Abstract: A portion of an unknown work on history, spanning the years 1638 to 1655, during the reign of Imam Mutawakkil ʻalá Allāh Ismāʻīl ibn al-Qāsim.Contents.مجهول في التاريخIncludes an introduction to a work summarizing the seven methods of Quranic recitation, and family trees for the Banū al-Sharafī and the descendents of al-Mahdī al-ʻAbbās.عبارة عن ستة عشر ورقة بدون غلاف من جزء من كتاب في التاريخ تم تدبيسها بمسامير دباسة حديثة وهو جميل الخط ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأصفر والأخضر ويوجد مكان مخصص للحواشيIncipit: عالما منيفاً فى كل فن من العلوم لا يعزب عنه شيأً وكا شجاعاً كريماً سخي الكف...Explicit: بلاد بن عفيف فى غرة شهر ربيع الاخر ودخلت جميع تلك البلاد تحت وطاه الامام ولم ينتطح فيهاإلى هنا انتهى الموجود من الكتابةNaskh and thuluth scripts, written in black, red, yellow and green ink. Unbound, taken from a larger work.19 lines.1-بداية مقدمة لكتاب مختصر في مذاهب القراء السبعة وهي بخط صاحب المكتبة كما عرفناه وميزناه سابقا. لقطة رقم (1). 2-مشجر نسب السادة بني الشرفي ومشجر نسب السادة أولاد المهدي العباس. لقطة رقم (2).
Abstract: Treatise describing a quadrant called "al-rubʻ al-kāmil", comprising an introduction and fifteen chapters (bāb). On fol. 1a is a chart explaining the influence of the rainbow in association with the signs of the zodiac.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 1b).Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in careful medium large naskh in black ink with use of red ; text is partially vocalized. Loose leaves and bifolia ; stained with water.Origin: According to note at the end of the text, copied in 993 H. 1585 (fol. 11b).Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى رسم على صفحات مصنوعاته قواطع الدلايل ... وبعد فهذه رسالة لخصت فيها محاسن الرسايل وخصصتها بالاهم مما يتعلق بالربع الكاملExplicit: لبعده يحصل الغرض فيها وفى هذا القدر كفاية لمن وفقه الله تعالى والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا امين
Legends about Jalāladdīn Rūmī. One lengthy story narrates a conversation the author had with Rūmī in his dream.Title supplied by cataloger.17.2 x 11.5 cm (13.1 x 7.5 cm).According to the colophon (f. 100r), copy completed on 21 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1243 AH [October 11, 1827 AD] in the hand of Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Qayṣarī.Written in naskh script, in one column, 17 lines per page, in black, framed within a red line. Persian phrases vocalized and red overlined. Section headings in red. Catchwords. Occasional notes in green ink.Dark-cream glazed laid paper. Board cover. Envelope flap. Spine torn; volume loosely attached to binding.With: Şerh-i Cezîretü'l-mesnevî / Ahmed Meknî (ff. 10v.-100r) ; Hall-i ebyât-ı müşkilât-ı Celâleddin Rûmî (ff. 101r-107r) ; Risâle-yi esrâr-ı tarîk (ff. 107v-111v).MS Turk 53. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 35Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.294a (p.596), copied by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājī Ramaḍān. Transcription finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah...") Muḥarram 1117 [April-May 1705].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts carrying extensions of the glosses (paginated pp.9-10, 15-16, 23-24, 35-36, 41-42, 45-46, 61-62, 231-232, 349-350), often sewn or tipped in.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 111. Al-Tarikat al-muhammadiyah."Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper (in blue, yellow, pink, white) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark brown (to black) leather (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in paper ; some red leather on flap ; marbled paper has been placed over blind stamped design (central lozenge with vegetal pattern) ; sewn in white thread, two stations, with primaries in dark blue thread ; fine worked chevron endbands in red and yellow ; in poor condition with much abrasion, staining, cracking and splitting of leather at joints, etc. ; upper board nearly detached and corners exposed and delaminating ; lower board cracked ; envelope flap is entirely gone and fore-flap is detaching from lower cover ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with roughly 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced 23-25 mm. apart ; watermarks include coat of arms with cross flanked by griffins, crown above and two circles below, upper with "A G R", lower with "I" (compare Heawood 755).Decoration: Text rubricated with abbreviation symbols, overlining, keywords, section headings, etc. in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, three inverted commas, etc.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; virtually serifless, but occasional right-sloping head-serif on lām, etc. even free-standing alif ; effect of slant to the left ; mainly closed counters ; hand may change where line thickness changes (pp.351-526) but a very similar Turkish naskh.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident), both central area and margins.Collation: VI (12), 9 V(102), IV+1(111), 2 V(131), IV (139), 3 V(169), III (175), 7 V(245), VI (257), V (267), VI (279), V (279), IV (297) ; chiefly quinions ; first three leaves and final three leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts, skips two pages each between pp.3-4, 57-58 and 139-140, mistakenly repeats p.557 twice).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماة بطريقة المحمدية والسيرة الاحمدية لمولانا البركوي محمد افندي تغمده الله مغفرانه واسكنه بحبوحة جنانه من يد الحقير المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الجليل ابراهيم ابن الحاجي رمضان يوم الثلث قبل الظهر من شهر المحرم في سنة سبع عشر ومائة والف والحمد لله والصلوة والسلام على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين م م م"Explicit: "وجلاء القلوب فعليك بها وطالعها حتى تعلم حقيقة مقالنا وقول الحمد لله الذي هدينا وما كنا نهتدي لو لا ان هدينا الله ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد اذ هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا امة وسطا خير امم ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل يتوافقان والكتاب والسنة يتطابقان ... فاردت ان اصنف الطريقة المحمدية واحببت ان ابين السيرة الاحمدية حتى يعرض عليها عمله كل سالك ..."Title from colophon on fol.294a (p.596).Ms. codex.Neat, well-glossed copy of the sermons and homilies of Birgivî (Birkawī, Birgilī) Mehmet Efendi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 483Origin: As appears in colophon on p.393, transcription (of opening and closing sections) completed in 1116 [1704 or 5] by al-Ḥājj Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Ḥājj ʻUmar ibn al-Ḥājj Salmān ibn Muḥammad Afandī ( Hacı Salıh b. Hacı Ömer b. Hacı Selman b. Mehmet Efendi ). Paper, hand, etc. suggest transcription of middle section possibly late 17th or early 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 336" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards now covered in a teal textured/coated paper with red leather over spine (and traces of brown leather at exposed board edges) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) and hinges in shell marbled paper (in light brown, teal, and pink) ; now sewn in white thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue and cream, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper of mainly two types ; opening type with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (vertical), three crescents watermark (82 mm. long, perpendicular to chains), quite well-burnished to glossy (burnisher's marks visible), crisp and translucent though sturdy ; second type (pp.133-330) with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 19-22 mm. apart (vertical), small two-handled pot watermark with letters "M P" [?] (see p.134, 136, 164, etc.), quite crisp, thin and translucent though sturdy, burnished, some bifolia tinted beige or pale orange ; occasionally other pot watermarked papers appear (see p.177, 216, 222, etc) ; some staining.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated.Script: Naskh ; two main hands ; opening and closing hand an elegant Turkish or 'Syrian' naskh, virtually serifless with dramatic effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in conjoined dots, some free assimilation of letters ; p.134 to p.330 supplied in a different hand (in a different layout on a different paper) with Persianate features, mainly serifless and fairly vertical, open and closed counters, pointing mainly in distinct dots, fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 19 and 17 lines per page.Collation: V+1 (11), 5 V(61), II+1 (66), 6 IV(114), IV+1 (123), V (133), 4 IV(165), 2 V(185), VI (197) ; chiefly quaternions and quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت كتابة هذا الكتاب من يد اضعف العباد الحاج احمد [؟] ابن الحاج عمر بن الحاج سلمان بن محمد افندى غفر الله لهم ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات الاحياء منهم والاموات ولمن قال امين بحرمة سيد المرسلين في التاريخ ست عشر ومائة والف"Explicit: "قال بل انتم اصحابي واخواننا الذين لم يأتوا بعد وانا فرطهم على الحوض"Incipit: "قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من اعتق رقبة مسلمة اعتق الله بكل عضو منه عضوا منه من النار حتى فرجه بفرجه غرابي ذر ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. composite codex.Fine composite copy of Walī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī's (d.1342) arrangement of Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah, the ḥadīth collection compiled from various sources and arranged by subject and degree of authority by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Baghawī (d.1117?). Contents listing at opening (p.1).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 879Origin: As appears in colophon on p.105, copied [and authored ?] by Jaʻfar ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Qummī with transcription completed in Tehran 6 Rabīʻ II 1296 [ca. 30 March 1879], presumably on the order of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh Qajār (r.1848-1896) "حسب الامر وفرمايش جناب مستطاب سرور مكرم مخدوم و معظم" (see closing matter on p.105).Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 14 A manual of Persian and Turkish conversation in 4 bāb. Copied in Tehran in 1296" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Portion of a page torn from Luzac catalog, 1911, with description of this manuscript "2546 Persian-Turkish conversations. A ms. containing conversational phrases in Persian and Turkish in parallel columns. Neatly written, the Persian in Nīm-Shikastah, the Turkish in Naskhī. 8vo. Leather-binding. pp. 93. Written at Teheran, A.H. 1296." as well as penciled note (likely in hand of E. Husselman "n. f. in Mich. Isl. MSS." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes | 19th century [in hand of Emilie Savage-Smith ?]" (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 28Binding: Pasteboards covered in light orange-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in purple-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers in blind-tooled in mitred-panel style ; sewn in cream thread, six stations ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support:European "laid" paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark "A PIRIE & SONS 1877" (see p.12, 22-23, etc.) ; embossed with medallion carrying the Lion and Sun emblem of the Iranian state (officially adopted by Muḥammad Shāh Qajār in 1836).Script: Naskh and shikastah-nastaʻlīq ; a compact, elegant hand ; Persian text in shikastah-nastaʻlīq, compact and freely ligatured with effect of words descending to baseline, pointing in distinct dots, elongation of horizontal strokes and sweeping descenders (many reversed or recurved) ; Turkish text in a fine naskh, mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, open and close counters, some free assimilation of letters.Layout: Written mainly in 7 lines per page, divided to two columns with Persian in right column and Turkish in left column ; list of vocabulary at close in four columns.Collation: i, 3 VI (36), IV (44), II (48), i ; three senions followed by a quaternion and a binion ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," [and authorial ?] reads "باتمام رسيد در دار الخلافه طهران صانها الله عن الحادثات [؟] بتاريخ يوم يكشنبه ششم شهر ربيع الثانى ١٢٩۶ وانا اقل خلق الله ... جعفر بن حاجى [؟] محمد حسين القمى اللهم اغفرها بحق الحق والنبى المطلق فى سنه ١٢٩۶"Explicit: "يعنى تمام اولدى حسب الامر وفرمايش جناب مستطاب سرور مكرم ومخدوم معظم باتمام رسيد ..."Incipit: "اشبوه رساله تكلم ايچون درت باب اوزره تبويب اولنون ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.11.Ms. codex.Elegant copy (possibly autograph) of a treatise addressing conversational phrases in Persian and Turkish in four chapters witha Turkish preface, parallel Persian-Turkish text, and a brief glossary at the close.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 144Origin: As appears in colophon on p.126, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān (Mehmet Ösman) in the school of Ali Efendi, Trabzon. Transcription finished 25 Ramaḍān 1104 [ca. 30 May 1693].Accompanying materials: Insert carrying glosses (paginated pp.87-88).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 110. Ardabili's commentary on the Unmudaj." ; "٥٩٣" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped mandorla with orange onlays and gold-painted accents, accompanied by a border of gold fillets ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; traces of worked endbands remain ; overall in fair to poor condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper, mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermark with three bars in scrollwork ; crisp but sturdy, well-sized and burnished, dark cream in color with some inclusions ; a second type of European laid paper appears toward the end of the codex (name watermark, difficult to examine) ; flyleaves in still a different type (watermark with name in bar) ; some smudging and staining.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: mainly Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; only partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs appearing on bar of kāf (shaqq) and irregularly on joined alif, initial alif lām, etc. ; mainly closed counters ; very slight effect of words descending to baseline ; rounded and freely ligatured though rightward descenders mainly tapered ; alif maqṣūrah regularly mardūdah ; replacement leaf (p.17-18) in a naskh with strong influence of nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 5 V(50), IV+1 (59), II (63) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert ; skips two pages between pp.43-44).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب ... على يد اضعف الخلائق المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى محمد ابن عثمان ... في اليوم خمس وعشرين من شهر رمضان المبارك في يوم ... السبت وقت العصر في شهر طربزون في مدرسة على افندى سنه اربع ومائة والف تم"Explicit: "وعصمنا الله من شرورهم و ... لحوارهم والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب "Incipit: "الحمد لله [الذي] جعل العربية مفتاح البيان وصيرها آلة بها تحترز [؟] عن الخطأ ... وبعد يقول الفقير المولى ... جمال الله والدين محمد ابن عبد الغني الاردبيلي غفر الله له لما رأيت مختصر الامام الهمام ... جار الله ... انموذجه في النحو قليل اللفظ كثير المعنى صغير الحجم ... ولم يكن له شرح يفيد طالبه ويلقي اليه مقاصده ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.11).Ms. codex.3. p.130-p.133 : [Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʻabd fī Badʼ al-Amālī] / ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Farghānī.2. p.127-129 : [blank].1. p.12-126 : Sharḥ Unmūdhaj Maḥmūd al-Zamakhsharī / al-Ardabīlī.Fine copy of al-Ardabīlī's commentary of the Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw, a treatise on Arabic grammar by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī (d.1144). Followed by the renowned theological poem of al-Ūshī (12th cent.), Badʼ al-Amālī (or Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʻabd fī Badʼ al-Amālī) in a different hand.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 910Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974). As appears in 'title page' inscriptions on p.89 and p.121, the copyist has identified himself as "ا ع" as did the copyist in Isl. Ms. 937 (executed in 1934) and in Isl. Ms. 905 (executed in 1939), and still other manuscripts eventually bound for Heyworth-Dunne, see Isl. Mss. 937, Isl. Ms. 981, Isl. Ms. 988, Isl. Ms. 998 and likely Isl. Ms. 929.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 59Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "ثيولوجيا اريسطو | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper in at least three types and four different sizes (dimensions of the page roughly 287 x 205, 257 x 165, 300 x 225, 300 x 200 mm. as trimmed), unlined and lined.Decoration: Some section headings, passages of text, glosses and abbreviation symbols (mainly signes de renvoi) rubricated ; some overlining in red.Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; ruqʻah in a quick, compact hand in a medium line, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of words descending to baseline and inclination to the left, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots ; final section (repeating the muqaddimah and maymar 1-4) in naskh, a clear, modern hand, partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on odd lām, ṭāʼ, etc. and rounded with curvilinear descenders, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written in 14-22 lines per page.Collation: Internal pagination for some sections in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; leaves between sections left blank or partially blank (to serve as title pages, see pp.1, 21, 37, 61, 89, 121, 153, 181, 224) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf).Explicit: "وان كان حسنا لم يعمل الا حسنا فان كان هذا على ما وصفنا وكانت الطبيعة"Incipit: "واما افلاطن الشريف الالهي فان قد وصف النفس فقال فيها اشياء كثيرة ... الميمر الثاني من كتاب اثولوجيا ... هذا كتاب اثولوجيا للفاضل المقدم اريسطو في الفن الربوبي من فنون ما بعد الطبيعة مقدمة جدير بكل ساع لمعرفة الغاية التي هو عائد اليها سعيا منبعثا ..."Title from opening 'title page' inscription on p.1.Ms. codex.Careful copy of the Theology of Aristotle or Theologia Aristotelis, a work attributed to Aristotle but recognized to be an adapted translation of Plotinus' Enneades, IV-VI (collected and arranged by Porphyry). The text is arranged in eight sections not in consecutive order, opening with al-maymar al-thānī and closing with a reiteration of the muqaddimah and maymars 1-4 (see pp.181-222) followed by a fihrist (see pp.224-233).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 922Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974). Copy perhaps partly made from a printed edition.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 71Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "اسرار الآيات | الشيرازي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of two distinct types, one lined and one unlined.Decoration: Many opening headings and passages executed in contrasting purple ink ; others simply larger and bolded.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; two or three modern hands in a medium to bold line ; naskh partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, words adhering to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, occasionally more carefully executed ; ruqʻah, compact hand with slight effect of inclination to the right, serifless and freely ligatured with pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page.Collation: Pages between some sections left blank (see pp.37-40, 71-71) ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (first sixteen pages only) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [Asrār al-āyāt] "Scribal," reads "تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماه باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات للمحقق القويم صدر الدين الشيرازي الشهير وسوف نتبعها ان شاء الله تع بمتن العرشية ومتن المشاعر"Incipit: [preface] "نحمدك اللهم يا من تحيرت [؟] في بيداء كبريائه الالباب وغرقت في بحار معرفته عقول الاولياء ... وبعد فان هذا الكتاب المستطاب الذي هو قرة عيون اولى الالباب الموسوم باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات من مصنفات الحكيم الكامل ... صدر الحق والملة والدين محمد بن ابراهيم الشهير بصدر المتالهين الشيرازي ..." [Asrār al-āyāt] "هذا كتاب اسرار الآيات وانوار البينات لامام المتألهين محمد المعروف بصدر المتألهين الشيرازي طاب ثراه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... نحمدك اللهم يا من بيده ملكوت الارض والسماء واليه تتشوق الكائنات ... اما بعد فيقول انزل خلق الله واحوجهم الى كرامة رب العالمين محمد المدعو بصدر الدين هذا بيان للناس وهدى ورحمة للمتقين ..." [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "نحمد الله ونستعين بقوته التي اقام بها ملكوت الارض والسماء وبكلمته التي انشأ بها نشأتي الآخرة والاولى على تهذيب القوى القابلة للاستكمال ... وبعد فان اقل الخلائق قدرا وجرما واكثرهم خطأ وجرما محمد الشتهر بصدر الدين الشيرازي يقول ايها الاخوان السالكون الى الله بنور العرفان ..." [al-ʻArshīyah] "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره بالاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو الرب الجليل ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title from preface on p.1 and heading preceding opening on p.2.Ms. codex.3. p.326-p.425 : Matn al-ʻArshīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.2. p.268-p.326 : Kitāb al-Mashāʻir / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.1. p.2-p.267 : Asrār al-āyāt wa-anwār al-bayyināt / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.Careful copy of the treatise on Qurʼān interpretation by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640), followed by his Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, and al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology.
Abstract: Commentary on Majmaʻ al-Baḥrayn by Ibn al-Sāʻātī (d. 696/1296), a compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah by al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142).Binding note: Upper and lower coversContents: 1. Vol. 1 : Kitāb al-Ṭahārah - Kitāb al-Ṣulḥ.Contents: 2. Vol. 2 : Kitāb al-Waqf - Kitāb al-Waṣāyā.Ms. codex.Title from vol. 1, fol. 1a (later hand).Physical description: Vol. 1 : 31 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for the commented text. Light cream paper with pulp and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 1, 7-10, 92-97, 195-210, 238, 242-243, 248-249, 251-254 are later replacements on glazed European paper with watermark. Title on tail of text block (illegible). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper margin of fol. 2a: "Ḥāʼ 1100".Vol. 2 : 29 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red to overline the commented text. Cream paper with pulp, laid and chain lines visible. Table of contents on fol. 1b. Short excerpt from Sharḥ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr li-Qāḍī Khān on fol. 1a. Excerpts from Majmaʻ al-Fatāwá and other texts on fol. 168b. Title on tail of text block (illegible).Origin: Copy of vol. 2 completed on 7 Muḥarram 848 April 26, 1444 in the Madrasat of the town (qaṣbah) of Karahisar Demirli(?), by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān (colophon, fol. 168a, followed by verses of poetry in Persian).Incipit vol. 1 (later replacement) : يا من لا يحوط كمالكماله نطاق وصف ... وبعد فيقول الضعيف ... عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز بن امين الدين ... ان بعض اخوانى وخلص خلانى فى اثنا الصحابةExplicit vol. 1 (later replacement) : لان التجارة تنفق في بعض الاحيان فقدر بشهر وان كان محترفا يمسك قوت يومه والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب ويليه فى الجزء الثاني كتاب الوقفIncipit vol. 2 : كتاب الوقف وهو فى اللغة الحبس وفى الشرع حبس العينExplicit vol. 2 : كان واقفا على مصالحه واجازها مّ حملا لكلامه الى الصرف الى مصالحه تصحيحا له هذا اخر الكلام تم هذا الكتاب
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 629Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 217" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark tan leather ; epigraphic stamps on interior of envelope flap ; sewn in heavy cream thread, two stations ; enbands mainly gone though traces of tailband remain ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at spine), fore edge flap quite ill-fitting (small), negative draw in upper cover, etc.Support: non-European laid paper of several types ; one type with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and occasional chain lines (vertical) faintly visible spaced about 17 mm. apart, dense, thick and sturday, medium cream to beige in color, well-burnished ; another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with 6-8 mm. between chains and 53 mm. between groups (see p.180, etc.) ; still another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and no chain lines visible, thin though sturdy, burnished ; leather burn (of flap design) in verso of final leaf (p.474).Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; two main hands ; opening hand (through close of opening section on p.303) nastaʻlīq (talik), quite elegant, virtually serifless, compact but quite elongated in the horizontal, with pointing in distinct dots ; second section (from p.304 on) in naskh, fine Persianate or Turkish hand, quite rounded with some sweeping descenders, some exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, occasional effect of tilt to the right, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn set at opening of bowl, freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 18 IV(144), III (150), 9 IV(222), III (228), IV (236) ; chiefly quaternions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper outer corner of the opening recto of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips two pages between p.315 and p.316 and skips ahead from p.145 to p.150).Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads "ونجز الفراغ من تأليفه اواسط شوال من سنة ثلث وثمانمائة وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل نعم المولى ونعم النصير"Explicit: "لانه جزء من علم البلاغة كما صرح به فيما مر وحققه ههنا وهذا آخر ما يسرنا الله تع بمنه ولطفه من كشف فوائد هذا العلم ونظم فرائده ونسأل الله تع ان ينفع به المسترشدين وان يجعله ذخرا لنا يوم الدين"Incipit: "نحمدك اللهم على ما هديتنا اليه من دقائق المعاني في بدائع البيان واطلعتنا عليه من حقائق المثاني في بذرائع البرهان ... وبعد فقد طالما جال في صدري ودار في خلدي ان ارتب للقسم الثالث من مفتاح العلوم شرحا يدلل [؟] على صابه ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Sayyid al-Sharīf ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī's (d.1413) commentary on the third part of Miftāḥ al-‘ulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1228 or 29, on rhetoric (ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān). The commentary is better known as al-Miṣbāḥ fī sharḥ al-Miftāḥ.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 918Origin: 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. 67Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "شرح | عبد الرحمن الجامي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Mainly lined / ruled wove paper of at least two different types ; a few leaves of unruled wove paper.Decoration: Headings and text being commented upon rubricated.Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; two modern hands ; opening pages in naskh, a spacious, modern hand in a bold line, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, somewhat freely ligatured, many closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; thereafter in ruqʻah, initially (through p.266) a neat hand, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the right, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots ; from p.267 a much quicker, coarser hand with effect of inclination to the right and slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written mainly in 25-26 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "الى هنا انتهى الاصل الذي بيدنا والذي نقلنا منه هذه النبذة ... والاصل هو السفر المسمى بمصباح الانس بين المعقول والمشهود شرح مفتاح غيب الجمع والوجود والشرح للعلامة الفنري [الفناري] والمتن لصدر الدين القنوي تلميذ الشيخ الاكبر بن عربي ... والله الامر في البدء والختم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: [Sharḥ mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī ʻalá Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam] "الحمد لله الذي زين خواتم قلوب اولى الهمم بفصوص نصوص الحكم ... اما بعد فاعلم ان الحكم الفائضة من الحق سبحانه على قلوب كمل عباده ... فقصدت الى جمع شروحه وجعلتها مفاتيح ابواب فتوحه وطالعتها مرة بعد اخرى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.4. p.445-p.446 : [blank].3. p.268-p.444 : Min Miṣbāḥ al-uns bayna al-maʻqūl wa-al-mashhūd / Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Fanārī.2. p.267-p.268: Min al-Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikmīyah bi-sharḥ al-Nābulusī / al-Nābulusī.1. p.1-p.266 : [Sharḥ mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī ʻalá Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam] / Jāmī.Careful copy of a collection of excerpts from three Ṣūfistic and philosophical works opening with Jāmī's (d.1492) commentary upon Ibn ʻArabī’s celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, a collection of aphorisms summarizing the teaching of 28 prophets from Adam to Muḥammad, followed by a very brief excerpt from ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl al-Nābulusī's (d.1731) commentary on Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam and closing with a lengthy excerpt from Miṣbāḥ al-uns bayna al-maʻqūl wa-al-mashhūd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Fanārī's (d.1431) commentary on Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s (d.1274) chief philosophical work.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 827Origin: As appears in colophon on p.558, transcription of the bulk of the manuscript (from p.185 to close excluding replacement leaves) completed in Tabrīz, 1 Ṣafar 886 [ca. 1 April 1481]. Opening of the manuscript (through p.184) appears to have been copied separately, though likely around the same time (i.e. late 15th or early 16th century).Accompanying materials: Several inserts carrying diagrams and glosses, also paginated (see pp.131-2, 209-10, 251-2, 253-4, 255-6, 263-4, 503-4, 505-6, 525-26).Former shelfmark: "٤٢٧" from label on upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled rule-border ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in dark blue and cream, quite good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with staining, lifting and losses of leather at flap, etc. ; repair to fore edge flap in floral-printed textile.Support: non-European laid paper of at least three types ; opening through p.184 on type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, typically quite diffuse), chains lines only sporadically visible, well-sized and burnished to glossy ; bulk of manuscript in a similar type with 7 laid lines per cm. (again quite diffuse), chain lines visible as short lengths or occasional pairs (spaced 13 mm. apart, see p.220), darker in color, well-sized and burnished to glossy ; some replacements on still a different type (see bifolia carrying pp.283-70, 295-302, 343-48) ; other replacements, added leaves carrying table of contents at opening, and many inserts on European laid paper.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; numerous tables and line diagrams in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; at least three elegant hands ; text of replacement leaves in naskh.Layout: Written in 17, 16 and 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: I (2), IV+1 (11), 8 V(91), II (95), 4 IV(127), III (133), IV-4+4 (141), II (145), V (155), IV (163), III (169), 2 IV(185), III (191), 8 IV(255), IV+2 (265), III (271) ; main section mainly quaternions ; opening section chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and skips two pages between pp.345-6).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه الرساله فى دار السلطنه تبريز فى غره صفر سنه ۸۸۶"Explicit: "بل وحى و الهام و كيفيت وضع جداويل تر طاهر ست والله اعلم بحقايق الاشيار والحمد لوليه والشكر على نعمائه والصلوه والسلام على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه وعترته اجمعين"Incipit: "متن مقالت اول در معرفت تواريخ وان مشتمل است بر مقدمه وهفت باب مقدمه در معرفت معنى تاريخ وسال وماه واجزاء آن جون از سمه اجرام سماوى ظاهر تر افتاب وماهست ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.5).Ms. composite codex.Fine, early composite copy of the commentary by the astronomer and mathematician ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Qushjī [Ali Kuşcu] (d.1474) on the Zīj-i Gurkānī, the astronomical handbook compiled at Samarqand under the amīr Ulugh Beg (d.1449), also its principal author. Ali Kuşcu himself took part in the compilation of the Zīj as director of the observatory. Table of contents at opening (pp.2-4).
Abstract: Treatise on the devotional obligations of the Muslims towards the Prophet, followed by an ijāzah (text 1). The volume contains also a collection of forty ḥadīth (text 2).Binding note: Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboard, with gold painted decoration. Blue paper pastedown, except on the doublure of the fore-edge flap which has a gold painted decoration. This binding presents similarities with the binding of Princeton, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 50L.Contents: 1. fol. (i)b-1b : Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. 2a-224a : al-Shifāʾ bi-taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-musṭafá / ʻIyāḍ ibn Mūsá.Contents: 3. fol. 224b : Ijāzah.Contents: 4. fol. 225b-226b : Collection of forty ḥadīth.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).21 long lines per page (text 1) and 35 long lines per page (text 2). Text 1 is written in very clear large naskh and text 2 in medium small naskh, using black ink with red for headings and punctuation. Illuminated title page in gold and blue. Light cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible. Frame-ruled (101 mm.). Fol. 21 is a later replacement on glazed European paper. Collations notes (collation statement on some fol., see fol. 36a) and other annotations in the margins. Ownership statements on fol. 2a (one dated 1234 H. 1818-19). Table of contents by a later hand on fol. (i) and 1. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starting with 1 on fol. 2). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counting fol. (ii) as fol. 1).On fol. 224b : Ijāzah by ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Daymī(?) for Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Majd al-Dīn Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUthmān al-Dimyāṭī al-Maḥallī al-Mālikī, dated Thursday 23 Jumādá al-Ulá 884 August 1479.Text 2, which seems to be by the same hand as text 1, was copied by Muḥammad al-Qādirī(?) Imām al-Umawī al-Ḥanafī bi-al-madrasah al-Umawīyah(?) (colophon, fol. 226b).Collation: Paper ; fol. 225 ; a (endpaper) + ii (later European paper with watermark) + 225 + i (later European paper, with another watermark) + b (endpaper).Incipit (text 1, fol. 2b): بسم ... وصلى الله ... قال الفقيه القاضى الامام ابو الفضل ... الحمد لله المنفرد باسمه الاسما المختص بالملك الاعز الاحمى ... اما بعد اشرق الله قلبي وقلبك بانوار اليقين ولطف لي ولك بما لطف به لاولياءه المتقينExplicit (text 1, fol. 224a): ولا يرد دعوة القاصدين ولا يصلح عمل المفسدين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل وصلواته على نبينا محمد خاتم النبيين وسلّم تسليماً كثيراً الى يوم الدينIncipit (text 2, fol. 225b): الحمد لله ... والصلى الله على ... وبعد فهذه حوادث خرجها بعض العلما الاعلام فى اسطناع المعروف للمسلم نفع الله بها الحديث الاول عن انيس رضى الله عنه ان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال الخلقُ كلُهُم عيالُ الله فاحبُّ خلقِه اليه انفعُهم لعيالهExplicit (text 2, fol. 226b): الحديث الاربعون عن ابن عمر رضى الله عنهما قال قيل يا رسول الله اي العمل احب اليك قال انفع الناس للناس
Abstract: Elegant copy of a commentary on the ʻAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī, by Abū Jaʻfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, d. 321/933. On this commentary, see Kashf al-ẓunūn, ed. Fluegel, vol. 4, p. 216.Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Could also be read "ʻaqīdah".13 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings. The text is vocalized. Thick dark cream paper with laid lines, some chain lines, and pulp visible. Catchword on verso of some leaves.'Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold and blue, with some red (fol. 1a): The title-page consists of an upper panel with two red, blue, and gold medallions on the left margin, and a lower scalloped panel. The upper panel is divided in two parts each framed within a gold border outlined in black. The upper part has the title written in stylistic "Kufic" in gold on a blue ground with a gold and red arabesque of flowers and leaves. The lower part has the statement of responsibility written in black naskh in cloud cartouches outlined in black and left blank over a ground hatched in red. The scalloped panel is bordered in gold and black on white and has the patron\'s name in gold outlined in black in cloud cartouches left blank on a blue ground. The whole design is outlined in blue with radiating flecks.'Serious worm damage on the inner margin. Extremely fragile.The manuscripts is not dated. Apparently copied 14th-15th cent.Two spine labels (vertical) with inscriptions reading respectively: "Sharḥ ʻAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī li-Hibat Allāh al-Turkustānī" in Arabic script and "369" in Arabic and western numerals.Incipit: قال شيخنا ومولانا الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة شجاع الدين هبة الله بن احمد بن مُعَلّا التُرْكُستانى الحنفى رحمه الله تعالى الحمد لله الذى دلّت على وحدانيته بدايع صنعته ... وبعد فان بعض اخواننا سالنا ان نتكلم مما فتح الله علينا من خزاين نعمه ولطايف كرمه على العقيدة المنسوبة الى الامام ابى جعفر الطحاوى ... 2أ ... فاقول وبالله التوفيق قال رضى الله عنه هذا ذكر بيان اعتقاد اهل السنة والجماعة فانما قال ذلك لقوله تعالى لنبيه ... قل هذه سبيلىExplicit: وقال رسول الله ... لا تجتمع امّتى على ضلال وقال يد الله على الجماعة فمن شدّ شدّ فى النار نعوذ بالله من الخذلان والفرقة ونسال الله تعالى ان يتوفّانا على لزوم السنّة والجماعة بمنّه وكرمه
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 111Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 17th century.Accompanying materials: Vast number of slips carrying notes, most tipped in (paginated pp.13-14, pp.17-18, etc.).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 112. Tahdib al-mantik."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with red-brown leather on spine, fore-edge flap and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; envelope flap covered in pink laid paper ; board linings in laid paper ; initial quires sewn in yellow thread, latter quires in red thread, two stations ; worked endbands in light green and pink, tailband in tact, headband nearly gone ; in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather and paper (especially spine and fore-edge flap), delamination of boards, lower cover detaching at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types ; replacement leaves in European laid paper with horn in coat of arms (crown above) watermark (compare Heawood 2654) ; main type carrying opening work a European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and three hats watermark (compare Heawood 2596) ; still another type in European laid paper bears a countermark of initials "A S" with trefoil above ; bulk of second work in European laid paper with crown star crescent watermark (compare Heawood 1132).Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviations rubricated ; diagram on p.495.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq and naskh ; several hands ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; effect of words descending to baseline, occasionally more exaggerated.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page throughout ; frame-ruled.Collation: II (4), V-1 (13), V (23), V-2 (31), 5 V(81), 2 VI (105), V-1 (114), 2 V (134), 2 IV (150), V (160), IV (168), V (178), IV (186), V (196), IV (204), 2 V(224), VI (236), i ; mainly quinions though quinions alternating with quaternions carry second work ; incipit supplied on replacement leaves (initial binion) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes all inserts and back flyleaf, skips two pages between pp.93-94).Incipit: [Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān] "قوله الحكمة استكمال ... الاستكمال مصدر المصادر قد تطلق ويراد بها معانيها النسبية وقد تطلق ويراد بها الحاصل بالمصدر ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat Tahdhīb min al-manṭiq] "الحمد لله على تهذيب المنطق والكلام عن غياهب الشكوك والوهام"Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on opening added leaf (p.1).Ms. codex.3. fol.111b-fol.236b (p.234-p.546) : Ḥāshiyat Tahdhīb min al-manṭiq / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī.2. fol.111a (p.233) : [blank].1. fol.4b-fol. 110b (p8.-p.232) : Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān / Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān.Clear copy of a gloss by Mīrzā Jān (with superglosses of Ḥasan Chalabī, etc.) upon the commentary by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mubārakshāh al-Bukhārī on Najm al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Kātibī al-Qazwīnī's Ḥikmat al-ʻayn, a work of metaphysics and the natural sciences. Followed by the commentary on the first part al-Taftāzānī's Tahdhīb al-manṭiq, a tract on logic and metaphysics, by Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 927Origin: 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. 76Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "منهاج العابدين الى الجنة | الغزالى| J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of three different types.Decoration: Some heading and portions of text in purple and red ink (see pp.21-22).Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; likely executed by the same hand ; opening two works mainly in naskh (with influence of ruqʻah), mainly serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed, free assimilation of letters ; opening work in a bold line, second in a thinner line ; final work mainly in ruqʻah, a quick, compact hand in a medium line, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of words descending to baseline and inclination to the left, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15-21 lines per page ; unruled, lines often curved or sagging.Collation: Internal pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals, for opening of second work (see pp.22-28) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization ; a few pages left partially blank to serve at 'title pages' (see pp.1, 21, 35).Incipit: [Minhāj al-ʻābidīn] "وصلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم قال الشيخ الامام الصالح الزاهد عبد الملك ابن عبد الله رضي الله تعالى عنه وارضاه املى علي الشيخ الاجل الزاهد حجة الاسلام زين الدين شرف الائمة ابو حامد محمد بن محمد بن محمد الغزالي الطوسي رفع الله في الجنة درجته هذا الكتاب وهو آخر كتاب صنفه الحمد لله الملك الحليم الجواد الكريم العزيز الحكيم الذي فطر السموات والارض بقدرته ودبر الامور في الدارين بحكمته وما خلق الجن والانس الا لعبادته فالطريق واضح للقاصدين والدليل لائح للناظرين ..." [Ḍābiṭ sharīf ] "كان ما كان وباسمه يكون ما يكوت ربنا افتح بيننا وبين قومنا بالحق وانت خير الفاتحين ضابط شريف يحتوي على عدة اسرار وفوائد اعلم ان كل ما ظننت ادراكه دون ان ينفذ بصرك الى ما وراءه كان ترى مثلا هذه الصورة او هذا الجسم ولم تعلم ما وراءهما من المعنى او الروح فانت في الحقيقة لم تدرك ذلك الشيء الذي ظننتك مدركا له من الادراك ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.4. p.35-p.53 : [Commentary upon and extracts from Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, opening with Ḍābiṭ sharīf yaḥtawī ʻalá ʻiddat asrār wa-fawāʼid].3. p.34 : [blank].2. p.21-33 : Kitāb Minhāj al-ʻābidīn ilá al-jannah / al-Ghazzālī.1. p.1-p.20 : Kitāb Minhāj al-ʻābidīn ilá al-jannah / al-Ghazzālī.Careful copy of a majmūʻah with two partial transcripts of Minhāj al-ʻābidīn, a work of Ṣūfī thought attributed to al-Ghazālī, followed by a selection of commentary upon and extracts from Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s (d.1274) chief philosophical work.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 11 v.2Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; paper suggests early 17th century.Accompanying materials: Several inserted slips carrying notes (paginated pp.55-56, 149-150, 241-242, 313-314, 365-366, 357-358) and folded document (paginated pp. 815-816).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 28 Abu Suud's Commentary on Kuran. Vol. 2." ; "٦٠" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather now overlaid with laid marbled paper (blue, pink, yellow, etc.) ; spine repaired with two pieces of red leather ; Type II binding (though flap now lost) ; upper and lower board linings in light green laid paper stamped with floral design ; traces of stamped mandorla in leather under marbled paper ; sewn in dark brown thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue, salmon and yellow, mostly intact at head and tail ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, boards delaminating at corners, leather on spine showing some splitting and red rot, etc. otherwise sound.Support: European laid paper mainly with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of man with stick over his shoulder in circle ; flyleaves in a different European laid paper with chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (vertical) and three hats and 'L V' in circle watermarks ; several older repairs, tide-lines and cockled pages especially at front of codex.Decoration: Sūrah headings rubricated or in blue ink, also often overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red and blue discs appear on page facing incipit page and following page.Script: Naskh ; mainly a clear Syrian hand, virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, many closed counters, curvilinear descenders, occasional superscripting of final words or letters of line, and pointing mainly in distinct dots, extensively vocalized ; more compact from p.567 on ; pp.681-684 supplied in a different hand, namely an elegant Ottoman naskh, partially seriffed, with effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, superscripting of final letters of words, and some elongation of horizontal strokes ; sūrah headings often in a larger tawqīʻ script.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1 (7), V+2 (19), 2 V(39), IV (47), 10 V(147), 2 IV(163), 3 V(193), IV (201), 4 V(241), IV (249), 2 V(269), IV (277), III-1 (282), 10 V(382), IV (390), 3 V(420), IV (428), 3 V(458), III+2 (466), 2 V(486), V+1 (497), II (501), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and inserts ; skips two pages each between pp.109-110, pp.217-218, pp.271-272, pp.415-416, pp.521-522 and pp.575-576).Colophon: "Authorial" and "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتب المؤلف عفى الله تعالى عنه في اخر نسخة الاصل اتفق الفراغ من تسويدها تيك الاوراق بتوفيق الله عز سلطانه ليلة الجمعة الاولى من شهر الله الحرام رجب الفرد لعام ٩٧٣ حامدا لله رب العالمين ومصليا على سيده محمد صلى الله تعالى عليه و على سائر الانبياء والمرسلين والملائكة المقربين اجمعين"Explicit: "واشرف ايامي يوم القاك يوم يقوم الناس لرب العالمين فريقا فريقا احشرين مع الذين انعمت عليهم من النبيين والصديقين الشهداء والصالحين وحسن اولئك رفيقا"Incipit: "اتى امر الله اي الساعة او ما يعمه وغيرها من العذاب الموعود للكفرة عبر عن ذلك بامر الله تعالى للتفخيم وتهويل وللايذان بان تحققه في نفسه"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of an odd second volume of Abū al-Suʻūd's commentary on the Qurʼān, beginning with Sūrat al-Naḥl (16) and ending with Sūrat al-Nās (114). See Mich. Isl. Ms. 11 v.1 for first volume. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 631Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. would suggest perhaps 15th or 16th century for some sections, with other sections likely replacements perhaps 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and fore edge flap label, "IL 95a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; from inner front cover date stamp "22 Jull 1906."Binding: Pasteboards covered in comb marbled paper (in salmon, blue, yellow, etc.) with dark red leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper with watermark of three hats (top hats with feathers, resembling tea cups) ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and yellow, tailband gone though headband remains in good condition ; overall in fair condition with some staining and abrasion, losses to lower corner of spine, etc.Support: non-European and European laid paper of several types ; mainly a type (likely Arab) with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with 11-13 mm. between chains and 33 mm. between groups, sturdy, well-burnished and quite smooth ; another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and bull's head watermark (see p.180, etc.) ; still another European type with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (vertical) and anchor in circle watermark (see p.406, etc.), quite sturdy ; some leaves tinted light blue or yellow.Decoration: Keywords and some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; some overlining in red ; textual divders in the form of disc, inverted comma, and hāʼ in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; several elegant Turkish hands ; opening hand (through p.178 and then from pp.207-287) nastaʻlīq (talik), serifless, with effect of tilt to the right, very slight effect of words descending to baseline, contrast in thickness between vertical and horizontal strokes, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc. ; hand of next and other sections (see pp.179-206, pp.287-326, 367-386) naskh, a few compact Turkish hands, serifless, with effect of tilt to the left, closed counters, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc. ; toward close (pp.327-366, 387 to close) again nastaʻlīq (talik), two other hands, serifless, with slight effect of tilt to the right, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled ; some marginalia in decorative shapes, artistically arranged.Collation: V-1 (9), 8 V(89), VII (103), 8 V(183), IV (191), I (193), V (203), III (209) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "والتذكير للاحكام المذكورة في علمي المعاني والبيان انما لم يتعرض للبديع لكونه خارجا عن البلاغة تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرح صدور ارباب الاذهان لايضاح معان الكلم ببديع البيان ... الهمنا حقائق المعاني والدقائق البيان الاقرب الى الفهم ان المراد بالالهام في هذا المقام معناه اللغوي وهو الاعلام مطلقا لا يحتاج ارادة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.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). Includes preamble.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 579Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggests mid to late 17th or early 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From hinge on upper board and spine label "IL 87" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Fiber boards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in grey [to lavender], blue, pink with another paper in brown and dark blue at two edges) with red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; no board linings (i.e., interior of boards not lined, hinges and turn-ins only) ; sewn in heavy cream thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper of a few types ; opening type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), three hats over "G C" watermark (see p.4, etc.), thin and transluscent, fairly crisp though sturdy, well-burnished ; another type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of scrollwork / coat of arms with three bars (see p.48, 58, etc. and compare Armoiries (16) A. Indéterminées dated 1673-1717 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans) ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of cross flanked by creatures above two circles (see p.102, etc.), thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished ; repair (covering hole) at close (see p.128).Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols (signes-de-renvoi, etc.) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; two clear Turkish hands ; from opening to p.96, a fine naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with most ascenders occasionally seriffed, marked tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots rather than distinct dots, final nūn usually reversed (recurved) ; from p.96 to close, a bold nastaʻlīq (talik), serifless with slight effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 5 V(50), VII (64) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ١٣٦, as though once part of a collective volume) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "فلا حاجة اليهما معا بل [؟] يكفي احدهما فقط لان الشمول"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي تولهت الافهام في كبرياء ذاته وتحيرت الادهام [؟] في عظمة صفاته جل كبريائه في ان يحوم درك العقول ... اما بعد فهذه تعليقات على حاشية شرح المختصر لمولى العلامة ... السيد الشريف ... الفها احوج الخلائق الى رحمة [؟] ربه العالي حسين الحسين الخلخالي ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Clear, well-annotated copy of the supergloss by al-Khalkhālī upon the gloss by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (d.1413) upon the commentary by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d.1355?) upon Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d.1249) Mukhtaṣar al-muntahá, an abridgement of his own treatise on law according to the Mālikī school, Muntahá al-suʼāl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal. Appears to ends abruptly. Likely once part of a collective volume (majmūʻah).
جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مجلد بغلاف جلد صناعي أحمر، تم كتابة المخطوط بالمداد الأسود والأحمر حيث أن صفحاته تحديد النص بخط مزدوج بالمداد الأحمر وبعضها بالأسود كما أن النص مضبوط بالتشكيلNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Includes multiple ownership notes from the Zayd ibn ʻAlī foundation.
Title from title page.Edge of manuscript.الجزءُ الأََول من البيان الشافي المنتزع من البرهان الكافى والدر الصافي/تاليف الفقيه العلاَّمه والصدر الفهامه عماد الاسلام يحيى بن أحمد مظفرIncludes ownership notes.مجلد كبير عليه تغليف جلدي وهو يحتاج لتحديث الحباكة من الوسط ما بين الصفحاتIncipit: بسم الله...الحمد لله رب العالمين...واشهد ان لا اله...واشهد ان محمدا...اما بعد فان طلب العلم اشرف المطالب وكسبه افضل المكاسب ...Explicit: مسئله ويصح ان يكون الثمن منفعه كخدمه...لان الاجاره تصح بلفظ البيعNaskh script. Defective manuscript, no ending.29-32 lines.
Abstract: First half of a treatise on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Full orange-brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in neat naskh on cream and blue glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Some staining.Origin: 22 Rabīʻ II 1206 H 19 December 1791 (leaf 193a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا لدين الاسلام و سن لنا الشرايع والاحكام
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's al-Risālah al-naflīyah."Binding note: Full maroon leather with violet paper doublures; spine and edges repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 12.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Damp-staining, mainly marginal; a few repairs.Origin: 25 Ramaḍān 990 H 23 October 1582, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻĀmilī al-Shāmī (184b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرع لنا معالم دينه الفرضية و النفلية و شرح صدورنا بلمعة من بيان دروس الاحكام التكليفية
Abstract: "A work on the history of Medina during Muhammad's time."Title from title page.خلاَصَةُ اَلوَفَا بِأخبَارِ دَارِ المصطفَى صلّى الله عليه واله وسلم / تاليف السيد الامام العلامه مجتهد الحجازِ ابى الحسن على بن عبدالله السمهودي ثم المدني الحسنى نسبا الشافعى مذهباOwnership notes.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد به صفحات مستبدلة من أول المخطوط وأوسطه وورقتان من آخره وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وتنقصه الصفحة الأخيرة وهي صفحة الإختتامIncipit: بسم الله...الحمد لله الذي شرف طَابه وشوق القلوب لسماع اخبارها المستطابه...وبعد فقد شَغُِفت باخبار الحبيبه المُحَبّه...Explicit: يَهِيْق موضع قرب المدينه قال المجد لم ار من تعرضَ له وَفى الحديث يوشك ان يبلغ بنيانهم يهيقاNaskh script, written in black and red ink. The majority of pages have been replaced. Missing final page(s).21 lines.
Abstract: A collection of nine works on various religious and familial topics.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.تكملة مجموع الهادي يحيى بن الحسين عليه السلامOwnership notes. Includes legal questions and answers by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Masūrī and an excerpt from the Laʼālī al-durrīyah.بعناية: صاحب المكتبة-السيد العلامة محمد بن محمد بن محمد الكبسيجيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد بني غامق اللون وعليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر4/صفر/سنة 1361هـIncipit: روايه عن الهادى الى الحق يحيى بن الحسين صلوات الله عليه بِسْمِ اللَّه...روى اصحاب الهادي الى الحق يحيى بن الحسين رضى الله عنه ان اخر حروبه كَان بنجران...Explicit: معروفه واما قوله فى يوم القيامه واما من خاف مقام ربه فكذلك المقام هو ذلك العرش وذلك العرش هو الله العلى لا شى استعلا انما هو العلى بنفسه .Persian naskh script, written in black and red ink.16 lines.1-أسئلة وإجاباتها للقاضي أحمد بن علي المسوري. 2-نبذة من كتاب (اللآلئ الدرية). لقطة رقم (199-214).
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Black leather covers with brown leather spine and edges; blind-stamped fillets; brown paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-206a: Ḥāshiyat Mullā Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ʻalá Maʻālim al-uṣūl / Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad al-Māzandarānī.Contents: 2. leaves 206b-208a: Notes and extracts.Contents: 3. leaves 208b-212a: Ṣiyagh al-nikāḥ / Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Qazwīnī al-Naḥwī.Contents: 4. leaves 212b-220a: Risālah fī ṣīghat al-ṭalāq / Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Qazwīnī al-Naḥwī.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Physical description, text 1: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black. Leaves 1-8, 15-110 on glazed, laid European paper; leaves 9-14 on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Leaves 111-206 on machine-made paper, likely replacements. Rubrication and catchwords. First two leaves have tears and are repaired. Foxed and damp-stained.Physical description, texts 3-4: 14 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication, catchwords, and vocalization; marginal notes. Foxed and damp-stained; leaves 214-220 repaired.Origin: 19th century.
Abstract: A collection of poems by a number of authors, including the Qaṣīdah Dardīrīyah and the dīwān of ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī Wazīr.Contents.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.سفينة شعرية تحتوي على ديوان السيد العلامة عبدالله بن علي الوزير وقصائد لعدة شعراءOwnership note by the copyist. Includes various fragment on astronomy and other topics.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرحررت قصيدة الدرديرية بتخميسها لقطة رقم 64 بتاريخ 22/جماد الأولى/ سنة 1346هـ بشهارة المحروسه. وفي اللقطة رقم 2 ذكر الناسخ التاريخ التاليحررت 17/ربيع الأول/1348هـIncipit: وللسيد الجليل العلامه عبدالله بن صلاح العادل كان من بلغا اهل صنعا...سلا هل الصب بعد النازحين سلا ام هل بغير هواهم عنهما اشتغلاExplicit: قد رجوتك يا كريم تحسن ختامى وتبلغ لى صلاتى مع سلامى دائما للطهر والآل الكرام واصلح الرّاعى بفضلك والرعيّهPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink.24 lines.فوائد في الفلك وغيره. من اللقطة رقم (71-75).
Abstract: Description of the constellations, with drawings.Binding note: Conserved and rebound in Preservation office 2007.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.41 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Contains drawings. European glazed paper with watermark. Some illustrations are reproduced on a separate piece of paper (see between fol. 7 and 8) or on the opposite blank fol. (see fol. 40b-41a). Between fol. 39 and 40: Original fol. 39bis, cut on the edges, with loss of text. On fol. 1a: Inscription.According to the colophon, copied on 4 Ramaḍān 1015 (fol. 40b).Incipit: قال عبد الرحمن ابن عمر المكني بابي الحسن الصوفي بعد ان حمد الله ... انّي رايت كثيراً من الناس يخوضون في طلب معرفة الكواكبExplicit: صورة الحوط الجنوبي
Abstract: A summary on genealogy with genealogies of Muhammad and prominent companions.Title from title page.بلغ مقابلته على الأم المنسوخ منها...لقطه124كتاب طرفة الاصحاب في معرفة الانساب/ تصنيف السلطان الملك الاشرف ابي حفص عمر بن يوسف بن عمر بن على بن رسول الغسانيBrockelmann, S I 901.عبارة عن مجلد مغلف بغلاف ورقي ملون وهو صغير الحجم وبه آثار تآكل أو قطوع في أطراف بعض الصفحات وبعضها أثرت على النصوص وتمت كتابته بالمداد الأسود والأحمريوم الأحد 4من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة 1247هـIncipit: بسم الله... اما بعد حمدا على تواتر نعمايه وتوالي الآيه والصلوه على محمد خاتم انبيائه وعلى اله واصحابه واصفيآيه فان هذا مختصراً في علم الانساب يسهل حفظه على اولى الالباب محتو على اصول انساب العرب مقرب حفظها لاولي الطلب مضافا اليه نسبُ النبي المختار مشفوعاً بصحابته الابرار...Explicit: الا انهم لم يبق ذكر لعدم الرئيس فيهم ويرجع؟ الجميع من هولآء الى آل ايوب من الهياثم الذين بدثينه. فهذا ما اتصل اليه البحث والله اعلمNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Some damage to the edges of pages.14-20 lines.
Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Fol. 15a-16b: Blank. Short excerpt on fol. 1a.Copy completed on Thursday 24 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1117 16 July 1705 (colophon, fol. 14b).Collation: Paper, fol. 16 ; 1¹⁰2⁶ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على ... اخبرنا ابو طاهر المبارك بن المبارك ... ان ابا الغنايم ... قال انبانا عبد الله بن احمد بن محمد بن حنبل الشيبانى ... قال هذا ما اخرجه ابى الىّ ... فى الردّ على الزنادقة والجهمية فىما شكت فيه من متشابه القرآن وتاولته على غير تاويله فقال احمد بن حنبل ... الحمد لله الذى جعل فى زمان كل فترة من الرسل بقايا من اهل العلمExplicit: وقال بقول العلما وهو قول المهاجرين والانصار وترك دين الجهم وشيعته آجره الله والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
Abstract: "A collection of the author's poetry."Title from title page.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.هَذَىِ ترجيع الأَطيار بمرقص الاءشعار / تاليف القاضي العلامه الفهامه القدوه وجيه الاسلام والدين عبدالرحمن بن يحيى بن احمد الآنسيBrockelmann, S II 817.جيده وهو مغلف بغلاف جلدي وقماشي أحمر مخطط وصفحاته مرتبة ومنسقة ومكتوبة بالمداد الأسود والأحمرIncipit: بِسمِ اللهِ...وبه نستعين يا كريم قال سيدي المولى الوالد المالك القاضي العلامه القدوه الفهامه وجيه الاسلام والدين واحد العلماء المحققين ابو احمد عبدالرحمن بن يحيى الآنسي رحمه الله رحمة الأبرار مجيباً ولده أحمد بن عبدالرحمن الآنسي هـ يا نسمة السحر قفي بمن له بك اتم ايناس...Explicit: أَيا جربة الرّوض افسحي قبره لَهُ هـٍ ، ويارحمة الرحمن بلّيْ ثراءَها ، بلغ تتميماً ونظراً فيما فيه من التحريف وأضنّه قد صحَّ ولو كان ثمَّ فراغ لأَعدّةُ النّظر فيْه ولاكن ثمَّ أَشغال وتشويش بال والله المستعان هـٍPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink.17 lines.
Abstract: Second part of a Turkish commentary on the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ, beginning with the letter ʻayn to the end of the Dīvān.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from lower edge. Title given by a later hand on fol. 1b erroneously reads "Hafız Divani tercümesi."Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh-nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Damp staining around margins. In good condition.Origin: Original text completed the evening of 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 966 H 6 September 1559; this copy completed at the end of Jumādá II 1020 H September 1611 by Hacı Abdürrahim Semerkandî (fol. 233b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى عىن اعىان الدىن لاجراء عىن العلم و ىنبوع الىقىن
Abstract: A collection of 68 prayers by the fourth Shiite imamContents.الصحيفة السجاديةIncludes fragments on the revelation and interpretation of the Qurʼān, a poem and prayers by a certain Shaykh al-Maqdisī.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد صغير مغلف بقماش أحمرالإثنين 6/ربيع الأول/1361هـIncipit: بسم الله...وبه نستعين حدثنا السيد الاجل نجم الدّين بَهاء الشرف أبو الحسن محمّد بن الحسن بن احمد...قال حدثنا الشريف ابو عبدالله جعفر بن محمد...وكان من دعآئه اذَا ابتدأ بالدعآءِ بدأ بالتحميد...Explicit: وكان من دعآئه عليه السلام في يوم السبت بسم الله...بسم الله كلمة المعتصمين...كما أحسنت فيما مضى منه...انتهى والحمد لله رب العالمين بعون الله الملك الجبارNaskh script.12-14 lines.فائدة أولها : قال روي أن القران العظيم على ثمانية عشر وجهاً تنزيل وتأويل ومحكم ومتشابه...لقطة رقم (3)نقل من كتاب الادعية المستجابة للشيخ المقدسي ويليه فائدة أولها : نعم الادام الخل...ثم قصيدة أولها : أستودع الله أولادي وأمهم...لقطة رقم (270-274)
Abstract: First volume of a treatise on Shiʻite law, through Kitāb al-waṣāyā.Binding note: Quarter leather with paper over boards; spine repaired.Ms. codex.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Title from colphon on leaf 227b.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Numerous repairs and a few replacement leaves; pasted inserts of notes. Some staining and mild insect damage.Origin: 16th century?Incipit: الحمد لله على سوابغ النعماء وترادف الالاء المتفضل بارسال الانبياء ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب قواعد الاحكام في معرفة الحلال والحرام لخصت فيه لب الفتاوى خاصته وبينت فيه قواعد احكام الخاصة
Abstract: Versified treatise on debated points of law. The text is preceded and followed on fol. 1a-8a and fol. 174b-177b, by several short excerpts apparently by the same hand as the main text.Binding note: Bound in brown leather with flap (envelope flap wanting). Blind tooled.Ms. codex.Title from end of text (fol. 173b).Physical description: 11 lines per page in two columns. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Thick dark cream paper, soft, with laid lines. Marginal and interlinear annotations.Chiefly quaternions.Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 27".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ḥasan ibn Bashlāmish isolated letters on fol. 173b, middle of Rajab 782 Oct. 1380, from a copy dated Ṣafar 540 (fol. 173b and 174a). The last page is copied twice, on fol. 173b and 174a.Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين بسم الاله رب كل عبد والحمد لله ولى الحمدExplicit: وربنا اعلم بالصواب قد انتهى نظم الخلافيات
Abstract: "Volume 3 of a commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām; contains Kitāb al-nikāḥ. Part of the same set as Islamic ManuscriptsAbstract: New Series no. 766. One of the volumes is numbered incorrectlyAbstract: as this volume (3) follows no. 766 (marked 4)."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped fillets; brown leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Mild insect damage. A number of leaves are replacements.Origin: Rabī II 1235 H January-February 1820, by Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Mashhadī Qurbān ʻAlī Salmāsī (leaf 223b).
Abstract: Aceph. and incomplete copy of a treatise on kalām. According to R. Mach, the contents correspond to ed. Guillaume, p. 16, l. 2 - p. 31, l. 2 and p. 94, l. 15 - p. 480, l. 10.Binding note: Black leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a frame made of fillets and an elaborate outer frame made of fillets and a s-shape running pattern.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink. Thick dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Leaves missing after fol. 8 (6 quires). Seal on fol. 2a. Obliterated seal on fol. 154a.Collation: Paper, fol. 184 ; 1-23⁸ ; quires are numbered using Arabic numerals, starting with "9" on fol. 25a.Beginning of text as extant: انّه يوجب لكونه وجودا على صفة(؟) او ذاتا على صفة\\\\End of text as extant: \\\\ هذا كلامنا فى وجوب الامامة على الاطلاق وامّا القول فى تعيين الامام
Abstract: Treatise on Shīʻī uṣūl al-fiqh, composed in 1023/1614 (GAL and colophon, fol. 29b).Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex."Title from Mach and Ormsby's catalog."'23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream thin paper with laid lines visible. Marginal notes. On fol. 2a: Table of contents of this "majmūʻah"(!). None of the 16 texts listed except the first appears in the ms. as extant. On fol. 3a: Ownership statement dated 1350 H. sh. and 1311 H. q. with seal. On fol. 3b: Seal. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counting the first fly leaf of the modern library binding as fol. 1).'Incipit: بسم ... والاستفاق من الله العزيز العليم و ... الحمد لله الملك المهيمن الحقّ المبين رافع سما العقل ... وبعد فاحوج المربوبين وافقر المفتاقين الى ربّه ... يقول يا آل الرّوع وحزب البصيرةExplicit: من القوة الى الفعل خير من مجرّد العمل المتفرق فى الوجوُد عن اقران النّية وليكن هذا اخر ما رمنا من القول فى مقالات هذه الصحيفة والحمد لله
Abstract: "Volume five of al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: a well-known work on Shiite fiqh. Contains kitāb al-ʻitq - kitāb al-luqṭah; list of contents on fol. 1a."Binding note: Paper over pasted boards with leather spine and edges.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.On fol. 1a: "Jild-i khāmis" and "Jild-i z̲akhīrah ... sharīf ..."Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Light staining and smudging; a few paper repairs. In excellent condition.Origin: Copy completed on 2 Shawwāl 968 H 16 June 1561 by Aḥmad ibn Rafīʻ al-Ṭarafī (fol. 233a).Incipit: كتاب العتق هو لغة الخلوص ومنه سمي البيت الشريف عتيقا والخيل الجياد عتاقا وشرعا خلوص المملوك الآدمي او بعضه من الرق بالنسبة الى مطلق العتق
Abstract: Botanical treatise arranged in alphabetical order. Most plants are illustrated in vivid colors. Incomplete at end. On the left margin of fol. 104b, recipe entitled Maʻjūn Sulṭān Yāzīd Khān.Binding note: Burgundy leather binding, with blind tooling.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. Marginal annotations apparently by the same hand as the main text. Fol. 1 defective, with beginning of text and impressions of seals lost; wear and damage on a few leaves, with loss of text. Modern foliation in pencil (blank after fol. 6; after fol. 28; after fol. 97).Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Decoration: Plants illustrated in water color.Beginning as extant: آ اكثار اسم بربرى هو المسمى بالتلقوطه ياكلون اصله بالوادى مطبوخا
Abstract: "Volume 1 of a gloss on al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on al-Lumʻah al-Dimashqīyah; breaks off in the middle of Kitāb al-ḥajj."Binding note: Cloth and leather over boards; front cover detached.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a, line 14.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in naskh (switches to nastaʻliq on leaf 329a) in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Marginal damp-staining, a few repairs, ragged edges. Many leaves are detached.Origin: According to Āghā Buzurg, work was completed in 1075 H 1664 or 1665.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي نور روضة الدين البهية الزاهرة
Abstract: Short treatise on the principles of religion, comprising an introduction, five chapters (bāb) - tawḥīd, ʻadl, nubuwwah, imāmah, maʻād -, and a conclusion.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (first unumbered fol. b). The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text.Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European cream paper, with watermark; glossy; frame-ruled. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Last fol. (fol. 30 in the modern foliation, is a added blank leaf). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad Ḥusayn (or Ḥasan) Ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar ...?, on 5 Ṣafar 1253 May 11, 1837 (fol. 29b).Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وآله الطاهرين اما بعد فيقول العبد المسكين احمد بن زين الدين الاحسائى انه قد التمس منى بعض الاخوان الذين يجب طاعتهم ان اكتب لهم رسالة فى بعض ما يجب على المكلفين من معرفت اصول الدين اعنى التوحيد والعدل والنبوة والامامة والمعاد وما يلحق بها بالدليلExplicit: والرضاء فى كل حال بقدره وقضائه فانه ولى كل خير وصلى الله على محمد واله الطاهرين
Abstract: "Jāmī's Durrah al-fākhirahAbstract: a treatise verifying the doctrines of the Sūfīs in comparison with theologians and philosophersAbstract: written at the request of Sultan Mehmed IIAbstract: and his Tafsīr al-QurʼānAbstract: which was not completed and is in fact a commentary on the Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and the beginning of the Sūrat al-Baqarah (up to 2:40)."Binding note: Brown leather with gold tooled guilloche and fillets around the borders, and blind tooled mandorlas painted in gold in the centre of upper and lower covers. Spine repaired in green buckram.Contents: 1. ff. 1b-15a: Durrah al-fākhirah.Contents: 2. ff. 15b-114b: Tafsīr al-Qurʼān.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.20 lines per page. Written in very small naskh in black ink with use of red. Text on ff. 1b and 2a within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper (a few sheets are a later replacement on a different paper). Ownership seal on fol. 114a.
Abstract: A short risale by Șeyhülislâm Minkarizade Yahya on the question of the Islamic view of the followers of Abraham (millet-i Ibrahim).Binding note: Brown marbled paper over pasteboard. Brown buckram on spine. Pastedowns in cream paper. Binding is damaged and all leaves are loose.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.24 lines per page. Written in a casual small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Glazed European paper. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Marginal annotation on fol. 2a.Ms. additions: Sūrat al-Fātiḥah on front pastedown, written in an unskilled hand in black ink and dated 1274 (1857-58).Incipit: ملت محمد عليه الصلاة والسلام اما بعد بو عبد فقير منقاري زاده اصلح الله سبحانه وتعالي معاده حالا بين الانام ملت ابراهيم عليه السلام خصوصنده دائر اولان سؤال جوابندهExplicit: بو مقدار مقنعدر تفصيل مشبع مراد ايدن رساله مطوله مزده مراجعت ايلسون تمت
Abstract: A commentary by an unknown author on the ʻIqd al-wasīm fī aḥkām al-jārr wa-al-majrūr by Ṣalāḥ ibn Ḥusayn Akhfash al-Ṣanʻānī.Title from introduction.Contents.شرح العقد الوسيمBrockelmann, S II 548. Possible authors are Aḥmad ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad al-Shamṭ al-Muʻammarī (1871 or 2-1953 or 4), Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Qāṭin (1706-1785), or ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad Kawkabānī (1723-1792). Ownership note.عبارة عن عشرين ورقة بدون غلاف جلدي وهو كتاب غير مكتمل الآخر وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرIncipit: بِسم الله... وبه نستعين على امور الدنيا والدين الحمدلله الرّافع لاولي العلم درجات والخافض لاولي الجهل دركات والنّاصب للعباد الدلالات الواضحات.... وبعد فانه سالني بعض الاخلا والسادات النبلا ان اشرح لهم العقد الوَسيم الذي صنفه السيد الفاضل...صلاح بن حسين الاخفش...Explicit: ثم قال المصنف مستبعدا لهذا القول قلت لا يخفى البعد عن الصواب فيما ارتكبه المجيب وهو ابن هشام والمجاب وهو بن مالك ثم اشار الى انَّ ارتكاب احد إلى هنا انتهى الموجود من النصNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Defective ending.21 lines.
Abstract: Commentary on a ḥadīth, completed in Iṣfahān in 1099 H. / 1688 or 89 (GAL).Binding note: Decorated paper pasted over paper pasteboards.Ms. codex.Title from R. Mach and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series).21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. No. "514" in Arabic script on a label pasted on the spine (vertical ; repeated on fol. 1a). No. "412" in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover (repeated on fol. 1a).Collation: Paper ; fol. 92 ; 1-11⁸ 12⁴ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: الحمد لله مدير الادوار ومعيد الاكوان طبقا عن طبق ... وبعد فيقول ... 2أ ... محمّد سعيد الشريف القمى ... انّى كنت شديد المحرص للاستضائة بانوار القدسExplicit: فان اصبنا فى ذلك فمن الله الاكبر ومن انوار الائمة الاثنى عشر وان اخطانا فمن نفسنا منبع الشر والضرّ ونستغفر الله من ... اللسان و ... اهل الشك والعدوان ومن الله العصمة عن الخطاء والى الله المشتكى
Abstract: Treatise on the differences between the legal schools. The text is followed on fol. 9b-10a by a prayer to the Prophet (Ṣalāt ʻalá al-Nabī) and by two additions (Fāʼidah) on the proprieties of Sūrat al-Kahf to wake up at a given time of the night, and on the Duʻā Sūrat al-Kahf. This is a portion of a larger manuscript (fol. 11-20, see foliation using Arabic numerals).Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark ("Tre lune"). Mention "Tāj al-Dīn al-Muwaqqit" on fol. 1a. Obliterated seal on fol. 1a (large heart-shape).Collation: Paper, fol. 10 ; 1¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: اللهم يا ولي العصمة والعناية نسالك الهداية في البداية والنهاية ... روي البيهقي في المدخل بسنده عن ابن عباسExplicit: ومات سنة 738 ابو حيان كان اولا علي مذهب اهل الظاهر ثم انتقل الي مذهب الشافعي رضي الله تعالي عنه وهذا اخر الرسالة و صلي الله ... 9أ ... من لا نبي بعده واله وصحبه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين