Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Place of writing not determined; probably Iran or Turkey. Paper; light cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue and red; text enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold; numerous illustrations; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords. Naskh; 21 lines in written area 17 x 8.5 cm. Numerous illustrations and tables on fol. 2-19; some small illustrations in body of text. Fol. 2b-238a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, [unnumbered]. Modern dark brown leather binding. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
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.
Abstract: A commentary on a work of Arabic grammar.Title from introduction.Contents; ownership note on p. 1.ضحوة السبت 11/رمضان/سنة 897هـالفوائد الضيائيهOwnership notes. Dedication to ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥaymī. Includes excerpts from the dīwān of al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī Habal.بعناية مالكه: عبدالرحمن بن حسن الحيميجيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه نقشة محفورة على الجلد تم استبدال الصفحات الأولى منه بورق حديث يبدو أنه كتب بخط صاحب المكتبة السيد العلامة محمد بن محمد بن محمد الكبسي وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وبداية الصفحات الأصلية عليها إطار مزدوج من اللقطة رقم (51-128)بعد صلاة العصر يوم الخميس لعله 15/جماد الآخر/سنة 1086هـIncipit: بِسْمِ اللهِ...الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيئه وعلى اله واصحابه المتادبين بآدابه اما بعد فهذه فوائد وافيه بحل المشكلات الكافيه...Explicit: المفتوح ما قبلها يقلب الفا كقولك اضربن اضربا تشبيها لها بالتنوين...اللهم اجعل خاتمه امورنا خيرا ولا تلحق بنا من تبعه سرورنا ضيرا...لقطة رقم 290Naskh script, written in black and red ink, with the text enframed in red. Some pages have been replaced, written in Persian naskh script. Two torn pages.25 lines.نقول من ديوان القاضي الشيعي شرف الدين الحسن بن علي بن جابر الهبل. لقطة رقم (291) أولها: حب علي وبنيه اهل التقى والرشد فرض على كل الورى من والدٍ أو ولد
Abstract: Composite volume, comprising two glosses on al-Talwīḥ ilá kashf ḥaqāʼiq al-Tanqīḥ, a commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 791/1389) on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346), on uṣūl al-fiqh, written by two distinct hands.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in green paper and brown leather (marbled paper on envelope flap). Red-dyed paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 2a-137b: al-Tarjīḥ ḥāshiyat al-Talwīḥ / Burhān al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīwāsī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 919.Contents: 2. fol. 138a-437b: Ḥāshiyat ʻalá al-Talwīḥ / Aḥmad ibn Kamāl Pāshā. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 924.Ms. codex.Title from table of contents on fol. 1a (later hand).Physical description: Text 1 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 17 lines per page (133 x 104 mm.). Cream paper, soft, with chain lines and laid lines visible ; quaternions. Text 2 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 17 lines per page (112 x 65 mm.). Light cream paper, glossy, with a few chain lines visible and European paper with watermark ; quinions. Fol. 1 is a later addition. Table of contents and biographical note from Kashf al-ẓunūn on fol. 1a.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl thānī 26". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 250".Origin: According to colophon, Text 1 copied in 841 H. (fol. 137b). Text 2 appears to date to a later period.
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Irshād al-adhhānAbstract: a work on Shiʻite fiqh."Binding note: Volume 2, full olive green leather with red leather doublures; front cover detached. Volume 3, full black leather with red leather doublures. Volume 4, full red leather with black leather doublures; covers detached.Contents: Volumes 2-3: kitāb al-ṣalāh -- Volume 4: kitāb al-zakāh through kitāb al-ṣawm.Ms. codex.Title from colophon, leaf 230a, volume 3.Volume 2 erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description, volumes 2-3: 23 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; a few leaves detached.Physical description, volumes 4: 23 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; partially disbound.Origin: Volumes 2-3 copied by the same scribe, likely early 18th century. Volume 4 dated 1125 H 1713 or 1714, by Ibn Mullā Ḥusayn Muḥammad ʻAlī Hirminjardī vocalization? (leaves 127b, 215a).الحمد لله ... کتاب الصلوة الصلوة لغة هي الدعا قال الله تعالى وصل عليهم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 240Origin: As appears at close, executed by Mustafa el-Haşimî known as Kadızade in 1195 [1780 or 1].Former shelfmark: "550 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on upper board lining ; "107" in pencil on recto of opening panel.Binding: Pasteboards faced in gold-flecked, pale yellow paper and framed in tan leather (covering board edges / turn-ins and likely spine at one time) now with dark purple leather (and Japanese paper repair) over spine (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; opens vertically ; board linings in magenta paper ; gold rule-borders on leather edging ; overall in fairly good condition ; repairs in Japanese paper ; occasional repair to hinges in same dark purple leather.Support: Written area on well-burnished laid paper, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (pale peach-tinted, pink-tinted, light blue-tinted, orange-tinted, etc. with colors of facing panels matching) and mounted.Decoration: Written area (and divisions within) surrounded by gold frame set off by black and white fillets ; written area set into a frame of tinted paper (colors of facing panels match).Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; in thuluth (sülüs) and naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in four lines per page ; two large lines thuluth and two smaller centered lines in naskh, constituting two distinct streams of textCollation: Eleven 'panels' hinged together with tan leather.Colophon: "مشقه اضعف العباد السيد مصطفى الهاشمى المعروف بقاضى زاده سنه ١١٩٥ه"Explicit: "وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجد ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير ا ب ت ج ح د ز ذ ر س ش ص ط ع و ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) in this case a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) employing first (in seventeen kıt'alar) the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat) and closing with three kıt'alar of mürekkebat exercises employing the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı) and a prayer.
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 2(bis)b-36a: Risālah fī ḥujjīyat khabar al-wāḥid wa-al-ijmāʻ / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sarāb.Contents: 2. leaves 36b-38b: Risālah fī al-ijmāʻ.Contents: 3. leaves 39a-53b: Persian treatise on ṣalāh. Incomplete at beginning and end; consists of at least three fuṣūl.Contents: 4. leaves 54a-58a: Arabic treatise of advice and admonishments. Incomplete at beginning.Contents: 5. leaves 58a-58b: Namāz-i sāʻat-i ghaflat. In Persian.Contents: 6. leaves 59a-61b: Manqūl min Kitāb Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah / min taṣānīf ... Aḥmad al-Aradabīlī. In Persian.Contents: 7. leaves 63b-83b: al-Risālah al-qadīmah fī ithbāt al-wājib / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī.Ms. composite codex.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the third leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description, texts 1-2: 21 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 1 in small naskh and text 2 in nastaʻliq. Catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, texts 3-6: 15 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, text 7: 21 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords and marginal notes. Marginal damp staining; several leaves have heavier water damage and are somewhat smudged.Origin: Text 1 completed in Ramaḍān 1105 H April-May 1694, by the author (leaf 36a); text 2 likely completed around the same time. Text 4 completed on 20 Rabīʻ I 1093 H 29 March 1682 (leaf 58a); texts 3, 5, 6 likely completed around the same time. Text 7 completed in 972 H 1564 or 1565 in Mashhad Imām al-Ḥusayn Karbalāʼ, by ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Māzandarānī (leaf 83b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 400Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.166-167, Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî copied by al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad (Hacı İbrahim bin Hacı Mehmet), keeper of the two lamps in the service of the sultan [?] ("الخليفة على السراجين المخصوصين بالخدمة السلطانية"), with transcription completed Jumādá I 1135 [February-March 1723]. Index lacks dated colophon though transcription likely executed around the same time ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: Inserts carrying continuation of glosses (paginated pp.73-74, 155-156).Former shelfmark: "٣۰٣" inscribed in black ink on upper cover ; "۱۷٥" inscribed in black ink on front flyleaf ; "550 [?] T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on back flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown to black leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings in marbled paper (mainly in blue-green, lavender, orange, and red), leather hinges (not extension of spine lining in this instance) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (red recessed onlays), gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) and pendants, along with tooled accents (mainly rosettes) and border (guilloché roll defined by gold fillets) in gold ; design continues on flap ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and light blue, damaged with cores exposed ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor staining and abrasion.Support: European laid paper of several types ; in opening work (through p.60), mainly a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24-26 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of crown with heart above grapes (raisin, see p.42, 44, 45, 48, etc.) and countermark "AS" [?] (see p.52, etc.), quite sturdy, beige in color, burnished, and a thinner and smoother type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) with cartouche and crown above (see p.22, etc.) ; in second work (p.61 to close), mainly a type with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (vertical, more distinct), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (horizontal, more distinct), and watermark of grapes under crown (see p.86, 88, 100, 102, etc.), transluscent and crisp though quite sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, beige to buff in color, and another thinner type, lighter in color, with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of lion rampant [?] watermark (see p.62, 126, 130, 162, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of index on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche (carrying the opening heading in red "باب الالف مع الباء") flanked by vegetal motifs in gold, surmounted by scalloped dome or semi-circular piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in gold ; splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî on p.62, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in pink, lavender, red and orange on a blue and pale gold ground, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with elegant swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, pink, white, blue, lavender, orange, red, etc. on a pale gold and blue ground, itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents, entire piece set in a well of light blue, pink and gold bands ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets, divisions within and margins defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords, sections headings, numerals, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least two elegant Ottoman hands ; bulk of index in a delicate naskh, partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, freely ligatured (with point of final nūn usually conjoined with bowl), fully vocalized ; final portion of index (see p.58) in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik) ; Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî in another elegant naskh in a bolder line, mainly serifless (though serif rarely appears) with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, fully vocalized ; glosses accompanying Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî in a quite compact naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik).Layout: Written mainly in 13 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; for every other leaf, entire written area (at roughly the ruled marginal dimensions) is devoted to gloss ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III+4 (10), IV (18), V (28), I+1 (31), 5 V(81), I+1 (84), i ; chiefly quinions ; occasional lacuna on leaves ruled for glosses ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and skips opening leaf).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "ولما من الله على محرر هذه السطور بتنميق الحروف على قواعد الرسم المخبور حمده على انعامه وفضله وكرمه اذ اهله لنعم عليه منها ملابس وكل نعمة منها عنده هي انفس النفايس وكان محررها الفقير الاواه الحاج ابراهيم بن الحاج محمد الخليفة على السراجين المخصوصين بالخدمة السلطانية الراجى كل منهما عفو مولاه فى تاريخ سنة خمس وثلاثين ومائة والف من شهر جمادى الاولى من السنة المزبورة غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة ولجميع المسلمين م م م"Explicit: [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] "فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلات بو كتابى اوكرن ايج آب حيات شاهدى يه هركيم ايلرسه دعا ايده محشرده شفاعت مصطفا"Incipit: [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] "بنام خالق وحى وتوانا قديم وقادر وبينا ودانا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.3. p.62-p.167 : [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] / Şahidî İbrahim Dede.2. p.60-p.61 : [blank].1. p.2-p.59 : [index for the vocabulary of Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî].Elegant copy of the well-known versified Persian-Turkish vocabulary of Şâhidî İbrahim Dede of Muğla (d.1550) with extensive glosses (occupying every other leaf), preceded by an index of the vocabulary arranged by letter.
Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper