Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 241Origin: As appears at the close of each piece (kıta), executed by es-Seyit el-Hac Mustafa İzzet. In three of the signatures he includes "known as Reisülulema". He has signed the final piece "Bende-yi Al-i aba, Seyit İzzet Mustafa," a modest expression which, according to M. Uğur Derman (see Letters in gold, p.118), he preferred to use in his later years. Only one of the pieces is dated 1282 [1865 or 6] with the others likely completed around the same time or slightly later.Former shelfmark: "570 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "93" in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Boards now covered in green and black mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look, traces of another paper underneath) with dark purple to black leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; boards lined in same mottled paper ; panels hinged together in accordion format with same dark purple to black leather and hinged into case ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion and staining.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into frames of blue and orange-tinted paper, and mounted.Decoration: Written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by further gold and black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red and green-blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large opening line of each panel in thuluth (sülüs), followed by four lines in naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line of thuluth and four smaller lines of naskh.Collation: Four panels hinged together in accordion (concertina) format ; opens vertically.Colophon: [1] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [2] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه امين سنة ١٢٨٢" ; [3] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [4] "بندۀ آل عبا سيد عزت مصطفى"Incipit: "اذكروا الله ذكرا كثيرا قال رسول الله صلوات الله عليه وسلامه مثل الذي يذكر ربه والذي لا يذكر ربه مثل الحي والميت ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) of four kıtalar employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 235Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by one Ḥamdī [Hamdî] with possible date or number for this piece.Former shelfmark: "567 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in golden olive-tinted and gold-flecked paper with black leather over board edges/turn-ins (leather edged / framed binding) ; board linings in yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled and gold-painted rosettes and guilloché roll border ; panels hinged together with dark brown to black leather ; in fair condition with some abrasion and lifting of leather at board edges and joints/hinges (some split).Support: Well-burnished European laid paper bordered by strips of marbled paper and tinted-frame (orange, pink, etc. though papers of facing panels match) ; watermark faintly visible in final panel but difficult to make out.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of strips of marbled paper (in pink, blue, and white) flanked by white and green fillets and heavy and narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; panels within written area surrounded by narrow gold band ; textual dividers in the form illuminated rosettes with white, pink, red and blue accents ; additional illuminated floral accents appear above elongated horizontal strokes and elsewhere to set-off text.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening line of each page in thuluth ; four centered lines thereafter in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line in thuluth and four more compact lines in naskh ; written area divided to upper panel (accommodating the large line) and centered lower panel (for the shorter lines).Collation: Ten 'panels' (consisting of written area and border pieces mounted on another leaf) hinged together in accordion format (opens vertically) ; 'pagination' in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears in the upper left-hand corner of each panel.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب حمدى ۷۹"Explicit: "وللخازن مثل ذلك لا ينقض بعضهم اجر بعض شيئا اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق محمد واله الطاهرين"Incipit: "قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن ابي هريرة رض قال قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم اذا مضى شطر الليل او ثلثاه ينزل الله تبارك وتعالى الى سماء الدنيا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing the text of assorted ḥadīth, executed by one Hamdî.
Abstract: Collection of three texts comprising a commentary on the commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī (d. 907/1501) on the Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa-al-kalām by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 791/1389), the commentary by al-Dawwānī and the text by al-Taftazānī.Binding note: Marbled paper over pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Leather spine and fore-edge flap.Green paper pastedown and endleaf.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-141a: Ḥāshiyat Mīr ʻalá Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb fī al-manṭiq li-Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī / Mīr Abū al-Fatḥ al-Saʻīdī.Contents: 2. fol. 141bis b-188b: Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Contents: 3. fol. 188b-194a: Matn al-Tahdhīb / Saʻd al-Dīn al-TaftazānīMs. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.17 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red, text 1 in medium small naskh ; text 2 and 3 in thick small naskh. The text is framed within a single red fillet (up to fol. 71b), with two columns of gloss around it. Glazed European paper; frame-ruled. Gloss (ḥāshiyah) mostly by the same hand as the main text on the margins and on a few small pieces of paper pasted between the leaves, signed Aḥmad, Maḥmūd, Zayn al-Dīn, Chalabī, Mīr Ghayās! al-Dīn, Ḥusayn Khalkhalī, ʻAbd Allāh etc. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Falsafiyāt 82". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1180/2 Ḥāʼ".Text 1 copied by Ḥamzah ibn ʻUmar ibn Walī on a Friday in the first ten days i.e., 7? of Ramaḍān 1111 1700 (colophon, fol. 140b). Text 2 copied by Muṣṭafá Ibn Ismaʻīl Ibn Ḥusayn near Ṭarḥalah at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 1164 1751. Text 3 seems to be written by the same hand as text 2.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 999Origin: 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. 148Binding: Boards covered in dark blue textured cloth with dark blue leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "العلم والعرفان" ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands in brown ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of at least two different types (and cut to different sizes), ruled and unruled.Decoration: Text of opening and closing sections entered in a pinkish red ink.Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; opening and closing sections in a quick, compact hand in a thin to medium line , serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; central section in first an elegant modern naskh (see pp.98-142), and then a heavy ruqʻah (see pp.142-172).Layout: Written mainly in 15-20 lines per page.Collation: i, V (10), IV (18), VII (32), VI (44), II (48), VI (60), VII (74), IV (82), 4 (86), III (92), i ; catchwords present in opening sections (through p.95) ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals through p.8 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "ولما كانت الموارد اربعة كان العرش محمولا على اربعة اركان"Incipit: "قال الله تعالى ومن يؤت الحكمة فقد اوتى خيرا كثيرا وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم الحكمة يمانية والعلم يمان اشراة الى انهما آتيان من قبل القوة النظرية فانها الجهة اليمنى والتي منها اليمن والبركة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.Careful copy a selection of philosophical extracts and commentary in sections under the headings al-ʻIlm wa-al-ʻirfān (see p.1), Sharḥ qiṭʻah min awwal al-Fuṣūṣ al-ʻArabīyah (see p.56), al-ʻĀlam wāḥid (see p.65) and Shudhūr min al-Fann al-rubūbī min Funūn al-ḥikmah al-ʻulyā (see p.98). Sections from the opening text appear also in the final transcript (e.g. compare text of p.7 and p.121 under the heading "انقسام العلم على النظري والعلمي").
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Abstract: Composite codex consisting of three distinct parts: the beginning of the Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī , a commentary by Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī (d. 658/1259 or 60) on a compendium on Ḥanafī law (incomplete at end) ; a copy of the Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī by al-Jurjānī, on grammar, and the beginning of a text explaining difficult words (fol. 60b), both written by the same hand ; and an added leaf with portion of a text mentioning the Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn (fol. 61).Binding note: Coarse dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-18b: Kitāb-i Zāhidī sharḥ-i Qudhūrī Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī -- Kitāb al-Ṭahārah and first lines of Kitāb al-Ṣalāh / Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 989.Contents: 2. fol. 19a-60b: Sharīf Sharḥ ʻalá al-ʻIzzī Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī / al-Jurjānī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3508.Contents: 3. fol. 60b: Kalimāt mushkilah.Contents: 4. fol. 61a-b: Portion of a text.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1a and fol. 19a.Physical description: Text 1 written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red, with 15 lines per page (written surface: 165 x 110 mm.), on European paper with watermark ; the text is framed within a single red line on fol. 1b-3a. Text 2 and 3 written in medium small round naskh in black ink with use of red (written surface: 155 x 105 mm.), on thin European paper with watermark. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a in Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish. Leaves of Text 2 stained with water (text legible).Inscription in Roman script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "61 Bl.".Origin: The copy of Text 2 is dated 1051 H. 1641 or 2 (colophon, fol. 60b). R. Mach reads "1151" 1738 or 9.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 960Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 18th century for transcription of opening works ; transcription of final work perhaps late 18th or early 19th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 109Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "موقد الاذهان" ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: European laid paper of three different types ; opening work on type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart, three crescents watermark (perpendicular to the chains, 90 mm. long, and "M" visible in p.2, light cream, burnished to glossy ; next work on a type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-23 mm. apart, and crown-star-crescent watermark with "[?] B" underneath (see pp.38, 44), burnished, dingier cream color ; final work on a type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and three crescents watermark (perpendicular to chains, 75 mm. long), fairly rough.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and passages of text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots.Script: Naskh and Sūdānī ; opening work in a distinctive naskh with influence of Maghribī, a clear, spacious hand in a medium line, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and initial lām, fairly vertical, quite blocky with rectilinear descenders, some elongation of horizontal strokes, flat strokes preferred to curves, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; second work in naskh, a clear, compact Egyptian hand in a medium line, mainly serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left, and of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; final work in Sūdānī script, carefully executed in a bold line, with slight inclination of words to the left and gently sweeping rectilinear descenders.Layout: Written in 17, 23 and 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah visible in opening work).Collation: i, V (10), III (16), IV (24), 2 II(32), IV (40), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: [Mūqid al-adhhān] "قال الشيخ الامام العلامة جمال الدين عبد الله بن يوسف بن هشام رحمه الله اما بعد حمد الفاتح عقد الاعوان المانح بالايجاز جاعل علم العربية في العلوم كالطراز فيه تفك مقفلات الالغاز ... وسميته موقد الاذهان وموقظ الوسنان ..." ; [Sharḥ qaṣīdat Muthallath Quṭrub] "قال الفقيه سديد الدين ابو القاسم عبد الوهاب بن الحسن ابن بركات المهلبي نظمت مثلث قطرب في قصيد قلتها ابياتا على حروف المعجم ... يدل كل بيت على شرح ما نظمته من اللعة اشارة واختصارا ..." ; [Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd] "قال الفقير الى رحمة ربه ابو بكر بن محمد بن ابي بكر ... فهذه مختصرة جمعتها ترجمة للوتار سميتها حجة المسؤول على علم التوحيد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.4. p.65-p.80 : Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd / Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr.3. p.33-p.64 : Kitāb Sharḥ qaṣīdat Muthallath Quṭrub fil-lughah al-ʻarabīyah /Ibrāhīm al-Lakhmī.2. p.32 : [blank].1. p.1-p.31 : Kitāb Mūqid al-adhhān wa-mūqiẓ al-wasnān / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf Ibn Hishām.Composite codex opening with two grammatical works, the first Mūqid al-adhhān wa-mūqiẓ al-wasnān of Ibn Hishām (d.1360) and the second an incomplete commentary on the versification by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bahnasī (d.1286 or 7) of the Muthallath, a work by the lexicographer and grammarian Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr known as Quṭrub. The codex concludes with Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd, a theological work by Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Mālik.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 995Origin: 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. 144Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "معتقدات الهائية [كذا، اي البهائية]" ; sewing in white thread, apparently over three recessed cords, tightly bound ; overall in fairly good condition, with boards curving around text block at fore edge.Support: Machine wove paper of three main types ; opening work (through p.192) in a sturdy type, cream in color ; opening section of following collection in another sturdy type, beige in color, ruled in blue, edges in red ; concluding section of collection in still another type, dark cream to beige in color, thin though sturdy.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated in opening work ; large passages of texts in majmūʻah (from p.192) executed entirely in red or pinkish red ink, elsewhere only headings rubricated.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; opening work in an elegant modern naskh in a medium line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, final yāʼ usually left unpointed ; following collection (majmūʻah) of works (from p.192 on) mainly in ruqʻah, a quick, compact hand in a medium line , serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; final works of collection in naskh similar to that in the opening work.Layout: Written mainly in 12-15, 21 and 31 lines per page.Collation: i, 12 IV(96), VIII (112), VIII+1 (129), VIII (145), 2 VI(169), i ; opening gatherings (carrying Bahai tracts) exclusively quaternions, opening section of following collection in octonions and concluding section in senions ; pages between sections of text occasionally left blank (see pp.268-269) ; quire numbering in purple pencil, black ink or red ink in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals accompanying letter ك just below the end of the final line of the opening recto of each quire in the opening section of Bahai tracts ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (opening section) ; pagination in red ink or pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (final works, from p.291) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (referenced in description).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.14. p.317-p.337 : Matn al-Fuṣūṣ / al-Fārābī.13. p.309-p.316 : Hādhihi Risālat ʻUyūn al-masāʼil / al-Fārābī.12. p.303-p.308 : Risālat ādāb ṭālib al-ḥikmah, aw Risālat Mā yanbaghī an yuqaddamu qabla taʻallum al-falsafah / al-Fārābī.11. p.299-p.303 : Maqālah sharīfah fī al-ibānah ʻan jawāmiʻ maḍāmīn Kitāb al-Muʻallim al-Awwal al-mawsūm bi-al-Ḥurūf wa-bi-Kitāb Mā baʻda al-ṭabīʻah wa-al-kashf ʻan aqsāmih wa-ʻan aghrāḍ kull qism / al-Fārābī.10. p.291-p.298 : [on eight treatises of al-Fārābī that appeared in print in 1325, i.e. 1907 or 8].9. p.282-p.290 : Min Miṣbāḥ al-uns sharḥ Miftāḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī.8. p.280-p.281 : Fuṣūl min Miftāḥ al-ghayb / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.7. p.279 : [blank].6. p.260-p.278 : Fuṣūl min Sharḥ naẓm al-Tāʼīyah al-Kubrá al-Fāriḍīyah.5. p.258-p.259 : [blank].4. p.218-p.257 : Risālah fī al-Ḥashr / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.3. p.194-p.217 : Risālat al-Nuqṭah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.2. p.193 : ['title page' with contents listing for following majmūʻah].1. p.1-p.192 : Muʻtaqadāt al-Bābīyah wa-al-Bahāʼīyah / Mīrzā ʻAbbās al-Bahāʼ.Composite collection (majmūʻah) of several works opening with tracts on the Bahai faith and followed by extracts from several philosophical treatises by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d.1273 or 4), Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī (d.1430 or 31) and al-Fārābī (d.950).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 260Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; decoration, paper, etc. may suggest 16th century ; authorial colophon on p.418 indicates date of composition Ṣafar 890 [February-March 1485].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with notes (paginated pp.17-18) -- b. Blank slip (paginated pp.53-54) -- c. Slip with notes (paginated pp.99-100).Former shelfmark: "١٢٦" possible former inventory mark on recto of front flyleaf ; "331 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark maroon leather with black leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (likely repairs) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark brown leather with central gold-painted four-lobed floral motif ; fore edge flap lined in green silk ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche OAi 6), pendants, and corner pieces, along with gold-painted border ; sewn in dark green-blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in brown and cream (head) and dark green and cream (tail), fair condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper mainly with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and no chain lines clearly visible, well-burnished to glossy, sturdy, transluscent, medium to dark cream in color ; toward close another crisp type with many inclusions (see p.387 to close) ; flyleaves in European laid paper (surface-dyed lavender and gold-flecked) ; added leaves at opening on European laid paper with watermarks of eagle, "GFA" and lion rampant in arms (see pp.1-4) ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) appears at opening on p.6, consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the basmalah in white, overlaid with arabesque in green, surrounded by further vegetal decoration in gold, pink, blue, yellow, green, etc. on a field of lapis lazuli, and surounded by decorative band with blue crosses on a field of white and band of interlace in gold ; surmounted by another narrow rectangular piece containing similar vegetal design evoking arabesque on a field of lapis lazuli and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; keywords, abbreviation symbols, and text being commented upon in rubricated (light and dark red) ; textual dividers in the form inverted commas, letter hāʼ, etc. in red ; written area throughout surrounded by frame consisting of gold band flanked by black fillets with outermost blue rule (frame on incipit and facing page includes additional gold band) ; occasional diagrams in red and black (see p.20, 57, 87).Script: Nastaʻlīq and naskh ; text of sharḥ in nastaʻlīq, excerpts of Arabic poetry being commented upon in naskh ; nastaʻlīq compact with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq ; Persianate naskh mainly serifless, quite vertical and somewhat stiff though descenders are mainly curvilinear, with pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), *IV (9), 24 IV(201), IV+1 (210), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; first two leaves of opening quaternion affixed to each other ; added leaves at opening of codex ruled for table of contents but left blank ; on pp.43-44 area within written area left blank (perhaps for diagrams or illustrations never realized) ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and added leaves and skips two pages each between pp.239-240, 237-238, and 267-268).Explicit: "مهما ترى صف عقد من مديحهم في نظمه ود زهر الحق تضمينا"Incipit: "سپاس وسعادة اساس وشكر عبادة لباس معبودى را كه اعلام نبوة وولاية در ميدان فتوة وهداية ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the commentary by Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Maybūdī al-Yazdī (d.1504?) on the collection (dīwān) of Arabic poetry attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ca. 600-661), opening with the Favātiḥ-i sabʻah.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1028Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand, paper, etc. would certainly suggest 18th century and dated watermark may suggest ca. 1757.Accompanying materials: Small scrap torn from a printed Arabic page (between pp.106-107).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 177Binding: Pasteboards faced in block-printed paper (now gray on yellow) with red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (decorative paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; possibly once Type II binding (with flap, though now lost [?]), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings in block-printed paper (silver on dark blue) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and light blue, damaged with some thread losses and cores exposed ; overall in poor condition with upper cover and first few gatherings fully detached, moisture damage, staining, abrasion, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of a few different types ; opening type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24-26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of horn / bugle in arms / shield with crown above (see p.4, 46, 55, 190-191, etc.) and of "... P ACHARD EN DAUPHINE 17[5?]7" (see p.10, 36, 50-51, 116, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished, dark cream in color ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of grapes with stem under crown (see p.82, 90-91, 118, 178, 310, etc.), well-burnished, beige in color ; final quires on a type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (about 120 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.414, 440, etc.), sturdy, fairly thick and cream in color.Decoration: Section headings, notabilia and some keywords rubricated, others overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ ; written area of incipit page surrounded by red double rule-border ; text being commented upon overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; two main hands ; opening hand through p.407 a compact, neat naskh in a thin line, partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping tear-drop head-serif on occasional free-standing alif, lām, etc., curvilinear descenders, slight effect of tilt to the left, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ unpointed ; from p.408 to close a compact, crowded naskh in a thin line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvlinear descenders, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, bar of kāf (shaqq) sweeping dramatically, point of final nūn set deep in bowl.Layout: Written in 23 and 26-31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 20 V(200), II+1 (205), 5 V(255), III (261) ; almost exclusively quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of double stroke looking like "٧" in upper outer corner of left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (drops ten pages by following p.455 with p.446).Explicit: "يوصل الى قبر عثمان ابن عفان ويزوره ويدعو الله ويسأل حاجته بحرمته ويستغفر الله العظيم من جميع زلاته ونقصانه ويدعو لوالديه واخوانه وجميع المؤمنين والحمد لله اولا واخرا وظاهرا وباطنا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه وازواجه وذرياته وعلى جميع اخوانه من النبيين والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "قال مولانا وسيدنا الامام العلامة ... محمد بن عبد الله بن احمد بن محمد بن ابراهيم التمرتاشي الغزي ان اجدر الخ رب يسر وتمم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ان اجدر ما افتتحت به الكتب والدفاتر ... حمد الله الذي رفع معالم الدين واعلا مناره ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الغريق في بحار الخطاء ... محمد بن عبد الله ... ان اعز ما ... الذليل في تحصيله ويرام ... علم الفقه الذي يقوم به العباد المصالح ... فالفت مختصرا جامعا لجملة من المتون المشهورة ... وسميته بتنوير الابصار وجامع البحار ثم لما افرغته في قالب التحرير والتمام ... سنح لي ان اكتب عليه شرحا لطيفا يحل مشكلاته ... عازما على ان اسميه بعد تمامه بمنح الغفار شرح تنويف الابصار ..."Title from opening matter on p.3.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the first volume of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Timirtāshī's own commentary upon his compendium of Ḥanafī law, Tanwīr al-abṣār wa-jāmiʻ al-biḥār.
Ownership notes for the Ghashm family, dated 1867 and 1906.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جيب صغير ، كتب بخط حسن جميل وعليه آثار بلل واضحةIncipit: كتاب كنز الرشاد وزاد المعادExplicit: كتاب عدة الحصن الحصين من كلام سيد المرسلينNaskh script. Obvious traces of water damage.
متوسط ،وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مجلد بغلاف جلدي ممزق ويحتاج لإعادة حباكة، تم كتابته بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وهو باهت وعلى بعض صفحاته إطار خُط بالمداد الأحمر، خطه نسخي متوسط غير منقوطNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Frame around the text on some pages.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: "This copy is the author's autograph."Hand: Naskh.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: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Green paper over boards.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a, line 3.Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive interlinear and marginal notes. Damp-stained, ragged and some repairs.Origin: Shaʻbān 1138 H April 1726 (leaf 134a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Text consists of poetry dealing with Sulaymān the Magnificent, the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus, and other topics. Text lacks beginning and end.Title from accompanying materials.Text not completely collated.Ms. in naskh script on glazed paper. 20.3 x 15.2 cm. Headings, some vocalization, some punctuation in red ink. Text partially vocalized. Catchwords; some marginalia.Paper bears watermark depicting an anchor with two flukes in a circle and a star at the top outside the circle. Some sections damaged by insects but damage is limited primarily to gutters and margins.
Binding note: Full red leather with gold fillets; black leather doublures; spine repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 17.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes.Origin: Likely 17th century.Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك واشكرك
Abstract: Section of a treatise on Shiʻite law; contains Kitāb al-makāsib up to Kitāb al-mawarīth.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; pink paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Occasional staining.Origin: First half of the 19th century.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law in 79 unnumbered bāb; incomplete at end.Ms. component part.Title from leaf 186b, lines 2-3.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Extensive staining and a few paper repairs.Incipit: الحمد لله ... انى قد صنفت هذا الکتاب و جمعت فىه بىن الحکم و نظىره وسمىته نزهة الناظر
Abstract: "Abridgement of the author's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām."Binding note: Limp orange-brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 15-21 lines per page; written in naskh in black by different hands on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Several leaves are detached. Mild staining.Origin: Jumādá II 1254 H October-September 1838 (leaf 98b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي صغرت في عظمته عبادة العابدين
Abstract: A dīwān.Binding note: Purple and blue marbled paper on covers with red leather on spine.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.21 lines per page. Written in a medium small casual naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick cream paper with "three crescents" watermark.Incipit: عفى الله عن عينيك كم سفكت دما وكم مزقت نحو الجوانح اسهماExplicit: فلا صبرن على جفاه فريما فاز المتيم بالوصال بصبره
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite rituals.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamping; recycled from a larger cover.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-77a: Risālah fī fiqh al-ṣalāh al-yawmīyah.Contents: 2. leaves 78b-168b: Risālah fī fiqh al-ṣiyām.Ms. codex.Physical description: 12 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: 10 Shaʻbān 1250 H 12 December 1834 (leaf 168b). Text 1 originally completed on 11 Rajab 1242 H 8 February 1827 (leaf 77a).
Abstract: Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Golden-brown leather with tooled central star and fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 5.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces left for rubrication not completely filled in. Mild damp-staining; lower edge moldered. Leaves 292-300 and back cover detached.Origin: Likely mid-19th century.Incipit: ... الحمد لله ... اما بعد فيقول ... اني حين قرائتي کتاب معالم الدين
Abstract: A treatise on Sufi doctrines and beliefs, copied by Aḥmad Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, and dated 15th of Rabiʻ al-Awwal 1202 (1787).Ms. component part.Title from fol. 8a.31 lines per page. Written in very small naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Dark cream European glazed paper.Incipit: حمدنا مبسملا ربنا الذي خثر لواء الادآب بالادبExplicit: بجاه حبيبك فصل اللهم على سيد المرسلين وسلم وعلى سائر النبيين وآلهم اجمعين