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).
Book compiled by Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Kibsī. Ownership note, dated 1954.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير بني غامق اللون عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد وقد بدأ جلده في التآكل من طرف المخطوط جهة خيوط الحباكة وعليه آثار بلل وهو متنوع الخطوط وأحجام الخطوط والنُسَّاخ متعددون وعليه آثار بلل ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرCompiled volume, works of various origins and copyists. Naskh, Persian naskh and thuluth scripts, written in black and red ink. Traces of water damage and worm holes. Obscured labeling on the edge of the manuscript.
Binding note: Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 3a, 76a.Physical description: Text 1, 6-7 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 2, 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Both texts have rubrication and catchwords; text 1 has marginal and interlinear notes. Leaves 132-143 detached. Mild staining, a few paper repairs, ragged edges.Origin: Text 1, 23 Jumādá II 1096 H 27 May 1685, by ʻAbd ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Nabī al-Rammāḥī (leaf 74b). Text 2, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1096 H October 1685, by the same scribe (leaf 143b).1. leaves 2b-74b: Kitāb Mabādī al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.2. leaves 75b-143b: Ghāyat al-bādī fī sharḥ al-Mabādī / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī.Treatise on Shiʻite law followed by a commentary upon it.
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Three-quarter red leather with black leather covers; blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 2a-77a: Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī al-jamʻ bayna al-ashyāʼ wa-al-naẓāʼir / Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥillī.Contents: 2. leaves 79b-266a: Kitāb al-Intiṣār / al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá.Ms. composite codex.Title from both texts.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 14 lines per page; written in naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper; rubrication in green and catchwords. Text 2, 17-19 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper; rubrication and catchwords; hand changes on leaf 238a; leaves 80-83 are replacements. Some damp-staining and a few repairs, particularly at the beginning and end of each text.Origin: Text 1, 16 Rabīʻ I 985 H 3 June 1577 (leaf 77a). Text 2, 22 Rabīʻ I 972 H 28 October 1564 (leaf 266a).
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 508Origin: As appears in colophon on p.117, Risālah fī ʻaqāʼid al-suʼāl ʻan al-īmān copied by Mullā Muḥammad ibn Mullā Aḥmad al-Zand [?] al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī with transcription completed 16 Jumādá II [?] 1264 [ca. 20 May 1848]. As appears in colophon on p.134, transcription of al-Waṣīyah [Waṣīyat al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah] completed Ramaḍān 1274 [April-May 1858]. Other works likely copied around the same time. Ownership / purchase statement with contents listing on p.284 provides rough terminus ante quem for the entire majmūʻah of 1875 or 6.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inscription on inner front cover, "IL 425" and "M. 43" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark purple cloth with red leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; sewn in white thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and magenta, good condition ; overall in fair condition with only minor abrasion, lifting of leather, staining to board linings, etc.Support: European wove paper and laid paper of at least two types ; opening through p.158 in wove paper ; next and final quires (pp.159-178, 275 to close), flyleaves and board linings in a laid paper (possibly machine laid) with 'laid' lines more of a mesh / crosshatch, chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (vertical), watermark with stag leaping above pond (stag springing or salient, or even courant) and "B G" ; other gatherings (pp.179-218) in a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24-25 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including lion rampant in a coat of arms and eagle with "J V" [?] below (see p.179, etc.) ; latter quires (pp.209-274) in a type with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (vertical), and "F P" watermark (perhaps Fratelli Palazzuoli, period between initials in shape of triangle).Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; written area surrounded by red double rule-border ; written area of Risālah fī ʻaqāʼid al-suʼāl ʻan al-īmān surrounded by black rule-border ; some overlining in red.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; several fine hands with Turkish and Persianate features [Iraqi?] ; opening two works in a distinct hand (naskh), following works through Ṣūfic excerpts mainly in one hand (naskh-nastaʻlīq / talik) with some passages supplied in other hands, collection of poetry in still a different hand (naskh).Layout: Written in 23-27 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled ; written area divided to two columns to set off verses.Collation: i, 7 V(70), IV (78), 5 V(128), IV (136), IV-2 (142), i ; chiefly quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in the upper-outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; p.82 left partially blank ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [ Risālah fī al-ʻaqāʼid] "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تمت النسخة المباركة على يد الفقير ملا محمد بن ملا احمد الزند [؟] الشافعي مذهبا القادري طريقة غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن نظر بها وقرأ له ولوالديه سورة الفاتحة ١٦ ج سنة ١٢۶٤" ; [Waṣīyat al-Imām al-Aʻẓam] "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد فرغت هذه الوصية في شهر رمضان سنة الف ومائتين واربع وسبعين من [؟] بعد هجرة النبوة على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.20. p.285-p.288 : [blank].19. p.284 : [ownership / purchase statements].18. p.275-p.283 : [Majmūʻat shiʻr].17. p.269-p.274 : [blank].15. p.264-p.268 : [excerpts from Ṣūfī works].14. p.160-263 : [Fāʼidat raṣd al-ibrah ... etc., i.e. Aḥādīth wa-nuṣūṣ fiqhīyah, fatāwá wa-fawāʼid fiqhīyah].13. p.141-159 : Fāʼidah fī khawwāṣ irṣād al-silāḥ wa-shurb al-kaʼs wa-fī fawāʼid al-ṭarīqah al-Rifāʻīyah.12. p.135-140: Fāʼidah fī baʻḍ masāʼil min tartīb [?] kalimat al-tawḥīd wa-al-īmān wa-irkānihā.11. p.134 : ʻAdad ḥurūf al-Qurʼān manqūl min Bustān al-ʻārifīn min muṣannafāt Abī al-Layth.10. p.130-p.134 : Waṣīyat al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah Nuʻmān ibn Thābit / Abū Ḥanīfah.9. p.127-p.130 : Yuqraʼ hādhā al-duʻāʼ ʻinda al-nawm.8. p.126 : Aʻlamu anna al-kaffārāt al-mashhūrah hādhihi.7. p.125 : Jamʻ al-iʻtiqād li-ahl al-sunnah.6. p.119-p.125: al-Waṣīyah li-Abī Yūsuf Yaʻqūb / Abū Ḥanīfah.5. p.118-p.119 : Hādhihi ʻAqāʼid lil-Ghazālī / al-Ghazālī.4. p.107-p.117 : Risālah fī al-ʻaqāʼid al-suʼāl ʻan al-īmān / Abū Isḥāq al-Tūnisī.3. p.28-p.106 : ʻUyūn al-ḥaqīqah fī fatāwá al-ṭarīqah [revised and enlarged] /Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn Khamīs ibn ʻAlī al-Rifāʻī al-Baghdādī.2. p.4-p.27 : ʻUyūn al-ḥaqīqah fī fatāwá al-ṭarīqah /Aḥmad ibn Khamīs ibn ʻAlī al-Rifāʻī al-Baghdādī.1. p.3 : [contents listing].Fine collection (majmūʻah) of works and excerpts on various topics of Ṣūfism, articles of faith, fiqh, etc. conluding with a small collection of poetry. Contents listing on 'title page' (p.3).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 252Origin: As appears in colophon on p.281, opening works copied in the town (qaṣabah) of Ṭihrān by ʻAlī Riz̤ā ibn Ḥasan al-ʻAqlānī [?] al-Tankānī [?] with transcription completed in 1083 [1672 or 3]. As appears in colophon on p.334, al-Multaqayāt min kalām Aflaṭūn copied by Ibn Mīr Muḥammad Salīm al-Rāzī Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī with transcription completed 1098 [1686 or 7]. As appears in colophon on p.515, final work also copied by Ibn Mīr Muḥammad Salīm al-Rāzī Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī with transcription completed in Shaʻbān 1098 [June-July 1687].Former shelfmark: "٤٢٢" on paper spine label ; "254 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "216" inscribed in pencil on opening 'title page' (p.3).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in bright pink surface-dyed wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry octagonal central ornament and square cornerpieces built up of blind tooled rosettes as well as blind-tooled border in series of striated s-shaped stamps ; sewn in magenta thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and red, good condition ; overall in fair condition with significant abrasion, moisture damage, lifting and losses of leather, etc.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper of perhaps two types ; opening type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and rare chain lines visible, dark cream in color, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished ; final type (from p.283) with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) , quite thin, crisp and transluscent ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlining in red ; lacunae in text of final work where rubrics left unfilled.Script: Naskh and naskh nastaʻlīq ; two clear Persianate hands ; opening through p.281 in a fine naskh-nastaʻlīq, serifless, with tilt to the right, effect of words descending to baseline and superscripting of letters and words ; latter collection of philosophical treatises (from p.283 on) in an elegant naskh, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif, with mainly open counters, curvilinear descenders, adhering closely to baseline, and pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 16, 21, 22, and 18 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV (8), III (14), 2 IV(30), III (36), 27 IV(252), II+1 (257), ii ; mainly quaternions with occasional ternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.8. p.516 : [discussion in Persian of philosophical topics addressed in the preceding pages].7. p.283-p.515 : [collection of brief treatises on philosphical topics (see listing on p.283) opening with al-Multaqayāt min kalām Aflāṭūn].6. p.282 : [assorted excerpts].5. p.70-p.281 : [Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah, or Iʻjāz al-bayān fī tafsīr umm al-Qurʼān] / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.4. p.66-p.69 : Faṣl fī bayān miqdār al-sanah wa-taʻyīn al-ayyām al-ālihīyah allatī minhā yawm al-qiyāmah / Kamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Razzāq.3. p.54-p.65 : [Sharḥ Arbaʻīn ḥadīthan].2. p.28-p.54 : Wāridāt Shaykh Badr al-Dīn al-Shāshī / Badr al-Dīn al-Shāshī [?].1. p.3-p.28 : [al-Nuṣūṣ] / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.Fine composite collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of several works of Ṣūfism, ḥadīth, tafsīr, and philosophy, including works by Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d.1274), Badr al-Dīn al-Shāshī [?], Kamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (d. 1330?), etc. Contents listing at opening on 'title page' (p.1).
Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title from colophon. Scribe not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: yellowish, polished cream color paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with highlighting and overlining in purple; catchwords. Naskh; 19-21 lines in written area 16.5 x 9 cm. Folio 1b-148a; Folio 146b-147b blank. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M304. Binding: flexible tan leather binding with embossed frame lines.
Abstract: "A commentary on a work of theology answering 30 questions of Zaydi-Mu'tazili doctrine."Title from introduction.Title from the top edge of the manuscript; contents.19/رجب/سنة 1028هـ لقطة رقم 414شرح مفيد على الكتاب الشهير المعروف بمصباح العلوم في معرفه الحي القيومBrockelmann, G I 403; S I 701. Copied from exemplar dated 2 July 1619. Ownership note, dated November 1948.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد كتب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر والبنفسجي ويبدو أنه لأكثر من ناسخ واحد حيث يحتوي على خطوط مختلفة منها النسخ والفارسيليلة الاثنين غرة جماد الأول سنة 135؟يبدو أنها سنة1035هـ لأنها نقلت عن نسخة المؤلف المنسوخة في 1028هـ والله أعلمIncipit: بسم الله...وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي انشا العالم من العدم واخترعه اختراعا واوجده بعد العدم المحض...وبعد فلما كان علم الكلام اشرف العلوم...Explicit: وقد روينا عن النبي صلعلم انه قال العلم الذي لا يعمل به كالكنز الذي لا ينفق منه اتعب صاحبه نفسه في جمعه ثم لم يصل الى نفعه...Naskh and Persian naskh scripts in different hands, written in black, red, green and purple ink.16 lines.