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. 394Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest early 19th century.Former shelfmark: "495 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in pale pink laid paper, flyleaves surface-dyed mint green ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted corner accents (mainly rosettes) and border (guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets) ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and brown, fairly good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with minor staining, etc.Support: European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of three stylized top hats with feathers (see p.6, 10, 170, etc. and compare Heawood 2594, Venice 1831 and Eineder 709, Venice 1814) and "C + B" (see p. 2, 168, etc.), quite sturdy and well-burnished, cream in color ; minor foxing.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece carrying the basmalah surmounted by scalloped dome filled with floral vegetal design in gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) also in gold with entire piece set in a well of gold ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; keywords (including catchwords) and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly open counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 V(80), III (86), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present (rubricated) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "شاعر شرمى جلبى ميدان اشمش راميلردن اولوب جكدوكى مرتبه رميه قادراتجى ايدى رحمه الله عليه نقاش زاده اسمعيل تازه نوجوان اولوب تيراندازيره مسلم وممتاز ايدى خاتمة رساله"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد الذى فضل الرمى على سائر الاسلحة اجمعين وامر بالرمى لكل كبير وصغير من المؤمنين ... وبعد بو فقير پر تقصير عبد الله الكاتب بجامع مرحومه ومغفور بها والده سلطان طاب ثراها بو رسالۀ سكزباب اوزره تزيين وتنميق ايليوب تذكرۀ رمات تسميه ايلدم ..."Title from opening matter (p.2).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the work on archery by Abdullah el-Kâtip (of the Valide Sultan Camii) with descriptions of archery grounds in Istanbul, Edirne, Bursa, etc. as well as biographical notices for distinguished archers.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 389Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest late 16th or early 17th century.Former shelfmark: "314 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark maroon leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings and outer flyleaves in quite glossy, blue surface-dyed paper ; upper and lower covers carry large stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OA1 1) along with gold-painted accents and tooled border ; sewn in brown thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition (despite loss of flap) with minor abrasion, lifting of leather, etc. ; repair to spine (rebacked) in red leather.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, quite indistinct, curving) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, thin and fairly transluscent though sturdy, burnished but not glossy, not heavily sized ; inner flyleaves in European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of circle with trefoil above and possibly anchor [?] inside.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche (carrying title in black "نصايح الابرار") surrounded by elegant swirling arabesques with floral motifs in gold, lavender, red, pink, white, light blue, etc. on a cobalt and gold ground and bordered in a band of black with white or light blue crosses, surmounted by scalloped triangular piece (hasp) or dome filled with similar floral vegetal design on a cobalt and gold ground, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in cobalt with red accents ; written area gold-flecked and surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets (with outermost cobalt rule on incipit page) ; keywords and headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; exquisite hand ; irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on many ascenders, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in conjoined dots or strokes.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, VII (14), iii ; catchwords present though only occasionally visible (often cut off) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some flyleaves).Dedication: As appears in opening matter on p.5, dedicated to Sultan Murat III (r.1574-1595).Explicit: "در حال افعال ماضيه وافكار راتيه سنه استغفار ايلدى تمت الرسالة"Incipit: "حمد وسپاس وثناء بى قياس بصانع شهود عالم ومبدع وجود آدم ... اما بعد بو فقير وحقير بو رسالۀ معتبرۀ كتب حكمادن لسان فارسدن اخراج ايلدم ... اسم رساله نصايح الابرار والله الموفق والمستعان وعليه التكلان ..."Title from inscription on fly leaf (p.1), illuminated headpiece at opening (p.4), and opening matter (p.7).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a collection of maxims and wise sayings from an assortment of philosophers, dedicated to Sultan Murat III (r.1574-1595) and elsewhere attributed to one Abdülkerim b. Mehmet (see manuscripts in Milli Kütüphane-Ankara 06 Mil Yz A 2539/1 and 06 Mil Yz A 1941/5, as well as Zeytinoğlu İlçe Halk Kütüphanesi 43 Ze 321/3 and İstanbul Millet Kütüphanesi 34 Ae Edebiyat 478/2).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1050Origin: As appears in colophon on p.18, transcription apparently completed 9 Ṣafar 787 [ca. 22 March 1385].Binding: Heavy boards covered in dark maroon leather ; Type III binding (without flap), tightback ; board linings and flyleaves in wove paper (notes, likely binder's notes, in pencil barely visible beneath board linings) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled rule borders, cornerpieces and central circular ornament (outline only) ; now sewn in rose thread, seemingly over two recessed cords ; overall in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct) and grouped chain lines (threes and possibly twos) with roughly 9-10 mm. between chains and 42-50 mm. between groups, somewhat cloudy formation, quite sturdy, medium cream to buff in color, burnished ; opening leaf possibly of different paper type ; moisture damage, tears and creases, some repairs / fills.Decoration: Headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; clear Syrian or Egyptian hand in a thin to medium line (line thickness changes) ; mainly serifless with large curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), casually pointed (tāʼ marbūṭah often unpointed) with pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, alif maqṣūrah often pointed as yāʼ, ihmāl sign on sīn, shaqq of kāf often quite horizontal, free-standing alif often terminating in a left-ward foot, final alif often with tail or spur extending below baseline.Layout: Written in 15-16 lines per page.Collation: i, IV+1 (9), i ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت منافع الاشربة في تاسع صفر سنة سبع وثمانين وسبعماية"Explicit: "واما من اراد ان يضيف اليه حوايج فليكن رمي [؟] الحوايج عند نضج الشعير ويغلى عليات حتى تخرج قوة الادوية منه ويرفع ويستعمل مع ما يوافقه من الاشربة نافع ان شا الله تعالى"Incipit: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صفة شراب بسفايج ساذج عن طبيب مشهور بسفايج خضر المكسر طري اربع اواقى يرض وينقع في ما حار شديد الحرارة يوما وليلة ويغلي بنار هادية حتى يبقى منه مقدار ما يحل رطل سكر واوقية عسل ..."Title from 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine, early copy of a work on potable medicaments, i.e. beverages or syrups (sharāb) attributed on the 'title page' to Amīn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Sīwāsī al-Abhārī (d. 733/1333).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 38Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 15th century. Cover likely contemporary with transcript.Accompanying materials: Slip of European laid paper with excerpt in black ink (paginated pp.85-86).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 18. Commentary on a work on theology by Al-Iji." ; "٣٩٤" on tail-edge of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublure hinges and interior of envelope flap extending onto lower doublure in red brown leather with block-stamped vegetal pattern ; board linings in paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled central circular medallion consisting of a series of concentric circles formed with a crescent-shaped stamp, accents in same stampe, and border in s-shaped stamps and scored fillets ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, four stations ; endbands virtually gone though traces remain ; in fair condition with abrasion, lifting and cracking of spine and fore-edge flap leather, some pest damage, repairs in blue cloth tape, and paper label bookplate pasted over upper cover.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with indistinct laid lines spaced 8 laid lines per cm. (20 laid lines in 25 mm.) ; chain lines grouped in threes running horizontally spaced roughly 10 mm. apart with roughly 43-45 mm. between the groups ; well-burnished with some burnisher's marks visible ; quite smooth ; some undissolved fibers.Decoration: Text rubricated with keywords, overlining, etc. in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; graceful hand ; sans serif ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; slight effect of tilt to the right ; some swooping tails ; initial hāʼ looking like two inverted commas.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii,13 IV(104), ii ; quire numbering in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears on the recto of the first leaf for the second through the sixth quires, thereafter likely cut off ; entirely quaternions ; catchwords present, though occasionally lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Explicit: "هو الوقت المشروع اولا وبعد الوقت المطنون تضيقه قبل الوقت و اقره اليه اد [؟]"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرع الاحكام وربطها بدلائل كلية وعلل تفصيلية للاحكام وابار معالم الدين بانوار الكتاب والخير ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf verso.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Abharī's gloss upon al-Ījī's (d. 756/1355) commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d. 646/1249) abridgement of his own Muntahá al-suʼl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal, on uṣūl al-fiqh. Copy ends abruptly and appears incomplete.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 495Origin: As appears in the audition statements on the margins of fol.9a (p.17) and fol.19a (p. 37), and fol. 36b (p. 72) seemingly copied by al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá ibn al-Ḥasan al-Lakhmī, who died in the year 699 [1299 or 1300] in Cairo. Either this copy or its exemplar appears to have been authorized by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bakrī al-Taymī al-Nīshābūrī thumma al-Dimashqī (d.656 in Cairo). Thus, the ms. was very likely copied in the mid to late 13th century. The audition statement/ijāzah in the margin of fol.19b (p.38) appears to be in the hand of al-Lakhmī's son Aḥmad.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 interior of upper cover, "IL 162" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth and black leather (modern Western quarter binding) ; board linings in sky blue paper ; in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper, approx. 32 mm for 20 vertical laidlines ; chainlines are difficult to estblish definitively ; on fol. 13a (p.25) there appear to be 5 sets of 2 chainlines, with 7-9mm between chainlines and 25-40 between sets.Decoration: Lacks decoration or rubrication ; ink has faded to brown.Script: Naskh ; one main hand, Egyptian (?) ; serrifed with a prominent rightward tear-drop serif on free-standing alif ; the lām-alif al-muḥaqqaqah is often used ; counters are inconsistent ; kāf often lacks bar ; mainly pointed ; audition statements, etc. are unpointed.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-5 (5), V-6 (9), 7 V(79) ; chiefly quinions ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals attests to the fragmentary nature of the present artifact ; catchwords lacking ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتبه لنفسه الحسن بن علي بن عيسى بن الحسن اللخمي ..."Explicit: "باب الحلف بالأنداد حدثنا ابو داود ثن الحسن بن علي قال ثنا عبد الرزاق قال أخبرنا معمر عن الزهري عن حميد بن عبد الرحمن عن أبي هريرة قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من حلف فقال في حلفه واللات فليقل لا إله إلا الله ومن قال لصاحبه تعال أقامرك فليتصدق بشىء"Incipit: "فأحكم الله عن ذلك ونهى عن ذلك حدثنا ابو داود ثنا أحمد بن شبوية المروزي ثنا عبد الله بن عثمان عن عيسى بن عبيد عن عبيد الله مولى عمر عن الضحاك بمعناه قال فوعظ الله [ في ] ذلك باب في الاستئمار "Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine early copy of a section of Abū Dāʼūd's Sunan, from roughly the middle of Kitāb al-Nikāḥ (just before Bāb fī al-istiʼmār) to the early part of Kitāb al-īmān wa-al-nudhūr (Bāb al-Ḥalf bi-al-andād). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1036Origin: As appears in final colophon on fol.210a, copied by Faḍīl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Nāʼīnī (see colophon at the close of juzʼ II for his full name "فضيل بن جلال الدين بن ابن حاجى محمد طاهر ابن خواجه احمد ولد سلغور شاه ولد عماده شاه ولد سلغور شاه نائينى"). Transcription finished ("tamma kitāb Baṣāʼir al-darajāt...) 1 Rabīʻ II 1072 [ca. 24 November 1661]. According to colophon following juzʼ III on fol.173a (p.345), copied in a school in the quarter / district (محله) of al-Karrān (perhaps in Isfahan).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 185Binding: Pasteboards faced in blue-green paper with red goatskin over spine and board corners (half-bound); Type III (without flap); pastedowns and flyleaves in what appears to be European wove paper with an embossed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne. TSL[?]"; very worn, upper cover detached from text block, entire case detaching from textblock at spine; poor condition.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with laid lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., no chain lines visible plainly enough for measuring; many inclusions; flyleaves and pastedowns in a European wove paper with impressed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne. TSL[?]".Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlinings and occasional textual dividers in the form of numeral khamsah in red.Script: Naskh ; fine, neat Persianate hand; essentially serifless (though occasionally serif on alif of lām alif ligature), point of final and free-standing nūn set down within wide, angled bowl (reminiscent of nastaʻlīq), pointing in distinct dots, curvilinear descenders, superscripting of final letters and words.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 25 IV (200), IV+2 (210), i; chiefly quaternions; catchwords present; leaves between each of the four ajzāʼ left partially blank and unmarked, but with no apparent loss of text; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied in cataloguing).Colophon: [final] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم كتاب بصائر الدرجات بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده [؟] والصلوة على من لا نبي بعده وذلك في غرة شهر ربيع الثاني سنة اثنان وسبعين والف وكتبه العبد الاذل المحتاج الى رحمة الله الغني ابن جلال الدين اكبر فضيل نائيني عفي عنهما" ; flanked by scribal verses in Persian, reading: "اي انكه ته اطالع مسعود بود دانى كه مرا از توچه مقصود بود يك فاتحه ازبهر نويسنده بخوان تاعاقبت كار تو محمود بود ان شاء الله" and duʻāʼ in Arabic, reading: "اللهم اغفر وارحم لكاتبه ولصاحبه برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Explicit: "قال قلت للرضا ان قوما من مواليك سالوني في ان تدعو الله لهم فقال والله اني لاعرض اعمالهم على الله في كل يوم"Incipit: "باب في العلم ان طلبه فريضة على الناس محمد بن الحسن المعروف بمموله عن ابراهيم بن هاشم عن الحسن بن محبوب يزيد بن علي بن الحسين عن ابيه عن ابي عبد الله عليه السلام قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه واله طلبه العلم فريضة على كل مسلم الا وان الله يحب بغاة العلم"Title from final colophon on fol.210a.Ms. codex.Collection of Traditions on the characteristics of the Ithná ʻasharī Shīʻī Imams by Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār (d.902 or 3), divided into four ajzāʼ (juzʼ 1 through juzʼ 4) with a colophon following each.
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 12Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Between pp.80-81, machine-made paper with accounts -- b. between pp.172-173, a commendation slip dated 1318 [1900] issued by a civil primary school in Erzurum and carrying the director's seal -- c. between pp.390-391, accounts slip on laid paper.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 67. Commentary on Kuran."Binding: Pasteboards covered in untinted laid paper with spine light brown leather (effective quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in maroon, intact at head and tail ; in fair condition with only minor abrasion on at corners and some red rot on spine leather.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertial) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal) ; pot watermark in at least three designs, one with empty interior except for bisecting line, two handles, four feet, with lid and surmounted by stalk and crown, another carrying "M" with lid surmounted by stalk and crescent, and another carrying "P B" with lid surmounted by stalk and floral motif.Decoration: Qur'ānic text overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, use of both freely ligatured with waw and lām occasionally assimilated, etc. ; chapter headings seriffed with rightward serif on alif and lām ; occasional vocalization added to Qur'ānic quotations by glossator ; glosses in several other hands.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page.Collation: i, 25 IV(200), IV + 1 (209) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "اله الناس من شر الوسواس اي الموسوس الوسواس بفتح الواو و"Incipit: "قوله تعالى والسماء ذات البروج الى اخر السورة قال الشيخ ابو الحنيفي رحمة الله عليه اعلم ان في هذه السورة كلاما من خمسة اوجه احدها في فضائل قرأتها والثاني في عدد اياتها وكلماتها وحروفها والثالث نزولها والرابع في تفسيرها والخامس فيما يتصل بها"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Clear copy of an odd final volume of a commentary on the Qurʼān attributed to Abū Saʻīd al-Ḥunayfī (al-Ḥanīfī), beginning in Sūrat al-burūj (85) and continuing through Sūrat al-nās (114). Incomplete with final leaves missing (ends in verse four of the final sūrah). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Abstract: Second part of a commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have an elaborate outer frame and a central stamped mandorla. Portion of the same frame on the envelope flap, with small stamp on its point. Paper doublure. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. First two leaves damaged with loss of text. The text has been collated on an autograph copy by the author (see collation note on the margin of the colophon, fol. 205a).Copy completed on Sunday 12 Jumādá al-Awwal 719 July 1, 1319 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Mashhadī (colophon, fol. 205a).Incipit: سورة النساء وكوفيهم تسالون مح-- وحمزة والارحام بالخفض حملا نصف هذا البيت هو نصف --- قصيدة اي الكوفيونExplicit: وهو عندى اطيب والزرنب والقرنفل دون المسك والمندل فى الطيب فحسن تشبيه الصلاة على الصحابة بذلك لانهم في الصلاة تبع لرسول الله ... فلهذا اصابتهم نفحاتها وبركاتها رضي الله عنهم ورضي عنّا بهم امين يا ربّ العالمين
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 433Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely 19th century as suggested by paper, cover, date in seal impression, etc.Binding: Pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork with spine in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in painted lacquerwork ; doublure hinges in black leather ; upper and lower covers in painted lacquerwork of nearly identical composition consisting of swirling floral vegetal pattern of carnations, poppies, etc. in bronze on a field of olive green bordered in a floral vegetal pattern in gold on a wide band of black, flanked by bands of bronze ; upper and lower doublures in painted work of nearly identical composition consisting of floral vegetal pattern in green, pink, and yellow, outlined in gold on a field of red ; entire panel is bordered in a series of gold bands ; sewn in lime green, yellow, and dark blue (or black) thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light green and yellow ; in fair condition with some cracking, crazing, and loss of laquer ; upper board split and delaminating ; doublure hinges cracked and split ; abrasion.Support: non-European laid paper (likely Persian) ; quite transluscent, crisp and grey in tone ; no chain lines visible ; laid lines quite distinct, mainly oriented horizontally but occasionally vertically, spaced roughly 11-12 laid lines per cm. ; flyleaves in European laid paper, watermark eagle with "E A F" ; one of back flyleaves in wove paper ; many loose quires and dog-eared pages with some blocking due to moisture damage and tacky ink.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas ; gold cloud-bands and other accents surrounded basmalah and between two columns on incipit and facing page ; frame consisting of a gold band outlined in black fillets and outermost blue fillet surrounds the written area ; thin gold bands outlined in black fillets demarcate the columns within the written area and border the margin ; text partially rubricated with some section headings, portions of the gloss, textual dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; large clear Persianate hand ; mainly serifless with occasional left-sloping head serifs appearing on alif and lam of definite article ; mainly closed counters ; strong vertical character (somewhat elongated in vertical) ; occasional superscripting of letters and words ; some swooping tails ; fully vocalized in same ink ; gloss in a entirely different hand ; script more of a shikastah-nastaʻlīq with characteristic descent of words to baseline, elongated horizontal strokes, and characteristic long final yāʼ, etc.Layout: Written in roughly 14 lines per page plus lines of the gloss which vary widely ; single column divided to two column to set off poetry ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, IV+2 (10), II (14), 2 IV(30), 2+IV (40), 11 IV(128), 2+II (134), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; several blanks left between verses, likely for rubricated headings ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil Western numerals supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "كانما لبست او البست فنكا فقلصت من حواشيه عن السوق قد تم"Incipit: "لو كنت من مازن لم تستبح البى بنو اللقيطة من ذهل بن شيبانا اذا لقام بنصرى معشر خشن عند الحفيظة ان ذولوثة لانا"Title supplied by cataloguer from opening on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the famous anthology of poetry collected by Abū Tammām with a partial gloss in Persian.
Abstract: "Elegant copy of a commentary on Galen's Kitāb al-Nabḍ al-ṣaghīrAbstract: on pulse."Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and khakī leather. Modern paper pastedowns and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with scarce use of red for headings and entries. The text is framed within a single line in red ink (gold and green on fol. 2b-3a; gold and black on fol. 3b-4a). European paper with watermark. Drawing sketch representing some organ on fol. 48b.Decoration: Headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 2b, executed in gold, orange, blue, green, and in black ink.Collation: Paper, fol. i, 48, i ; i (free endpaper) 1¹⁰ (+1 at beginning of quire) 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ (-1 at the end of the quire) i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Western numerals in black ink on the upper cover: "822".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Wednesday 1 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1101 Dec. 1689 (fol. 46a).Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر التعليم الاول قال جالينوس قبل ال نبتدى بالكلام فى هذا الكتاب يجب ان ننظر فى الابواب الثمانية التى جرت العادة بتقديمها قبل كل كتاب ولنقدم الغرض على سايرها فنقول ان غرضه فى هذا الكتاب ان يعلمنا عن النبض واقسامه واسبابه والنبض هو حركة مكانيةExplicit: اذا ما كانت الرطوبة كثيرة وههنا ينقضى نعليمنا وبانقضايه تنقضى جملة الكتاب والحمد لله الموفق للخير والهادى الى سبيل الصواب
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 640Origin: As appears in colophon on p.54, transcription completed 13 Rajab 1144 [ca. 11 January 1732].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover "IL 371" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin) covered in block-printed paper (repeating olive wreath motif in black with floral accents in white on a teal ground) with spine in red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; sewing now gone ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting of paper, etc. ; likely never attached to this textblock, serves as wrapper.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; one type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and grapes (raisin) under crown watermark (see p.44, 53, etc.) ; another type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and no watermarks visible ; all medium cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished ; some staining.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish (Eastern Anatolian) or 'Syrian' hand ; virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots (some conjoined), elongation of horizontal strokes, final yāʼ often unpointed, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf), point of final nūn set deep in bowl.Layout: Written in 30 lines per page (alternating two lines of two hemistiches per line with single centered hemistich per line) ; stanzas of the takhmīs for each bayt of the ʻAynīyah arranged such that the opening line carries the first two added hemistiches, the next line carries the third added hemistich and first hemistich of the bayt, and the third line (centered) carries the second hemistich of the bayt.Collation: 2 V(20), IV (28) ; two quinions and a quaternion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "وقد تم تخميس العينية المسمى بمنظوم عقود قلائد الدر النفيس في سر معنى التثليث والتخميس بحمد الله وذلك يوم الخميس ثالث عشر من رجب سنه الف ومائة واربعه واربعين سنه ۱۱٤٤ امين تم"Explicit: "وكل كمال فهو منه لقد نما وفاض على كل الوجود بماهما فلله من مولى سما فوق كلما عليه سلام الله مني وانما سلامي على نفسي النفيسة واقع"Incipit: "بافق سما الذات تجلي المطالع ويبدو لنا منها بدور طوالع وفيها لقلب القلب يا من يطالع فؤاد به شمس المحبة طالع فليس لنجم الغير [العذل] فيه مواقع"Title from 'title page' inscription (p.1) and colophon on p.54.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the takhmīs (amplification) by Abū al-Fatḥ Sirḥān al-Samarjī al-Sharnūbī upon al-Nawādir al-ʻaynīyah fī al-bawādir al-ghaybīyah, or al-ʻAynīyah, a ṣūfī qaṣīdah in ʻayn by al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (d.1428). Excerpts on 'title page' and final leaf (pp.55-56). Perhaps once part of a larger collected volume (majmūʻah).
Abstract: A Quranic commentary.Title from title page.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.فرغ من قصاصته على الأم المنسوخ منها يوم الأربعاء لعله 6/ذي القعدة/سنة 1078هـكتاب البرهان فى تفسير القران / تاليف الامام الاعظم الناصر لدين الله ابو الفتح الناصر بن الحسين بن الناصر بن محمد بن عيسى بن محمد بن عبدالله ابن احمد بن عبدالله بن على بن الحسين بن زيد بن الحَسن بن عَلى ابن ابى طالب هـReading note, dated 17 May 1668. Ownership note, 20th century. Includes lines of poetry by the author about the tribes of Yemen along with a portion of his biography.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد بني إلى أحمر اللون عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد تبدو عليه آثار بلل وكذلك الأرضة واضحة وعليه آثار معالجة لها وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأصفر وعليه بعض التعليقات والحواشي ويعود تاريخه إلى القرن الحادي عشر الهجري4/جمادى الاخرى /1078Incipit: بسم الله...رب يسر وعن يا كريم وبك نستعين الحمد لله الذي ذَلت الاشيا لعظمته واذعنت غُلْبُ الرقاب لقدرته وحارت الاوهام فى عظيم ملكوته...وصلى الله على من بعثه بالرحمة والهدى والحنفيّه الاولى فامر بالحق ونطق با الصدق محمد واله الطاهرين وان الله سبحانه عز عن كل شي شَانٍ شانُه لماَّ اظهرنا من الصفوة الطيّبه والعترةِ المرضيّة...راينا بعد استخارةِ الله عز وجل تفسيرَ الغامض من كتاب الله عز وجل الخفي الذي لا يعلم تاويلَه الا الله والراسخون في العلم...Explicit: كان يُعَوِّذُ الحسن والحسين عليهما السلام فيقول اعيذكما بكلمات الله التامّهِ من كل شيطان وَهَامَّه ومن كل عين لاَمَّه ونحن نستعيذ بالله مما عَوّذَ ونستمده جميلَ ما عَوّد وفقنا الله وقاريَهُ لِتَدَبُّرِ ما فيه وَتَفَهُّمِ معانيه فَبِهِ تَوْفِيْقُنَا وعليه تَوَكّلُنَا وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل. ونعم المولى ونعم النصير.Naskh script, written in black, red and yellow ink. Traces of water damage, dirt and some repairs. Includes some marginalia.28-34 lines.أبيات لأبي الفتح الديلمي قالها في قبائل اليمن يستنهضهم أيام دعوته سنة431هـ ويليها جزء من ترجمته وما ذكر من أبيات في مشهده المبارك. لقطة رقم (5).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 477Origin: As appears in colophon on p.120, transcription completed 25 Rabīʻ I 1237 [ca. 20 December 1821].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 20" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed textile (yellow on white) with red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted wove paper ; resewn in white thread over cords, six stations plus primaries ; worked chevron endbands in green-blue and orange-red, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with staining, some abrasion and lifting of leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 32 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (100 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p. 102, 103, etc.) ; crisp and sturdy ; well-burnished with burnisher's marks visible ; much staining.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ.Script: Naskh ; at least three Turkish hands ; all at least partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs, effect of tilt to the left, and curvilinear descenders ; opening hand (to p.44) freely ligatured ; medial hand (pp.45-74) showing some contrast in thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes ; final hand (from p.74) compact, quite rounded and exhibiting slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in 16-19 lines per page.Collation: 2 V(20), 2 IV(36), 2 V(56), I+2 (60), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "والفراغ عن هذه النسخة المباركة يوم الثلاثة خمسة والعشرين من شهر الربيع الاول سنت الف ومائتين سبعة وثلاثين عفا الله عمن كتبها او قرأها امين م م م م م م م م م م"Explicit: "وهذا هو الشائع يومئذ في البلاد وهو مستحب عند ذوي الارشاد والسداد والله اعلم هذا اخر الالف المألوف في كشف الحروف لجن على يد مؤلفه ومن اعتني بجمعه الراجي رحمة ربه الغفور ابو الفتح بن صدقة منصر [بن منصور ؟] السرميني ... والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي اعز بكتابه العزيز من كان ذليلا ... فقد استخرت الله الكريم الفتاح العليم في جمع اوراق اذكر فيها القراء السبعة الذين الختار الامام ابو بكر بن مجاهد ونحوه من المشايخ قرآاتهم وهو اول من صنف في القراءة السبع ... وسميت ذلك الالف المألوف في فرش الحروف ..."Title from close on p.119.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a treatise attributed to Abū al-Fatḥ [ʻAlī] ibn Ṣadaqah ibn Manṣūr al-Sarmīnī (fl. 1340) on Qurʼānic readings, specifically the seven readings collected by Ibn Mujāhid.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 466Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand, paper, etc. would suggest 14th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 53" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in shell 'marbled' paper (mainly in green-blue, brown and red) with red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted wove paper ; resewn in heavy cream thread, two stations (originally four) ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, delamination of lower board, gash in head of textblock, etc.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes or irregular threes and twos with 9-14 mm. between chains and 38-45 between groups (vertical, curved, see pp.56, 58, 68) ; quite dense and sturdy though crisp with many inclusions and undissolved fibers, lightly burnished ; staining and tidelines ; front flyleaf in wove paper ; back flyleaf in European laid paper.Decoration: Overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand ; serifless with effect of tilt to the right, many closed counters, only casually pointed (pointing for two and three dots in distinct dots), fairly rounded with curvilinear descenders, kāf mashqūqah preferred ; somewhat freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah evident).Collation: i, 11 IV(88), i ; exclusively quaternions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Explicit: "ان الساعة ايته [؟] لا ريب فيها اذ يتنازعون بينهم امرهم معنى اذ يختلفون فيما بينهم وقال بعضهم"Incipit: "الوافر قوله تعالى وممن جولكم من الاعراب منافقون معنى الاعراب الذين حوالي المدينة ومن اهل المدينة وهو عبد الله بن ابي واصحابه مردوا على النفاق ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of an extract from the commentary on the Qurʼān by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī (d.983?) covering the latter part of Sūrat al-Tawbah (9) from verse 101 through the opening of Sūrat al-Kahf (18) through verse 21. Inscriptions in red and green ink (possibly supplied by Yahuda) on front flyleaf (p.2) lists contents.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 577Origin: As appears in colophon on p.208, transcription completed 13 Shawwāl 1142 [ca. 1 May 1730].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Insert with notes (paginated pp.95-96).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 110" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped mandorla and pendants (with now greenish onlays), as well as tooled rule-border ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked endbands mainly gone though traces of tailband remain ; overall in poor condition with lifting and losses of leather (especially at spine), much abrasion and staining, upper cover detaching, etc.Support: European laid paper mainly with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of three crescents (88 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p. 32, 33, etc.) and six mounts with cross above and text beneath (see p.30, 35, 154, etc. and compare Monts - Six monts imbriqués nos.6-9 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans) ; medium cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished ; some staining.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated ; occasional textual divider in the form of hāʼ in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; partially seriffed with occasional left-sloping head-serif on joined alif, marked tilt to the left, occasional descent of words to baseline, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes, freely ligatured (point of final nūn often assimilated with bowl, etc.).Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 10 V(100), 2 (102) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تمت كتابة هذه [كذا] المجلد المبارك في يوم الثالث عشر شهر شوال سنة الف مائة اثنين واربعين تم تم تم"Explicit: "فقال ما دام احد الحرام ليس اعمل بالحلال يكفر تمت الكتاب بعناية الله المرشد بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب المسمى بخزانة الفقه عن تأليف الشيخ العالم الزاهد الفقيه المحقق والمدقق ابو الليث السمرقندي رحمة الله عليه وعلى جميع الفقهاء الدين [كذا] الصالحين والمشايخ الكبار والصغار من امة محمد عليه الصلوة والسلام الى يوم الحشر والقيام"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه الطيبين الطاهرين اعلم ان الفقه علم حسن وهو اجل العلوم وهو علم الدين والشريفة وقوام الشريفة به ... وقد اجتمع فيه فضائل الفقه معدودة الاجناس مجموعة النظائر تسهيلا في التحفظ وتيسرا للفهم ... وسميته خزانة الفقه ..."Title from opening matter on p.4 and closing matter on p.208.Ms. codex.Clear copy of the handbook of Ḥanafī law by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī.
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
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 671Origin: As appears in colophon on p.72, copied by Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Kayyāl (Mehmet Kemalettin İbnül Keyyâl) with transcription completed in latter Rajab 1017 [November 1608].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover, "IL 137" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in blue and red) with red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted wove paper ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of paper,lower board partially split, detaching at spine, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct) and no chain lines visible, dense and sturdy, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines, nibbled around edges.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with small right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām or joined alif, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly bold sweeping shaqq on kāf but occasionally represented by vertical stroke with miniature kāf seated above it, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page.Dedication: At the request of the grand vezir Ali Paşa (see heading at opening on p.2) "مفتئ زمان خواجه چلبى ابو السعود حضرتلرينك رساله مباركه سيدر كه مرحوم وزير اعظم على پاشا يسر الله له في الدارين ما يشا التماس ايدوب اكا ارسال ايتدوكيدر"Collation: 3 V (30), V-4 (36) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت الرساله بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في اواخر شهر رجب من شهور سنه سبعة عشر والف على يد الراجى عفو ربه محمد كمال الدين بن الكيال عفى عنه"Explicit: "كمسه باباسنوك واناسنوك حقلرينى اوده مش كبى اولور وعهدلرندن قورتلمش اولور"Incipit: "حمد وسباس وستايش بى قياس اول سامع الاصوات ومجيب الدعوات حضرتنه اولسون كم انك رحمت عميمه سى جميع عباده حاصل ونعمت جسيمه سى مطيع واهل عناده واصل در ..."Title from heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of brief treatise attributed to Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Hoca Çelebi, Mehmet Ebussuud [Ebusuud, Ebu's-suûd] Efendi, d.1574).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 11 v.2Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; paper suggests early 17th century.Accompanying materials: Several inserted slips carrying notes (paginated pp.55-56, 149-150, 241-242, 313-314, 365-366, 357-358) and folded document (paginated pp. 815-816).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 28 Abu Suud's Commentary on Kuran. Vol. 2." ; "٦٠" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather now overlaid with laid marbled paper (blue, pink, yellow, etc.) ; spine repaired with two pieces of red leather ; Type II binding (though flap now lost) ; upper and lower board linings in light green laid paper stamped with floral design ; traces of stamped mandorla in leather under marbled paper ; sewn in dark brown thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue, salmon and yellow, mostly intact at head and tail ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, boards delaminating at corners, leather on spine showing some splitting and red rot, etc. otherwise sound.Support: European laid paper mainly with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of man with stick over his shoulder in circle ; flyleaves in a different European laid paper with chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (vertical) and three hats and 'L V' in circle watermarks ; several older repairs, tide-lines and cockled pages especially at front of codex.Decoration: Sūrah headings rubricated or in blue ink, also often overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red and blue discs appear on page facing incipit page and following page.Script: Naskh ; mainly a clear Syrian hand, virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, many closed counters, curvilinear descenders, occasional superscripting of final words or letters of line, and pointing mainly in distinct dots, extensively vocalized ; more compact from p.567 on ; pp.681-684 supplied in a different hand, namely an elegant Ottoman naskh, partially seriffed, with effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, superscripting of final letters of words, and some elongation of horizontal strokes ; sūrah headings often in a larger tawqīʻ script.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1 (7), V+2 (19), 2 V(39), IV (47), 10 V(147), 2 IV(163), 3 V(193), IV (201), 4 V(241), IV (249), 2 V(269), IV (277), III-1 (282), 10 V(382), IV (390), 3 V(420), IV (428), 3 V(458), III+2 (466), 2 V(486), V+1 (497), II (501), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and inserts ; skips two pages each between pp.109-110, pp.217-218, pp.271-272, pp.415-416, pp.521-522 and pp.575-576).Colophon: "Authorial" and "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتب المؤلف عفى الله تعالى عنه في اخر نسخة الاصل اتفق الفراغ من تسويدها تيك الاوراق بتوفيق الله عز سلطانه ليلة الجمعة الاولى من شهر الله الحرام رجب الفرد لعام ٩٧٣ حامدا لله رب العالمين ومصليا على سيده محمد صلى الله تعالى عليه و على سائر الانبياء والمرسلين والملائكة المقربين اجمعين"Explicit: "واشرف ايامي يوم القاك يوم يقوم الناس لرب العالمين فريقا فريقا احشرين مع الذين انعمت عليهم من النبيين والصديقين الشهداء والصالحين وحسن اولئك رفيقا"Incipit: "اتى امر الله اي الساعة او ما يعمه وغيرها من العذاب الموعود للكفرة عبر عن ذلك بامر الله تعالى للتفخيم وتهويل وللايذان بان تحققه في نفسه"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of an odd second volume of Abū al-Suʻūd's commentary on the Qurʼān, beginning with Sūrat al-Naḥl (16) and ending with Sūrat al-Nās (114). See Mich. Isl. Ms. 11 v.1 for first volume. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 11 v.1Origin: As appears in colophon in lower margin of p.408 and on p.879, copied by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Nābulusī with transcription finished in Shawwāl 1017 [January-February 1609], apparently in Damascus ("... في مدينة الشام"). Copied for (bi-rasm) Farrukh Yāyā Bāshī (Bāshā) ibn Mullā Maḥmūd (Ferruh Yayabaşı b. Mulla Mahmud) who also endowed the book as a waqf for himself, his offspring, and scholars after him (compare Vollers 0214, Refaiya Library, University of Leipzig ; contributions to the cataloguing from Boris Liebrenz).Accompanying materials: Several slips with notes (paginated pp.17-18, pp.63-64, pp.201-202, pp.227-228, pp.229-300, pp.251-252, pp.253-254, and pp.749-750).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 28. Abu Suud's Commentary on Kuran. Vol.1." ; "٦٠" on head of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather now overlaid with laid marbled paper (blue, pink, yellow, etc.) and spine repaired with two pieces of red leather ; Type II binding (though flap now lost) ; upper and lower board linings in light green laid paper stamped with floral design ; traces of stamped mandorla in leather under marbled paper ; sewn in dark brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and blue, intact ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, boards severely delaminating at foreedge, leather on spine showing red rot, etc. otherwise sound.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. and chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart ; watermarks include fleur de lis, anchor, and 'V V' countermark ; lightly burnished ; leaves of varying heft ; tide-lines from water damage around edges of textblock but usually not entering written area ; several older repairs to leaves.Decoration: Sūrah headings and Qurʼānic passages usually rubricated, also often overlined in red or black ; written area of occasional pages throughout surrounded by red rule-border ; textual dividers in the form of red discs appear on page facing incipit page and following page.Script: Naskh ; clear Syrian hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless and compact with mostly closed counters, rectilinear descenders, alif maqsūrah pointed as yāʼ, pointing in distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf with shaqq) ; Qurʼānic text usually vocalized ; text of incipit page in a different hand.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 10 V(109), IV + 2 (119), 3 V(149), III (155), 2 VI(179), 19 V(369), V+1 (380), III (386), VI - 1 (397), V (407), IV+1 (416), 6 V(476), III (482), i ; incipit page appears be a replacement ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts ; follows p.303 with p.204, dropping 100 pages ; skips two pages between pp.711-712).Colophon: [p.408] "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم ذلك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه برسم مفخر امثاله العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى فرخ يايا باشى بن المرحوم ملا محمود رحمه الله رحمة واسعة و ختم لمن كان سببا في كتابته بالصالحات اعماله و اصلح اقواله و افقاله و احواله و رفع في الجنة له الدرجات و بدل سياته بالحسنات ... وجعله وقفا على ... ايام حياته ثم على اولاده وذريته ... وعلى اهل العلم من المسلمين راجيا بذلك وجه الله الكريم ... وشهد عليه كاتبه العبد الفقير محمد صلاح الدين بن محي الدين بن خليل بن حاج عبد القادر النابلسي غفر الله و لوالديه و لمشايخه ولاخوانه و لجميع المسلمين امين يا رب العالمين في شوال سنة ١٠١٧"Explicit: "من قرا سورة النحل لم يحاسبه الله تعالى بما انعم عليه في دار الدنيا و ان مات في يوم تلاها او ليلته كان له من من [كذا] الاجر كالذي مات و احسن الوصية و الله تبارك و تعالى اعلم و صلى الله على سيد محمد و اله و صحبه و سلم"Incipit: "سبحان من ارسل رسوله بالهدى و دين الحق و بين له شعائر الشرائع كل ما جل ودق انزل عليه ايات بينات و ابهر حجج قرآنا عربيا غير ذي عوج ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه الهادي ابو السعود بن محمد العمادي ان الغاية القصوى من تحرير نسخة العالم و من كان حرف منها مسطورا..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the first volume of Abū al-Suʻūd's commentary on the Qurʼān, beginning with Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and ending with Sūrat al-Naḥl (16). See Mich. Isl. Ms. v.2 for second volume. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 949Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. would suggest late 19th or even early 20th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 98Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern in olive green to gold ; upper cover gold-stamped with title "مجموعة رسائل" ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords (see gutter at p.34), also stab sewn ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion.Support: Machine laid paper with 16 laid lines per cm. and no chain lines or watermark visible, burnished, light brown in color, thin, transluscent and crisp ; quite brittle with some breakage at sewing, tears, etc., some accretions and staining.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated ; use of red for abbreviation symbols, especially occasional signes de renvoi ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; clear, carefully executed hand in a medium line ; mainly serifless with marked effect of tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, some free assimilation of letters, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes rather than distinct dots, partially vocalized (often in red ink).Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, V-4 (6), V-1 (15), 9 V(105), IV-2 (111), i ; almost exclusively quinions (some anomalous) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ٤٦) ; Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "ومن كلامه ورد كتاب سيدي الذي يؤمل لهلاله ان يبدر ولثغبه ان يستبحر ولمحار زمنه ان يفض عن"Incipit: "عليك انت بزينب ودعد وسم ايها الرجل بسوى سعد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine though acephalous and apparently incomplete copy (ends abruptly) of the collected letters of Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī (d.1057), renowned Arabic poet and prose author of the late ʻAbbāsid period.
Abstract: Commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī, also known as al-Shāṭibīyah, a versification by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194) of al-Taysīr li-ḥifẓ madhāhib al-qurrāʼ al-sabʻah by ʻUthmān al-Dānī (d. 444/1053).Binding note: Blue paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Leather spine with four sewing stations, with gilt working. Orange paper pastedowns and free endpaper. Two modern paper endleaves at the beginning of the copy.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 3a). On the left margin, note: "Hādhā sharḥ al-Fāsī wa-hādhā al-ʻunwān khaṭā" (crossed out).Incipit: يقول الفقير الى رحمة ربّه المستغفر من وزره وذنبه ... احمده حمد مومن موقن ... اما بعد فانّ جماعة من القرا المشتغلين بقصيدة الشيخ الامام ابى القسم الشاطبى ... قال الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ المقىء ابو القسم بن فره الرعينى ثم الشاطلى رحمه الله بدأت بسم الله ... ومويلا يقال بدات الشيء وابداته اى احدثتهExplicit: وهى ذات حل فتامل ذلك والله اعلم وهذا آخر الجز الاول ويتلوه فى الجز الثانى سورة العمران ان شاء الله تعالىPhysical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and commented text. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Fiber visible on the surface. Fol. 1-2 are apparently later additions on the same paper, with several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a Kabīkaj and a dāʼirah, and a table of the names and dates of readers of the Qurʼān, presented in Persian on fol. 1b-2a. Leaves apparently missing between fol. 19 and 20 (see catchword on fol. 19b and numbering of the quire on fol. 20a). The quires (mainly quinions) are numbered using Arabic numerals (starting with "4" on fol. 20a). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Note in the same hand as the second title on fol. 3a quoting the entry on this text in Kashf al-ẓunūn. On fol. 195b: Short text on the six reasons of illness according to the physicians of Fars, Rūm and al-Hind. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.). Title on the tail of the text block: "Kitāb al-Farīdah fī sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Qirāʼāt 15".Origin: Copy completed on Friday 8 Ṣafar 858 Feb. 1454 (in Arabic numerals) by Yūnus Ibn Aqbughā al-muqriʼ al-Mālikī (colophon, fol. 192b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 659Origin: As appears in colophon on p.43, opening work copied by al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Qāsim ( الحسين بن ابي القاسم ) with transcription completed 26 Rajab 1155 [ca. 26 September 1742] (date provided in ghubār numerals). As appears in colophon on p.130, final work copied for himself by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Saʻd ibn ʻAlī al-Jazāʼirī al-Mālikī al-Ashʻarī al-Baṣrī (احمد بن عبد العزيز بن سعد بن علي الجزائري المالكي الاشعري البصري ) with transcription completed with seven days left in Shaʻbān 1135 [ca. 29 May 1723] (date provided in ghubār numerals).Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on lower cover, "IL 334" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in coated orange paper with black cloth over spine (quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; exposed boards untinted, hinges in blue paper ; sewn in heavy white thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, minor delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper of two main types ; through p.58, type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 31-32 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of triple mount with cross above (see p.8, 12, 13, 18, etc.) and initials [?] in circle (see p.16, etc. and compare Monts - Trois monts imbriqués nos.9 and 9A in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans), sturdy and well-burnished ; from p.59 through close, type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.74, 80, etc.), thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Maghribī ; two main hands ; opening hand (through p.58, supplying bulk of first two works) compact and somewhat angular ; hand supplying final two works (from p.59) more uniform ; both with inclination to the right, sweeping descenders, etc. ; occasionally vocalized.Layout: Written in 31 and 29 lines per page.Collation: i, VI+2 (14), III (20), III+3 (29), 3 VI(65) ; sexternions [senions] and ternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips added 'title page').Colophon: [al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah] "Scribal," reads "انتهى ما اختصره ابو الفاسي رحمه الله من دواوين المالكية رضي الله عنهم على يد عبيد الله سبحانه الحسين ابن ابي القاسم غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاشياخه ولاخوانه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات الاحياء منهم والاموات ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم عام ١١۶۶ في شهر الله المعظم رجب الفرد بعد ان خلت منه ستة وعشرين ... والحمد لله رب العالمين" ; [al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "كملت المغارسة بحمد الله وحسن عونه على يد ناسخها لنفسه ثم لمن شاء الله في بعده العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير الراجي عفو ربه وغفرانه احمد بن عبد العزيز بن سعد بن علي الجزائري الاصل والمنشأ المالكي مذهبا الاشعري اعتقادا البصري اعرابا غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاشياخه ولوالديهم ولجميع المسلمين ووافق الفراغ منها ضحوة يوم الجمعة لسبع بقين من شهر الله المعظم شعبان من عام ۱۱3۶ عرفنا الله خيره وسلام على جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: [al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah] "قال الشيخ ابو عمران الفاسي رضي الله عنه هذا ما اختصرنا من الدواوين دون التطويل من المسائل [مسائل] المدونة مسئلة في تزويج المراة بعد الوقوع والنزول ..." ; [Kitāb al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "فيقول العبد الفقير الى الله ... عبد الرحمن بن عبد القادر ... الحمد لله الملك القديم العالم العلي العظيم الاكرم الكريم الرحمن الرحيم الخبير الحليم ... وبعد فلما كان باب المغارسة من جملة ما ينبغي للمؤلفين المختصرين ان يتعرضوا له ... طلب مني بعض اخواننا ... ان اجمع في الباب مسائل جملة [؟] وان اذكر في ذلك احكاما مهمة ... ولما لخصته وهذبته ودرجته وقربته ظهر ان اسميه بالتيسير والتسهيل في ذكر ما اغفله الشيخ خليل من احكام المغارسة والتوليح والتصيير ..."Title from added 'title page' (flyleaf).Ms. composite codex.4. p.60-p.130 : al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr / Abū Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī.3. p.59-p.60 : [Bāb nadb al-ghars from Mukhtaṣar Khalīl] / Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī.2. p.44-p.58 : [book on fiqh opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ].1. p.1-p.43 : al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah / Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī.Fine Maghribī copy of a collection of works on Mālikī law, opening with a collection of legal decisions attributed to Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī (d.1038), followed by a work of Mālikī fiqh in the same hand opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ, itself followed by Bāb nadb al-ghars or al-Mughārasah from al-Mukhtaṣar, the renowned compendium of Mālikī law by Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (d.1365), and concluding with a commentary on that very work, namely al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī (d.1685).