Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 609Origin: As appears in colophon at conclusion of final gloss, transcription completed ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah...") end of Muḥarram 897 [December 1491], which would imply quite an early copy. Other sections appear to be contemporary with this final gloss.Accompanying materials: Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf (p.1) and spine label "IL 183" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in light blue, salmon, light yellow) with black textile over spine (quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in purple wove paper ; resewn in white thread, six stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, deterioration of textile, etc.Support: non-European laid paper of perhaps several types ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes with 10-11 mm. between chains and 39 mm. between groups, possible group of four at 27 mm. from adjacent group of three ; another type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, quite distinct) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes (and perhaps fours) with 10 mm. between chains and 28-40 mm. between groups (see p.80, 94, etc.) ; at close, a type very similar to the opening if not the same with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes (and perhaps fours) with 9-10 mm. between chains and 39-42 mm. between groups ; all thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; written area and occasional marginalia surrounded by red rule-border in opening three works ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; three fine Turkish or Persianate hands ; Sharḥ Īsāghūjī and opening Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī (through p.76) in a fine naskh, serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, free assimilation of letters (initial kāf and following alif, point of final nūn with bowl, alif lām of definite article, etc.), somewhat elongated in the vertical, shaqq of kāf often sweeping dramatically upwards, pointing (of multiple dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots ; second ḥāshiyah (of Qarajah Aḥmad, pp.80-114) in a compact and delicate naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with marked tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders (rightward descenders tapered and sweeping somewhat dramatically) ; final ḥāshiyah (also of al-Bardaʻī, pp.120-140) in a bold, compact naskh, serifless with effect of tilt to the left (mainly) and of words descending to baseline, some extension of horizontal strokes, freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 15, 16 and 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 2 V(29), IV (37), 2 V(57), VI (69), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب كاتبه كشفى [؟] بن عيسى ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت بعون الله وحسن التوفيق وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة في اخر شهر محرم من شهور سنة سبع وتسعين وثمانمائة تم اين نبشتم تا بماند روزگار من نمانم اين بماند يادگار"Incipit: [Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] "الحمد لله الواجب وجوده الممتنع نظيره الممكن سواه وغيره ... وبعد فان كتاب الشيخ الامام قدوة الحكماء اثير الدين الابهري ... الشهير بايساغوجي لما كان علي بعض الاخوان متعسرا ونقضه [؟ وعلى بعضهم] متيسر [متيسرا] اردت ان اكتب بالتماسهم اوراقا لتنزيل تعسره وتعمم تيسره ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. composite codex.7. p.120- p.140 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bardaʻī.6. p.115-p.119 : [originally left blank, now carry a few brief excerpts].5. p.80-p.114 : [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] / Qarajah Aḥmad.4. p.75-p.79 : [originally left blank, now carry a few brief excerpts].3. p.48-p.76 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bardaʻī.2. p.47: [originally left blank, now carries a few excerpts].1. p.4-p.46 : Sharḥ Īsāghūjī / Ḥusām al-Dīn Ḥasan al-Kātī.Fine composite copy of the commentary by Ḥusām al-Dīn Ḥasan al-Kātī (d.1359) on the Īsāghūjī, a collection of definitions for terms used in logic adapted from the Isagoge of Porphyry by Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. between 1263-5), followed in the same hand by the gloss [lacking preface] upon al-Kātī's commentary by al-Bardaʻī (d.1521), next the gloss of Qarajah Aḥmad (d.1450 or 51) in a different hand, and finally in still a different hand, another apparently quite early copy of the gloss by al-Bardaʻī.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 506Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.346b (p.692), copied by ("katabahu...") ʻAbd al-Faqīr. Date of transcription is not specified.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 366" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; on tail-edge "١٦٤".Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather with patches of light brown leather at edges of upper and lower covers and in repairs to spine ; Type II binding (with flap) ; paper pastedowns and flyleaves in rough brown paper ; interior of flap in yellow paper and the same red-brown leather leather ; upper and lower covers each carry a blind-stamped, scalloped (17 lobes) mandorla 52 mm. high (compare Déroche class. NSd 9) accompanied by pendants and a double border consisting of a series of fillets ; three pendants appear on the envelope flap and two on the fore-edge flap ; sewn in red thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, immaculate condition ; threads broken in table of contents and final bifolium ; in fair condition with abrasion and typical wear ; repairs.Support: A number of papers appear in the various parts of the codex ; [1] primary paper is an Oriental laid paper (possibly 15th century Egyptian or Persian paper?) with 3/3/2 chainlines, 8-11 mm. between chainlines, 46 mm. between the sets of 3 and 43 between the sets of 3 and 2 ; the laidlines are very closely set and not very distinct ; [2] table of contents supplied in a European laid paper with horizontal chainlines approx. 25 mm. apart and watermark, namely a 6-pointed star approx. 32 mm. high, centered on a chainline, with the letters C and S (?) beneath, each aprrox. 25 mm. high ; [3] initial replacement folia (quire following the table of contents) on a European laid paper with indistinct chainlines and no apparent watermark ; [4] other replacement folia (fourth quire and final three quires) in a European laid paper with chainlines approx. 24 mm. apart and watermark, namely a lion rampant in a shield with a trefoil above and writing beneath, "T O S C O L A N O".Decoration: Text rubricated with mainly overlining appearing in red ; a number of small diagrams appear in the margins of the book ; those on pp.332, 366, and 376 are extremely rudimentary and seem to deal with simple geometrical concepts ; two sets of circles on p.415 and p.416 occupy a section on astronomy, and the somewhat more elaborate and partially rubricated geometrical diagrams on p.458 and p.459 accompany a discussion of optics ; another oblong figure appears on p.466.Script: Naskh ; three Persianate hands ; [1] primary hand is a rather small, neat Persianate naskh, quite casually pointed and unvowelled ; alifs are almost vertical and sans serif ; The dot of the nūn is incorporated to the point of being non-existent ; ʻAlá written with a rightward-pointing descender ; [2] table of contents is in a very casual Persianate naskh, largely unpointed and totally unvowelled ; [3] replacement hand is a late Persianate naskh, pointed, unvowelled, with nūn having the incorporated dot.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page (main in 25, replacement folia at beginning in 24, replacement folia close in 21-23) ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah evident).Collation: III(6), 1+I (9), 1+II (14), III-1 (19), 16 V(179), VI(191), VII(205), 11 V(315), VI(327), V(337), IV+I (347) ; foliated in red Hindu-Arabic numerals, generally in the top left corner of each recto, begins with ١ on p.17 and ends with ۳۳۸ on p.691 ; obviously done sometime after the glossing and trimming of the ms. ; catchwords present, though many lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب كتبه عبد الفقير"Explicit: "ولكن هذا اخر الكلام من كتاب المواقف ونسأل الله تعالى أن يثبت قلبنا على دينه ولا بزيغه بعد الهداية ويعصمنا عن الغواية ويوقفنا للاقتداء برسول الله واصحابه والتابعين لهم باحسان ويعفو عن طغيان القلم وما لا يخلق [كذا] عنه البشر من السهو والذلل وان يعاملنا بفضله ورحمته انه هو العفو الرحيم قد تمت"Incipit: "ضمن خطبة كتابه الإشارة إلى مقاصد علم الكلام رعاية لبراعة الإستهلال فبسمل اولا يتمنا ثم قال الحمد لله العلى شانه إلى أخره وحاله في ذاته وصفاته وأقعاله فانه جامع لجهات علو الشان "Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine early copy of the commentary (completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand) on Kitāb al-mawāqif fī ʻilm al-kalām, the renowned work on theology by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ʻAḍūḍ al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 555Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Codex is comprised of large sections from a ms. dating to possibly the 14th (or even 13th century), supplemented by large sections of replacement leaves the bulk of which perhaps date to the 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 404" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western-style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; spine gold-tooled with title and fillets flanking raised bands ; resewn and fairly tightly bound such that sewing is difficult to examine ; in good condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: Original, older manuscript on non-European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, curved) and chain lines only faintly visible (as well as rib shadows) but possibly grouped with 9-10 mm. between chains, quite thick, soft and floccular ; opening replacement on non-European laid paper of perhaps two other distinct types, one with 8 laid lines per cm. (curved and sagging, horizontal) and no obvious chain lines, and another which may have grouped chain lines (see pp.17-18) ; the remaining replacement sections are on European laid paper of several types, including type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), 33-35 mm. between chain lines (vertical) and watermarks cross above triple mount in circle (see, p.22, etc., 85 cm. tall, compare Heawood 889) and bull's head with eyes, ears and snake on cross above (see p.24, 44, etc.), as well as "PA" or "BA" countermark (see p.180) ; another type with wheeled cart or "char à deux roues" watermark (see p.202, for design compare Briquet, "Papiers et filigranes des archives de Gênes 1154 à 1700," no.72) and at close type with cross above orb and three hats watermarks (for design compare Heawood 2593) ; staining and tide-lines.Decoration: Section headings, keywords, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; basmalah and ḥamdalah at opening in purple ink ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least three hands in both black and brown inks ; opening replacement section in a fine naskh, compact 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand in a thin line, serifless, with curivlinear descenders and pointing in distinct dots ; main replacements first seen at p.21 in a compact nastaʻlīq (talik) in a medium line, serifless, with mainly curvilinear descenders, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn typically assimilated with bowl, tilt to the right, etc. ; other hands in naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) make up the remaining replacement sections and are similar, but more compact ; main hand of older sections (in brown ink) first seen at p.27, a large naskh, 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand, serifless with mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, shaqq of kāf usually left off (and supplied later in black ink), final hāʼ often assimilated with preceding dāl or rāʼ, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in mainly in 21 lines per page (some sections in 29 lines) ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident in some sections).Collation: Rough assemblage of made quires (additions supplementing what lacked in the older, original manuscript) with sewing nearly impossible to examine ; only a few gatherings of original, older manuscript are intact and these appear to be quinions ; final leaves left blank ; occasional catchwords ; traces of quire numbering in older sections (see p.219) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, at least two different schemes with one following numerals on upper corner of the verso of the leaf, the other of the recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.453 and 454).Explicit: "ولان الحاجة تشتمل الغني والفقير الشرب والنزول والغني لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلة لغناه والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعائر الشرع واحكامه ... وقد جرى على الوعد في مبدأ بداية المبتدي ان اشرحها بتوفيق الله شرحا ارسمه بكفاية المنتهى فشرعت فيه والوعد يسوغ بعض المساغ وحين اكاد اتكئ عنه اتكاء الفراغ تبينت فيه نبذا من الاطناب وخشيت ان يهجر لاجله الكتاب فصرفت العنان والعناية الى شرح اخر موسوم بالهداية ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.4.Ms. composite codex.Composite copy of the first part (from Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf) of al-Marghīnānī’s celebrated commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law. Codex is comprised of large sections from an older manuscript supplemented with later replacements. Contents listing on 'title page' (p.3).
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Naskh and Nastaʻlīq in various hands.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Abstract: A general license to teach.Contents.وأنا الفقير الى الله يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى عبدالله الديلمي اروي بهذا السند اجازة وقراءه على المولى العلامة الصفي احمد علي عبدالرحمن الكحلاني لقطة 12إجازة عامة من القاضي أحمد بن أحمد بن محمد بن حسين السياغي الحيمي للسيد العلامة يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلميAutograph copy. Reading note from a certain ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kaḥlānī. Includes an isnad for the Sharḥ al-Azhār by Ibn Miftāḥ, dated 20 March 1970.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوطات أو ورقات ليس له غلاف، حيث أن عليه أثر تخريم ملف، تم كتابة خطه بالمداد الأسود، خطه نسخي مع فارسي متوسطشهر الحجه الحرام سنة 1377هـIncipit: بسم الله... وبه استعين الحمدُ لله الذى جعل العلم الشريف لاهل الارض سراجا وهّاجا... وبعد فان سيدى العلامه العماد يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلمي عافاه الله قرا عليّ من علوم الحديث صحيح مسلم وسنن ابي داود وموطا الامام مالك بروايه يحيى بن يحيى الليثي وسبل السلام للبدر الامير...Explicit: وعليه التثبت في الروايه والدرايه والعمل بالسنه النبويه وعدم تقديم اقوال الرجال والوقوف عند المتشابهات وان لاينساني من صالح الدعوات سيما في اوقات الاجابات واوصيه بتقوى الله وسلوك طريقة العلما العارفين وملازمة العلم والعمل وصلى الله وسلم علا سيدنا محمد والهNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black ink. Unbound, with some holes in the paper.28-32 lines.فائدة مكتوبة بالمداد الأزرق وهي كالآتي: سند شرح الأزهار أرويه عن شيخي العلامه السيد أحمد بن علي الكحلاني رحمه الله وهو يرويه عن شيخه السيد العلامة محمد بن زيد الحوثي من أوله الى عتق ... وكتب يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلمي بتأريخ 12/ محرم / 1390هـ لقطه12
Abstract: Fatwas of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī, collected in four parts (qism) by his pupil Kamāl al-Dīn Isḥāq al-Maghribī (see fol. 2a and 2b).Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).18 to 20 lines per page. The script changes from fol. 76b on. Written in black ink with use of red in medium small casual naskh with larger script for the headings. From fol. 76b on, medium large naskh. Light cream glazed paper with laid lines visible. Between fol. 26 and 27: Note on a smaller piece of paper probably by the same hand. Fol. 35b blank. Fol. 1a-2a: inscriptions, seals, short texts. Fol. 126a-129b: several short texts and inscriptions.Collation: Paper, fol. 129 ; 1-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (-1, at the end) ; horizontal catchword at the end of most quires.Copied in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 718 by Ismāʻīl ibn Sharaf ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 125b).Incipit: بسم ... اللهم يسر لااله الا الله عده للقا الله ربنا ... هذه الفتاوى التى صدرت من الشيخ ... الشهرزورى المعروف بابن الصلاح رتبها الشيخ ... كمال الدين اسحاق ... على اربعة اقسام قسم فى شرح ايات من كتاب اللهExplicit: و يذكر نحوهما من مزيلات الملك ومن الفرق بين ذلك و بين الابرآء وصحّ فلن يتعقبه ما يُزيلُ حُكمه فلمْ يحتجْ الى يمين تنفع احتمال ذلك والله اعلم هذا ما اتفق للشيخ ... ابن الصلاح رحمه الله تعالى
Abstract: A collection of literary, scholarly, historical and poetic texts, with the beginning part of the dīwān of ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAnsī.Contents.سفينة أدبية تحتوي في أولها على ديوان العنسيIncludes numerous fragments and poems, among them excerpts from the Sharaf asrār al-ṭibb lil-ʻayān by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥamawī, a history of the Ayyubid dynasty in Yemen, a letter by Abū Bakr al-Khwārizmī to the people of Ṭabaristān, selections of poetry by Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā Ḥillī, and an excerpt on astronomy.عبارة عن مجلد بني اللون تمت حباكته من أعلى المخطوط وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرالجمعة 18/ذي الحجة/سنة 1218هـIncipit: واحد بعد واحِد . ومما اتَّفَق للشيخ العلامه عبدالرحمن بن محَمد الذهبى تمام دخوله صنعا المحميَّه أنه طلب من القاضى العلامه البَليغ ذو اللطايف التى لعبت بالعقول...على بن محمد العنسى رحمهما الله ان يرسل اليه بدِيوان شعره فأرسله اليه وكتب بهذين البيتين ضمَّن فيهما قول امرء القيس اَيَا مَن لَهُ النظم الذى نُسِيَت به قفا نبك من ذكرى حبيبِ ومَنْزِلِ...Explicit: تذيع دموعى سر وجدي كانها لنص احاديث الغرام شروح ولولاك ما هب النسيم معطراً ولا راح نشر المسك منك يفوح. لقطة رقم (148).Naskh, Persian naskh and thuluth scripts, written in black and red ink.12-37 lines.1-منقول من كتاب شرف أسرار الطب للعيان تأليف محمد بن أحمد بن علي الحموي. لقطة رقم (149-151). 2-فوائد متفرقة منها: تاريخ مختصر في ذكر أيام بني أيوب ودولتهم في اليمن .من كلام الشيخ أبو بكر الخوارزمي رسالة كتبها إلى أهل طبرستان. مختارات من أشعار الصفي الحلي.نقول في علم الفلك. أشعار متفرقة لعدد من الشعراء. من اللقطة رقم (152-208).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 908 v.2Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 57Binding: 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, owner and decorative accents over raised bands "الاسفار | 2 | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine but appears to be over cords, in white thread, five stations ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined wove paper of several types.Decoration: Some headings rubricated.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; both in a medium to bold line ; naskh, a clear, modern hand, mainly serifless (though right-sloping head-serif appears on lām of occasional lām alif) and rounded with curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; ruqʻah, compact, quick hand, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the left, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 26 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in pencil and black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "قد لا يكون في غير محله ان نطيل البيان في هذا الملخص الاجمالي فنضيف الى ذلكم [ذلك] التبيان السالف مجملا من العبارات عما وقع الكلمة فلسفة في هذه المملكة من التحريف تارة ومن التطور في الاطوار المختلفة التي تقلبت فيها الى الوقت الحاضر تارة اخرى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful (though seemingly acephalous) draft copy (مسودة) of an introductory work on philosophy addressing the history of philosophy (p.5), the Eastern philosophers (p.15), the Ancient Greek philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, etc.) (p.24), Medieval philosophers (p.145), Modern philosophy (p.191) and contemporary philosophy (p.497).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 150Origin: As appears in colophon on p.397, copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Khiḍr [?]. Colophon lacks year transcription was completed ; paper suggests early 17th century.Accompanying materials: Slip carrying notes (paginted pp.21-22).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 71. Hasan Chelebi's glosses on the Mutawwal." ; "۲٤" on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) and 'title page' (p.3) ; "٤١٦" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (orange-red, blue, yellow) with spine, foreedge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper pastedown in laid paper, lower board lining in pink-tinted laid paper ; interior of envelope flap in marbled paper ; sewn in cream thread, two and four stations (alternating) ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, some lifting and losses of paper and leather, staining, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs in red leather.Support: European laid paper in several types ; first type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-30 mm. apart (horizontal), anchor in circle watermark with trefoil above (compare Heawood 2), quite thick, sturdy and well-burnished ; second type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), crossbow in circle watermark with trefoil above (compare Piccard 123860 and 123861), thinner but sturdy and well-burnished ; next type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), crown with star and crescent above watermark (compare Heawood 1132), thick, sturdy and well-burnished ; final type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart, angel in circle watermark with flower/leaf above ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; occasional textual dividers in red and black.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh, several hands ; mainly naskh-nastaʻlīq virtually serifless with mainly closed counters, effect of tilt to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), elongation of horizontal strokes, final nūn occasionally reversed (re-curved) ; naskhs fairly compact with mainly closed counters, rounded and freely ligatured, some with tilt to the right others to the left (see pp.283-306 and pp.347-370).Layout: Written in 23, 25 and 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 V(80), II (84), 4 V(124), IV (132), IV+1 (141), VI (153), V (163), IV+2 (173), 2 VI (197), I (199) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and insert ; skips two pages each between pp.265-266 and pp.271-272).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم هذا الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب في ليلة يوم الثلثاء في شهر المرجب عن يد عبد الضعيف الشيخ مصطفى بن خضر [؟] غفر الله له ولوالديه"Explicit: "والتذكير للاحكام المذكورة في علمي المعاني والبيان انما لم يتعرض للبديع لكونه خارجا عن [البلاغة]"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي الهمنا حقائق المعاني ودقائق البيان الاقرب الى الفهم ان المراد بالالهام في هذا المقام معناه اللغوي وهو الاعلام مطلقا لا يحتاج ارادة ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Fine copy of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Fanārī's (Hasan Çelebî) gloss on al-Sharḥ al-muṭawwal, the longer commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 968Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; though possibly copied for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), likely in Egypt in the late 1930s.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 117Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in dull gold ; cover gold-stamped with "كشف الاسرار" ; sewn in heavy white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Machine laid and wove papers of a few different types ; opening type (pp.1-4, 17-20) machine laid, lined and with watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see p.101 to close and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91) ; next type (pp.5-8, 13-16) also machine laid and lined but without watermark visible ; next type (pp.9-12, 21-40) a machine wove paper, brown in color, somewhat acidic ; finally (p.41 to close) still another machine wove type, cream in color.Decoration: Some headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Naskh ; two main modern hands, though possibly supplied by the same copyist ; opening and final works in a careful, compact naskh in a medium to thin line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; middle work in a larger, bolder naskh, seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs mainly on lām, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15, 11-14, 11, and 15-21 lines per page ; some sections frame-ruled (see p.42 and following).Collation: i, 3 V(30), 3 II(42), i ; quaternions and binions ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (distinct for each work) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: [Kashf al-asrār] "وجواهر العلم المخزونة المصونة وانه في ظاهره يحكي عن معنى" ; [Jawāhir al-asrār] "واذا جاء روح القدس المعزي الذي يرسله ربي باسمي فهو يعلمكم كل شيء ويذكركم كل ما قلت لكم" ; [Lawḥ min al-nuqṭah al-ūlá] "وقد اطلعت على مغزاه وزبدته ولا من مبشرة الا بعثت بها اليك انتهت هذه الريحانة التي اقتطفناها من باقة لوح من الواح النقطة الاولى الناظمة في عقدها كل معنى ثمين ومبحث سمين والله مهدي من يشاء الى صراط اليقين وهو حسبنا ونعم الامين ... الضمين"Incipit: [Kashf al-asrār] "بحمد ربنا العلي الاعلى الحمد لله الذي اظهر الشمس بقدرته والاح النور بقوته واطلع الوجه من قمص الامر بحكمته ..." ; [Jawāhir al-asrār] "هو العلي الاعلى يا ايها السالك في سبيل العدل والناظر الى طلعة الفضل قد بلغ كتابك وعرفت سؤالك سمعت لحنات قلبك في سرادق فؤادك ..." ; [Lawḥ min al-nuqṭah al-ūlá ] "لوح من النقطة الاولى الحمد لله الذي اظهر الشمس بقدرته والاح النور بقوته واطلع الوجه من قمص الامر بحكمته ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' for opening work (p.1).Ms. codex.3. p.53-p.84 : Lawḥ min al-Nuqṭah al-ūlá [or Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār] / Baháʼuʼlláh [?].2. p.41-p.52 : Jawāhir al-asrār fī maʻārij al-asfār / Baháʼuʼlláh.1. p.1-p.40 : Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār / Baháʼuʼlláh [?].Careful copy of a small collection (majmūʻah) of Bahai works namely Jawāhir al-asrār fī maʻārij al-asfār, a concise treatise by Baháʼuʼlláh (Bahāʼ Allāh), Mīrzā Ḥusayn ʻAlī Nūrī (d.1892), flanked by Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār, in incomplete form at the opening of the codex and then apprently repeated at the close under the title Lawḥ min al-Nuqṭah al-ūlá, possibly also of Baháʼuʼlláh.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 536Origin: According to colophon on fol.40a, copied ("katabtuhu") in Shīrāz by al-ʻArshī, 746 [1345 or 1346].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from YahudaBinding: Covered in blue cloth without boards; Type III (without flap); modern, certainly not original.Support: non-European laid paper; laid lines sometimes run vertically, sometimes horizontally; no chain lines visible; 20 laid lines in 17mm; watermarked European laid paper is used for the substituted leaf at fol.28 as well as for the repairs at the top of fol.40; chain lines spaced roughly 21 mm. apart and running horizontally; watermark may be pot with grapes.Decoration: Text of fol.12a is rubricated.Script: Mainly naskh with elements of taʻlīq; medium Persian hand with words descending onto the baseline, partially pointed and with rare vocalization, somewhat difficult to read; fol.21 and fol.28 are in a small, neat Persian naskh.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page except for the inserted folia (fol. 21 and fol. 28) which range from 23-26 lines per page.Collation: iv, 4 V (40) ; chiefly quinions; catchwords present; pagination added later in pencil, Western numerals.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتبته بشيراز سنة 746 العرشي غفر الله له"Explicit: "والفطنة والذكاء يشعر [كذا] بسرعة الادراك [؟] لما غاب عن المدرك والمعرفة قد [كذا] سبق نكرة فلا يمنع عن اطلاق شيء منه الا شيء مما ذكرناه فان حقق لفظ لا يوهم اصلا بين المتفاهمين ولم يرد الشرع بالمنع منه فانا نجوز اطلاقه قطعا والله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ابو حامد محمد بن محمد بن محمد الغزالي نعمة الله ورضوانه عليه فالحمد لله المتفرد بكبريائه وعظمته المتوحد بتعاليه وصمديته الذي قصر اجنحة العقول ... بعد فقد سألني اخ في الله يعين [؟] في الدين اجابته شرح معاني اسماء الله الحسنى ..."Title from recto of first flyleaf.Ms. codex.Treatise on the divine attributes, or ninety-nine names of God, and whether men may imitate them. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.