Abstract: "Commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻ; incomplete at end."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 3b.Physical description: Part 1, 25 lines per page; written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black. Part 2, 25 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Edges moldered; marginal damp-staining and mildewing.Origin: Part 1, 29 Shawwāl 1059 H 5 November 1649, by Zayn al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Jazāʻirī (leaf 145b). Part 2 by a different hand, likely around the same time.Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم و الکمال
Abstract: Collection of commentaries on doctrinal and legal texts.Binding note: Full brown leather with central mandorla and pendants blind-stamped on red paper and blind-stamped fillets; blue paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-38b: Ḥāshiyat Mawlānā Sulṭān al-Muḥaqqiqīn ʻalá Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / Ḥusayn ibn Rafīʻ al-Sulṭān al-ʻUlamāʼ.Contents: 2. leaves 40b-67b: Taʻlīqāt ʻalá sharḥ ilāhīyāt al-Tajrīd / Muḥammad al-Khafrī.Contents: 3. leaves 68b-79b: Taʻlīq ḥawāshī ʻalá mabāḥith jawāhir al-Sharḥ al-jadīd lil-Tajrīd.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Physical description, text 1: 23 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Leaves 1-24 appear to be replacements, written in shikastah with varying lines per page. Occasional damp-staining.Physical description, texts 2-3: 15-19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq and naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: Likely first half of the 19th century.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon of first work. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-105a (18 lines); 2nd work: fol. 105b-155b (16-18 lines); 3rd work: fol. 157a-249b (14 lines) First work written by Muḥammad Mahdī al-Kāshānī. 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. 1st work: Naskh; 18 lines in written area 15 x 9.5 cm.; 2nd work: Naskh; 16-18 lines in written area 14.5 x 10 cm.; 3rd work: Nastaʻliq; 14 lines in written area 16.5 x 13 cm. Folio 1b-95a; 95b-105a poems; 105b-155b; 157a-249b. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather.Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain line and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; interlinear Persian translation in cursive Naskh; catchwords. Naskh; 11 lines in written area 15.5 x 9 cm. Folio 1b-337a; 337b-338 notes and a poem. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather with embossed gold center medallions front and back, spine repaired, rebacked in tan leather.Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Abstract: Treatise on Islamic law followed by a commentary on the preface.Binding note: Full red leather with flap on front cover; gold-stamped fillets; blue leather doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 3a-5a, 6a-8b: Extracts and notes.Contents: 2. leaves 5b, 9a-354b: Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.Contents: 3. leaves 355a-357a: Jāmiʻ al-fawāʼid fī sharḥ khuṭbat al-Qawāʻid / Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn.Contents: 4. leaves 357a-360b: Extracts and notes.Ms. codex.Title from texts 2, 3.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 25 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication, catchwords, and vocalization; marginal notes. Text 2, varying lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Manuscript is damp-stained and mildewed, with a few repairs. Leaves 6-8 belong before leaf 5.Origin: Text 1, 3 Jumādá I, 758 H 24 April 1357, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥsin al-Ḥusaynī (leaf 354b). Text 2 likely 17th century.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color, unpolished laid-paper; with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; manuscript appears to be an older manuscript (perhaps 18th century) with missing sections and conclusion added by a later hand and dated 1238 [1822 or 1823], paper of newer section is also laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no watermarks but of a more recent date; older section has text within a ruled border in gold and red ink; newer sections lack border; some interleaved pages; both sections written in black ink with rubrication; numerous marginal glosses; catchwords on some leaves. Nastaʻliq and naskh; 11 lines (nastaʻliq pages), and 13 lines (naskh pages); in written area 15.3 x 10 cm. Text: fol. 2b-136b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M81b. Disbound; original marbled cardboard binding included in case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.Manuscript.
Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written in at least three hands with varying page layout; also includes six replacement pages on rougher paper (f. 55-57, 59-61).
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-26a (14 lines); 2nd work: fol. 27b-43a. (15 lines) First work written by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī; scribe of second work not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. First work written in al-Ṭihrān [Tehran], Iran; second work written in Iran, city not identified. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink, with rubrication and some overlining in red; some pages folded over; catchwords. First work: Cursive Naskh; 14 lines in written area 16 x 9 cm.; second work: Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 16.5 x 9.5 cm. First work: Cursive Naskh; second work: Nastaʻliq. Astronomical drawings throughout in red and black. Folio 1b-26a; Folio 27b-43a. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M305. Binding: blue grain over cardboard sides, dark blue cloth spine.Manuscript.
Abstract: Four volumes of a large compendium of Shiʻite law. Volume 2 is missing at least one leaf at the beginning.Binding note: Volumes 1-2, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; yellow paper doublures. Volume 3, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; spine and corners repaired. Volume 4, full red leather with blind-tooled fillets.Contents: Volumes 1-2: kitāb al-ṭahārah -- Volume 3: kitāb al-ṣalāh -- Volume 4: kitāb al-nikāḥ.Ms. codex.Volume 3 erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Title from colophon, volume 2, leaf 234b.Physical description, volumes 1-2: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; overlining in black. Spaces left for rubrication. Mild staining and a few paper repairs. First leaf of volume 1 is a replacement.Physical description, volume 3: 31 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.Physical description, volume 4: 24 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: Volumes 1-2 copied by one hand, likely early 19th century. Volume 3 dated 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1225 H 30 November 1810, by Ibn Rajab ʻAlī Khāmī ? Bābā-yi Samnānī (leaf 308b). Volume 4 dated 26 Rajab 1230 H 4 July 1815, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maqābī vocalization? al-Awānī al-Majrānī vocalization? (leaf 288a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا بواضح الدليل الى سبيل معادن العلم
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-11b: Treatise on fundamental Shiʻite beliefs.Contents: 2. leaves 12b-151b: al-Tuḥfah al-Qiwāmīyah fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Mahdī al-Sayfī.Contents: 3. leaves 154a-165b: Nuqilat min Miṣbāḥ al-Kafʻamī. Selections from Junnat al-amān al-wāqiyah wa-jannat al-īmān al-bāqiyah, a collection of prayers and devotions.Contents: 4. leaves 168b-169a: Marriage formula.Ms. codex.Title from text 2.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 13 lines per page; written in naskh in black on machine-made paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 19 lines per page, in two columns; written in naskh in black on machine-made paper; rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Text 2, Shaʻbān 1259 H September 1843, by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥājj Mullā Abū ! al-Qāsim al-Sumdānī ? (leaf 151b). Text 1 likely written at a somewhat later date.
Abstract: Collection consisting of two unbound codices and a leaf on disparate topics.Binding note: Loose in folder.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-57a: Turkish songs. Arranged by makam. Turkish in Arabic script.Contents: 2. leaves 58b-71b: Commonplace book of Persian and Arabic poetry and extracts from religious works. Excised from a larger manuscript.Contents: 3. leaf 72: Anecdote narrated by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArūḍī, tutor of al-Amīr Abū Kālanjār ibn al-Marzubān ibn al-Amīr ʻIzz al-Dawlah. Arabic.Ms. codices.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: Entire collection is stained and ragged; in fair condition.Codex 1: 215 x 143 mm. 20-21 lines per page, in 1-3 columns; written in small, casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication in red, green and blue.Codex 2: 194 x 120 mm. Varying lines per page; written in miniscule nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication.Leaf: 161 x 124 mm. 12 lines per page; written in large, casual naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Some vocalization.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 459Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand of opening section (through p.226) suggest perhaps 15th century, with paper and hand of final section suggesting late 16th or perhaps early to mid 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 85" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in now dull yellow paper with red leather over spine, traces of fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid European paper (crossbow in circle watermark visible) ; sewn in cream and light pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and beige, fair condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with flap lost, lifting and losses of paper and leather, abrasion, staining, etc.Support: Opening section on non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines in groups of three with 9-11 mm. between chains and 38 mm. between groups (horizontal, see p.40), cloudy formation, dark cream in color (possibly a second type with 8 laid lines per cm. and chain lines in groups of three with 9 mm. between chains and 47 between groups, see p.90, 176, etc.) ; following section on European laid paper of at least two types ; type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart, anchor in circle with six pointed star above watermark (see p.230, 234, 235, etc., compare nos. 61, etc. in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans), sturdy and highly burnished to glossy ; another type with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), three hats watermark (see p.261, 269, etc., compare nos.10 and 11 in Velkov), thin, crisp and transluscent, extremely well-burnished ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-34 mm. apart (horizontal), cross in an inverted tear drop watermark with "I M [?]" below (compare Heawood 964, etc.) ; some ink burn.Decoration: Keywords rubricated (in latter 18th century section, pp.226-327).Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq and naskh ; three or more hands ; opening through p.226 mainly in a naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq, serifless with effect of tilt to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (where present, quite casual to scarce in some sections) in distinct dots, with a few other hands supplying an occasional passage (see p.8, p.28, p.36, pp.44-46, etc.) ; from p.227 to close, an elegant naskh, mainly serifless with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders (many dramatically majmūʻah), pointing in distinct or conjoined dots (with two dots typically arranged vertically, one above the other), freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page.Collation: ii, 11 V(110), IV+1 (119), IV (127), 2 V(147), IV (155), V (165), 1 (166) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves, mistakenly repeats p.4 and p.6, and skips four pages between pp.261-262 and two pages each between pp.265-266 and pp.267-268).Explicit: "وقد يقال في الاول ايضا نقل من المعنى الحقيقي الذي هو الحائط الا انه لوحظ اولا تم الكتاب بعون الله الوهاب"Incipit: "قال الشيخ جار الله العلامة احسن الله اكرامه في دار المقامة الحمد لله الذي انزل القرآن كلاما مؤلفا منظما وصف الله سبحانه بعد الدلالة على انحصار جنس الحمد بانزال القرآن ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.7).Ms. composite codex.Fine composite copy of al-Jurjānī’s commentary on the first part of al-Kashshāf, the celebrated Qurʼān commentary by Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī, called Jār Allāh (d. 538/1144).