Abstract: Two volumes of the chronicles of Ibn Kathīr (see title in red on the first fol. of vol. 2, reading: "al-mujallad al-sādis "dis" crossed out biʻ min sanah 278 ilá sanah 465" ; however, on fol. 2a of the same volume, title reading: "al-mujallad al-ḥādī ʻashar crossed out in purple, with correction reading: "al-sābiʻ" min Tārīkh Ibn Kathīr"). The first volume begins with part of the year 96 H. 714-715 and closes with the year 241 H. 855-856. The second volume begins with the year 278 891-892 and closes with the year 465 H. 1072-1073. The first volume is incomplete at the beginning. At the end of vol. 2, on fol. 204b-205b, inscriptions and one excerpt from ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by al-Qazwīnī.Binding note: Both volume have a similar modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from notes on vol. 2, fol. 2a.Vol. 1 written in medium small casual naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, with 27 lines per page (written surface: 203 x 130 mm.), on light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. The paper has been frame-ruled. The quires of vol. 1 are numbered using Arabic ordinals and numerals, starting with "Rābiʻ 4" on fol. 18a. Some leaves are missing, e.g. central bifolio of the fifth quire (between fol. 31 and 32), two bifol. in the sixth quire, etc. Worm-eaten. Fragile.Vol. 2 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and punctuation, with 25 lines per page (written surface: 192 x 140 mm.), on light cream paper with laid lines, chain lines, and pulp visible. The paper has been frame-ruled. Fol. 2-15a are later replacements on glazed European paper (corners wanting on fol. 2-7; fol. 15 pasted on the recto of an original leaf). On fol. 15b begins the original text, with a basmalah. On fol. 1a, note quoting al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī on seven --- in Babylon.Copy of vol. 1 completed in the beginning (mustahall) of Shawwāl 889 Oct. 1484 (colophon, fol. 221b).Beginning vol. 1 as extant:فاخبرني به والا ضربت الذي فيه عيناك فقال نعم يا امير المومنين كنت رجلا جمالا فبينما انا ... 2أ ... خلافة سليمان بن عبد الملكExplicit vol. 1: بكافرين ويشير الى احمد بن حنبل واصحابه والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلمBeginning vol. 2: ... طلع نجم ذو وجه ثم صار الوجه ذو ايه ... 15ب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ الامام ... عماد الدين اسمعيل بن كثير البصروي الشافع ... قال اجمع عقلا كل امة على ان من لم يجر مع القدرExplicit vol. 2: وتوفى فى سلخ ذى القعدة من هذه السنة وقد جاوز سبعين سنة وكان يوم جنازته يوما مشهودا ورويت له منامات صالحة حسنة رحمه الله وسامحه ورحمنا وسامحنا انه قريب مجيب رحيم ودود والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم يتلوه سنة ست وستين واربعماية
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 86Origin: Authorial and scribal colophons appear on p.708, supplied by "Muṣṭafá al-Qāḍī" (qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min tanmīq hādhā al-kitāb...katabahu..."). Authorial colophon mistakenly claims composition begain in the year "91" Hijrī. Opening of scribal colophon (possibly transcribed verbatim from exemplar) suggests that transcription was finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb...") first of Rajab 908 [ca. 31 December 1502]. However, the paper, hand, etc. would more likely suggest a dating of late 16th or early 17th century, and perhaps the copyist intended 980 [ca. 7 November 1572] rather than 908.Accompanying materials: Three slips, all paginated -- a. pp.23-24 blank paper -- b. pp.289-290 text in black ink on one side -- c. pp. 465-466 notes in black ink on one side.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 16. Dakhirat al-ukba."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though only fore edge flap remains) ; board linings in blue and white shell marbled paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with gold painted accents ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; endbands in orange and white ; in poor condition, with envelope flap lost, abrasion on all corners of cover, tail end of spine missing and exposing deteriorating primaries.Support: European laid paper, a few different types ; one with very distinct laid lines (vertical) spaced roughly 9-10 laid lines per cm., chain lines spaced roughly 26-28 mm. apart, lightly burnished ; another thinner, more heavily burnished with roughly 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical, very fine and distinct) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart ; watermarks include crossbow (see p.220, compare Piccard no.123789), anchor in circle with trefoil above (p.196, compare Heawood 1 and 4) and figure (angel) in circle with "S c C" countermark (p.88/98, etc. matching Piccard no.21419 from Bari, 1587) ; loose leaves at beginning ; first two folia entirely detatched ; repairs made with similarly colored, laid paper ; water damage to head and tail of text, causing smudging of some glosses.Decoration: Red rule border appears for opening through p.48 ; textual divders in the form of inverted commas, stylized hāʼ, etc. ; text rubricated with keywords, textual dividers, notabilia, etc. in red.Script: Several different hands, as well as changes in ink and line thickness ; majority in a naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) with closed counters, superscripting of final words of line, esentially sans serif ; a few other hands in naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) appear, varying in size and elongation of horizontal strokes, with some exaggeration in thickness ; a few sections are supplied in a more standard naskh, though with slant to the left, mainly closed counters, occasional head-serifs on free-standing alif and initial lām ; hand first appears to change at p.44 and repeatedly thereafter, particularly in the latter quires (see pp.586-610, pp.611-624, pp.625-664, pp.665-684, etc.).Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: I+1 (3), V-1 (12), 3 V(42), IV(50), III(56), 8 V(136), II(140), V(150), VI(162), 3 V(192), IV(200), 3 V(230), II(234), 2 VI(258), V(268), I(270), 7 V(340), VI(352) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (occasionally correspond with second or third rather than first word of following page) ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink (scribe's hand) starting after incipit (p.11) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (pagination skips two leaves between p.41 and p.42, and includes inserts).Colophon: "Authorial" followed by "Scribal," rectangular, "تم بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم قال الشيخ الامام الهمام عفى الله عنه يوسف بن جنيد عفى عنهما الحميد المجيد المدرس في احدى المدارس ... في بلدة القسطنطنية حرسها الله تعالى عن القلوب القاسية هذا اخر ما [...؟] لي في شرح صدر الشريعة المسمى بذخيرة العقبى ... وكان ابتداء التاليف تقريبا في احدى وتسعين [كذا] من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام الى يوم الحشر والقيام. وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب في اول رجب الفرد بتاريخ سنة ثمان و تسعمائة على يد افقر عباد الله تعالى و اضعفهم و احوجهم الى رحمة رب العالمين . . . قد وقع الفراغ من تنميق هذا الكتاب المسمى ذخيرة العقبى [كذا] الحشية لصدر الشريعة العظمى والمحشي اخي چلبي رحمه الله كتبه الفقير اليه تعالى مصطفى القاضي ..."Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته الحمد لله الموصل بالاتمام قوله والمقيم الذي لا يموت ولا ينام قوله والكفيل الذي اوصل الارزاق للانام [؟] والعليم الذي يعلم بلا الحاف والزام [؟] والحكيم الذي لا يحكم بين خلقه بالاتقان والاحكام وصلى الله على نبيه المنعوت بالاختتام وعلى اله اصحابه الذين فازوا على قهر العدو بعناية الملك العلام"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى ..."Title from colophon on p.706 and edge title.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebi on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (see Isl. Ms. 97 for another ms. copy of this work). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Includes ownership note, dated July, 1954.جيدة ، وهو مغلف بقماش أسود ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأزرق والأحمرخطت الكتب وجمعت في حدود سنة 1380هـIncipit: صور الشفعةExplicit: براهين الكتاب والأمهات فيما يجب للعتره من المعاملاتPersian naskh script, written in black, blue and red ink.
Dispersed manuscript; previously thought to be Rashid al-Din’s Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh; est. 407 folios with 150 illustrations (Martinovitch); naskh scriptCulture: Persian, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gold, watercolor, ink, silver, paperNote: Bibliography: Ghiasian, Mohamad Reza. "The “Historical Style” of Painting for Shahrukh and Its Revival in the Dispersed Manuscript of Majmaʿ al-Tawarikh." Iranian Studies, 2014.
Dispersed manuscript; previously thought to be Rashid al-Din’s Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh; est. 407 folios with 150 illustrations (Martinovitch); naskh scriptCulture: Persian, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gold, watercolor, ink, silver, paperNote: Bibliography: Ghiasian, Mohamad Reza. "The “Historical Style” of Painting for Shahrukh and Its Revival in the Dispersed Manuscript of Majmaʿ al-Tawarikh." Iranian Studies, 2014.
Abstract: An unknown work on Arabic grammar.Contents.كتاب الحقائق في النحوOwnership notes by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī.بعناية المالك العلامة عامل شهاره :محمد بن محمد الكبسيجيده لكنه بغير غلاف ومدبس الأوراق وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضرليلة الأثنين ساعة خمس 9/شعبان/1370هـIncipit: بسم الله... وبه نستعين وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وآله أعلم انه لا بد لطالب علم النحو من مقدمة تشتمل على خمسه امور الاول في وجه الابتدا ببسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الثاني في اعرابها...Explicit: وحذف زيادة التثنيه والجمع مذكر كان او مونثا الا علماً قد اعرب بالحركات فانها لا تحذف فيه لزيادة التثنيه والجمع.Naskh-thuluth script, written in black, red and green ink. Interlineal commentary. No cover to the manuscript.3-14 lines.
Abstract: Part 2 of a work on Shiʻite law comprising al-Qāʻidah al-thānīyah fī al-ʻuqūd through Kitāb al-hibāt, preceded by a fihrist on leaves 2a-5a.Binding note: Quarter leather with paper over boards; covers are detached.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 303b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in large, neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication. Damp-staining on upper margin.Origin: 14 Rabīʻ I 1031 H 27 January 1622, by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Māzandarānī, from a copy made by Muhannā ibn Sinān in Shaʻbān 736 H 1336 (leaves 303b-304a).Incipit: القاعدة الثانية في العقود وفيه كتب كتاب المتاجر وفيه مقدمة ومقاصد
Origin: Colophon gives date for the completion of this manuscript as Monday in the middle ten days of the month of Muḥarram, 1122 / March 1720.Binding: Simple leather bound codex with medallion-shaped tooled designs on upper and lower covers as well as envelope flap, which have eroded.Decoration: Double red line borders text.Script: Text written in black naskh script with rubrications. Initial two folios lack borders and are written in a different hand. These seem to have been pasted in after the book was bound.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.The Story of Yūsuf (Joseph) in 27 majālis (sessions), composed of verses from the Qurʼān, ḥadīths, moral reflections, and edifying anecdotes, in both verse and prose.
Abstract: "Part 2 of al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: a well-known work on Shiite fiqh. Contains al-Qism al-thānī fī al-ʻuqūd."Binding note: Front cover detached and back cover missing. Front cover is lacquered: black central mandorla, pendants, and fillets decorated with gold and color on orange-red ground.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 213a.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Inner margin damp-stained.Origin: Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1257 H January-February 1842, by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī al-Jandaqī (leaf 213a).Incipit: الحمد لله ... القسم الثاني في العقود وفيه خمسة عشر كتابا قوله كتاب التجارة
Abstract: "The author's abridgement of his al-Maqāṣid al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-fiqh; part 1 contains Mabāḥith al-alfāẓ."Binding note: Full maroon leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 274a, line 15.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Edges moldered.Origin: Qism 1 completed Jumādá I 1224 H June-July 1809; this copy made from the draft and completed Rabīʻ I 1230 H February-March 1815 (leaf 274b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اوردنا مناهل ربوبيته ... اما بعد فاني بعد ما فرغت من تصنىف القسم الاول من کتابي ... المسمى بمقاصد
Abstract: "First part of a commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's treatise on Shiʻite law. Complete through kitāb al-musāqāt."Binding note: Loose in brown leather folder.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 9.Physical description: 19-21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings in large script; text of the Lumʻah overlined in red. Catchwords and marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs; edges are ragged. Disbound.Origin: Shawwāl 1177 H April 1764 (leaf 223a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرح صدورنا بلمعة من شرايع الاسلام كافية في بيان الخطاب ونور قلوبنا من لوامع دروس الاحكام
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full maroon leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces; brown leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 8.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Lacuna after leaf 171. Leaves 172-174 detached. Some damp staining; ragged edges.Origin: 12 Rabīʻ II 1032 H 13 February 1623, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Anṣārī al-Astarābādī al-Nawkandī (leaf 173a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: "A work on legal verses in the Qur'an and methods for interpreting phrases and their legal import."Title from beginning page.Contents.جزء من الثمراتBrockelmann, S II 250.جيده، ولكن مبتور الأول والأخر وبدون غلاف عليه آثار بلل واضح جداً، تم كتابة المخطوط بالمداد الأسود والأحمرIncipit: منزوع الأول... يمينا كاذبة فليتبؤا مقعده من النار ولا اشكال في عظم اليمين الموكده، واما اجبار الحاكم عليها فليس بماخوذ من الاية، وفي ذلك اختلاف بين اهل الفقه ومن ثمرات الايه...Explicit: فلا يخفى كما لا تَخفى السمة على الخرطوم وعن النطر؟ بن شُميل ان الخرطوم اسم للخمر وان المعنى سنجده على شربها قال جار الله وفيه تعسف, وقد ورد تسميه الخمر الخرطوم فى قوله ... غير مكتملNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Defective beginning and ending. No cover. Extensive water damage.30 lines.
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīnAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh; incomplete at beginning."Binding note: Quarter leather with paper over boards.Ms. codex.Title from note on leaf 135b by a later hand. Title on front cover reads "Ḥāshiyat Mullā Mīrzā bar Maʻālim."Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining. Leaves 89-104 on smaller and thinner bluish paper.Origin: 16 Rabīʻ II 1234 H 12 February 1819, by ʻAbd al-Muḥammad ibn Rajab ʻAlī ibn Rabīʻ Burūjirdī (leaf 135b).
Abstract: An incomplete copy of Ḥilyat al-muttaqīn, from bāb 2 to the end.Binding note: Full brown leather with stamped fillets; front cover partly detached.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a, 195a, by later hands.On front cover: "322" in Arabic script.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in neat naskh by two hands in black on tan and beige glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; Arabic quotations vocalized. Some marginal notes. Many leaves torn and/or repaired; fol. 1-26, 31-34 detached from textblock. Insert between fol. 132, 133. Some damp staining and smudging.Origin: Text completed in Rajab 1079 H. December 1668. This copy completed Rabīʻ al-Thānī, 1124 H. May 1712 (fol. 195b).
Abstract: "Parts 1-2 of a commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām. Incomplete at beginning; contains Kitāb al-ṭahārah up to Kitāb al-tijārah."Binding note: Limp maroon leather; spine repaired.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 251a.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: Jumādá I 1094 H May 1683 (leaf 251a).
Abstract: "Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūlAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Loose in folder consisting of full brown leather with blind-stamped central design, pendants, cornerpieces, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger per Mach and Ormsby. The title is given in the text on leaf 4b, line 7, but there is a blank space left for the first word to be written in red.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on machine-made paper. Catchwords and rubrication, but some spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Occasional staining.Origin: 1271 H 1854 or 1855, by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mullā Ibrāhīm (leaf 244a).Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول.
Abstract: General treatise on Shafīʻī law.Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from modern title page (fol. (ii)a).26 lines per page. Written in medium small clear naskh in black ink for headings and re-inking. Thick light cream paper. The upper half of the first fol. is damaged with important loss of text. Some leaves are mended, with the text recopied on the repair (see fol. 1, 2). Inscription on fol. 169b. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Incipit (starting at "amma baʻd", the beginning of the text being partly lost partly illegible due to water damage): اما بعد فعلم الفقه بحوره زاخرة ورياضة ناضرةExplicit: ومسئلة من مات وعليه صوم القديم يصوم عنه وليه و مسئلة --- عصا القديم استجابه اخر الكتاب
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's treatise on Islamic lawAbstract: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn; missing leaves at end."Binding note: Limp brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a by a later hand.Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive damp staining, but text still highly legible; first and last few leaves ragged. Fol. 185 is partially torn away. Incomplete at end.Incipit: نحمدك اللهم ىا من خلقنا و لم نك شىئا مذکوراً
Abstract: A major work on Zaydi law, with numerous marginalia and explanatory notes.Contents.متن الأزهارDedicated to Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Imām Sharaf al-Dīn.بعناية مالكه : محمد بن عبدالله بن أحمد بن عبدالكريم بن الإمام شرف الدينعبارة عن مجلد جيب صغير الحجم يبدأ من كتاب الشفعة وخطه جيد كتب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرنهار يوم الثلاثاء في شهر جماد الأول سنة 1332هـIncipit: كتاب الشفعة فصل تجب فى كل عين ملكت بعقد صحيح بعوض مال على اي صفة...Explicit: وتحرم الموَالا وهي ان يحب ويكره له كل ما يكره فيكون كفراً او فسقا بحسب الحال ص بالله ويحالفه ويناصره والله اعلمNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Defective beginning. Includes the beginning of the Kitāb al-Shufʻah.14-16 lines.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 20.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in neat naskh on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp staining, mainly marginal; a few repairs.Origin: Work completed 1042 H 1632 or 1633; this copy, 16 Rabīʻ II 1109 H 1 November 1697 in Dāmghān, by Ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Riḍā Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Dāmghānī (leaf 246b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا لدين الاسلام و سن لنا الشرايع والاحكام
Abstract: Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillīʼs Tahdhīb al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl; incomplete at end.Binding note: Rebound in quarter leather with cloth covers.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 16.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic and European papers. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Extensive damp staining on first half of manuscript, but text still legible.Origin: According to Mach, 16th century.Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك حمدا لا يقدر حصره ... اما بعد فان الالتفات الى علم اصول الفقه
Abstract: "Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūlAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Full brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining. Front cover and first two leaves detached.Origin: 10 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1253 H 7 March 1838, by Ibn Ḥājjī ʻAlī Akbar Muḥammad Mahdī al-Hamadānī (leaf 274b).Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول
Abstract: Collection of Bektashi texts.Binding note: Three-quarter leather with embossed green paper covers; green paper doublures.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-10b: Hâzâ Kitab-ı Hazret-i Imam-ı Cafer as-Sadık aleyhüsselam. Short treatise on the principles of Sufism attributed to Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq; published as Fakrname.Contents: 2. fol. 11a-12a: Prayer.Contents: 3. fol. 12a-17a: Dua-yı tarikatçı.Contents: 4. fol. 17a-21a: Çiraǧ uyandıre çok kimsine beyanındadır.Contents: 5. fol. 21a-28b: Prayers and invocations.Contents: 6. fol. 28b-30b: Poem.Ms. codex.Collective title from text 1, fol. 2b.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in red. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining; a few leaves are detached. In good condition.Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله رب العالمىن خلق السموات و الارض لا اله الا هو الحى الذى لىس کمثله شىء
Abstract: Leaf from chapter 29 of the Mūnis al-aḥrār, a collection of poetry. Each verse alternates with a corresponding illustration as follows: battle gear; weapons; fruit trees; four types of doves; peacock, parrot, and nightingale; and jewelry.Ms. leaf.Physical description: Written in large thuluth and medium naskh in gold, blue, black, and red. Each line of verse alternates with an illustration. The leaf is damaged along the bottom; it was cut out of its original frame and glued onto another page of a different text that now forms its margins.Origin: This page is from chapter 29 of a ms. which is now scattered. The ms. is dated Ramaḍān 741 H February-March 1341 and was copied and illustrated in Isfahan according to its colophon (Swietochowski and Carboni, p. 25).
Abstract: Commentary on al-Alfīyah fī al-ṣalāh al-yawmīyah of al-Shahīd al-Awwal.Binding note: Full red leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 9.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in naskh with elements of nastaʻliq on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; occasional use of rubrication. Leaves 2-6, 47-55, 62, 92-93, 97 are replacements, likely early 19th century. Leaf 62 is blank and there is a lacuna after leaf 61. Most of text block is detached from binding. Damp-stained; numerous paper repairs.Origin: Possibly 18th century. Copied by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn al-Shaykh ʻAbbās al-Balāghī (leaf 97a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرع فرائض الصلوة
Abstract: "Volume 2 of a commentary on Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: on afʻāl al-ṣalāh."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; blue paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 3.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Outer edge slightly moldered; text block almost completely detached from binding.Origin: According to Āghā Buzurg, volume 4 of this work was completed the evening of ʻId al-Aḍḥá 1229 H 22 November 1814. This copy was likely completed in the early 19th century. According to the spine label, the text was copied by Āqā Shaykh Muḥammad Khūʼī.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي احکم شرايع الدين بمطالع الانوار ومسالك اليقين
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām; contains Kitāb al-zakāh through Kitāb al-iʻtikāf. Same scribe as New Series no. 346q and 359q."Binding note: Contemporary full maroon leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-stamped fillets; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Heavy damp staining across upper margin and first few lines of text in last quarter of manuscript.Origin: 13 Jumādá I 1262 9 May 1846, by Aḥmad najl al-marḥūm al-Sayyid Ṣ̄āliḥ khalaf al-mabrūr al-Sayyid Qāsim al-Faḥḥām al-Najafī (leaf 196b).Incipit: كتاب الزكاة التي هي لغة الطهارة ومنه قتلت نفسا زكية
Abstract: "Section of a commentary on al-Mufīd's MuqniʻahAbstract: comprising Kitāb al-duyūn wa-al-kafālāt through Kitāb al-diyāt ."Binding note: Full red-brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants and fillets; brown leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color on leaf 1(bis)b; text framed in gold with marginal red border. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining and a few repairs. Most leaves are detached.Origin: First part completed 1094 H 1683, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Sayf al-Jamrī (leaf 128b). Second part completed 14 Ṣafar 1095 H 1 February 1684, by the same scribe (leaf 463b).
Abstract: "Second half of a commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻ; contains Kitāb al-nikāḥ to the end."Binding note: Full brown leather with gold-painted fillets.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.Physical description: 15-18 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Handwriting switches to nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah on leaf 209a. Catchwords; marginal notes. Rubrication on leaves 1b-7a. Marginal insect damage and mild staining.Origin: Original text completed Jumādá II 1204 H February-March 1790; this copy, likely first half of the 19th century, by Muḥammad Ḥasan ibn Abū ! Dharr al-Māzandarānī (leaf 269b).Incipit: الحمد لله ... کتاب النکاح و هو لغة الوطى على الاشهر و شرعا العقد اجماعا
Abstract: Treatise on prayer. The opening lines of the text begin in the margin of leaf 3b, and there is a lacuna between those lines and the text at the center of the page. The text is preceded by notes and extracts on leaves 2a-3a and followed by the same on leaves 54a-54b.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp-staining, mainly marginal.Origin: Text completed on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 951 H 21 February 1545 (leaf 53b). This copy likely 17th century.Incipit: الحمد لله مطلع من اختارهExplicit: فان ذلك منه وبه وله وهو حسبنا و نعم الوکيل
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh. Text is on leaves 9b-367a and is preceded by prayers, poetry, schematic drawings, and notes on leaves 3a-8a.Binding note: Full red leather with marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 10a, line 5.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in red; crudely illuminated basmalah at head of text on leaf 9b. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-stained across upper edge.Origin: 20 Jumādá II 1009 H 27 December 1600 in Aradabīl, by Ibn Shaykhshāh Muḥammad Salmān (leaf 367a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Commentary on the Qurʾān, with fihrist on leaves ib-iib.Binding note: Full maroon leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, and fillets; marbled paper doublures. Volume 2 is missing flap.Ms. codex.Title from text on leaf 1b, volume 1.Physical description: 29 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. On leaves 1b-2a, text framed in red and gold; remainder of text framed in double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Continuous foliation in Arabic script. Extensive staining; some smudging and paper repairs. In fair condition.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرا ... و بعد فان اعظم العلوم مقدارا وارفعها شرفا ومنارا علم التفسير الذي هو رئيس العلوم الدينية وبرأسها ومبنى قواعد الشرع واساسها
Abstract: Treatise in five chapters (faṣl) on the magical properties of the letter qāf and its use in charms, with figures.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 14).27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark ("JL Gran Masso"), frame-ruled. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Collation: Paper ; fol. 10 ; 1¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذي اكرمنا باسراره ونلا قلوبنا بانواره والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا محمد الذي تنورت الاكوان بظهوره ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الذليل ... هذه رسالة لطيفة تتعلق بالوفق الميني(؟) اذكر فيه الفوائد الواصلة الينا من المشايخ العظامExplicit: ولبستم وفقي وعاونتم ضعفي في كل ما اريد الوحا ٢ العجل ٢ الساعة ٢ بارك الله فيكم وعليكم وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا والحمد لله رب العالمين امين
Abstract: "Commentary on the author's versification of Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūl. Brockelmann (GALAbstract: SIIAbstract: 597 (no. 17Abstract: versif.)) mentions only the naẓmAbstract: not the commentary."Binding note: Limp brown leather with black leather doublures, spine, and edges; blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Original text in naskh with vocalization. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Outer edge moldered; damp-staining across upper edge."Origin: 30 Muḥarram 1111 H 28 July 1699by Ibn ʻUrf Nuʻaym al-Ṭālaqānī; copied from a copy in the author's hand (leaf 135a)."'Incipit: اقوم اصل يتفرع عليه السعادات'Incipit (naẓm): الحمد لله العلي العالي* ذي النور و البهاء و الافضال
Abstract: "Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūlAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Full red-brown leather with silver-painted fillets; brown leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining. First and last leaves detached.Origin: 23 Ṣafar 1231 H 24 January 1816 in Fayḍābād Hindustān (leaf 217a).Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... اما بعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول
Abstract: Second half of a treatise on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Full brown leather with flap; gold-stamped fillets and green leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from incipit, leaf 1b.Formerly shelved as Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1912.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; cross-outs. Extensive damp-staining, but text largely unaffected.Origin: Text completed in 1042 H 1632 or 1633 (leaf 182b). This copy likely from the second half of the 17th century; copied by Abū Turāb ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ḥasanī.Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law; followed by notes and extracts on leaves 158b-164b.Binding note: Full brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1(bis)b, line 5.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on heavy, cream, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces left for rubrication not completely filled in. Damp-stained, particularly across top of text block, and mildewed.Origin: 4 Rabīʻ II 911 H 4 September 1505, by ʻAlī ibn Abū ! al-Fatḥ (leaf 156a).Incipit: اللهم احمدك والحمد من نعمايك ... قاعدة الفقه لغة الفهم
Abstract: Acephalous and defective copy of a compendium of Ḥanafite law and jurisprudence.Binding note: paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, with dark brown leather edges. Badly damaged.Ms. codex.Title from inscription mentioning a price on the pastedown of the lower cover.Physical description: 9 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (professional hand). Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible ; frame-ruled. Several inscriptions on fol. 112b-113a.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in 1083 H. (fol. 125a).Beginning as extant: ولا يجوز اداؤها الا بنية مقارنة لعزل الواجب او الاداء ومن تصدق بجميع ما له سقطت ... باب الزكوة السوايم السايمة التى تكتفى بالرعيExplicit: ولا مولى الموالى الّا عند عدمهم وان كان له موالى اعتقوه فهى باطلة تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهّاب
Abstract: Second half of a treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaves 318a-318b.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; front cover lacking.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 326a.Manuscript erroneously foliated in Western script beginning on the first of eight flyleaves. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in large, casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Foliated in Arabic script, with errors. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.Origin: 4 Rajab 1127 H 6 July 1715, by Ibn ʻAlī Akbar Mullā Ḥubb ʻAlī (leaf 326a).Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law followed by a commentary upon it.Binding note: Full black leather with yellow paper doublures; marbled flyleaf.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-52a: Kitāb Mabādī al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.Contents: 2. fol. 53b-132b: Ghāyat al-bādī fī sharḥ al-Mabādī / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī.Ms. codex.Title from texts 1 and 2.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 9 lines per page; text 2, 24 lines per page. Both texts written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Text 1 has extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-staining, mainly marginal; upper edge moldered. Leaf 2a contains the last page of another text.Origin: Text 1, 1030 H 1620 or 1621, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyā ? ibn Sālim al-Manṣūrī (leaf 52a). Text 2, likely late 17th century.
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīths addressing legal matters; text is preceded by extracts (mainly in Persian), verses, and notes on leaves 2a-10a.Binding note: Full brown leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants, outlined with gold; gold-painted fillets; aqua pastedowns and flyleaves.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 411b.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 22-25 lines per page; written in small to medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; interlinear and marginal notes. Marginal damp-staining, ragged edges, and a few repairs. Front cover and leaves 1-56 detached.Origin: 18 Jumādá II 1086 H 9 September 1675, by ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq.Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك واشكرك
Abstract: "A treatise on animalsAbstract: made up of sections from Aristotle's Historia animalium."Binding note: Green and red marbled paper on covers with red leather on spine.Ms. codex.Title from start of text on fol. 1b (other titles from Hitti and published version, see refs. below).15 lines per page. Written in a medium sized naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed dark cream paper with prominent pulp. Fol. 1a is filled entirely with densly written text, most of it prayer, some of it illegible due to smudging or obliteration close to edges. Short inscriptions in a later hand on fol. 22a-b.Incipit: قال موسي بن عبيد الله القرطبي الاسرايلي هذه مقاله تشتمل علي فصول من كتاب الحيوان لارسطواExplicit: وكلام ارسطوا انما هو بحسب بلاده او ما سمعه ممن يوثق به والله اعلم
Abstract: Collection of a Shiʻite legal treatise and Shaykhī texts.Binding note: Stiffened black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, fillets, and pendants; green paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 2b-37b: Hādhā Kitāb al-Fawāʼid al-ithná ʻasharīyah / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Mūsawī.Contents: 2. leaves 38a-39a: Risālah mūjazah fī bayān dāʼirat al-ʻaql wa-al-jahl lil-ʻāqil al-mutadarrib. Commentary on a secton from an unidentified philosophical treatise; contains two circular diagrams.Contents: 3. leaves 40a-43b: Risālah fī bayān qawlihi taʻālá "qāba qawsayni aw adná" / ʻAlī ibn Naqī al-Aḥsāʼī.Contents: 4. leaves 43a-44a: Risālah fī bayān ʻālam al-barzakh ijmālan wa-ikhtiṣāṣan / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp-stained. Leaves 19-20 are replacements.Origin: Text 3 dated 1248 H 1832 or 1833 (leaf 43a). Other texts likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: A commentary on Muʻallaqāt al-Sabʻ, being an edited version of the commentary by Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Zawzanī (d. 1093 or 4).Binding note: Half leather binding with brown marbled paper on covers and red leather on spine and cover corners.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Copy completed on the 1st of Rajab 1277 (1861) -- colophon (fol. 119a).19 lines per page. Written in an informal medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 1-20 have text frames ruled in pencil. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick cream glazed paper with watermarks. Two inscriptions on fol. 1a: two verses of poetry, and an acquisition note to the effect that the copy was obtained from Egypt, in Ṣafar 1291 (1874).Incipit: قال العبد المفتقر الي ربه المستغفر من ذنبه عبد الرحيم بن عبد الكريمExplicit: كان شاهد على ان الحرب قد بلغت غاية
Abstract: A collection of hadith with sound isnads and contents and their use for determining correct action.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.الاجزاء من الاول وحتى الرابع من كتاب شفاء الاوام للتمييز بين الحلال والحرامLater additions and repairs dated February 1917. Sale note and multiple reading notes. Includes fragments by ʻAlī ibn Abī ṭālib.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جلدي كبير سقطت منه بعض الأوراق في آخره وتم استبدالها بأوراق أحدث منها. وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرليلة الجمعة 23/صفر/سنة1049هـ; ليلة الخميس الرابع شهر ربع الآخر1049ه; 2/جماد الأول/سنة1049هـ; نهاية نسخ الأوراق المستبدلة من اللقطة رقم (527-534): عشية الأحد لعشر خلت من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة1335هـNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Final pages added later in different hand.31 lines.
Copy completed: Shaʻbān 982/ November 1574 in the hand of Qāsim b. Ḥājī Mīrzā.Text written in clear black naskh script with rubrication. Text bordered in blue and gold lines throughout.Initial page has medallion design with gold, including gold and red floral patterns on blue paint. The title of the work is no longer apparent in the center medallion. First page of the text has ʻunwān in similar colors and design. Title of work is also missing from this location. Volume has edge title, but spelled "kimiyā-yi saʻādat" instead of "kīmiyā-yi saʻādat".Leather bound codex with intricate tooling on upper and lower covers; some residue of gold paint in design. Doublures feature elaborate leather filigree on red leather with gold and paint which overlays a blue painted background. Both covers are detached.Translated as "The Alchemy of Bliss," this most famous work of al-Ghazālī, written in Persian, presents the religious and ethical obligations of the true Muslim from a mystical perspective. It is considered an abridgement of his extensive Arabic work, Iḥyā ʻulūm al-dīn.
Abstract: Collection of two texts, one an account of a journey of al-Amīr ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʼirī in Syria, in 1222-1300 H. 1807 or 8-1883, the other a short treatise on prosody and rhyme, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād al-Qināʼī al-Khawwāṣ.Binding note: Black cloth over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Red leather spine, fore-edge flap and outer border. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-31a: Riḥlat al-Amīr ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʼirī.Contents: 2. fol. 31b-50b: Matn al-Kāfī fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī / Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād al-Khawwāṣ.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in very clear medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark.Origin: First text written 29 Rabīʻ Awwal 1300 Feb. 7, 1883 (colophon, fol. 31a).