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).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 609Origin: As appears in colophon at conclusion of final gloss, transcription completed ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah...") end of Muḥarram 897 [December 1491], which would imply quite an early copy. Other sections appear to be contemporary with this final gloss.Accompanying materials: Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf (p.1) and spine label "IL 183" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in light blue, salmon, light yellow) with black textile over spine (quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in purple wove paper ; resewn in white thread, six stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, deterioration of textile, etc.Support: non-European laid paper of perhaps several types ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes with 10-11 mm. between chains and 39 mm. between groups, possible group of four at 27 mm. from adjacent group of three ; another type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, quite distinct) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes (and perhaps fours) with 10 mm. between chains and 28-40 mm. between groups (see p.80, 94, etc.) ; at close, a type very similar to the opening if not the same with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes (and perhaps fours) with 9-10 mm. between chains and 39-42 mm. between groups ; all thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; written area and occasional marginalia surrounded by red rule-border in opening three works ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; three fine Turkish or Persianate hands ; Sharḥ Īsāghūjī and opening Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī (through p.76) in a fine naskh, serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, free assimilation of letters (initial kāf and following alif, point of final nūn with bowl, alif lām of definite article, etc.), somewhat elongated in the vertical, shaqq of kāf often sweeping dramatically upwards, pointing (of multiple dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots ; second ḥāshiyah (of Qarajah Aḥmad, pp.80-114) in a compact and delicate naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with marked tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders (rightward descenders tapered and sweeping somewhat dramatically) ; final ḥāshiyah (also of al-Bardaʻī, pp.120-140) in a bold, compact naskh, serifless with effect of tilt to the left (mainly) and of words descending to baseline, some extension of horizontal strokes, freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 15, 16 and 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 2 V(29), IV (37), 2 V(57), VI (69), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب كاتبه كشفى [؟] بن عيسى ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت بعون الله وحسن التوفيق وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة في اخر شهر محرم من شهور سنة سبع وتسعين وثمانمائة تم اين نبشتم تا بماند روزگار من نمانم اين بماند يادگار"Incipit: [Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] "الحمد لله الواجب وجوده الممتنع نظيره الممكن سواه وغيره ... وبعد فان كتاب الشيخ الامام قدوة الحكماء اثير الدين الابهري ... الشهير بايساغوجي لما كان علي بعض الاخوان متعسرا ونقضه [؟ وعلى بعضهم] متيسر [متيسرا] اردت ان اكتب بالتماسهم اوراقا لتنزيل تعسره وتعمم تيسره ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. composite codex.7. p.120- p.140 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bardaʻī.6. p.115-p.119 : [originally left blank, now carry a few brief excerpts].5. p.80-p.114 : [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Īsāghūjī] / Qarajah Aḥmad.4. p.75-p.79 : [originally left blank, now carry a few brief excerpts].3. p.48-p.76 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Bardaʻī] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bardaʻī.2. p.47: [originally left blank, now carries a few excerpts].1. p.4-p.46 : Sharḥ Īsāghūjī / Ḥusām al-Dīn Ḥasan al-Kātī.Fine composite copy of the commentary by Ḥusām al-Dīn Ḥasan al-Kātī (d.1359) on the Īsāghūjī, a collection of definitions for terms used in logic adapted from the Isagoge of Porphyry by Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. between 1263-5), followed in the same hand by the gloss [lacking preface] upon al-Kātī's commentary by al-Bardaʻī (d.1521), next the gloss of Qarajah Aḥmad (d.1450 or 51) in a different hand, and finally in still a different hand, another apparently quite early copy of the gloss by al-Bardaʻī.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 506Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.346b (p.692), copied by ("katabahu...") ʻAbd al-Faqīr. Date of transcription is not specified.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 366" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; on tail-edge "١٦٤".Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather with patches of light brown leather at edges of upper and lower covers and in repairs to spine ; Type II binding (with flap) ; paper pastedowns and flyleaves in rough brown paper ; interior of flap in yellow paper and the same red-brown leather leather ; upper and lower covers each carry a blind-stamped, scalloped (17 lobes) mandorla 52 mm. high (compare Déroche class. NSd 9) accompanied by pendants and a double border consisting of a series of fillets ; three pendants appear on the envelope flap and two on the fore-edge flap ; sewn in red thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, immaculate condition ; threads broken in table of contents and final bifolium ; in fair condition with abrasion and typical wear ; repairs.Support: A number of papers appear in the various parts of the codex ; [1] primary paper is an Oriental laid paper (possibly 15th century Egyptian or Persian paper?) with 3/3/2 chainlines, 8-11 mm. between chainlines, 46 mm. between the sets of 3 and 43 between the sets of 3 and 2 ; the laidlines are very closely set and not very distinct ; [2] table of contents supplied in a European laid paper with horizontal chainlines approx. 25 mm. apart and watermark, namely a 6-pointed star approx. 32 mm. high, centered on a chainline, with the letters C and S (?) beneath, each aprrox. 25 mm. high ; [3] initial replacement folia (quire following the table of contents) on a European laid paper with indistinct chainlines and no apparent watermark ; [4] other replacement folia (fourth quire and final three quires) in a European laid paper with chainlines approx. 24 mm. apart and watermark, namely a lion rampant in a shield with a trefoil above and writing beneath, "T O S C O L A N O".Decoration: Text rubricated with mainly overlining appearing in red ; a number of small diagrams appear in the margins of the book ; those on pp.332, 366, and 376 are extremely rudimentary and seem to deal with simple geometrical concepts ; two sets of circles on p.415 and p.416 occupy a section on astronomy, and the somewhat more elaborate and partially rubricated geometrical diagrams on p.458 and p.459 accompany a discussion of optics ; another oblong figure appears on p.466.Script: Naskh ; three Persianate hands ; [1] primary hand is a rather small, neat Persianate naskh, quite casually pointed and unvowelled ; alifs are almost vertical and sans serif ; The dot of the nūn is incorporated to the point of being non-existent ; ʻAlá written with a rightward-pointing descender ; [2] table of contents is in a very casual Persianate naskh, largely unpointed and totally unvowelled ; [3] replacement hand is a late Persianate naskh, pointed, unvowelled, with nūn having the incorporated dot.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page (main in 25, replacement folia at beginning in 24, replacement folia close in 21-23) ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah evident).Collation: III(6), 1+I (9), 1+II (14), III-1 (19), 16 V(179), VI(191), VII(205), 11 V(315), VI(327), V(337), IV+I (347) ; foliated in red Hindu-Arabic numerals, generally in the top left corner of each recto, begins with ١ on p.17 and ends with ۳۳۸ on p.691 ; obviously done sometime after the glossing and trimming of the ms. ; catchwords present, though many lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب كتبه عبد الفقير"Explicit: "ولكن هذا اخر الكلام من كتاب المواقف ونسأل الله تعالى أن يثبت قلبنا على دينه ولا بزيغه بعد الهداية ويعصمنا عن الغواية ويوقفنا للاقتداء برسول الله واصحابه والتابعين لهم باحسان ويعفو عن طغيان القلم وما لا يخلق [كذا] عنه البشر من السهو والذلل وان يعاملنا بفضله ورحمته انه هو العفو الرحيم قد تمت"Incipit: "ضمن خطبة كتابه الإشارة إلى مقاصد علم الكلام رعاية لبراعة الإستهلال فبسمل اولا يتمنا ثم قال الحمد لله العلى شانه إلى أخره وحاله في ذاته وصفاته وأقعاله فانه جامع لجهات علو الشان "Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine early copy of the commentary (completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand) on Kitāb al-mawāqif fī ʻilm al-kalām, the renowned work on theology by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ʻAḍūḍ al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 555Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Codex is comprised of large sections from a ms. dating to possibly the 14th (or even 13th century), supplemented by large sections of replacement leaves the bulk of which perhaps date to the 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 404" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western-style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; spine gold-tooled with title and fillets flanking raised bands ; resewn and fairly tightly bound such that sewing is difficult to examine ; in good condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: Original, older manuscript on non-European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, curved) and chain lines only faintly visible (as well as rib shadows) but possibly grouped with 9-10 mm. between chains, quite thick, soft and floccular ; opening replacement on non-European laid paper of perhaps two other distinct types, one with 8 laid lines per cm. (curved and sagging, horizontal) and no obvious chain lines, and another which may have grouped chain lines (see pp.17-18) ; the remaining replacement sections are on European laid paper of several types, including type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), 33-35 mm. between chain lines (vertical) and watermarks cross above triple mount in circle (see, p.22, etc., 85 cm. tall, compare Heawood 889) and bull's head with eyes, ears and snake on cross above (see p.24, 44, etc.), as well as "PA" or "BA" countermark (see p.180) ; another type with wheeled cart or "char à deux roues" watermark (see p.202, for design compare Briquet, "Papiers et filigranes des archives de Gênes 1154 à 1700," no.72) and at close type with cross above orb and three hats watermarks (for design compare Heawood 2593) ; staining and tide-lines.Decoration: Section headings, keywords, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; basmalah and ḥamdalah at opening in purple ink ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least three hands in both black and brown inks ; opening replacement section in a fine naskh, compact 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand in a thin line, serifless, with curivlinear descenders and pointing in distinct dots ; main replacements first seen at p.21 in a compact nastaʻlīq (talik) in a medium line, serifless, with mainly curvilinear descenders, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn typically assimilated with bowl, tilt to the right, etc. ; other hands in naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) make up the remaining replacement sections and are similar, but more compact ; main hand of older sections (in brown ink) first seen at p.27, a large naskh, 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand, serifless with mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, shaqq of kāf usually left off (and supplied later in black ink), final hāʼ often assimilated with preceding dāl or rāʼ, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in mainly in 21 lines per page (some sections in 29 lines) ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident in some sections).Collation: Rough assemblage of made quires (additions supplementing what lacked in the older, original manuscript) with sewing nearly impossible to examine ; only a few gatherings of original, older manuscript are intact and these appear to be quinions ; final leaves left blank ; occasional catchwords ; traces of quire numbering in older sections (see p.219) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, at least two different schemes with one following numerals on upper corner of the verso of the leaf, the other of the recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.453 and 454).Explicit: "ولان الحاجة تشتمل الغني والفقير الشرب والنزول والغني لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلة لغناه والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعائر الشرع واحكامه ... وقد جرى على الوعد في مبدأ بداية المبتدي ان اشرحها بتوفيق الله شرحا ارسمه بكفاية المنتهى فشرعت فيه والوعد يسوغ بعض المساغ وحين اكاد اتكئ عنه اتكاء الفراغ تبينت فيه نبذا من الاطناب وخشيت ان يهجر لاجله الكتاب فصرفت العنان والعناية الى شرح اخر موسوم بالهداية ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.4.Ms. composite codex.Composite copy of the first part (from Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf) of al-Marghīnānī’s celebrated commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law. Codex is comprised of large sections from an older manuscript supplemented with later replacements. Contents listing on 'title page' (p.3).
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Naskh and Nastaʻlīq in various hands.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Abstract: A general license to teach.Contents.وأنا الفقير الى الله يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى عبدالله الديلمي اروي بهذا السند اجازة وقراءه على المولى العلامة الصفي احمد علي عبدالرحمن الكحلاني لقطة 12إجازة عامة من القاضي أحمد بن أحمد بن محمد بن حسين السياغي الحيمي للسيد العلامة يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلميAutograph copy. Reading note from a certain ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kaḥlānī. Includes an isnad for the Sharḥ al-Azhār by Ibn Miftāḥ, dated 20 March 1970.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوطات أو ورقات ليس له غلاف، حيث أن عليه أثر تخريم ملف، تم كتابة خطه بالمداد الأسود، خطه نسخي مع فارسي متوسطشهر الحجه الحرام سنة 1377هـIncipit: بسم الله... وبه استعين الحمدُ لله الذى جعل العلم الشريف لاهل الارض سراجا وهّاجا... وبعد فان سيدى العلامه العماد يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلمي عافاه الله قرا عليّ من علوم الحديث صحيح مسلم وسنن ابي داود وموطا الامام مالك بروايه يحيى بن يحيى الليثي وسبل السلام للبدر الامير...Explicit: وعليه التثبت في الروايه والدرايه والعمل بالسنه النبويه وعدم تقديم اقوال الرجال والوقوف عند المتشابهات وان لاينساني من صالح الدعوات سيما في اوقات الاجابات واوصيه بتقوى الله وسلوك طريقة العلما العارفين وملازمة العلم والعمل وصلى الله وسلم علا سيدنا محمد والهNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black ink. Unbound, with some holes in the paper.28-32 lines.فائدة مكتوبة بالمداد الأزرق وهي كالآتي: سند شرح الأزهار أرويه عن شيخي العلامه السيد أحمد بن علي الكحلاني رحمه الله وهو يرويه عن شيخه السيد العلامة محمد بن زيد الحوثي من أوله الى عتق ... وكتب يحيى بن محمد بن يحيى الديلمي بتأريخ 12/ محرم / 1390هـ لقطه12
Abstract: Fatwas of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī, collected in four parts (qism) by his pupil Kamāl al-Dīn Isḥāq al-Maghribī (see fol. 2a and 2b).Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).18 to 20 lines per page. The script changes from fol. 76b on. Written in black ink with use of red in medium small casual naskh with larger script for the headings. From fol. 76b on, medium large naskh. Light cream glazed paper with laid lines visible. Between fol. 26 and 27: Note on a smaller piece of paper probably by the same hand. Fol. 35b blank. Fol. 1a-2a: inscriptions, seals, short texts. Fol. 126a-129b: several short texts and inscriptions.Collation: Paper, fol. 129 ; 1-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (-1, at the end) ; horizontal catchword at the end of most quires.Copied in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 718 by Ismāʻīl ibn Sharaf ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 125b).Incipit: بسم ... اللهم يسر لااله الا الله عده للقا الله ربنا ... هذه الفتاوى التى صدرت من الشيخ ... الشهرزورى المعروف بابن الصلاح رتبها الشيخ ... كمال الدين اسحاق ... على اربعة اقسام قسم فى شرح ايات من كتاب اللهExplicit: و يذكر نحوهما من مزيلات الملك ومن الفرق بين ذلك و بين الابرآء وصحّ فلن يتعقبه ما يُزيلُ حُكمه فلمْ يحتجْ الى يمين تنفع احتمال ذلك والله اعلم هذا ما اتفق للشيخ ... ابن الصلاح رحمه الله تعالى
Abstract: A collection of literary, scholarly, historical and poetic texts, with the beginning part of the dīwān of ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAnsī.Contents.سفينة أدبية تحتوي في أولها على ديوان العنسيIncludes numerous fragments and poems, among them excerpts from the Sharaf asrār al-ṭibb lil-ʻayān by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥamawī, a history of the Ayyubid dynasty in Yemen, a letter by Abū Bakr al-Khwārizmī to the people of Ṭabaristān, selections of poetry by Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā Ḥillī, and an excerpt on astronomy.عبارة عن مجلد بني اللون تمت حباكته من أعلى المخطوط وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرالجمعة 18/ذي الحجة/سنة 1218هـIncipit: واحد بعد واحِد . ومما اتَّفَق للشيخ العلامه عبدالرحمن بن محَمد الذهبى تمام دخوله صنعا المحميَّه أنه طلب من القاضى العلامه البَليغ ذو اللطايف التى لعبت بالعقول...على بن محمد العنسى رحمهما الله ان يرسل اليه بدِيوان شعره فأرسله اليه وكتب بهذين البيتين ضمَّن فيهما قول امرء القيس اَيَا مَن لَهُ النظم الذى نُسِيَت به قفا نبك من ذكرى حبيبِ ومَنْزِلِ...Explicit: تذيع دموعى سر وجدي كانها لنص احاديث الغرام شروح ولولاك ما هب النسيم معطراً ولا راح نشر المسك منك يفوح. لقطة رقم (148).Naskh, Persian naskh and thuluth scripts, written in black and red ink.12-37 lines.1-منقول من كتاب شرف أسرار الطب للعيان تأليف محمد بن أحمد بن علي الحموي. لقطة رقم (149-151). 2-فوائد متفرقة منها: تاريخ مختصر في ذكر أيام بني أيوب ودولتهم في اليمن .من كلام الشيخ أبو بكر الخوارزمي رسالة كتبها إلى أهل طبرستان. مختارات من أشعار الصفي الحلي.نقول في علم الفلك. أشعار متفرقة لعدد من الشعراء. من اللقطة رقم (152-208).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 908 v.2Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 57Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title, owner and decorative accents over raised bands "الاسفار | 2 | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine but appears to be over cords, in white thread, five stations ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined wove paper of several types.Decoration: Some headings rubricated.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; both in a medium to bold line ; naskh, a clear, modern hand, mainly serifless (though right-sloping head-serif appears on lām of occasional lām alif) and rounded with curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; ruqʻah, compact, quick hand, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the left, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 26 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in pencil and black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "قد لا يكون في غير محله ان نطيل البيان في هذا الملخص الاجمالي فنضيف الى ذلكم [ذلك] التبيان السالف مجملا من العبارات عما وقع الكلمة فلسفة في هذه المملكة من التحريف تارة ومن التطور في الاطوار المختلفة التي تقلبت فيها الى الوقت الحاضر تارة اخرى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful (though seemingly acephalous) draft copy (مسودة) of an introductory work on philosophy addressing the history of philosophy (p.5), the Eastern philosophers (p.15), the Ancient Greek philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, etc.) (p.24), Medieval philosophers (p.145), Modern philosophy (p.191) and contemporary philosophy (p.497).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 150Origin: As appears in colophon on p.397, copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Khiḍr [?]. Colophon lacks year transcription was completed ; paper suggests early 17th century.Accompanying materials: Slip carrying notes (paginted pp.21-22).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 71. Hasan Chelebi's glosses on the Mutawwal." ; "۲٤" on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) and 'title page' (p.3) ; "٤١٦" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (orange-red, blue, yellow) with spine, foreedge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper pastedown in laid paper, lower board lining in pink-tinted laid paper ; interior of envelope flap in marbled paper ; sewn in cream thread, two and four stations (alternating) ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, some lifting and losses of paper and leather, staining, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs in red leather.Support: European laid paper in several types ; first type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-30 mm. apart (horizontal), anchor in circle watermark with trefoil above (compare Heawood 2), quite thick, sturdy and well-burnished ; second type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), crossbow in circle watermark with trefoil above (compare Piccard 123860 and 123861), thinner but sturdy and well-burnished ; next type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), crown with star and crescent above watermark (compare Heawood 1132), thick, sturdy and well-burnished ; final type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart, angel in circle watermark with flower/leaf above ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; occasional textual dividers in red and black.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh, several hands ; mainly naskh-nastaʻlīq virtually serifless with mainly closed counters, effect of tilt to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), elongation of horizontal strokes, final nūn occasionally reversed (re-curved) ; naskhs fairly compact with mainly closed counters, rounded and freely ligatured, some with tilt to the right others to the left (see pp.283-306 and pp.347-370).Layout: Written in 23, 25 and 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 V(80), II (84), 4 V(124), IV (132), IV+1 (141), VI (153), V (163), IV+2 (173), 2 VI (197), I (199) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and insert ; skips two pages each between pp.265-266 and pp.271-272).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم هذا الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب في ليلة يوم الثلثاء في شهر المرجب عن يد عبد الضعيف الشيخ مصطفى بن خضر [؟] غفر الله له ولوالديه"Explicit: "والتذكير للاحكام المذكورة في علمي المعاني والبيان انما لم يتعرض للبديع لكونه خارجا عن [البلاغة]"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي الهمنا حقائق المعاني ودقائق البيان الاقرب الى الفهم ان المراد بالالهام في هذا المقام معناه اللغوي وهو الاعلام مطلقا لا يحتاج ارادة ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Fine copy of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Fanārī's (Hasan Çelebî) gloss on al-Sharḥ al-muṭawwal, the longer commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 968Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; though possibly copied for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), likely in Egypt in the late 1930s.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 117Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in dull gold ; cover gold-stamped with "كشف الاسرار" ; sewn in heavy white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Machine laid and wove papers of a few different types ; opening type (pp.1-4, 17-20) machine laid, lined and with watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see p.101 to close and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91) ; next type (pp.5-8, 13-16) also machine laid and lined but without watermark visible ; next type (pp.9-12, 21-40) a machine wove paper, brown in color, somewhat acidic ; finally (p.41 to close) still another machine wove type, cream in color.Decoration: Some headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Naskh ; two main modern hands, though possibly supplied by the same copyist ; opening and final works in a careful, compact naskh in a medium to thin line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; middle work in a larger, bolder naskh, seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs mainly on lām, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15, 11-14, 11, and 15-21 lines per page ; some sections frame-ruled (see p.42 and following).Collation: i, 3 V(30), 3 II(42), i ; quaternions and binions ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (distinct for each work) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: [Kashf al-asrār] "وجواهر العلم المخزونة المصونة وانه في ظاهره يحكي عن معنى" ; [Jawāhir al-asrār] "واذا جاء روح القدس المعزي الذي يرسله ربي باسمي فهو يعلمكم كل شيء ويذكركم كل ما قلت لكم" ; [Lawḥ min al-nuqṭah al-ūlá] "وقد اطلعت على مغزاه وزبدته ولا من مبشرة الا بعثت بها اليك انتهت هذه الريحانة التي اقتطفناها من باقة لوح من الواح النقطة الاولى الناظمة في عقدها كل معنى ثمين ومبحث سمين والله مهدي من يشاء الى صراط اليقين وهو حسبنا ونعم الامين ... الضمين"Incipit: [Kashf al-asrār] "بحمد ربنا العلي الاعلى الحمد لله الذي اظهر الشمس بقدرته والاح النور بقوته واطلع الوجه من قمص الامر بحكمته ..." ; [Jawāhir al-asrār] "هو العلي الاعلى يا ايها السالك في سبيل العدل والناظر الى طلعة الفضل قد بلغ كتابك وعرفت سؤالك سمعت لحنات قلبك في سرادق فؤادك ..." ; [Lawḥ min al-nuqṭah al-ūlá ] "لوح من النقطة الاولى الحمد لله الذي اظهر الشمس بقدرته والاح النور بقوته واطلع الوجه من قمص الامر بحكمته ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' for opening work (p.1).Ms. codex.3. p.53-p.84 : Lawḥ min al-Nuqṭah al-ūlá [or Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār] / Baháʼuʼlláh [?].2. p.41-p.52 : Jawāhir al-asrār fī maʻārij al-asfār / Baháʼuʼlláh.1. p.1-p.40 : Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār / Baháʼuʼlláh [?].Careful copy of a small collection (majmūʻah) of Bahai works namely Jawāhir al-asrār fī maʻārij al-asfār, a concise treatise by Baháʼuʼlláh (Bahāʼ Allāh), Mīrzā Ḥusayn ʻAlī Nūrī (d.1892), flanked by Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār, in incomplete form at the opening of the codex and then apprently repeated at the close under the title Lawḥ min al-Nuqṭah al-ūlá, possibly also of Baháʼuʼlláh.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 536Origin: According to colophon on fol.40a, copied ("katabtuhu") in Shīrāz by al-ʻArshī, 746 [1345 or 1346].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from YahudaBinding: Covered in blue cloth without boards; Type III (without flap); modern, certainly not original.Support: non-European laid paper; laid lines sometimes run vertically, sometimes horizontally; no chain lines visible; 20 laid lines in 17mm; watermarked European laid paper is used for the substituted leaf at fol.28 as well as for the repairs at the top of fol.40; chain lines spaced roughly 21 mm. apart and running horizontally; watermark may be pot with grapes.Decoration: Text of fol.12a is rubricated.Script: Mainly naskh with elements of taʻlīq; medium Persian hand with words descending onto the baseline, partially pointed and with rare vocalization, somewhat difficult to read; fol.21 and fol.28 are in a small, neat Persian naskh.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page except for the inserted folia (fol. 21 and fol. 28) which range from 23-26 lines per page.Collation: iv, 4 V (40) ; chiefly quinions; catchwords present; pagination added later in pencil, Western numerals.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتبته بشيراز سنة 746 العرشي غفر الله له"Explicit: "والفطنة والذكاء يشعر [كذا] بسرعة الادراك [؟] لما غاب عن المدرك والمعرفة قد [كذا] سبق نكرة فلا يمنع عن اطلاق شيء منه الا شيء مما ذكرناه فان حقق لفظ لا يوهم اصلا بين المتفاهمين ولم يرد الشرع بالمنع منه فانا نجوز اطلاقه قطعا والله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ابو حامد محمد بن محمد بن محمد الغزالي نعمة الله ورضوانه عليه فالحمد لله المتفرد بكبريائه وعظمته المتوحد بتعاليه وصمديته الذي قصر اجنحة العقول ... بعد فقد سألني اخ في الله يعين [؟] في الدين اجابته شرح معاني اسماء الله الحسنى ..."Title from recto of first flyleaf.Ms. codex.Treatise on the divine attributes, or ninety-nine names of God, and whether men may imitate them. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Abstract: A commentary on a work of Arabic grammar.Title from introduction.Contents; ownership note on p. 1.ضحوة السبت 11/رمضان/سنة 897هـالفوائد الضيائيهOwnership notes. Dedication to ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥaymī. Includes excerpts from the dīwān of al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī Habal.بعناية مالكه: عبدالرحمن بن حسن الحيميجيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه نقشة محفورة على الجلد تم استبدال الصفحات الأولى منه بورق حديث يبدو أنه كتب بخط صاحب المكتبة السيد العلامة محمد بن محمد بن محمد الكبسي وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وبداية الصفحات الأصلية عليها إطار مزدوج من اللقطة رقم (51-128)بعد صلاة العصر يوم الخميس لعله 15/جماد الآخر/سنة 1086هـIncipit: بِسْمِ اللهِ...الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيئه وعلى اله واصحابه المتادبين بآدابه اما بعد فهذه فوائد وافيه بحل المشكلات الكافيه...Explicit: المفتوح ما قبلها يقلب الفا كقولك اضربن اضربا تشبيها لها بالتنوين...اللهم اجعل خاتمه امورنا خيرا ولا تلحق بنا من تبعه سرورنا ضيرا...لقطة رقم 290Naskh script, written in black and red ink, with the text enframed in red. Some pages have been replaced, written in Persian naskh script. Two torn pages.25 lines.نقول من ديوان القاضي الشيعي شرف الدين الحسن بن علي بن جابر الهبل. لقطة رقم (291) أولها: حب علي وبنيه اهل التقى والرشد فرض على كل الورى من والدٍ أو ولد
Abstract: Composite volume, comprising two glosses on al-Talwīḥ ilá kashf ḥaqāʼiq al-Tanqīḥ, a commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 791/1389) on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346), on uṣūl al-fiqh, written by two distinct hands.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in green paper and brown leather (marbled paper on envelope flap). Red-dyed paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 2a-137b: al-Tarjīḥ ḥāshiyat al-Talwīḥ / Burhān al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīwāsī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 919.Contents: 2. fol. 138a-437b: Ḥāshiyat ʻalá al-Talwīḥ / Aḥmad ibn Kamāl Pāshā. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 924.Ms. codex.Title from table of contents on fol. 1a (later hand).Physical description: Text 1 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 17 lines per page (133 x 104 mm.). Cream paper, soft, with chain lines and laid lines visible ; quaternions. Text 2 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 17 lines per page (112 x 65 mm.). Light cream paper, glossy, with a few chain lines visible and European paper with watermark ; quinions. Fol. 1 is a later addition. Table of contents and biographical note from Kashf al-ẓunūn on fol. 1a.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl thānī 26". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 250".Origin: According to colophon, Text 1 copied in 841 H. (fol. 137b). Text 2 appears to date to a later period.
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Irshād al-adhhānAbstract: a work on Shiʻite fiqh."Binding note: Volume 2, full olive green leather with red leather doublures; front cover detached. Volume 3, full black leather with red leather doublures. Volume 4, full red leather with black leather doublures; covers detached.Contents: Volumes 2-3: kitāb al-ṣalāh -- Volume 4: kitāb al-zakāh through kitāb al-ṣawm.Ms. codex.Title from colophon, leaf 230a, volume 3.Volume 2 erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description, volumes 2-3: 23 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; a few leaves detached.Physical description, volumes 4: 23 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; partially disbound.Origin: Volumes 2-3 copied by the same scribe, likely early 18th century. Volume 4 dated 1125 H 1713 or 1714, by Ibn Mullā Ḥusayn Muḥammad ʻAlī Hirminjardī vocalization? (leaves 127b, 215a).الحمد لله ... کتاب الصلوة الصلوة لغة هي الدعا قال الله تعالى وصل عليهم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 240Origin: As appears at close, executed by Mustafa el-Haşimî known as Kadızade in 1195 [1780 or 1].Former shelfmark: "550 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on upper board lining ; "107" in pencil on recto of opening panel.Binding: Pasteboards faced in gold-flecked, pale yellow paper and framed in tan leather (covering board edges / turn-ins and likely spine at one time) now with dark purple leather (and Japanese paper repair) over spine (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; opens vertically ; board linings in magenta paper ; gold rule-borders on leather edging ; overall in fairly good condition ; repairs in Japanese paper ; occasional repair to hinges in same dark purple leather.Support: Written area on well-burnished laid paper, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (pale peach-tinted, pink-tinted, light blue-tinted, orange-tinted, etc. with colors of facing panels matching) and mounted.Decoration: Written area (and divisions within) surrounded by gold frame set off by black and white fillets ; written area set into a frame of tinted paper (colors of facing panels match).Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; in thuluth (sülüs) and naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in four lines per page ; two large lines thuluth and two smaller centered lines in naskh, constituting two distinct streams of textCollation: Eleven 'panels' hinged together with tan leather.Colophon: "مشقه اضعف العباد السيد مصطفى الهاشمى المعروف بقاضى زاده سنه ١١٩٥ه"Explicit: "وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجد ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير ا ب ت ج ح د ز ذ ر س ش ص ط ع و ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) in this case a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) employing first (in seventeen kıt'alar) the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat) and closing with three kıt'alar of mürekkebat exercises employing the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı) and a prayer.
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 2(bis)b-36a: Risālah fī ḥujjīyat khabar al-wāḥid wa-al-ijmāʻ / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sarāb.Contents: 2. leaves 36b-38b: Risālah fī al-ijmāʻ.Contents: 3. leaves 39a-53b: Persian treatise on ṣalāh. Incomplete at beginning and end; consists of at least three fuṣūl.Contents: 4. leaves 54a-58a: Arabic treatise of advice and admonishments. Incomplete at beginning.Contents: 5. leaves 58a-58b: Namāz-i sāʻat-i ghaflat. In Persian.Contents: 6. leaves 59a-61b: Manqūl min Kitāb Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah / min taṣānīf ... Aḥmad al-Aradabīlī. In Persian.Contents: 7. leaves 63b-83b: al-Risālah al-qadīmah fī ithbāt al-wājib / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī.Ms. composite codex.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the third leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description, texts 1-2: 21 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 1 in small naskh and text 2 in nastaʻliq. Catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, texts 3-6: 15 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, text 7: 21 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords and marginal notes. Marginal damp staining; several leaves have heavier water damage and are somewhat smudged.Origin: Text 1 completed in Ramaḍān 1105 H April-May 1694, by the author (leaf 36a); text 2 likely completed around the same time. Text 4 completed on 20 Rabīʻ I 1093 H 29 March 1682 (leaf 58a); texts 3, 5, 6 likely completed around the same time. Text 7 completed in 972 H 1564 or 1565 in Mashhad Imām al-Ḥusayn Karbalāʼ, by ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Māzandarānī (leaf 83b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 400Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.166-167, Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî copied by al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad (Hacı İbrahim bin Hacı Mehmet), keeper of the two lamps in the service of the sultan [?] ("الخليفة على السراجين المخصوصين بالخدمة السلطانية"), with transcription completed Jumādá I 1135 [February-March 1723]. Index lacks dated colophon though transcription likely executed around the same time ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: Inserts carrying continuation of glosses (paginated pp.73-74, 155-156).Former shelfmark: "٣۰٣" inscribed in black ink on upper cover ; "۱۷٥" inscribed in black ink on front flyleaf ; "550 [?] T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on back flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown to black leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings in marbled paper (mainly in blue-green, lavender, orange, and red), leather hinges (not extension of spine lining in this instance) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (red recessed onlays), gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) and pendants, along with tooled accents (mainly rosettes) and border (guilloché roll defined by gold fillets) in gold ; design continues on flap ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and light blue, damaged with cores exposed ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor staining and abrasion.Support: European laid paper of several types ; in opening work (through p.60), mainly a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24-26 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of crown with heart above grapes (raisin, see p.42, 44, 45, 48, etc.) and countermark "AS" [?] (see p.52, etc.), quite sturdy, beige in color, burnished, and a thinner and smoother type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) with cartouche and crown above (see p.22, etc.) ; in second work (p.61 to close), mainly a type with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (vertical, more distinct), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (horizontal, more distinct), and watermark of grapes under crown (see p.86, 88, 100, 102, etc.), transluscent and crisp though quite sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, beige to buff in color, and another thinner type, lighter in color, with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of lion rampant [?] watermark (see p.62, 126, 130, 162, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of index on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche (carrying the opening heading in red "باب الالف مع الباء") flanked by vegetal motifs in gold, surmounted by scalloped dome or semi-circular piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in gold ; splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî on p.62, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in pink, lavender, red and orange on a blue and pale gold ground, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with elegant swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, pink, white, blue, lavender, orange, red, etc. on a pale gold and blue ground, itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents, entire piece set in a well of light blue, pink and gold bands ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets, divisions within and margins defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords, sections headings, numerals, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least two elegant Ottoman hands ; bulk of index in a delicate naskh, partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, freely ligatured (with point of final nūn usually conjoined with bowl), fully vocalized ; final portion of index (see p.58) in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik) ; Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî in another elegant naskh in a bolder line, mainly serifless (though serif rarely appears) with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, fully vocalized ; glosses accompanying Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî in a quite compact naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik).Layout: Written mainly in 13 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; for every other leaf, entire written area (at roughly the ruled marginal dimensions) is devoted to gloss ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III+4 (10), IV (18), V (28), I+1 (31), 5 V(81), I+1 (84), i ; chiefly quinions ; occasional lacuna on leaves ruled for glosses ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and skips opening leaf).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "ولما من الله على محرر هذه السطور بتنميق الحروف على قواعد الرسم المخبور حمده على انعامه وفضله وكرمه اذ اهله لنعم عليه منها ملابس وكل نعمة منها عنده هي انفس النفايس وكان محررها الفقير الاواه الحاج ابراهيم بن الحاج محمد الخليفة على السراجين المخصوصين بالخدمة السلطانية الراجى كل منهما عفو مولاه فى تاريخ سنة خمس وثلاثين ومائة والف من شهر جمادى الاولى من السنة المزبورة غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة ولجميع المسلمين م م م"Explicit: [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] "فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلات بو كتابى اوكرن ايج آب حيات شاهدى يه هركيم ايلرسه دعا ايده محشرده شفاعت مصطفا"Incipit: [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] "بنام خالق وحى وتوانا قديم وقادر وبينا ودانا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.3. p.62-p.167 : [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] / Şahidî İbrahim Dede.2. p.60-p.61 : [blank].1. p.2-p.59 : [index for the vocabulary of Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî].Elegant copy of the well-known versified Persian-Turkish vocabulary of Şâhidî İbrahim Dede of Muğla (d.1550) with extensive glosses (occupying every other leaf), preceded by an index of the vocabulary arranged by letter.
Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Complete Qur'an of 267 folios; naskh script; illuminated sura-headings; painted lacquer binding with floral and arabesque designs.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: paper
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Large, clear Naskh.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp golden-brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 12.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and smudging.Origin: According to note on leaf 1a, this copy is a holograph.Incipit: الحمد لله فياض عوارف المعارف
Abstract: Commentary on al-Fiqh al-nāfiʻ by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Samarqandī.Ms. codex.Title from rubric on fol. 1a.Physical description: Fol. 5-89 and 119-245 written in thick medium small naskh in black ink, with 29 lines per page (250 x 140 mm.), on dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 91-118 written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 27 lines per page (195 x 125 mm.), on cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Collation notes on the margin. . Fol. 4 is a later replacement. According to catchword and foliation in black ink in Arabic numerals, several leaves missing between fol. 4 and 5 (fol. 5 is numbered "12" in the foliation in Arabic numerals). Fol. 58 (65 in the foliation in Arabic) is the beginning of the ninth quire. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements and a table of contents. Stained with water, with loss of text.Label pasted on upper cover with illegible inscription. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 506". Inscription in Arabic script on fol. 1a, reading: "Numrah 9".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by Burhān ibn Ismāʻīl Shaykh ibn QYMS(?) Ḥājjī al--ūR-āṭī on Wednesday, the first night (ghurrah) of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 703 July 1304 (fol. 245b).Copyist: Burhān ibn Ismāʻīl Shaykh ibn QYMS(?) Ḥājjī al--ūR-āṭī.Incipit: الحمد لله الذى امدّ اولياه فى العاجلة بانواع النعم واعدّ اعداه فى الاجله باصناف النقم ... وبعد فان كتاب النافع فى كثرة جواهره ودرره كبحر لجي وسماء ذات درارى ... قال الامام ... ناصر الدين المدينى ... الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا امده للابد الحمد وصف بالجميل على جهة التفضيل
Abstract: Copy of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī. Just after colophon, prayer, starting with "Yā Khāliq al-khalq".Binding note: Marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Dark brown leather spine and outer edges of the covers. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the tail of the text block.'15 lines per page. Fol. 1-29 are later replacements on European glazed paper with watermark, written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Fol. 30-203 on thick light cream paper with pulp and lines visible (frame-ruled), in medium small naskh in black ink (faded), with use of red. Interlinear and marginal annotations by a later hand. Pagination in black ink using Arabic numerals (starting with "1" on fol. 1b). Several inscriptions and short excerpts on the pastedown of the upper cover and fol. 1a. Inscription in Western numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "79" (corresponds to Brill\'s catalog. See HoutsmaM. Th. Catalogue d\'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcsno. 132).'Copy completed in ---? al-Khalīl, on 19 Muḥarram 768 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn al-Khalīlī al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 203b).Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام ابو محمد القاسم بن علي بن محمد بن عثمان الحريري البصرى رحمه الله تعالى اللهم انا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان والهمت من التبيان ... 2أ ... وبعد قد جرى ببعض اندية الادب الذي ركدت في هذا العصرِ ريحهExplicit: فقال اجعل الموت نصب عينك وهذا فراق بيني وبينك فودعته وعبراتي تتحدرن من المأقي وزفراتي يتصعدن من التراقي وكانت هذه خاتمة التلاقي تمت قال الرييس ابو محمد القاسم بن علي رحمه الله هذا اخر المقامات التي انشاتها للاغترار وامليتها 203أ بلسان الاضطرار وقد الجيت الى ان ارصدتها للاستعراض وناديت عليها في سوق الاعتراض هذ مع معرفتي بانها من سقط المتاع ... ولكن كان ذلك في الكتاب مسطورًا وانا استغفر الله تعالى مما اودعتها من اباطيل اللغو واضاليل اللهو واسترشده الي ما يعصم من السهو ... وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والاخره والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته وسلامه على سيدنا محمد عبده ورسوله ... ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 482Origin: As appears in colophon on p.515, transcription completed 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1116 [ca. 15 April 1705] by Bakīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Scrap with notes and seal impression between pp.40-41.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, 'title page' (p.1), and spine label, "IL 350a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in perhaps once-tinted laid paper with edges/turn-ins in red-brown leather and spine covered in paper (manuscript waste) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear visible impression of stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration) ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations, gone from many quires ; worked endbands in blue, damaged with core exposed ; overall in quite poor condition with significant abrasion and staining, upper cover fully detached, probable loss of flap, lifting and losses of paper (particularly at spine), delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (vertical), and grapes (raisin) under cartouche with "P A" [?] and crown above watermark (see p.1, etc.), quite thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished ; another sturdier type with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (vertical), no watermarks visible (see pp.377-416, etc.) ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; at least three hands ; opening hand through p.177 a nastaʻlīq (talik), bold Turkish hand, virtually serifless and quite compact with marked tilt to the right, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; hand supplying by p.177 through p.301 a small and rather compact naskh, partially though irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters ; hand supplying p.302 to p.446 another nastaʻlīq (talik) similar to the opening hand, also compact with dramatic inclination to the right ; at p.447 reverts back to the naskh and continues in this hand to the close.Layout: Written mainly in 34-35 lines per page.Collation: V-1 (9), 25 V(259) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between pp.3-4).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تم بعون الله وحسن توفيقه على يدي افقر الورى واحوجهم بكير بن محمد بن اسماعيل تمه في يوم الثاني بعد صلوة الظهر العشرون من شهر ذي الحجة في سلك سنة ستة عشر ومائة والف من الهجرة المصطوية [كذا] عليه افضل التحية واكمل الثنية واسأل الله العفو والعافية ... واحشرنا معهم بلطفك يا رب العالمين"Explicit: "ولانه ثبت فضيلتهم على القرن الثاني بدلائل بكثيرة من الايات والخبار"Incipit: "احمد الله ملأ السموات وملأ الارض وما يشاء بعد هذه الاشياء ... وبعد فقد الح علي زمرة خلاني وثلة خلصاني ان اشرح لهم كتاب المصابيح تصنيف الامام الهمام ... ركن الشريعة محيي السنة ابي محمد الحسين بن مسعود الفراء ... فاجبتهم الى ذلك واوردت في اول الكتاب مقدمة في اصطلاحات اصحاب الحديث وانواع علوم الحديث واوردت فيه كل راو لم يكن مذكورا في متن المصابيح وتركت ذكر من هو مذكور فيه وسميته بكتاب المفاتيح في شرح المصابيح ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.2.Ms. codex.Careful copy of a commentary on Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah, the ḥadīth collection compiled from various sources and arranged by subject and degree of authority by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Farrāʼ al-Baghawī (d.1117?).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 220Origin: As appears in colophon at end of roll, main section copied by Ḥusayn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Khurāsānī with transcription completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 727 [?] [October-November 1327?] ; opening section (and repairs to main section) certainly much later than main section, perhaps 18th or 19th century.Accompanying material: a. Metal case in the form of a cylinder decorated with incised diamond pattern with lid (only slightly convex) ; case retains one ring through which a cord may have passed, a second ring has been lost -- b. Waxy, brown oil cloth now in two pieces which once wrapped roll inside case.Support: Each section in a distinct paper type ; opening section (first 895 mm., roughly 104-107 mm. wide, three pieces of paper) in type with roughly 10-11 laid lines per cm. (parallel with the length of the roll, fairly distinct) and no chain lines or watermarks plainly visible, dense and sturdy, burnished ; bulk of roll (roughly 3530 mm., 110-112 mm. wide, at least six pieces of paper) on a non-European (likely Persian) paper, highly sized and burnished, reinforced with further paper backing and repairs.Decoration: Text of opening section bordered by red double-rule border, table / jadwal with ninety-nine names ruled in red, border texts defined by red rules, openings with depiction of the "seal of prophecy" (مهر نبوت) here "صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی" ; main section opens with a long cartouche (oriented along the length of the roll) with illuminated heading "اسماء الله تعالى" in thuluth and basmalah in plaited and knotted kufic, a central field filled with floral and vegetal designs executed in micrography, bordering lozenges and alternating circles filled with further micrography (mainly chrysographed, some in blue and black) and Qurʼānic texts in large tawqīʻ approaching thuluth (chrysographed), and further border of rubricated Qurʼānic text in fine riqāʻ ; an even longer cartouche appears next, with illuminated headings for each of several sections ("من اسماء الله تعالى نودونه نام،" "هذا دعاء حرز الاماني،" اسماء الاربعون") which are each in a different layout incorporating the nintey-nine names, Qurʼānic and prayer texts in ghubār, naskh, thuluth, tawqīʻ, etc. in gold, red, black and some blue in a highly symmetrical fashion, with the various elements defined by heavy bands of gold flanked by red double-rules.Script: [opening section] Naskh and tawqīʻ ; [main section] Naskh, thuluth, tawqīʻ, riqāʻ, ghubār, plaited and knotted kufic.Layout: [opening section] central written area in a single column (text written perpendicular to length of the roll) bordered in Qurʼānic and ḥadīth texts along the length of the roll, ninety-nine names arranged in a ruled table / jadwal (five cells wide by twenty cells tall), text following the heading for "the prayer of the bāzūband" ("دعا بازوبند حضرت شاه ولايت پناه") in 26 lines ; [main section] an elaborate arrangement of text consisting of a central narrow panel filled with text first arranged in a series of diagonal arrays (each read across in a zig-zag fashion), next in a series of five circles executed in micrography, and finally in rectangular fields of roughly nine horizontal lines, all interspersed with headings and surrounded by two heavy borders of cartouches, circles and rectangles filled with Qurʼānic and prayer texts in various scripts, closing with dedication and colophon.Dedication: "اللهم وخل بدخلك [؟] دوله الامير الاعدل الاعظم الاعلم الاشجع الاكرم سلطان الامراء في العالم انك دولت همه از دولت اوحي طلبنا والملك العادل ... خلد الله تعالى ملكه ودولته الى يوم الدين"Colophon: "كتبه العبد حسين ابراهيم ابن محمد الحسيني الخراساني في ذي الحجة سنه سبع وعشرين وسبعمائة [؟]"Incipit: "صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. roll.[main section] اسماء الله تعالى -- من اسماء الله تعالى نودونه نام -- هذا دعاء حرز الاماني -- اسماء الاربعون[opening section] صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی -- نودونه نام باری تعالی -- دعا بازوبند حضرت شاه ولایت پناهComposite talismanic scroll (rotulus, i.e. opening vertically) consisting of two sections of distinct production, now joined. Originally wrapped in oil cloth and housed in metal case.
Origin: Lacks dated colophon, though paper would suggest late 13th (final decade) or 14th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. Slip with notes in German (following p.68), including general description of the codex and claiming that, from the 24 maqāmah onwards, the text includes an otherwise unknown commentary written by al-Ḥarīrī himself ; N. Gardiner believes this refers to the three sections marked تفسير, the first of which appears immediately following the 24 maqāmah ; these texts do in fact appear in the printed edition.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 353" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; from red-bordered label on upper cover, "۱٦".Binding: Pasteboards covered in European laid paper (over stamped scalloped mandorla) with spine and edges/turn-ins in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now missing) ; board-linings in European laid paper (tre lune watermark visible) ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, primaries in red ; in poor condition with much staining and abrasion with significant losses to covers ; spine is damaged at the head and tail ; endbands are entirely gone ; most threads are broken and the majority of the leaves are loose ; many of the bifolia have split ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with 20 laid lines in 32 mm. or 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) ; chain lines are difficult to distinguish but a set of 3 with 15-16 mm. between lines can be seen ; replacement folia in another Oriental laid paper, but with lines too indistinct to measure ; some pest damage to some leaves, though not so badly as to obscure text ; edges of a number of leaves are badly damaged.Decoration: Text rubricated with section headings (for each maqāmah, occasional sections of tafsīr) in red.Script: Naskh ; a few graceful Syrian and or Egyptian hands ; primary hand is a highly readable naskh, probably Egyptian, plainly very old (13th-14th century), fully pointed and vowelled, with shaddah, hamzah, etc. ; hands of the replacement folia at the beginning and end of the textblock another very nice naskh, probably Egyptian and no later than 16th century, fully pointed and mostly vowelled, with shaddah, hamzah, etc. ; replacement folia from p.21-24 in a distinct hand, larger, more extended in the horizontal, likewise fully pointed and vowelled.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; single column divided to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV (8), I (10), V-1 (19), 2 V(39), V-1 (48), V (58), V-1 (67), 2 V(87), IV (95), 2 III(107), I (109), V (119), V-3 (126), I (128), VII (142), V (152), ii ; chiefly quinions ; leaves appear to be missing from the quires 13, 14, 17 and 18 ; catchwords lacking ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert).Explicit: "ويحظي بالعفو انه هو اهل التقوي واهل المغفرة وولي الخيرات في الدنيا والآخرة. هذا اخر المقامات التي انشأتها بالاغترار ... والحمد لله على نعمائه والصلوة والسلام على خير انبيائه ومبلغ انبائه وعلى آله وصحبه واوليائه تم الكتاب بحمد وحسن توفيقه قابلته فصححته الا ما زاغ عنه البصر. ويتلو المقامات رسالتان ايضا على التزام حرف السين والشين في كل كلمة ... ويشرح ويشدخ بمشيته الشديد البطش الشامخ العرش وتشريفه لبشير البشر والشفيع المشفع في المحشر تمت والحمد لله وحده"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الرئيس ابو محمد القاسم بن علي بن محمد بن عثمان الحريري البصري رضى الله عنه اللهم انا نحمدك على ما علمت من البيان والهمت من التبيان كما نحمدك على ما اسبغت من العطاء واسبلت من الغطاء ونعوذ بك من شرة اللسن وفضول الهذر ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Ḥarīrī's celebrated Maqāmāt or Sessions modeled after those of al-Hamadhānī, accompanied by brief commentary and followed by two brief epistles (even maqāmahs) in which the letters sīn and shīn appear in every word of the respective passage. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 484Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. of original sections suggest 17th century and date in seal impression provides only approximate terminus ante quem of 1684. Replacement sections likely 18th century as suggested by paper and hand.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2).Former shelfmark: From spine label and inner front cover, "IL 312" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in light blue, blue-green, blue, pink and yellow) with dark purple leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in fuschia surface-dyed laid paper ; bronze / gold tooling on interior and exterior of fore edge flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and purple, quite good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (spine in particular), staining, etc. ; fore edge flap far too narrow.Support: European laid paper of several types ; one type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (horizontal), and hand / glove watermark (see p.39, 186, etc.), sturdy and fairly thick, burnished ; another type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal, quite thick), and crown-star [possibly crown-star-crescent] watermark (see p.33, 43, 242, 243, etc.) ; staining and tidelines ; replacement sections on paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal) and grapes (raisin) under crown watermark ; watermarks of "P & G" under double-headed eagle with single crown above (see back flyleaf) and shield likely with crescent with face inside (see front flyleaf).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouched flanked by floral accents in red (now pinkish), white, orange and lavender, surrounded by pinkish red border and surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece with floral vegetal decoration (in white, orange, gold, and pink) on fields of gold and blue, itself surmounted by crude vertical stalks (tīgh) with blue accents ; keywords and abbreviation symbols (mainly sigla) rubricated ; some overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs ; text of written area (through p.88) surrounded by gold frame.Script: Naskh ; two main Turkish hands ; original sections (including opening to p.88, 109-308, etc.) in an elegant Turkish naskh, seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on most ascenders (even free-standing alif), effect of tilt to the left, rounded with manily curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes ; replacement sections (pp.89-108, 309-392, 477-519, 531 to close except where some original leaves appear) mainly in a clear Turkish naskh, virtually serifless with effect of only slight tilt to the left (fairly vertical), occasional words descending to baseline, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page.Collation: ii, VI+1 (13), 5 V(63), VII (75), 15 V(225), I (227), V (237), V+1 (247), 3 V(277), IV+2 (287), I (289), IV+1 (298), ii ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and mistakenly skips two pages each between pp.205-206 and pp.241-242).Explicit: "وكان اشد بالنصب خبر كان وامسه ضمير عائد الى المفعول المحذوف ما"Incipit: "الحمد لله على هدية الهداية والاسلام وعطية الدراية والاعلام ... وبعد يقول الضعيف العويز عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز المعروف بابن الملك ... لما وضح وجوه المقال وصح النظر في المآل صودف العلم اعلاها منارة ومنالا ... ومما صنف فيه من الكتب الفاخرة ... كتاب مشارق الانوار في صحاح الخبار ... وكانت له شروح ... فصرت ادير في نفسي واستخير الله يومي وامسي ان اشرحه شرحا ... سميته مبارق الازهر في شرح مشارق الانوار ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.5.Ms. composite codex.Fine composite copy of the commentary by Ibn Malak on al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghānī’s (d.1252) collection of traditions from Bukhārī and Muslim. Incomplete, ending abruptly.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1009Origin: Lacks dated colophon though manner of calligraphy, decoration, layout, etc. are characteristic of the Qurʼānic manuscripts produced in Kashmir from the 17th into the 19th centuries (see Bayani, et al. pp.228-57 and Blair, pp.550-52). Perhaps 18th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 158Binding: Boards covered in dark green leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; upper pastedown and flyleaf in a shell 'marbled' paper (mainly in blue and brown), lower pastedown and fly leaf in untinted paper ; upper and lower covers gold-tooled in mitred-panel style with vegetal borders and three floral sprays in the central panel ; spine gold-stamped "SS" ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, in quite good condition ; overall in poor condition with upper cover fully detached, minor abrasion, lifting of leather at spine, etc.Support: non-European (likely Indian) laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and no chain lines visible for the most part ; grey in tone and fairly translucent ; only slight curving of laid lines.Decoration: Splendid double-page illumination (illuminated 'frontispiece') at opening (pp.8-9) consisting of a series of scalloped domes in gold filled with floral vegetal designs in gold with black outline on a bright blue ground defined by heavy borders in bands of gold, black with white accents, and gold interlaced with red, blue and green accents, written area (in 8 lines per page with the Fātiḥah and opening of Sūrat al-Baqarah) is flanked by upper and lower rectangular pieces with gold cartouches (carrying the sūrah headings in blue riqāʻ or naskh, not extensively ligatured) and set off by gold floral accents on a bright blue ground ; similar double-page illumination at opening of Sūrat al-Isrāʼ / Juzʼ 15 (pp.204-205) and at close (pp.446-7) though here design affects a larger scalloped dome with cornerpieces and accommodates fewer lines in the written area (6 per page) with larger flanking upper and lower rectangular pieces (gold cartouches also lack sūrah headings) ; sūrah headings in blue and typically outlined in black bands with white accents ; written area and ruled margin throughout surrounded by frame in a series of gold bands defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule ; Qurʼānic text executed on bands of gold defined by black fillets and separated at some distance from one another (in other manuscripts has contained interlinear translation) ; marginal decorations in gold and blue mark ajzāʼ ; marginal juzʼ headings, notabilia (marking niṣf, thulth, etc.), abbreviation marks, mainly curved strokes and sigla for pauses "ط", large "ع" in margin to indicate bowing (rukūʻ), etc. and keywords in the commentary (mainly text being commented upon) are all rubricated ; verse dividers in the form of small red dots or discs ; text of commentary set off by gold cloudbands with floral accents in gold on blue grounds in the triangular spaces at the corners and center of the marginal area.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq ; elegant Indian hands in a heavy line ; Qurʼānic text in a fine, bold naskh, partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed (occasional right-sloping head-serif appearing on lām of definite article, barbed left-sloping serif on alif of lām-alif ligature, etc.), fairly vertical though with occasional very slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct dots, fully vocalized ; marginal commentary in a bold, compact and well-formed nastaʻlīq, serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, mainly closed counters.Layout: Written mainly in 18 lines per page, with roughly 46 lines of commentary on the diagonal in the ruled margins ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, I (2), 12 IV(98), I (100), 7 IV(156), I (158), IV (166), 2 III(178), I+1 (181), 4 IV(213), III (219), 2 I(223), iii ; chiefly quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black oblique strokes in upper outer and lower outer corners of the center opening of each quire ; final single bifolium ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Splendidly illuminated copy of the Qurʼān (muṣḥaf) with marginal commentary in Persian.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 637Origin: As appears in colophon on p.108, transcription completed 9 Shaʻbān 1246 [ca. 23 January 1831]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.108), composition completed 5 Rabīʻ II 1030 [ca. 27 February 1621].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 247" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in dark red cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light blue-green wove paper ; upper cover bears gold-stamped title "العرف الندي" ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; overall in good condition.Support: European laid paper in at least two types ; one type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents and "I M C" watermarks (see p.16, 17, 38, 108, 109, etc.) ; another type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and crescent with face watermark (see p.62, etc.) ; all well-burnished, fairly stiff and sturdy ; some staining and tears ; repairs in wove paper.Decoration: Keywords, some abbreviation symbols (stroke over keywords), and passages of text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; two clear Turkish or 'Syrian' hands ; opening hand (through p.26) a naskh, mainly serifless (though very slight right-sloping head-serif appears on some free-standing alifs) with curvilinear descenders, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, medial hāʼ sharply mudghamah, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred (even final kāf, without hamzah-like miniature kāf), bowl of final nūn fairly wide with point set just inside ; following hand (p.27 through close) a slightly more elegant naskh, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif mainly on free-standing alif (also occasional joined alifs, lām of definite article, etc.), tilt to the left, elongation in the vertical, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, initial hāʼ in nice wajh al-hirr (more pointed, with path of the penstroke quite evident), final kāf without shaqq and with hamzah-like miniature kāf.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, II-1 (3), II (7), III (13), II (17), 3 (20), 3 V(50), I (52), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "قال مؤلفه رحمه الله تعالى ورضي عنه فرغت منه يوم الجمعة المبارك خامس شهر ربيع الثاني لسنة ثلاثين والف من الهجرة النبوية ه" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاحد المبارك تسعة مضت من شهر شعبان المعظم الذهو من شهور سنة ۱۲٤٦ ستة واربعون ومائتين والف من الهجرة امين م"Explicit: "وقد تقدم انها من بحر الرمل وتقدم تفصيله وفي هذا القدر كفاية ونسأل الله ان يتقبل منا ذلك وان يسلك بنا احسن المسالك ... انك سميع قريب مجيب الدعوات يا رب العالمين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين ه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي نسج في الازل شقة النصيحة باعتزال ذكر الاغاني والغزل ... وبعد فان القصيدة الوردية اللامية المنظومة من بحر الرمل ووزنه فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلاة ثلاث مرات المسماة بنصيحة الاخوان ومرشدة الخلان ... وكنت ممن اطلع عليها مرارا عديدة وفي كل حين يظهر لي منها فوائد جليلة وقد حاولت نفسي المرة بعد المرة ان اكتب عليها ما فيه للعيون قرة ... وشرعت في شرح لطيف يحل الفاظها ... وسميته العرف الندي في قصيدة بن الوردي ..."Title from 'title page' (p.7) and opening matter (preface) on p.9.Ms. codex.Careful copy of the commentary by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Khaṭīb al-Ghamrī (fl. 1621) on Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī's (d. 1349) qaṣīdah called al-Lāmīyah or Naṣīḥat al-ikhwān wa-murshidat al-khillān, a moral poem of 77 verses in the ramal metre.
جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير مغلف بقماش أحمر مقلم باللون الأصفر وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وكثير الحواشيPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink.
Abstract: Treatise on usurpation.Binding note: Full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Jumādá I 1271 H January-February 1855 (leaf 102b).Incipit: کتاب الغصب والکلام في موضوعه واحکامه ولواحقه
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaf 2b.Binding note: Full black leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces and blind-stamped fillets; violet paper doublures; back cover missing.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 6a, line 7.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Incipit: الحمد لله ... اما بعد فيقول ... ان ما حداني الى تصنيف هذا الکتاب
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full black leather with marbled paper doublures; back cover missing.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Occasional staining. Leaves 324b-345b blank.Origin: Likely early 19th century.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي مهد لنا طريق اصلاح العمل ... فيقول ... هذا کتاب جمعت فيه مسائل الحلال و الحرام
Abstract: "The author's commentary on his poem on Islamic law."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; salmon paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Orginal text overlined in red; catchwords. Occasional staining.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي نوهنا اي رفعنا رفعاً معنويا
Abstract: A work on the principles of logic.Title from title page.Title from the edge of the manuscript.بلغ مقابلة لقدر الوسع والطاقه بتاريخ من رجب سنة 1156هـ، كتبه عبدالرحمن ابن اسلم الحسنى لقطة 165.كتاب سلم العلوم في المنطق/ للعلامه المحقق محب الله الجنفوريBrockelmann, G II 420; S II 622. Reading note, dated September 1743. Multiple ownership notes, dated between 1811 and 1957. Includes various fragments, among them lines of poetry by Ismāʻīl ibn Ibrāhīm Ḥajjāf Jaḥḥāf? and some writings about the shahādah.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط صغير الحجم مجلد بغلاف جلدي، في معظم صفحاته عليها آثار بارزه من بلل حتى في بعض الصفحات أثر على النص كما عليه في بعض صفحاته آثار معالجه كما في صفحة العنوان، تم كتابته بالمداد الأسود وعليه حواشي كثيره.Incipit: بسم الله... سبحانه ما اعظم شانه لا يحد ولا يتصّور... امّا بعد فهذه رساله في صناعة الميزان سمّيتها بسلم العلوم اللّهم اجعلها بين المتون كالشمس بين النجوم مقدّمة العلم التصور...Explicit: وان قابل الجدلّى فمشاغبى والمؤلف من الراحج والمرجوح مرجوح فتدبر خاتمه اخراء؟ العلوم هي المسائل والمبادى من الوسايل بحمد الله تمت تمامNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black ink. Numerous marginalia and interlineal notes. Traces of significant water damage and some repairs.7 إلى 9 lines.1-أبيات للسيد العلامة ضياء الدين إسماعيل بن إبراهيم حجاف في تاريخ دخول الماء الحرام في شوال سنة 1055هـ وهو سيل عظيم...& بيتين لله القايل حيث قال: شلغنا بكسب العلم عن مكسب الغنا**كما شغلواعن مكسب العلم بالوفر...لقطه3فائدة: عدّة ايداعات الكتاب شهادة لا إله إلا الله وأن محمد رسول الله... لقطه 166
Abstract: A commentary of a work on logic, divided into two parts, the first of which contains an additional introduction to epistemology.Title from title page.1-شروع قراءة لدى القاضي العلامة يحيى بن محمد العنسي حرر في 9جمادى الآخرى سنة 1354هـ، كتبه أحمد بن علي حمزة لقطة1.2-كان الفراغ من قراءته لدى شيخنا العلامة السيد أحمد بن علي الكحلاني حفظه الله كتبه أحمد بن علي حمزة بتأريخ آخر صفر /1355هـ لقطه64شرح التهذيب/ لعبدالرحمن الشيرازي والتهذيب/ لسعد الدين مسعود التفتازانيMultiple reading and ownership notes. Includes various poetic fragments, among them lines of poetry about the work by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī Wazīr, and lines of poetry by Abū Bakr al-Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl Ṣanʻānī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Shijnī.جيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مختصر صغير ليس لديه غلاف، تم كتابة خطه بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر والفاتح والأصفر المذهب حيث أن المتن وبعض الجمل التي تحتاج إلى توضيح تكتب بالمداد الأحمر والأخضر الفاتح والأصفر المُذهب وباقي الشرح بالمداد الأسودقبيل ظهر يوم الأحد الموافق أول ربيع الثاني سنة 1355هـIncipit: بسم الله...رب يسِّر واعن ياكريم بعدَ حمد الله سبحانه خالِق الأَشخاص والماهِيَّات،... فاعلم ايها الطالِب الراغِب المتحلي بحلية الحقآئِق والمعارف، والمرتقي في غوامِض الدّقايق والعوارف، أَنَّ هذا شرح تهذيب المنطق للمولا الاءِمام الهُمام، ... مسعود التفتازاني، ... وبعد _ _ جعلته تحفة للمجلس السَّامي ،والمحضَر المكَّرم العالي،...Explicit: اشبه أي مشابهة هذى القسم مع المسآئِل اكثر من الأقسام الأُخر معها وذلك لاءَن إحتياج المسائل اليه اشد حيث يطلبُ فيها اليقين لأنه هو المقصد الاءَقصى من العِلم والمطلب الأَعلى من الكتاب ولأنه اثبت من البواتى لقلة تطرق الزوال اليه بخلافها والله اعلم واحكم بالصَّواب وهذى آخر، ما اوردناه مِن شرح الكلام في التهذيبNaskh and Persian naskh scripts, written in black, red, green and yellow ink. No cover.24-25 lines.فوائد شعرية متفرقة في صفحة العنوان وهي كالآتي: 1- بيتين لعبدالله بن علي الوزير في التهذيب.2- أبيات للسيد أبو بكر التريبى، وهي صغيرة ومتفرقة.3- بيتين لسيدي العلامة محمد بن اسماعيل الأمير.4- بيتين للقاضي العلامة محمد بن حسن الشجني. 5-ثلاثة أبيات في الأشكال الأربعة، وأبيات صغيرة متفرقة.لقطة1
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 241Origin: As appears at the close of each piece (kıta), executed by es-Seyit el-Hac Mustafa İzzet. In three of the signatures he includes "known as Reisülulema". He has signed the final piece "Bende-yi Al-i aba, Seyit İzzet Mustafa," a modest expression which, according to M. Uğur Derman (see Letters in gold, p.118), he preferred to use in his later years. Only one of the pieces is dated 1282 [1865 or 6] with the others likely completed around the same time or slightly later.Former shelfmark: "570 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "93" in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Boards now covered in green and black mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look, traces of another paper underneath) with dark purple to black leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; boards lined in same mottled paper ; panels hinged together in accordion format with same dark purple to black leather and hinged into case ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion and staining.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into frames of blue and orange-tinted paper, and mounted.Decoration: Written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by further gold and black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red and green-blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large opening line of each panel in thuluth (sülüs), followed by four lines in naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line of thuluth and four smaller lines of naskh.Collation: Four panels hinged together in accordion (concertina) format ; opens vertically.Colophon: [1] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [2] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه امين سنة ١٢٨٢" ; [3] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [4] "بندۀ آل عبا سيد عزت مصطفى"Incipit: "اذكروا الله ذكرا كثيرا قال رسول الله صلوات الله عليه وسلامه مثل الذي يذكر ربه والذي لا يذكر ربه مثل الحي والميت ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) of four kıtalar employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 235Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by one Ḥamdī [Hamdî] with possible date or number for this piece.Former shelfmark: "567 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in golden olive-tinted and gold-flecked paper with black leather over board edges/turn-ins (leather edged / framed binding) ; board linings in yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled and gold-painted rosettes and guilloché roll border ; panels hinged together with dark brown to black leather ; in fair condition with some abrasion and lifting of leather at board edges and joints/hinges (some split).Support: Well-burnished European laid paper bordered by strips of marbled paper and tinted-frame (orange, pink, etc. though papers of facing panels match) ; watermark faintly visible in final panel but difficult to make out.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of strips of marbled paper (in pink, blue, and white) flanked by white and green fillets and heavy and narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; panels within written area surrounded by narrow gold band ; textual dividers in the form illuminated rosettes with white, pink, red and blue accents ; additional illuminated floral accents appear above elongated horizontal strokes and elsewhere to set-off text.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening line of each page in thuluth ; four centered lines thereafter in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line in thuluth and four more compact lines in naskh ; written area divided to upper panel (accommodating the large line) and centered lower panel (for the shorter lines).Collation: Ten 'panels' (consisting of written area and border pieces mounted on another leaf) hinged together in accordion format (opens vertically) ; 'pagination' in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears in the upper left-hand corner of each panel.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب حمدى ۷۹"Explicit: "وللخازن مثل ذلك لا ينقض بعضهم اجر بعض شيئا اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق محمد واله الطاهرين"Incipit: "قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن ابي هريرة رض قال قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم اذا مضى شطر الليل او ثلثاه ينزل الله تبارك وتعالى الى سماء الدنيا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing the text of assorted ḥadīth, executed by one Hamdî.
Abstract: Collection of three texts comprising a commentary on the commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī (d. 907/1501) on the Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa-al-kalām by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 791/1389), the commentary by al-Dawwānī and the text by al-Taftazānī.Binding note: Marbled paper over pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Leather spine and fore-edge flap.Green paper pastedown and endleaf.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-141a: Ḥāshiyat Mīr ʻalá Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb fī al-manṭiq li-Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī / Mīr Abū al-Fatḥ al-Saʻīdī.Contents: 2. fol. 141bis b-188b: Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Contents: 3. fol. 188b-194a: Matn al-Tahdhīb / Saʻd al-Dīn al-TaftazānīMs. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.17 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red, text 1 in medium small naskh ; text 2 and 3 in thick small naskh. The text is framed within a single red fillet (up to fol. 71b), with two columns of gloss around it. Glazed European paper; frame-ruled. Gloss (ḥāshiyah) mostly by the same hand as the main text on the margins and on a few small pieces of paper pasted between the leaves, signed Aḥmad, Maḥmūd, Zayn al-Dīn, Chalabī, Mīr Ghayās! al-Dīn, Ḥusayn Khalkhalī, ʻAbd Allāh etc. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Falsafiyāt 82". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1180/2 Ḥāʼ".Text 1 copied by Ḥamzah ibn ʻUmar ibn Walī on a Friday in the first ten days i.e., 7? of Ramaḍān 1111 1700 (colophon, fol. 140b). Text 2 copied by Muṣṭafá Ibn Ismaʻīl Ibn Ḥusayn near Ṭarḥalah at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 1164 1751. Text 3 seems to be written by the same hand as text 2.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 999Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 148Binding: Boards covered in dark blue textured cloth with dark blue leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "العلم والعرفان" ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands in brown ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of at least two different types (and cut to different sizes), ruled and unruled.Decoration: Text of opening and closing sections entered in a pinkish red ink.Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; opening and closing sections in a quick, compact hand in a thin to medium line , serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; central section in first an elegant modern naskh (see pp.98-142), and then a heavy ruqʻah (see pp.142-172).Layout: Written mainly in 15-20 lines per page.Collation: i, V (10), IV (18), VII (32), VI (44), II (48), VI (60), VII (74), IV (82), 4 (86), III (92), i ; catchwords present in opening sections (through p.95) ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals through p.8 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "ولما كانت الموارد اربعة كان العرش محمولا على اربعة اركان"Incipit: "قال الله تعالى ومن يؤت الحكمة فقد اوتى خيرا كثيرا وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم الحكمة يمانية والعلم يمان اشراة الى انهما آتيان من قبل القوة النظرية فانها الجهة اليمنى والتي منها اليمن والبركة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.Careful copy a selection of philosophical extracts and commentary in sections under the headings al-ʻIlm wa-al-ʻirfān (see p.1), Sharḥ qiṭʻah min awwal al-Fuṣūṣ al-ʻArabīyah (see p.56), al-ʻĀlam wāḥid (see p.65) and Shudhūr min al-Fann al-rubūbī min Funūn al-ḥikmah al-ʻulyā (see p.98). Sections from the opening text appear also in the final transcript (e.g. compare text of p.7 and p.121 under the heading "انقسام العلم على النظري والعلمي").
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Abstract: Composite codex consisting of three distinct parts: the beginning of the Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī , a commentary by Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī (d. 658/1259 or 60) on a compendium on Ḥanafī law (incomplete at end) ; a copy of the Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī by al-Jurjānī, on grammar, and the beginning of a text explaining difficult words (fol. 60b), both written by the same hand ; and an added leaf with portion of a text mentioning the Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn (fol. 61).Binding note: Coarse dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-18b: Kitāb-i Zāhidī sharḥ-i Qudhūrī Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī -- Kitāb al-Ṭahārah and first lines of Kitāb al-Ṣalāh / Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 989.Contents: 2. fol. 19a-60b: Sharīf Sharḥ ʻalá al-ʻIzzī Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī / al-Jurjānī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3508.Contents: 3. fol. 60b: Kalimāt mushkilah.Contents: 4. fol. 61a-b: Portion of a text.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1a and fol. 19a.Physical description: Text 1 written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red, with 15 lines per page (written surface: 165 x 110 mm.), on European paper with watermark ; the text is framed within a single red line on fol. 1b-3a. Text 2 and 3 written in medium small round naskh in black ink with use of red (written surface: 155 x 105 mm.), on thin European paper with watermark. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a in Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish. Leaves of Text 2 stained with water (text legible).Inscription in Roman script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "61 Bl.".Origin: The copy of Text 2 is dated 1051 H. 1641 or 2 (colophon, fol. 60b). R. Mach reads "1151" 1738 or 9.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 960Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 18th century for transcription of opening works ; transcription of final work perhaps late 18th or early 19th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 109Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "موقد الاذهان" ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: European laid paper of three different types ; opening work on type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart, three crescents watermark (perpendicular to the chains, 90 mm. long, and "M" visible in p.2, light cream, burnished to glossy ; next work on a type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-23 mm. apart, and crown-star-crescent watermark with "[?] B" underneath (see pp.38, 44), burnished, dingier cream color ; final work on a type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and three crescents watermark (perpendicular to chains, 75 mm. long), fairly rough.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and passages of text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots.Script: Naskh and Sūdānī ; opening work in a distinctive naskh with influence of Maghribī, a clear, spacious hand in a medium line, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and initial lām, fairly vertical, quite blocky with rectilinear descenders, some elongation of horizontal strokes, flat strokes preferred to curves, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; second work in naskh, a clear, compact Egyptian hand in a medium line, mainly serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left, and of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; final work in Sūdānī script, carefully executed in a bold line, with slight inclination of words to the left and gently sweeping rectilinear descenders.Layout: Written in 17, 23 and 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah visible in opening work).Collation: i, V (10), III (16), IV (24), 2 II(32), IV (40), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: [Mūqid al-adhhān] "قال الشيخ الامام العلامة جمال الدين عبد الله بن يوسف بن هشام رحمه الله اما بعد حمد الفاتح عقد الاعوان المانح بالايجاز جاعل علم العربية في العلوم كالطراز فيه تفك مقفلات الالغاز ... وسميته موقد الاذهان وموقظ الوسنان ..." ; [Sharḥ qaṣīdat Muthallath Quṭrub] "قال الفقيه سديد الدين ابو القاسم عبد الوهاب بن الحسن ابن بركات المهلبي نظمت مثلث قطرب في قصيد قلتها ابياتا على حروف المعجم ... يدل كل بيت على شرح ما نظمته من اللعة اشارة واختصارا ..." ; [Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd] "قال الفقير الى رحمة ربه ابو بكر بن محمد بن ابي بكر ... فهذه مختصرة جمعتها ترجمة للوتار سميتها حجة المسؤول على علم التوحيد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.4. p.65-p.80 : Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd / Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr.3. p.33-p.64 : Kitāb Sharḥ qaṣīdat Muthallath Quṭrub fil-lughah al-ʻarabīyah /Ibrāhīm al-Lakhmī.2. p.32 : [blank].1. p.1-p.31 : Kitāb Mūqid al-adhhān wa-mūqiẓ al-wasnān / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf Ibn Hishām.Composite codex opening with two grammatical works, the first Mūqid al-adhhān wa-mūqiẓ al-wasnān of Ibn Hishām (d.1360) and the second an incomplete commentary on the versification by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bahnasī (d.1286 or 7) of the Muthallath, a work by the lexicographer and grammarian Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr known as Quṭrub. The codex concludes with Ḥujjat al-masʼūl ʻalá ʻilm al-tawḥīd, a theological work by Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Mālik.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 995Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 144Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "معتقدات الهائية [كذا، اي البهائية]" ; sewing in white thread, apparently over three recessed cords, tightly bound ; overall in fairly good condition, with boards curving around text block at fore edge.Support: Machine wove paper of three main types ; opening work (through p.192) in a sturdy type, cream in color ; opening section of following collection in another sturdy type, beige in color, ruled in blue, edges in red ; concluding section of collection in still another type, dark cream to beige in color, thin though sturdy.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated in opening work ; large passages of texts in majmūʻah (from p.192) executed entirely in red or pinkish red ink, elsewhere only headings rubricated.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; opening work in an elegant modern naskh in a medium line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, final yāʼ usually left unpointed ; following collection (majmūʻah) of works (from p.192 on) mainly in ruqʻah, a quick, compact hand in a medium line , serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; final works of collection in naskh similar to that in the opening work.Layout: Written mainly in 12-15, 21 and 31 lines per page.Collation: i, 12 IV(96), VIII (112), VIII+1 (129), VIII (145), 2 VI(169), i ; opening gatherings (carrying Bahai tracts) exclusively quaternions, opening section of following collection in octonions and concluding section in senions ; pages between sections of text occasionally left blank (see pp.268-269) ; quire numbering in purple pencil, black ink or red ink in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals accompanying letter ك just below the end of the final line of the opening recto of each quire in the opening section of Bahai tracts ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (opening section) ; pagination in red ink or pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (final works, from p.291) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (referenced in description).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.14. p.317-p.337 : Matn al-Fuṣūṣ / al-Fārābī.13. p.309-p.316 : Hādhihi Risālat ʻUyūn al-masāʼil / al-Fārābī.12. p.303-p.308 : Risālat ādāb ṭālib al-ḥikmah, aw Risālat Mā yanbaghī an yuqaddamu qabla taʻallum al-falsafah / al-Fārābī.11. p.299-p.303 : Maqālah sharīfah fī al-ibānah ʻan jawāmiʻ maḍāmīn Kitāb al-Muʻallim al-Awwal al-mawsūm bi-al-Ḥurūf wa-bi-Kitāb Mā baʻda al-ṭabīʻah wa-al-kashf ʻan aqsāmih wa-ʻan aghrāḍ kull qism / al-Fārābī.10. p.291-p.298 : [on eight treatises of al-Fārābī that appeared in print in 1325, i.e. 1907 or 8].9. p.282-p.290 : Min Miṣbāḥ al-uns sharḥ Miftāḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī.8. p.280-p.281 : Fuṣūl min Miftāḥ al-ghayb / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.7. p.279 : [blank].6. p.260-p.278 : Fuṣūl min Sharḥ naẓm al-Tāʼīyah al-Kubrá al-Fāriḍīyah.5. p.258-p.259 : [blank].4. p.218-p.257 : Risālah fī al-Ḥashr / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.3. p.194-p.217 : Risālat al-Nuqṭah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.2. p.193 : ['title page' with contents listing for following majmūʻah].1. p.1-p.192 : Muʻtaqadāt al-Bābīyah wa-al-Bahāʼīyah / Mīrzā ʻAbbās al-Bahāʼ.Composite collection (majmūʻah) of several works opening with tracts on the Bahai faith and followed by extracts from several philosophical treatises by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d.1273 or 4), Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī (d.1430 or 31) and al-Fārābī (d.950).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 260Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; decoration, paper, etc. may suggest 16th century ; authorial colophon on p.418 indicates date of composition Ṣafar 890 [February-March 1485].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with notes (paginated pp.17-18) -- b. Blank slip (paginated pp.53-54) -- c. Slip with notes (paginated pp.99-100).Former shelfmark: "١٢٦" possible former inventory mark on recto of front flyleaf ; "331 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark maroon leather with black leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (likely repairs) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark brown leather with central gold-painted four-lobed floral motif ; fore edge flap lined in green silk ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche OAi 6), pendants, and corner pieces, along with gold-painted border ; sewn in dark green-blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in brown and cream (head) and dark green and cream (tail), fair condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper mainly with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and no chain lines clearly visible, well-burnished to glossy, sturdy, transluscent, medium to dark cream in color ; toward close another crisp type with many inclusions (see p.387 to close) ; flyleaves in European laid paper (surface-dyed lavender and gold-flecked) ; added leaves at opening on European laid paper with watermarks of eagle, "GFA" and lion rampant in arms (see pp.1-4) ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) appears at opening on p.6, consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the basmalah in white, overlaid with arabesque in green, surrounded by further vegetal decoration in gold, pink, blue, yellow, green, etc. on a field of lapis lazuli, and surounded by decorative band with blue crosses on a field of white and band of interlace in gold ; surmounted by another narrow rectangular piece containing similar vegetal design evoking arabesque on a field of lapis lazuli and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; keywords, abbreviation symbols, and text being commented upon in rubricated (light and dark red) ; textual dividers in the form inverted commas, letter hāʼ, etc. in red ; written area throughout surrounded by frame consisting of gold band flanked by black fillets with outermost blue rule (frame on incipit and facing page includes additional gold band) ; occasional diagrams in red and black (see p.20, 57, 87).Script: Nastaʻlīq and naskh ; text of sharḥ in nastaʻlīq, excerpts of Arabic poetry being commented upon in naskh ; nastaʻlīq compact with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq ; Persianate naskh mainly serifless, quite vertical and somewhat stiff though descenders are mainly curvilinear, with pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), *IV (9), 24 IV(201), IV+1 (210), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; first two leaves of opening quaternion affixed to each other ; added leaves at opening of codex ruled for table of contents but left blank ; on pp.43-44 area within written area left blank (perhaps for diagrams or illustrations never realized) ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and added leaves and skips two pages each between pp.239-240, 237-238, and 267-268).Explicit: "مهما ترى صف عقد من مديحهم في نظمه ود زهر الحق تضمينا"Incipit: "سپاس وسعادة اساس وشكر عبادة لباس معبودى را كه اعلام نبوة وولاية در ميدان فتوة وهداية ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the commentary by Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Maybūdī al-Yazdī (d.1504?) on the collection (dīwān) of Arabic poetry attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ca. 600-661), opening with the Favātiḥ-i sabʻah.