Abstract: Collection of three texts on Shiʼite fiqh.Binding note: Full golden-brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; violet paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-167b: Nihāyah.Contents: 2. leaves 168b-184b: al-Jumal wa al-ʻuqūd.Contents: 3. leaves 185b-203b: Kitāb al-Iqtiṣād al-hādī ilá ṭarīq al-ḥaqq wa-sabīl al-rashād.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 24 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. On leaf 1b, illuminated ʻunwān in gold, red, and blue; text framed in blue and gold with marginal gold border. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining. Manuscript is almost completely detached from binding.Origin: Text 1, 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1232 H 16 October 1817 in Iṣfahān, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Khuwānsārī (leaf 167b). Text 2, 1 Ṣafar 1233 H 11 December 1817 in Iṣfahān (leaf 184b), apparently by the same scribe. Text 3, 1233 H 1817 or 1818 (leaf 203b), apparently by the same scribe.
Abstract: A treatise on the birth of the Prophet Muḥammad, including descriptions of the appropriate rituals to be performed for its observation.Published under the title Mawlid al-ʻarūs (Damascus: Maktabat al-Fatḥ).On p. 2 of cover and p. 4 of free end paper: Ibn al-Jawzī. Mawlid al-Nabī.At bottom of title page: Hādhā kitāb Fāṭimah raḍiya Allāh ʻanhā. Āmīn.On p. 1 of free endpaper is an inscription of ownership by Muḥammad Bāqir ʻAlwān dated 1972.Copyist identified in colophon as Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khurayṭalī (?).Ms. in naskh on unglazed paper. 23.6 x 17 cm. Headings, keywords and punctuation in red ink. Catchwords; text fully vocalized. Many textual emendations. Illustration at foot of p. 19; text followed by a device containing the name Allah followed by the names of the Prophet and the four caliphs.Paper is unglazed laid stock bearing watermark reading: FF PALAZZUOLI. Some stains and smudges. Water stain along top edge and upper outside corner. Some hinges broken.Binding is recent. Half cloth; spine brown cloth, covers glossy blue paper.
Abstract: A treatise on worship and prayer.Binding note: Dark purple buckram.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Incipit: الحمد لله الذى وصف الانسان بما وصف به نفسهExplicit (as extant): ولا مراقبة لهم في شيى الا في قلبهم فانه الذي وسعه"19 or 27 lines per page. Written in small casual naskh in black ink. Ff. 2b-13b and fol. 28 are in a different stylehave the smaller number of lines per page and are on different paper to the restthus are probably earlier than the rest of the ms. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Marginal annotations and corrections to the main text throughout. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Modern dark and light cream papers. A loose sheet between fol. 25 and 26. Colophon on fol. 52b completely obliterated by water damage. Fol. 53a has a circular chart with 'Shajarat al-Zaqqūm' in the centreand 'al- tawḥīd' on the outer most circumference."
Abstract: Collection of Turkish and Arabic religious texts.Binding note: Quarter leather with flap; marlbed paper covers over boards; pink paper doublures.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-1b: Fevaid.Contents: 2. fol. 7a-26a: Hâzâ Kitab-ı itikad. Mesail concerning Sunni doctrine.Contents: 3. fol. 26b-28b: Extracts.Contents: 4. fol. 29a-81b: Fetava. Collected from Hanafite sources.Contents: 5. fol. 82a-82b: Extracts.Contents: "6. fol. 85b-87a: Vird-i Seyyit Yahya Efendi meşayih-i Halvetiye. Yahya Şirvani's Wird al-Sattār; in Arabic."Contents: '7. fol. 87b: Short wird in Arabic and notes.'Ms. codex.Title from text 2, fol. 7a.Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in naskh and shikastah in black by different hands on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Text 6 and part of text 2 vocalized. Fol. 2a-6b, 83a-85a, 88a-89b blank. Some damp staining, insect damage; a few paper repairs. Lower outer left corner of fol. 1-12 torn away, but text unaffected.Origin: Text 2 completed at the beginning of Rabīʻ I 1018 H June 1609, in Kostantaniye by Ali bin Hasan (fol. 26a). Text 6 completed on 29 Shawwāl 1094 H 21 October 1683 (fol. 87a).
Abstract: Collection of five texts on arithmetics, language and philosophy.Binding note: Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of light brown leather over pasteboards. Outer frame with a chain running pattern. Marbled paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-7b: Treatise on arithmetics.Contents: 2. fol. 8b-12b: Risālat al-waḍʻ / ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī.Contents: 3. fol. 13a-14a: Risālah fī taḥqīq maʻná al-ḥarf / Jurjānī.Contents: 4. fol. 16b-108a: Maṣāriʻ al-muṣāriʻ / Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.Contents: 5. fol. 111a-195a: Kitāb Uthūlūjiyā / Arisṭūṭālīs.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.6 to 19 lines per page. Written in naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink. Fol. 1-14: light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. From fol. 15 on: light cream paper with laid lines visible. Several inscriptions on fol 196a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Text 4 copied on 17 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1030 (colophon, fol. 108a) ; text 5 copied on 14 Ṣafar 1030 (colophon, fol. 195a).
Binding note: Full red leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants; marbled paper doublures; spine repaired.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-203b: al-Mujallad al-thānī min Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-faqīh. Second volume of a collection of ḥadīths addressing legal matters.Contents: "2. leaves 204b-228a: Mashyakhat Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-faqīh. Author's explanation of his authorities and chains of transmission."Ms. codex.Title for text 1 from leaf 1b, by a later hand; title for text 2 supplied by cataloger per the Marʻashī catalog.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal damp staining and a few repairs. Leaf 1 is a replacement.Origin: 28 Shaʻbān 1099 H 28 June 1688.
Abstract: Compendium on astronomy, comprising an introduction and two parts (maqālah).Binding note: Limp binding. Brown leather with colored paper pastedown. Blind tooled mandorla on both covers.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 3a).13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Contains diagrams in red and black ink. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. European glazed paper with watermark. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 46". Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1056/6".According to R. Mach, this copy dates from the 10th or 11th century H.Incipit: الحمد للّه كفآء افضاله والصلوة ... قال الامام الاجلّ ... محمود بن عمر الجغمينى الخوارزمى ان نقل اعزّة الاحباب ... محمد بن بهرام القلانسي ... اشار ان اجمع فى علم الهيئة كتابا يقرن بين الاختصار والبيان ويجمع ايجاز اللفظ الى بسط المعانىExplicit: و لعل هذا المقدار الذى اورد كاف لتحصيل ما ارادوا و ... الاشارة اليه فالاولى ان اقتصر عليه وليكن هذا خاتمة الكتاب والله اعلم بالصواب تم
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite law and Qurʼān readings.Binding note: Full golden-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 3a-156a: Parts 1-2 of Badāʼiʻ al-afkār / Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rashtī.Contents: 2. fol. 157b-209b: Manẓūmat al-Shāṭibī fī al-tajwīd / al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh al-Shāṭibī.Contents: 3. fol. 210a-218b: al-Durrah al-muḍīʼah fī qirāʼāt al-aʼimmah al-thalāthah al-marḍīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaves. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, varying lines per page; written in small shikastah in black on machine-made paper; catchwords. Texts 2-3, 11 lines per page, in two columns; written in large naskh in black on machine-made paper; vocalized in red through leaf 182b; catchwords and headings in red; some marginal and interlinear notes. Occasional staining.Origin: Text 1, part 1, Shawwāl 1295 H October 1878 (leaf 82a); part 2 likely completed soon afterward. Text 2, mid-Rabī I 1269 H December 1852 (leaf 209b); text 3 likely completed soon afterward.
Abstract: Treatise on geomancy comprising an introduction, five chapters (bāb) and a conclusion, mentioning al-Shaykh Khalaf al-Barbarī (see fol. 16b). Incomplete at end.Binding note: Unbound.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-5b: al-Bāb al-awwal fī maʻrifat al-ashkāl wa-asmāʼihā.Contents: 2. fol. 5b-8a: al-Bāb al-thānī fī maʻrifat aḥkām al-buyūt ʻalá al-tafṣīl.Contents: 3. fol. 8a-20a: al-Bāb al-thālith fī taskīn al-ḥurūf wa-istikhrāj ʻadad ḥurūf al-ism baʻḍihā min baʻḍ.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 5-6).17 long lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of purple ink for headings and examples. The leaves have been frame-ruled. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Seems to be in the same hand as Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 548H.Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; 1-2¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام علي ... وسلم وبعدفهذه نكت غريبة وفوايد جليلة صحيحة جمعتها من كتب المتقدمينExplicit: وابربد لها الله من فرج بد كذلك اجتماع والتقي بلا خلاف
Abstract: Short treatise on the objects used by ṣūfī shaykhs to distinguish themselves, and their legitimacy in view of the tradition.Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from rubric on fol. 1a.Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red for headings. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. European paper with thick laid lines. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 25 Jumādá al-Ākhar 979 Nov. 14, 1571 by Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá al-Arīḥāwī (fol. 32a, followed by undated collation statement).Incipit: الحمد لله الدال على انفراد وحدانيته بوجود مخلوقاته المقدس في ازليته وبقايه بجميع اسمآيه وصفاته ... وبعد ايها السالك بنفسه الحاكم بوهمه المقتدي برايه في اتخاذ سجادته وخرقته وعلمه فاعلم ان السجادةExplicit: وهو تعالى المسول في التوبة والثبات على الكتاب والسنه الى الممات والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله خير ماض وآت ما دامت الارض والسموات والحمد لله كما هو اهله
Abstract: Epitomes of four natural treatises of Aristotle (completed on Monday 16 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 554 1159, see fol. 129a), followed by the epitome of the De anima and of the Metaphysics.Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-129a: Jawāmiʻ al-ṭabīʻīyāt, contains Jawāmiʻ kalām Arisṭū fī al-Samāʻ al-ṭabīʻī (fol. 1b-45a) -- Kitāb al-Samāʼ wa-al-ʻālam (fol. 45a-75b) -- Kitāb al-Kawn wa-al-fasād (fol. 75b-88a) -- Kitāb al-Āthār al-ʻulwīyah (fol. 88a-129a).Contents: 2. fol. 129b-166b: Kitāb al-Nafs.Contents: 3. fol. 167a-230b (= fol. 233): Kitāb Mā baʻd al-tābīʻah incomplete at end.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.20 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with pulp and laid lines visible. On fol. 1a: Text on the six sorts of natural sciences (anwāʻ al-ʻulūm al-ṭabīʻīyah) ; undated ownership statements. Two modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (both faulty). This record follows the foliation in larger script. First folio loose.
Abstract: Commentary on al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah, a treatise on inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī (6/12th cent.).Binding note: Quarter bound in burgundy cloth and paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger. The name of the author appears as "Sirāj al-Dīn" in an inscription on fol. 1a.Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Laid paper. Stained with water ; a few holes.Chiefly quinions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Farāʼiḍ 26". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "866/2 Ḥ".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Yūnus ibn Bāyazīd ibn Yūsuf, night of Friday middle of Rajab 886 Sept. 1481 (fol. 67a).Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين رب تمم بالخير الحمد لله الذى ابرز بالفرايض بهجة رياض الشرع ... اما بعد فلما كان خير ما يصرف الانسان اليهExplicit: ولبنته ستون ولمولاه عشرة دنانير
Abstract: Collection of short treatises on astronomy and ʻilm al-zāyirjah.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind-stamped central piece. Yellow paper pastedowns. Damaged.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-15b: Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah / li-Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al-Baʻlbakī.Contents: 2. fol. 16a-19a: Short treatise on ʻilm al-zāyirjah (aceph.).Contents: 3. fol. 19b-21a: Kitāb fī ʻilm al-zāyirjah ʻalá ṭarīq al-tisāʻīyah / Muḥammad al-Ghamrī?.Contents: 4. fol. 21b-35b: Kitāb fī ʻilm al-nujūm Urjūzah fī ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah / Abū ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣūfī.Ms. codex.Title from first text.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red and magenta ink. European paper. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals, from "20" to "33" on fol. 2-15. Inscriptions on fol. 36b, including verses of poetry in Persian.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍīyāt 26". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 895".
Abstract: Illustrated Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, including a book of spells describing incantation and talismans, and 56 painted illustrations.Binding note: Blind stamped and tooled red leather.Ms. codex.Title from end of text (written with tāʾ marbūtah).Physical description: 11 lines per page ; written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink. Arabic written in naskh. From fol. 50b on: written in nastaʻlīq in purple ink. Wove paper with embossed seal with inscription in Cyrillic on a few leaves. Annotations in English on the margins of the first leaves. Picture representing a young man placed at the end of the copy.56 illustrations in watercolor representing the signs of the Zodiac, demons linked to these signs, constellations, birth of stars, and archangels such as Mikāʾīl and Jibrāʾīl.Origin: According to note on fol. 1a, copied in Iṣfahān, Shaʻbān 1324 H. Sept.-Oct. 1906 by ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nāʾinī(?) al-Muṣāḥib. At the end of several texts accompanying the illustrations is the name Raṣṣād(?) B̄āshī, son of the late Jaʻfar, with dates ranging from 1330 to 1339 H. 1911 to 1921.Incipit: بسم ... بكير از زير قدم او يكمشت خاك واين جعارا هفت بخواند ... بسم ... اللهم اله السموات والارض اعجل اعجل اعجل ارجع ارجع ارجع حب الخير
Abstract: Treatise on Arabic lexicography based on words of the Qurʼān. According to the beginning of the text, in 27 books (kitāb), arranged according to the first and last letters of a word. Incomplete at beginning and end.Binding note: Black leather (peeling) with blind tooling and stamping. Red-dyed paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from spine label (horizontal).Physical description: 23 lines to the page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The script gets larger towards the end of the copy, and tends towards nastaʻlīq. European paper with watermark.Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "326" (repeated in Western numerals on fol.1a).Beginning as extant: نسخه مسمى بكنز اللغات وبتوفيق قادر وهاب مرتبت بترتيب حروف ... اكنون بدانكه پيش از شروع در مقصود لا بد است از دانستن مقدمات چند اول انكه درين كتاب بقدر الوسعEnd as extant : ميخواند يغز وغزا ميكند يتموOther text on the margin on a similar topic (also incomplete at the beginning), with first bāb extant: باب الالف مع الالف انى واني واني ساعت والجمع انا انّا دريافتن كقوله تعالى غير ناظرين اناه
Abstract: An elegant copy of a travel guidebook for pilgrims to Mekka. Starting in the Balkans, it includes information on various stops on the way and places to visit there, as well as a practical guide for the pilgrimage itself.Binding note: New half leather binding with cream marbled paper on covers and red leather on spine and cover corners. Endleaves in cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger from a modern inscription in pencil on the inside of upper cover.13 lines per page. Written in a medium-sized naskh in black ink with use of red ink and gold circles and foliage motifs for rubrication. The text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, with sections also separated with lines in gold leaf. Fol. 1b has an illuminated headpiece in embossed gold leaf with blue, pink and yellow watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Some water damage towards the end of the ms.Incipit: منزل ككيوزه ساعت 5 قصبهء ككيزه غلط مشهور اولوب اصلى كپك پازى ايمش قصبهء مزبوره ده ايكى جامع شريف وارExplicit: عفو اولنه تمت بو قدرجه عقلمز ايرديكى قدرجه نحرير اولندى قصوريمز
A work in two parts on legendary accounts of holy persons and stories with moral significance.حمدني حمد وثناي ني عد اول حليم يرحلمت وعليم بي مؤهبته كه نقوش عالمي ونفوس بني آدمي انواع مثال واضاف خيال... :Incipitقد تم تحرير هذا الكتاب الشريف على يد العبد الفقير الضعيف محمد عبد الكريم النحيف فياليوم الخامس العشر في الشهر الثامن... :Colophon19.2 x 13 cm (13.5 x 7.5-8 cm).Light-cream laid glazed paper. Water stains. Brown leather binding.According to colophon (f. 136v), copy completed on 25 Shaʻbān 979 AH [January 12, 1572 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Karīm.Written in naskh script, in one column, 15 lines per page, in black with rubrics and Qurʻanic verses in red or red overlined. Red ornamental and punctuation marks in text. Catchwords.Work composed in 932 AH [1525 or 26 AD].With: Nasîhat-nâme (ff. 137v-140v) which is an advice poem on health matters, dealing mostly with consumption habits (recommendations include eating small amounts of food, not drinking too much water, not eating fish with milk).MS Turk 45. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 251Origin: As appears in colophon on p.293, second work copied by Aḥmad ibn Akhī Ṭawī [?] (Ahmet b. Akhitovi) with transcription finished in Merzifon, first of Shawwāl 873 [April 1469]. First work likely composed and copied in the early part of the 16th century.Former shelfmark: "363 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf (p.1) ; "73" inscribed in pencil on opening 'title page' (p.4) ; "٢٢٩" on spine label.Binding: Pasteboards faced in light brown leather and edged in brown leather (leather edged framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; doublures in dark red leather with tooled border (over leather edging in dark red-brown leather) and central gold-painted diamond-shaped piece ; upper and lower covers carry large scalloped stamped (dark red leather onlays) and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche class. OAi 9) and pendants, along with tooled border in a seires of tiny s-shaped stamps flanked by fillets over leather edging ; sewn in salmon colored thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue and yellow on salmon primaries, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with flap entirely lost, abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; repairs in dark red-brown leather (rebacked, rehinged, partial edging for delaminating boards).Support: non-European laid paper of at least two types ; opening work on type with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, quite indistinct) and chain lines rarely visible, medium cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished (burnisher's marks visible) ; second work on type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes with 10-12 mm. between chains and 41-42 mm. between groups, sturdy and well-burnished, some leaves tinted pink, others yellow ; minor pest damage, staining and tide lines.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening of first work on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece (with cartouche likely once carrying basmalah) surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome), the upper portion of which has been lost to trimming ; both pieces are filled with a swirling vegetal pattern on fields of blue and gold ; keywords (in preface and close) chrysographed ; Qurʼānic text and section headings rubricated ; textual divders in the form of gold discs ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of heavy gold bank flanked by black fillets ; fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening of second work on p.186, consisting of rectangular panel carrying basmalah in gold in an elongated cartouche surrounded by field of blue, all overlaid with vegetal decoration reminiscent of arabesque and bordered in gold interlace with green and red accents ; text being commented upon chrysographed (apart from third to final and next to final leaf where matn is either rubricated or overlined in red) ; symbols rubricated ; written area surrounded mainly by gold rule-border, with gold and blue rules on incipit and facing page (pp.186-87) and red rule-border instead on third to final leaf (pp.289-90).Script: Naskh ; two fine Turkish hands, with each work in a distinct hand ; opening work in an elegant naskh, partially but inconsistently seriffed (mainly on lām of definite article, but not on free-standing alif), with very slight effect of tilt to the left, pointing in distinct dots with two dots occasionally positioned one above the other, shaqq of kāf elongated, في often written with yāʼ mardūdah ; second work in another elegant naskh, similar to the first hand but more compact, with more closed counters and dots often contracted to lines, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs appearing on free-standing alif, some letters and words superscript ; hand slightly changes at close of second work ; both works partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 15 and and 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1 (7), 10 IV(87), II (91), V-1 (100), V (110), IV (118), V (128), IV (136), IV+2 (146) ; quinions and quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf).Dedication: As appears in preface (pp.6-8), Sharḥ Sūrat al-Anʻām dedicated to Sultan Selim I (r.1512-20).Colophon: [Sharḥ Sūrat al-Anʻām] "Authorial" and "Scribal" [?], reads: "تمت قد استارح من اصول هذا السواد الى البياض رجاء حصول وجوه البياض في الوجوه يوم تبيض وجوه وتسود وجوه خادم العلماء حافظ سلطان محمد ابن مولانا بايزيد التاشكندي صانه الله عن جميع الافات والبليات وصلى الله على محمد وعلى آله وتابعيه آمين" ; [Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah] "Scribal," reads: "تمت الكتاب وحسن توفيقه [كذا] على يد الضعيف الفقير الحقير المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الله تع وغفرانه احمد بن اخى طوى في بلدة مرزيفون من اول شهر شوال تاريخ سنه ثلث وسبعين وثمانمائة اللهم اغفر لمن نظر متن [؟] النسخة ودعاء لكاتبه امين يا رب العالمين تم تم"Explicit: [Sharḥ Sūrat al-Anʻām] "فمن قرأ الانعام صلى عليه واستغفر اولئك السبعون ملك بعدد كل آية من سورة الانعام يوما وليلة والحمد لله على انعام شرح سورة الانعام والشكر له على مزيد الانعام والاتمام والصلوة على نبيه محمد عليه الصلوة والسلام" ; [Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah] "والكمال فلا دلالة على افضلية الملائكة"Incipit: [Sharḥ Sūrat al-Anʻām] "الحمد لله الذي خلق السماوات والارض وجعل الظلمات والنور وبعث رسوله بقرآن هو شفاء لما في الصدور صلى الله عليه وعلى آله واصحابه البدور اما بعد فقد سألني جمع من الاكابر والاصاغر ممن لا يسعني مخالفتهم ان افسر آيات سورة الانعام على وجه يتضح به المرام عند الانام فاجبته سائلا متضرعا ان ينفع به كما نفع من سائر التفاسير ..." ; [Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah] "الحمد لله المتوحد بجلال ذاته وكمال صفاته المتقدس في نعوت الجبروت عن شوائب النقص وسماته ... وبعد فان مبنى علم الشرائع والاحكام واساس قواعد عقائد الاسلام هو علم التوحيد والصفات الموسوم بالكلام ... وان المختصر المسمى بالعقائد للامام الهمام قدوة علماء الاسلام نجم الملة والدين عمر النسفي اعلى الله درجته في دار السلام يشتمل من هذا الفن غلى غرر الفرائد ودرر الفوائد في ضمن فصول هي للدين قواعد واصول ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.4. p.185-p.293 : [Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah] / Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī.3. p.179-p.184 : [blank].2. p.4-p.178 : Sharḥ Sūrat al-Anʻām / Muḥammad ibn Bāyazīd al-Tāshkandī.1. p.1-p.3 : [blank].Fine copy of al-Taftāzānī's commentary on the popular creed, al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah of Abū Ḥafs ʻUmar Najm al-Dīn al-Māturīdī al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142), preceded by a commentary on Sūrat al-Anʻām (6) by Ḥāfiẓ Sulṭān Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā Bāyazīd al-Tāshkandī (Hafız Sultan Mehmet b. Mevlana Beyazit et-Taşkendi).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 651Origin: No formal colophon; paper would suggest 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former Shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on inner front cover, "IL 197" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Assembled from two odd covers, each cut down to fit this text block ; upper cover consisting of pasteboards faced in deep brown leather with edge repairs and spine in red leather, traces of what appear to be earlier edge repairs in tan leather ; upper doublure in quite dark brown leather ; lower cover in light red-brown leather with same repairs at edges and spine (both earlier tan leather and red leather) ; lower board lining in yellow laid paper ; composed Type III binding (without flap), mismatched assembly from two odd covers ; upper cover bears blind-tooled decorative pattern (out of center) formed from a series of s-shaped, cross, and rosette-like stamps, s-shaped stamps delineate a central mandorla and pendants, as well as fill the border, cross shaped stamps are used for corner pieces, rosette-like stamps form accents ; upper doublure bears scalloped mandorla (again, now off center) with floral vegetal pattern (without chi clouds, exhibiting horizontal symmetry - Déroche class. OSh) ; lower cover bears scalloped mandorla (out of center) with vegetal pattern (compare Déroche class. OSd 8 and OSd 6) ; much worn chevron endbands in red and green, sewing difficult to examine but appears to be in white thread, two sewing stations ; in fair to poor condition, with much abrasion, cracking and losses of leather (particularly lower cover) even exposing boards ; boards are severely delaminating ; some moisture damage ; cover still well-attached however.Support: Several European laid papers ; first quire (left blank) and final quire (left blank) in European laid paper (likely machine laid), unburnished, with "GIOVANNI GHIGLIOTTI" and crest/scrollwork partially visible (likely early 19th century), chain lines running horizontally spaced roughly 27 mm. apart and laid lines spaced roughly 15 laid lines per cm. also in the horizontal, appearing to form a cross-hatch ; next laid paper (16th or 17th cent. European paper) shows roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) evenly spaced roughly 28 mm. apart, all fairly distinct and straight, some inclusions and undissolved fibers, scarcely burnished if at all ; another European laid paper with watermarks (see fol.149-150/p.298-300 appears to be coat of arms with cross and initials below "CSP"? "GSR"?) and countermarks ("PA"? see fol.10, 11, 21, 72, etc.) partially visible with chain lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 22 mm. apart, laid lines spaced 12-13 laid lines per cm. ; another European laid paper with chain lines spaced 30-32 mm. apart and laid lines roughly 10-11 laid lines per cm., "MA" countermark visible (see fol.51 and fol.90), as well as "M" (or "MA"?) with trefoil (fol.89), and "CA?" with trefoil (fol.66 and fol.96) ; some leather burn and ink/pigment burn to breakthrough where "green" appears.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of discs, three dots, etc. ; text rubricated with key words, section headings, textual dividers, etc. in red ; in a few sections a "green" ink is used rather than red.Script: In three main hands ; hand changes back and forth several times as different sections of the text are supplied in different hands : hand [1] (p.17-50) hand [2] (p.51-52) hand [1] (p.53-60) hand [2] (p.61-82) hand [1] (p.83-108) hand [2] (p.109-141) hand [3] (p.142-166) hand [1] (p.167-192) hand [3] (p.193-308) ; hand [1] Naskh, neat Syrian (?) hand, sans serif, mainly open counters, kāf mashkūlah preferred, rounded with occasional swooping descenders, the lām alif al-warrāqīyah preferred ; hand [2] Naskh, small Syrian (?) hand, virtually serifless, quite rounded, mainly closed counters ; hand [3] Naskh, bold Syrian (?) hand, mainly serifless, though occasional right-sloping head serifs on lām and free standing alif (or alif of lām alif ligature), strong vertical character, mix of open and closed counters, effect of slight variation in line thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes in a few instances ; section headings appear in a fine tawqīʻ, occasionally highly ligatured (see fol.85b-88b/p.170-176).Layout: Written in 19 to 21 lines per page ; mainly single column, often divided to two columns or a narrower central column to set off verses of poetry ; frame-ruled with impression of ruling board clearly evident.Collation: IV (8), V-2 (16), I (18), III (24), II (28), 2 (30), V (40), I+1 (43), V+1 (54), 2 V(74), V-1 (96), II (87), V-1 (96), V+2 (108), III (114), 4 V(154), II (158) ; mainly an assortment of odd (anomalous) quinions ; appears to have been assembled from several ms. copies ; in several instances the catchwords do not match but "missing text" often appears elsewhere in the ms. ; first and last quire blank and apparently added later, perhaps for supplying missing text at head and tail ; middle of the quire marks in the form of strokes in black ink in upper outer corner of right-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil Western numerals supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "وقال عتيق بن محمد الوراق التميمي المغربي كلما ذنب ابدي وجهه حجة فهو ملي بالحجج كيف لا يفرط في اجرامه من متى من شاء من الذنب خرج وقال احمد بن ابي فنن"Incipit: "بالحاكم العدل اضحى الدين معتليا نجل العلا وسليل السادة الصلحا ما زلزلت مصر من كيد يراد بها وانما رقصت من عدله فرحا"Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. composite codex.Odd copy of al-Ṣafadī's commentary on Ibn Zaydūn's famous epistle, al-Risālah al-Jiddīyah. Acephalous and incomplete with an arrangement inconsistent with that of published editions. Begins just before the 15th قول of the epistle (see p.67 of the 1969 Cairo ed.). Appears to have been assembled from roughly three manuscript copies.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 957Origin: As appears in colophon on p.114, transcription of main work completed Rajab 1131 [May-June 1719]. As appears on p.120, text of the Istikhārah apparently entered 1271 [1854 or 5] and of following fāʼidah 1281 [1864 or 5].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 106Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth (repeating vegetal patern) with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "در الفاخرة" ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, moisture and pest damage.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; through p.66 in type with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) with stem under cartouche and crown (see pp.20, 22, 28, 32, 34, etc.), thin though sturdy, dark cream to beige in color, burnished ; from p.67 mainly in a similar "raisin" type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) under cartouche with initials "I S B" and crown (see pp.70, 76, 84, 88, 98, etc.), thicker and sturdier, medium cream in color, burnished ; final gathering in still possibly another type, lighter in color and well-burnished, though otherwise quite similar.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining keywords) rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; mainly two clear Turkish hands, each in a medium to bold line ; opening through opening lines of p.66 in nastaʻlīq (talik), serifless with effect of inclination to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots ; p.66 through close of main work on p.114 in naskh, mainly serifless with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; final works in various hands.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 V(60), i ; exclusively quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of ه (hāʼ or khamsah) in black ink on the upper outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير الدقائق اخبار [كذا] في شهر رجب بعد النصف سنة احدى وثلثون ومائة والف سنة ١١٣١"Explicit: "قال انبي عليه السلام ان اهل الجنة يخرج من اجسادهم يأكلون وشربون ثم يصير طعامهم ريحا كريح المسك والكافور اللهم ادخلنا الجنة بمنك وكرمك امين والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا الى يوم الدين امين تمت"Incipit: "وقد جاء في الخبر ان الله تعالى خلق الشجرة [شجرة] ولها اربعة اغصان فسماها شجرة اليقين ثم خلق نوب محمد عليه السلام في حجاب درة بيضاء مثله مكثل الطاوس ووضعه على تلك الشجرة فسبح عليها مقدار سبعين الف سنة ثم خلق الله تعالى مرآة الحياة ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Careful copy of ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Qāḍī's eschatological work on events of the end of time and the afterlife drawn from assorted ḥadīth. Followed by several brief excerpts at close (from p.114 including "Istikhārah ʻaẓīmah" on pp.116-120), all likely entered later.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 680Origin: As appears in colophon on p.215, transcription of Netâyicüʼl-fünun completed 24 Jumādá I 1068 [ca. 27 February 1658] ; paper, hands, etc. would suggest that other texts were likely copied around the same time.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and "IL 384a" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in a bright blue leather accompanied by slipcase (in red and green leathers, gold rules and stamped chain borders, lined with bright pink coated paper) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in yellow surface-dyed coated wove paper with gold-painted border ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped central lozenge filled with vegetal composition (accented with red paint), along with gold-tooled accents and guilloché roll border ; design continues on envelope flap ; edges of text block gold-painted in floral designs ; sewn in red thread, two stations, broken in some gatherings ; worked chevron endbands in red and cream, good condition ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion and staining, lifting and tears to slipcase leather, slip case flap detached.Support: European laid paper (same for all three works) with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (horizontal), crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.4, 6, 12, 13, etc.) and "V []" under trefoil countermark (see p.240, etc.), thick and sturdy, well-burnished, cream in color.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; written area of Netâyicüʼl-fünun surrounded by red rule-border ; some textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; likely three main hands ; nastaʻlīq (talik) hands [Netâyicüʼl-fünun and Maruzat-ı Ebussuud] both virtually serifless with effect of tilt to the left and slight effect of descent to baseline ; final hand with more elongation of horizontal strokes and many sweeping descenders ; naskh [Terkib-i bend] also virtually serifless with slight effect of descent to baseline, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), and pointing in curves rather than distinct dots ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written mainly in 15 [Netâyicüʼl-fünun] and 23 [Maruzat-ı Ebussuud] lines per page ; for Terkib-i bend of Kara Çelebi-zade, written area divided to two columns to set off poetry, 11-13 lines of verse per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 12 V(120), III (126), i ; quinions followed by a ternion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "قد وقع الفراغ من تسويد هذه النسخة الشريفة في وقت العشاء من ليلة الاربعاء في ليلة الرابع والعشرين من شهر جمادى الاولى في سنه ثمان وستين والف"Title supplied by cataloguer from opening on p.6.Ms. codex.9. p.245-p.254 : [blank].8. p.244 : [excerpt].7. p.230-p.243 : [Maruzat-ı Ebussuud] / Ebussuud Efendi.6. p.229 : [blank].5. p.228 : [poetic excerpt].4. p.226-p.227 : [blank].3. p.218-p.225 : [Terkib-i bend der münâcât be-dergâh-ı Kadiʼl-hâcât] / Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz Efendi.2. p.216-p.217 : [blank].1. p.6-p.215 : Netâyicüʼl-fünun ve mehâsinüʼl-mütun/ Nev'î.Fine copy of the encyclopedic survey of the twelve sciences or branches of learning by Nev'î, Yahya b. Pîr Ali b. Nasûh (d.1599), including scope and standard treatises for each, with many excerpts in Arabic and Persian ; followed by a poem of Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz Efendi (d.1657) and Maruzat-ı Ebussuud, a collection of legal decisions (fetvas) issued by Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Ebussuud Efendi, d.1574) and sanctioned by Sultan Süleyman I (r.1520-1566).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 600Origin: As appears in scribal colophon on p.160, transcription completed finished the last day of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1066 [ca. 19 September 1656]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.160), composition completed 17 Rajab 979 [ca. 5 December 1571].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover "IL 345" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in purple and black mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look) with black cloth over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves (upper flyleaf lost) in brown wove paper ; never sewn (no evidence of stations, etc.), most bifolia split ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, delamination of boards, cover detached from textblock, etc. ; ill-fitting and likely not original ; serves as wrapper for unsewn gatherings.Support: European laid paper with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (parallel to chains, 90 mm. long, see pp.130-131, etc.) ; some inclusions and knots visible, well-burnished and sturdy ; much staining ; replacement leaf (pp.85-86) in a European laid paper with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (vertical), and three crescents watermark (perpendicular to chains, 87 mm. long), light cream, far less soiled.Decoration: Some keywords rubricated, others accented with red (over extended horizontal strokes) ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; clear, compact 'Syrian', Egyptian or Ḥijāzī hand [?] in a medium line ; virtually serifless with only very slight effect of tilt to the left, counters of initial and final hāʼ, ṣād, ṭāʼ, etc. mainly open, other counters closed, pointing in strokes as well as distinct and conjoined dots, some elongation of horizontal strokes, some free assimilation of letters ; replacement leaf (fol.46/pp.85-86) supplied in a different hand, a 'Syrian' or Ḥijāzī naskh partially seriffed with tilt to the left, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes, etc.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 8 V(80), i ; exclusively quinions ; most bifolia split (especially in the first five quires) ; quire numbering, initially in the form of whole words accompanied by collation note "بلغ مقابلة", then (from fourth quire on) 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.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم المعارج بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم الاربعاء المبارك سلخ شهر الله الحرام ذي القعدة من شهور سنة ست وستين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم"Explicit: "وقالوا مر رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من هذا الطريق رواه ابو ليلى والبزار باسناد صحيح فنسأل الله تعالى ان يمدنا بمدد سيد المرسلين وان يجعلنا لاقواله وافعاله من المتبعين ... امين قال مؤلفه نفعنا الله تعالى به في الدنيا والاخرة وكان الفراغ من تكملته [نسخه] عشية نهار الاربعاء سابع عشر رجب الفرد سنة تسع وسبعين وتسعمائة احسن الله تقضيها وبارك لي في ايامها ولياليها جعل ذلك خالصا لوجه الكريم وموجبا للفوز بجنات النعيم امين قال الحافظ ابو الفضل بن حجر العسقلاني رحمه الله تعالى هنيئا لاصحاب خير الورى ... عسى الله يجمعنا كلنا برحمته معه في داره"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي رفع قدر نبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم في الدنيا والاخرى واسرى به ليلا من المسجد الحرام الى المسجد الاقصى ... وبعد فقد قال الله تعالى في كتابه المبين وهو اصدق القائلين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سبحان الذي اسرى بعبده ليلا من المسجد الحرام الى المسجد الاقصى الذي باركنا حوله لنريه من اياتنا انه هو السميع البصير وسنتكلم ان شاء الله تعالى على بعض فوائد هذه الاية الكريمة وعلى فوائد بعض ايات من اول سورة والنجم ثم نورد حديث قصة الاسرى والمعراج ونتكلم على بعض فوائد ذلك ان شاء الله ..."Title from 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Well-annotated copy of the account of the miʻrāj, the Prophet's ascension to Heaven, by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghayṭī (d.1573).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 383Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; İsmail Paşa claims in Īḍāḥ al-maknūn (Keşfe'l-zunun zeyli) that Katip Mustafa completed the composition in 1070 [1659 or 60] but material addressed in the text suggests a dating after 1663 (see p.35, etc.) ; paper certainly suggests 17th century.Accompanying materials: Torn scrap with depiction of pyramid and Sphinx at Giza in gold on one side and text in Greek on the other side (paginated pp.135-136).Former shelfmark: "۳۲۳" inscribed in ink in label on upper cover ; "78 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin, semi-limp) covered in dark red-brown leather with recycled paper (manuscript waste) and linen repair over spine (possibly to reattach upper cover, now detached from textblock with spine leather visible underneath) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) in an elegant marbled paper (mainly in blue, pink, orange, light green, etc.), hinges in a different marbled paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted lozenge-shaped central ornament and tooled border ; sewn in light pink and blue thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of paschal lamb in four-lobed circle watermark (see p.2, 32, 96, etc. and compare Piccard inv. J 340/no. 86802 / Venice 1662 and Heawood 2840 / Verona 1678, and "agneau pascal" marks nos.1-24 / 1635-1670 in Velkov, Les filigranes dans les documents ottomans), burnished, sturdy and mainly cream in color with some leaves tinted pale pink ; flyleaves and occasional leaves within the gatherings (carrying text in the same hand) with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown-star-crescent (80 mm. long parallel to chains, see front flyleaf, p.16, 134, etc.).Decoration: Keywords chrysographed ; section headings rubricated ; excerpts from Qurʼān, etc. overlined in red ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs and red inverted commas (in threes).Script: Dīvānī and naskh ; elegant hand ; serifs, looped descenders and many letterforms characteristic of dīvānī script, freely though not excessively ligatured with effect of words descending to baseline ; extensively vocalized ; Qurʼānic passages, etc. in naskh.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, III+5 (11), 6 V(71), I+1 (74), V (84) ; chiefly quinions ; final leaves left blank ; a few lacuna for rubricated headings, etc., in one case empty written area crossed through with red ink, see pp.137-138 ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "حمد وسپاس وشكر بى قياس اول منشئ مناشير صحايف ارض وسما ... امانتى [؟] مشار اليه فاضل احمد پاشا حضرتلينه تفويض بيوريلوب وفقير وحقير واهب طريق انشا وراغب دلع املا كاتب مصطفى زهدى ... روضة الغزا اسميله تسميه ومرسوم ... دور بيان جنك استورغون وفتح قلعۀ اويوار خير اثار"Title from opening matter on p.14.Ms. codex.Elegant, yet possibly draft copy (müsvedde / مسوده, see inscriptions on pp.1 and 2), of a brief history by Katip Mustafa Zühtü ( Kātib Muṣṭafá Zuhdī ) addressing Ottoman military campaigns against the Habsburg Empire, namely the campaigns of Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Paşa (d.1676), including the taking of the fortress of Nové Zámky (Uyvar) in 1073 (24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1073/30 July 1663). Appears to include the text of Tarih-i Uyvar (compare Istanbul University TY2488).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 544Origin: As appears in colophon on p.429, transcription of final section completed Ṣafar 1052 [May 1642]. Opening section (pp.17-214) likely copied somewhat earlier, perhaps early 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Eighteen inserts mainly carrying glosses (paginated pp.25-26, 29-30, 35-36, 39-40, 43-44, 49-50, 55-56, 59-60, 69-70, 73-74, 79-80, 83-84, 103-104, 111-112, 121-122, 133-134, 147-148, 191-192).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 218" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in once marbled laid paper with dark red-brown leather over edges/turn-ins (likely once also spine and fore edge flap, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in heavy light blue thread, two stations ; overall in poor condition with loss of flap, significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, staining, shrinkage, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of several types ; earlier section includes type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.26, 38, 92-93, 160, etc.) and type with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and crossbow in circle (trefoil above) watermark (see p.24, 42, etc.) ; later, final section includes type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and a different crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.224, 225, etc.) and a type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle watermark (see p.330, etc.) ; some leaves tinted yellow.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; in early section text of written area surrounded by red rule-border (pp.17-214) ; some textual dividers in the form of red dots.Script: Naskh ; at least two elegant Turkish hands ; following replacement leaves at opening (from p.19) an elegant Turkish hand, partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on some ascender letters, effect of tilt to the left, only casually pointed, curvilinear descenders, extension of horizontal strokes, free assimilation of letters (kāf followed by alif, etc.), point of final nūn set deep in bowl (even fully encircled occasionally), alif maqṣūrah often mardūdah, etc. ; from p.215 to close, another elegant though more compact Turkish hand, seriffed (nearly all ascender letters) with sharp tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, free assimilation of letters, and pointing in curves rather than distinct dots ; replacement leaves at opening in still another naskh and a nastaʻlīq (talik).Layout: Written mainly in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-9+8 (9), 18 V(189), III+2 (197) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "الحمد لله على التمام ولرسوله افضل السلام فرغت عن تنميق هذه النسخة في ان من الزمان ويسر اتمامه في صفر الخير لسنة اثنى وخمسين والف"Explicit: "حتى قتل صار شهيدا لانه يكون بادلا نفسه لعزاز دين الله تعالى ولاقامة حق الشرع تم تم"Incipit: "لله الحي الاحد حمد لا يحتويه الحد على ما اولانا علم الفروع ... اما بعد يقول عبد اللطيف بن فرشته ... ان ارباب البطانة واصحاب الفطانة من خلص احبابي ... قالوا ان كتاب المنار للامام ... حافظ الدين النسفي ... صائر اهالي الامصار انار ... نسألك ان نشرحه شرحا على طريق الحل مختصرا ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.Fine composite copy of the commentary by Ferişteoğlu (Feriştehoğlu) Abdullatîf İbn Melek (ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Firishtah, al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn Malak) upon al-Manār fī uṣūl al-fiqh (Manār al-anwār), a concise account of the foundations of law by Abū al-Barakāt ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī (d.1310).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 463 v.7Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest late 16th century ; many replacements likely 18th century.Accompanying materials: Scrap carrying "VII" in red pencil paginated pp.179-180.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label (see cloth once covering spine tucked inside upper cover), "IL 91 VII" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip in Isl. Ms. 463 v.2).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather with spine in tan leather, later covered in green-blue paper-backed cloth (retained on upper cover and flap, cloth once covering spine tucked inside upper cover) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in dull yellow paper ; upper (now covered by cloth) and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSd 8) and border in tooled rules with rosette stamp accents ; sewnin dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and dull pink, fairly good condition ; overall in poor condition with lifting and losses of cloth and leather, abrasion, staining, etc.Support: European laid paper of two main types ; opening (and closing, from p.667) type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and bull's head watermark (see p.8, 14, etc.), sturdy and very well burnished to glossy ; second main type (from p.443, etc.) with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle with leaf above watermark (see p.458, 459, etc.) ; replacements in several other types including type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown above grapes (raisin) watermark, beige to light-brown in color (see pp.461-496).Decoration: Section headings and some abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke marking keywords) rubricated ; overlining in red ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold frame, elsewhere (through p.442 and again from p.667) written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh with some influence of nastaʻlīq ; two main clear Turkish hands (central replacements in several other hands) ; opening and closing hand virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to left and of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), closed and open counters, rounded but with a mix of curvilinear and rectilinear descenders, pointing (of two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots ; next main hand (see p.443, 529, etc.) a clear, bold naskh, mainly serifless with marked effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, adhering to baseline, point of fina l nūn set above or assimilated with bowl.Layout: Written in 27 and 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 11 V(110), 4 (114), V (124), I+1 (127), II (131), 9 V(221), 7 (228), I (230), 4 (234), V (244), 4 (248), V (258), 6 (264), 6 V(324), V-1 (333), 4 V(373), II+2 (379) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and skips two pages between pp.235-236).Explicit: "سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين تمت الحواشي المعلقة كل مغلقات انوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل الذي صنفه الامام العلامة ... عبد الله بن ابي القاسم علي بن عمر البيضاوي تغمده الله تعالى برحمته ورضوانه واسكنه اعلى جنانه تم"Incipit: "سورة ق مكية بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله المنعم المنان والصلوة والسلام على سيد من ارسل لهدايته نوع الانسان ... قوله الكلام فيه كما قر في ص والقرآن ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.Careful copy of the last of seven volumes (v.1 and v.4 now lacking) of the commentary by Shaykhʻzādah Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Qūjawī (d.1544 or 5) upon al-Bayḍāwī's commentary on the Qurʼān, Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, covering Sūrat Qāf (50) through Sūrat al-Nās (114). Contents listing on 'title page' (p.3).
Abstract: Responses to four legal questions on marriage, divorce and the permissibility of confiscating the property of heterdox sects.Title from title page.Ownership notes, one dated 1710. Includes two poems by Qāsim ibn ʻAlī Ibn Hutaymal, one about Imam Mahdī li-dīn Allāh.Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمدلله رب العالمين وصلواته ... الحمدلله المتجلّى لخلقه بخلقه والمتميّز ... امّا بعد فانّ ولاه الشرف وسادات السادات من الحلف ...Explicit: فالكل من الخلائق محتاج الى التقريب المخطى منهم فى فعله والمصيب هى والسلام عليكم ورحمه الله وبركاته هى وصلى الله على محمد واله هىNaskh script, written in black ink.16 lines.1- قصيدة في الامام المهدي لدين الله احمد بن الحسين سلام الله عليه لابن هتيمل أولها: اذا جيت العضا ولك السلامه فطارح بالتحيه ريم رامه وآخرها: فقد ولى النبي على قريش وامر دون سادتهم اسامه 2- قصيدة أخرى له أيضاً مطلعها: ألست أحق من عود النشام برشف رضاب معسول الوشام وآخرها: امام هاشمي فاطمي ملى بالطعان وبالطعام (من لقطة ... - ....)
Abstract: A commentary on a major work of Zaydi inheritance.Title from title page.جوهره الفرايض الكاشف لمعاني مفتاح الفايض / تاليف الفقيه الاوحد العلاّمه الاوجد شَمس المدارس وبهآء المجالس فارس العلمآء الاعلام فخر المعالي وقمر الشريعه المتلالي عبدالله بن يحيى بن محمد الناظريOwnership note, dated 1 October 1943.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وهو مسطر الصفحات ومرتب الحواشيضحى يوم الاربعاء الموافق 25/ ذى الحجه/سنة 1349هـ. وكملت التحشية لعله 3/رمضان/سنة 1350هـ. وشرع في زبره غرة ذي القعدة الحرام سنة 1347هـ.Incipit: بسم اللهِ... وبه نستعين الحمدلله على انعامه وافضاله وصلواته وسلامه على سيدنا محمد واله وبعد فانه سالني بعض اخواني الصالحين اَن اَضَع كتاباً يقرب فهمه للمبتدين ويسهل مطلبه للطالبين فاجبته الى ما قصد راجياً لثواب ربّ العالمين...Explicit: وكذا ما اخذه من ارش جراحات العبد اذا كان قد سلم ارش العبد ويرد الزائد وبتمام هذا الباب تم الكلام في الورثه ومواريثهمNaskh script, written on black and red ink. Lined paper. Ordered marginalia.13 lines.
Abstract: The collection of poems by the author.Ownership note on colophon page.ديوان المتنبيOwnership note, dated October 1916.برسم: الشيخ عز الدين بن محمد الكنوديسيئة فهو مبتور الغلاف الأول والأوراق ممزقة من أوله وعليها آثار معالجة من التمزق والأرضة مما أثر بشكل واضح على النصوص خصوصاً في أول المخطوط وآخره لكن اعتناء الناسخ به جيد في الخط والكتابة والترتيب وتسطير الجداول المناسبة للأبيات الشعرية وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر وعليه حواشٍ وشروح وتعليقات في معظم الصفحات14 رمضان 1117هـIncipit: وان عرفتَ مُرادي ، تكشَفَت عَنك كُربَه ، وان جَهلتَ مرادي ، فَإنَّه بِكَ أشْبَه ، وَقَال يُعَزِّي عَضُدَ الْدَّولَه.، بِعَمَّتِهِ اخْتَ اَبيه آخِرْ مَا المُلك مُعزَّى به هَذَا الذي اَثَّر فى قَلبَهExplicit: يَاسَيفَ دَولة ذِي الجَلاَل ومن له خير الخلايق والاَنامَ سَمِيُ اَوَمَا تَرَى صَفِينَ حِين اَتَيتَهَا فَانجَابَ عَنهَا الْعَسْكرُ الغَربيُّ فكانه جَيْشُ ابنُ هِندٍ رُعْتَهُ حَتَى كَاَنَكَ يَا عَليُّ عَلِيُّNaskh-thuluth script, written in black, red and green ink. Defective beginning, with worm holes and traces of repairs. Frequent marginalia.18 lines.
Abstract: A work on Arabic grammar and syntax.Title from title page.Paper cover.هذِه النّبذة المفيده المشتملةُ على جواهر مسَايل رياضة المبتدي والتمرين ومعرفة قواعد النحو وحقايقه نفع الله تعالى بها الطالب المهتديManuscript was given as a present by the copyist to Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī, October 1950.بعناية: يحيى بن الحسن بن قاسم المدانيعبارة عن دفتر له غلاف كرتوني وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرالأربعاء 19/ربيع الثاني/سنة 1367هـIncipit: بسم الله...اعلم انه لابد لطالب علم النحو من مقدمةٍ تشتملُ على خمسه امور الاول في وجه الابتدا ببسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والثاني في اعرابها والثالث في حد النحو...Explicit: وَحذف زيادة التثنيه والجمع مذكرا كان او مونثا الا علما قد اعرب بالحركات فانّهَا لا تحذف فيه زيادة التثنيه والجَمْع قال جامعها سَامحه الله تعالى تمت بحمد الله لآ احصي لهُ0شكراً فكم مِن نعمةٍ اولاني...وَالصَالِحينَ على مَدَى الازمَانِNaskh script, written in black and red ink with calligraphic section headings. Copied in a modern notebook.8-20 lines.
Abstract: The testament of Imam Mutawakkil, containing points of religious knowledge and law.Colophon.هذه وصيه الامام الاعظم الماجد الاكرم الاعلم المتوكل على الله يحيى شرف الدين بن شمس الدين بن امير المومنين عليه السلامIncludes obscured ownership note.جيد عليه ترميم للصفحة الأخيرة وعليه حباكة وتجليد حديثIncipit: بسم الله ... وبه نستعين هذه وصية الامام ... الخاصه والعامه رب اوزعني أن أشكر نعمتك التي أنعمت عليّ ... وبعد فهذه وصيه عبدالله الفقير الى عفو الله ورحمته امير المومنين المتوكل على الله شرف الدين يحيى بن شمس الدين ... بن امير المومنين علي بن ابي طالب صلوات الله عليهم اجمعين اللهم كما امرتنا بالوصيهExplicit: وتفعل ما يشوش الخواطر عند حصولها والله تعالى يوفقنا واياها لما يحب ويرضاه بمنه وكرمه ه تمت الوصيه المباركة انشا الله تعالىNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Some repairs. Modern binding.20 lines.
Abstract: A summary of the Anbāʾ al-zaman fī akhbār al-Yaman by Imam Yaḥyá ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Qāsim.Title from title page.Contents.أَلْمُخْتَصَرْ أَلْمُسْتَفَادْ مِنْ تَأَرِيخْ ألعِمَادْShumayrī, Mawsūʻat al-aʻlām, 586. Ziriklī, 4:295. Also Brockelmann, S II 553 (where this work is not listed). Ownership notes by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī.بعناية العلامة : محمد بن محمد بن محمد الكبسي-عامل شهاره.عبارة عن أوراق بدون غلاف جلدي وهي مكتوبة بالمداد الأسود والأحمر15/شوال/1370هـIncipit: بسمِ أللَّهِ...أَلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ عَلى كُلْ حَالْ وصلاته وسلامه على سيدنا محمد واله خَير أل أمَّا بَعدُ فانى لما نظرت الهمَم قد قصرت عن حفظ احوال السلف من اهل البيت...Explicit: وظهوره معَهم فكانوا يَظهرون على الجيش العرمرم الشيبه مع قلتهم وجميع هذا مبسوط فى التواريخ وانما جَعَلنا هَذا تذكيراَ للمراجعه وحسْبى الله ونعم الوكيل ولاَ حَوْل ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم...Persian naskh script, written in black and red ink.24-27 lines.
Abstract: Commentary on al-Shamāʼil al-Nabawīyah by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892), completed according to the text at the beginning of Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1037 (1627) -- fol. 95b.Binding note: Leather over pasteboard. Envelope flap. Blind tooled central mandorla on upper cover and blind flower stamps in the center of lower cover.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.29 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. European glazed paper. Few marginal annotations. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied by Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd ibn Sulaymān al-ʻAnnābī ? on the 26th of Shawwāl 1044 -- colophon (fol. 95b).Incipit: بسم الله ... يقول العبد الفقير الحقير ابو الامداد الفاني ابراهيم المالكي اللقاني الحمد لله الذي اصطفى لنقل السنة المحمديةExplicit: وكان تمام ترقيمه والفراغ من تقديمه غرة ربيع الثاني من شهور السنة السابعة والثلاثين بعد الالف من الهجرة ... وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل انهاه جامعه الحقير ابراهيم اللقاني ... امين امين
Abstract: Ibāḍite polemics against Ashʻarite doctrines.Binding note: Half bound in patterned paper and black cloth.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark.Origin: Copy completed on 8 Jumādá II 1317 Oct. 14, 1899, from a dhikr by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Mundhirī on 9 Jumādá I 1317. The rest of the colophon (next fol.), mentioning the name of the patron and of the copyist, is obliterated (fol. 11b-12a).Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلّم وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغنى علي بن محمد بن علي المنذري قد نظرت فيما دفعته اليّ الفتى الزكي الشيخ سالم بن سلطان بن قاسم الريامى مما كتبه الشيخ عيسى بن على بن عيسى البروي الى من هو من القوم الذين فتنت به هذه الامة بعد موت نبيهاExplicit: على وجه الدعوة على غيرهم لان لا يكون منسيا عصمنا الله من الاعترار وثبتنا مع الابرار امين
Abstract: "Volume 4 of a commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām; contains Kitāb al-iqrār through Kitāb al-waṣāyā. Part of the same set as Islamic ManuscriptsAbstract: New Series no. 767. One of the volumes is numbered incorrectlyAbstract: as this volume (4) precedes no. 767 (marked 3)."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. Spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Catchwords. Mild insect damage. Two letters are among the inserts.Origin: Part of the same set as Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 767, which was completed in 1820.
Abstract: 'First volume of a commentary on al-Mufīd\'s MuqniʻahAbstract: comprising Kitāb al-ṭahārah through Kitāb al-jihād. Text begins on leaf 10b and is preceded by the following: notes and extractsAbstract: particularly from Ḥadīqat al-ShīʻahAbstract: on a variety of legal matters; a short Persian text on leaves 3b-4a entitled "Risālah fī anḥāʼ ṣiyagh ʻuqūd al-nikāḥ"; a chart on leaf 5b; and a short biography of al-Shaykh al-Mufīd in Persian on leaves 7a-7b. Text is followed by a detached leaf containing extracts.'Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 27 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Some leaves are dyed yellow. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Occasional damp staining and a few repairs.Origin: First half completed Jumādá II 1069 H February-March 1659, by Muḥammad Murād ibn Mahdī al-Kashmīrī (leaf 181a).Incipit: الحمد لله ولى الحمد و مستحقه
Abstract: "Volume 1 of a gloss on al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on al-Lumʻah al-DimashqīyahAbstract: through Kitāb al-ḥajj."Binding note: Cloth over boards.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a, lines 10-11.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Mild staining and a few repairs. Last leaf detached.Origin: According to Āghā Buzurg, work was completed in 1075 H 1664 or 1665. The first few kitāb must have been completed earlier, as this copy is dated 14 Rabīʻ I 1074 H 16 October 1663, by Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (leaf 288b); next to the colophon is a note in the hand of the author.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي نور روضة الدين البهية الزاهرة
Abstract: A short work of writings on judges and legal scholars.Title from title page.Contents.ليلة السبت لعله 17/جمادى الأخرى/سنة1177هـحُسن الذريعَهْ . الى وضايف حُكام الشرِيعَهْ. هديه الاصاغِر الى الاكابر الاعلام . وتحفه العظما من القضاةِ والحكام . / تاليف جامِعِها . الراجي فضلَ مانِحها .Text compiled 22 December 1763. Ownership note from al-Ḥāmid ibn Ḥusayn Shākir.متوسطة ويحتاج لحباكة جيدة والمخطوط كُتِبَ بخط ضعيف وبعض أوراقه ممزقة وهو مليئ بالحواشي ويبدو أنه مسودة أولى لمن ألفه وهو غير مرتب الأبواب وتمت الاشارة إلى كُلِّ في مكانهIncipit: بسم الله...الحمد لله الحاكم بين العباد فى يوم الخصام الحكيم فى اقواله وافعاله...امَّا بَعْدْ فهذه نبذة يسيره وهى عند الله المقدار كبيره...Explicit: فى القيمه حتى يُدْخِلَني الجنةَ رواه ابو نعيم فى الحليه وقال بعضهم ينفع فى ذلك قولْ يا حَيُّ يا قيّوم اربعين مره ختم الله له بخير انتهى من المقاصد الحسنه ونحن نقول يا حى يا قيوم لا اله الا انت اختم لنا بخير امين واخر دعوانا ان الحمد لله رب العالمين...ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم هـNaskh script. Numerous marginalia. Original text seems to have been misordered, later fixed.26-33 lines.
Abstract: Volume 1 of a commentary on al-Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh by Aḥmad Abū Jaʻfar al-Ṭaḥāwī (d. 321/933), comprising Bāb al-Ṭahārah to Bāb al-Bayʻ. This copy is water damaged.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind tooled with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and corner pieces. Worm eaten and damaged.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a, damaged).35 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Light cream glazed paper. On fol. 1a: Title; table of contents; ownership statements; waqf. Inscription in Roman script "R9" on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover. Catchword on the verso of each leaf; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (in the form "sābiʻ", see fol. 60a). The lower inner corner of most of the leaves is water damaged or lost, with loss of text. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.According to Mach, this copy dates from the 10th cent. H.Incipit: بسم ... علي سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله رب العالمين والباقيه للمتقين(؟) ... قال ابو جعقر الطحاوي احمد بن محمد بن سلامه الازدي المعروف بال... واسمه احمد والازد قبيله من قبايل العرب وطحا قرية من قرى
Abstract: "A work on legal methods comprising scholars' statements of rational and traditional proofs."Title from title page.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.غَايَةَ آلسُّؤلِ فِىْ عِلْمِ آلأُصُوْلِ حَافِلٌ بِأَقْوَالِ آلعُلَمَا عَلَى آلشُّمُوْلِ / لِلْمَوْلَى آلعَلاَّمَه ألمُحَقِّق وَآلبَدْر آلفَهَامه ألمُدَقِّق سَيْفِ آلإسْلاَم وَرَئيْسِ آلعُلَمَا وَالأُمَراَ الكِرَامِ أَلْحُسَيْنِ بن أَمِيْرِ آلمُؤمِنيْنَ آلمَنْصُوْرِ باللّهِ الاِمام ألْقَاسِمِ بِن مُحَمَّدDedicated to Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī.بعناية :محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن اسماعيل الكبسي-صاحب المكتبة.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد بني غامق اللون عليه نقشة محفورة على جلده وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرIncipit: بسم الله...وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد واله الحَمد لله الذى جعل شريعته الغرَّا سراجا وهاجا فى ظلم الضلال...والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد المبعوث باثبت الاديان...وبعدُ فهذه غاية السول فى علم الأصول حافل باقوال العلما على الشمول جامع لادلتها المعقول منها والمنقول...Explicit: قلنا هو انتفا لازم الثبوت والاستصحاب قيل يعضدنا فى الشرعي الاصل قلنا يعود الى الوفاق وفقنا الله لسلوك الطريق الموصل الى غايه السئول من رضوانه واعاننا على ادا شكر ما منح من خصايص احسانه...Naskh script, written in black and red ink.11-16 lines.
Abstract: Versification in alif of a treatise on ḥadīth by Ibn al-Salāḥ al-Shahrazūrī (d. 643/1243).Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, re-inking, and punctuation. Dark cream paper with pulp and chain lines. The last folio is pasted on the first of two endpapers in European paper. There seems to be inscriptions on the verso of the last original folio. Marginal annotations throughout.Copied for himself by Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī(?) al-...(?) on 1 Jumādá al-Ākhar 844 (colophon, fol. 33a).Collation: Paper, fol. 33, i ; 1-3¹⁰ 4³ + i (pasted on the verso of fol. 33), i ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: يقول الراجي ربه المقتدري عبد الرحيم ابن الحسين الاثري من بعد حمد الله ذي الألآء على امتتان حلّ ... فهذه المقاصد المهمّة توضح من علم الحديث رسمَه نظمتها تبصرة للمبتدي تذكرة للمنتهيExplicit: فربنا المحمود المشكور اليه منا ترجع الامور وافضل الصلاة والسلام على النبي سيد الانام واله وصحبه
Abstract: Collection containing a treatise on the principles of jurisprudence according to the Ḥanafite school with a commentary.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards, with flap. Blind-tooled.Contents: 1. fol. 2a-139b : Matn Mughnī min al-uṣūl / ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Khabbāzī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 889.Contents: 2. fol. 140a-245b : Sharḥ al-Mughnī lil-Khabbāzī / Manṣūr ibn Aḥmad al-Qāʼānī incomplete at end. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 890.Ms. codex.Title from tail of text block.Physical description: 12 and 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh(?) in black ink with use of red. Thick paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with a few chain lines visible ; some leaves of European paper with watermark (particularly in first part). Gloss on the margin and between the lines of the main text. Note mentioning a price on fol. 1a. Kabīkaj, short texts, and inscriptions on fol. 140a.Chiefly quaternions in first part ; quinions in the second part ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "40".
Abstract: A work on Zaydi fiqh.Title from title page.كتاب نكت العبادات وجُمَل الزيادات / تاليف القاضي الاجَل جعفر بن احمد بن ابي يحيWork copied for Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻĀmir, descendent of Zaydi imam al-Hādī ilá al-ḥaqq Yaḥyá ibn al-ḥusayn (859-911) and prominent figure during the reigns of Imām al-Qāsim and his son al-Muʼayyid billāh Muḥammad. Ownership notes scratched out. Includes various lines of poetry by Imām Manṣūr bbilāh ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamzah.إبراهيم بن أحمد بن عامر بن علي بن محمد بن علي بن الرشيد بن أحمد...بن الامام الهادي إلى الحق يحيى بن الحسينجيده ولكن تم كتابة وإضافة ما كان مبتوراً منه من أوراق أصلية في أول المخطوط وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمريوم عرفة من شهر ذي الحجة سنة1034هـIncipit: كتابَ الطهارت بَابَ فروض الوضو مسله فروض الوضو ثمانيه...Explicit: مسلهُ فاذا عاد من دار الحرب...وذلك مما لا خلاف فيه بين علما المسلمين تم الكتاب...بوم الخميس...ولا حول...برسم سيدي...بن الامام الهادي الى الحق يحيى بن الحسين عليلمNaskh script in black and red ink. Eight folios have been misplaced within the codex.18 lines.أبيات شعرية متفرقة للإمام المنصور بالله عبدالله بن حمزة (لقطة رقم 3)
Abstract: Autograph (see fol. 7a) list of books read and ijāzah received with mention of the name of the teachers and of the year (see fol. 7a, 8a), followed by a short excerpt from what is described on a modern label pasted on fol. 1a as being Kitāb al-ṣamt wa-ādāb al-lisān by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (d. 894).Binding note: Leaves sewed together. Traces of a spine(?).Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).16 lines per page. Written in a casual medium large naskh in black ink. On some folios, the text is written parallel to the spine (see fol. 6a). Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. On fol. 1a: Inscriptions and a modern label. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.The date 798 H. is mentioned on fol. 1a as the year of compilation of these masmūʻāt.Incipit: بسم ... اللهم صل على محمد ... سمعت على شيخنا الامام ابى العباس احمد بن ابى المحاسن يوسف بن ابى عبدالله محمد ابن البانياسى(؟) رحمد الله جميع القصيدة المسماة عقيلة اتراب القصايدExplicit: وفاة اختها ام عبدالله فاطمة عوضنا الله منها الجنة بكرمه
Abstract: "Second volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼAbstract: a treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: comprising the text from Kitāb al-Buyūʻ to the end."Binding note: Marbled paper covering a binding in brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. (ii)a.Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Table of contents and inscription in Ottoman Turkish on fol. (ii)a. Several inscriptions, including kabīkaj and erased ownership statements on fol. 1a. Fol. i and ii are later added endpapers. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (fol. 160-167 and 189-198 of the foliation wanting).Inscription in Arabic script in pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Thālith fiqh 51".Origin: According to colophon, copied in 727 H. (fol. 342b).Incipit: بسم ... وبالله التوفيق والعصمة كتاب البيوع البيع ينعقد بالايجاب والقبول اذا كانExplicit: الانكشاف بخلاف ما اذا كانا نصفين او كانت الميتة اغلب لانه لا ضرورة تمت بعون الله وحسن توفيقه
Abstract: "Part of a commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's al-Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻAbstract: comprising Kitāb al-ṭahārah (leaves 224b-411a) through Kitāb al-ṣalāh (leaves 1b-222b)."Binding note: Full black leather; back cover detached.Ms. codex.Caption title from leaf 224b.Physical description: 20-21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black by two hands on glazed, laid European paper. Kitāb al-ṭahārah is rubricated; spaces left for rubrication in Kitāb al-ṣalāh are not filled in. Catchwords and marginal notes. Kitāb al-ṣalāh is bound before Kitāb al-ṭahārah. Occasional staining, last leaf detached.Origin: Kitāb al-ṭahārah, Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1255 H February 1840, by Muḥammad Yūsuf al-Riḍawī al-Kāshānī (leaf 411a); Kitāb al-ṣalāh, 23 Rabīʻ I 1241 H 5 November 1825, by ʻAlī Akbar ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Kāshānī (leaf 222b).Incipit (leaf 224b): الحمد لله ... کتاب الطهارة و ارکانه اربعة الاول في المياه
Abstract: A summary on asceticism and Sufism, divided into an introduction, two chapters and a conclusion.Title from beginning page.Contents.فرغ منه في رجب سنة 867هـهذا كنز الرشاد / للامام العلامه النحرير الزاهد الاورع امير المومنين عز الدين بن الحسنOwnership notes by the Kibsī family.جيدة وهو عبارة عن أوراق مغلفة بغلاف ورق مقوى أخضر اللون عليه صورة الإمام أحمد بن يحيى حميد الدين ورسم لخريطة أفريقيا وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود كما نلاحظ عليه آثار الأرضة من أعلى الصفحة إلى اليسارالثلاثا 7 شعبان سنة 6---هـ بسمسرة حيدانIncipit: بسم الله... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله يقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغنى به عن من سواه عزالدين بن الحسن وفقه الله تعالى وسدده وعصمه وارشده اما بعد حمدالله الموفق لاصابه الخلاص المرشد الى مناهج الانابه والاخلاص...Explicit: والنفس عدو مباطن لك ومن اداب القتال قاتلوا الذين يلونكم من الكفار ولله بعض الحكما حيث قال ليكون طاعتك لله بقدر حاجتك اليه وجراتك على المعاصى بقدر صبرك على النار اللهم اجرنا منها ياخير مستجار وقد تم ما اردته من جمع هذا المجموع المختصر...السطر رقم 15 ص36Persian naskh script, written in black ink. Some traces of worm holes. The cover is of modern newsprint paper.29-31 lines.
Abstract: "A commentary on Taftāzānī's summary of the Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm on rhetoric and grammar."Title from title page.تم سماع هذه الحاشية وما علقه الفاضل اليزدي على أوائلها على العلامة إبراهيم بن عبدالقادرهذه حَاشيه مُلاَّزَادَةَ الخَطَإيّ على المختصر لسَعْد الدين التفتازانِيIncludes recitation/listening notes, ownership note, marginalia by Qāḍī Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAbdī. Brockelmann G I 295.جيدة والمخطوط صغير الحجم ،وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وهناك ست صفحات في أوله تم استبدالها بورق أحدث من ورق المخطوط ، ونلاحظ أن المخطوط ملئ بالحواشي27/شعبان/981هـIncipit: بسم الله...نحمدُك اللهمَّ على ما اعطيتَنا من سَوابغ النِّعَم وَبَوالغ الحِكَم ونُصلّى على نبيّك الهادى للعَرب والعَجم...قوله نحمدك آثر الحمد على الشكر لانّ الحمد يعم الفضآئلَ والفواضِلَ...Explicit: فالمناسب ان يرجع الضمير اليه ثم كلام السكاكى يحتمل وجه آخر لا يتوجه علينا ذكره...فيقال بترك المعين الى غير المعين او الخطاب والله اعلم بالصّوابPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink. Six folios at the beginning have been replaced.18-19 lines.فائدة: قال في آخرها إنتهى ما وجدناه منقولاً على شيئ من حاشية الخطابي إلى هذا البحث بخط القاضي إسحاق بن محمد العبدي رحمه الله -- لقطة (7-17)أولها:مراد الموجه أن هذا التعليل الثاني مختص بالتاني وهو ذكر البعض تفصيلاً...إلخ
Abstract: Treatise in verse and prose on the eminence of the Ethiopians (Abyssinians, Ḥubūsh), incomplete at the beginning.Binding note: European binding with leather spine and upper and lower covers made of cloth over pasteboards with a central gold-stamped decoration and blind-stamped corner pieces.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, in red ink).17 lines per page. Verses of poetry in two columns. Written in medium small naskh, in black ink with some use of red for headings and punctuation. European glazed paper with watermark. The original first leaf is missing. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. On a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, inscription in Arabic script : "Shīn 121", repeated on a label pasted on the upper cover.Incipit: الاحرار وخلاصة الابرار الذي ظلل بالغمامة واذّن بين يديه بلال ابن حمامه وجاهد فى الله حق الجهادة ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الىالله الصمد ابو المعالى علاى الدين محمد ... البخارى المكّي الخطيب بالمديمة المنورة سابقا ... خطر لي في هذه الايام الشريفة والاوقات الرايقة اللطيفةExplicit: و تيمر مهجتي لكن بشرط وكان الشرط اخره اللامه تمت