Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Large, clear 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: Limp golden-brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 12.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and smudging.Origin: According to note on leaf 1a, this copy is a holograph.Incipit: الحمد لله فياض عوارف المعارف
Manuscript. Turkish (Arabic script) and Persian. Title from bottom edge. Name of scribe not indicated Probably written in Turkey. Paper: very light cream-color polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate floral unvan in blue, gold and red; text enclosed in a fine ruled border of black and gold ink; rubrication with overlining; few marginal corrections; catchwords on rectos. Naskh; 23 lines in written area 16.5 x 7.5 cm. Fol. 1b-378b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M77?. Contemporary reddish-brown polished binding with gold medallions and borders front and back. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Manuscript. Persian Title from pasted label on cover. Scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper: lined notebook paper, lines running vertically to the text; black ink. Text breaks off after the first line of "al-bāb al-awwal min al-wāḥid al-rābiʻ." Naskh; 17 lines in written area approximately 15.5 x 11.5 cm. 165 pages. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M5. Contemporary blue cardboard binding with black leather spine. With a small manuscript fragment 19 x 12.5 cm, 16 pages (25-28 lines), in very small nastaʻliq script. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Incipit: بسم الامنع الاقدس Explicit/Colophon: في ان للنقطة مقامين مقام ينطق عن الله ومقام ينطق عما دون الله ذلك مقام
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from folio 3a. Pagination: 6 blank leaves; 1st work: fol. 1b-168a (15 lines); 3 blank leaves; 2nd work: fol. 172b-175a (12 lines) Autograph copy. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: yellowish, cream color paper with visible watermark; black ink with rubrication and overlining in red; catchwords. Naskh; First work: 15 lines in written area 12.5 x 6.5 cm.; Second work: 12 lines in written area 12 x 6 cm. 6 blank leaves; fol. 1b-168a (1st work); 3 blank leaves; fol. 172b-175a (2nd work) Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: flexible red leather binding with embossed frame lines.
Manuscript. Persian. Title based on comparison with printed edtions. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Turkey. Papaer; light cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; text enclosed in and divided by single red lines; gold unwan; black ink with section headings in red ink; catchwords. Manuscript appears to be unfinished as section titles end at the first section on fol. 17a; blank section dividision title box blank through the rest of the work. Naskh; 17 lines in written area 12.3 x 6.7 cm. Fol. 1b-29a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M129. Contemporary deep red morocco Turkish binding with gold borders and center gold medallion. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Abstract: Commentary on al-Fiqh al-nāfiʻ by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Samarqandī.Ms. codex.Title from rubric on fol. 1a.Physical description: Fol. 5-89 and 119-245 written in thick medium small naskh in black ink, with 29 lines per page (250 x 140 mm.), on dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 91-118 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 27 lines per page (195 x 125 mm.), on cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Collation notes on the margin. . Fol. 4 is a later replacement. According to catchword and foliation in black ink in Arabic numerals, several leaves missing between fol. 4 and 5 (fol. 5 is numbered "12" in the foliation in Arabic numerals). Fol. 58 (65 in the foliation in Arabic) is the beginning of the ninth quire. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements and a table of contents. Stained with water, with loss of text.Label pasted on upper cover with illegible inscription. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 506". Inscription in Arabic script on fol. 1a, reading: "Numrah 9".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by Burhān ibn Ismāʻīl Shaykh ibn QYMS(?) Ḥājjī al--ūR-āṭī on Wednesday, the first night (ghurrah) of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 703 July 1304 (fol. 245b).Copyist: Burhān ibn Ismāʻīl Shaykh ibn QYMS(?) Ḥājjī al--ūR-āṭī.Incipit: الحمد لله الذى امدّ اولياه فى العاجلة بانواع النعم واعدّ اعداه فى الاجله باصناف النقم ... وبعد فان كتاب النافع فى كثرة جواهره ودرره كبحر لجي وسماء ذات درارى ... قال الامام ... ناصر الدين المدينى ... الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا امده للابد الحمد وصف بالجميل على جهة التفضيل
Abstract: Copy of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī. Just after colophon, prayer, starting with "Yā Khāliq al-khalq".Binding note: Marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Dark brown leather spine and outer edges of the covers. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the tail of the text block.'15 lines per page. Fol. 1-29 are later replacements on European glazed paper with watermark, written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Fol. 30-203 on thick light cream paper with pulp and lines visible (frame-ruled), in medium small naskh in black ink (faded), with use of red. Interlinear and marginal annotations by a later hand. Pagination in black ink using Arabic numerals (starting with "1" on fol. 1b). Several inscriptions and short excerpts on the pastedown of the upper cover and fol. 1a. Inscription in Western numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "79" (corresponds to Brill\'s catalog. See HoutsmaM. Th. Catalogue d\'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcsno. 132).'Copy completed in ---? al-Khalīl, on 19 Muḥarram 768 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn al-Khalīlī al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 203b).Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام ابو محمد القاسم بن علي بن محمد بن عثمان الحريري البصرى رحمه الله تعالى اللهم انا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان والهمت من التبيان ... 2أ ... وبعد قد جرى ببعض اندية الادب الذي ركدت في هذا العصرِ ريحهExplicit: فقال اجعل الموت نصب عينك وهذا فراق بيني وبينك فودعته وعبراتي تتحدرن من المأقي وزفراتي يتصعدن من التراقي وكانت هذه خاتمة التلاقي تمت قال الرييس ابو محمد القاسم بن علي رحمه الله هذا اخر المقامات التي انشاتها للاغترار وامليتها 203أ بلسان الاضطرار وقد الجيت الى ان ارصدتها للاستعراض وناديت عليها في سوق الاعتراض هذ مع معرفتي بانها من سقط المتاع ... ولكن كان ذلك في الكتاب مسطورًا وانا استغفر الله تعالى مما اودعتها من اباطيل اللغو واضاليل اللهو واسترشده الي ما يعصم من السهو ... وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والاخره والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته وسلامه على سيدنا محمد عبده ورسوله ... ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 482Origin: As appears in colophon on p.515, transcription completed 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1116 [ca. 15 April 1705] by Bakīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Scrap with notes and seal impression between pp.40-41.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, 'title page' (p.1), and spine label, "IL 350a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in perhaps once-tinted laid paper with edges/turn-ins in red-brown leather and spine covered in paper (manuscript waste) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear visible impression of stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration) ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations, gone from many quires ; worked endbands in blue, damaged with core exposed ; overall in quite poor condition with significant abrasion and staining, upper cover fully detached, probable loss of flap, lifting and losses of paper (particularly at spine), delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (vertical), and grapes (raisin) under cartouche with "P A" [?] and crown above watermark (see p.1, etc.), quite thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished ; another sturdier type with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (vertical), no watermarks visible (see pp.377-416, etc.) ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; at least three hands ; opening hand through p.177 a nastaʻlīq (talik), bold Turkish hand, virtually serifless and quite compact with marked tilt to the right, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; hand supplying by p.177 through p.301 a small and rather compact naskh, partially though irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters ; hand supplying p.302 to p.446 another nastaʻlīq (talik) similar to the opening hand, also compact with dramatic inclination to the right ; at p.447 reverts back to the naskh and continues in this hand to the close.Layout: Written mainly in 34-35 lines per page.Collation: V-1 (9), 25 V(259) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between pp.3-4).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تم بعون الله وحسن توفيقه على يدي افقر الورى واحوجهم بكير بن محمد بن اسماعيل تمه في يوم الثاني بعد صلوة الظهر العشرون من شهر ذي الحجة في سلك سنة ستة عشر ومائة والف من الهجرة المصطوية [كذا] عليه افضل التحية واكمل الثنية واسأل الله العفو والعافية ... واحشرنا معهم بلطفك يا رب العالمين"Explicit: "ولانه ثبت فضيلتهم على القرن الثاني بدلائل بكثيرة من الايات والخبار"Incipit: "احمد الله ملأ السموات وملأ الارض وما يشاء بعد هذه الاشياء ... وبعد فقد الح علي زمرة خلاني وثلة خلصاني ان اشرح لهم كتاب المصابيح تصنيف الامام الهمام ... ركن الشريعة محيي السنة ابي محمد الحسين بن مسعود الفراء ... فاجبتهم الى ذلك واوردت في اول الكتاب مقدمة في اصطلاحات اصحاب الحديث وانواع علوم الحديث واوردت فيه كل راو لم يكن مذكورا في متن المصابيح وتركت ذكر من هو مذكور فيه وسميته بكتاب المفاتيح في شرح المصابيح ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.2.Ms. codex.Careful copy of a commentary on Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah, the ḥadīth collection compiled from various sources and arranged by subject and degree of authority by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Farrāʼ al-Baghawī (d.1117?).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 220Origin: As appears in colophon at end of roll, main section copied by Ḥusayn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Khurāsānī with transcription completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 727 [?] [October-November 1327?] ; opening section (and repairs to main section) certainly much later than main section, perhaps 18th or 19th century.Accompanying material: a. Metal case in the form of a cylinder decorated with incised diamond pattern with lid (only slightly convex) ; case retains one ring through which a cord may have passed, a second ring has been lost -- b. Waxy, brown oil cloth now in two pieces which once wrapped roll inside case.Support: Each section in a distinct paper type ; opening section (first 895 mm., roughly 104-107 mm. wide, three pieces of paper) in type with roughly 10-11 laid lines per cm. (parallel with the length of the roll, fairly distinct) and no chain lines or watermarks plainly visible, dense and sturdy, burnished ; bulk of roll (roughly 3530 mm., 110-112 mm. wide, at least six pieces of paper) on a non-European (likely Persian) paper, highly sized and burnished, reinforced with further paper backing and repairs.Decoration: Text of opening section bordered by red double-rule border, table / jadwal with ninety-nine names ruled in red, border texts defined by red rules, openings with depiction of the "seal of prophecy" (مهر نبوت) here "صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی" ; main section opens with a long cartouche (oriented along the length of the roll) with illuminated heading "اسماء الله تعالى" in thuluth and basmalah in plaited and knotted kufic, a central field filled with floral and vegetal designs executed in micrography, bordering lozenges and alternating circles filled with further micrography (mainly chrysographed, some in blue and black) and Qurʼānic texts in large tawqīʻ approaching thuluth (chrysographed), and further border of rubricated Qurʼānic text in fine riqāʻ ; an even longer cartouche appears next, with illuminated headings for each of several sections ("من اسماء الله تعالى نودونه نام،" "هذا دعاء حرز الاماني،" اسماء الاربعون") which are each in a different layout incorporating the nintey-nine names, Qurʼānic and prayer texts in ghubār, naskh, thuluth, tawqīʻ, etc. in gold, red, black and some blue in a highly symmetrical fashion, with the various elements defined by heavy bands of gold flanked by red double-rules.Script: [opening section] Naskh and tawqīʻ ; [main section] Naskh, thuluth, tawqīʻ, riqāʻ, ghubār, plaited and knotted kufic.Layout: [opening section] central written area in a single column (text written perpendicular to length of the roll) bordered in Qurʼānic and ḥadīth texts along the length of the roll, ninety-nine names arranged in a ruled table / jadwal (five cells wide by twenty cells tall), text following the heading for "the prayer of the bāzūband" ("دعا بازوبند حضرت شاه ولايت پناه") in 26 lines ; [main section] an elaborate arrangement of text consisting of a central narrow panel filled with text first arranged in a series of diagonal arrays (each read across in a zig-zag fashion), next in a series of five circles executed in micrography, and finally in rectangular fields of roughly nine horizontal lines, all interspersed with headings and surrounded by two heavy borders of cartouches, circles and rectangles filled with Qurʼānic and prayer texts in various scripts, closing with dedication and colophon.Dedication: "اللهم وخل بدخلك [؟] دوله الامير الاعدل الاعظم الاعلم الاشجع الاكرم سلطان الامراء في العالم انك دولت همه از دولت اوحي طلبنا والملك العادل ... خلد الله تعالى ملكه ودولته الى يوم الدين"Colophon: "كتبه العبد حسين ابراهيم ابن محمد الحسيني الخراساني في ذي الحجة سنه سبع وعشرين وسبعمائة [؟]"Incipit: "صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. roll.[main section] اسماء الله تعالى -- من اسماء الله تعالى نودونه نام -- هذا دعاء حرز الاماني -- اسماء الاربعون[opening section] صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی -- نودونه نام باری تعالی -- دعا بازوبند حضرت شاه ولایت پناهComposite talismanic scroll (rotulus, i.e. opening vertically) consisting of two sections of distinct production, now joined. Originally wrapped in oil cloth and housed in metal case.