Abstract: "Treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: completed on 27 Jumādá II 969 March 1562 (see end of textAbstract: fol. 337a). The text is preceded on fol. 12a-15a by what appears to be a description of contentsAbstract: written by the same hand as the main text (beginning wanting). Fol. 332 is an addition with Abū Ḥanīfah's WaṣāyāAbstract: written by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl in Ṣafar 1145."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Central blind stamped scalloped mandorla filled with a floral arabesque, with two pendants on the vertical axis on covers. Blind stamp on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 17a, l. 5-6).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta. The text is framed within a single line in magenta. Thin dark cream European paper with watermark; some leaves dyed in light yellow or green. Quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-11b. Handmade label with inscriptions on the upper cover. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 12a). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Inscription in Western numerals in pencil on fol. (i)a: "62".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl ibn Muṣṭafá, and completed in the night of Friday 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1143 June 1731 (fol. 337b; the colophon is inscribed within a circle consisting of two lines in red ink).Beginning as extant: الشرع والادد القاعدة الثانية اذا اجمع الحلال والحرام غلب الحرام الحلال وبيان ما يقزع عليها من اشباه ... 15أ ... بسم ... الحمد لله على ما انعم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وبعد فان الفقه اشرف العلوم قدرا واعظمها اجراExplicit: على رأس شجرتين فتقطع نصفين رحمه الله تعالى وهذا آخر ما اوردنا من كتاب الاشباه والنظائر فى الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم ابى حنيفة النعمان ... وكان الفراغ من تأليفه فى السابع والعشرين من جمادى الآخرة سنة تسع وستين وتسعماية وكانت مدة تأليفه ستة اشهر مع تخلّل ايام توعك الجسد والحمد لله ... الى يوم القيام وكتبه مؤلفه بيده الفانية زين بن نجيم الحنفى ... هذا آخر ما قاله المؤلف ... بجاه نبيه محمد ومصطفاه وآله واصحابه ومن والاهBeginning of text fol. 332a: بسم ... قال ابو حنيفة ... لابنه حماد ... يا بنى ارشدك الله تعالى وايدك اوصيك بوصايا ان حفظتها
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1058Origin: As appears in colophon on p.38, transcription completed in the last days of Muḥarram 898 [ca. November 1492].Binding: Limp brown leather covers with dark brown leather over spine (type of quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap), tight back though not fully flush with text block (ill-fitting or deliberate squares) ; now linings (potentially once flyleaves) in what appears to be European laid paper ; now sewn in white thread, not original ; overall in good condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: non-European (possibly Persianate) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly straight) and chain lines only rarely visible in pairs (see p.32) ; only somewhat cloudy furnish with inclusions and bits of fiber visible, heavy and sturdy, quite well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; chiefly a clear Turkish / Turkic hand ; serifless with effect of words inclining slightly to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, foot of lām, kāf, etc. quite curvilinear, kāf mashqūqah preferred with shaqq (curving upward) on even final kāf, final tāʼ marbūṭah often given as tāʼ maftūḥah, point of final or free-standing nūn set either down at center or floating above tall bowl, very casually pointed with pointing for two dots typically via conjoined dots, etc.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page (single column) ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board quite evident).Collation: III-2+3 (7), IV (15), IV-1+4 (26) ; 19 original leaves (paginated 1-38) with 7 added leaves, 3 at the opening of the codex, 4 at the close ; original composition of opening gathering uncertain due to repairs ; mainly quaternions originally ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, center of lower margin of each text page ; added leaves at opening and close of codex not paginated.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب فى اواخر شهر محرم سنه ٨٩٨ اللهم اغفر لكاتبه ولقاريه ولمن نظر فيه آمين رب العالمين تم"Explicit: "يكون محتويا الى النساء ويكون محفوظا عن اذى الجن والارواح وغيرها والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "لما راينا ان الجزء الاول المختص باسرار الرجال انتهى الى آخره على ما تقدم ذكرها وفصولها لزمنان [كذا] نذكر ايضا فى اسرار النساء التي تدعو الى موافقهن وتوجب الميل اليهن..."Title from opening matter on p.1.Manuscript codex.Fine copy of a treatise of materia medica attributed to Galen, including a number of recipes for drugs intended to treat various sexual conditions.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 922Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974). Copy perhaps partly made from a printed edition.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 71Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "اسرار الآيات | الشيرازي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of two distinct types, one lined and one unlined.Decoration: Many opening headings and passages executed in contrasting purple ink ; others simply larger and bolded.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; two or three modern hands in a medium to bold line ; naskh partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, words adhering to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, occasionally more carefully executed ; ruqʻah, compact hand with slight effect of inclination to the right, serifless and freely ligatured with pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page.Collation: Pages between some sections left blank (see pp.37-40, 71-71) ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (first sixteen pages only) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [Asrār al-āyāt] "Scribal," reads "تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماه باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات للمحقق القويم صدر الدين الشيرازي الشهير وسوف نتبعها ان شاء الله تع بمتن العرشية ومتن المشاعر"Incipit: [preface] "نحمدك اللهم يا من تحيرت [؟] في بيداء كبريائه الالباب وغرقت في بحار معرفته عقول الاولياء ... وبعد فان هذا الكتاب المستطاب الذي هو قرة عيون اولى الالباب الموسوم باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات من مصنفات الحكيم الكامل ... صدر الحق والملة والدين محمد بن ابراهيم الشهير بصدر المتالهين الشيرازي ..." [Asrār al-āyāt] "هذا كتاب اسرار الآيات وانوار البينات لامام المتألهين محمد المعروف بصدر المتألهين الشيرازي طاب ثراه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... نحمدك اللهم يا من بيده ملكوت الارض والسماء واليه تتشوق الكائنات ... اما بعد فيقول انزل خلق الله واحوجهم الى كرامة رب العالمين محمد المدعو بصدر الدين هذا بيان للناس وهدى ورحمة للمتقين ..." [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "نحمد الله ونستعين بقوته التي اقام بها ملكوت الارض والسماء وبكلمته التي انشأ بها نشأتي الآخرة والاولى على تهذيب القوى القابلة للاستكمال ... وبعد فان اقل الخلائق قدرا وجرما واكثرهم خطأ وجرما محمد الشتهر بصدر الدين الشيرازي يقول ايها الاخوان السالكون الى الله بنور العرفان ..." [al-ʻArshīyah] "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره بالاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو الرب الجليل ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title from preface on p.1 and heading preceding opening on p.2.Ms. codex.3. p.326-p.425 : Matn al-ʻArshīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.2. p.268-p.326 : Kitāb al-Mashāʻir / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.1. p.2-p.267 : Asrār al-āyāt wa-anwār al-bayyināt / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.Careful copy of the treatise on Qurʼān interpretation by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640), followed by his Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, and al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology.
Abstract: Collection of texts in different scripts on the Arabic language, questions of inheritance, poetry, the divisions of the Qurʼān.Binding note: Unbound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-9b: Athmān al-Qurʼān / Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Shaṭṭī.Contents: 2. fol. 10a: Appendix by a later hand.Contents: 3. fol. 11a-12a: Several short texts.Contents: 4. fol. 12b-16a: Kitāb fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd / Muḥammad Ibn Durayd.Contents: 5. fol. 17a-21b: Kitāb al-īdāḥ wa-al-irshād fī ḥall taṣwīr mā yushabbah li-nasab al-nāqah fī bayt Bānat Suʼād / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 6. fol. 22a-30a: Kitāb al-suruj al-muḍīʼah sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-falakīyah fī al-alghāz al-farḍīyah / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 7. fol. 30b-31b: al-Qawāʼid al-farḍīyah / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 8. fol. 32a-34b: Kitāb ikhtiyār taḍmīkh al-taḍmīn / Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī.Contents: 9. fol. 35b-38a: Khalq al-insān / Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb.Contents: 10. fol. 38b: Excerpt from a poem.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger."The number of lines per page varies. Fol. 17a-31b are from the same hand: 15 lines per pagewritten in a very casual large script in black ink with use of red (autograph). Fol. 32a-38a are from the same hand: 19 lines per pagewritten in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid and chain(?) lines visible ; frame-ruled. Fol. 12-16 are narrower than the rest of the leaves (182 x 125 mm.). Fol. 5-6 (blank) and 10: later paper. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (with a fol. 18bisexplaining the discrepancy with Mach's catalog)."'Two of the texts are autographs written in 794 H. (see colophons fol. 21b30a).'
Abstract: "First volume of a commentary on Bukhārī's collection of ḥadīthsAbstract: comprising the text up to Bāb al-Ishārah fī al-ṣalāh. According to R. MachAbstract: the contents correspond to ed. Cairo (1959)Abstract: vol. 1-vol. 3Abstract: p. 351."Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Physical description: 33 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Collation notes and statements throughout. Occasional marginal annotation (mainly collation notes). Table of contents on fol. 1a, apparently by the same hand as the main text.Origin: According to colophon, copied on Monday 23 Shawwāl 856 Nov. 6, 1452 (fol. 278b).Incipit: الحمد لله الدى شرح صدور اهل الاسلام بالهدى ونكت فى قلوب اولى الطغيان فلا تعى الحكمة ابدا واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده ... اما بعد فقد ان الشرو فى ما قصدت له من شرح الجامع الصحيح على ما وعدت به فى اول المقدمة ... فاقول وبالله التوفيق اتصلت لنا رواية البخارى عنه من طريق ابي عبد الله محمد بن يوسف بن مطر بن صالح بن بشر الفريرى عنهExplicit: خاتمة اشتملت ابواب الشهر من الاحاديث ... عروة الموصول فى اخر الباب ومنها اثر عمر فلا ضربه على الصلوة بعد العصر والله الهادى الى الصواب منه المبدا واليه الماب تم الجزء الاول من فتح البارى لشرح البخارى
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.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 233Origin: As appears in colophon on p.95, executed by Hakkakzade Hafız Feyzullah with transcription completed in the year 1200 [1785 or 6].Former shelfmark: "476 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "40" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.5).Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in silver-flecked olive-green tinted European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry central lozenge-shaped panel in gold- and silver-tooled semé pattern of rosette stamps along with decorative border on black and red leathers consisting of two guilloché rolls accented by gold fillets ; design continues on flap ; accompanied by slipcase with tail edge and pentagonal flap (carrying title) and woven pull tape, also covered in red leather (lined in yellow paper) with scalloped mandorla and pendants filled with tooled / cut and gold-filled vegetal composition over black leather onlays, as well as rosette stamp and stroke accents and guilloché roll border flanked by gold fillets ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and cream, good condition ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion at edges, repairs to joints and hinges in Japanese paper ; both volume and slipcase housed in custom box.Support: non-European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct), thin, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, heavily sized and burnished to glossy, beige in color ; pastedowns and flyleaves in European laid paper.Decoration: Brilliant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.6 consisting of w-shaped piece with cartouche carrying title "هذا اصحاب بدر" in red and accented by scalloped domes in gold against a field of blue all overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern in white, pink, yellow, blue, mint green, etc. ; entire piece is set in a well of green, gold, and white bands with red and gold accents and is surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; simpler illuminated tailpieces flanking close of Aṣḥāb Badr and Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼon p.52 and p.65, and at opening of Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼ (p.52) and Munājāt aṣḥāb Badr (p.65) fine illuminated headpieces carrying the titles in red ; superbly executed illuminated tailpiece accenting close of the munājāt and colophon on p.95, consisting of cloud-bands in gold, some overlaid with vegetal decoration, as well as narrow rectangular panel with swirling vegetal decoration in shades of blue, yellow, white, and pink on a blue ground and a larger rectangular panel reminiscent of book cover design in shades of gold, pink, blue, yellow, mint green, etc. surrounded by heavy interlace border ; written area surrounded by heavy gold frame accented by narrower gold, black and red fillets ; eight panels outlined by narrow gold band ; textual dividers in the form of elaborate illuminated rosettes with accents in white, red, blue, pink, etc. appear in the text of the munājāt ; titles and benediction (tarḍiyah) following each Companion's name rubricated.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; a splendid naskh, seriffed, with characteristic tilt to the left, and sweeping tails on final yāʼ, alif maqṣūrah, and nūn ; fully vocalized.Layout: For text listing the Companions, written area divided to eight panels, two columns with four panels in each column ; within each panel appears a Companion's name and benediction (tarḍiyah) in roughly three lines, for a total of eight Companions per page ; text of the munājāt written in 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 4 V(40), III (46), iii ; quinions and a ternion ; traces of catchwords (often cut off) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears at center head of the recto of some leaves (see p.25, etc.) and lower center of the verso of other leaves (see p.48, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (some flyleaves paginated).Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب حافظ فيض الله المعروف بحكاك زاده لسنة مأتين وألف من هجرة من له العز والشرف"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.5. p.96-p.100 : [blank].4. p.65-p.95 : Hādhā Munājāt aṣḥāb Badr.3. p.52-p.65 Hādhā Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼ.2. p.6-p.52 : Aṣḥāb Badr.1. p.1-p.5 : [blank].Exquisite calligraphic specimen in the hand of Hakkakzade Hafız Feyzullah, employing a listing of the ṣaḥābah or Companions of the Prophet who took part in the battle of Badr, followed by a prayer (munājāt) addressed to them.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 885Origin: As appears in colophon on p.969 (and at close of باب الف ممدوده on p.978), copied by Mathurādās Khatrī, date not specified ; decoration, paper, etc. would suggest late 18th or early 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Scrap cut from a Luzac catalog page with description and price for this manuscript "PERSIAN AND HINDUSTANI MSS. 175 Bahar i ʻajam. The well-known Persian dictionary. MS. Folio. Over 1000 pp. Leather binding. The colophon is dated A.H. 1243 ( = A.D. 1827), under the reign of Muhammad Akbar Shâh (II.) £2 10s." (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Recycled card with handwriting of Emilie Savage-Smith [?] "ʻunwān or illum. frontispiece or heading." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Scrap of paper with title in ink "Bahār i ʻAjam." (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owens notes" (paginated pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 34Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep red leather ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry delicate gold-tooled border in a rope pattern ; spine stamped "BUHARE | UJUM" ; now sewn in white thread over three cords ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and blue, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper cover fully detached, some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, fairly distinct, some curving) and irregular chain lines faintly visible, sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; flyleaves / added leaves in wove paper.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.10 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche (carrying the basmalah) flanked by pendants and delicate swirling floral vegetal decoration in blue, red, orange, and white on a gold ground, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with more elaborate swirling floral vegetal decoration in red, orange, white, blue, green, etc. on grounds of gold with blue, green and white accents, itself surmounted by a pendant filled with similar decoration as well as fine vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, entire piece set into a well consisting of a rather heavy gold band outlined by narrow bands of orange and gold defined by black fillets ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame with innermost red rule, and outer red and blue rules, further blue rule defines margin ; keywords and headings rubricated ; overlining or two-teeth abbreviation symbol in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in distinct or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 14 IV(112), III (118), IV+1 (127), 12 IV(223), IV+2 (233), 26 IV(441), II (445), IV+1 (454), 3 IV(478), IV-1 (485), iii ; chiefly quaternions ; lacuna on p.458 marked with "ص" ; p.970 prior to opening of Bāb-i alif-i mamdūdah left blank ; lacks proper catchwords but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "الحمد لله والمنة که باتمام رسید منتخب کتاب بهار عجم تالیف استادی مخدومی تیک چند بهار بخط فقیر حقیر اضعف العباد متهراداس قوم کهتری فقط"Incipit: "مهار آفرینی که کلبرک ... دیباچه اصل بهار عجم سپاس و ستایش ایزد متعال را در خور که هريکى ار افراد انسان ..."Title from opening matter (p.11) and colophon (p.978).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the dictionary of words and idioms used by the Persian poets compiled by Tīk Chand Bahār (d.1766) with added preface.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 894Origin: As appears in colophon on p.189 (accompanied by scribal verses), copied by Murtaz̤á ibn Muḥammad with transcription completed in 1073 [1662 or 3].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, called Jāmī. Bahāristān | Have many parts of the Haft Awrang, and some other poems, but apparently not this in Mich. MS. Isl." (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip of paper with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 18 Bahāristān of Jāmī | copied in 1073" (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginted pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Husselman and Meredith-Owen notes" (paginated pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 43Binding: Boards covered in grey mottled (sponge-stained look) paper with green fading to tan leather over spine and board corners (half binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted laid paper ; spine accented with raised bands and gold-stamped title, author and shelfmark "BEHĀRI- STĀN E DJĀMĪ | MS. 1073" ; head edge of text block gilt ; sewn in white thread, over recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fair condition with slight abrasion, loss of pigment, etc. ; not original, note on upper pastedown describes rebinding.Support: European laid paper of a few types ; opening type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of three crescents (about 80 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.24, 30, 84, 42, etc.) ; another type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.38, 42, 54, 56, 190, etc.) ; another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain line spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal) and three crescents watermark (75 mm. tall, perpendicular to chains, see p.118, 150, etc.) ; all quite sturdy, dark cream in color, well-sized and burnished.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; written area of incipit page surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a medium line ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, exaggerated elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, occasional effect of words descending to baseline ; hand changes just before close (pp.187-189) to a more compact nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iv, V (10), 2 VI(34), 4 V(74), VI (86), I (88), iii ; quinions and senions ; catchwords present ; text of p.26 apparently mistakenly entered by the copyist upside down (dotted lines provided for navigational clues) ; foliation in black ink, Western numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد الضعيف عباد الصمد مرتضى بن محمد غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفره ... سنه ثلث وسبعين بعد الالف سنه ۱۰۷۳ ..."Incipit: "چو مرغ امر ذی بالی ز آغاز نه از نیروی حمد آید به پرواز ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of Jāmī's collection of sayings, anecdotes, short notes and stories.
Abstract: Collection of texts of Arabic literature.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla and an outer frame made of fillets. The envelope flap has a similar frame and a mandorla on its pointe. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-30b: Bard al-akbād fī al-aʻdād / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.Contents: 2. fol. 31a-76a: Tarjamat al-kātib fī ādāb al-ṣāḥib / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.Contents: 3. fol. 77a-111b: Lawʻat al-shākī wa-damʻat al-bākī / Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and green ink. European paper with watermark. Mention in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Sh 441" (repeated on a label pasted on the upper cover).On fol. 1a: Table of contents by a later hand, mentioning a Risālat ʻibrat al-labīb by al-Ṣafadī which does not appear in the copy.Collation: Paper, fol. 111 ; 1-7¹⁰ 8⁶ 9² 10-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (+1, fol. 109) 14² ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 71Origin: As appears in opening on pp.24-25, assembled over the course of nearly three years then set down by the author in 1161 [1748]. A note on 'title page' (p.23) indicates that this ms. is a draft (مسودة) of the work, as attested by the layout and numerous lacunae, likely in the author's hand.Accompanying materials: Two scraps each with notes, etc. (paginated pp.111-112 and pp.569-570).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 152. Bahr al-fatawi."Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped central mandorla with rosettes accenting linear pendants and frame in tooled fillets ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; endbands in red and blue, tail band in fair condition, head band in poor condition with losses and exposed core ; in poor condition with significant abrasion (even gashes), lifting and cracking of leather, lower cover detaching at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; crown and grapes watermark ; lightly burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and vocalization rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; fine Turkish / Eastern Anatolian hand ; characteristically sans serif with effect of slight tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, many sweeping descenders and elongated horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes ; opening partially vocalized in red ink.Layout: As may be expected of a draft or rough copy (مسودة), the number of lines per page varies widely throughout.Collation: i, III+1 (7), 6 IV(55), VI (67), 3 V(97), II+1 (102), V+1 (113), V (123), IV (131), V (141), III (147), VI (159), 2 IV(175), VI (187), V (197), VI (209), 2 VIII (241), VI (253), III (259), IV+1 (268), VIII+1 (285), V (295), IV (303), III (309), VI (321), 2 IV (337), IV+1 (346), V (356), II (360), III (366), V+1 (377), 4 IV(409), III (415) ; numerous lacunae (unmarked) as may be expected of draft or rough copy (مسودة), regularly appearing between chapters ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "فان كانت حية فالثلثان للاختين والسدس للام والسدس الباقي للاخت لام ولا شحاء للاخ لاب الذي هو القائل وان كانت ميتة فالسدس الباقي له"Incipit: "احمد الله الذي جعل المجتهدين المتقدمين هداة المؤمنين ببيان الاحكام ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى عفو ربه الغني الشهير بقاضي زاده محمد الارزني مولدا ومحتدا المفتي بمدينة ارزن الروم برتبة قضاء حلب الشهباء لما ضاقت منطقة التحرير عما كتب في كتب الفتاوى وقصرت يد القدرة عن ضبط ما حرر فيها جمعت بقدر الوسع من وقت افتائي فيها بعض واقعات الفتوى وغيره في مجموعة غير مرتبة الى قريب من ثلثين سنة ثم بيضها في سنة احدى وستين ومائة والف من تردد لدي من الفضلاء شكر الله سعيه فصارت مجموعة كبرى وبحرا ذخارا فسميتها ببحر الفتاوى راجيا ان تكون ذخيرة العقبى وعازما على الطافي بها بعد هذا بعض واقعات الفتوى بعناية الله تعالى ..."Title from opening (pp.24-25).Ms. codex.Fine draft or rough copy (musawwadah) of an extensive collection of legal decisions assembled and set down by Qāḍīʹzādah Muḥammad al-Arzanī, muftī in Erzurum. A detailed table of contents precedes the text (pp.9-16).
Abstract: "Edifying treatiseAbstract: with examples from the conduct and oaths taking of important shaykhs. At the beginning of the text is a list of Shaʻrānī's shaykhs. The text is followed on fol. 183b-186a by a copy of the ijāzāt given by the ʻUlamāʾ of Egypt to the author."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold stamped and red-painted scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Edges, spine, fore-edge flap mended in red leather.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 2b).Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark; glossy. The text is framed within two single red lines (gold, black, blue and red on fol. 1b-2a). Crudely executed headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b. Subject headings written in black ink by a later hand on the margin. Fol. 181-182 apparently later replacements. Stained with water.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Saturday 12 Ramaḍān 1062 Aug. 17, 1652 (fol. 186a).Incipit: اقول وانا العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربّي عبد الوهاب ابن احمد بن على بن احمد بن كمال الدين بن موسى بن مولاي ابى عبد الله الزغلى بضم الزاي المعجمة وسكون الغين المعجمة سلطان تلمسن بارض المغرب واجل اصحاب سيدنا العارف بالله تعالى الشيخ ابى مدين شيخ مشايخ المغرب ... الحمد لله رب العالمين واصلي واسلم على سيدنا محمد ... واقول حسبى الله ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوى الا بالله العلي العظيم وبعد فهذه عهود ومواثيق اخذت علينا من ساداتنا ومشايخنا الذين عاصرناهم وبعضها اقبسناهاExplicit: ابن حمزه الرملي الانصارى الشافعى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والحمد لله لرب العالمين وصلى الله ... يقول مولفها ... قد ارسلت هذا الكتاب لسيدي الشيخ بن عبد الحق تغمده الله برحمته فمكث عنده سنة ونصفا ومر عليه مرات قال الشيخ ابو اللطف ابن عمه قد استفدت من هذا الكتاب المبارك فوايد كثيرة واخذته المينه قبل كتابته عليه رحمة الله تعالى وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم السبت المبارك ثانى عشر شهر رمضان المبارك سنة اثنين وستين والف احسن الله ختامها بمحمد واله امين امين امين