Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Folios from a painted manuscript. Illustrated and signed.Culture: Islamic, IranianMaterials/Techniques: ink, opaque pigment, gold, and paperNote: General note: Single page paintings/drawings later incorporated into an album.Note: Production: Iran
Folios from a painted manuscript. Illustrated and signed.Culture: Islamic, IranianMaterials/Techniques: ink, opaque pigment, gold, and paperNote: General note: Single page paintings/drawings later incorporated into an album.Note: Production: Iran
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 440Origin: Dates in dated pieces range from 1006 [1597 or 8] to 1252 [1843 or 4]. Some pieces possibly earlier. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "208" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel gold-stamped with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) at center, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with olive green leather onlays) decorative panels in vegetal designs with crescents gold-stamped on olive green leather onlays at the four corners ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted, marbled or silhouette ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper (resembling reptile hide) with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes).Script: Naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs), tawqīʻ (tevki'), and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: Twenty-one heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.42. fol.21b : [blank].41. fol.21a : piece in divani signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Recai (كتبه الحاج محمد رجائى رئيس الكتاب سابقا) and dated 1186 [1772 or 3].40. fol.20b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.39. fol.20a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated (with area left unfilled, perhaps for colophon or icazet text).38. fol.19b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.37. fol.19a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.36. fol.18b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.35. fol.18a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.34. fol.17b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Ḥusayn ʻAlī (العبد حسين على كاتب) and undated (set in a border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).33. fol.17a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Ḥusayn ʻAlī (العبد حسين على كاتب) and undated (set in a border of silhouette paper with animal motifs).32. fol.16b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with bird motifs).31. fol.16a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī (كتبه المذنب احمد الحسينى) and undated (set in border of silhouette paper with bird motifs).30. fol.15b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.29. fol.15a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) (الفقير محمد اسعد اليسارى) and undated.28. fol.14b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Ahmet (مشقه المذنب الخاظئ السيد حافظ احمد المعروف بتوفيقى) and dated 1196 [1781 or 2].27. fol.14a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher “جزائري” and dated 1107 [1692 or 3].26. fol.13b : unsigned piece in naskh, undated.25. fol.13a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh (opening of müfredat exercises), undated.24. fol.12b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Kasim (محمد قاسم) and undated.23. fol.12a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Şevki Efendi (d.1887) (كتبه العبد الضعيف السيد محمد شوقى) and undated.22. fol.11b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İmamzade [possibly Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) who early in his career signed İmamzade] (كتبه امام زاده) and undated.21. fol.11a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated (likely accompanying piece on fol.11b).20. fol.10b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.19. fol.10a : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).18. fol.9b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).17. fol.9a : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with dragon motifs).16. fol.8b : piece in thuluth and naskh approaching tawqīʻ signed by the calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698) (مشقه الفقير عثمان المشتهر بحافظ القرآن) and dated 1098 [1686 or 7].15. fol.8a : unsigned piece in naskh, undated.14. fol.7b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muhammad (محمد) and undated.13. fol.7a : piece in thuluth and signed by the calligrapher Afif (كتبه عفيف) [possibly İbrahim Afif, d.1767] and undated.12. fol.6b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Salıh Namık [?] (سوده صالح نامق) and undated.11. fol.6a : piece in thuluth and naskh with icazetname signed by the calligrapher Şekerzade Mehmet Efendi (d.1753) authorizing the student who executed the piece (اجزت لصاحب هذه القطعة الشريفة وضع الكتبة فما كتبه وانا الفقير السيد محمد المعروف بشكر زاده) and dated 1155 [1742 or 3].10. fol.5b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Ahmet (حرره السيد حافظ احمد) and dated 1197 [1782 or 3].9. fol.5a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.8. fol.4b : unsigned frontispiece with excerpt (اول از بالای کرسی بر زمین آمد سخن او دگر ...) in thuluth at center of shamsah, undated.7. fol.4a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.6. fol.3b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Ahmet Çelebi (احمد چلبی) dated 1006 [1597 or 8].5. fol.3a : unsigned composite piece in nastaʻlīq of different sizes, undated.4. fol.2b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mahmut Celalettin (Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi d.1829, نمقه الفقير محمود المعروف بجلال الدين) and undated.3. fol.2a : piece in naskh and thuluth signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Şefik Bey (d.1879) (كتبه محمد شفيق عن خلفا الحاج مصطفى عزت) and signed 1259 [1843 or 4].2. fol.1b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Zeynelâbidin Haşimi (حرره المذنب محمد زين العابدين الهاشمى) and undated.1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (40 kıt'alar / pieces), likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Marion Frenger, Mamoun Sakkal, and Irvin Schick.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 439Origin: Dates in dated pieces range from 1009 [1600 or 1] to 1211 [1796 or 7]. Some pieces possibly earlier. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "211" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) gold-stamped on bright green satin, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with dark green leather onlays) cartouches with crescent and star accents ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted or marbled ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes).Script: Naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs) and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: 19 heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.38. fol.19b : [blank].37. fol.19a : unsigned piece in nastaliq, undated.36. fol.18b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail Zühtü (İsmail Zühdi d.1806, نمقه الفقير اسمعيل الزهدى) and undated.35. fol.18a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İbrahim Afif (d.1767) (سوده ابراهيم عفيف) and undated.34. fol.17b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Şeyhülislam Veliüddin Efendi (d.1768) (العبد الداعى ولى الدين المفتش باوقاف الحرمين) and dated 1142 [1729 or 30].33. fol.17a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Usturacızade Mehmet Şehri (d.1740) (سوده الفقير محمد المعروف بشهرى) and undated.32. fol.16b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail Zühtü (İsmail Zühdi d.1806, كتبه العبد الضعيف اسمعيل الزهدى) and undated.31. fol.16a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.30. fol.15b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Şeyhizade Mehmet Şihabuddin (الفقير حرقه شريفه شيخى زاده السيد محمد شهاب الدين) dated 1211 [1796 or 7].29. fol.15a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.28. fol.14b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed “بنده درگاه صفی” and dated 1182 [1768 or 9].27. fol.14a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hüseyin Hamid (d. after 1787) (كتبه العبد الضعيف السيد حسين الحامد) and dated 1181 [1767 or 8].26. fol.13b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Sulṭān Ḥusayn (نمقه سلطان حسين) and undated.25. fol.13a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Yusuf Efendi (d.1787) (كتبها عبد مذنب لا طاعة له يوسف المعروف بحافظ القرآن) and undated.24. fol.12b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq (talik), undated.23. fol.12a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.22. fol.11b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.21. fol.11a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Mīr ʻImād al-Ḥasanī (d.1615) (الفقير الحقير المذنب عماد الحسنى) and dated 1009 [1600 or 1].20. fol.10b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muḥammad ʻAlī (الفقير محمد على) and undated.19. fol.10a: piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Refi Efendi (d.1769) (الفقير المذنب محمد رفيع) and undated.18. fol.9b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Ebubekir Raşit (d.1782) (سوده اضعف المذنبين ابو بكر راشد) and undated.17. fol.9a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Shāh Maḥmūd al-Nishāpūrī (fl.1517-1572) (كتبه المذنب شاه محمود النشابورى) and undated, on textile.16. fol.8b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.15. fol.8a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.14. fol.7b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.13. fol.7a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail Zühtü (İsmail Zühdi d.1806, كتبه اسماعيل الزهدى) and undated.12. fol.6b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Durmuşzade Ahmet (d.1717) (الفقير المذنب احمد المدعو بطورمش زاده) and dated 1107 [1695 or 6].11. fol.6a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Durmuşzade Ahmet (d.1717) (الفقير المذنب احمد المدعو بطورمش زاده) and dated 1107 [1695 or 6].10. fol.5b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī (كتبه العبد احمد الحسينى) and undated.9. fol.5a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (حرره الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير محمد راسم) and undated.8. fol.4b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (نمقه الفقير محمد راسم) and undated.7. fol.4a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (حرره الفقير محمد راسم) and undated.6. fol.3b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (نمقه محمد راسم) and undated.5. fol.3a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (حرره محمد راسم) and undated.4. fol.2b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (نمقه محمد راسم) and undated.3. fol.2a : unsigned piece in nastaliq, undated.2. fol.1b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Nuri Musa Efendizade (العبد المذنب محمد نورى بحافظ القرآن موسى افندى زاده) dated 1193 [1779 or 80].1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (36 kıt'alar / pieces), likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Mamoun Sakkal.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 438Origin: Dated pieces range from 914 [1508 or 9] to 1317 [1899 or 1900]. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "210" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) gold-stamped on bright green satin, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with light green-gold onlays) decorative panels in vegetal designs with crescents gold-stamped on mint-green silk onlays at the four corners ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of silk onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted or marbled ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes) ; two miniatures, one in Indian style, the other Persian, each featuring a pair of lovers.Script: Naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs) and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: Twenty-two heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.44. fol.22b : [blank].43. fol.22a : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq executed in filigree / cut-work, undated (compare Calligraphie islamique: Textes sacrés et profanes, no.140).42. fol.21b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Dedezade (مشقه الفقير الحقير دده زاده) and undated.41. fol.21a : piece in naskh with icazetname for a student of es-Seyyid Mustafa Efendi (من تلاميذ السيد مصطفى افندى) authorizing the student to sign his name to his work and to teach others, undated.40. fol.20b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Asad Allāh Shīrāzī (العبد المذنب اسد الله شيرازى) and dated 1254 [1838 or 9].39. fol.20a : piece in celi sülüs signed by the calligrapher Mahmut Celalettin (Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi, d.1829, حرره محمود جلال الدين) and undated.38. fol.19b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mustafa b. Osman Keskin (fl.1758) (الفقير مصطفى بن عثمان المعروف بكسكين) and dated 1172 [1758 or 9].37. fol.19a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Mīr ʻImād al-Ḥasanī (d.1615) (مشقه عماد الحسنى) and undated (compare Calligraphy and the decorative arts of Islam, no.7).36. fol.18b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Faqīr ʻAlī (فقير على) and undated (compare Calligraphy and the decorative arts of Islam, no.8).35. fol.18a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Ahmet b. Ali Kütâhî (سوده احمد بن على المعروف بالكوتاهى) dated 1100 [1688 or 9].34. fol.17b : piece in naskh signed by the calligrapher Hocazade Ahmet (كتبه الفقير الى رحمة القدير السيد احمد المعروف بخواجه زاده) and dated 1161 [1748].33. fol.17a : piece in naskh signed by the calligrapher Derviş Ali [possibly İkinci Derviş Ali, d.1716] (الحقير درويش على) and undated.32. fol.16b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muḥammad Muhtadī (الحقر المذنب محمد مهتدى) and undated.31. fol.16a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.30. fol.15b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh (likely Yedikuleli Seyyid Abdullah, d.1731, "كتبه السيد عبد الله") and undated.29. fol.15a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail (اسمعيل, possibly Ağakapılı İsmail Efendi, d.1706) and undated.28. fol.14b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail (اسمعيل, possibly Ağakapılı İsmail Efendi, d.1706) and undated.27. fol.14a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muʻizz al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (كتبه معز الدين محمد الحسينى) and dated 986 [1578 or 9].26. fol.13b : piece in thluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hocazade Mehmet (d.1695) (كتبت له اذنا وانا الفقير محمد خواجه زاده) and dated 1162 [1749].25. fol.13a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Şekerzâde Mehmet Efendi (d.1753) (كتبه السيد محمد المعروف بشكر زاده) and dated 1144 [1731 or 2].24. fol.12b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated.23. fol.12a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher ʻAbd al-Bāqī (Abdülbâki / الفقير المذنب عبد الباقى) and undated.22. fol.11b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Yedikuleli Seyyid Abdullah (d.1731) (كتبه العبد الفقير السيد عبد الله المعروف بالامام) and dated 1114 [1702 or 3].21. fol.11a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Aḥmad Rashīd (الفقير احمد رشيد) and dated 1194 [1780].20. fol.10b : unsigned piece in naskh, undated.19. fol.10a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Tirmidhī (مشقه المذنب محمد امين الحسينى الترمذى) dated 1010 [1601 or 2].18. fol.9b: piece in thluth signed by the calligrapher Hulusi (پر تقصير خلوصى) and dated 1128 [1715 or 16].17. fol.9a : piece in thuluth signed by the calligrapher Hulusi (الفقير خلوصى) and dated 1128 [1715 or 16].16. fol.8b : piece in naskh appearing to be the opening of the piece on fol.8a.15. fol.8a : piece in naskh (appearing to be the continuation of the piece on fol.8b) signed by the calligrapher Yedikuleli Seyyid Abdullah (d.1731) (كتبه العبد الفقير السيد عبد الله المعروف بالامام) and dated 1120 [1708 or 9 ].14. fol.7b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Maḥmūd Isḥāq Shihābī (مشقه محمود اسحق شهابى) and undated.13. fol.7a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher ʻAbd al-Jabbār (الفقير الحقير المذنب الراجي عبد الجبار غفر له) and undated.12. fol.6b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated.11. fol.6a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876) (حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء) and dated 1288 [1871 or 2].10. fol.5b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hulusi (الفقير خلوصى) and undated.9. fol.5a : piece with text in nastaʻlīq (possibly signed ʻAbd al-Raḥmān) surrounding oval with unfinished drawing.8. fol.4b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Mīr ʻAlī ("مشقه المذنب مير على") and undated.7. fol.4a : painting of two lovers, likely Safavid.6. fol.3b : painting of two lovers, in Mughal style.5. fol.3a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Badīʻ al-Zamān Quṭbʹshāhī (بديع الزمان قطبشاهى) and undated.4. fol.2b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq.3. fol.2a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Sulṭān Muḥammad Khandān (سلطان محمد خندان) and dated 914 [1508 or 9].2. fol.1b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Hilmi (محمد حلمى) and dated 1283 [1866 or 7] with illuminations signed by the illuminator Osman Yümni Efendi (d.1919) (عثمان يمنى) and dated 1317 [1899 or 1900].1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (42 kıt'alar / pieces), many signed, likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Mamoun Sakkal.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 229Origin: As appears in colophon on final panel, executed by Mahmud Celâleddin in 1206 [1791 or 2] and copied from a model executed by Hafız Osman Efendi in 1108 [1696 or 7].Former shelfmark: "99" in pencil on recto of opening panel ; numeral and "T. D. M" [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis] on verso of final panel.Binding: Boards covered (faced) in blue and white marbled paper (kumlu ebru) with red leather over spine and board edges / turn-ins (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in same marbled paper ; panels hinged together in same red leather ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into frames of marbled paper (ebru) mainly in shades of blue, pink, yellow and black, and mounted on thin boards.Decoration: Illuminated rectangular pieces filled with vegetal decoration in shades of gold, pink, orange, and lavender on fields of blue, gold, etc. flank mid and lower sections of written area on each panel ; written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red, orange and blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large lines of each panel (typically opening and closing lines) in thuluth (sülüs), with central lines in naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in 6 to 13 lines per page, including two lines of thuluth with four centered lines of naskh, two lines of thuluth with eight diagonal lines of naskh, one line of thuluth with seven lines of naskh, one line of thuluth with nine diagonal and then three horizontal lines of naskh, etc. ; thuluth and naskh carry separate streams of text.Collation: Five 'panels' edged and hinged together with red leather ; numbered in pencil with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper outer corner of the written area for each piece ; opens vertically.Colophon: "كتبه من لا قدر له ولا قدر ولا نخل بواديه ولا سدره اضعف العباد الكتاب عثمان المشتهر بحافظ كلام الوهاب شاكرا لله الملك الوهاب ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثيرا سنة ثمان ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف ونقلها محمود المعروف بجلال الدين مع الكتبة والتنقيح بعينها غفر الله ذنوبهما ١٢٠٦"Explicit: "نور المسلم من شاب شيبة في الاسلام كتب الله بها حسنة وكفر عنه بها خطيئة ورفعه بها درجة اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق واكمل الخلق محمد واله الطاهرين اجمعينIncipit: [thuluth] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين وعليه التكلان من الخذلان ..." ; [naskh] "والدباران ياتيها بعد ان تفوته ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Mahmud Celâleddin Efendi (d.1829) in imitation of a model executed by the master calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 244Origin: In colophon, attributed to "Ḥamd Allāh al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Shaykh," Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya, with date of transcription is not specified. Colophon is questionable though attribution for most of the kıta'lar is likely accurate would suggest completion in the late 15th or early 16th century. Pieced and mounted at a later date, even late 16th or 17th century, with some repairs and replacements supplied.Former shelfmark: "335 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" on verso of final panel ; "100" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; hinged together with red-brown leather in accordion format ; doublures in dark slate blue leather with border and area of mandorla and cornerpieces (on reverse) gold-flecked and lined in gold ; upper and lower covers carry superb stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces, along with gold-painted accents and tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps approaching a guilloché roll ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion and lifting of leather at board edges.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (repaired in many places) pieced and set into an elaborate frame of decorative papers, the outermost being richly colored marbled paper of several types and adjacent to it a border of pieced colored papers, some also gold-flecked ; other decorative papers fill the remaining areas surrounding the text ; specimens and borders mounted on leaves of well-burnished European laid paper.Decoration: Gold-flecked or painted decorative papers often flank lower panel carrying lines of naskh ; written area (and panels within) surrounded by frames consisting of gold and red-orange rules ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large line of each page in thuluth ; lines of each page in naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of text.Layout: Written mainly in 6 or 9 lines per page, a large line of thuluth and 5 or 8 compact lines of naskh (alternating pages carrying 5 or 8 lines) with lines in thuluth and those in naskh constituting two distinct streams of text ; written area divided into upper panel accommodating the large line and centered lower panel accommodating the more compact lines ; 8 lines of naskh mainly written on the diagonal.Collation: Twelve 'panels' hinged together in accordion format ; panels are numbered on the verso with Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink beginning with ٣.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبها حمد الله المعروف بابن الشيخ حامدا الله تعالى على نعمه ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين اجمعين"Explicit: [thuluth] "الخط الحسن نزهة العين وريحانة القلوب انه ولي الهداية والتوفيق" ; [naskh] "اذا استشرت الجاهل اختار لك الباطل"Incipit: [thuluth] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم سئل كسرى انوشروان ما ..." ; [naskh] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي وسئل كسرى ما بالكم اليوم اذ كنتم احق بتعليم الناس اشد استغلالا بالتعلم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Superb album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing mainly hadīth pertaining to sentiments of Kisrá Anūshirvān (Khosrow or Khusraw I, d.579), with most of the kıt'alar executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya (d.1520).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 441Origin: Origin: Dates in dated pieces range from 1080 [1669 or 70] to 1323 [1905 or 6]. Some pieces possibly earlier. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "208" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel gold-stamped with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) at center, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with olive green leather onlays) decorative panels in vegetal designs with crescents gold-stamped on olive green leather onlays at the four corners ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted, marbled or silhouette ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper (resembling reptile hide) with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes).Script: Muḥaqqaq (muhakkak), naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs) and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: Twenty-one heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.42. fol.21b : [blank].41. fol.21a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Hilmi (نمقه السيد محمد حلمى) and dated 1287 [1870 or 1].40. fol.20b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding pieces (from fol.10a).39. fol.20a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.38. fol.19b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.37. fol.19a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.36. fol.18b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.35. fol.18a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.34. fol.17b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.33. fol.17a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.32. fol.16b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.31. fol.16a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.30. fol.15b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.29. fol.15a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.28. fol.14b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.27. fol.14a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.26. fol.13b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.25. fol.13a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.24. fol.12b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.23. fol.12a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.22. fol.11b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.21. fol.11a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.20. fol.10b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.19. fol.10a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) (الفقير محمد اسعد اليسارى) and undated, likely (with the following pieces fol.10b-20b) concluding piece of a meşk murakkaa.18. fol.9b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hocazade Mehmet (d.1695) (سوده الحقير محمد الشهر بخواجه زاده) and dated 1080 [1669 or 70].17. fol.9a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876) (بندۀ ال عبا سيد عزت مصطفى) and possibly dated 1278 [1861 or 2].16. fol.8b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hasan Rıza Efendi (d.1920) (حرره الحاج السيد حسن رضا ) and dated 1323 [1905 or 6].15. fol.8a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail b. Abdullah student of İbrahim Rodosi (d.1787) (مشقه العبد المذنب اسمعيل بن عبد الله من تلاميذ ابراهيم الردوسى) and undated.14. fol.7b : piece in thluth signed by the calligrapher Usturacızade Mehmet Şehri (d.1740) (سوده محمد الشهرى) and undated.13. fol.7a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hasan Rıza Efendi (d.1920) (حرره الحاج السيد حسن رضا ) and dated 1323 [1905 or 6].12. fol.6b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.11. fol.6a : piece in naskh signed by the calligrapher Deli Osman Afif Dâmâdı (d.1805) (كتبه الفقير السيد عثمان المعروف بداماد العفيف) and dated 1205 [1790 or 1].10. fol.5b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail Zühtü (İsmail Zühdi d.1806, كتبه اسمعيل الزهدى) and undated.9. fol.5a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Tevfiki [?] (كتبه توفيقى) and undated.8. fol.4b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher, most likely the Ottoman Sultan Murat IV (r.1623-1640) (كتبه مراد خان), and undated.7. fol.4a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Yusuf Efendi (d.1787) (نمقه المذنب يوسف المعروف بحافظ القرآن) and unsigned.6. fol.3b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.5. fol.3a : piece in naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (محمد راسم) and undated.4. fol.2b : unsigned piece in muḥaqqaq (continuation of the previous), undated.3. fol.2a : unsigned piece in muḥaqqaq, undated.2. fol.1b : impression of the seal (مهر) of Muḥammad Shāh Qājār (محمد شاه قاجار, r.1834-1848) with inscription “الملک لله محمد شاه غازی صاحب تاج و نگین آمد شکوه ملک و ملت رونق آیین دین آمد” and date 1250 [1834 or 5] set in illuminated four-lobed ornament.1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (40 kıt'alar / pieces), likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Mamoun Sakkal.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 242Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by Hasan Rıza Efendi in imitation of a model by the renowned calligrapher Kazasker (Kadiasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876) with transcription completed in 1304 [1886 or 7]. Signature in the illuminated panel to the left of the close identifies the gilder (mudhahhib, müzehhip) as Hasan Rıza.Former shelfmark: "563 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "94" inscriped in pencil on recto of opening leaf/'panel'.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark lavender leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in golden yellow to orange surface-dyed paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite gold-stamped scalloped octagonal piece (filled with vegetal decoration emanating from a central floral motif) and rosette accents (at the apices of the scallops, forming pendants, etc.), as well as elaborate tooled border in gold accented by gold-painted fillets ; overall in somewhat poor but fair condition with only minor abrasion, losses of silk, panels detaching from spine and warping in some, and lifting of spine leather.Support: Well-burnished paper mounted on heavy board, with area framing written area surface-dyed (golden yellow to orange) and gold-flecked, edged in red silk ; sheets of red wove paper rest between many of the panels.Decoration: Illuminated panels consisting of rectangular panels filled with various swirling vegetal patterns on fields of gold, blue, light pink, etc. and surrounded by frames in blue, green, light pink, red, etc. flanking mainly the lines of naskh ; entire written area surrounded by heavy gold and light pink frames with narrower gold rules surrounding panels within ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes with accents in green, pink, blue, white, etc.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large line of each page in a fine thuluth ; central lines of each page in a superb naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of ḥadīth text or excerpts.Layout: Written in 5 and 6 lines per page, a large line of thuluth followed by four or five lines of naskh, with lines in thuluth and those in naskh constituting two distinct streams of text ; written area is divided into upper panel accomodating the large line of thuluth and centered lower panel carrying the more compact lines of naskh ; opens vertically with writing parallel to spine.Collation: Six heavy leaves or 'panels' hinged together.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "حرره الحاج السيد حسن رضا مقلدا بمصطى عزت غفر الله ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما امين سنه ١٣٠۴"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing assorted ḥadīth, executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Hasan Rıza Efendi (d.1920), a master of naskh and thuluth.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 105Origin: As appears in colophon on p.971, copied by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Qalbī [al-Qulaybī?] al-Ḥanafī, perhaps assisted by those he names. Transcription finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min intisākh al-sharḥ al-sharīf...") 1 Muḥarram 1163 [ca. 11 December 1749]. As appears in authorial colophon on p.970, composition completed mid-Shaʻbān 1008 [February-March 1600] in Mecca.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 41. Commentary on Shamail."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; flyleaves (made endpapers) in marbled paper (blue, orange, pink, green) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped and gold-painted mandorla and pendants filled with vegetal decoration along with gold-painted border of tooled fillets framing a guilloché roll in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in green and pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in mustard and green, partially intact at head and tail ; quires from first half of codex are entirely detached ; spine has only partially retained leather covering ; second half of volume retains spine covering and intact sewing ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermarks include lion statant guardant.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening of table of contents on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece carrying empty gold cartouche flanked by red and green floral motifs on fields of lilac surmounted by a semi-circular (dome) piece with red flowers and sea-green vegetal motif on a field of lilac ; fillets in red as border ; table of contents ruled in red ; splended illuminated headpiece (ʻunwan) at opening of text on p.20 ; consists of a w-shaped piece (with floral vegetal decoration in white, lilac, orange, etc. on fields of blue, gold, and sea-green) set in richly decorated well in red, gold, black, and maroon ; surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, orange, red, and gold ; two rectangular panels sit below the well, the upper bears a cartouche carrying the basmalah flanked by panels with floral motif in red, copper, lilac on a field of gold, a design which continues in the lower rectangular panel ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by a frame consisting of a heavy gold band outlined by black and red fillets ; illuminated rosettes serve as textual dividers on the incipit and facing page ; elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of inverted commas.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq and naskh ; several hands ; naskh-nastaʻlīq sans serif with mainly closed counters, leftward tilt, and pointing in strokes rather than dots ; hand changes at p.115 to a neat naskh partially seriffed with serif on initial lām, ṭāʼ, etc., pointing in distinct dots, and open counters ; at p.211 changes to a heavier, bolder naskh, partially seriffed with rightward hook for serif on initial lām, leftward hooks for lām and alif in lām-alif, superscripting of final letters on line ; at p.251 returns to naskh-nastaʻlīq ; at p.323 changes to a naskh with slight leftward tilt, serifless, dot of final nūn assimilated with bowl, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; at p.512 returns to naskh-nastaʻlīq with heavy head-serifs for lām and freestanding alif, pointing in dots rather than strokes ; at p.929 returns to initial naskh-nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III (6), VI+1 (19), 3 V(49), IV (57), 4 V(97), IV (105), 5 V(155), III (161), VI (173), VII (187), 2 V(207), IV+ 1 (216), 5 V(266), II (270), 5 V(320), II (324), 8 V(404), II (408), 5 V(458), III (464), V (474), IV (482), III (488), i ; mainly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization, skips a page after p.974 and then repeats p.974).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "قد وقع فراغ من انتساخ الشرح الشريف بون الله الملك اللطيف على ايدي [؟] العباد الفقير الى رحمة العفو القدير علي بن حسين بن حسن القليبي [؟] الحنفي الحامل القران اوصله الله تعالى الى الرضوان و عاملهم الله باللطف و الغضران و سيد عثمان و خليل و ايوب و عمر و ابراهيم و سيد محمد اصلح الله تعالى حالهم و غفر الله لهم و لوالديهم امين بجاه النبي الامين يوم الخميس الاول من المحرم المحرم المعظم لشهور سنة ثلث و ستين و ماية و الف من الهجرة من له العز و الشرف الحمد لله و صلى الله على نبيه و مصطفاه و على اله و اصحابه الطيبين الطاهرين المتبعين بطريقته تم"Explicit: "و الله سبحانه اعلم تحقيقا و بعونه يوجد العلم لغيره توفيقا و الحمد لله اولا و اخرا و الصلوة و السلام على صاحب المقام المحمود باطنا و ظاحرا"Incipit: "الحمد الله خلق الخلق و الا خلاق و الا رزاق و الا فعال ... اما بعد فيقول افقر عباد الله الغني الباري علي بن سلطان محمد القاري لما كان موضوع علم الحديث ذات النبي ... و من احسن ما صنف في شمائل و اخلاقه صلى الله تعالى عليه و سلم كتاب الترمذي المختصر الجامع في سيره على وجه الوجيه الاتم ... احببت ان ادخل في زمرة الخادمين بشرح ذلك الكتاب ... و سميته جمع الوسائل في شرح الشمائل"Title from opening on p.22.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a commentary on al-Tirmidhī's Shamāʼil, a work on the characteristics of the Prophet. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp orange-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets and blind-tooled central star.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-10a: al-Riḍāʻīyah / al-Muḥaqqiq al-Thānī.Contents: 2. leaves 10b-15b: al-ʻAwīṣ / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Mufīd.Contents: 3. leaves 16a-87b: Sharḥ ʻalá risālah fī al-ṭahārah.Contents: 4. leaves 88a-212b: Sharḥ Alfīyat Shahīd / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: Texts 1-2, 21 lines per page; written in casual naskh in brown on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 3, 21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 4, 21 lines per page; written in small, casual naskh in brown (switches to black on leaf 198b) on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Upper edge damp-stained and moldered. Leaves 1-15, 214 detached.Origin: Text 1, 6 Jumādá II 1088 H 6 August 1677 (leaf 10a). Text 4, 8 Jumādá II 1088 H (8 August 1677), by Saʻd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Dīn ibn Tamām al-Jazāʼirī (leaf 212b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 834Origin: Pertains to the Jalālī year 1235 [1856-1857] suggesting a date of transcription around this time ; watermarks consistent with such a dating. Illuminated heading on opening horiscope suggests transcription in Istanbul.Binding: Limp cover in heavy coated and textured paper, surface-dyed a pale yellow and embossed with pattern of plumes, scrolls, and floral motifs ; sewn in spring green and dark blue thread, six stations, through paper cover ; overall in fair condition with staining and abrasion ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of lion rampant guardant (see p.2, 8, 28, etc.) and initials "NR" in arms (see p.4, 6, 26, etc.) very similar to Eineder no.1018 dated 1806 but with "NR" rather than "AB" ; creamy buff in color (yellowish hue), crisp and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Written area and tables throughout defined by gold bands and black lines ; heading of opening horiscope diagram chrysographed "لع يل ١٢٧٢ سال عالم بأفق دار السلطنه العلية العثمانيه" ; many headings and keywords / symbols rubricated.Script: Mainly naskh and naskh with elements of ruqʻah ; clear Turkish hands ; elegant naskh employed for most headings, some entries and some annotations ; more compact naskh with elements of ruqʻah used for other annotations and some headings ; forms resembling siyakat letterforms used in table entries ; elucidation of symbols employed entered on opening page (p.1) above and alongside the horiscope diagram.Layout: Written area divided to accommodate tables of 14 columns and 16 rows (with 15 of the rows carrying two lines each corresponding to the days of the month), headed by outlines of square charts divided to 12 (4 central squares and 8 triangles corresponding to the celestial houses) ; prickings for ruling the tables evident in the outer and lower margins.Collation: VII (14) ; single septenion ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful copy of an astronomical almanac (natījah / rūznāmah / ephemeris) for the Jalālī year 1235 (indicated as the 778th, see p.2) preceded by horiscope (ṭāliʻ) for the year (given in the corresponding Hijrī / Rūmī value, 1272, see p.1). Presumably observed at Istanbul. Corresponding Hijrī, Rūmī, old Yazdagardī and Coptic calendars dates are given. Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 463 v.6Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest late 16th and 17th century.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on fore edge flap, "IL 91 VI" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip in Isl. Ms. 463 v.2).Binding: Pasteboards now covered in green-blue paper-backed cloth over dark brown leather with tan leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; traces of stamped mandorlas on upper and lower covers (now covered by cloth) ; board linings in dull yellow paper ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations, sewing in final quires gone ; worked chevron endbands in cream and dull pink, fairly good condition ; ill-fitting with flap too small ; overall in poor condition with lifting and losses of cloth, abrasion, staining, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of four main types ; opening type (also appearing elsewhere in codex) with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle with star above watermark (see p.16, 17, etc.), sturdy though crisp, well-burnished to glossy ; next type (second quire and elsewhere) with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and angel in circle with leaf above watermark (see p.38, 39, etc.) ; next type (pp.253-294) with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.262, 263, etc.) ; still another type (from p.601) with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 14-32 mm. apart (horizontal), and three circles watermark, quite thin and transluscent, very well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Some keywords rubricated or accent with red ink ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least four clear Turkish hands ; opening and main hand (appearing multiple places throughout codex), a serifless naskh, rounded with inclination to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes (occasionally more exaggerated), pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn sitting above or assimilated with bowl, extensively vocalized ; next hand (from p.29 and elsewhere) a naskh showing influence of nastaʻlīq, serifless with long, fluid ascenders, marked effect of words descending to baseline and of inclination to the left, some elongation of 'horizontal' strokes and sharp, flat descenders (mainly rāʼ, wāw, dhāl, etc.), free assimilation of letters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; from pp.253-294 still another naskh approaching nastaʻlīq (talik), partially seriffed with inclination to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn set above or assimilated with bowl ; from p.601 still another naskh approaching nastaʻlīq (talik), bold, compact and serifless with inclination to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, quite rounded with free assimilation of letters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; incipit page (p.6) in a different hand.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V+2 (12), 4 V(52), V+1 (63), 5 V(113), 2 V+1(135), V (145), V-1 (154), 14 V(294), 4 (298), 24 (538), iii ; chiefly quinions ; two quires (pp.911-950) numbered ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips from p.769 to p.780, thereafter off by ten pages).Explicit: "قوله تمنون عليكم ان اسملوا او الباقون بالحطاب نظرا الى قوله قل لا تمنوا على اسلامكم ويتلوه سورة القاف"Incipit: "سورة طه مكية وهي مائة واربع وثلثون اية قوله لاستعلائه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.Careful copy of the sixth of seven volumes (v.1 and v.4 now lacking) of the commentary by Shaykhʻzādah Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Qūjawī (d.1544 or 5) upon al-Bayḍāwī's commentary on the Qurʼān, Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, covering Sūrat Ṭāhā (20) through Sūrat al-Ḥujurāt (49).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 237Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by İbrahim Rodosi ; date of transcription not specified, though calligrapher's activity (acquiring his icazet shortly after the death of his first teacher İsmail Zühdî in 1731) suggests mid to late 18th century.Former shelfmark: "559 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "116" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather with spine in a lighter red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla filled with symmetrical vegetal composition (compare binding ornament on cover of Isl. Ms. 230), as well as tooled border consisting of guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets ; panels hinged together with red-brown leather ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting of leather, spine split near head, etc.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (in some cases surface-dyed pink) pieced, set into frame consisting of other surface-dyed and gold-flecked papers in combinations of orange and green, blue and pink, orange and magenta, yellow and green, green and magenta, lavender and orange, etc. (papers of facing pages match) set off by gold bands and white fillets.Decoration: Decorative illuminated pieces consisting mainly of scalloped semi-circular pieces (domes) overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern in gold, red, pink, white, blue, etc. flank the compact central lines ; other illuminated flanking pieces of different vegetal composition appear on some panels ; written area surrounded by frame in bands of gold varying thickness ; textual divders in the form of illuminated rosettes with accents in pink, white, blue, etc.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; two large lines of each page in thuluth ; two central lines of each page in naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of text though both open in alphabetic exercises.Layout: Written in four lines per page, two large lines in thuluth (sülüs) and two more compact lines in naskh (nesih) ; written area divided into upper and lower panels accommodating the large lines and a central panel divided to accomodate the two more compact lines.Collation: Ten 'panels' (mounted leaves) edged in and hinged together with red-brown leather ; opens vertically.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "مشقه اضعف الكتاب ابراهيم الردوسي"Explicit: [in thuluth / sülüs] "سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجل ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك" ; [in naskh / nesih] "فان امارتي بالسوء ما اتعظت من جهلها بنذير الشيب"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) executed by the Ottoman calligrapher İbrahim Rodosi (d.1787). Comprises a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) in two scripts (thuluth / sülüs and naskh / nesih) employing the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat), composed word exercises (mürekkebat) with the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı), invocations, and a portion of the text of al-Buṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-Burdah.
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-64b: Hādhihi Kitāb al-Wāfiyah fī al-uṣūl / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūnī.Contents: 2. leaves 65b-103a: Fawāʼid al-ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Ms. codex.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the sixth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation. First four leaves contain notes and extracts or are blank.Physical description: Text 1, 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black. Text 2, 26 lines per page; written in small naskh in black; script changes to nastaʻliq on leaf 90a. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; upper outer corner moldered.Origin: Text 1 dated 1221 H 1806 or 1807 (leaf 64b). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-88b: Fawāʼid ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Contents: 2. fol. 89b-113b: Kitāb Zubdat Shaykh Bahāʼī fī al-uṣūl / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Ms. composite codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 15 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; edges moldered.Origin: Text 1, 17 Rabīʻ II 1240 H 9 December 1824 in Iṣfahān, by Qurbān ʻAlī ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Rafīʻ al-... ? (leaf 88b). Text 2, 4 Rabīʻ I 1240 H 27 October 1824, by Muḥammad Ḥasan (leaf 113b); likely in Iran.
Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Abī Turāb al-Sirḥānī. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Possibly written in northern Iran. Paper: tan colored glazed laid paper with horizontal chain line and obscured armorial watermark, and countermark G M ; black ink in Naskh; catchwords; lacuna from Folio 1-10 caused by worm damage at top of page, with no loss of text. Naskh; 13 lines in written area 15 x 8.5 cm. Folio 1b-9b; 10a notes. With: Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Sirr-i bakhyah. [December 1853, Year of the Rat]. Bound together subsequent to publication. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M307b. Binding: medium brown leather with embossed gold center medallions front and back.Manuscript.
Abstract: Collection of texts on a variety of topics.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; salmon paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-17a: Kitāb Balad al-amīn / Jaʻfar ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Kashfī.Contents: 2. leaves 19b-111b: Kitāb al-Iqtirāḥ fī ʻilm uṣūl al-naḥw / al-Suyūṭī.Contents: 3. leaves 111b-113b: Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.Contents: 4. leaves 113b-121a: Risālah al-qawsīyah / Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād ibn Wazīrān al-Iṣfahānī.Contents: 5. leaves 121a-123a: Risālat al-sikkīn / Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī.Contents: 6. leaves 123a-126b: Risālah fī fāʼ al-faṣīḥah.Contents: 7. leaves 126b-143b: Risālah fī madḥ al-Sulṭān.Contents: 8. leaves 147b-160b: Risālah fī bayān ṣiyagh al-ʻuqūd wa-al-īqāʻāt.Contents: 9. leaves 160b-162a: Risālah fī al-jadhr al-aṣamm.Contents: 10. leaves 163a-170b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-Sajdah.Contents: 11. leaf 171a: Exchange between the Caliph al-Maʼmūn and Imam al-Riḍā concerning ʻAlī.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: Texts 1-7, 15 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on grayish glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text 1 in two columns. Texts 8-11 are written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 8, 22 lines per page, written in small naskh with rubrication and catchwords and a few marginal notes. Text 9, varying lines per page, written in shikastah with catchwords. Texts 10-11, 20 lines per page, written in small naskh with catchwords. Outer edge moldered.Origin: Text 1, 21 Ṣafar 1244 H 2 September 1828 in Iṣfahān (leaf 17a). Text 4, 24 Rabīʻ I 1244 H 4 October 1828 (leaf 113b). Text 7, 3 Rabīʻ II 1244 H 13 October 1828 (leaf 143b). Texts 1-7 copied by the same scribe. Text 8, 1243 H 1827 or 1828 (leaf 160b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 138Origin: As appears in colophon on p.319, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan ibn Muṣṭafá. Transcription finished 17 Rabīʻ II [year severly obscured with ink smudged and lifted, but may read 1125? = ca. 13 May 1713]. Paper suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes inserted (paginated pp.226-227).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 138. Kitab al-dau, with glosses."Binding: Pasteboards faced in laid paper (trimmed to reveal leather onlay of central stamped panel) with dark red leather over spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins (paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in magenta laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear central blind-stamped panel (lozenge-shaped) filled with vegetal decoration (compare Déroche class. OSd) and surrounded by tooled star or rosette accents ; sewn in light pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and light blue, fully intact and in fair condition ; overall in fair to poor condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, minor spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: European laid paper with 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermarks include coat of arms with lions flanking cross above circles ; well-sized and burnished ; some staining, smudging and water damage (particularly pp.61-66).Decoration: Headings, keywords, abbreviation symbols and some marginalia rubricated ; textual divders in the form of three inverted commas ; written area surrounded by red rule-border (through p.217).Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq and naskh ; at least two hands ; elegant naskh-nastaʻlīq, virtually serifless, with mainly closed counters, effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, and elongation of horizontal strokes ; at p.98 hand changes to naskh, also serifless, neat and compact, fairly rounded, with mainly closed counters and slight effect of tilt to the left ; bowl of final nūn often forms a closed circle around the point.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 16 V (160), i ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf and inserts ; skips two pages between pp.3-4 and pp.23-24 and omits p.58).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت هذا الكتاب بفضل الله في يوم سبعة عشر في شهر ربيع الاخر المبارك تاريخ سنة [۱۱۲٥؟] كتب على يد عبد الضعيف محتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى اسماعيل بن حسن بن مصطفى رحمة الله على اجداد [كذا] ولوالديه ولاستاذه ولشركائه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات وبالله التوفيق وهو نعم الرفيق تمت"Explicit: "هذا باب الاطناب فيه مجال لكنه يقضي الى الملك فاقتصرت على هذا القدر فليس الرأي عن التشاق [؟] تم ضوء والله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "ان احق ما يتوشح بذكره صدور الكتاب والدفاتر ... حمد الله تعالى على زواهر اياديه ... اما بعد فان نوع الادب على كثرة شجونه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Isfarāyīnī's (d.1285) commentary on al-Misbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by al-Muṭarrizī (d.1213).
Abstract: "Portion of a treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: a summary of the author's al-Muḥīṭ al-Burhānī fī al-fiqh al-NuʻmānīAbstract: comprising the end of Kitāb al-Ṣarf (from al-Faṣl al-ʻashrūn fī al-itiṣnāʻ) to Kitāb al-Iqrār. The ms. comprises three distinct partsAbstract: written in different scripts (fol. 1b-32a ; 33a-201b ; 202a-381a)."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Large blind stamped central mandorla with outer border consisting of blind tooled fillets and a s-shape running pattern. Spine damaged. Paper pastedown. The paper of the pasteboard is perfectly visible due to the damage yto the upper cover.Ms. codex.Title from fol. (i)a.Fol. 1b-32a are smaller pieces of light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible, inlaid in a border of light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible (see in particular, fol. 31-32), written in medium small round elegant naskh in black ink with use of red, with 31 lines to the page (written surface: 185 x 115 mm.). Fol. 33a-201b are written in clear casual small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 37 lines to the page up to fol. 55a (written surface: 245 x 160 mm.), with a dramatic change at the end of fol. 55a on, apparently by the same hand however. From the end of fol. 55a on, thin casual naskh with element of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 36 lines to the page (written surface 225 x 143 mm.) on European? glazed paper. Fol. 202a-381a written in clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 35 lines per page (writing surface 220 x 155 mm.), on dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-(ii)b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "222". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 261".Copy of the first part completed on 7 Shaʻbān 959 July 29, 1552 (or 957 August 21, 1550) by ʻAlī ibn ---?, on behalf of ("bi-rasm") al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah ... ---?, muftī of Damascus and khaṭīb in the Jāmiʻ al-Umawī (colophon, fol. 201b). Note dated 956 H. 1549 on fol. 319a.Incipit: الفصل العشرون فى الاستصناع يجب ان يعلم ان الاستصناع جايز في كل ما جري التعامل فيهExplicit: ولا ينبغى له ان يشهد على شي معين والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب تم كتاب الاقرار
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 109Origin: As appears in colophon on p.114, transcription of the sharḥ by ʻAlī al-Qūshjī completed 3 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1113 [ca. 1 May 1702] ; paper suggests that other works were copied around the same time, even late 17th century.Accompanying materials: Inserted slip bearing glosses (paginated pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 61. Two commentaries on Al-Risalat al-wadiyah."Binding: Pasteboards (very thin, semi-limp) covered in marbled paper (mainly in white and shades of blue) with brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in European laid paper ; sewn in light pink thread, four and two stations ; overall in fair condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper in a few different types ; text of first work on type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of flower on stem with leaves ; next work on another type with laid lines spaced 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark ; final works on still another type with 14 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of bar carrying name/initials with grapes ; all types well-burnished.Decoration: Abbreviation symbols and keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; text of the sharḥ by ʻAlī al-Qushjī surrounded by frame consisting of a gold band flanked by black fillets.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq ; at least three different hands ; all virtually serifless with elongation of horizontal strokes ; naskh freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, final yāʼ and alif maqṣūrah mardūdah, and pointing in curved lines rather than distinct dots ; naskh-nastaʻlīq shows slight effect of words descending to baseline and letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15, 21 and 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 V(20), IV (28), III (34), V-1 (43), V (53), I+1 (56), III (62) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.8. p.121-p.126 : [blank].7. p.118-p.120 : [Risālah fī al-waḍʻ].6. p.116-p.118 : Sharḥ al-Sayyid al-Sharīf lil-qāḍī ʻAḍud al-Dīn / al-Jurjānī.5. p.115 : [blank].4. p.72-p.114 : [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah] / ʻAlī al-Qūshjī.3. p.70-71 : [blank].2. p.69 : [originally blank, now carries a listing of the author's works].1. p.2-p.68 : ʻIṣām al-Dīn ʻalá al-Waḍʻīyah / ʻIṣām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāyīnī.Fine copy of three of the principal commentaries on al-Ījī's seminal treatise in ʻilm al-waḍʻ, al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah, namely that of ʻIṣām al-Dīn al-Isfarāʼinī (d.1537), ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Qūshjī (Ali Kuşçu, d.1474), and ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (d.1413). Followed by a brief anonymous treatise on the same subject.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 158Origin: As appears in colophon on p.52, al-Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah copied in the Aḥmadīyah madrasah with transcription finished in Ramaḍān 1121 [?] [November 1709?]. As appears in colophon on p.93, Sharḥ Īsāghūjī copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Zunayl [?] with no mention of date of transcription. As appears in colophon on p.136, transcription of al-Iʻrāb ʻan qawāʻid al-iʻrāb completed in the year 1096 [1684 or 5]. As appears in colophon on p.231, al-Ḥamdīyah copied by ʻUmar ibn Ḥusayn with transcription completed in the year 1085 [1674 or 5]. As appears in colophon on p.324, final work also copied by ʻUmar ibn Ḥusayn al-Zamwānī [?] with transcription completed in the year 1084 [1673 or 4].Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes (paginated pp.55-56).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 104. Tracts on grammar, etc."Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in dark blue, light pink, white) with dark red leather over spine, foreedge flap and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in bright blue (cyan), yellow, and lime green thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and cream, in fair condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, some lifting of paper and leather, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types ; opening work supplied on a European paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark in crown with studded pendant, thin though sturdy, and burnished ; second and third works supplied on a European paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), crown star crescent watermark (compare Heawood 1132), well-burnished, thick and sturdy ; next work and excerpts supplied on a European paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), scrollwork/coat of arms watermark, extremely smooth and well-burnished (to glossy) ; final work on a European paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 33 mm. apart (horizontal), coat of arms watermark with lions flanking cross in shield above two circles ('AS' in upper circle), thin, smooth and well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviations symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq ; several hands ; opening work in an elegant naskh with subtle head serifs on occasional initial lām and freestanding alif, tilt to the left, mainly open counters, mainly curvilinear descenders, final hāʼ or tāʼ marbūtah assimilated with preceding rāʼ or dāl, fully vocalized ; al-Iʻrāb in fine naskh-nastaʻlīq [closer to nastaʻlīq] virtually serifless with mainly closed counters, effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq ; following works in fine naskh similar to opening hand though virtually serifless with tilt to the left, mainly closed counters, many curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 11, 15 and 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 V (20), III (26), 3 V(56), V+1 (67), V (77), V+1 (88), 3 V(118), V+1 (129), 2 V(149), I (151), V (161), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and back flyleaf).Incipit:Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.10. p.325-p.326 : [excerpts and calligraphic excercises].9. p.242-p.324 : [Sharḥ al-Bināʼ ?].8. p.232-p.241 : [mainly blank with a few excerpts].7. p.140-p.231 : [al-Ḥamdīyah : Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ dībājat al-Miṣbāḥ] / Aḥmad ibn ʻImād.6. p.137-p.139 : [blank].5. p.96-p.136 : al-Iʻrāb ʻan qawāʻid al-iʻrāb / Ibn Hishām.4. p.94-p.95 : [mainly blank with a few prayers, excerpts, etc.].3. p.54-p.93 : [Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] / Ḥusām al-Dīn Kātī.2. p.53 : [blank].1. p.2-p.52 : [al-Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah] / al-Nawawī.Fine composite collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of works on hadith, logic, grammar, etc.
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻ; incomplete at end."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 3b.Physical description: Part 1, 25 lines per page; written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black. Part 2, 25 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Edges moldered; marginal damp-staining and mildewing.Origin: Part 1, 29 Shawwāl 1059 H 5 November 1649, by Zayn al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Jazāʻirī (leaf 145b). Part 2 by a different hand, likely around the same time.Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم و الکمال
Abstract: Collection of commentaries on doctrinal and legal texts.Binding note: Full brown leather with central mandorla and pendants blind-stamped on red paper and blind-stamped fillets; blue paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-38b: Ḥāshiyat Mawlānā Sulṭān al-Muḥaqqiqīn ʻalá Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / Ḥusayn ibn Rafīʻ al-Sulṭān al-ʻUlamāʼ.Contents: 2. leaves 40b-67b: Taʻlīqāt ʻalá sharḥ ilāhīyāt al-Tajrīd / Muḥammad al-Khafrī.Contents: 3. leaves 68b-79b: Taʻlīq ḥawāshī ʻalá mabāḥith jawāhir al-Sharḥ al-jadīd lil-Tajrīd.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Physical description, text 1: 23 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Leaves 1-24 appear to be replacements, written in shikastah with varying lines per page. Occasional damp-staining.Physical description, texts 2-3: 15-19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq and naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: Likely first half of the 19th century.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon of first work. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-105a (18 lines); 2nd work: fol. 105b-155b (16-18 lines); 3rd work: fol. 157a-249b (14 lines) First work written by Muḥammad Mahdī al-Kāshānī. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in India? Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords. 1st work: Naskh; 18 lines in written area 15 x 9.5 cm.; 2nd work: Naskh; 16-18 lines in written area 14.5 x 10 cm.; 3rd work: Nastaʻliq; 14 lines in written area 16.5 x 13 cm. Folio 1b-95a; 95b-105a poems; 105b-155b; 157a-249b. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather.Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain line and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; interlinear Persian translation in cursive Naskh; catchwords. Naskh; 11 lines in written area 15.5 x 9 cm. Folio 1b-337a; 337b-338 notes and a poem. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather with embossed gold center medallions front and back, spine repaired, rebacked in tan leather.Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Abstract: Treatise on Islamic law followed by a commentary on the preface.Binding note: Full red leather with flap on front cover; gold-stamped fillets; blue leather doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 3a-5a, 6a-8b: Extracts and notes.Contents: 2. leaves 5b, 9a-354b: Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.Contents: 3. leaves 355a-357a: Jāmiʻ al-fawāʼid fī sharḥ khuṭbat al-Qawāʻid / Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn.Contents: 4. leaves 357a-360b: Extracts and notes.Ms. codex.Title from texts 2, 3.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 25 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication, catchwords, and vocalization; marginal notes. Text 2, varying lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Manuscript is damp-stained and mildewed, with a few repairs. Leaves 6-8 belong before leaf 5.Origin: Text 1, 3 Jumādá I, 758 H 24 April 1357, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥsin al-Ḥusaynī (leaf 354b). Text 2 likely 17th century.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color, unpolished laid-paper; with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; manuscript appears to be an older manuscript (perhaps 18th century) with missing sections and conclusion added by a later hand and dated 1238 [1822 or 1823], paper of newer section is also laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no watermarks but of a more recent date; older section has text within a ruled border in gold and red ink; newer sections lack border; some interleaved pages; both sections written in black ink with rubrication; numerous marginal glosses; catchwords on some leaves. Nastaʻliq and naskh; 11 lines (nastaʻliq pages), and 13 lines (naskh pages); in written area 15.3 x 10 cm. Text: fol. 2b-136b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M81b. Disbound; original marbled cardboard binding included in case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.Manuscript.
Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written in at least three hands with varying page layout; also includes six replacement pages on rougher paper (f. 55-57, 59-61).
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-26a (14 lines); 2nd work: fol. 27b-43a. (15 lines) First work written by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī; scribe of second work not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. First work written in al-Ṭihrān [Tehran], Iran; second work written in Iran, city not identified. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink, with rubrication and some overlining in red; some pages folded over; catchwords. First work: Cursive Naskh; 14 lines in written area 16 x 9 cm.; second work: Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 16.5 x 9.5 cm. First work: Cursive Naskh; second work: Nastaʻliq. Astronomical drawings throughout in red and black. Folio 1b-26a; Folio 27b-43a. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M305. Binding: blue grain over cardboard sides, dark blue cloth spine.Manuscript.
Abstract: Four volumes of a large compendium of Shiʻite law. Volume 2 is missing at least one leaf at the beginning.Binding note: Volumes 1-2, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; yellow paper doublures. Volume 3, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; spine and corners repaired. Volume 4, full red leather with blind-tooled fillets.Contents: Volumes 1-2: kitāb al-ṭahārah -- Volume 3: kitāb al-ṣalāh -- Volume 4: kitāb al-nikāḥ.Ms. codex.Volume 3 erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Title from colophon, volume 2, leaf 234b.Physical description, volumes 1-2: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; overlining in black. Spaces left for rubrication. Mild staining and a few paper repairs. First leaf of volume 1 is a replacement.Physical description, volume 3: 31 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.Physical description, volume 4: 24 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: Volumes 1-2 copied by one hand, likely early 19th century. Volume 3 dated 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1225 H 30 November 1810, by Ibn Rajab ʻAlī Khāmī ? Bābā-yi Samnānī (leaf 308b). Volume 4 dated 26 Rajab 1230 H 4 July 1815, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maqābī vocalization? al-Awānī al-Majrānī vocalization? (leaf 288a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا بواضح الدليل الى سبيل معادن العلم
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-11b: Treatise on fundamental Shiʻite beliefs.Contents: 2. leaves 12b-151b: al-Tuḥfah al-Qiwāmīyah fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Mahdī al-Sayfī.Contents: 3. leaves 154a-165b: Nuqilat min Miṣbāḥ al-Kafʻamī. Selections from Junnat al-amān al-wāqiyah wa-jannat al-īmān al-bāqiyah, a collection of prayers and devotions.Contents: 4. leaves 168b-169a: Marriage formula.Ms. codex.Title from text 2.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 13 lines per page; written in naskh in black on machine-made paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 19 lines per page, in two columns; written in naskh in black on machine-made paper; rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Text 2, Shaʻbān 1259 H September 1843, by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥājj Mullā Abū ! al-Qāsim al-Sumdānī ? (leaf 151b). Text 1 likely written at a somewhat later date.
Abstract: Collection consisting of two unbound codices and a leaf on disparate topics.Binding note: Loose in folder.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-57a: Turkish songs. Arranged by makam. Turkish in Arabic script.Contents: 2. leaves 58b-71b: Commonplace book of Persian and Arabic poetry and extracts from religious works. Excised from a larger manuscript.Contents: 3. leaf 72: Anecdote narrated by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArūḍī, tutor of al-Amīr Abū Kālanjār ibn al-Marzubān ibn al-Amīr ʻIzz al-Dawlah. Arabic.Ms. codices.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: Entire collection is stained and ragged; in fair condition.Codex 1: 215 x 143 mm. 20-21 lines per page, in 1-3 columns; written in small, casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication in red, green and blue.Codex 2: 194 x 120 mm. Varying lines per page; written in miniscule nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication.Leaf: 161 x 124 mm. 12 lines per page; written in large, casual naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Some vocalization.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 459Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand of opening section (through p.226) suggest perhaps 15th century, with paper and hand of final section suggesting late 16th or perhaps early to mid 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 85" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in now dull yellow paper with red leather over spine, traces of fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid European paper (crossbow in circle watermark visible) ; sewn in cream and light pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and beige, fair condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with flap lost, lifting and losses of paper and leather, abrasion, staining, etc.Support: Opening section on non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines in groups of three with 9-11 mm. between chains and 38 mm. between groups (horizontal, see p.40), cloudy formation, dark cream in color (possibly a second type with 8 laid lines per cm. and chain lines in groups of three with 9 mm. between chains and 47 between groups, see p.90, 176, etc.) ; following section on European laid paper of at least two types ; type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart, anchor in circle with six pointed star above watermark (see p.230, 234, 235, etc., compare nos. 61, etc. in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans), sturdy and highly burnished to glossy ; another type with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), three hats watermark (see p.261, 269, etc., compare nos.10 and 11 in Velkov), thin, crisp and transluscent, extremely well-burnished ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-34 mm. apart (horizontal), cross in an inverted tear drop watermark with "I M [?]" below (compare Heawood 964, etc.) ; some ink burn.Decoration: Keywords rubricated (in latter 18th century section, pp.226-327).Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq and naskh ; three or more hands ; opening through p.226 mainly in a naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq, serifless with effect of tilt to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (where present, quite casual to scarce in some sections) in distinct dots, with a few other hands supplying an occasional passage (see p.8, p.28, p.36, pp.44-46, etc.) ; from p.227 to close, an elegant naskh, mainly serifless with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders (many dramatically majmūʻah), pointing in distinct or conjoined dots (with two dots typically arranged vertically, one above the other), freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page.Collation: ii, 11 V(110), IV+1 (119), IV (127), 2 V(147), IV (155), V (165), 1 (166) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves, mistakenly repeats p.4 and p.6, and skips four pages between pp.261-262 and two pages each between pp.265-266 and pp.267-268).Explicit: "وقد يقال في الاول ايضا نقل من المعنى الحقيقي الذي هو الحائط الا انه لوحظ اولا تم الكتاب بعون الله الوهاب"Incipit: "قال الشيخ جار الله العلامة احسن الله اكرامه في دار المقامة الحمد لله الذي انزل القرآن كلاما مؤلفا منظما وصف الله سبحانه بعد الدلالة على انحصار جنس الحمد بانزال القرآن ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.7).Ms. composite codex.Fine composite copy of al-Jurjānī’s commentary on the first part of al-Kashshāf, the celebrated Qurʼān commentary by Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī, called Jār Allāh (d. 538/1144).
Book compiled by Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Kibsī. Ownership note, dated 1954.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير بني غامق اللون عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد وقد بدأ جلده في التآكل من طرف المخطوط جهة خيوط الحباكة وعليه آثار بلل وهو متنوع الخطوط وأحجام الخطوط والنُسَّاخ متعددون وعليه آثار بلل ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرCompiled volume, works of various origins and copyists. Naskh, Persian naskh and thuluth scripts, written in black and red ink. Traces of water damage and worm holes. Obscured labeling on the edge of the manuscript.
Binding note: Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 3a, 76a.Physical description: Text 1, 6-7 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 2, 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Both texts have rubrication and catchwords; text 1 has marginal and interlinear notes. Leaves 132-143 detached. Mild staining, a few paper repairs, ragged edges.Origin: Text 1, 23 Jumādá II 1096 H 27 May 1685, by ʻAbd ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Nabī al-Rammāḥī (leaf 74b). Text 2, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1096 H October 1685, by the same scribe (leaf 143b).1. leaves 2b-74b: Kitāb Mabādī al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.2. leaves 75b-143b: Ghāyat al-bādī fī sharḥ al-Mabādī / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī.Treatise on Shiʻite law followed by a commentary upon it.
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Three-quarter red leather with black leather covers; blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 2a-77a: Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī al-jamʻ bayna al-ashyāʼ wa-al-naẓāʼir / Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥillī.Contents: 2. leaves 79b-266a: Kitāb al-Intiṣār / al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá.Ms. composite codex.Title from both texts.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 14 lines per page; written in naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper; rubrication in green and catchwords. Text 2, 17-19 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper; rubrication and catchwords; hand changes on leaf 238a; leaves 80-83 are replacements. Some damp-staining and a few repairs, particularly at the beginning and end of each text.Origin: Text 1, 16 Rabīʻ I 985 H 3 June 1577 (leaf 77a). Text 2, 22 Rabīʻ I 972 H 28 October 1564 (leaf 266a).
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 508Origin: As appears in colophon on p.117, Risālah fī ʻaqāʼid al-suʼāl ʻan al-īmān copied by Mullā Muḥammad ibn Mullā Aḥmad al-Zand [?] al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī with transcription completed 16 Jumādá II [?] 1264 [ca. 20 May 1848]. As appears in colophon on p.134, transcription of al-Waṣīyah [Waṣīyat al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah] completed Ramaḍān 1274 [April-May 1858]. Other works likely copied around the same time. Ownership / purchase statement with contents listing on p.284 provides rough terminus ante quem for the entire majmūʻah of 1875 or 6.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inscription on inner front cover, "IL 425" and "M. 43" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark purple cloth with red leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; sewn in white thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and magenta, good condition ; overall in fair condition with only minor abrasion, lifting of leather, staining to board linings, etc.Support: European wove paper and laid paper of at least two types ; opening through p.158 in wove paper ; next and final quires (pp.159-178, 275 to close), flyleaves and board linings in a laid paper (possibly machine laid) with 'laid' lines more of a mesh / crosshatch, chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (vertical), watermark with stag leaping above pond (stag springing or salient, or even courant) and "B G" ; other gatherings (pp.179-218) in a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24-25 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including lion rampant in a coat of arms and eagle with "J V" [?] below (see p.179, etc.) ; latter quires (pp.209-274) in a type with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (vertical), and "F P" watermark (perhaps Fratelli Palazzuoli, period between initials in shape of triangle).Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; written area surrounded by red double rule-border ; written area of Risālah fī ʻaqāʼid al-suʼāl ʻan al-īmān surrounded by black rule-border ; some overlining in red.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; several fine hands with Turkish and Persianate features [Iraqi?] ; opening two works in a distinct hand (naskh), following works through Ṣūfic excerpts mainly in one hand (naskh-nastaʻlīq / talik) with some passages supplied in other hands, collection of poetry in still a different hand (naskh).Layout: Written in 23-27 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled ; written area divided to two columns to set off verses.Collation: i, 7 V(70), IV (78), 5 V(128), IV (136), IV-2 (142), i ; chiefly quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in the upper-outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; p.82 left partially blank ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [ Risālah fī al-ʻaqāʼid] "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تمت النسخة المباركة على يد الفقير ملا محمد بن ملا احمد الزند [؟] الشافعي مذهبا القادري طريقة غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن نظر بها وقرأ له ولوالديه سورة الفاتحة ١٦ ج سنة ١٢۶٤" ; [Waṣīyat al-Imām al-Aʻẓam] "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد فرغت هذه الوصية في شهر رمضان سنة الف ومائتين واربع وسبعين من [؟] بعد هجرة النبوة على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.20. p.285-p.288 : [blank].19. p.284 : [ownership / purchase statements].18. p.275-p.283 : [Majmūʻat shiʻr].17. p.269-p.274 : [blank].15. p.264-p.268 : [excerpts from Ṣūfī works].14. p.160-263 : [Fāʼidat raṣd al-ibrah ... etc., i.e. Aḥādīth wa-nuṣūṣ fiqhīyah, fatāwá wa-fawāʼid fiqhīyah].13. p.141-159 : Fāʼidah fī khawwāṣ irṣād al-silāḥ wa-shurb al-kaʼs wa-fī fawāʼid al-ṭarīqah al-Rifāʻīyah.12. p.135-140: Fāʼidah fī baʻḍ masāʼil min tartīb [?] kalimat al-tawḥīd wa-al-īmān wa-irkānihā.11. p.134 : ʻAdad ḥurūf al-Qurʼān manqūl min Bustān al-ʻārifīn min muṣannafāt Abī al-Layth.10. p.130-p.134 : Waṣīyat al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah Nuʻmān ibn Thābit / Abū Ḥanīfah.9. p.127-p.130 : Yuqraʼ hādhā al-duʻāʼ ʻinda al-nawm.8. p.126 : Aʻlamu anna al-kaffārāt al-mashhūrah hādhihi.7. p.125 : Jamʻ al-iʻtiqād li-ahl al-sunnah.6. p.119-p.125: al-Waṣīyah li-Abī Yūsuf Yaʻqūb / Abū Ḥanīfah.5. p.118-p.119 : Hādhihi ʻAqāʼid lil-Ghazālī / al-Ghazālī.4. p.107-p.117 : Risālah fī al-ʻaqāʼid al-suʼāl ʻan al-īmān / Abū Isḥāq al-Tūnisī.3. p.28-p.106 : ʻUyūn al-ḥaqīqah fī fatāwá al-ṭarīqah [revised and enlarged] /Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn Khamīs ibn ʻAlī al-Rifāʻī al-Baghdādī.2. p.4-p.27 : ʻUyūn al-ḥaqīqah fī fatāwá al-ṭarīqah /Aḥmad ibn Khamīs ibn ʻAlī al-Rifāʻī al-Baghdādī.1. p.3 : [contents listing].Fine collection (majmūʻah) of works and excerpts on various topics of Ṣūfism, articles of faith, fiqh, etc. conluding with a small collection of poetry. Contents listing on 'title page' (p.3).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 252Origin: As appears in colophon on p.281, opening works copied in the town (qaṣabah) of Ṭihrān by ʻAlī Riz̤ā ibn Ḥasan al-ʻAqlānī [?] al-Tankānī [?] with transcription completed in 1083 [1672 or 3]. As appears in colophon on p.334, al-Multaqayāt min kalām Aflaṭūn copied by Ibn Mīr Muḥammad Salīm al-Rāzī Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī with transcription completed 1098 [1686 or 7]. As appears in colophon on p.515, final work also copied by Ibn Mīr Muḥammad Salīm al-Rāzī Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī with transcription completed in Shaʻbān 1098 [June-July 1687].Former shelfmark: "٤٢٢" on paper spine label ; "254 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "216" inscribed in pencil on opening 'title page' (p.3).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in bright pink surface-dyed wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry octagonal central ornament and square cornerpieces built up of blind tooled rosettes as well as blind-tooled border in series of striated s-shaped stamps ; sewn in magenta thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and red, good condition ; overall in fair condition with significant abrasion, moisture damage, lifting and losses of leather, etc.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper of perhaps two types ; opening type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and rare chain lines visible, dark cream in color, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished ; final type (from p.283) with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) , quite thin, crisp and transluscent ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlining in red ; lacunae in text of final work where rubrics left unfilled.Script: Naskh and naskh nastaʻlīq ; two clear Persianate hands ; opening through p.281 in a fine naskh-nastaʻlīq, serifless, with tilt to the right, effect of words descending to baseline and superscripting of letters and words ; latter collection of philosophical treatises (from p.283 on) in an elegant naskh, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif, with mainly open counters, curvilinear descenders, adhering closely to baseline, and pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 16, 21, 22, and 18 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV (8), III (14), 2 IV(30), III (36), 27 IV(252), II+1 (257), ii ; mainly quaternions with occasional ternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.8. p.516 : [discussion in Persian of philosophical topics addressed in the preceding pages].7. p.283-p.515 : [collection of brief treatises on philosphical topics (see listing on p.283) opening with al-Multaqayāt min kalām Aflāṭūn].6. p.282 : [assorted excerpts].5. p.70-p.281 : [Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah, or Iʻjāz al-bayān fī tafsīr umm al-Qurʼān] / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.4. p.66-p.69 : Faṣl fī bayān miqdār al-sanah wa-taʻyīn al-ayyām al-ālihīyah allatī minhā yawm al-qiyāmah / Kamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Razzāq.3. p.54-p.65 : [Sharḥ Arbaʻīn ḥadīthan].2. p.28-p.54 : Wāridāt Shaykh Badr al-Dīn al-Shāshī / Badr al-Dīn al-Shāshī [?].1. p.3-p.28 : [al-Nuṣūṣ] / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.Fine composite collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of several works of Ṣūfism, ḥadīth, tafsīr, and philosophy, including works by Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d.1274), Badr al-Dīn al-Shāshī [?], Kamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (d. 1330?), etc. Contents listing at opening on 'title page' (p.1).
Abstract: "A commentary on a work of theology answering 30 questions of Zaydi-Mu'tazili doctrine."Title from introduction.Title from the top edge of the manuscript; contents.19/رجب/سنة 1028هـ لقطة رقم 414شرح مفيد على الكتاب الشهير المعروف بمصباح العلوم في معرفه الحي القيومBrockelmann, G I 403; S I 701. Copied from exemplar dated 2 July 1619. Ownership note, dated November 1948.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد كتب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر والبنفسجي ويبدو أنه لأكثر من ناسخ واحد حيث يحتوي على خطوط مختلفة منها النسخ والفارسيليلة الاثنين غرة جماد الأول سنة 135؟يبدو أنها سنة1035هـ لأنها نقلت عن نسخة المؤلف المنسوخة في 1028هـ والله أعلمIncipit: بسم الله...وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي انشا العالم من العدم واخترعه اختراعا واوجده بعد العدم المحض...وبعد فلما كان علم الكلام اشرف العلوم...Explicit: وقد روينا عن النبي صلعلم انه قال العلم الذي لا يعمل به كالكنز الذي لا ينفق منه اتعب صاحبه نفسه في جمعه ثم لم يصل الى نفعه...Naskh and Persian naskh scripts in different hands, written in black, red, green and purple ink.16 lines.
Abstract: Collection of texts on kalām and lexicology.Binding note: Paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards. Leather spine (damaged). The upper cover is wanting.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-34b: al-Kalām fī al-iʻtiqād al-khāliṣ min al-shakk wa-al-intiqād / ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʻAṭṭār.Contents: 2. fol. 35a-38a: Ḥukm masʼalat al-qadar / Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah.Contents: 3. fol. 38a-39b: Qaṣidah fī madḥ Ibn Taymīyah.Contents: 4. fol. 40a-138b: al-Alfāẓ al-kitābīyah.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.16 to 19 lines per page (17 lines fol. 40a-137b). Written in two different scripts: fol. 1a-39b in thick medium small naskh in black ink with re-inking in red ink for headings; fol. 40a-137b in thiner small naskh in black ink with larger script for headings. Even if the dates mentioned in the colophon are different, these two scripts might be from the same hand. Fol. 1a-39b: light cream glazed paper with vertical laid lines and chain lines (grouped by two?) visible. Some leaves are smaller (see fol. 14, 17). Fol. 40a-137b: thick light cream glazed paper. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.There are two dates of copy in the ms.: Muḥarram 788 (colophon text 1, fol. 34b) and Jumādá al-Ulá 623 (colophon text 4, fol. 137b).