Abstract: "Section from an anonymous commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Irshād al-adhhān ilá aḥkām al-īmān; contains Kitāb al-nikāḥ through Kitāb al-diyāt. According to a note on leaf 1aAbstract: the author was a student of al-Shahīd al-Awwal (1333 or 1334-1380)."Binding note: Full red leather with marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from note on leaf 1a by a later hand.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Edges moldered; a few repairs.Incipit: قوله کتاب النکاح و فيه مقاصد ... اقول للنکاح معنيان
Abstract: "Commentary on the Kitāb al-muʼāmalāt of Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām."Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped central floral design, pendants, and fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: Generally 30 lines per page; written in small, cramped naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: 23 Muḥarram 1255 H 8 April 1839, by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Qazwīnī (leaf 57a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اشتق نور الوجود من ظلمة العدم
Abstract: Two unbound bi-folios with a copy of the Ghāyat al-ghawr, on divorce.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Physical description: 18 lines per page. Written in casual medium small naskh in black ink ; almost entirely undotted. Dark cream paper, with regular laid lines and pulp visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Origin: The copy is not dated. R. Mach dates it to the 6th century H.Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى الطوسى رحمه الله الحمد لله ذى الفضل والنعم والطول والكرم ... اما بعد فانى لما دخلت بغداد سنة اربع وثمانين واربعماية
Abstract: Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Three-quarter leather with green paper covers.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 7.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Spaces left for rubrication not completely filled in. Damp-stained across lower margin and bottom lines of text.Origin: According to Mach, 16th or 17th century.Incipit: احمد الله على سابغ نعمته ... وبعد ذلك فانه تکرر من جماعة من الاصحاب
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla; brown leather doublures; edges and spine repaired.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-57b: Manāhij Shaykh Bahāʼī / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 2. fol. 58b-185b: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 1a, 58a; also present on partially torn spine labels.Physical description: Text 1, 8 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 2, 14 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Both texts: Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs.Origin: Likely 17th century.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Half leather with blue paper covers; orange pastedowns and flyleaves.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-staining and a few repairs.Origin: 2 Rajab 1068 H 5 April 1658, by Ibn Muḥammad Muḥammad Ashraf al-Anṣārī (leaf 367a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Volume 2 of a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh, comprising al-ijmāʻ through al-iḥtiyāṭ.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; red paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Occasional staining. Back cover detached.Origin: Jumādá I 1272 H January-February 1856 in Mashhad, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-madʻū bi-Ṣādiq (leaf 210a).Incipit: الحمد لله ... في الاجماع ... اختلفوا في حقيقة الاجماع لغة
Origin: Possibly author's working copy, with many notes in marginalia. This copy finished 993/1585.Decoration: Titles and place names in red and gold ink. Central text on each page is framed in simple blue and gold border. Initial page features an elaborite design in blue, gold, orange, and green paint. Incidental maps and diagrams in margins are usually executed in blue ink. Map of Mediterranean world laid in page 22. A single page of notes with diagram depicting the kaʻbah as the center of the world along with many notes is laid into this codex.Script: Text written in naskh script with black ink.Binding: Leather bound codex with tooling on upper and lower covers as well as envelope flap; gold paint on medalions.Title from rubricated inscription on opening leaf (p.3) and inscription on 'title page' (p.7).Ms. codex.Geographical work ; geographical dictionary.
Title from spine.Text rubricated and enclosed in borders of gold, blue, and red; extensive marginal commentary throughout; illumination on pp. [1-2]; substantial damage to pages with some repairs; purple silk bookmark; unusual leather and velvet binding (late 19th- early 20th cent.?); marbled edges.Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn....Dates of copying and copyist's name in colophon: (Arabic and Persian) tamma ... min yad ʻabd al-ḍaʻīf ... Shāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn Zīrbāʾī ... rūz-i jumʻah māh-i Shawwāl vaqt-i ẓuhr sanat khams fa-sabʻīn fa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. March-April 1568] ... [in margin] nuqilat min nuskhah nuqilat min nuskhat walad al-muʾallif ... wa-kāna naskh al-kitāb ... fī yawm al-aḥad wa-al-sābiʻ min Jumād al-awwal sanat khams wa-sabʻīn wa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. 9 November 1567] ʻalá yad afqar ShāhFor the Ṣaḥīḥ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 183.Commentary by an unidentified author on the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī, a collection of traditions of the prophet Muḥammad.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law, preceded by a fihrist on leaf 1a.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 9.Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in naskh and nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Numerous replacements of full or partial leaves. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: Juzʼ 1 completed 2 Shawwāl 940 H 16 April 1534, by Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Harawī (leaf 199b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي انطق السنتنا بحمده
Abstract: A commentary on the Jaʻfarīyah fī aḥkām al-ṣalāh by al-Muḥaqqiq al-Thānī. The text is incomplete at the beginning and end, breaking off in the 4th faṣl of the 4th bāb.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; spine repaired with red leather.Ms. codex.Fore edge title.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining and a few repairs.Origin: Possibly 17th century.Incipit (leaf 6b, line 17): و اما الابواب فاربعة الباب الاول فى الطهارة وهي في اللغة النزاهة قال الله تعالى يا مريم ان الله اصطفيك و طهرك
Contents: 1. fol. 1b-16a: Response to a question concerning Islamic doctrine.Contents: 2. fol. 16b-17b: Fragment of a text on Islamic doctrine.Contents: 3. fol. 18a: Page of an Arabic text with interlinear Malay translation.Contents: 4. fol. 18b-23b: Fragment of a text on Sufism.Contents: 5. fol. 24a: Page of an Arabic text with interlinear Malay translation.Contents: 6. fol. 24b-49b: Text on Sufism.Contents: 7. fol. 50a-63b: Fragments of various text in Malay and Arabic.Ms. codex.Leaf 1a appears to be the end of another text, but it is nearly illegible.Physical description: 7-33 lines per page. Written in naskh on unglazed indigenous paper. Some marginal notations; occasional use of red ink for headings. The paper is slightly worm damaged, particularly in the gutter and top and bottom margins, but text is not affected. Fol. 1a appears to be the end of another text, but it is nearly illegible.
Abstract: "Contains two commentaries on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīnAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Limp black leather with brown leather doublures.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-232b: al-Mujallad al-awwal min Hidāyat al-mustarshidīn ilá uṣūl Maʻālim al-dīn.Contents: 2. fol. 235a-264b: Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Maʻālim al-dīn.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 24 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on wove paper. Text 1 has rubrication; in text 2 spaces left for rubrication are not filled in. Catchwords. A few leaves are detached; first few and last few leaves are brittle and ragged. Occasional staining.Origin: First half of 19th century.
Abstract: "Part of a commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's al-Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻAbstract: comprising Kitāb al-ṭahārah (leaves 1b-101a) through Kitāb al-ṣalāh (leaves 101a-271a)."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; orange paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 271a.Physical description: 27 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and a few repairs.Origin: 1194 H 1780 (leaf 271a).Incipit: الحمد لله ... کتاب الطهارة و ارکانه اربعة الاول فى المىاه
Abstract: Autograph copy of selections from Kitāb al-Bukhalāʼ of al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (d. 463/1071).Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page (partly erased).17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Dark cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible. On fol. 1a: Title ; several inscriptions. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Autograph, dated Damascus, 25 Ṣafar 736 (colophon, fol. 8a).Incipit: بسم ... اخبرنا الشيخ عز الدين ابو الغر عبد العزيز بن عبد المنعم ... الحرانى التاجر بقراتى عليه بظاهر القاهرةExplicit: قالوا كيف يا رسول الله قال انما مال احدكم ما قدّم ومال وارثه ما اخّر
Abstract: Portions of a commentary on a work of Zaydi fiqh.Contents.المنتزع المختار من الغيث المدرار المعروف بشرح الأزهارجيده ولكنه بدون غلاف وهو ناقص من البداية والوسط والنهاية وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وعليه حواشٍ كثيرةIncipit: من كتاب الصلاة باب سجود السهوهذه الشروط الثلاثه افسدت واختلف في حد الكثير فقيل هو ما زاد على تسع تسبيحات...Explicit: واما حكمهن فى العده ونفقتها فسياتي ذلك في العده انشا الله تعالى فصل في حكم الحلف بالطلاق ولا يجوز التحليف بهA collection of pages of the work, without a cover. Persian naskh script, written in black and red ink. Frequent marginalia.21 lines.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in India? Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords. Naskh; 15 lines in written area 15 x 9 cm. Folio 1b-119b. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: brown leather, spine repaired, rebacked in Morocco leather. With: Kirmānī, Muḥammad Karīm Khān. Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Sulṭānīyah. Bumbay : Dādūmiyān Dahāyilī, 1277 [1861]. Bound together subsequent to publication.Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Manuscript. Turkish (Arabic script) and Persian. Title from bottom edge. Name of scribe not indicated Probably written in Turkey. Paper: very light cream-color polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate floral unvan in blue, gold and red; text enclosed in a fine ruled border of black and gold ink; rubrication with overlining; few marginal corrections; catchwords on rectos. Naskh; 23 lines in written area 16.5 x 7.5 cm. Fol. 1b-378b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M77?. Contemporary reddish-brown polished binding with gold medallions and borders front and back. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.Manuscript.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Place of writing not determined; probably Iran or Turkey. Paper; light cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue and red; text enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold; numerous illustrations; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords. Naskh; 21 lines in written area 17 x 8.5 cm. Numerous illustrations and tables on fol. 2-19; some small illustrations in body of text. Fol. 2b-238a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, [unnumbered]. Modern dark brown leather binding. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.Manuscript.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; spine repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 10.Physical description: 13-17 lines per page; written in naskh in black by different hands on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.Origin: First half copied by Luṭf Allāh ibn al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jazāʻirī (leaf 103). Second half mostly copied by the same scribe, but completed 11 Ṣafar 1060 H 13 February 1650 by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Qāsim ibn Muʻīn ... al-Ḥīnāwī al-Jazāʼirī (leaf 216b).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on aromatic substances. Incomplete at end and beginning.Binding note: Blue cardboard.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-12b: Kitāb al-Ṭīb / li-Abī al-Ḥasan al-Khāzin.Contents: 2. fol. 13a-26b: Kitāb Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh fī jawāhir al-ṭīb al-mufradah bi-asmāʾihā wa-ṣifātihā wa-maʻādinihā / Ibn Māsawayh.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown). Thick soft dark cream paper with chain lines and pulp visible. The edges of the paper are not trimmed. Stained with dampness. Mildewed.Origin: According to colophon of first text, this was copied on Monday 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 590 April 4, 1194 (fol. 12a).
Abstract: A fragmentary, unknown work on Islamic theology, perhaps a commentary.Contents.كتاب مجهول في علم الكلامOwnership note by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī. Includes two fragments on theology and the end, with a fragment of poetry.عبارة عن اثنا عشر ورقة في علم الكلام مكتوبة بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وهي مجهولة العنوان ويلاحظ اختلاف نوع الأوراق الأخيرة عن أوراق بداية المخطوطIncipit: بينهما مفارقَا في الجمله وهو التفارق في الجانب الاخر فاعم واخص مطلقا فالصادق على كل ما يصدق عليه الاخر اعم مطلقا...Explicit: وهذا هو اللازم الذهني المعتبر في الدلاله الالتزاميه على ما مرت كون الاثنين ضعفاً للواحد فان من تصور الاثنين ادراكPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink. Defective beginning and ending. Two different types of paper used in the manuscript.22-24 lines.صفحتان من كتاب الثلاثين المسألة. لقطة رقم (20-21). بيت شعري. لقطة رقم (22) وهو في التضرع إلى الله: هذِ الارامل قد قضيت حاجتها...فمن لحاجة هذا الأرمل الذكر.
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite law.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-32b: Masāʼil wa-rasāʼil min Muhannā ibn Sinān / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.Contents: 2. fol. 32b-33a: Ijāzah for Muhannā ibn Sinān / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.Contents: 3. fol. 33b-36b: Ajwibat masāʼil Muhannā ibn Sinān / Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn.Contents: 4. fol. 37b-69b: Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī al-jamʻ bayna al-ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir / Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥillī.Contents: 5. fol. 70b-93b: Manbaʻ al-ḥayāh fī ḥujjīyat qawl al-mujtahid min al-amwāt / Niʻmat Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Jazāʼirī.Contents: 6. fol. 94b-177b: Ghunyah / Ḥamzah ibn ʻAlī ibn Zuhrah.Ms. codex.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the fourth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Some damp-staining and a few repairs. Covers are detached.Origin: 19th century.
Manuscript. Persian Title from pasted label on cover. Scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper: lined notebook paper, lines running vertically to the text; black ink. Text breaks off after the first line of "al-bāb al-awwal min al-wāḥid al-rābiʻ." Naskh; 17 lines in written area approximately 15.5 x 11.5 cm. 165 pages. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M5. Contemporary blue cardboard binding with black leather spine. With a small manuscript fragment 19 x 12.5 cm, 16 pages (25-28 lines), in very small nastaʻliq script. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Incipit: بسم الامنع الاقدس Explicit/Colophon: في ان للنقطة مقامين مقام ينطق عن الله ومقام ينطق عما دون الله ذلك مقامManuscript.
Manuscript. Persian. Title based on comparison with printed edtions. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Turkey. Papaer; light cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; text enclosed in and divided by single red lines; gold unwan; black ink with section headings in red ink; catchwords. Manuscript appears to be unfinished as section titles end at the first section on fol. 17a; blank section dividision title box blank through the rest of the work. Naskh; 17 lines in written area 12.3 x 6.7 cm. Fol. 1b-29a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M129. Contemporary deep red morocco Turkish binding with gold borders and center gold medallion. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.Manuscript.
Abstract: A commentary on an unknown work on several topics in Arabic grammar, including declension and syntax.شرح كتاب مجهول في النحوIncludes several fragments on various topics, among them an excerpt from the Kitāb al-Asās.مبتور الأول والآخر ، عبارة عن مجموعة أوراق كبيرة الحجم كتبت بالمداد الأسود والأحمر ، وبه بعض الحواشي في الهامش وما بين السطورIncipit: في الدار وأزيدٌ قايمٌ ولعل بكراً حاضرٌ وليت عمراً عندنا...وتسمَّى جملة اسمية او في فعلٍ واسم كذلك كضرب زيدٌ وضُرِبَ بكرٌ ...Explicit: كقوله دعتني أخاها أمُّ عمرو ولم أكُنْ أخاها ولم أرضع لها بلبان...من الامر ما لا يفعل الأخوان أي أثبتت عليَّ من الحقوق ما لا تفعل الاخت باخيها أراد الاخ والاخت فقال الأخوانإلى هنا انتهى الموجودPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink. Defective fragment, missing beginning and end. Unbound. Several interstitial and marginal supercommentary notes.24-28 lines.صفحتان من الفوائد تحتوي على نقول في الأصول والحديث وأبيات شعرية منها فائدة في حصر الثلاثين المسألة ونقول من كتاب الأساس
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: Description in part based on Savage-Smith, E. and Rapoport, Y. (2013), An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe, pp. 2-4.
Treatise on mysticism in question-and-answer form. Treatise attributes origins of the headgear to the Prophet Muḥammad.Missing pages at the end.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) ; Şerh-i Cezîretü'l-mesnevî / Ahmed Meknî (ff. 10v.-100r) ; Hall-i ebyât-ı müşkilât-ı Celâleddin Rûmî (ff. 101r-107r).According to the 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 ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Qayṣarī.MS Turk 53. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.
Book of predictions organized on monthly basis. Some months omitted in this copy.Title of book on f. 1r added by later hand.According to colophon (f. 18r), copy completed at the beginning of Shawwāl 841 AH [April 1438 AD] in the hand of Yūnus ibn Saqqā.With: Rûz-nâme (ff. 18v-21v).One folio missing at the beginning.17 x 12.8 cm (13.5 x 9 cm).Light-cream laid paper. Folios 14-16 worm-eaten.Written in vocalized naskh, in one column, 11 lines per pages, in black rubricated in red. Words at beginning of sentences either in red or red overlined.MS Turk 13. 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).
Origin: As appears in authorial colophon on p.24, composition (and transcription?) of opening work completed 10 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1075 [ca. 25 May 1665]. As appears in colophon on p.79, composition of second work completed 19 Muḥarram 932 [ca. 5 November 1525] with transcription of this copy likely contemporary or completed shortly after given collation statements in the hand of the author.Former shelfmark: "۷۷" on pasted label affixed to upper cover ; "491 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis] on back flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered (faced) in a dark red, coated paper with dark brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap, two-piece with overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a spring-green surface-dyed, coated wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-painted rule-border ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, good condition (protected by extended spine leather) ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, etc.Support: European and non-European laid papers ; opening work on European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal), and sturdy, medium cream in color, quite well-burnished ; second work on a non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct) and chain lines grouped in threes with 13-14 mm. between chains and roughly 38 mm. between groups, quite sturdy, fairly thick, and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords and some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; two main hands, distinct hand for each work ; opening work in a clear naskh, virtually serifless, with slight effect of tilt to the right and left, quite rounded with some elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders, and pointing in distinct dots ; second work in a clear but larger and more spacious naskh, written in quite a thin line, virtually serifless displaying an open and horizontal character (elongated in the horizontal), with curvilinear but somewhat flattened descenders, kāf mashqūqah preferred, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 29 and 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V (10), V-1 (19), V (29), ii ; exclusively quinions (one anomalous) ; catchwords present ; quire numbering in the form of whole words in the upper outer corner of the recto of the opening leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [Maslak al-iʻtidāl] "Authorial," reads: "قال المؤلف ابراهيم بن حسن الكوراني سامحه الله تعالى تم يوم الثلثا عشار ذي القعدة سنه ۱۰۷٥" ; [ Sharḥ Naẓm al-durar fī muwāfaqāt ʻUmar] ; "Authorial," reads: "قال مؤلفه هذا اخر ما قصدنا ايراده من هذا الكتاب المبارك النافع ان شاء الله تعالى وكان الفراغ من تأليفه يوم الاثنين وقت الظهر تاسع عشر شهر الله المحرم الحرام عام اثنين وثلاثين وتسعمائة ... ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم"Explicit: [Maslak al-iʻtidāl] "اقتضت الحكمة اظهارها جودا ورحمة وبالله التوفيق ولي النعمة والحمد لله رب العالمين قال المؤلف ابراهيم بن حسن الكوراني سامحه الله تعالى تم يوم الثلاثا عاشر ذي القعدة سنه ۱۰۷٥" ; [ Sharḥ Naẓm al-durar fī muwāfaqāt ʻUmar] "توفي سنة خمس وخمسين على اختلاف في وفاته عن ثلاث وسبعين ينة واكثر وقيل جاوز الثمانين رضي الله عنهم اجمعين وحسبنا الله اي كافينا ونعم الوكيل اي الحافظ"Incipit: [Maslak al-iʻtidāl] "الحمد لله الذي هدى الى توحيد الافعال في عين اثبات الكسب للعبد باذن الله العزيز الحكيم ... اما بعد فهذا بتوفيق الله مسلك الاعتدال الى فهم آية خلق الاعمال ينكشف فيه ان شاء الله اثبات الكسب للعبد باذن الله في عين توحيد الافعال ويظهر منه اختلال ما جرى عليه صاحب الكشاف بنا على قواعد الاعتزال ..." ; [ Sharḥ Naẓm al-durar fī muwāfaqāt ʻUmar] "الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستغفره ونستهديه ونؤمن به ونتوكل عليه ونسأله الخير كله ... وبعد فهذا تعليق على قصيدتي التي جمعت فيها موافقات امير المؤمنين عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه المسماة بنظم الدرر في موافقات عمر يبين مرادها ويتمم مفادها اجابة لسؤال من سألني في ذلك ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.4. p.80 : [brief excerpt being a copy of a legal question raised before Ebusuud Efendi (d.1574) and the response].3. p.25-p.79 : Sharḥ Naẓm al-durar fī muwāfaqāt ʻUmar / Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzī.2. p.5-p.24 : Maslak al-iʻtidāl ilá fahm āyat khalq al-aʻmāl / Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan al-Kūrānī.1. p.1-p.4 : [blank].Careful copy of a work on divine determination of human action by Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhim ibn Ḥasan ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Kūrānī al-Shahrizūrī thumma al-Madanī (d.1690) followed by a commentary by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzī (d.1577) on his own Naẓm al-durar fī muwāfaqāt ʻUmar.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1022Origin: As appears in colophon on p.489, copied by Ibn ʻAynī Aznāwī [Aznāvī] with transcription completed 5 Jumādá II 1053 [ca. 21 August 1643].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 171Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry border and diagonal lines intersecting the center of the panel in blind rules ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and lavender, fairly good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, losses to boards, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and occasional chain lines visible, though all rather indistinct ; well-burnished to glossy, fairly crisp though sturdy, cloudy formation with bundles of fibers visible, light brown in color, some leaves quite thin and transluscent ; opening two replacement leaves in European laid paper.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated (text to be entered in red provided in margins, occasionally visible and otherwise cut off) ; textual dividers in the form of hāʼ or numeral khamsah in red.Script: Naskh ; spacious, elegant Persianate hand in a thin line ; mainly serifless (though left-sloping head-serif occasionally appears) with elongation of horizontal strokes, fairly vertical ascenders, curvilinear descenders, adhering to baseline, freely ligatured, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, final yāʼ unpointed, wide, open bowl of final nūn with point set down in, spacious open counters of ṭāʼ, ṣāḍ, etc. ; replacement leaves at opening in a large, bold naskh, seriffed (though somewhat irreguarly) with left-sloping head-serifs on most ascenders (even occasional free-standing alif), quite rounded with curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV-2+2 (8), 9 IV(80), III (86), 11 IV(174), III+1 (181), 8 IV(245) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "وتشرف بتسويد كاغده اقل العباد بل لاشيء في الحقيقة الفقير الحقير الى الله ابن عيني ازناوي غفر الله لهما وللمؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات بمنه وكرمه يوم السبت الخميس شهر جمادى الثاني سنة ثلاث وخمسين والف من الهجرة النبوية المصطوفية"Explicit: "ويختص ضمانها بالجناية على الآدمي حسب فهذا ما اردنا ذكره وقصدنا حصره مختصرين مطوله محررين محصله ونسأل الله ان يجعلنا ممن شكر عمله وغفر زلله وجعل الجنة منقبله [منقله] انه لا يخيب من سأله ولا يحرم من امله"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي صغرت في عظمته عبادة العابدين وحصرت عن شكر نعمة السنة الحامدين ... اما بعد فاني مورد لك في هذا المختصر خلاصة المذهب المعتبر بالفاظ محبرة وعبارة [عبارات] محررة تظرفك بنخبه وتوصلك الى شعبه مقتصرا على ما بان لي سبيله ووضح لي دليله ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the author's abridgment of his own Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām, recognized as the authoritative work on Shīʻī law.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 610Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.119a-119b (p.237-238) copied by Khiḍr ibn Yūsuf al-Nābulusī al-ʻAqrabānī for his brother al-Ḥājj Muḥammad al-Khayyāṭ. Transcription finished ("wāfaqa al-farāgh min naskh hādhā al-ḥikam...istiktāban...") Sunday the last day of Rajab 1208 [ca. 3 March 1794].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on interior of upper cover, "IL 105c" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown and cream mottled paper with red leather over spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins (leather edged / leather framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; interior of envelope flap in same brown and cream decorative paper ; interior of fore edge flap in dark brown cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in laid European paper with partial watermark ("FF . PA") ; in good condition.Support: European laid paper with laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 25-30 mm. apart ; countermark "C S" visible in fol.5, fol.102, etc. ; flyleaves and pastedowns in a different European laid paper (chain lines running vertically and spaced roughly 30 mm. apart) with partial watermark or counter mark "FF . PA" ; final singulon appears to be of still a different European laid paper with chain lines running vertically and spaced 25-28 mm. and laid lines spaced roughly 7-8 laid lines per cm., cresent watermark in fol.199.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red discs ; text rubricated with section headings in red.Script: Naskh ; Syrian (?) hand ; virtually serifless ; strong horizontal character.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 10 V(100), VI (112), III (118), I (120), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied in cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular and triangular, reads: "وافق الفراغ من نسخ هذه الحكم يوم الاحد سلخ رجب الحرام المبارك الذي هو من شهور سنة ثمان وميتين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازكى السلام واسنى التحية على يد كاتبها الحقير الكسير الفاني خضر بن يوسف النابلسي العقرباني استكتابا الى اخيه الحاج محمد الخياط جعل في حفظ الاسباط آمين آمين والحمد لله رب العالمين عامله الله بالطافه الخفية وثبت جنانه على هذه الملة الحنفية وسلك به طريق الاسعار وبلغه اقصى المرار الحمد لولي الحمد حمدا يفوق حمد الحامدين على ممر السنين والشهور والايام والساعات وابد الابدين وسلم تسليما كثيرا الى يوم الدين الحمد لله رب العالمين آمين م م م"Explicit: "وما تحقق العارف بنيل المقام وسلم تسليما كثيرا على ممر الايام امين امين امين والحمد لله رب العالمين "Incipit: "وهو حسبي وعليه اتوكل وفوضت الامر اليه فالتفويض للعبد اجمل ... وبعد فهذه نبذة يسيرة من المعارف والحكم"Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Collection of pithy wise sayings and prayers. Description provided by Alison Vacca.
Abstract: "Part two of a supercommentary on Zamakhsharī's Qur'anic commentaryAbstract: beginning with surat Yūnus and ending with surat al-Nās."Title from title page.Title from edge of the manuscript; contents.كان تمام القراءه لذلك مع قراءة الكشاف بين عصري ذلك اليوم المذكور يوم الأحد لخمس ليالٍ بقيت من شهر صفر المظفر من سنة 1081هـسلخ صفر سنة 743هـالجزء الثانى من كشف الكشاف المفجر ينابيع المعانى العذبه الارتشاف/ للشيخ الامام العلامه المحقق ابى حفص عمر بن عبدالرحمن المدعو بسّراجBrockelmann, S I 508. Text composed August 1342. Reading note, dated 1670. Numerous ownership notes, dating from 1823 to 1922.ممتازة، وهو عبارة عن مجلد مغلف بقماش تم كتابة المخطوط بالمداد الأسود والأحمر حيث أن كتابة بعض الكلمات وبعض العناوين بالمداد الأحمر والباقي بالمداد الأسود، وأيضاً عليه بعض الحواشي الصغيره بالمداد الأسود، خطه نسخي مع فارسي صغير الحجمظهر يوم الأحد لخمس ليالٍ بقيت من شهر صفر المظفر من سنة 1081هـ25/صفر/سنة1081هـIncipit: سورَة يونس عَليه السلامْ بسم الله...قوله ذو الحكمة لاشتمالهِ عليهَا ارَاد انه مِن بابِ؟ عيشه راضية...Explicit: قوله عَلىَ بَاب اجيَادَ غير منصرفٍ جبَل او وادٍ سمِّي بذلك لان جيَادَ خيلِ تُبَّعٍ...فهَذَا مَا قَصدتْ ايرادَه في هذِه السُّطور مَع اعترافي في كِل امرٍ بالقصور...وَتَضوَّعَ عَرْفُ العُرْفِ عَن التوجهِ الىَ الوَجوه الصِبَاحُ...Naskh and Persian naskh script, written in black and red ink.39 lines.1- دعاء أوله: رب أدخلني مدخل صدق وأخرجني مخرج صدق.
Abstract: Commentary on al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah, a work on logic by Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī (d. 675/1277), preceded on fol. 2-9 by a gloss on the introduction (khuṭbah) of the commentary by Walī al-Dīn al-Qaramānī (see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3217), written by another hand. The identity of the author of the second text is not clear. ʻAlī al-Samarqandī, thumma al-Qaramānī al-Ḥanafī (d. ca. 860/1456) has a Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah, but his laqab is ʻAlaʼ al-Dīn, and not Walī al-Dīn (see Kaḥḥālah, vol. 7, 261).Binding note: Red and black paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-9a: Sharḥ Khuṭbat Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah lil-ʻallāmah / li-baʻḍ al-fuḍalāʼ added in another hand.Contents: 2. fol. 10a-: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah / min taṣnīf Mawlānā al-ʻallāmah Saʻd al-Millah wa-al-Dīn al-Taftazānī.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1a (later addition).Fol. 2-9 (text 1) written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red to surline the commented text, with 19 lines per page (written surface: 125 x 87 mm.), on soft cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 10-121 (text 2) written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 21 lines per page (written surface: 140 x 88 mm.), on cream paper with laid and chain lines, and pulp visible. Some leaves are later replacements (see fol. 29). Verses of poetry on the title page of text 2 (fol. 10a). Fāʼidah (5 lines) by another hand at the end of text 2 (fol. 121b).Copy of text 2 completed on 28 ("thāmin" added in the margin) Jumādá al-Thānī 841 Dec. 1437 (colophon, fol. 121b).Collation: Paper, fol. 123 ; i (later free endpaper on glazed European paper, with inscription ; fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 1⁸ (text 1) 2-11¹⁰ 12¹² + ii (later free endpaper on glazed European paper with watermark, with inscription on the first recto) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf from the second quire on.Incipit text 1 (fol. 2b): الحمد لله العلي الفياض المنزه افعاله عن العلل والاغراض ... وبعد فهذه تحفة مزجاة الى طلّاب كل زمان ... قال الشارح ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم مستعنيا به او متبركا لهExplicit text 1 (fol. 8b): والايات اعم مطلقا من ذلك اى من المعجز ... نعم ان اريد بالايات ايات القران فهو اخص مطلقا من المعجزات هذا آخر ما ارادنا ايراده وبالله التوفيق للاتمام والله اعلمIncipit text 2 (fol. 10b): الحمد لله الذى بصّرنا بنور الهداية والتوفيق ... وبعد فقد سالنى فرقة من خلّانى ورفقة من خلص اخواني ان اشرح لهم الرسالة الشمسية ... قال الحمد لله اقول لما انعم الله تع عليه بافاضة نفسه الناطقة المتجلية بالعلومExplicit text 2 (fol. 121b): والاعراض الذاتية فانّ الاستقصاء فيها مما لا يليق بهذا الكتاب تم الكتاب
Abstract: A work on hadith, asceticism, and morality prominent among Zaydis.Title from title page.1-بلغ قصاصته بحسب الطاقه والإمكان على غير الأم المنسوخ منها لقطة218& 2-بلغ قصاصته على الأم المنسوخ منها ولعلها منقوله من خط القاضي أحمد بن سعد الدين المسوري لقطة 223& 3- بلغ قصاصته...لقطة226.كتاب الاعتبار وسلوه العارفين/ تصنيف السيد الاجل الامام الموفق بالله ابن عبدالله الحسين بن اسمعيل الجرجاني المعروف بالشجرى الحسنىBrockelmann, S II 1004. Multiple reading and ownership notes. Includes numerous fragments, among them excerpts from the Shāfī by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamzah ibn Sulaymān, the Manāqib by Abū al-Qāsim al-Bustī, and the ʻAwāṣim by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr; fragments by ʻĀmir Muḥammad al-Dhamārī; a legal debate on inheritance possibly with imams al-Mutawakkil and al-Hādī; reports of prominent members of the family of Yaḥyá ibn Yaḥyá ibn al-Nāṣir; a story related from Kathīr ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Lakhmī by Muḥammad ibn ʻAqīl; a poem of moral exhortation by "al-Sayyid al-Waṣīyīn wa-Amīr al-Muʼminīn"; poetic fragments from the Maqāṭil al-Ṭālibīyīn by Abū al-Faraj; and a text by Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad al-Kibsī.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مجلد بغلاف كرتوني، عليه أثار بلل في بعض صفحاته وآثار معالجه تم كتابته بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأصفرالأثنين 7/ربيع الأول/1157هـIncipit: بسم الله ... وبه نستعين اخبرنا القاضى الاجل تقى الدين ابو محمد عبدالله بن محمد بن عبد الله بن حمزه بن ابى النجم قراه عليه بصعده ... قال حدثنا السيد الامام الموفق بالله ابو عبدالله الحسين بن اسمعيل بن زيد الحسنى الشجرى الجرجانى ... امّا بعد فقد سالت املا مختصر في المواعظ...Explicit: ومات عنده ولا عقد له على ما قيل ووى انه وجد فى رحله صحيفه فيها اسما الخلفا من بنى العباس . وسا فرد كتابا فى هذا الفن ان شا الله تعالى فانى ان شرعت فيه طال هذا الكتاب . تم كتاب السلوه بحمداللهNaskh and Persian naskh script, written in black, red and yellow ink. Some traces of water damage and repairs.25-34 lines.نقول من كتاب الشافي للإمام عبدالله بن حمزه ومن مناقب البستي وفوائد اخرى من خط القاضي عامر محمد الذماري صفحة العنوان لقطه3.1-سؤلات وردت على المتوكل على الله والمهدي لدين الله احمد بن الحسن؟ واجوبتهم عليها في المواريث...لقطة 218-219& 2- خبر نفيس مما اشتملت عليه خزائن الائمة والآمراء الكرام من ال يحي بن يحيى بن الناصر بن الحسن بن المعتضد بالله& وقصة رواها محمد بن عقيل عن كثير بن عبدالله اللخمي لقطة 220-223& 3-المنظومة الموعظة لسيد الوصيين وأمير المؤمنين كرم الله وجهه لقطة 224-226& 4-فائدة شعريه منقوله من الحدائق الوردية للقاسم بن إبراهيم يرثي أخاه محمد بن إبراهيم رواه الشيخ ابو الفرج في مقاتل الطالبيين لقطة 227& 5-نقول من كتاب العواصم لإبن الوزير+ ثلاثة أبيات شعرية لقطة 228& -وصية مخدوشة ليحيى بن احمد بن علي الكبسي لقطة229& 7-اسئلة حول الميراث وردت على المتوكل على الله يحيى شرف الدين وغيره واجوبتهم عليها لقطة230& 8-نقول متفرقة بخط ضعيف لقطة 231-232.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 860 v.8Origin: As appears in colophon on p.279, transcription completed 12 Jumādá I 1095 [ca. 27 April 1684] (where numeral khamsah looks like reverse B).Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- b. Scrap with inscription in ink describing contents "Rawḍat al-Safā vol. 6 [crossed through] 8 A.H. 1089" -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes".Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 9 v.8Binding: Boards covered in light brown leather perhaps once decorated in "marbled calf" manner ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a dark blue wove paper ; spine in dark green and brown leather, gold-stamped with decorative bands and title "ROOZUT OL SUFA 8" ; edges of text block red-flecked ; sewn in white thread over four recessed cords ; worked Western style endbands, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition though with deterioration of treated leather, joints splitting, etc. ; repairs to joints in light brown leather.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper of two main types ; opening (through p.98) in a type with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct) and single chain lines occasionally visible, thin and transluscent though quite sturdy, buff to beige in color, well-burnished ; thereafter (p.98 to close) in a type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat distinct) and single chain lines faintly visible, cloudy formation, somewhat thick, sturdy, burnished, beige in color ; some pest damage, staining and tide lines.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq ; two elegant and compact Persianate hands ; opening through p.98 in naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, closed and open counters ; p.99 to close in fine nastaʻlīq, serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 23 and 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 IV(48), IV-1 (55), 5 IV(95), IV-1 (102), 4 IV(134), IV-3 (139), ii ; exclusively quaternions ; quite tightly bound with sewing difficult to examine but middle of the quire marks in the form of black oblique strokes appear in the four outer corners of the central opening of each gathering ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inner flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "السلام تاریخ شد تمام بتاریخ ١٢ شهر جمادى الاول سنه ١٠٩٥"Explicit: "سیر فلک یاد بکامش مدام نامه امید بنامش تمام"Incipit: "خاتمه در بدایع و صنایع و آنچه نکاشته کلک قدرت اوست ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.4.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the eighth volume or Khātimah of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by the Tīmūrid historian Muḥammad ibn Khvāndshāh Mīr Khvānd (d.1498) and completed by his nephew Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Khvāndamīr (d.1535).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 120Origin: As appears on p.201, transcription of Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʼsīs likely completed in 878 [1473 or 4]. Paper throughout certainly suggests 15th century.Accompanying materials: Several inserted slips wtih notes, geometric diagrams, etc. (paginated pp.169-170, pp.171-172, pp.181-182, pp.183-184, pp.195-196, pp.217-218).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 148. Al-Mulakhkhas & Ashkal al-tasis." ; "٤٤٨" on tail edge.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather (interesting grain) ; perhaps Type II binding (with flap, though now lost [?]) ; board linings in laid paper over marbled paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped, scalloped mandorla filled with floral vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OSv 1) ; sewn mainly in blue thread, two stations, with repaired sections in white thread, four stations ; worked endbands in light blue, in very poor condition and nearly lost ; overall in poor condition with flap entirely lost [?], severe moisture damage, much abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; repair to spine in red leather ; ill-fitting and perhaps not original to codex.Support: non-European laid paper with 20 laid lines in 22-23 mm. (vertical) ; chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes with 9-12 mm. between the chains and 47-48 between the groups ; staining and severe moisture damage (often obscuring text) ; occasional repairs.Decoration: Keywords, abbreviations, and some notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas and overlining in red ink ; numerous diagrams mainly in red ink.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; several hands ; first work supplied in a nastaʻlīq, sparsely pointed, virtually serifless and freely ligatured, with mainly closed counters, effect of words descending to baseline, and elongation of horizontal strokes ; Sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs in naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq, virtually serifless.Layout: Written in 19-25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 V(60), IV-2 (66), III-2 (70), 2 V(90), II (94), III (100), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (occasionally lacking) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves ; skips from p.184 to p.187).Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل الشمس ضياء والقمر نورا ... وبعد فلا اقسم بمواقع النجوم ... الحمد هو الثناء باللسان على الجميل ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.8. p.203-p.215 : Matn Ashkāl al-taʼsīs / Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarqandī.7. p.202 : [originally blank, now carries diagram, etc.].6. p.143-201 : [Sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs fī ʻilm al-handasah] / Qāḍīʹzādah.5. p.140-p.142 : [blank].4. p.136-p.139 : [brief treatise].3. p.133-135 : [blank].2. p.129-p.132 : [assorted tables (jadāwil)].1. p.4-p.128 : Sharḥ al-Jighmīnī / Qāḍīʹzādah.Fine copy of two commentaries by Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qāḍīʼzādah al-Rūmī (d. ca. 1436), the first on Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī's (d. 1221?) al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah on astronomy and the latter on Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, selected theorems from Euclid's Elements by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarqandī (13th cent.). Accompanied by assorted astronomical tables, another brief treatise, and the matn of al-Samarqandī's Ashkāl al-taʼsīs.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 463 v.3Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest late 16th century (around 1580 as with sections of Isl. Ms. 463 v.2 copied on similar anchor in circle marked paper).Accompanying materials: Insert with glosses paginated pp.15-16.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, "IL 91 III" (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) ; lower cover carries traces of scalloped mandorla now covered by cloth ; board linings in dull yellow paper ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and dull pink, good condition ; overall in poor condition with lifting and losses of cloth (particularly at spine), abrasion, staining, some curvature and spine slant, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of two main types ; opening type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle with star above watermark (see p.32, etc.), sturdy, fairly thick and crisp, well-burnished ; another type (from p.323 to close) with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29-30 mm. apart (horizontal), crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.338, 334, etc.), and "ZA" under trefoil countermark (see p.336, etc.), well-burnished, fairly thick and sturdy.Decoration: Keywords, abbreviation symbols (mainly two teeth stroke above notable words), and section headings rubricated ; overlining in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least four Turkish / 'Syrian' hands ; opening hand through p.119 compact and virtually serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; pp.120-322 in a smaller, more compact hand, virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, quite freely ligatured with pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; p.323 to close in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik) and a sweeping naskh.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page.Collation: iii, IV (8), III (14), 4 V(54), I (56), 9 V(146), VI (158), II (162), 8 V(242), IV (250), ii ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals from p.323 (Sūrat al-Anʻām) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert with glosses).Explicit: "نزلت مرة اخرى جملة واحدة صح ان يقال انها نزلت جملة واحدة والله اعلم تمت سورة الانعام بعون الله الملك العلام ولي الانعام الحمد لله وحده والصلوة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم"Incipit: "الكافرون اهل الحرب لقوله تعا انما جزاء الذين يحاربون الله ورسوله ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful copy of the third 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 Āl ʻUmrān (3) through Sūrat al-Anʻām (6).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 448Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, hand, paper, etc. would suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: Slip of wove paper with notes in pencil "448 (Kasidat) al-Burdah Poem by al-Busiri 16th cent."Former shelfmark: "239 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf ; "122" inscribed in pencil on 'title page.'Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and narrow hinges in pale orange laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry central rectangular panel filled with gold-tooled and painted semé pattern as well as further accents in gold-tooled rosettes and border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps with flanking gold-painted fillets ; now sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition ; overall in good condition minor abrasion, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persianate) laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat distinct) and occasional single chain line visible, thick and sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; flyleaves and added leaves in European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of bird with "G B" below ; much staining and tidelines.Decoration: Exquisite (though damaged) frontispiece consisting of a double-page illumination carries the opening verses and elucidation in Persian set-off by cloud-bands, with adjacent scalloped triangular piece (or hasp), elaborate borders (outermost accented with perpendicular stalks [tīgh]), and upper and lower panels all carrying swirling vegetal design in shades of red, blue, lavender, green, white, and gold on fields of black, gold, and lapis lazuli ; written area throughout surrounded by frame in gold and green bands with outermost blue rule ; text of the Burdah mainly chrysographed, with some lines in blue ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes set off each hemistich ; illuminated floral decoration flanks elucidation in Persian.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Persianate and Turkish hands ; text of Burdah in a fine Persianate naskh, serifless, with curvilinear descenders and pointing in distinct dots, vocalized ; text of Persian elucidation in a fine nastaʻlīq with characteristic descent of words to baseline and elongation of horizontal strokes ; marginal Turkish elucidation in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik).Layout: Written in 12 lines per page with 6 additional lines of the Turkish elucidation on the diagonal in the outer margin ; three verses of the poem in 6 lines (filling the column width) with each saṭr and ʻajuz to a line) and elucidation in 6 lines (four on the diagonal, two horizontal but centered).Collation: ii, IV-1+1 (8), 2 IV(24), II+2 (30), ii ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present.Explicit: " ... واطرب العيس حادي العين بالنغم ... تا برانند اشترانرا بنده گان پر نغم ... اشترمتسه طرب ويردكجه تأثير نغم تم الترجمة بالخير م م"Incipit: "امن تذكر جيران بذي سلم مزجت دمعا جرى من مقلة بدم ای زیاد صحبت یارانت اندر ذی سلم اشک چشم امیختی با خون روان گرده بهم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Būṣīrī's poem in praise of the Prophet accompanied by elucidation in Persian and Turkish.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 139Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Dated study/reading note on p.151 provides a terminus ante quem of 5 Ramaḍān 1045 [ca. 12 February 1636]. Paper suggests late 15th century, turn of the 16th century and late 16th century.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 68. Alfiyah, Misbah, Miat Amil, & Izhar." ; "٥٩۱" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi 4) ; flap in different design with gold-painted red leather onlays ; sewn in light pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands, quite soiled but intact ; overall in poor condition with abrasion, lifting of leather, delamination of boards, warping in textblock, etc. ; repairs in various leathers (brown, tan, red, etc.).Support: European laid paper of several types ; one type with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), bird [?] on triple mount in circle watermark ; another type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), anchor in circle with star above [?] (compare Piccard no.119016) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 31-32 mm. apart (horizontal), bull's head with eyes and mouth, 5-lobed flower on rod above ; still another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (vertical), lion passant above a tied bow (ribbon).Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbrevation symbols rubricated ; written area surrounded by red-rule border (including margins) ; simple headpiece (ʻunwān) in red ink on p.268, carries title.Script: Nastaʻlīq, naskh-nastaʻlīq and naskh ; several hands ; extensively vocalized.Layout: Written in 7 [al-Kāfiyah], 11 [al-Miṣbāḥ], 7 [al-ʻAwāmil] and 11-13 [al-Iẓhār] lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 5 V(50), IV (58), V (68), III (74), 4 V(114), IV (122), III+3 (131), I (133), 1 (134), IX (152), V (162), VI (174) ; catchwords mainly present (absent or cutoff in al-ʻAwāmil) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.157-158 and pp.121-122).Incipit: "الكلمة لفظ وضع لمعنى مفرد وهي اسم وفعل وحرف ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.8. p.344-p.346 : [originally left blank].7. p.268-p.343 : [Iẓhār al-asrār] / Birgevi Mehmet Efendi.6. p.261-p.267 : [originally left blank].5. p.228-p.260 : [al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah] / ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jurjānī.4. p.226-p.227 : [originally left blank].3. p.152-p.225 : [al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw] / Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid al-Muṭarrizī.2. p.150-p.151 : [originally left blank].1. p.4-p.149 : [al-Kāfiyah] / Jamāl al-Dīn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib.Fine multi-work codex containing several works on grammar, namely the Kāfiyah of Ibn al-Ḥājib, the Miṣbāḥ of al-Muṭarrizī, al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah [Miʼat ʻāmil] of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jurjānī, and Iẓhār al-asrār of Birgevi Mehmet Efendi.
Abstract: Two volumes of the chronicles of Ibn Kathīr (see title in red on the first fol. of vol. 2, reading: "al-mujallad al-sādis "dis" crossed out biʻ min sanah 278 ilá sanah 465" ; however, on fol. 2a of the same volume, title reading: "al-mujallad al-ḥādī ʻashar crossed out in purple, with correction reading: "al-sābiʻ" min Tārīkh Ibn Kathīr"). The first volume begins with part of the year 96 H. 714-715 and closes with the year 241 H. 855-856. The second volume begins with the year 278 891-892 and closes with the year 465 H. 1072-1073. The first volume is incomplete at the beginning. At the end of vol. 2, on fol. 204b-205b, inscriptions and one excerpt from ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by al-Qazwīnī.Binding note: Both volume have a similar modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from notes on vol. 2, fol. 2a.Vol. 1 written in medium small casual naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, with 27 lines per page (written surface: 203 x 130 mm.), on light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. The paper has been frame-ruled. The quires of vol. 1 are numbered using Arabic ordinals and numerals, starting with "Rābiʻ 4" on fol. 18a. Some leaves are missing, e.g. central bifolio of the fifth quire (between fol. 31 and 32), two bifol. in the sixth quire, etc. Worm-eaten. Fragile.Vol. 2 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and punctuation, with 25 lines per page (written surface: 192 x 140 mm.), on light cream paper with laid lines, chain lines, and pulp visible. The paper has been frame-ruled. Fol. 2-15a are later replacements on glazed European paper (corners wanting on fol. 2-7; fol. 15 pasted on the recto of an original leaf). On fol. 15b begins the original text, with a basmalah. On fol. 1a, note quoting al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī on seven --- in Babylon.Copy of vol. 1 completed in the beginning (mustahall) of Shawwāl 889 Oct. 1484 (colophon, fol. 221b).Beginning vol. 1 as extant:فاخبرني به والا ضربت الذي فيه عيناك فقال نعم يا امير المومنين كنت رجلا جمالا فبينما انا ... 2أ ... خلافة سليمان بن عبد الملكExplicit vol. 1: بكافرين ويشير الى احمد بن حنبل واصحابه والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلمBeginning vol. 2: ... طلع نجم ذو وجه ثم صار الوجه ذو ايه ... 15ب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ الامام ... عماد الدين اسمعيل بن كثير البصروي الشافع ... قال اجمع عقلا كل امة على ان من لم يجر مع القدرExplicit vol. 2: وتوفى فى سلخ ذى القعدة من هذه السنة وقد جاوز سبعين سنة وكان يوم جنازته يوما مشهودا ورويت له منامات صالحة حسنة رحمه الله وسامحه ورحمنا وسامحنا انه قريب مجيب رحيم ودود والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم يتلوه سنة ست وستين واربعماية
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 86Origin: Authorial and scribal colophons appear on p.708, supplied by "Muṣṭafá al-Qāḍī" (qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min tanmīq hādhā al-kitāb...katabahu..."). Authorial colophon mistakenly claims composition begain in the year "91" Hijrī. Opening of scribal colophon (possibly transcribed verbatim from exemplar) suggests that transcription was finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb...") first of Rajab 908 [ca. 31 December 1502]. However, the paper, hand, etc. would more likely suggest a dating of late 16th or early 17th century, and perhaps the copyist intended 980 [ca. 7 November 1572] rather than 908.Accompanying materials: Three slips, all paginated -- a. pp.23-24 blank paper -- b. pp.289-290 text in black ink on one side -- c. pp. 465-466 notes in black ink on one side.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 16. Dakhirat al-ukba."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though only fore edge flap remains) ; board linings in blue and white shell marbled paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with gold painted accents ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; endbands in orange and white ; in poor condition, with envelope flap lost, abrasion on all corners of cover, tail end of spine missing and exposing deteriorating primaries.Support: European laid paper, a few different types ; one with very distinct laid lines (vertical) spaced roughly 9-10 laid lines per cm., chain lines spaced roughly 26-28 mm. apart, lightly burnished ; another thinner, more heavily burnished with roughly 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical, very fine and distinct) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart ; watermarks include crossbow (see p.220, compare Piccard no.123789), anchor in circle with trefoil above (p.196, compare Heawood 1 and 4) and figure (angel) in circle with "S c C" countermark (p.88/98, etc. matching Piccard no.21419 from Bari, 1587) ; loose leaves at beginning ; first two folia entirely detatched ; repairs made with similarly colored, laid paper ; water damage to head and tail of text, causing smudging of some glosses.Decoration: Red rule border appears for opening through p.48 ; textual divders in the form of inverted commas, stylized hāʼ, etc. ; text rubricated with keywords, textual dividers, notabilia, etc. in red.Script: Several different hands, as well as changes in ink and line thickness ; majority in a naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) with closed counters, superscripting of final words of line, esentially sans serif ; a few other hands in naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) appear, varying in size and elongation of horizontal strokes, with some exaggeration in thickness ; a few sections are supplied in a more standard naskh, though with slant to the left, mainly closed counters, occasional head-serifs on free-standing alif and initial lām ; hand first appears to change at p.44 and repeatedly thereafter, particularly in the latter quires (see pp.586-610, pp.611-624, pp.625-664, pp.665-684, etc.).Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: I+1 (3), V-1 (12), 3 V(42), IV(50), III(56), 8 V(136), II(140), V(150), VI(162), 3 V(192), IV(200), 3 V(230), II(234), 2 VI(258), V(268), I(270), 7 V(340), VI(352) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (occasionally correspond with second or third rather than first word of following page) ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink (scribe's hand) starting after incipit (p.11) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (pagination skips two leaves between p.41 and p.42, and includes inserts).Colophon: "Authorial" followed by "Scribal," rectangular, "تم بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم قال الشيخ الامام الهمام عفى الله عنه يوسف بن جنيد عفى عنهما الحميد المجيد المدرس في احدى المدارس ... في بلدة القسطنطنية حرسها الله تعالى عن القلوب القاسية هذا اخر ما [...؟] لي في شرح صدر الشريعة المسمى بذخيرة العقبى ... وكان ابتداء التاليف تقريبا في احدى وتسعين [كذا] من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام الى يوم الحشر والقيام. وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب في اول رجب الفرد بتاريخ سنة ثمان و تسعمائة على يد افقر عباد الله تعالى و اضعفهم و احوجهم الى رحمة رب العالمين . . . قد وقع الفراغ من تنميق هذا الكتاب المسمى ذخيرة العقبى [كذا] الحشية لصدر الشريعة العظمى والمحشي اخي چلبي رحمه الله كتبه الفقير اليه تعالى مصطفى القاضي ..."Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته الحمد لله الموصل بالاتمام قوله والمقيم الذي لا يموت ولا ينام قوله والكفيل الذي اوصل الارزاق للانام [؟] والعليم الذي يعلم بلا الحاف والزام [؟] والحكيم الذي لا يحكم بين خلقه بالاتقان والاحكام وصلى الله على نبيه المنعوت بالاختتام وعلى اله اصحابه الذين فازوا على قهر العدو بعناية الملك العلام"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى 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 colophon on p.706 and edge title.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebi 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. 97 for another ms. copy of this work). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Includes ownership note, dated July, 1954.جيدة ، وهو مغلف بقماش أسود ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأزرق والأحمرخطت الكتب وجمعت في حدود سنة 1380هـIncipit: صور الشفعةExplicit: براهين الكتاب والأمهات فيما يجب للعتره من المعاملاتPersian naskh script, written in black, blue and red ink.
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: An unknown work on Arabic grammar.Contents.كتاب الحقائق في النحوOwnership notes by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī.بعناية المالك العلامة عامل شهاره :محمد بن محمد الكبسيجيده لكنه بغير غلاف ومدبس الأوراق وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضرليلة الأثنين ساعة خمس 9/شعبان/1370هـIncipit: بسم الله... وبه نستعين وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وآله أعلم انه لا بد لطالب علم النحو من مقدمة تشتمل على خمسه امور الاول في وجه الابتدا ببسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الثاني في اعرابها...Explicit: وحذف زيادة التثنيه والجمع مذكر كان او مونثا الا علماً قد اعرب بالحركات فانها لا تحذف فيه لزيادة التثنيه والجمع.Naskh-thuluth script, written in black, red and green ink. Interlineal commentary. No cover to the manuscript.3-14 lines.
Abstract: Part 2 of a work on Shiʻite law comprising al-Qāʻidah al-thānīyah fī al-ʻuqūd through Kitāb al-hibāt, preceded by a fihrist on leaves 2a-5a.Binding note: Quarter leather with paper over boards; covers are detached.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 303b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in large, neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication. Damp-staining on upper margin.Origin: 14 Rabīʻ I 1031 H 27 January 1622, by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Māzandarānī, from a copy made by Muhannā ibn Sinān in Shaʻbān 736 H 1336 (leaves 303b-304a).Incipit: القاعدة الثانية في العقود وفيه كتب كتاب المتاجر وفيه مقدمة ومقاصد
Origin: Colophon gives date for the completion of this manuscript as Monday in the middle ten days of the month of Muḥarram, 1122 / March 1720.Binding: Simple leather bound codex with medallion-shaped tooled designs on upper and lower covers as well as envelope flap, which have eroded.Decoration: Double red line borders text.Script: Text written in black naskh script with rubrications. Initial two folios lack borders and are written in a different hand. These seem to have been pasted in after the book was bound.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.The Story of Yūsuf (Joseph) in 27 majālis (sessions), composed of verses from the Qurʼān, ḥadīths, moral reflections, and edifying anecdotes, in both verse and prose.
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: Front cover detached and back cover missing. Front cover is lacquered: black central mandorla, pendants, and fillets decorated with gold and color on orange-red ground.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 213a.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Inner margin damp-stained.Origin: Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1257 H January-February 1842, by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī al-Jandaqī (leaf 213a).Incipit: الحمد لله ... القسم الثاني في العقود وفيه خمسة عشر كتابا قوله كتاب التجارة
Abstract: "The author's abridgement of his al-Maqāṣid al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-fiqh; part 1 contains Mabāḥith al-alfāẓ."Binding note: Full maroon leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 274a, line 15.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Edges moldered.Origin: Qism 1 completed Jumādá I 1224 H June-July 1809; this copy made from the draft and completed Rabīʻ I 1230 H February-March 1815 (leaf 274b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اوردنا مناهل ربوبيته ... اما بعد فاني بعد ما فرغت من تصنىف القسم الاول من کتابي ... المسمى بمقاصد
Abstract: "First part of a commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's treatise on Shiʻite law. Complete through kitāb al-musāqāt."Binding note: Loose in brown leather folder.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 9.Physical description: 19-21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings in large script; text of the Lumʻah overlined in red. Catchwords and marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs; edges are ragged. Disbound.Origin: Shawwāl 1177 H April 1764 (leaf 223a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرح صدورنا بلمعة من شرايع الاسلام كافية في بيان الخطاب ونور قلوبنا من لوامع دروس الاحكام
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full maroon leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces; brown leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 8.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Lacuna after leaf 171. Leaves 172-174 detached. Some damp staining; ragged edges.Origin: 12 Rabīʻ II 1032 H 13 February 1623, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Anṣārī al-Astarābādī al-Nawkandī (leaf 173a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: "A work on legal verses in the Qur'an and methods for interpreting phrases and their legal import."Title from beginning page.Contents.جزء من الثمراتBrockelmann, S II 250.جيده، ولكن مبتور الأول والأخر وبدون غلاف عليه آثار بلل واضح جداً، تم كتابة المخطوط بالمداد الأسود والأحمرIncipit: منزوع الأول... يمينا كاذبة فليتبؤا مقعده من النار ولا اشكال في عظم اليمين الموكده، واما اجبار الحاكم عليها فليس بماخوذ من الاية، وفي ذلك اختلاف بين اهل الفقه ومن ثمرات الايه...Explicit: فلا يخفى كما لا تَخفى السمة على الخرطوم وعن النطر؟ بن شُميل ان الخرطوم اسم للخمر وان المعنى سنجده على شربها قال جار الله وفيه تعسف, وقد ورد تسميه الخمر الخرطوم فى قوله ... غير مكتملNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Defective beginning and ending. No cover. Extensive water damage.30 lines.
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīnAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh; incomplete at beginning."Binding note: Quarter leather with paper over boards.Ms. codex.Title from note on leaf 135b by a later hand. Title on front cover reads "Ḥāshiyat Mullā Mīrzā bar Maʻālim."Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining. Leaves 89-104 on smaller and thinner bluish paper.Origin: 16 Rabīʻ II 1234 H 12 February 1819, by ʻAbd al-Muḥammad ibn Rajab ʻAlī ibn Rabīʻ Burūjirdī (leaf 135b).
Abstract: An incomplete copy of Ḥilyat al-muttaqīn, from bāb 2 to the end.Binding note: Full brown leather with stamped fillets; front cover partly detached.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a, 195a, by later hands.On front cover: "322" in Arabic script.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in neat naskh by two hands in black on tan and beige glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; Arabic quotations vocalized. Some marginal notes. Many leaves torn and/or repaired; fol. 1-26, 31-34 detached from textblock. Insert between fol. 132, 133. Some damp staining and smudging.Origin: Text completed in Rajab 1079 H. December 1668. This copy completed Rabīʻ al-Thānī, 1124 H. May 1712 (fol. 195b).
Abstract: "Parts 1-2 of a commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām. Incomplete at beginning; contains Kitāb al-ṭahārah up to Kitāb al-tijārah."Binding note: Limp maroon leather; spine repaired.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 251a.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: Jumādá I 1094 H May 1683 (leaf 251a).
Abstract: "Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūlAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Loose in folder consisting of full brown leather with blind-stamped central design, pendants, cornerpieces, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger per Mach and Ormsby. The title is given in the text on leaf 4b, line 7, but there is a blank space left for the first word to be written in red.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on machine-made paper. Catchwords and rubrication, but some spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Occasional staining.Origin: 1271 H 1854 or 1855, by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mullā Ibrāhīm (leaf 244a).Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول.
Abstract: General treatise on Shafīʻī law.Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from modern title page (fol. (ii)a).26 lines per page. Written in medium small clear naskh in black ink for headings and re-inking. Thick light cream paper. The upper half of the first fol. is damaged with important loss of text. Some leaves are mended, with the text recopied on the repair (see fol. 1, 2). Inscription on fol. 169b. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Incipit (starting at "amma baʻd", the beginning of the text being partly lost partly illegible due to water damage): اما بعد فعلم الفقه بحوره زاخرة ورياضة ناضرةExplicit: ومسئلة من مات وعليه صوم القديم يصوم عنه وليه و مسئلة --- عصا القديم استجابه اخر الكتاب
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's treatise on Islamic lawAbstract: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn; missing leaves at end."Binding note: Limp brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a by a later hand.Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive damp staining, but text still highly legible; first and last few leaves ragged. Fol. 185 is partially torn away. Incomplete at end.Incipit: نحمدك اللهم ىا من خلقنا و لم نك شىئا مذکوراً
Abstract: A major work on Zaydi law, with numerous marginalia and explanatory notes.Contents.متن الأزهارDedicated to Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Imām Sharaf al-Dīn.بعناية مالكه : محمد بن عبدالله بن أحمد بن عبدالكريم بن الإمام شرف الدينعبارة عن مجلد جيب صغير الحجم يبدأ من كتاب الشفعة وخطه جيد كتب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرنهار يوم الثلاثاء في شهر جماد الأول سنة 1332هـIncipit: كتاب الشفعة فصل تجب فى كل عين ملكت بعقد صحيح بعوض مال على اي صفة...Explicit: وتحرم الموَالا وهي ان يحب ويكره له كل ما يكره فيكون كفراً او فسقا بحسب الحال ص بالله ويحالفه ويناصره والله اعلمNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Defective beginning. Includes the beginning of the Kitāb al-Shufʻah.14-16 lines.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 20.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in neat naskh on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp staining, mainly marginal; a few repairs.Origin: Work completed 1042 H 1632 or 1633; this copy, 16 Rabīʻ II 1109 H 1 November 1697 in Dāmghān, by Ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Riḍā Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Dāmghānī (leaf 246b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا لدين الاسلام و سن لنا الشرايع والاحكام
Abstract: Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillīʼs Tahdhīb al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl; incomplete at end.Binding note: Rebound in quarter leather with cloth covers.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 16.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic and European papers. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Extensive damp staining on first half of manuscript, but text still legible.Origin: According to Mach, 16th century.Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك حمدا لا يقدر حصره ... اما بعد فان الالتفات الى علم اصول الفقه
Abstract: "Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūlAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Full brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining. Front cover and first two leaves detached.Origin: 10 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1253 H 7 March 1838, by Ibn Ḥājjī ʻAlī Akbar Muḥammad Mahdī al-Hamadānī (leaf 274b).Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول
Abstract: Collection of Bektashi texts.Binding note: Three-quarter leather with embossed green paper covers; green paper doublures.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-10b: Hâzâ Kitab-ı Hazret-i Imam-ı Cafer as-Sadık aleyhüsselam. Short treatise on the principles of Sufism attributed to Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq; published as Fakrname.Contents: 2. fol. 11a-12a: Prayer.Contents: 3. fol. 12a-17a: Dua-yı tarikatçı.Contents: 4. fol. 17a-21a: Çiraǧ uyandıre çok kimsine beyanındadır.Contents: 5. fol. 21a-28b: Prayers and invocations.Contents: 6. fol. 28b-30b: Poem.Ms. codex.Collective title from text 1, fol. 2b.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in red. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining; a few leaves are detached. In good condition.Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله رب العالمىن خلق السموات و الارض لا اله الا هو الحى الذى لىس کمثله شىء
Abstract: Leaf from chapter 29 of the Mūnis al-aḥrār, a collection of poetry. Each verse alternates with a corresponding illustration as follows: battle gear; weapons; fruit trees; four types of doves; peacock, parrot, and nightingale; and jewelry.Ms. leaf.Physical description: Written in large thuluth and medium naskh in gold, blue, black, and red. Each line of verse alternates with an illustration. The leaf is damaged along the bottom; it was cut out of its original frame and glued onto another page of a different text that now forms its margins.Origin: This page is from chapter 29 of a ms. which is now scattered. The ms. is dated Ramaḍān 741 H February-March 1341 and was copied and illustrated in Isfahan according to its colophon (Swietochowski and Carboni, p. 25).
Abstract: Commentary on al-Alfīyah fī al-ṣalāh al-yawmīyah of al-Shahīd al-Awwal.Binding note: Full red leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 9.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in naskh with elements of nastaʻliq on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; occasional use of rubrication. Leaves 2-6, 47-55, 62, 92-93, 97 are replacements, likely early 19th century. Leaf 62 is blank and there is a lacuna after leaf 61. Most of text block is detached from binding. Damp-stained; numerous paper repairs.Origin: Possibly 18th century. Copied by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn al-Shaykh ʻAbbās al-Balāghī (leaf 97a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرع فرائض الصلوة
Abstract: "Volume 2 of a commentary on Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: on afʻāl al-ṣalāh."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; blue paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 3.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Outer edge slightly moldered; text block almost completely detached from binding.Origin: According to Āghā Buzurg, volume 4 of this work was completed the evening of ʻId al-Aḍḥá 1229 H 22 November 1814. This copy was likely completed in the early 19th century. According to the spine label, the text was copied by Āqā Shaykh Muḥammad Khūʼī.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي احکم شرايع الدين بمطالع الانوار ومسالك اليقين
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām; contains Kitāb al-zakāh through Kitāb al-iʻtikāf. Same scribe as New Series no. 346q and 359q."Binding note: Contemporary full maroon leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-stamped fillets; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Heavy damp staining across upper margin and first few lines of text in last quarter of manuscript.Origin: 13 Jumādá I 1262 9 May 1846, by Aḥmad najl al-marḥūm al-Sayyid Ṣ̄āliḥ khalaf al-mabrūr al-Sayyid Qāsim al-Faḥḥām al-Najafī (leaf 196b).Incipit: كتاب الزكاة التي هي لغة الطهارة ومنه قتلت نفسا زكية
Abstract: "Section of a commentary on al-Mufīd's MuqniʻahAbstract: comprising Kitāb al-duyūn wa-al-kafālāt through Kitāb al-diyāt ."Binding note: Full red-brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants and fillets; brown leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color on leaf 1(bis)b; text framed in gold with marginal red border. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining and a few repairs. Most leaves are detached.Origin: First part completed 1094 H 1683, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Sayf al-Jamrī (leaf 128b). Second part completed 14 Ṣafar 1095 H 1 February 1684, by the same scribe (leaf 463b).
Abstract: "Second half of a commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻ; contains Kitāb al-nikāḥ to the end."Binding note: Full brown leather with gold-painted fillets.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.Physical description: 15-18 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Handwriting switches to nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah on leaf 209a. Catchwords; marginal notes. Rubrication on leaves 1b-7a. Marginal insect damage and mild staining.Origin: Original text completed Jumādá II 1204 H February-March 1790; this copy, likely first half of the 19th century, by Muḥammad Ḥasan ibn Abū ! Dharr al-Māzandarānī (leaf 269b).Incipit: الحمد لله ... کتاب النکاح و هو لغة الوطى على الاشهر و شرعا العقد اجماعا
Abstract: Treatise on prayer. The opening lines of the text begin in the margin of leaf 3b, and there is a lacuna between those lines and the text at the center of the page. The text is preceded by notes and extracts on leaves 2a-3a and followed by the same on leaves 54a-54b.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp-staining, mainly marginal.Origin: Text completed on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 951 H 21 February 1545 (leaf 53b). This copy likely 17th century.Incipit: الحمد لله مطلع من اختارهExplicit: فان ذلك منه وبه وله وهو حسبنا و نعم الوکيل
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh. Text is on leaves 9b-367a and is preceded by prayers, poetry, schematic drawings, and notes on leaves 3a-8a.Binding note: Full red leather with marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 10a, line 5.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in red; crudely illuminated basmalah at head of text on leaf 9b. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-stained across upper edge.Origin: 20 Jumādá II 1009 H 27 December 1600 in Aradabīl, by Ibn Shaykhshāh Muḥammad Salmān (leaf 367a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Commentary on the Qurʾān, with fihrist on leaves ib-iib.Binding note: Full maroon leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, and fillets; marbled paper doublures. Volume 2 is missing flap.Ms. codex.Title from text on leaf 1b, volume 1.Physical description: 29 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. On leaves 1b-2a, text framed in red and gold; remainder of text framed in double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Continuous foliation in Arabic script. Extensive staining; some smudging and paper repairs. In fair condition.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرا ... و بعد فان اعظم العلوم مقدارا وارفعها شرفا ومنارا علم التفسير الذي هو رئيس العلوم الدينية وبرأسها ومبنى قواعد الشرع واساسها
Abstract: Treatise in five chapters (faṣl) on the magical properties of the letter qāf and its use in charms, with figures.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 14).27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark ("JL Gran Masso"), frame-ruled. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Collation: Paper ; fol. 10 ; 1¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذي اكرمنا باسراره ونلا قلوبنا بانواره والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا محمد الذي تنورت الاكوان بظهوره ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الذليل ... هذه رسالة لطيفة تتعلق بالوفق الميني(؟) اذكر فيه الفوائد الواصلة الينا من المشايخ العظامExplicit: ولبستم وفقي وعاونتم ضعفي في كل ما اريد الوحا ٢ العجل ٢ الساعة ٢ بارك الله فيكم وعليكم وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا والحمد لله رب العالمين امين
Abstract: "Commentary on the author's versification of Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūl. Brockelmann (GALAbstract: SIIAbstract: 597 (no. 17Abstract: versif.)) mentions only the naẓmAbstract: not the commentary."Binding note: Limp brown leather with black leather doublures, spine, and edges; blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Original text in naskh with vocalization. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Outer edge moldered; damp-staining across upper edge."Origin: 30 Muḥarram 1111 H 28 July 1699by Ibn ʻUrf Nuʻaym al-Ṭālaqānī; copied from a copy in the author's hand (leaf 135a)."'Incipit: اقوم اصل يتفرع عليه السعادات'Incipit (naẓm): الحمد لله العلي العالي* ذي النور و البهاء و الافضال
Abstract: "Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūlAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Full red-brown leather with silver-painted fillets; brown leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining. First and last leaves detached.Origin: 23 Ṣafar 1231 H 24 January 1816 in Fayḍābād Hindustān (leaf 217a).Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... اما بعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول
Abstract: Second half of a treatise on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Full brown leather with flap; gold-stamped fillets and green leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from incipit, leaf 1b.Formerly shelved as Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1912.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; cross-outs. Extensive damp-staining, but text largely unaffected.Origin: Text completed in 1042 H 1632 or 1633 (leaf 182b). This copy likely from the second half of the 17th century; copied by Abū Turāb ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ḥasanī.Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law; followed by notes and extracts on leaves 158b-164b.Binding note: Full brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1(bis)b, line 5.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on heavy, cream, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces left for rubrication not completely filled in. Damp-stained, particularly across top of text block, and mildewed.Origin: 4 Rabīʻ II 911 H 4 September 1505, by ʻAlī ibn Abū ! al-Fatḥ (leaf 156a).Incipit: اللهم احمدك والحمد من نعمايك ... قاعدة الفقه لغة الفهم
Abstract: Acephalous and defective copy of a compendium of Ḥanafite law and jurisprudence.Binding note: paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, with dark brown leather edges. Badly damaged.Ms. codex.Title from inscription mentioning a price on the pastedown of the lower cover.Physical description: 9 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (professional hand). Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible ; frame-ruled. Several inscriptions on fol. 112b-113a.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in 1083 H. (fol. 125a).Beginning as extant: ولا يجوز اداؤها الا بنية مقارنة لعزل الواجب او الاداء ومن تصدق بجميع ما له سقطت ... باب الزكوة السوايم السايمة التى تكتفى بالرعيExplicit: ولا مولى الموالى الّا عند عدمهم وان كان له موالى اعتقوه فهى باطلة تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهّاب
Abstract: Second half of a treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaves 318a-318b.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; front cover lacking.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 326a.Manuscript erroneously foliated in Western script beginning on the first of eight flyleaves. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in large, casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Foliated in Arabic script, with errors. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.Origin: 4 Rajab 1127 H 6 July 1715, by Ibn ʻAlī Akbar Mullā Ḥubb ʻAlī (leaf 326a).Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law followed by a commentary upon it.Binding note: Full black leather with yellow paper doublures; marbled flyleaf.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-52a: Kitāb Mabādī al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.Contents: 2. fol. 53b-132b: Ghāyat al-bādī fī sharḥ al-Mabādī / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī.Ms. codex.Title from texts 1 and 2.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 9 lines per page; text 2, 24 lines per page. Both texts written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Text 1 has extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-staining, mainly marginal; upper edge moldered. Leaf 2a contains the last page of another text.Origin: Text 1, 1030 H 1620 or 1621, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyā ? ibn Sālim al-Manṣūrī (leaf 52a). Text 2, likely late 17th century.
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīths addressing legal matters; text is preceded by extracts (mainly in Persian), verses, and notes on leaves 2a-10a.Binding note: Full brown leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants, outlined with gold; gold-painted fillets; aqua pastedowns and flyleaves.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 411b.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 22-25 lines per page; written in small to medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; interlinear and marginal notes. Marginal damp-staining, ragged edges, and a few repairs. Front cover and leaves 1-56 detached.Origin: 18 Jumādá II 1086 H 9 September 1675, by ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq.Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك واشكرك
Abstract: "A treatise on animalsAbstract: made up of sections from Aristotle's Historia animalium."Binding note: Green and red marbled paper on covers with red leather on spine.Ms. codex.Title from start of text on fol. 1b (other titles from Hitti and published version, see refs. below).15 lines per page. Written in a medium sized naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed dark cream paper with prominent pulp. Fol. 1a is filled entirely with densly written text, most of it prayer, some of it illegible due to smudging or obliteration close to edges. Short inscriptions in a later hand on fol. 22a-b.Incipit: قال موسي بن عبيد الله القرطبي الاسرايلي هذه مقاله تشتمل علي فصول من كتاب الحيوان لارسطواExplicit: وكلام ارسطوا انما هو بحسب بلاده او ما سمعه ممن يوثق به والله اعلم
Abstract: Collection of a Shiʻite legal treatise and Shaykhī texts.Binding note: Stiffened black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, fillets, and pendants; green paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 2b-37b: Hādhā Kitāb al-Fawāʼid al-ithná ʻasharīyah / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Mūsawī.Contents: 2. leaves 38a-39a: Risālah mūjazah fī bayān dāʼirat al-ʻaql wa-al-jahl lil-ʻāqil al-mutadarrib. Commentary on a secton from an unidentified philosophical treatise; contains two circular diagrams.Contents: 3. leaves 40a-43b: Risālah fī bayān qawlihi taʻālá "qāba qawsayni aw adná" / ʻAlī ibn Naqī al-Aḥsāʼī.Contents: 4. leaves 43a-44a: Risālah fī bayān ʻālam al-barzakh ijmālan wa-ikhtiṣāṣan / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp-stained. Leaves 19-20 are replacements.Origin: Text 3 dated 1248 H 1832 or 1833 (leaf 43a). Other texts likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: A commentary on Muʻallaqāt al-Sabʻ, being an edited version of the commentary by Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Zawzanī (d. 1093 or 4).Binding note: Half leather binding with brown marbled paper on covers and red leather on spine and cover corners.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Copy completed on the 1st of Rajab 1277 (1861) -- colophon (fol. 119a).19 lines per page. Written in an informal medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 1-20 have text frames ruled in pencil. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick cream glazed paper with watermarks. Two inscriptions on fol. 1a: two verses of poetry, and an acquisition note to the effect that the copy was obtained from Egypt, in Ṣafar 1291 (1874).Incipit: قال العبد المفتقر الي ربه المستغفر من ذنبه عبد الرحيم بن عبد الكريمExplicit: كان شاهد على ان الحرب قد بلغت غاية
Abstract: A collection of hadith with sound isnads and contents and their use for determining correct action.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.الاجزاء من الاول وحتى الرابع من كتاب شفاء الاوام للتمييز بين الحلال والحرامLater additions and repairs dated February 1917. Sale note and multiple reading notes. Includes fragments by ʻAlī ibn Abī ṭālib.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جلدي كبير سقطت منه بعض الأوراق في آخره وتم استبدالها بأوراق أحدث منها. وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرليلة الجمعة 23/صفر/سنة1049هـ; ليلة الخميس الرابع شهر ربع الآخر1049ه; 2/جماد الأول/سنة1049هـ; نهاية نسخ الأوراق المستبدلة من اللقطة رقم (527-534): عشية الأحد لعشر خلت من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة1335هـNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Final pages added later in different hand.31 lines.
Copy completed: Shaʻbān 982/ November 1574 in the hand of Qāsim b. Ḥājī Mīrzā.Text written in clear black naskh script with rubrication. Text bordered in blue and gold lines throughout.Initial page has medallion design with gold, including gold and red floral patterns on blue paint. The title of the work is no longer apparent in the center medallion. First page of the text has ʻunwān in similar colors and design. Title of work is also missing from this location. Volume has edge title, but spelled "kimiyā-yi saʻādat" instead of "kīmiyā-yi saʻādat".Leather bound codex with intricate tooling on upper and lower covers; some residue of gold paint in design. Doublures feature elaborate leather filigree on red leather with gold and paint which overlays a blue painted background. Both covers are detached.Translated as "The Alchemy of Bliss," this most famous work of al-Ghazālī, written in Persian, presents the religious and ethical obligations of the true Muslim from a mystical perspective. It is considered an abridgement of his extensive Arabic work, Iḥyā ʻulūm al-dīn.
Abstract: Collection of two texts, one an account of a journey of al-Amīr ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʼirī in Syria, in 1222-1300 H. 1807 or 8-1883, the other a short treatise on prosody and rhyme, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād al-Qināʼī al-Khawwāṣ.Binding note: Black cloth over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Red leather spine, fore-edge flap and outer border. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-31a: Riḥlat al-Amīr ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʼirī.Contents: 2. fol. 31b-50b: Matn al-Kāfī fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī / Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād al-Khawwāṣ.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in very clear medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark.Origin: First text written 29 Rabīʻ Awwal 1300 Feb. 7, 1883 (colophon, fol. 31a).
Abstract: A portion of an unknown work on history, spanning the years 1638 to 1655, during the reign of Imam Mutawakkil ʻalá Allāh Ismāʻīl ibn al-Qāsim.Contents.مجهول في التاريخIncludes an introduction to a work summarizing the seven methods of Quranic recitation, and family trees for the Banū al-Sharafī and the descendents of al-Mahdī al-ʻAbbās.عبارة عن ستة عشر ورقة بدون غلاف من جزء من كتاب في التاريخ تم تدبيسها بمسامير دباسة حديثة وهو جميل الخط ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأصفر والأخضر ويوجد مكان مخصص للحواشيIncipit: عالما منيفاً فى كل فن من العلوم لا يعزب عنه شيأً وكا شجاعاً كريماً سخي الكف...Explicit: بلاد بن عفيف فى غرة شهر ربيع الاخر ودخلت جميع تلك البلاد تحت وطاه الامام ولم ينتطح فيهاإلى هنا انتهى الموجود من الكتابةNaskh and thuluth scripts, written in black, red, yellow and green ink. Unbound, taken from a larger work.19 lines.1-بداية مقدمة لكتاب مختصر في مذاهب القراء السبعة وهي بخط صاحب المكتبة كما عرفناه وميزناه سابقا. لقطة رقم (1). 2-مشجر نسب السادة بني الشرفي ومشجر نسب السادة أولاد المهدي العباس. لقطة رقم (2).
Abstract: Treatise describing a quadrant called "al-rubʻ al-kāmil", comprising an introduction and fifteen chapters (bāb). On fol. 1a is a chart explaining the influence of the rainbow in association with the signs of the zodiac.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 1b).Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in careful medium large naskh in black ink with use of red ; text is partially vocalized. Loose leaves and bifolia ; stained with water.Origin: According to note at the end of the text, copied in 993 H. 1585 (fol. 11b).Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى رسم على صفحات مصنوعاته قواطع الدلايل ... وبعد فهذه رسالة لخصت فيها محاسن الرسايل وخصصتها بالاهم مما يتعلق بالربع الكاملExplicit: لبعده يحصل الغرض فيها وفى هذا القدر كفاية لمن وفقه الله تعالى والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا امين
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.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from folio 3a. Pagination: 6 blank leaves; 1st work: fol. 1b-168a (15 lines); 3 blank leaves; 2nd work: fol. 172b-175a (12 lines) Autograph copy. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: yellowish, cream color paper with visible watermark; black ink with rubrication and overlining in red; catchwords. Naskh; First work: 15 lines in written area 12.5 x 6.5 cm.; Second work: 12 lines in written area 12 x 6 cm. 6 blank leaves; fol. 1b-168a (1st work); 3 blank leaves; fol. 172b-175a (2nd work) Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: flexible red leather binding with embossed frame lines.Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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.
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.
Legends about Jalāladdīn Rūmī. One lengthy story narrates a conversation the author had with Rūmī in his dream.Title supplied by cataloger.17.2 x 11.5 cm (13.1 x 7.5 cm).According to the 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 ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Qayṣarī.Written in naskh script, in one column, 17 lines per page, in black, framed within a red line. Persian phrases vocalized and red overlined. Section headings in red. Catchwords. Occasional notes in green ink.Dark-cream glazed laid paper. Board cover. Envelope flap. Spine torn; volume loosely attached to binding.With: Şerh-i Cezîretü'l-mesnevî / Ahmed Meknî (ff. 10v.-100r) ; Hall-i ebyât-ı müşkilât-ı Celâleddin Rûmî (ff. 101r-107r) ; Risâle-yi esrâr-ı tarîk (ff. 107v-111v).MS Turk 53. 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).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 35Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.294a (p.596), copied by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājī Ramaḍān. Transcription finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah...") Muḥarram 1117 [April-May 1705].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts carrying extensions of the glosses (paginated pp.9-10, 15-16, 23-24, 35-36, 41-42, 45-46, 61-62, 231-232, 349-350), often sewn or tipped in.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 111. Al-Tarikat al-muhammadiyah."Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper (in blue, yellow, pink, white) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark brown (to black) leather (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in paper ; some red leather on flap ; marbled paper has been placed over blind stamped design (central lozenge with vegetal pattern) ; sewn in white thread, two stations, with primaries in dark blue thread ; fine worked chevron endbands in red and yellow ; in poor condition with much abrasion, staining, cracking and splitting of leather at joints, etc. ; upper board nearly detached and corners exposed and delaminating ; lower board cracked ; envelope flap is entirely gone and fore-flap is detaching from lower cover ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with roughly 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced 23-25 mm. apart ; watermarks include coat of arms with cross flanked by griffins, crown above and two circles below, upper with "A G R", lower with "I" (compare Heawood 755).Decoration: Text rubricated with abbreviation symbols, overlining, keywords, section headings, etc. in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, three inverted commas, etc.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; virtually serifless, but occasional right-sloping head-serif on lām, etc. even free-standing alif ; effect of slant to the left ; mainly closed counters ; hand may change where line thickness changes (pp.351-526) but a very similar Turkish naskh.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident), both central area and margins.Collation: VI (12), 9 V(102), IV+1(111), 2 V(131), IV (139), 3 V(169), III (175), 7 V(245), VI (257), V (267), VI (279), V (279), IV (297) ; chiefly quinions ; first three leaves and final three leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts, skips two pages each between pp.3-4, 57-58 and 139-140, mistakenly repeats p.557 twice).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماة بطريقة المحمدية والسيرة الاحمدية لمولانا البركوي محمد افندي تغمده الله مغفرانه واسكنه بحبوحة جنانه من يد الحقير المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الجليل ابراهيم ابن الحاجي رمضان يوم الثلث قبل الظهر من شهر المحرم في سنة سبع عشر ومائة والف والحمد لله والصلوة والسلام على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين م م م"Explicit: "وجلاء القلوب فعليك بها وطالعها حتى تعلم حقيقة مقالنا وقول الحمد لله الذي هدينا وما كنا نهتدي لو لا ان هدينا الله ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد اذ هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا امة وسطا خير امم ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل يتوافقان والكتاب والسنة يتطابقان ... فاردت ان اصنف الطريقة المحمدية واحببت ان ابين السيرة الاحمدية حتى يعرض عليها عمله كل سالك ..."Title from colophon on fol.294a (p.596).Ms. codex.Neat, well-glossed copy of the sermons and homilies of Birgivî (Birkawī, Birgilī) Mehmet Efendi.