Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp orange-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets and blind-tooled central star.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-10a: al-Riḍāʻīyah / al-Muḥaqqiq al-Thānī.Contents: 2. leaves 10b-15b: al-ʻAwīṣ / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Mufīd.Contents: 3. leaves 16a-87b: Sharḥ ʻalá risālah fī al-ṭahārah.Contents: 4. leaves 88a-212b: Sharḥ Alfīyat Shahīd / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: Texts 1-2, 21 lines per page; written in casual naskh in brown on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 3, 21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 4, 21 lines per page; written in small, casual naskh in brown (switches to black on leaf 198b) on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Upper edge damp-stained and moldered. Leaves 1-15, 214 detached.Origin: Text 1, 6 Jumādá II 1088 H 6 August 1677 (leaf 10a). Text 4, 8 Jumādá II 1088 H (8 August 1677), by Saʻd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Dīn ibn Tamām al-Jazāʼirī (leaf 212b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 834Origin: Pertains to the Jalālī year 1235 [1856-1857] suggesting a date of transcription around this time ; watermarks consistent with such a dating. Illuminated heading on opening horiscope suggests transcription in Istanbul.Binding: Limp cover in heavy coated and textured paper, surface-dyed a pale yellow and embossed with pattern of plumes, scrolls, and floral motifs ; sewn in spring green and dark blue thread, six stations, through paper cover ; overall in fair condition with staining and abrasion ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of lion rampant guardant (see p.2, 8, 28, etc.) and initials "NR" in arms (see p.4, 6, 26, etc.) very similar to Eineder no.1018 dated 1806 but with "NR" rather than "AB" ; creamy buff in color (yellowish hue), crisp and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Written area and tables throughout defined by gold bands and black lines ; heading of opening horiscope diagram chrysographed "لع يل ١٢٧٢ سال عالم بأفق دار السلطنه العلية العثمانيه" ; many headings and keywords / symbols rubricated.Script: Mainly naskh and naskh with elements of ruqʻah ; clear Turkish hands ; elegant naskh employed for most headings, some entries and some annotations ; more compact naskh with elements of ruqʻah used for other annotations and some headings ; forms resembling siyakat letterforms used in table entries ; elucidation of symbols employed entered on opening page (p.1) above and alongside the horiscope diagram.Layout: Written area divided to accommodate tables of 14 columns and 16 rows (with 15 of the rows carrying two lines each corresponding to the days of the month), headed by outlines of square charts divided to 12 (4 central squares and 8 triangles corresponding to the celestial houses) ; prickings for ruling the tables evident in the outer and lower margins.Collation: VII (14) ; single septenion ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful copy of an astronomical almanac (natījah / rūznāmah / ephemeris) for the Jalālī year 1235 (indicated as the 778th, see p.2) preceded by horiscope (ṭāliʻ) for the year (given in the corresponding Hijrī / Rūmī value, 1272, see p.1). Presumably observed at Istanbul. Corresponding Hijrī, Rūmī, old Yazdagardī and Coptic calendars dates are given. Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 463 v.6Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest late 16th and 17th century.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on fore edge flap, "IL 91 VI" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip in Isl. Ms. 463 v.2).Binding: Pasteboards now covered in green-blue paper-backed cloth over dark brown leather with tan leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; traces of stamped mandorlas on upper and lower covers (now covered by cloth) ; board linings in dull yellow paper ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations, sewing in final quires gone ; worked chevron endbands in cream and dull pink, fairly good condition ; ill-fitting with flap too small ; overall in poor condition with lifting and losses of cloth, abrasion, staining, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of four main types ; opening type (also appearing elsewhere in codex) with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle with star above watermark (see p.16, 17, etc.), sturdy though crisp, well-burnished to glossy ; next type (second quire and elsewhere) with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and angel in circle with leaf above watermark (see p.38, 39, etc.) ; next type (pp.253-294) with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.262, 263, etc.) ; still another type (from p.601) with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 14-32 mm. apart (horizontal), and three circles watermark, quite thin and transluscent, very well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Some keywords rubricated or accent with red ink ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least four clear Turkish hands ; opening and main hand (appearing multiple places throughout codex), a serifless naskh, rounded with inclination to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes (occasionally more exaggerated), pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn sitting above or assimilated with bowl, extensively vocalized ; next hand (from p.29 and elsewhere) a naskh showing influence of nastaʻlīq, serifless with long, fluid ascenders, marked effect of words descending to baseline and of inclination to the left, some elongation of 'horizontal' strokes and sharp, flat descenders (mainly rāʼ, wāw, dhāl, etc.), free assimilation of letters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; from pp.253-294 still another naskh approaching nastaʻlīq (talik), partially seriffed with inclination to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn set above or assimilated with bowl ; from p.601 still another naskh approaching nastaʻlīq (talik), bold, compact and serifless with inclination to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, quite rounded with free assimilation of letters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; incipit page (p.6) in a different hand.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V+2 (12), 4 V(52), V+1 (63), 5 V(113), 2 V+1(135), V (145), V-1 (154), 14 V(294), 4 (298), 24 (538), iii ; chiefly quinions ; two quires (pp.911-950) numbered ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips from p.769 to p.780, thereafter off by ten pages).Explicit: "قوله تمنون عليكم ان اسملوا او الباقون بالحطاب نظرا الى قوله قل لا تمنوا على اسلامكم ويتلوه سورة القاف"Incipit: "سورة طه مكية وهي مائة واربع وثلثون اية قوله لاستعلائه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.Careful copy of the sixth of seven volumes (v.1 and v.4 now lacking) of the commentary by Shaykhʻzādah Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Qūjawī (d.1544 or 5) upon al-Bayḍāwī's commentary on the Qurʼān, Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, covering Sūrat Ṭāhā (20) through Sūrat al-Ḥujurāt (49).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 237Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by İbrahim Rodosi ; date of transcription not specified, though calligrapher's activity (acquiring his icazet shortly after the death of his first teacher İsmail Zühdî in 1731) suggests mid to late 18th century.Former shelfmark: "559 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "116" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather with spine in a lighter red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla filled with symmetrical vegetal composition (compare binding ornament on cover of Isl. Ms. 230), as well as tooled border consisting of guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets ; panels hinged together with red-brown leather ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting of leather, spine split near head, etc.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (in some cases surface-dyed pink) pieced, set into frame consisting of other surface-dyed and gold-flecked papers in combinations of orange and green, blue and pink, orange and magenta, yellow and green, green and magenta, lavender and orange, etc. (papers of facing pages match) set off by gold bands and white fillets.Decoration: Decorative illuminated pieces consisting mainly of scalloped semi-circular pieces (domes) overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern in gold, red, pink, white, blue, etc. flank the compact central lines ; other illuminated flanking pieces of different vegetal composition appear on some panels ; written area surrounded by frame in bands of gold varying thickness ; textual divders in the form of illuminated rosettes with accents in pink, white, blue, etc.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; two large lines of each page in thuluth ; two central lines of each page in naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of text though both open in alphabetic exercises.Layout: Written in four lines per page, two large lines in thuluth (sülüs) and two more compact lines in naskh (nesih) ; written area divided into upper and lower panels accommodating the large lines and a central panel divided to accomodate the two more compact lines.Collation: Ten 'panels' (mounted leaves) edged in and hinged together with red-brown leather ; opens vertically.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "مشقه اضعف الكتاب ابراهيم الردوسي"Explicit: [in thuluth / sülüs] "سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجل ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك" ; [in naskh / nesih] "فان امارتي بالسوء ما اتعظت من جهلها بنذير الشيب"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) executed by the Ottoman calligrapher İbrahim Rodosi (d.1787). Comprises a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) in two scripts (thuluth / sülüs and naskh / nesih) employing the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat), composed word exercises (mürekkebat) with the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı), invocations, and a portion of the text of al-Buṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-Burdah.
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-64b: Hādhihi Kitāb al-Wāfiyah fī al-uṣūl / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūnī.Contents: 2. leaves 65b-103a: Fawāʼid al-ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Ms. codex.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the sixth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation. First four leaves contain notes and extracts or are blank.Physical description: Text 1, 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black. Text 2, 26 lines per page; written in small naskh in black; script changes to nastaʻliq on leaf 90a. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; upper outer corner moldered.Origin: Text 1 dated 1221 H 1806 or 1807 (leaf 64b). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-88b: Fawāʼid ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Contents: 2. fol. 89b-113b: Kitāb Zubdat Shaykh Bahāʼī fī al-uṣūl / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Ms. composite codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 15 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; edges moldered.Origin: Text 1, 17 Rabīʻ II 1240 H 9 December 1824 in Iṣfahān, by Qurbān ʻAlī ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Rafīʻ al-... ? (leaf 88b). Text 2, 4 Rabīʻ I 1240 H 27 October 1824, by Muḥammad Ḥasan (leaf 113b); likely in Iran.
Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Abī Turāb al-Sirḥānī. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Possibly written in northern Iran. Paper: tan colored glazed laid paper with horizontal chain line and obscured armorial watermark, and countermark G M ; black ink in Naskh; catchwords; lacuna from Folio 1-10 caused by worm damage at top of page, with no loss of text. Naskh; 13 lines in written area 15 x 8.5 cm. Folio 1b-9b; 10a notes. With: Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Sirr-i bakhyah. [December 1853, Year of the Rat]. Bound together subsequent to publication. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M307b. Binding: medium brown leather with embossed gold center medallions front and back.Manuscript.
Abstract: Collection of texts on a variety of topics.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; salmon paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-17a: Kitāb Balad al-amīn / Jaʻfar ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Kashfī.Contents: 2. leaves 19b-111b: Kitāb al-Iqtirāḥ fī ʻilm uṣūl al-naḥw / al-Suyūṭī.Contents: 3. leaves 111b-113b: Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.Contents: 4. leaves 113b-121a: Risālah al-qawsīyah / Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād ibn Wazīrān al-Iṣfahānī.Contents: 5. leaves 121a-123a: Risālat al-sikkīn / Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī.Contents: 6. leaves 123a-126b: Risālah fī fāʼ al-faṣīḥah.Contents: 7. leaves 126b-143b: Risālah fī madḥ al-Sulṭān.Contents: 8. leaves 147b-160b: Risālah fī bayān ṣiyagh al-ʻuqūd wa-al-īqāʻāt.Contents: 9. leaves 160b-162a: Risālah fī al-jadhr al-aṣamm.Contents: 10. leaves 163a-170b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-Sajdah.Contents: 11. leaf 171a: Exchange between the Caliph al-Maʼmūn and Imam al-Riḍā concerning ʻAlī.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: Texts 1-7, 15 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on grayish glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text 1 in two columns. Texts 8-11 are written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 8, 22 lines per page, written in small naskh with rubrication and catchwords and a few marginal notes. Text 9, varying lines per page, written in shikastah with catchwords. Texts 10-11, 20 lines per page, written in small naskh with catchwords. Outer edge moldered.Origin: Text 1, 21 Ṣafar 1244 H 2 September 1828 in Iṣfahān (leaf 17a). Text 4, 24 Rabīʻ I 1244 H 4 October 1828 (leaf 113b). Text 7, 3 Rabīʻ II 1244 H 13 October 1828 (leaf 143b). Texts 1-7 copied by the same scribe. Text 8, 1243 H 1827 or 1828 (leaf 160b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 138Origin: As appears in colophon on p.319, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan ibn Muṣṭafá. Transcription finished 17 Rabīʻ II [year severly obscured with ink smudged and lifted, but may read 1125? = ca. 13 May 1713]. Paper suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes inserted (paginated pp.226-227).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 138. Kitab al-dau, with glosses."Binding: Pasteboards faced in laid paper (trimmed to reveal leather onlay of central stamped panel) with dark red leather over spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins (paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in magenta laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear central blind-stamped panel (lozenge-shaped) filled with vegetal decoration (compare Déroche class. OSd) and surrounded by tooled star or rosette accents ; sewn in light pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and light blue, fully intact and in fair condition ; overall in fair to poor condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, minor spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: European laid paper with 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermarks include coat of arms with lions flanking cross above circles ; well-sized and burnished ; some staining, smudging and water damage (particularly pp.61-66).Decoration: Headings, keywords, abbreviation symbols and some marginalia rubricated ; textual divders in the form of three inverted commas ; written area surrounded by red rule-border (through p.217).Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq and naskh ; at least two hands ; elegant naskh-nastaʻlīq, virtually serifless, with mainly closed counters, effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, and elongation of horizontal strokes ; at p.98 hand changes to naskh, also serifless, neat and compact, fairly rounded, with mainly closed counters and slight effect of tilt to the left ; bowl of final nūn often forms a closed circle around the point.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 16 V (160), i ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf and inserts ; skips two pages between pp.3-4 and pp.23-24 and omits p.58).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت هذا الكتاب بفضل الله في يوم سبعة عشر في شهر ربيع الاخر المبارك تاريخ سنة [۱۱۲٥؟] كتب على يد عبد الضعيف محتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى اسماعيل بن حسن بن مصطفى رحمة الله على اجداد [كذا] ولوالديه ولاستاذه ولشركائه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات وبالله التوفيق وهو نعم الرفيق تمت"Explicit: "هذا باب الاطناب فيه مجال لكنه يقضي الى الملك فاقتصرت على هذا القدر فليس الرأي عن التشاق [؟] تم ضوء والله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "ان احق ما يتوشح بذكره صدور الكتاب والدفاتر ... حمد الله تعالى على زواهر اياديه ... اما بعد فان نوع الادب على كثرة شجونه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Isfarāyīnī's (d.1285) commentary on al-Misbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by al-Muṭarrizī (d.1213).
Abstract: "Portion of a treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: a summary of the author's al-Muḥīṭ al-Burhānī fī al-fiqh al-NuʻmānīAbstract: comprising the end of Kitāb al-Ṣarf (from al-Faṣl al-ʻashrūn fī al-itiṣnāʻ) to Kitāb al-Iqrār. The ms. comprises three distinct partsAbstract: written in different scripts (fol. 1b-32a ; 33a-201b ; 202a-381a)."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Large blind stamped central mandorla with outer border consisting of blind tooled fillets and a s-shape running pattern. Spine damaged. Paper pastedown. The paper of the pasteboard is perfectly visible due to the damage yto the upper cover.Ms. codex.Title from fol. (i)a.Fol. 1b-32a are smaller pieces of light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible, inlaid in a border of light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible (see in particular, fol. 31-32), written in medium small round elegant naskh in black ink with use of red, with 31 lines to the page (written surface: 185 x 115 mm.). Fol. 33a-201b are written in clear casual small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 37 lines to the page up to fol. 55a (written surface: 245 x 160 mm.), with a dramatic change at the end of fol. 55a on, apparently by the same hand however. From the end of fol. 55a on, thin casual naskh with element of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 36 lines to the page (written surface 225 x 143 mm.) on European? glazed paper. Fol. 202a-381a written in clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 35 lines per page (writing surface 220 x 155 mm.), on dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-(ii)b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "222". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 261".Copy of the first part completed on 7 Shaʻbān 959 July 29, 1552 (or 957 August 21, 1550) by ʻAlī ibn ---?, on behalf of ("bi-rasm") al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah ... ---?, muftī of Damascus and khaṭīb in the Jāmiʻ al-Umawī (colophon, fol. 201b). Note dated 956 H. 1549 on fol. 319a.Incipit: الفصل العشرون فى الاستصناع يجب ان يعلم ان الاستصناع جايز في كل ما جري التعامل فيهExplicit: ولا ينبغى له ان يشهد على شي معين والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب تم كتاب الاقرار
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 109Origin: As appears in colophon on p.114, transcription of the sharḥ by ʻAlī al-Qūshjī completed 3 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1113 [ca. 1 May 1702] ; paper suggests that other works were copied around the same time, even late 17th century.Accompanying materials: Inserted slip bearing glosses (paginated pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 61. Two commentaries on Al-Risalat al-wadiyah."Binding: Pasteboards (very thin, semi-limp) covered in marbled paper (mainly in white and shades of blue) with brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in European laid paper ; sewn in light pink thread, four and two stations ; overall in fair condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper in a few different types ; text of first work on type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of flower on stem with leaves ; next work on another type with laid lines spaced 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark ; final works on still another type with 14 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of bar carrying name/initials with grapes ; all types well-burnished.Decoration: Abbreviation symbols and keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; text of the sharḥ by ʻAlī al-Qushjī surrounded by frame consisting of a gold band flanked by black fillets.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq ; at least three different hands ; all virtually serifless with elongation of horizontal strokes ; naskh freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, final yāʼ and alif maqṣūrah mardūdah, and pointing in curved lines rather than distinct dots ; naskh-nastaʻlīq shows slight effect of words descending to baseline and letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15, 21 and 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 V(20), IV (28), III (34), V-1 (43), V (53), I+1 (56), III (62) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.8. p.121-p.126 : [blank].7. p.118-p.120 : [Risālah fī al-waḍʻ].6. p.116-p.118 : Sharḥ al-Sayyid al-Sharīf lil-qāḍī ʻAḍud al-Dīn / al-Jurjānī.5. p.115 : [blank].4. p.72-p.114 : [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah] / ʻAlī al-Qūshjī.3. p.70-71 : [blank].2. p.69 : [originally blank, now carries a listing of the author's works].1. p.2-p.68 : ʻIṣām al-Dīn ʻalá al-Waḍʻīyah / ʻIṣām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāyīnī.Fine copy of three of the principal commentaries on al-Ījī's seminal treatise in ʻilm al-waḍʻ, al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah, namely that of ʻIṣām al-Dīn al-Isfarāʼinī (d.1537), ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Qūshjī (Ali Kuşçu, d.1474), and ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (d.1413). Followed by a brief anonymous treatise on the same subject.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 158Origin: As appears in colophon on p.52, al-Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah copied in the Aḥmadīyah madrasah with transcription finished in Ramaḍān 1121 [?] [November 1709?]. As appears in colophon on p.93, Sharḥ Īsāghūjī copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Zunayl [?] with no mention of date of transcription. As appears in colophon on p.136, transcription of al-Iʻrāb ʻan qawāʻid al-iʻrāb completed in the year 1096 [1684 or 5]. As appears in colophon on p.231, al-Ḥamdīyah copied by ʻUmar ibn Ḥusayn with transcription completed in the year 1085 [1674 or 5]. As appears in colophon on p.324, final work also copied by ʻUmar ibn Ḥusayn al-Zamwānī [?] with transcription completed in the year 1084 [1673 or 4].Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes (paginated pp.55-56).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 104. Tracts on grammar, etc."Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in dark blue, light pink, white) with dark red leather over spine, foreedge flap and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in bright blue (cyan), yellow, and lime green thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and cream, in fair condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, some lifting of paper and leather, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types ; opening work supplied on a European paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark in crown with studded pendant, thin though sturdy, and burnished ; second and third works supplied on a European paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), crown star crescent watermark (compare Heawood 1132), well-burnished, thick and sturdy ; next work and excerpts supplied on a European paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), scrollwork/coat of arms watermark, extremely smooth and well-burnished (to glossy) ; final work on a European paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 33 mm. apart (horizontal), coat of arms watermark with lions flanking cross in shield above two circles ('AS' in upper circle), thin, smooth and well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviations symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq ; several hands ; opening work in an elegant naskh with subtle head serifs on occasional initial lām and freestanding alif, tilt to the left, mainly open counters, mainly curvilinear descenders, final hāʼ or tāʼ marbūtah assimilated with preceding rāʼ or dāl, fully vocalized ; al-Iʻrāb in fine naskh-nastaʻlīq [closer to nastaʻlīq] virtually serifless with mainly closed counters, effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq ; following works in fine naskh similar to opening hand though virtually serifless with tilt to the left, mainly closed counters, many curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 11, 15 and 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 V (20), III (26), 3 V(56), V+1 (67), V (77), V+1 (88), 3 V(118), V+1 (129), 2 V(149), I (151), V (161), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and back flyleaf).Incipit:Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.10. p.325-p.326 : [excerpts and calligraphic excercises].9. p.242-p.324 : [Sharḥ al-Bināʼ ?].8. p.232-p.241 : [mainly blank with a few excerpts].7. p.140-p.231 : [al-Ḥamdīyah : Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ dībājat al-Miṣbāḥ] / Aḥmad ibn ʻImād.6. p.137-p.139 : [blank].5. p.96-p.136 : al-Iʻrāb ʻan qawāʻid al-iʻrāb / Ibn Hishām.4. p.94-p.95 : [mainly blank with a few prayers, excerpts, etc.].3. p.54-p.93 : [Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] / Ḥusām al-Dīn Kātī.2. p.53 : [blank].1. p.2-p.52 : [al-Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah] / al-Nawawī.Fine composite collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of works on hadith, logic, grammar, etc.