Origin: Lacks dated colophon, though paper would suggest late 13th (final decade) or 14th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. Slip with notes in German (following p.68), including general description of the codex and claiming that, from the 24 maqāmah onwards, the text includes an otherwise unknown commentary written by al-Ḥarīrī himself ; N. Gardiner believes this refers to the three sections marked تفسير, the first of which appears immediately following the 24 maqāmah ; these texts do in fact appear in the printed edition.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 353" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; from red-bordered label on upper cover, "۱٦".Binding: Pasteboards covered in European laid paper (over stamped scalloped mandorla) with spine and edges/turn-ins in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now missing) ; board-linings in European laid paper (tre lune watermark visible) ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, primaries in red ; in poor condition with much staining and abrasion with significant losses to covers ; spine is damaged at the head and tail ; endbands are entirely gone ; most threads are broken and the majority of the leaves are loose ; many of the bifolia have split ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with 20 laid lines in 32 mm. or 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) ; chain lines are difficult to distinguish but a set of 3 with 15-16 mm. between lines can be seen ; replacement folia in another Oriental laid paper, but with lines too indistinct to measure ; some pest damage to some leaves, though not so badly as to obscure text ; edges of a number of leaves are badly damaged.Decoration: Text rubricated with section headings (for each maqāmah, occasional sections of tafsīr) in red.Script: Naskh ; a few graceful Syrian and or Egyptian hands ; primary hand is a highly readable naskh, probably Egyptian, plainly very old (13th-14th century), fully pointed and vowelled, with shaddah, hamzah, etc. ; hands of the replacement folia at the beginning and end of the textblock another very nice naskh, probably Egyptian and no later than 16th century, fully pointed and mostly vowelled, with shaddah, hamzah, etc. ; replacement folia from p.21-24 in a distinct hand, larger, more extended in the horizontal, likewise fully pointed and vowelled.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; single column divided to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV (8), I (10), V-1 (19), 2 V(39), V-1 (48), V (58), V-1 (67), 2 V(87), IV (95), 2 III(107), I (109), V (119), V-3 (126), I (128), VII (142), V (152), ii ; chiefly quinions ; leaves appear to be missing from the quires 13, 14, 17 and 18 ; catchwords lacking ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert).Explicit: "ويحظي بالعفو انه هو اهل التقوي واهل المغفرة وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والآخرة. هذا اخر المقامات التي انشأتها بالاغترار ... والحمد لله على نعمائه والصلوة والسلام على خير انبيائه ومبلغ انبائه وعلى آله وصحبه واوليائه تم الكتاب بحمد وحسن توفيقه قابلته فصححته الا ما زاغ عنه البصر. ويتلو المقامات رسالتان ايضا على التزام حرف السين والشين في كل كلمة ... ويشرح ويشدخ بمشيته الشديد البطش الشامخ العرش وتشريفه لبشير البشر والشفيع المشفع في المحشر تمت والحمد لله وحده"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الرئيس ابو محمد القاسم بن علي بن محمد بن عثمان الحريري البصري رضى الله عنه اللهم انا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان والهمت من التبيان كما نحمدك على ما اسبغت من العطاء واسبلت من الغطاء ونعوذ بك من شرة اللسن وفضول الهذر ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Ḥarīrī's celebrated Maqāmāt or Sessions modeled after those of al-Hamadhānī, accompanied by brief commentary and followed by two brief epistles (even maqāmahs) in which the letters sīn and shīn appear in every word of the respective passage. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 484Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. of original sections suggest 17th century and date in seal impression provides only approximate terminus ante quem of 1684. Replacement sections likely 18th century as suggested by paper and hand.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2).Former shelfmark: From spine label and inner front cover, "IL 312" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in light blue, blue-green, blue, pink and yellow) with dark purple leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in fuschia surface-dyed laid paper ; bronze / gold tooling on interior and exterior of fore edge flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and purple, quite good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (spine in particular), staining, etc. ; fore edge flap far too narrow.Support: European laid paper of several types ; one type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (horizontal), and hand / glove watermark (see p.39, 186, etc.), sturdy and fairly thick, burnished ; another type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal, quite thick), and crown-star [possibly crown-star-crescent] watermark (see p.33, 43, 242, 243, etc.) ; staining and tidelines ; replacement sections on paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal) and grapes (raisin) under crown watermark ; watermarks of "P & G" under double-headed eagle with single crown above (see back flyleaf) and shield likely with crescent with face inside (see front flyleaf).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouched flanked by floral accents in red (now pinkish), white, orange and lavender, surrounded by pinkish red border and surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece with floral vegetal decoration (in white, orange, gold, and pink) on fields of gold and blue, itself surmounted by crude vertical stalks (tīgh) with blue accents ; keywords and abbreviation symbols (mainly sigla) rubricated ; some overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs ; text of written area (through p.88) surrounded by gold frame.Script: Naskh ; two main Turkish hands ; original sections (including opening to p.88, 109-308, etc.) in an elegant Turkish naskh, seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on most ascenders (even free-standing alif), effect of tilt to the left, rounded with manily curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes ; replacement sections (pp.89-108, 309-392, 477-519, 531 to close except where some original leaves appear) mainly in a clear Turkish naskh, virtually serifless with effect of only slight tilt to the left (fairly vertical), occasional words descending to baseline, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page.Collation: ii, VI+1 (13), 5 V(63), VII (75), 15 V(225), I (227), V (237), V+1 (247), 3 V(277), IV+2 (287), I (289), IV+1 (298), ii ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and mistakenly skips two pages each between pp.205-206 and pp.241-242).Explicit: "وكان اشد بالنصب خبر كان وامسه ضمير عائد الى المفعول المحذوف ما"Incipit: "الحمد لله على هدية الهداية والاسلام وعطية الدراية والاعلام ... وبعد يقول الضعيف العويز عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز المعروف بابن الملك ... لما وضح وجوه المقال وصح النظر في المآل صودف العلم اعلاها منارة ومنالا ... ومما صنف فيه من الكتب الفاخرة ... كتاب مشارق الانوار في صحاح الخبار ... وكانت له شروح ... فصرت ادير في نفسي واستخير الله يومي وامسي ان اشرحه شرحا ... سميته مبارق الازهر في شرح مشارق الانوار ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.5.Ms. composite codex.Fine composite copy of the commentary by Ibn Malak on al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghānī’s (d.1252) collection of traditions from Bukhārī and Muslim. Incomplete, ending abruptly.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1009Origin: Lacks dated colophon though manner of calligraphy, decoration, layout, etc. are characteristic of the Qurʼānic manuscripts produced in Kashmir from the 17th into the 19th centuries (see Bayani, et al. pp.228-57 and Blair, pp.550-52). Perhaps 18th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 158Binding: Boards covered in dark green leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; upper pastedown and flyleaf in a shell 'marbled' paper (mainly in blue and brown), lower pastedown and fly leaf in untinted paper ; upper and lower covers gold-tooled in mitred-panel style with vegetal borders and three floral sprays in the central panel ; spine gold-stamped "SS" ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, in quite good condition ; overall in poor condition with upper cover fully detached, minor abrasion, lifting of leather at spine, etc.Support: non-European (likely Indian) laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and no chain lines visible for the most part ; grey in tone and fairly translucent ; only slight curving of laid lines.Decoration: Splendid double-page illumination (illuminated 'frontispiece') at opening (pp.8-9) consisting of a series of scalloped domes in gold filled with floral vegetal designs in gold with black outline on a bright blue ground defined by heavy borders in bands of gold, black with white accents, and gold interlaced with red, blue and green accents, written area (in 8 lines per page with the Fātiḥah and opening of Sūrat al-Baqarah) is flanked by upper and lower rectangular pieces with gold cartouches (carrying the sūrah headings in blue riqāʻ or naskh, not extensively ligatured) and set off by gold floral accents on a bright blue ground ; similar double-page illumination at opening of Sūrat al-Isrāʼ / Juzʼ 15 (pp.204-205) and at close (pp.446-7) though here design affects a larger scalloped dome with cornerpieces and accommodates fewer lines in the written area (6 per page) with larger flanking upper and lower rectangular pieces (gold cartouches also lack sūrah headings) ; sūrah headings in blue and typically outlined in black bands with white accents ; written area and ruled margin throughout surrounded by frame in a series of gold bands defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule ; Qurʼānic text executed on bands of gold defined by black fillets and separated at some distance from one another (in other manuscripts has contained interlinear translation) ; marginal decorations in gold and blue mark ajzāʼ ; marginal juzʼ headings, notabilia (marking niṣf, thulth, etc.), abbreviation marks, mainly curved strokes and sigla for pauses "ط", large "ع" in margin to indicate bowing (rukūʻ), etc. and keywords in the commentary (mainly text being commented upon) are all rubricated ; verse dividers in the form of small red dots or discs ; text of commentary set off by gold cloudbands with floral accents in gold on blue grounds in the triangular spaces at the corners and center of the marginal area.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq ; elegant Indian hands in a heavy line ; Qurʼānic text in a fine, bold naskh, partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed (occasional right-sloping head-serif appearing on lām of definite article, barbed left-sloping serif on alif of lām-alif ligature, etc.), fairly vertical though with occasional very slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct dots, fully vocalized ; marginal commentary in a bold, compact and well-formed nastaʻlīq, serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, mainly closed counters.Layout: Written mainly in 18 lines per page, with roughly 46 lines of commentary on the diagonal in the ruled margins ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, I (2), 12 IV(98), I (100), 7 IV(156), I (158), IV (166), 2 III(178), I+1 (181), 4 IV(213), III (219), 2 I(223), iii ; chiefly quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black oblique strokes in upper outer and lower outer corners of the center opening of each quire ; final single bifolium ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Splendidly illuminated copy of the Qurʼān (muṣḥaf) with marginal commentary in Persian.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 637Origin: As appears in colophon on p.108, transcription completed 9 Shaʻbān 1246 [ca. 23 January 1831]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.108), composition completed 5 Rabīʻ II 1030 [ca. 27 February 1621].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 247" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in dark red cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light blue-green wove paper ; upper cover bears gold-stamped title "العرف الندي" ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; overall in good condition.Support: European laid paper in at least two types ; one type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents and "I M C" watermarks (see p.16, 17, 38, 108, 109, etc.) ; another type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and crescent with face watermark (see p.62, etc.) ; all well-burnished, fairly stiff and sturdy ; some staining and tears ; repairs in wove paper.Decoration: Keywords, some abbreviation symbols (stroke over keywords), and passages of text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; two clear Turkish or 'Syrian' hands ; opening hand (through p.26) a naskh, mainly serifless (though very slight right-sloping head-serif appears on some free-standing alifs) with curvilinear descenders, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, medial hāʼ sharply mudghamah, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred (even final kāf, without hamzah-like miniature kāf), bowl of final nūn fairly wide with point set just inside ; following hand (p.27 through close) a slightly more elegant naskh, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif mainly on free-standing alif (also occasional joined alifs, lām of definite article, etc.), tilt to the left, elongation in the vertical, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, initial hāʼ in nice wajh al-hirr (more pointed, with path of the penstroke quite evident), final kāf without shaqq and with hamzah-like miniature kāf.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, II-1 (3), II (7), III (13), II (17), 3 (20), 3 V(50), I (52), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "قال مؤلفه رحمه الله تعالى ورضي عنه فرغت منه يوم الجمعة المبارك خامس شهر ربيع الثاني لسنة ثلاثين والف من الهجرة النبوية ه" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاحد المبارك تسعة مضت من شهر شعبان المعظم الذهو من شهور سنة ۱۲٤٦ ستة واربعون ومائتين والف من الهجرة امين م"Explicit: "وقد تقدم انها من بحر الرمل وتقدم تفصيله وفي هذا القدر كفاية ونسأل الله ان يتقبل منا ذلك وان يسلك بنا احسن المسالك ... انك سميع قريب مجيب الدعوات يا رب العالمين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين ه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي نسج في الازل شقة النصيحة باعتزال ذكر الاغاني والغزل ... وبعد فان القصيدة الوردية اللامية المنظومة من بحر الرمل ووزنه فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلاة ثلاث مرات المسماة بنصيحة الاخوان ومرشدة الخلان ... وكنت ممن اطلع عليها مرارا عديدة وفي كل حين يظهر لي منها فوائد جليلة وقد حاولت نفسي المرة بعد المرة ان اكتب عليها ما فيه للعيون قرة ... وشرعت في شرح لطيف يحل الفاظها ... وسميته العرف الندي في قصيدة بن الوردي ..."Title from 'title page' (p.7) and opening matter (preface) on p.9.Ms. codex.Careful copy of the commentary by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Khaṭīb al-Ghamrī (fl. 1621) on Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī's (d. 1349) qaṣīdah called al-Lāmīyah or Naṣīḥat al-ikhwān wa-murshidat al-khillān, a moral poem of 77 verses in the ramal metre.
جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير مغلف بقماش أحمر مقلم باللون الأصفر وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وكثير الحواشيPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink.
Abstract: Treatise on usurpation.Binding note: Full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Jumādá I 1271 H January-February 1855 (leaf 102b).Incipit: کتاب الغصب والکلام في موضوعه واحکامه ولواحقه
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaf 2b.Binding note: Full black leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces and blind-stamped fillets; violet paper doublures; back cover missing.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 6a, line 7.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Incipit: الحمد لله ... اما بعد فيقول ... ان ما حداني الى تصنيف هذا الکتاب
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full black leather with marbled paper doublures; back cover missing.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Occasional staining. Leaves 324b-345b blank.Origin: Likely early 19th century.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي مهد لنا طريق اصلاح العمل ... فيقول ... هذا کتاب جمعت فيه مسائل الحلال و الحرام
Abstract: "The author's commentary on his poem on Islamic law."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; salmon paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Orginal text overlined in red; catchwords. Occasional staining.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي نوهنا اي رفعنا رفعاً معنويا
Abstract: A work on the principles of logic.Title from title page.Title from the edge of the manuscript.بلغ مقابلة لقدر الوسع والطاقه بتاريخ من رجب سنة 1156هـ، كتبه عبدالرحمن ابن اسلم الحسنى لقطة 165.كتاب سلم العلوم في المنطق/ للعلامه المحقق محب الله الجنفوريBrockelmann, G II 420; S II 622. Reading note, dated September 1743. Multiple ownership notes, dated between 1811 and 1957. Includes various fragments, among them lines of poetry by Ismāʻīl ibn Ibrāhīm Ḥajjāf Jaḥḥāf? and some writings about the shahādah.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط صغير الحجم مجلد بغلاف جلدي، في معظم صفحاته عليها آثار بارزه من بلل حتى في بعض الصفحات أثر على النص كما عليه في بعض صفحاته آثار معالجه كما في صفحة العنوان، تم كتابته بالمداد الأسود وعليه حواشي كثيره.Incipit: بسم الله... سبحانه ما اعظم شانه لا يحد ولا يتصّور... امّا بعد فهذه رساله في صناعة الميزان سمّيتها بسلم العلوم اللّهم اجعلها بين المتون كالشمس بين النجوم مقدّمة العلم التصور...Explicit: وان قابل الجدلّى فمشاغبى والمؤلف من الراحج والمرجوح مرجوح فتدبر خاتمه اخراء؟ العلوم هي المسائل والمبادى من الوسايل بحمد الله تمت تمامNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black ink. Numerous marginalia and interlineal notes. Traces of significant water damage and some repairs.7 إلى 9 lines.1-أبيات للسيد العلامة ضياء الدين إسماعيل بن إبراهيم حجاف في تاريخ دخول الماء الحرام في شوال سنة 1055هـ وهو سيل عظيم...& بيتين لله القايل حيث قال: شلغنا بكسب العلم عن مكسب الغنا**كما شغلواعن مكسب العلم بالوفر...لقطه3فائدة: عدّة ايداعات الكتاب شهادة لا إله إلا الله وأن محمد رسول الله... لقطه 166
Abstract: A commentary of a work on logic, divided into two parts, the first of which contains an additional introduction to epistemology.Title from title page.1-شروع قراءة لدى القاضي العلامة يحيى بن محمد العنسي حرر في 9جمادى الآخرى سنة 1354هـ، كتبه أحمد بن علي حمزة لقطة1.2-كان الفراغ من قراءته لدى شيخنا العلامة السيد أحمد بن علي الكحلاني حفظه الله كتبه أحمد بن علي حمزة بتأريخ آخر صفر /1355هـ لقطه64شرح التهذيب/ لعبدالرحمن الشيرازي والتهذيب/ لسعد الدين مسعود التفتازانيMultiple reading and ownership notes. Includes various poetic fragments, among them lines of poetry about the work by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī Wazīr, and lines of poetry by Abū Bakr al-Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl Ṣanʻānī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Shijnī.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مختصر صغير ليس لديه غلاف، تم كتابة خطه بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر والفاتح والأصفر المذهب حيث أن المتن وبعض الجمل التي تحتاج إلى توضيح تكتب بالمداد الأحمر والأخضر الفاتح والأصفر المُذهب وباقي الشرح بالمداد الأسودقبيل ظهر يوم الأحد الموافق أول ربيع الثاني سنة 1355هـIncipit: بسم الله...رب يسِّر واعن ياكريم بعدَ حمد الله سبحانه خالِق الأَشخاص والماهِيَّات،... فاعلم ايها الطالِب الراغِب المتحلي بحلية الحقآئِق والمعارف، والمرتقي في غوامِض الدّقايق والعوارف، أَنَّ هذا شرح تهذيب المنطق للمولا الاءِمام الهُمام، ... مسعود التفتازاني، ... وبعد _ _ جعلته تحفة للمجلس السَّامي ،والمحضَر المكَّرم العالي،...Explicit: اشبه أي مشابهة هذى القسم مع المسآئِل اكثر من الأقسام الأُخر معها وذلك لاءَن إحتياج المسائل اليه اشد حيث يطلبُ فيها اليقين لأنه هو المقصد الاءَقصى من العِلم والمطلب الأَعلى من الكتاب ولأنه اثبت من البواتى لقلة تطرق الزوال اليه بخلافها والله اعلم واحكم بالصَّواب وهذى آخر، ما اوردناه مِن شرح الكلام في التهذيبNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black, red, green and yellow ink. No cover.24-25 lines.فوائد شعرية متفرقة في صفحة العنوان وهي كالآتي: 1- بيتين لعبدالله بن علي الوزير في التهذيب.2- أبيات للسيد أبو بكر التريبى، وهي صغيرة ومتفرقة.3- بيتين لسيدي العلامة محمد بن اسماعيل الأمير.4- بيتين للقاضي العلامة محمد بن حسن الشجني. 5-ثلاثة أبيات في الأشكال الأربعة، وأبيات صغيرة متفرقة.لقطة1