overline the commented text; scarce use of dots. Script and paper different for fol.2-23, written in a careful thick naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink with use of red (122 x 62 mm.). European papers with watermark. A repair in paper covers part of fol. 2a. Table of contents on fol.1a-b. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements, a collation statement, verses of poetry in Persian. Marginal and interlinear annotations on the beginning of the text. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Title on tail of text block.Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of upper cover: "Raqm 206 ʻ".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on a Wednesday ("yawm chahār shambah") in 1035 H. 1625 or 6 (perhaps the numbers should be read 1635) H. in Balad Āwarnah Āvarneh? (fol. 225). Read and collated by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Bakr in Balad Āwarnah on 2 Jumādá al-Ākhar 1043H. 1633 (fol. 225b).Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله واله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة سعد جدّه وانجح جده يقول لما وفقنى الله لتاليف تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته معرضا عن شرح بعض المواضعExplicit: حرمة لا تحتمل السقوط وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنهما لم تسقط وهما حق الله تع ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله ولى العصمة والتوفيق
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 475Origin: As appears in colophon on p.293, transcription completed 25 Shaʻbān 984 [ca. 17 November 1576]. Opening section (through p.38) supplied on replacement leaves may be of 16th or 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 274" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in now dull yellow laid paper with dark brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pink laid paper ; sewn in very dark brown or black thread, two stations ; worked endbands in dark brown or black and cream or dull pink thread, fair condition with some losses, core exposed ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion and staining, some lifting and losses of leather and paper, delamination of boards, etc. ; ill-fitting (small).Support: European laid paper mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and crossbow watermark (see p.128, 133, 208, 213, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished ; opening added / replacement section on yellow-tinted laid paper (with "GFA" and lion in scrollwork watermark) and untinted wove paper ; staining.Decoration: Keywords, headings and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; from p.39 to close, written area (and tabular compartments within) outlined in red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; two main clear Turkish hands ; opening through p.38 (added / replacement section) in an elegant Ottoman naskh, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on ascenders other than alif, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders ; from p.39 to close, mainly serifless with effect of tilt to the left, varying in elongation of horizontal strokes, sweeping descenders, etc.Layout: Written area divided to tabular form, a four by six grid of 24 compartments with roughly 3 or4 lines of text in each compartment.Collation: V (10), II (14), II+1 (19), 3 V(49), III (55), II+1 (60), 2 V(80), II (84), 2 III (96), II (100), 4 V(140), IV (148), i ; chiefly quinions ; final leaves ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "وكان الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب يوم الجمعة قبل العصر خمسة وعشرين من شهر شعبان المعظم سنة اربع وثمانين وتسعمائة اللهم ارحم مؤلفه وكاتبه وقارئه وصاحبه ومن نظر فيه ودعا لهم وجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات امين يا قاضي الحاجات بحرمة محمد عليه السلام والصلوة والحمد لله رب العاليم"Explicit: "سورة الناس بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قل اعوذ برب الناس ملك الناس اله الناس امال الناس المجرور كلا والباقون بالفتح تم تمت بعون الله وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين"Incipit: "ملك بالقصر الرحمن الرحيم ملك وميم الرحيم اظهر مع القصر بعده امينا دليلا كافيا فائضا ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine (though apprently acephalous) copy of a work pertaining to Qurʼānic readings (qirāʼāt) consisting of analysis of the verses in tabular form, attributed to Abū ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd al-Dānī (d.1053).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 81Origin: Lacks dated colophon but paper and hand would suggest late 14th or 15th century.Accompanying materials: Slip of heavy European laid paper with excerpts in black ink inserted after p.16 (paginated p.17-18).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 86. Commentary on Majma al-bahrain."Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in several shades of blue, pink, yellow, white, etc., now faded or even lost from upper and lower covers, best visible on envelope flap) with dark red brown leather over spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow-tinted laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked endbands in light blue and yellow ; in poor condition with much abrasion, staining, lifting and cracking of leather, moisture damage, pest damage, warping of flap, etc.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with 7-8 laid horizontal lines per cm., some sagging and curving ; vertical chain lines appear grouped in threes with 9-11 mm. between the chains and roughly 48 mm. between the groups ; quite thick and lightly burnished ; some ink burn.Decoration: Text partially rubricated with section headings, sigla, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; supplied in two main hands, with marginalia and final matter in several additional hands ; opens in an elegant Persian (?) hand, more of a naskh-nastaʻlīq, essentially serifless, effect of words descending to baseline, letterforms reminiscent of nastaʻlīq ; at fol.17a (p.35) hand changes to neat Turkish or Persian hand (?), essentially serifless, mainly closed counters, some assimilation of letters such as rāʼ with final hāʼ, very slight effect of slant to the left ; line thickness and ink varies in certain sections ; headings provided in larger script approaching tawqīʻ.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6), V (16), 15 IV(136), III (142) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present for every folio of first two quires, thereafter appear only on final folio of each quire ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, recto of each leaf (begins with ٢ on fol.2/p.3, mistakenly repeats ۹۷, and ends at ۱۳٥ rather than continuing to the end) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between pp.171-172, includes insert).Explicit: "ثم قسم الباقي على سهام من بقي منهم والله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "الحمد لله جاعل العلماء انجما للاهتداء زاهرة واعلاما للاقتداء طاهرة ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب يصغر للحفاظ حجمه ... وهذا مجمع البحرين وهما النيران المشرقان وهذا ملتقى النيرين وهما احدهما يهدي الى فقه المذهب الذي هو من اشرف المطالب والاخر يعرف الخلاف بين المذاهب ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Neat copy of Muẓaffar al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Sāʻātī's compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar of al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah of al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142).
Abstract: "Careful copy of the second half of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼAbstract: a treatise on Ḥanafī law. The beginning of the text (fol. 2b-30a) is a later additionAbstract: with the Kitāb al-Buyūʻ. The original portion starts with Kitāb al-Ṣarf. Even though the copyist and the layout are different for each volumeAbstract: 3594Y and 3593Y circulated as a set at least since 1166 H. 1752 or 3 (see provenance note and binding note)."Binding note: Loose quires placed in a binding in marbled paper and red leather, with flap. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).Physical description: Fol. 2b-30a written in casual medium large naskh in black ink with use of red, with 22 lines per page (220 x 165 to 180 mm.) on European paper with watermark. From fol. 30b on, written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with 25 lines per page (210 x 140 mm.) on dark cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1-29 and 259 are later additions (European paper). Fol. 30 consists of European paper pasted on the recto of an original leaf. Fol. 202 and 243 are later replacements. Occasional marginal annotation, mainly collation notes. Some leaves are crudely repaired with loss of marginalia.Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A264a". Inscriptions in Roman script in pencil on fol. 1a: "257 Bl. / vol. II / A264a". Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "Raqm 299".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Naṣr Allāh ibn Abī al-Faḍl, who completed his work on 18 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 697 Sept. 26, 1298 (fol. 258b). On the margin of the colophon, partly erased note mentioning the date 1039 H.Incipit: كتاب البيوع البيع ينعقد بالايجاب والقبول ...30ب كتاب الصرف قال الصرف هو البيع اذا كان كل واحد من عوضيهExplicit: وقليل الانكشاف بخلاف ما اذا كان نصفين او كانت الميتة اغلب لانه لا ضرورة فيه والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب
Abstract: Commentary on Majmaʻ al-Baḥrayn by Ibn al-Sāʻātī (d. 696/1296), a compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah by al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142). The beginning of this copy is supplied by a later hand.Binding note: Green cloth cover on what appears to be brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. European paper with watermark endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 4b. The title appears as "Kitāb Sharḥ Majmaʻ Ibn Malak" in an ownership statement on fol. 4a, and as "Sharḥ Majmaʻ al-Baḥrayn" on the tail of the text block.Incipit: يا من لا يحوط كمال كماله نطاق وصف الفصحاء ولا ينوط بادراك ادراكه افكار فحول الفضلاء نحمدك ... وبعد يقول الضعيف ... عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز بن امين الدين ختم الله بالخير عمله ... انّ بعض اخوانى وخلص خلانى فى اثناء الصحبة من البين قالوا ان مجمع البحرين كتاب بديع ... 5أ ... الحمد لله ابتداء المصنّف فى اول تصنيفه بالتحميد اقتداء بكتاب الله تعالى فى التحميدExplicit: واجازها محمد حملا لكلامه الى الصرف الى مصالحه تصحيحا له والله اعلم تم الكتابPhysical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and to overline the commented text. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines, and pulp, visible. Marginal annotations apparently by the same hand as the main text. Fol. 3-39 and 407 are later additions and replacements, on European paper with watermark, written in medium small casual naskh with elements of taʻlīq, with 25 lines per page. Fol. 1-2 apparently more recent addition, with table of contents. Another table of contents appears on fol. 3a-b, and a table of contents mentioning the titles of each Kitāb on fol. 4a. The quires (mainly quinions) have catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Several inscriptions on fol. 406a-b. Three inscriptions mentioning birth dates (1254 H., 1261 H., 1270 H.) on fol. 407a. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "... ? thānī 321". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 969".Origin: Copy completed during the night of Wednesday 10 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 85- ("wa-khamsīn") by Ismaʻīl ibn Maḥmūd al-Qarawī (colophon, fol. 406a).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 682Origin: As appears in colophon on p.161, opening work copied by Derviş Mehmet ( Darwīsh Muḥammad / درويش محمد ) with transcription completed 11 Shawwāl 1107 [ca. 14 May 1696]. Transcription of other works likely completed around the same time, even early 18th century. Ijāzah (by the author, authorizing one Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar to transmit the work) at close of al-Ḥikam al-ʻirfānīyah dated 3 Muḥarram 970 [ca. 2 September 1562] in Mecca (possibly transcribed by the copyist verbatim from the exemplar).Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Insert carrying glosses (paginated pp.129-130) -- d. Scrap with note and seal impression (paginated pp.153-154).Former shelfmark: From inscription on inner front cover and spine label, "IL 153" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper (perhaps once marbled) with brown leather over edges/turn-ins (likely spine and fore edge flap as well, though now lost); Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in heavy cream and magenta thread, six stations ; overall in quite poor condition with flap lost, severe abrasion and staining, lifting and losses of leather, paper and boards, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to spine in light brown leather ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of several types ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of three hats (see p.10, 11, 214, 215, etc.) and scrollwork / arms with "P A" and/or balance [?] inside (see p.6, 15, etc.), thin and transluscent though sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished to glossy ; several other types including those with crown above grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.152, 155, etc.), "M F" (p.170, etc.), name (p.178, etc.), and grapes (p.180, 182, etc.) ; some moisture damage with losses of text (in some areas, resupplied, see p.63, etc.).Decoration: Keywords, section headings and some abbreviation symbols (two-teeth stroke, some signes de renvoi, etc.) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas, red discs, etc. ; some overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; three main Turkish hands ; Zübdetü'l-fuhûs in nastaʻlīq (talik) an elegant Turkish hand, characteristically serifless with effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq (talik) ; Silsiletü'z-zeheb and following menakıb (as well as many of the glosses throughout) supplied mainly in a clear Turkish naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; hand changes at p.170 to a similar but seemingly different Turkish naskh, more compact and in a thinner line, partially but irregularly seriffed (with right-sloping head-serif), some elongation of horizontal strokes, slight effect of words descending to baseline and of tilt to the left, free assimilation of letters ; final work supplied in still a different Turkish naskh, elegant, compact and serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, elongation of vertical strokes.Layout: Written in 19, 21 and 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: 7 V(70), V-1 (79), V+1 (90), 2 V(110), V-2 (118) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red and then black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some inserts).Colophon: [Zübdetü'l-fuhûs] "Scribal," triangular, reads "الحمد لله على اتمام هذه النسخة الشريفة من يد احقر العباد درويش محمد في وقت الضحى من شوال المكرم في يوم الحادى عشر سنه سبع مائة والف غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه م م" ; [al-Ḥikam al-ʻirfānīyah] "Authorial," triangular, reads "... هذه الحكم العرفانية للشيخ محمد بن عمر واجزته ... وانا الفقير علي بن حسام الدين وكان ذلك في مكة المشرفة ضحوة يوم الخميس ثالث شهر الله الحرام المحرم من شهور سنة سبعين وتسعمائة والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين م"Incipit: [Zübdetü'l-fuhûs] "حمد لا يعد ولا يحصى وشكر بى همتا وبى منتها اول عليم حكيم اولان خداى ذو العطايه كه فصوص قلوب ارباب خصوصى نقوش حكمت وزيب وزيور معرفت ايله مزين ومحلى قلوب ... اما بعد بو عليل وغليل وفقير وذليل اعنى شيخ اسمعيل المولوى الانقروى ... واول حضرتك اغمض تصنيفاتندن واجمل تأليفاتندن برى نقش فصوص ... اما اول حضرتك شرحى دخى الفاظ عربى وعبارات فارسى ايله اختلاط وامتزاج ايلدوكى اجلدن اكثر طالبه استنباط واستخراجى عسرت وصعوبتدن خالى دكلدر پس بو ذليل قليل البضاعة عبارت تركيده بر اسلوب جديد اوزره شرح وبيان ايتمكى ... وبوكا زبدة الفحوص في نقش الفصوص ديمكله نام ونشان ويردم ..." ; [Silsiletü'z-zeheb] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله اجمعين بو رساله اولدر كه طريق نقشبنديده اولان ويردلرين واجازتلرين بيان ايدر ..." ; [al-Ḥikam al-ʻirfānīyah] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد خاتم الانبياء وسيد المرسلين واله وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد فيقول احقر عباد الله علي بن حسام الدين الشهير بالمتقي هذه حكم عرفانية في معان [معاني] ارشادية واشارات قرآنية ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.4. p.206-p.239 : al-Ḥikam al-ʻirfānīyah / ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Junbūrī al-Hindī, al-shahīr bi-al-Muttaqī.3. p.168-p.205 : [manāqib (menakıb) pertaining to various Naqshbandī masters including Saʻd al-Dīn Kāshgharī, ʻUbayd Allāh Aḥrār, Ḥasan ʻAṭṭār, etc. possibly constituting (even with the preceding silsile) excerpts from a Turkish rendering of Rashaḥāt-i ʻayn al-ḥayāt by Fakhr al-Dīn Ṣafī ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Kāshifī].2. p.162-p.167 : Risalet Silsiletü'z-zeheb li's-sâde en-Nakşbendiye.1. p.1-p.161 : Zübdetü'l-fuhûs fî Nakşi'l-Fusûs / İsmail Ankaravî.Fine collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) opening with the Turkish commentary by İsmail Ankaravî on Ibn al-ʻArabī's (d.1240) Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ, an abridged version of Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, followed by a silsile (silsilah) for the Naqshbandīyah order and menakıb (manāqib) of several masters, possibly constituting excerpts from a Turkish rendering of Rashaḥāt-i ʻayn al-ḥayāt by Fakhr al-Dīn Ṣafī ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Kāshifī (d. ca.1532), and concluding with a collection of maxims, precepts and companion verses from the Qurʼān compiled by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Muttaqī al-Hindī (d.1567). Contents listing for opening work on 'title page' (p.1).
Dedicated to Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī.عبارة عن مجلد كبير قوي الحباكة حسن الصياغة والنسخ كتب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر بخط جيدPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink. "Majmūʻ al-Hādī ilá al-Ḥaqq Yaḥyá ibn al-Ḥusayn raḍiy Allāhu ʻanhu" written on the bottom edge of the manuscript.
Dispersed manuscript; previously thought to be Rashid al-Din’s Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh; est. 407 folios with 150 illustrations (Martinovitch); naskh scriptCulture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: gold, ink, watercolor, silver, paperNote: Bibliography: Ghiasian, Mohamad Reza. "The “Historical Style” of Painting for Shahrukh and Its Revival in the Dispersed Manuscript of Majmaʿ al-Tawarikh." Iranian Studies, 2014.
Dispersed manuscript; previously thought to be Rashid al-Din’s Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh; est. 407 folios with 150 illustrations (Martinovitch); naskh scriptCulture: Persian, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gold, watercolor, ink, silver, paperNote: Bibliography: Ghiasian, Mohamad Reza. "The “Historical Style” of Painting for Shahrukh and Its Revival in the Dispersed Manuscript of Majmaʿ al-Tawarikh." Iranian Studies, 2014.
Dispersed manuscript; previously thought to be Rashid al-Din’s Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh; est. 407 folios with 150 illustrations (Martinovitch); naskh scriptCulture: Persian, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gold, watercolor, ink, silver, paperNote: Bibliography: Ghiasian, Mohamad Reza. "The “Historical Style” of Painting for Shahrukh and Its Revival in the Dispersed Manuscript of Majmaʿ al-Tawarikh." Iranian Studies, 2014.
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīths concerned with legal topics; contains Kitāb al-ṣalāh; incomplete at end.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; salmon paper doublures; spine repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 30 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Likely 17th century.Incipit: الحمد لله ... ىقول ... الحر العاملى ... کتاب الصلوة
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full teal leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 10.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive interlinear and marginal notes. Extensive damp staining. Spine is broken and a few leaves are detached. Marginal repairs.Origin: 10 Rabīʻ I 970 H 7 November 1562 in Mashhad, by Masʻūd ibn Shīr ʻAlī Rustamdārī (leaf 193b).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Second half of a work on uṣūl al-fiqh, beginning with Bāb adillat al-aḥkām; preceded by a fihrist on leaves 1(bis)b-1a.Binding note: Full olive green leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a, line 2.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the second flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 28 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Origin: 2 Ramaḍān 1268 H 20 June 1852 (leaf 238b).Incipit: باب ادلة الاحكام قال الله تعالى ليهلك من هلك عن بينة ويحيى من حي عن بينة
Abstract: Commentary on the treatise on Islamic law of Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī. Missing at least one leaf at the beginning; text breaks off in the middle of maqṣid 3.Binding note: Cloth over boards.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a, line 5.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining.Incipit (commentary, leaf 1a, line 7): قوله الطهارة فالوضوء ىحب للواجب من الصلوة والطواف
Abstract: First volume of a work on uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from upper edge.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Leaf 1 is a replacement on machine-made paper. Marginal damp-staining.Origin: 14 Muḥarram 1236 H 22 October 1820 in Iṣfahān, by Muḥammad ibn Āqā Bābā al-Jīlānī (leaf 288a).Incipit: الحمد لله ... باب مفاتيح اللغات قال الله ... القول في الدلالة مفتاح اختلف العلماء في ان اللفظ هي تدل على معناه بالذات او بوضع الواضع
Binding note: Full leather binding (repaired) with stamped central mandorla, fleur de lis, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glossy white European paper. Rubrication.Origin: Copy completed on 19 Jumādá I, 1267 H. by Abū Ṭālib ibn Aḥmad al-Mūsawī al-Khūnsārī (fol. 269a).Incip. of Sharḥ al-Wāfiyah: ... قوله قلت انکار التبادر اقول معنى کون التبادرIncip. of al-Wāfiyah: ... الحمد لله على جزىل آلائه ... و بعد فهذه رسالة وافىة
Abstract: Two glosses on Shiʻite law texts.Binding note: Three-quarter leather with marbled paper covers; salmon paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 3b, 36b.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in small naskh (text 1) and nastaʻliq (text 2) on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Leaves 51-81 dyed yellow. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. First leaf detached. Marginal damp-staining.Origin: Text 1, 8 Shaʻbān 1020 H 16 October 1611 (leaf 36a). Text 2, 3 Jumādá II 1022 H 21 July 1613, by Ibn Muḥammad ... ʻAlī Riḍā (leaf 81b).1. leaves 3b-36a: Ḥāshiyat Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn Shahīd Thānī bar Alfīyah.2. leaves 36b-81a: Ḥāshiyat Shaykh ʻAlī bar Mukhtaṣar nāfiʻ.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law; incomplete at beginning and end.Binding note: Full brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Spine title.Physical description: 24 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Damp-staining and insect damage, mainly marginal; repairs to leaves at the beginning and end.Origin: Part 1 completed 23 Shawwāl 1091 H 16 November 1680, by Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥarārī al-Shīrāzī (leaf 176a).
Abstract: Treatise on ritual prayer.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; back cover detached.Ms. codex.Caption title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 9 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Some staining.Origin: Original text, 10 Jumādá II 917 H 4 September 1511 in Mashhad (leaves 71b-72a); this copy, 29 Ramaḍān 951 H 14 December 1544 (leaf 72a).Incipit: الحمد لله الولي الحميد المبدئ المعيد ... وبعد فان التماس
Abstract: Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Stiffened brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; brown leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a, by a later hand.Physical description: 6 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; extensive interlinear and marginal notes. Occasional staining, smudging, and repairs.Origin: 1232 H 1816 or 1817, by Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Ḥājjī Mīrzā Aḥmad al-Muṣāḥibī al-Nāʼīnī (leaf 117a).Incipit: ابهى اصل ىبتني علىه الخطاب واولى قول فضل ينتمي اليه اولو الالباب
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's Alfīyah fī al-ṣalāh al-yawmīyah."Binding note: "Loose in folder which used to be a cover for Byron's Poetical WorksBinding note: Volume II."Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal damp staining throughout manuscript which encroaches on text on leaves 1-35.Origin: Text originally completed 22 Rajab 996 H 17 June 1588 (leaf 151b). This copy is likely 17th century.Incipit: لك الحمد يا ذو الجود والمجد والعلي
Abstract: Explanation of the term "al-lamam" as used in Sūrah 53:32.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on unglazed, laid European paper. Watermark is a hand with flower. Catchwords. Ragged edges, a few paper repairs, some damp staining.Origin: Original text completed on 11 Jumādá II 903 H (leaf 6b); this copy is likely from the 17th century.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي رفع قدرنا بالقرآن على ساير الامم وجعله معجزة لنبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām; contains kitāb al-ṣalāh."Binding note: Contemporary full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; corners and spine repaired with maroon leather; blue pastedowns and flyleaves.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a and fore edge.Physical description: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: 28 Muḥarram 1263 H 16 January 1847, by Muḥammad al-Kadkanī (leaf 260b). Same scribe as New Series no. 475q.Incipit: من اركان الصلوة في بقية الصلوت وفيه فصول
Abstract: A treatise on religious aspects of music, including the practice of samāʻ.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Copied on the 25th of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1058 (1648) -- colophon (fol. 8a).23 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اباح وفسح مجال الغناExplicit: ذهب الخوف والخزن جميعة قال الله تعالى ألآ ان اوليآ الله لا خوف عليهم ولا هم يخزنون وحسبنا الله ...
Abstract: Collection of two Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Half leather with marbled paper covers; purple paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 2a-67a: Kitāb Fihrist al-Shīʻah / Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī.Contents: 2. leaves 68a-122b: Durrat al-Najaf / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Murtaḍá Baḥr al-ʻUlūm.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 2a, 68a.Physical description: Text 1, 19 lines per page; text 2, 18 lines per page in two columns. Written in naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. In excellent condition.Origin: Text 1 dated 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1347 H 25 April 1929, by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (leaf 67a). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh; contains kitāb al-ṭahārah through kitāb al-ṣalāh.Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue and white glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining on outer edge; a few repairs.Origin: 10 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1128 H 25 November 1716 (leaf 201b).Incipit: الحمد لله حق حمده ... سألتهم ايدکم الله املاء مسائل الخلاف بيننا و بين من خالفنا من جميع الفقهاء
Abstract: "Part 2 of al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: a well-known work on Shiite fiqh. Contains al-Qism al-thānī fī al-ʻuqūd."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Light staining.Origin: Likely mid-19th century.Incipit: الحمد لله ... القسم الثاني في العقود وفيه خمسة عشر كتابا قوله كتاب التجارة