Abstract: Collection of texts by the founder of the Shaykhī school, followed by a Persian commentary on the supplication Davāzdah Imām.Binding note: Rebound in green cloth.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-7b: Answer to ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 2. leaves 7b-11a: al-Asʾilah al-Masʻūdīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 3. leaves 11a-12b: al-Risālah al-Zanjīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 4. leaves 12b-16a: Answer to Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sulṭān al-Najafī / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 5. leaves 16a-17a: al-Risālah al-Baḥrānīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 6. leaves 17a-21a: al-Risālah al-Ghadīrīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 7. leaves 21a-24a: Wasāʾil al-himam al-ʻulyā fī jawāb masāʾil al-ruʾyā / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 8. leaves 24a-26b: Sharḥ-i Davāzdah Imām-i Khvājah Naṣīr / ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ḥasan Isfahānī.Ms. codex.Physical description: 27 lines per page (text 8, 36 lines); written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and smudging.Origin: 1258 H 1842 or 1843 (leaf 24a).
Abstract: Commentary on 3:102.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger. The name of the author appears in the colophon as Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Naqīb al-Ḥanafī (fol. 8b). R. Mach identifies this author with Abu al-ʻAbbas Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanafī ibn al-Naqīb, 771-816 1369-1413 (see GAL, II, 112/14).Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Worm-eaten.Collation: Paper, fol. 8 ; 1⁸ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscriptions in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "49" and "---(?) 57".Origin: According to colophon, autograph copy dated Sunday, 23 Jumādá al-Awwal 782 Aug. 25, 1380 (fol. 8b).Incipit: بسم ... وبه العون الحمد لله جاعل العلما انجما ... 2أ ... اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم يا ايها الذين امنوا اتقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تموتن إلا وانتم مسلمون ... بنعمته اخوانا الكلام على هذا الاية الشريفة يقع فى اماكن سبعة الاول فى تسمية السورة وعدد اياتهاExplicit: وهذا ما تيسر من الكلام على هذه الاية الشريفة ولنختم هذا المجلس بالدعا فنقول اللهم يا واسع العطا ... الى يوم الدين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Manuscript is undated; possibly 16th or 17th century.al-Bruṣawī is not listed in Brockelmann, but is mentioned under the entry on Ḍiyā' al-Dīn al-Khazrajī. Not found in British Museum Cat. of Arabic books and mss.This codex contains two works by two different authors, both written in the same hand. The Iʻrāb al-Ṭariqiyyah is the first of these two works, beginning on the first page of the manuscript and continuing until page 93. The second work, Kitāb al-anwār al-saʻādah fī sharḥ al-kalimatay al-shahādah, by al-Kāfiyajī begins on page 99, and continues until page 131. On the page preceding this second work (page 98), are found two rubāʻīs in Persian, written in a different hand from the main works.Simple leather bound codex. Upper cover is detached; leather is crumbling away from the backing. Text written in black naskh script with rubrications. There are many notations in a different hand in the margins as well as on the final page.Grammatical analysis and explanation of various sūrahs of the Qur'ān, beginning with the entirety of al-Fātiḥah (sūrah 1), an-Nās (sūrah 114), al-Falaq (sūrah 113), and then al-Ikhlāṣ (sūrah 112). Then, special attention is paided to Sūrat al-Ṭāriq (sūrah 86) and to the āyat al-kursī (the "throne verse") in Sūrat al-Baqarah (sūrah 2). Composed in 877/1472-3.
Abstract: "Part three and four of Zamakhsharī's commentary of the QurʼānAbstract: comprising the text from Sūrat al-ʻAnkabūt (29) to Sūrat al-Malāʼikah (or al-FāṭirAbstract: 35)."Binding note: Disbound. Only traces of spine extant.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on tail of text block.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh (professional hand), with use of red for headings. The text is vocalized. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick cream paper with thick laid lines and pulp visible. Marginal annotations. Erased inscription on fol. 1a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Origin: Copy completed on a Monday in the last decade of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 735 July 1335 by Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Saʻīdī (colophon, fol. 127b). Portion of colophon erased, probably mentioning the name of the patron.Incipit: سورة العنكبوت مكية وهي تسع وستون اية بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حسبى الله ونعم الوكيل الحسبان لا يصحّ تعليقه بمعاني المفردات ولكن بمضامين الجمل الا ترى انك لو قلت حسبتُ زيدًاExplicit: عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من فزاء سورة الملايكة دعته ثمانية ابواب الجنة ان ادخل من اي باب شيئت تمت السورة وبتمامها تمّ الجزء الرابع يتلوه في الجزء الخامس سورة يس والحمد لله رب العالمين
Abstract: Collection of magic formulae and incantations, based on the name of the Prophet, on the name of God, on Qurʾanic verses, etc. The copy contains descriptions of talismans.Binding note: Rebound in red leather with flap. Blind stamp on covers and envelope flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 14 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Dark cream paper, with laid lines and fiber visible. Fol. i is a later addition (wove paper). Some leaves are poorly mended, with text hardly legible. The name of al-Shaykh al-Akbar is mentioned in a partly obliterated note on fol. 1a.Inscription in Arabic script on fol. (i)a: "Numrah 286".Origin: One text is dated Ḥims, Tuesday 7 Rajab 630 April 19, 1233 (fol. 96a).Incipit first text: بسم ... تبارك الذى نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعامنيا نذيرا ... بسم ... تبارك الذى بيده الملك وهو على كل شى قدير
Abstract: Treatise in verse and prose on the eminence of the Ethiopians (Abyssinians, Ḥubūsh).Binding note: Green paper with a painted red and black floral motif pasted on leather over paper pasteboards for the upper and lower covers and envelope flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 62a).21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink, with use of red for headings. European glazed paper with watermark. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Collation : Paper ; fol. 62 ; 1-5¹⁰ 6¹² ; horizontal catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان من صلصال من حماء مسنون وفضل بعضه علي بعض فهم بذلك يتفارقون ... 2ب وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ... خطر لي في هذه الايام الشريفة والاوقات الرايقةExplicit: ويتم بهجتي لكن بشرط وكان(؟) الشطر اخره سلامه تم
Abstract: Summary of the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-jadal by the author, on dialectics for jurists.Binding note: Modern binding made of red and black marbled paper over pasteboards.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 20a).21 lines per page. Written in small naskh, using black ink. Thick paper with horizontal chain lines visible. Quinions. On fol. 1a, title, name of the author and prayer in praise of God in another hand. On fol. 20a, poem in Persian added by another hand in the left margin. On fol. 20b, several short texts unrelated with the main text by another hand. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Collation: Paper, fol. 20 ; 1-2¹⁰.Copied during Jumādá al-Ākhirah 485 by al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-Kirmānī al-Jīraftī.Incipit: بسم... رب يسر ولا تعسر قال الشيخ الامام ابو اسحاق ابرهيم ... الحمد لله حق حمده ... بيته لما رايت حاجة من يتفقه ماسة الى معرفة ما يعترض بهExplicit: ان تكون احداهما توافق دليلا اخر من الاصل او معقول من الاصل فهي اولي لانها اقوي
Abstract: Collection of several treatises on Shīʻī law.Binding note: Limp binding. Brown leather. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-60b: al-Mūjiz al-ḥāwī li-taḥrīr al-fatāwī / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Fahd (d. 1437 or 8).Contents: 2. fol. 61b-117b: al-Muqaddimah al-farʻīyah fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah / Ibrāhīm ibn Layth al-Husaynī.Contents: 3. fol. 118b-129b: Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Ghāyat al-ijāzah li-Ibn Fahd al-Ḥillī.Contents: 4. fol. 130a-165b: Kitāb al-Jumal wa-al-ʻuqūd / Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1067?).Contents: 5. fol. 165b-166b: Ghāyat al-ījāz li-khāʼif al-iʻwāz / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Fahd (d. 1437 or 8).Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red (with three dots underneath sīn). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Seal on fol. 9b. According to catchword, lacuna between fol. 47 and 48. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.According to the colophon of Text 2, copied by Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Rajab in Ramaḍān 822 (fol. 117b).
Abstract: Collection of texts comprising Risālat Ithbāt al-wājib of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī, a commentary by Mullā Ḥanafī Muḥammad al-Tabrīzī al-Ḥanafī in Mach, R. Yahuda, and a supergloss by Mīrzā Jān Ḥabīb Allāh al-Shīrāzī.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Traces of a blind-tooled decoration with frame made of fillets and stamps. Rebacked. Paper pastedowns and endleaves.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-32b: Risālah Ḥanafīyah ʻalá Ithbāt al-wājib lil-Dawwānī / Muḥammad Mullā Ḥanafī.Contents: 2. fol. 33a-56a: Risālah qadīmah li-ithbāt al-wājib / Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Contents: 3. fol. 56b: Commentary on the ḥadīth qudsī "Kuntu kanzan makhfīyan fa-aḥabbtu ..." / Yūsuf al-Aṣamm.Contents: 4. fol. 58a-87b: Mīrzā Jān ʻalā Ithbāt al-wājib / Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.19 to 23 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. European? glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible. On fol. 1a: Table of contents and several ownership statements and seals. On first back fly-leaf: mention "214 ʻayn" in Arabic. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.The last text is dated Mārdīn, Jumādá al-Ulá 1042 and signed ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm (colophon, fol. 87b).
Abstract: Treatise on geomancy illustrated with diagrams and tables.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a)."It is not clear whether this is Barbarī's text or an edition of his text (see incipit). On Barbarīsee W. AhlwardtVerzeichnis der arabischen Handschriftenno. 4201."'17 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black and magenta ink. European paper with watermark ("Andrea Galvani") ; frame-ruled. Fol. 43b-46b : blank. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.'Seems to be in the same hand as Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 549H.Collation: Paper ; fol. 46 ; 1-3¹⁰ 4-5⁸ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الكريم الوهاب الذي خلق الخلق وصور آدم من تراب والصلاة ... الحساب وبعد فهذه رسالة في علم الرمل عن طريقة الشيخ خلف البربري رحمه الله تعالي التي سماها بالشجرة المثمرةExplicit: وامور سعيدة موفقة وزوال كل عنا وشقا وراحة قلب وطيب خاطر والله سبحانه وتعالي اعلم بغيبه واحكم وهو احكم الحاكمين والصلاة والسلم علي سيدنا محمد خير الانبيا والمرسلين صلي الله عليه ما دامت السموات والارضين امين برحمتك يا ارحم
Abstract: Book of spells. Incomplete at beginning and end (breaks off in Bāb 19: Faṣl fī nuskhah qawīyah li-hādhā al-ʻamal... -- starting fol. 97a).Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b).Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin light biscuit paper, glossy, with thick laid lines visible. Contains charts, figures, and diagrams (see in particular the human form on fol. 37b). Collation notes and annotations on the margins. Catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "176" (repeated on fol. 1a in Arabic and western numerals).Beginning as extant: انبسط الىّ واقترح علىّ تهديب مجموع احررت فى علم التعزيم مما يعتمد ويعوّل عليه ويحطّ الرجال عنده ... 1ب ... الباب الاول فى ماهيت 2أ التعزيم اما فسّره ومعناه فليتحقق متحقق انه ماخوذ من العزم وتضميم الراى والانطواء على الامرEnd as extant: فصل فى نسخة قوية لهذا العمل يكتب ويجعل فى جوزة وتدفن تحت النار ... الى قوله رهقا ان تفعلوا وتحرقوا قلب فلانة بنت فلانة من حب فلان بن فلانة
Abstract: "A commentary on Jāmī's Durrah al-fākhirah fī taḥqīq madhʹhab al-Ṣūfīyah."Binding note: Purple printed paper (in pattern of small squares) over pasteboard. Red buckram on spine. Endleaves in grey/cream paper.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a."Copied by Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baṣrī thumma al-Madanīa disciple of Kūrānīat the request of Shaykh-ul-Islām Ahmet Efendion the 13th of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1118 (1707). Following the completion he checked the copy with the author's son Shaykh Muḥammad Ṭāhir. -- colophon (fol. 21a)."'25 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrications. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Few marginal annotations. Glazed European paper.'Incipit: الحمد لله وكفى والصلوة والسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى ... وبعد فالمقصود فى هذه الورقات ما وجد من تحريرات علامة الزمانExplicit: فلا منافاة بين القولين اذا نزلنا على قواعده نفع الله به وبالله التوفيق
Abstract: A work on legal interpretation of hadith.Contents.تخريج أحاديث البحر الزخار الجامع لمذاهب علماء الأمصارTitle missing, but it is likely al-Shumūs wa-al-aqmār takhrīj aḥādīth al-baḥr al-zakhkhār or Dhayl al-baḥr al-zakhkhār by ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyá Sharaf al-Dīn (1521-1570), the Takhrīj aḥādīth al-baḥr al-zakhkhār by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ẓuffārī (d. ca. 1558), or the Jawāhir al-akhbār fī takhrīj aḥādīth al-baḥr al-zakhkhār by Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Bahrān (1483-1550).مبتور الأول والآخر وبدون تجليد ، عبارة عن مجموعة أوراق متوسطة الحجم كتبت بالمداد الأسود والأحمر ، به سقط ما بين صفحتي (47-80)حسب ترقيم المخطوط الأصل وتلاحظها في اللقطتين (48-49) ، وكذلك تكرار ترقيم الصفحات حسب ترقيم المخطوط الأصل من رقم (130-139)وتلاحظ ذلك في اللقطات من (98-107)Incipit: بسم الله...باب صلاة الجمعة مسئله دليل فضل اليوم قوله صللم (خير يوم فى الاسبوع) الخبر والساعة المذكوره فيه الاصح انها اخر ساعة...مسئلة باب صلاة الجمعه قوله خير يوم فى الاسبوع الخبر عن ابي هريره قال قال رسول الله صللم خير يوم طلعت عليه الشمس يوم الجمعه فيه خلق الله آدم...Explicit: فصل وتجب فى مال كل مسلم عنه وعن كل مسلم لزمته نفقته في فجر أول شوال...فصل وتجب فيْ مال كل مسلم الخ قوله وعمّن تمونون تقدم بمعناه فى خبر جعفر...قوله وقول الخدري عن كل حر وعبد سيأتي ما يتضمنهإلى هنا انتهى الموجود في الأصلPersian naskh script. Unbound, folios misorganized. Defective fragment, missing beginning and end.29-32 lines.
Abstract: "Acephalous copy of the second part of Samarqandī's commentary of the QurʼānAbstract: comprising the text from sūrah 7:42 to the end of sūrah 18."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards with a small central blind-stamped mandorla and an outer border consisting of blind fillets for upper and lower covers. Upper cover disbound. Spine broken.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 174b).Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in clear medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red to overline the commented text ; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick, soft cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Chiefly quaternions. Marginal annotations (mainly collation notes; gloss by another hand at the end of the copy). Stained with water.Collation: Paper, fol. 175, i ; 1¹ (one leaf, fol. 1) 2-22⁸ 23⁸ (-2 at end of quire) i (later added fly-leaf ; European paper with watermark).Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Yaʻqūb, and completed on 8 Rajab 728 May 19, 1328 (fol. 175a).Beginning as extant: \\\\ فصدقناهم ونودوا ونودوا ان تلكم الجنة قال بعضهم قبل ان يدخلوها قال لهم خزنة الجنةExplicit: الى بيت المعمور حشو ذلك النور ملايكة يصلون ويستغفرون له حتى يستيقظ
Abstract: "Commentary on Ptolemy's Quatripartitum or Tetrabiblos."Binding note: Only the upper cover is extant: Red leather over paper pasteboard with guilloche outer border.Marbled paper pastedown.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 257a).23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for "qāla" and headings. The headings are repeated in red on the margin. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Roman script on a spine label, repeated on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, and in red pencil on fol. 1a: "49Y".Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1133 Jan. 1721 by Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ... al-Ṭāliqānī in ... Mach reads "Qazwīn" (colophon, fol. 257a).Incipit: قال ابو الحسن على بن رضوان بن على بن جعفر المتطيّب قصدنا ان نشرح اقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس فى صناعة القضايا بالنجوم على الحوادث فنقول انّ القضا بالنجوم على الحوادث صناعة تنبى عن مبادى صادقة بالمكوّناتExplicit: واقف سقيم الزهرة بالحمل تحريط عطارد الحوت كر يط ه فهذا اشيآء قد شرحتها لك فانعم الله الكظر فيها وتاملها والله يهدى من يشآء الى صراط مستقيم
Abstract: Part 1, containing 45 majlis, of a paraenetic work written by the first imām of the 31st cavalry regiment (19th cent.). Autograph.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b).The name of the author appears in the beginning of the text as: "al-Sayyid Ṣāliḥ Wahbī ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid Yūsuf al-imām al-awwal fī al-lālāʾī al-ḥādī wa-al-thalāthīn min ʻasākir al-sawārīyah" (fol. 3b).23 lines per page. Written in a thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for keywords. Light cream woven paper. On fol. 1b-2a: table of contents. Fol. 2b-3a: blank. Pagination in red ink between parentheses using Arabic numerals in the middle of the upper margin (starts at the beginning of the text, with "3" on fol. 4a).On the upper cover fly-leaf, inscription in Arabic in red pencil: "Raqm 41".Autograph copy (see colophon, fol. 223a).Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الواحد الاحد القديم الذى علم الانسان بفصله العميم ... اما بعد فيقول ... قد كنت عدة من الايام و برهة من الاعوام متصديا لافادة العوام بقرائة المواعظ النافعةExplicit: ومن اعتمد عليه اعطه العطاء الجميل وقالوا حسبنا وفقنا وانا احمد الله على اتمام الجزء الاول من كتاب حادى ... و واسئله التوفيق لاتمام الجزء الثانى
Abstract: Aceph. copy of a short collection of sayings and proverbs. The text is followed on fol. 8a-b by five riddles and their answer by Suyūṭī (incomplete at end).Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1a, l. 4).19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and yellow. European glazed paper with watermark (Tre lune). Catchword on the verso of each leaf.'Copy completed on Saturday 8 Ṣafar 1123 March 28, 1711 by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ʻArafāt, under the patronage ("bi-rasm") of Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh ibn ʻUmrān al-Dayrabī al-Shāfiʻī al-Rifāʻī (colophon, fol. 8a). Inscription in pencil using Western numerals on fol. (i)a: "675" (corresponding to Brill\'s catalog. See HoutsmaM. Catalogueno. 147).'Beginning of text 1 as extant (fol. 1a): \\\\ ومعاني وبديعاً وتا... جزهر القلايد والكواكب الشواهدExplicit text 1 (fol. 8a): ان غرب الكوكب الاصفر واقبل الشفق الاحمر فاخضرّ الاسودان وافترقنا واجتمع فرقدان اخرها والله الموفّق للصوابIncipit text 2 (fol. 8a): يتلوه الغاز اخري اجاب عنها شيخنا الجلال رحمه الله تعالى وملخّصها ما اذكره هنا وهي ابيات واجوبتها نثراً قوله من باتفاق الخلق افضل من شيخ الصحاب ابي بكر ومن عمر ... الجواب ان كان عني بالفتي عيسيEnd text 2 as extant (fol. 8b): عليها مكفىاً للصغيرة المرتكبة او بكسر الجيم فهو الميزاب الخارج عن\\\\
Abstract: On the demonstration of the existence of the Necessary existent.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of blue and yellow marbled paper over cardboard.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta and red. European glazed paper with watermark. Ḥāshīyah by Muḥyī al-Dīn, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, etc. on the margins. On fol. 1a: Title and statement with seal, dated 1206 H. 1791 or 2. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Inscription in Arabic script on a modern label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 102". Inscription in Arabic on a modern label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1153/2 Ḥāʼ".Incipit: سبحانك سبحانك ما اعظم شانك ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد بن اسعد الدوانى الصديقى قد حررت فى هذه الرسالة وجوه براهن اثبات الواجب جلّ ذكره على ما اورده 2أ ائمة الحكمة والكلامExplicit: هو الله ربى يحقق الحق بفضله ويبطل الباطل بعدله بيده الحسنى واليه الرجعى تمت الربالة التحقيق ومحلّة التدقيق لمولى الموالى المحققين بفضل العليم المتعال المول فخر الافاضل مولانا جلال الدين مدّ الله ظلّه مدا وجعل بينه وبين الكروبات سدّا
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Spine repaired with cloth.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-4b: Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 2. leaves 4b-8b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-qiblah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 3. leaves 9b-13b: Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat.Contents: 4. leaves 13b-18b: Risālah fī taḥrīm dhabāʼiḥ ahl al-kitāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 5. leaves 19b-65a: Bidāyat al-hidāyah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 6. leaves 65b-73b: al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah.Contents: 7. leaves 74a-152a: al-Fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-aʼimmah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.Origin: Text 4, 1130 H 1717 or 1718 (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H April 1718, by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Loose in folder consisting of leather covers with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants and fillets; repaired with cloth spine.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-4b: Risālah fī manāsik al-ḥajj.Contents: 2. leaves 5a-8b: al-Lumʻah al-Ḥillīyah fī maʻrifat al-nīyah / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Fahd.Contents: 3. leaves 9b-24a: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ḥajj / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 4. leaves 24b-51b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṣalāh / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 5. leaves 52b-74b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṭahārah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 6. leaves 74b-84b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-zakāh wa-al-khums / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 7. leaves 85a-100b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṣawm / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 12-14 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Mild insect damage and staining; leaf 1 is a replacement and detached.Origin: Text 4 dated 24 Muḥarram 1086 H 20 April 1675 (leaf 51b); other texts likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: "Part of a commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's al-Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻAbstract: comprising kitāb al-ʻitq through kitāb al-qaḍāʼ. Text begins on leaf 3b and is preceded by three pages of notes and a fihris on leaf 2a."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; red paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.On spine: Label reading "Kitāb al-ʻitq" in Arabic script.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Leaves 3b-153a are in naskh, and leaves 155a-235a are in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Top of leaf 235a is torn away. Edges are moldered, and there are a few stains and marginal paper repairs."Origin: Completed toward the end of the first ten days of Jumādá II 1216 H October 1801 in Karbalāʼby Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Qazwīnī al-aṣl Karbalāʼī al-maskan; copied from the original manuscript in the author's hand (leaf 235a)."'Incipit: الحمد لله ... كتاب العتق وهو لغة الخلوص ومنه سمي البيت عتيقا لخلوصه من يدي الجبابرة'
Abstract: Treatise on Ḥanafī law, with interlinear and marginal glosses (some signed Muḥyī; stops after fol. 12).Binding note: Modern binding with four sewing stations and gilt stamps on the spine. Blue paper on upper and lower covers. Marbled text block edges (web pattern in purple ink).Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Red ink frame on fol. 2b-40b. European glazed paper with watermark. Inscription on fol. 1a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thālith 13". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "649/2 ḥāʼ".Copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, servant of the inner court in the traveling establishment of the Sultan (gulmân-i enderûn fī hane-yi seferlı) in Jumādá al-Ākhar 1074 (colophon in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, fol.158a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي دلّنا على معرفته بالشواهد والاعلام ... اما بعد هذه عقود منظومة من سنن سيّد المرسلينExplicit: ومن السنّة ان لا يذكر ميّتاً من المسلمين الّا بخير ... وقال عليه السّلام لا تسبّوا الاموات فتوضوا به الاحياء وتمّت الكتاب بعون اللّه وحسن توفيقه 158أ وصلّى اللّه على سيّدنا محمّد وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين
Abstract: A commentary on the Qiṣaṣ al-ḥaqq fī madḥ khayr al-khalq, a poem on the life of Muhammad, which includes information on types of rhetoric and eloquence.Title from title page.تم لنا سماعاً ومقابلة وتصحيحاً على والدنا العلامة بدر الدين محسن بن صالح...في ليلة الاربعاء ليلة 17/رجب الأصب/سنة(...)بقلم حسين بن حسن بن حسين(لقطة رقم 197)كتاب ابتسام البرق في شرح قصص الحق في مدح خير الخلق / التي أنشاءَ مولانا امير المومنين شرف الدين بن شمس الدين بن امير المومنين المهدى لدين الله احمد بن يحيى / تاليف الفقيه العالم الحافظ المحقق المدقق المحدث الثبت احد أعلام الشيعه شمس الدين محمد بن يحيى بهرانجيدة وهو مجلد صغير إلى متوسط الحجم عليه آثار بلليوم الثلاثاء صفر/1058هـIncipit: بسم الله...عونك اللهم ياكريم الحمد لله الذي اصطفى سيدنا محمداً أشرف العناصر...وبعد فلما كانت القصيدة الفائقة الفريده الرّايقه الموسومه بقصص الحق في مدح خير الخلق...Explicit: يقال انشد الرجل اذا انشد سيا من الشعر...والله ولى التوفيق هـ تم الكتاب...ولا حول ولا قوه الابالله العلى العظيمOld-style naskh script. Some traces of water damage.21 lines.أربعة أبيات شعرية للامام محمد الباقر مطلعها: لنحن على الحوض وِرَّادُه...لقطة رقم (3)قصيدة شعرية للناصر الحسن بن علي الأطروش مطلعها : فاجهد لكل الذي يرضى الاله به...لقطة رقم (198)
Abstract: Treatise on defective authorities for traditions. On fol. 1a, 5a and 5b are short texts, apparently by one hand different from the main text.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم اما بعد فهذا تعليق فى اسما المدلسين كنت جمعته قديما فى سنه اثنين وتسعين وسبعمايه فى تعليق لى على سيره ابى الفتحExplicit: قال الحاكم لا اعرف فى المتاخرين من يذكر به الا ابا بكر محمد بن محمد بن سليمان الباعتدي والله اعلم انتهى هذا اخر ما علقه شيخ شيخنا من المدلسين فمن وجد بعد ذلك شيا منهم الحقه فى موضعه فانه قابل للزيادة والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيلPhysical description: 36 lines per page. Written in casual small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries and re-inking. The paper is hardly visible due to the densiy of the script. The last fol. shows dark cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 6 is a thicker leaf of European paper, with the inscription "Aḥmad ibn Shanūn".Origin: Copied in 924 H. 1518 or 1519 (colophon, fol. 5a, lower margin).
Abstract: Short treatise on the elements of divination, drawn chiefly from the works of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʻArabī (d. 1240), and comprising an introduction in 8 parts, a maṭlab, and a conclusion.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of decorated paper over paper pasteboards.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text as Salīm al-Wāʻiẓ (fol. 1b).17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh using black ink and magenta. The text is framed in a single magenta line throughout. Contains charts. Glazed paper with watermark. Pagination in black ink using Arabic numerals between brackets in the center of the upper margin. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (with no fol. 4).Collation: Paper ; fol. 30 ; 30¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: بسم ... الحمد للَّه الذي اودع اسرار الحادثات في كنوز الحروف والكميات وجعل الاعداد ظروف الواقعات ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير سليم الواعظ لما انعم الله تعالي علي بكتب المادة وقرائتهاExplicit: من الماء فالثابتةِ حروف ه ج ر ط ل فولدها الي تمام التوليد ثم اللقط منها تم
Abstract: Treatise on fiqh, written in such a manner that it can be read in five different ways, with the text as such and four vertical "sub-texts" indicated by red ink.Binding note: Blue and white marbled paper pasted over brown leather on pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Gold painted frame on each cover.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 2a.23 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is written in seven columns framed by a red ink fillet. European glazed paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "al-ʻulūm al-adab 6". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1032". Inscription in arabic script on the lower edge of the text block: "... 15".Incipit: الحمد لله ولي الحمد ومستحقه ... وبعد فهذا كتاب جليل كتبته لم اسبق بعد اليه الفته مختصرًا فى الفقهExplicit: وصللى الله على محمد واله وسلم غاية التسليم الموجب لكرامة فى دار النعيم آمين آمين آمين الكتاب
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; spine repaired.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-31b: Mafātīḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 2. leaves 31b-34b: Tarjamat ḥadīth al-jabr wa-al-tafwīḍ / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 3. leaves 34b-37a: Risālah fī al-zakāh / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 4. leaves 37a-40a: al-Kaffārāt / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 5. leaves 40b-44b: Māl al-nāṣib / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 6. leaves 44b-49b: Sharḥ al-ziyārah al-maʼthūrah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Riḍā al-Qummī. Title from leaf 49b, line 14. Text completed Rajab 1085 H. in Mashhad.Contents: 7. leaves 49b-51b: Ajwibah ʻan asʼilat Majd al-Dīn Shūshtarī.Contents: 8. leaves 51b-52a: Nubadh min aḥkām sujūd al-tilāwah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 9. leaves 52a-54a: Ḥadīth on the eight doors of heaven and hell.Contents: 10. leaves 54b-87a: Asrār al-ṣalāh / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Contents: 11. leaves 87a-101b: Shukūk al-ṣalāh / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Ms. codex.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh (Arabic) and nastaʻliq (Persian) in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. First leaf detached. Damp staining across top of manuscript and some marginal paper repairs. Some loss of text on last leaf due paper loss and staining.Origin: Likely 18th century.
Abstract: "A treatise in the precepts of Islamic mysticism composed in 1199 in Almeria and written in the form of advice to Ibn al-ʻArabī's disciple ʻAlī bin Badr al-ḤabashīAbstract: to whom it is dedicated."Binding note: Half leather with envelope flap. Spine and fore-edge flap in brown leather. Covers and envelope flap in glazed orange paper embossed in floral pattern over pasteboard. Endleaves in blue and black marbled paper. Lining to the fore-edge flap in blue paper. Label on upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 6".Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper. Catchwords on the verso of each folio. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Title on lower edge of text block: Mawāqiʻ al-nujūm. Ownership statement, accompanied with a seal, in the name of al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī on fol. 1a.Incipit: الحمد لله الحى القيوم المقسم بمواقع النجوم ... اما بعد فيا ذا العقل السليم والمتصف باوصاف الكمال والتتميمExplicit: الدرة البيضا موصلنا الى هذه المقامات العلية القدسية بالتسليم والتفويض لموارد القضا وعلى اله الطيبين الطاهرين والحمد لله رب العالمين ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم كملت المواقع والمطالع بعون الله تعالى
Abstract: A work describing the doctrines of different Muslim sects and schools.Title from title page.هذه رساله الدامغانُي واسمها الرساله بالجوهره الخالصه عن الشوايب في العقايد الناقمه على جميع المذاهب / سال عنها الشيخ الفاضل عبدالحق بن عبدالمجيد بن عبدالواحد الذهبي السيد الامام العلامه قطب الانام دين الحكما عماد الاوليا سلاله الانبيا كهف الموحدين شمس الدنيى والدين عبدالصمد بن عبدالله العلوي الدامغانيIncludes a short biography of a scholar, probably the author, and the testament of Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn al-Murtaḍá.جيده، وهو عبارة عن ورقات ليس له غلاف، تم كتابة المخطوط بالمداد الأسود وبعض الكلمات بالمداد الأحمرIncipit: بسم الله... وبه نستعين وصلى الله على محمد واله وسْلم الحمد لله على جميع مِنَنِهِ بالكليَّه والجزئيّه حَمْداً يكافى نعَمه بالجنسيَّةِ والنوعيَّه ... وَبعد فانَّك ايها الاخ المحب فى الله عز وجل سالتنى عن اختلاف الأُمَّه فى العقايد ...Explicit: واعلم انى ما تكلمت الا وقد خبرت جميع المذاهب نشوذة على مذهب الاماميه بالعراق ولماضربت العلوم بعون الحى القيوم وارتحلت لها من اكثر الاقطار خبرت جميع مذاهب الاسلام وطرايقهم تباعدت عن جميع ما نقم مما عليهم والسلامNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Unbound.32-34 lines.فائدة صغيره في صفحة العنوان منقوله من حاشية في ترجمة الشيخ المذكور لعله الدامغاني .لقطه1وصية الإمام المهدي لدين الله أحمد بن يحيى المرتضى إبن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم للأولاد والأهل والإخوان لقطه40
Abstract: Collection of fatwas according to the Shafiʻite school.Binding note: Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboard. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla and an outer frame of two double fillets, with four flower stamps in the inner corners. The envelope flap has the same frame and a roundel on its point.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 8).13 long lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with no chain or laid lines visible. Marginal and interlinear notes in black and red ink. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (between fol. 14 and 15: blank).Copied on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 702 by ʻAbd al-Mughnī ibn ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī ibn Badr ibn Abī al-ʻAskar al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 128b prev. 127b).Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله المتوحّد بالعظمة والكبرياء المتفرّد بدوام العزة والبقاء ... اما بعد فانّ هذا الكتاب سمّيتُه الحاوي لما حوي الفوايد الزّوايد وما في اللباب واكتفيْتُExplicit: جنايتهما وان ادّعى كلّ شريك مُوسرا يلادها قبل عتفَتْ انْ ماتا ووُقِف الوِلآءُ تم
Author's own abridgement of his longer commentary on Moroccan sufi Ibn Mashīsh's prayer book known as Ṣalawāt. Longer version is titled: Rawḍāt al-ʻarshīyah fī al-kalām ʻala al-Ṣalawāt al-Mashīshīyah.Title from ff. 1r and 2v.الحمد لله العلي المحمود بكل المحامد العليه والصلاة والسلام على النبي المحمود ذي المقاصد السنيه... :IncipitWritten in a naskh hand in black ink, 13 lines per page; some phrases and the text commented upon in red. Marginal notes and corrections on some pages are in hand of the copyist. There are catchwords on the verso of each leaf. The text is framed within double red lines. Headpiece (f. 2r).Date from colophon (f. 57v) which also names the copyist as Muḥammad ibn Saʻd al-Dīn al-Asadī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī. The ms. was probably copied in Egypt.The book is followed by two short prayer books and a poem by Shaykh Raḍīwī al-Miṣrī al-Ṣaʻīdī al-Farshūṭī, written in the same hand: Ḥizb al-lāmiʻ (ff. 57v-64v) -- al-Ṣalawāt (ff. 64v-68r) -- Manẓūmah (f. 68v).Glazed paper. 18.5 x 13.8 cm. (13.8 x 7.7 cm.).Bound in half leather with flap.MS Arab 123. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2007. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 684Origin: As appears in colophon on p.629, copied by Abū al-Qāsim ibn Āghā Jān bin Baz [?] with transcription completed 14 Rajab [?] 1063 [ca. 10 June 1653]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.629), composition completed in Ṣafar 890 [1485].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Portion of a printed page with list of titles in Arabic script, perhaps torn from a catalogue -- d. Slip ruled with a red grid (between pp.112-113).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 22" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black (upper cover, which appears to be a replacement for the original) and brown (lower cover and spine) leathers ; Type II (with flap, though now lost) ; upper board lining in untinted wove paper ; lower doublure in red-brown leather ; lower cover carries blind-stamped (with recessed onlay) scalloped mandorla (filled with scene of two antelopes and a flowering tree) and pendants, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps flanked by tooled fillets ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light yellow and pink, only portion of tailband remains ; overall in quite poor condition with flap lost, extensive abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (especially to replacement upper cover), staining, severe moisture damage and shrinkage in upper cover, fills to upper cover in bits of black leather and pink textile, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown above fleur de lis (see p.25, etc.), extremely well sized and burnished (quite glossy), transluscent and quite crisp, though sturdy ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of an inverted teardrop shape with cross (see p.452, etc.) ; burnisher's marks visible.Decoration: Keywords (فتح، ميقرمايد، الخ), headings for excerpts from the dīwān attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and abbreviation symbols (sigla, etc.) rubricated ; most Arabic excerpts overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of 'three inverted commas' conjoined to form a single stroke ; a few diagrams in red and black ink (see pp.49-51, 67, 112).Script: Nastaʻlīq and naskh ; elegant Persianate hand ; nastaʻlīq sans serif with slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, sweeping horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots ; Arabic excerpts mainly in a medium naskh, serifless and fairly vertical but with slight effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV+1 (9), 37 IV(305), V (315) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; quires marked in black ink ("رب يسر") at the head of the recto of the opening leaf of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب بتاريخ ۱۴ شهر رجب المرجب سنه ۱۰۶۳ م م م المحتاج الى رحمة الله الغني ابو القاسم بن آغا جان بن بز"Explicit: "ارجو النجا بكم يوم المعادون حبت نداى من الذنب الافانينا"Incipit: "اهل فقر همت طلبیم آینه ذات حق چو درویشانند ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.2. p.153-p.629 : [continuation of Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i mansūb bih Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib] / Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Maybudī.1. p.1-p.153 : Favātiḥ-i sabʻah / Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Maybudī.Elegant but acephalous copy (opening in the first Fātiḥah, compare p.18 of the 2000 Tihrān edition) of the commentary by Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Manṭiqī al-Maybudī al-Yazdī (d.1504?) upon the dīwān attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ca. 600-661), opening with the Favātiḥ-i sabʻah.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 216Origin: As appears in colophon on p.434, copied for himself by Mīrzā Jān al-Shīrāzī, perhaps Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān al-Shīrāzī al-Baghanawī [or al-Baghandī] (d.1586), with transcription completed in 985 [1577 or 1578].Former shelfmark: "328 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "10" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.3).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper and lower doublures in brown leather with simple gold-tooled border and central floral motif ; upper and lower covers bear large blind-stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla (vegetal composition compare Déroche class. OAi 8 or 9) with pendants and corner pieces, all surrounded by gold-painted accents and accompanied by a tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in light pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in light pink and cream, intact ; overall in fair condition with slight abrasion and staining, some lifting and splitting of leather at spine and foreedge flap, envelope flap detaching from foreedge flap, etc.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. and sporadic chain lines ; well-burnished and quite sturdy though crisp ; front flyleaf in European laid paper ; some pest damage.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) ; rectangular piece carries gold-filled cartouche with pendants and flanking accent pieces on a background of lapis lazuli with swirling vegetal decoration in gold, white, yellow, lavender, red and blue ; scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) echos the composition of the rectangular piece with swirling vegetal design mainly in black, blue, and lavender on a field of gold with accents in yellow, red, and blue green, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by frame consisting of a series of narrow gold, blue-green, and red bands with outermost blue fillet (frame also forms the well of the headpiece) ; elsewhere written area surrounded by frame consisting of gold band and black fillets ; some keywords, some abbreviations, and occasional marginalia rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; most keywords chyrsographed.Script: Naskh ; elegant Persianate hand ; virtually serifless ; effect of tilt to the left ; kāf mashqūqah preferred ; hamzat al-waṣl occasionally marked ; pointing in distinct dots, with two dots often oriented vertically (one above the other) rather than horizontally ; mainly closed counters ; curvilinear descenders, some sweeping ; rightward descenders tapered ; freely ligatured with final hāʼ often assimilated with preceding dāl or rāʼ ; final words/letters of line often superscript ; glosses in naskh-nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 16 V(169), IV (177), 4 V(217), I+1-1 (219) ; chiefly quinions ; first two leaves of opening quire glued together ; final leaf left blank and the two leaves preceding that are glued together ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and skips two pages each between pp.93-94 and pp.181-182).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "كتبه الفقير اليه تعالى الشهير بميرزا جان الشيرازي لنفسه غفر الله له ولوالديه في سنة ۹۸٥"Explicit: "وقد يجعل هو نفسه التكملة وفي هذا شبه تنزل عن حقيقة الجزئية الى كونه الجمال له والكمال والاستمداد في اللغة طلب المراد يقال استمددت الامير وتعديته الى مفعولين لتضمين معنى الطلب والسؤال والله تعالى المسؤل لتيسير الآمال والمشكور على ما افاض من النوال وله الحمد على كل حال تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب"Incipit: "خير خبر يوشح به صدر الكلام واحسن حديث يرشح لمقتضى المقام حمدا لله الذي خلق الانسان علمه البيان واتم له الاحسان فالهمه التبيان جعل فيه الفصاحة مفتاحا لفتح باب النجاح والدراية مصباحا للتهدي الى اسباب الفلاحTitle from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Taftāzānī's commentary on the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm of al-Sakkākī on ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān, apparently copied by Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān al-Shīrāzī (d.1586).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 556Origin: As appears in colophon on p.258, copied for himself by Maḥmūd ibn Sawindik ibn Khayr ibn Aman Ḥusayn [?] (Mahmut b. Sevindik b. Hayr b. Emen Hüseyin [?]) with transcription completed at the close of Ramaḍān 836 [May 1433].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Slip with notes in Turkish (paginated pp.47-48) -- d. Slip with title and inventory number (paginated pp.107-108).Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf and fore edge flap label "IL 415a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather with tan leather repairs at spine, fore edge flap and board edges ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings (doublures) in shell marbled paper (in pink, light and dark blue, white) now partially covered by flyleaves in brown wove paper (partially affixed to the boards) ; upper and lower covers carry a blind-stamped scalloped mandorla filled with vegetal decoration (compare Déroche class. NA 5) ; now sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at foreedge flap which is detaching at lower cover), staining, etc. ; numerous repairs.Support: non-European laid paper of perhaps several types ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines visible but fairly indistinct and difficult to discern (possibly grouped in threes or threes and twos with 8-10 mm. between chains and 42 mm. between groups, see p.234), thick and now soft though well-burnished (some leaves till quite glossy) ; staining and tide lines ; some added leaves in European laid paper ; replacements leaves (see pp.149-166) on a European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (vertical), and crown-star watermark (see p.166 and compare no.70 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1), sturdy and well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; clear, elegant hand in a narrow line ; virtually serifless and freely ligatured with slight inclination to the left, elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders, tāʼ marbūṭah and hāʼ set down in foot / tail of preceding dāl, rāʼ, etc., final hāʼ and preceding rāʼ, etc. often assimilated, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf) but occasionally (in headings) represented by little kāf seated on vertical stroke (see p.93), pointing mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots ; text of replacement leaves (pp.149-166) in a Turkish naskh, partially seriffed, inclined to the left, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 4 (4), V-2 (12), V (22), 3 (25), 2 IV (41), 2 V(61), I (63), V (73), IV (81), IV+1 (90), 3 V(120), V-2+1 (129), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves and some inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الكتاب الوقاية بالعون والهداية على يد العبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه اللطيف محمود بن سوندك بن خير بن امن حسين [؟] اللهم اغفر لهم برحمتك يا عزيز يا رحمن في آخر الشهر المبارك رمضان من يوم الخميس [؟] في وقت الضحوة الكبرى في تاريخ سنة ست وثلاثين وثمانمائة كتبه لنفسه ولمن يقرأ من بعده"Explicit: "وفي غنم مذبوحة فيها ميتة هي اقل تحرى واكل في الاختيار"Incipit: "حمد من جعل العلم لجل [اجل] المواهب الهنية واسناءها واعلى المراتب السنية واسماءها ... وبعد فان الولد الاعز عبيد الله ... لما فرغ من حفظ الكتب الادبية وتحقيق لطائف الفضل ونكت العربية احببت ان يحفظ في علم الاحكام كتابا رائعا ولعيون مسائل الفقه راعيا مقبول الترتيب والنظام مستحسنا عند الخواص والعوام وما الفيت في المختصرات ما هذا شانه فالفت في رواية كتاب الهداية ... مختصرا جامعا لجميع مسائله ... موسوما بوقاية الرواية في مسائل الهداية ..."Title from opening matter on p.11.Ms. codex.Extensively annoted copy of the epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7) with table of contents (pp.3-4) and many notes and excerpts at opening and close of codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 851Origin: As appears in colophon on p.106, copied by Ömer bin Osman with transcription completed 29 Muḥarram 1093 [ca. 7 February 1682].Accompanying materials: a. Part of a page taken from a book or catalogue (reverse carries image and caption) with description in black ink "Turkish MS | Miscellanies, stories and short poems, neatly copied in various handwritings. 8 vo., ms. in Turkish, native gilt binding, ?early 19th century" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip with description in pencil in hand of Husselman [?] "Turkish | ʻAṭāʼī (991-1044 AH) Wrote a divan & a Khamsah. cf. BM Cat. Turk. MS. p.195. (cf. Gibb, Ottoman poems, p.207) ... Dichtkunst, v. 3, p.244 and Niẓāmī" and on reverse "ATTAY - Divan, or coll. of poems (Arabia - 17--?)" (paginated pp.3-4).Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin, semi-limp) covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry central gold-tooled ornament of geometric interlace, roughly diamond shape with pendants and radiating strokes, along with tooled and gold painted border ; red and leather onlays at head and tail of spine, accented with gold-stamped bands ; title gold stamped over green leather onlay on spine "EXTRAITS DE DIVERS OUVRAGES EN LANGUE TURQUE" ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked endbands in dark blue and cream, damaged with only traces remaining ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of Paschal lamb in four-lobed circle (see p.54, etc.) and star above arms with three bars (see p.68, 69, etc.), well-burnished, sturdy, cream in color ; some leaves tinted pink (carrying pp.113-114, 151-152, 157-158, 167-168), mint green (carrying pp.97-98, 107-108), etc.Decoration: Keywords and excerpts rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; naskh an elegant Ottoman hand in a narrow line, mainly serifless though occasional irregular head-serif on lām or free-standing alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in conjoined dots or strokes, extensively vocalized ; nastaʻlīq (talik) an elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line, serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 13-15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 2 V(20), V-1 (29), II (33), 2 V(53), IV+1 (62), V (72), V+1 (83), V (93), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تاريخ تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب فى تاسع وعشرين محرم الحرام فى وقت العصر على عبد الضعيف المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى عمر ابن عثمان سنه ثلاث وتسعين والف"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.21. p.193-194 : [mainly blank].20. p.191-p.192 : [assorted excerpts].19. p.133-p.190 : [blank].18. p.131-132 : Süalname.17. p.129-p.130 : [blank].16. p.127-128 : [mesele followed by a letter of Naṣr al-Dīn to his son].15. p.124-p.126 : [poetic excerpt opening with"هر ايشه قيل بسمله ايله ابتدا ذكرك اولسون دائما حمد خدا ..."].14. p.118-p.123 : [blank].13. p.109-p.117 : [assorted prayers and excerpts, several pages left partially blank].12. p.108 : [chart with dates of Ottoman sultans through ascension of Süleyman II].11. p.107 : [blank].10. p.74-p.106 : Hikayet-i bazargân ba zen-i mekarih.9. p.68-p.73 : [blank].8. p.66-p.67 : [poetic excerpts].7. p.56-p.65 : Nefsü'l-emirname / Nevizade [?] Atâyî Efendi.6. p.50-p.55 : [blank].5. p.45-p.49 : [text opening, "الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلوة على محمد واله اجمعين راويان اخيار وثاقلان اثار شويله ..."].4. p.36-p.45 : Hazihi Tercümet Mukaddimetü's-salat lil-mevla el-Fenari3. p.28-p.35 : Hikayet-i şeyhü'l-arifin Bayezit Bistami.2. p.26-p.27 : [mainly blank, with excerpt].1. p.8-p.25 : [text opening with "روايت اولنور كه ويلايت رومده بر قاضى وار ايدى علم ايله اراست و زهد ايله براسته ايدى ..."].Careful copy of a collection (mecmua / majmūʻah) of miscellaneous excerpts in prose and verse.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 673Origin: As appears at close on p.523, dated Rabīʻ II 1153 [June-July 1741] "في ربيع الاخر سنه ١١٥٤".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 spine label, "IL 35" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in now silvery laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSd 8), pendants and corner pieces along with tooled accents (strokes and rosette stamp) and border (rules flanking a series of s-shaped stamps) ; sewn in red and yellow (from around p.144) thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, only headband remains ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at board edges), delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to spine, fore edge flap and board edges in black leather, also damaged.Support: European laid paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown above cartouche with name and grapes (raisin) below (see p.16, 54, 246, etc.), sturdy and dense, beige in color, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.16, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral accents in gold and red on a blue ground surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with somewhat crudely executed floral vegetal decoration in gold, white, yellow and red on fields of blue and gold with red accents ; entire piece set into a well consisting of a series of colored bands (in red, gold, yellow, and white) with crosses repeated in black ; written area of incipit page surrounded by a gold frame, elswhere central written area and margins surrounded by a red rule-border ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas, discs, etc. ; some overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; two elegant Ottoman hands ; opening hand (through p.334) partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām or other ascender, marked effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes or conjoined dots rather than distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters (dots) ; from p.335 to close (as well as table of contents, pp.4-14), another elegant naskh, seriffed with left-sloping wedge or barb head-serifs on most ascenders (vertical stroke of final kāf and even shaqq of medial or initial kāf also seriffed), effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, dramatic contrast of thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in heavy strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6), 21 V(216), 2 IV(232), 3 V(262), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and added leaves, mistakenly skips two pages between pp.423-424).Explicit: "اخره تفويض ايتمك استدكده زيد مجرد زراعت ايتدكلريمك حقوقلرينى ارا ايتمكله زراعت ايتمدكلرينك تفويضندن عمروى منعه قادر اولورنى الجواب اولماز"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع على احسن الترتيب والنظام وجعل علماء الشريعة خلفاء رسوله في بيان الحلال والحرام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى رحمة ربه الغني محمد فقهى العينى لله در علامة زماننا ... مظهر الاحكام الربانية مفتي السلطنة العثمانية مولانا ابو الفضل عبد الله افندى اليكيشهرى فقد بذل جهده في الافتاء لذوي الحاجات ... واني لما استسعدت بخدمته [؟] العليا ... اردت ان ارتب هذا الكتاب المستطاب ليسهل الاطلاع على تفاريق الواقعات ... واثبت في الهامش نقل كل مسئلة ... فلما صار ذلك كتابا مرتبا ... سميته ببهجة الفتاوى ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.17.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collection of legal decisions by Yenişehirli Abullah Efendi (d. 1742 or 3), compiled (with an Arabic preface) and annotated in Arabic by Muḥammad Fiqhī al-ʻAynī (fl. 1702). Table of contents provided at opening (pp.4-14).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 487Origin: Statement on 'title page' (p.7) indicates that composition of the work was begun Muḥarram 1208 [August-September 1793] (though the copyist apparently made a mistake in the phrasing of the date with "مائتين" faintly visible following "بعد" and "الالف" written over it). Despite the mistake in this statement, the reading 1208 is confirmed by the opening matter (preface) on p.9 in which the author indicates "..لما دخلنا في سنة الف ومائتين وثمناية من الهجرة النبوية ... اني هممت ان الف كتابا في سنن الدين واحكامه ..." ; according to GAL likely completed in 1212 [1797]. Lacks dated colophon ; however, number of corrections and marginal notes, paper, etc. indicate that the main text may be in the hand of the author, or perhaps collated by him, suggesting a dating in the last decade of the 18th century or prior to his death in 1801 (roughly 1797-1801). Paper of replacement leaves suggests a fairly contemporary dating or slightly further into the 19th century. Ownership statement on opening replacement leaf provides a terminus ante quem of 1825.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 80" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards now covered in aquamarine paper with black cloth over spine and traces of dark red-brown leather at edges/turn-ins (possibly fully covering boards under paper) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; upper and lower covers bear traces of tooled rule-borders ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; sewn in light pink thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, minor delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; mainly with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (vertical), horse with main and tail flying watermark (see p.115, etc. and compare Cheval no.1, p.20 and 335 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans), and "A G C" countermark (see p.114) ; replacement leaves with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (vertical), lion passant guardant (see final two leaves and compare watermark dated 1807, no.924 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire) and arms with "O A C" under scrollwork (see p.6, etc. and compare nos.766 dated 1795 and 814, 821, 839 dated 1799 in Nikolaev).Decoration: Keywords and some marginal glosses and corrections rubricated ; overlining in red ; text of written area surrounded by red-rule border.Script: Naskh ; main hand a large, elegant Iraqi [?] hand (certainly with Persianate features) ; virtually serifless (though very slight head-serifs occasionally appear) and fairly vertical with only a slight tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, point of nūn often set down within bowl, partially vocalized ; replacement leaves at opening and close supplied in another elegant naskh with Persianate features, virtually serifless with effect of tilt to the left, some elongated horizontal strokes, pointing in conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-3+3 (10), 4 V(50), V-2+2 (60) ; chiefly quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Explicit: "وما جعلنا القبلة التي كنت عليها الا لنعلم من يتبع الرسول ممن ينقلب على عقبية تمت اخباراته الغيبية وصدق مقالاته المروية"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الكتاب ولم يجعل له عوجا قيما لينذر بأسا شديد [شديدا] من لدنه ... اما بعد يقول العبد الفقير الى الله الغني محمد العمري بن احمد العمي بن علي العمري الموصلي مولدا منشئا الساكن عند باب الجديد لما دخلنا في سنة الف ومائتين وثمانية بعد الاهجرة النبوية ... اني هممت ان الف كتابا في سنن الدين واحكامه ... فجمعت هذا الكتاب وسميته جوهر المنظم من كلام النبي المكرم ...Title from inscription on recto of opening replacement leaf (p.5), 'title page' (p.7), and opening matter (preface) on p.9.Ms. codex.Fine early (possibly autograph) copy of a collection of sayings of the Prophet compiled from compiled from various collections of ḥadīth by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʻUmarī al-Mawṣilī (d.1801). Replacement leaves at opening and close.
Khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī maʻrifat al-qūwā wa-al-khawāṣṣ Contains Ibn al-Raqqām’s Kitāb khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī ma‘rifat al-qūwā wa’l-khawāṣṣ [Compendium of competence in knowing faculties and characteristics], preceded by an anonymous poem on agriculture. As stated in the incipit, Ibn al-Raqqām’s treatise is an abridgement of Ibn Waḥshīya Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 9th cent. ’s Al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭīya. The work consists of an agricultural tract in fifteen chapters, and an account of 309 plants, with their actions and properties, which are listed and numbered in the table of contentsLayout: 23 linesScript: Clear Naskh, black inkAdditions: Catchwords in the interior bottom-margin of versos marginalia Marginal commentaries in black ink marginalia Numbers referring to the index of plants written in red ink in the margins of ff. 30v-118v
Abstract: "Volume 1 of a gloss on al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on al-Lumʻah al-DimashqīyahAbstract: through Kitāb al-ḥajj."Binding note: Full black leather with marbled paper doublures; front cover detached.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b by a later hand.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Some staining and a few repairs. Incomplete at beginning.Origin: According to Āghā Buzurg, work was completed in 1075 H 1664 or 1665; this copy, 28 Rajab 1110 H 30 January 1699, by Ibn Mawlānā Ḥasan ʻAlī Muḥammad al-Rāzī (leaf 262b).Incipit (as extant): في تحقيق المسايل عليها مع توزع البال
Abstract: "Abridgement of the author's commentary on al-Ṭughrāʼī's Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam. The commentary is variously known as Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam and Ghayth al-adab alladhī insajama fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam. Brockelmann has misidentified the abridger of the present text as the person who financed the 1897 edition. In this copy the abridgement is ascribed to ʻĀʼishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʻūnīyah by a later hand on leaf 1b. Verses on leaves 1aAbstract: 21b-23a."Binding note: Quarter leather with paper covers.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, lines 6-7.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Text of Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam in red with verses numbered in margins. Repairs to inner margins, marginal insect damage, some staining.Origin: 1 Rabīʻ I 1055 H 27 April 1645 (leaf 21b).Incipit: الحمد لله حق حمده ... وبعد فاني لما وقفت على كتاب غيث الادب الذي انسجم في شرح لامية العجم من تصانيف ... صلاح الدين
Abstract: The first part of a very large collection of fatwas by the author.Title from title page.الجزءُ الأَوّلُ مِنْ فَتَاوي سيدنا العلامة القدوة الحجة المحدث نفيس الدِّين سليمنُ بن يحيى ابن عمر مقبول الأَهْدَلOwnership note, dated August 1911. Includes multiple unknown fragments and poems.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه غلاف قماشي وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والوردي والأحمر وبه أوراق في آخره عليها آثار معالجة من حريق وكذلك من الأرضه ويحتوي في أوله على فوائد متعددةIncipit: بسم الله...وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد افضل الخلق اجمعين واله الطيبين الطاهرين وصحابته الاكرمين وبعد فهذا ما يسر الله نقله من فتاوي شيخنا العلامة النبيل...Explicit: ولا شك ان المقبرة مما يكثر تكرر المرور بها فَهِيَ كالشارع والله سبحانه اعلم انتهى جوابه اهـ والله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآلهPersian naskh script, written in black, pink and red ink. Some traces of repairs.24 lines.فوائد ونقول متعددة وقصائد شعرية من اللقطة رقم (10-18) ثم (23-39).بيتان شعريان في صفحة الاختتام. لقطة رقم (454): رأت قمر السماء فاذكرتني ليالي وصلها بالرقمتينِ كِلانا نَاظِر ٌقمراً وَلَكِنْ رايت بعينِها ورأت بعينِ
Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 2b-242a: al-Mujallad al-thānī min Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-faqīh. Second volume of a collection of ḥadīths addressing legal matters; contains Bāb al-qadāyā to the end.Contents: "2. leaves 242b-258a: Asānīd Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-faqīh. Author's explanation of his authorities and chains of transmission; also known as Mashyakhat Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-faqīh."Ms. codex.Title of text 1 from leaf 1a; title of text 2 from colophon on leaf 258a.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal damp-staining and extensive repairs, resulting in some loss of text on a number of leaves in the last quarter of the manuscript.Origin: End of Shaʻbān to Ramaḍān 1119 H November-December 1707 (leaves 242a, 258a).
Abstract: Collection of texts by Mīr Dāmād.Binding note: Light cream paper pasted on red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Green dyed paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-2a: Fly-leaves with modern inscriptions.Contents: 2. fol. 3a-4a: Inscriptions.Contents: 3. fol. 4a-73b: Shirʻat al-tasmiyah fī zamān al-ghaybah / Muḥammad Bāqir Dāmād.Contents: 4. fol. 74b-77b: Faḍl sūrat al-Tawḥīd / Muḥammad Bāqir Dāmād.Contents: 5. fol. 78a-147a: ʻUyūn al-masāʼil / Muḥammad Bāqir Dāmād.Contents: 6. fol. 147b-151b: Several short texts and excerpts.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Interlinear and marginal notes. Impression of a stamp on fol. 4a, 147a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counting the two first fly-leaves as fol. 1 and 2). This record is in accordance with this foliation.According to the colophons, this is an autograph, dated 1025 H. (fol. 73b) and 1020 H. (fol. 77b). The dates appearing in the colophons are however more likely the date of completion of the texts (see note on the author on fol. 78a, which seems to be by the same hand as the rest of the text). The eulogy on some marginal notes on the ʻUyūn al-masāʼil ("minhu dāma ẓilluh") seems to indicate that the author was still living at the time of copy.
Abstract: The second volume of a commentary on the Koran, comprising sūrah 2, 42-171.Binding note: Marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Golden brown leather borders, spine and fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns on the covers and envelope flap. Leather doublure on the fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a)19 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink, with larger scripts for headings. Two types of paper, one thick light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible, the other, thiner with larger laid lines visible (see fol. 1-2, 56). The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see al-sābiʻ on fol. 57a). Some leaves are misplaced (see mention "al-ḥādī ʻashar" on fol. 55a). Apparently fol. missing after fol. 2. Title on the tail of the text block. Kabīkaj and magical formulae on fol. 1a.Copy completed in the middle of Shawwāl 720 (colophon, fol. 231a).Incipit: قوله تعالى واستعينوا بالصبر والصلاة الاية فيه ثمان مسايل الاولى قوله تعالى واستعينوا بالصبر والصلاة الصبر الحبس في اللغةExplicit: وقد تقدّم القول في معنى الشقاق والحمد لله وحده
Abstract: Treatise on Imāmī fiqh. Left incomplete by the author.Binding note: Bound in leather (camel color). Both covers are similarly blind tooled with a border consisting of a running pattern of impressions of a s-shape stamp outlined by two fillets on each side. The central area defined by the border has two fillets crossing in the middle, thus forming a "x". Paper pastedown and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from spine label.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʼ dotted. European paper. The beginning of the text is apparently a later replacement (fol. 2). Fol. 1 in the modern foliation is a fly-leaf with name of the author on the recto. Fol. 95 detached.Origin: According to colophon, copied for al-Shaykh Nājī ibn al-Shaykh Hamzah Nājī ibn Hamzah, his brother in God, Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 973 2 crossed out 1565 (fol. 95a).Incipit: بسم ... وبه الاستعانة والتوكل الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا يستدر اخلاف كرمه ... اما بعد فان الادلة العقلية والنقلية متطابقة على شرف العلوم ومن اهمها معرفة الحي القيومExplicit: الفصل الثالث في الامساك وفيه مطالب الاول فيما يسك عنه وهو اقسام الاول الابتلاع يجب ه الى هنا انتهى فنهى كلام المص
Abstract: "Short excerpt from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's commentary of the QurʼānAbstract: corresponding to ed. BūlāqAbstract: 1278 H.Abstract: p. 106Abstract: l. 3 - 114Abstract: l. 6 (MachAbstract: R. Yahuda)."Binding note: Modern library binding in red cloth. Paper pastedowns and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with pulp and a few lines visible. Marginal annotations throughout.Collation: Paper, fol. 10 ; 1¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of the first and second leaf.Copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jawharī on 6 Rajab 840 (colophon, fol. 10b).Incipit: جزؤ يذكر فيه ان بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اية من الفاتحة قال الشافعى رضى الله عنه انها اية من اول الفاتحة ويجب قراتها مع الفاتحةExplicit: الفرع التاسع اجمع العلما على انه يستجب ... من اجل قوله بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله وحده وصلوته على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
Abstract: Short speech by ʻĀʼishah in defense of her father Abū Bakr, with a commentary by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Anbārī (fol. 2a). The beginning of the text (fol. 1b, l. 3-4) has been tampered with.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 2b).25 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. Glazed dark cream paper with no lines visible. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. These folios are fol. 195 and 196 of a larger ms. (see foliation in Arabic script). They are followed by two leaves of modern paper, blank except for a modern note in pencil on the author of the text on fol. 4b.Incipit: اخبرنا شيخنا الحافظ المتقن ابو محمد عبد العظيم بن عبد القوي ... المنذري الشافعي ... قالا بلغ عايشة ... انّ قوماً ينالون من ابيها ... فارسلت الى ازفلة من الناس فلما حضروا استدلت ستارها ... ثم قالت ابي وما ابيه ابيExplicit: اي تعطف عليه وقولها تصدي له اي تعرّض له تمت خطبة عايشة