Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 673Origin: As appears at close on p.523, dated Rabīʻ II 1153 [June-July 1741] "في ربيع الاخر سنه ١١٥٤".Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 35" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in now silvery laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSd 8), pendants and corner pieces along with tooled accents (strokes and rosette stamp) and border (rules flanking a series of s-shaped stamps) ; sewn in red and yellow (from around p.144) thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, only headband remains ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at board edges), delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to spine, fore edge flap and board edges in black leather, also damaged.Support: European laid paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown above cartouche with name and grapes (raisin) below (see p.16, 54, 246, etc.), sturdy and dense, beige in color, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.16, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral accents in gold and red on a blue ground surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with somewhat crudely executed floral vegetal decoration in gold, white, yellow and red on fields of blue and gold with red accents ; entire piece set into a well consisting of a series of colored bands (in red, gold, yellow, and white) with crosses repeated in black ; written area of incipit page surrounded by a gold frame, elswhere central written area and margins surrounded by a red rule-border ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas, discs, etc. ; some overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; two elegant Ottoman hands ; opening hand (through p.334) partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām or other ascender, marked effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes or conjoined dots rather than distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters (dots) ; from p.335 to close (as well as table of contents, pp.4-14), another elegant naskh, seriffed with left-sloping wedge or barb head-serifs on most ascenders (vertical stroke of final kāf and even shaqq of medial or initial kāf also seriffed), effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, dramatic contrast of thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in heavy strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6), 21 V(216), 2 IV(232), 3 V(262), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and added leaves, mistakenly skips two pages between pp.423-424).Explicit: "اخره تفويض ايتمك استدكده زيد مجرد زراعت ايتدكلريمك حقوقلرينى ارا ايتمكله زراعت ايتمدكلرينك تفويضندن عمروى منعه قادر اولورنى الجواب اولماز"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع على احسن الترتيب والنظام وجعل علماء الشريعة خلفاء رسوله في بيان الحلال والحرام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى رحمة ربه الغني محمد فقهى العينى لله در علامة زماننا ... مظهر الاحكام الربانية مفتي السلطنة العثمانية مولانا ابو الفضل عبد الله افندى اليكيشهرى فقد بذل جهده في الافتاء لذوي الحاجات ... واني لما استسعدت بخدمته [؟] العليا ... اردت ان ارتب هذا الكتاب المستطاب ليسهل الاطلاع على تفاريق الواقعات ... واثبت في الهامش نقل كل مسئلة ... فلما صار ذلك كتابا مرتبا ... سميته ببهجة الفتاوى ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.17.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collection of legal decisions by Yenişehirli Abullah Efendi (d. 1742 or 3), compiled (with an Arabic preface) and annotated in Arabic by Muḥammad Fiqhī al-ʻAynī (fl. 1702). Table of contents provided at opening (pp.4-14).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 394Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest early 19th century.Former shelfmark: "495 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in pale pink laid paper, flyleaves surface-dyed mint green ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted corner accents (mainly rosettes) and border (guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets) ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and brown, fairly good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with minor staining, etc.Support: European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of three stylized top hats with feathers (see p.6, 10, 170, etc. and compare Heawood 2594, Venice 1831 and Eineder 709, Venice 1814) and "C + B" (see p. 2, 168, etc.), quite sturdy and well-burnished, cream in color ; minor foxing.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece carrying the basmalah surmounted by scalloped dome filled with floral vegetal design in gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) also in gold with entire piece set in a well of gold ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; keywords (including catchwords) and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly open counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 V(80), III (86), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present (rubricated) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "شاعر شرمى جلبى ميدان اشمش راميلردن اولوب جكدوكى مرتبه رميه قادراتجى ايدى رحمه الله عليه نقاش زاده اسمعيل تازه نوجوان اولوب تيراندازيره مسلم وممتاز ايدى خاتمة رساله"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد الذى فضل الرمى على سائر الاسلحة اجمعين وامر بالرمى لكل كبير وصغير من المؤمنين ... وبعد بو فقير پر تقصير عبد الله الكاتب بجامع مرحومه ومغفور بها والده سلطان طاب ثراها بو رسالۀ سكزباب اوزره تزيين وتنميق ايليوب تذكرۀ رمات تسميه ايلدم ..."Title from opening matter (p.2).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the work on archery by Abdullah el-Kâtip (of the Valide Sultan Camii) with descriptions of archery grounds in Istanbul, Edirne, Bursa, etc. as well as biographical notices for distinguished archers.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 389Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest late 16th or early 17th century.Former shelfmark: "314 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark maroon leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings and outer flyleaves in quite glossy, blue surface-dyed paper ; upper and lower covers carry large stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OA1 1) along with gold-painted accents and tooled border ; sewn in brown thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition (despite loss of flap) with minor abrasion, lifting of leather, etc. ; repair to spine (rebacked) in red leather.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, quite indistinct, curving) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, thin and fairly transluscent though sturdy, burnished but not glossy, not heavily sized ; inner flyleaves in European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of circle with trefoil above and possibly anchor [?] inside.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche (carrying title in black "نصايح الابرار") surrounded by elegant swirling arabesques with floral motifs in gold, lavender, red, pink, white, light blue, etc. on a cobalt and gold ground and bordered in a band of black with white or light blue crosses, surmounted by scalloped triangular piece (hasp) or dome filled with similar floral vegetal design on a cobalt and gold ground, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in cobalt with red accents ; written area gold-flecked and surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets (with outermost cobalt rule on incipit page) ; keywords and headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; exquisite hand ; irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on many ascenders, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in conjoined dots or strokes.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, VII (14), iii ; catchwords present though only occasionally visible (often cut off) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some flyleaves).Dedication: As appears in opening matter on p.5, dedicated to Sultan Murat III (r.1574-1595).Explicit: "در حال افعال ماضيه وافكار راتيه سنه استغفار ايلدى تمت الرسالة"Incipit: "حمد وسپاس وثناء بى قياس بصانع شهود عالم ومبدع وجود آدم ... اما بعد بو فقير وحقير بو رسالۀ معتبرۀ كتب حكمادن لسان فارسدن اخراج ايلدم ... اسم رساله نصايح الابرار والله الموفق والمستعان وعليه التكلان ..."Title from inscription on fly leaf (p.1), illuminated headpiece at opening (p.4), and opening matter (p.7).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a collection of maxims and wise sayings from an assortment of philosophers, dedicated to Sultan Murat III (r.1574-1595) and elsewhere attributed to one Abdülkerim b. Mehmet (see manuscripts in Milli Kütüphane-Ankara 06 Mil Yz A 2539/1 and 06 Mil Yz A 1941/5, as well as Zeytinoğlu İlçe Halk Kütüphanesi 43 Ze 321/3 and İstanbul Millet Kütüphanesi 34 Ae Edebiyat 478/2).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1050Origin: As appears in colophon on p.18, transcription apparently completed 9 Ṣafar 787 [ca. 22 March 1385].Binding: Heavy boards covered in dark maroon leather ; Type III binding (without flap), tightback ; board linings and flyleaves in wove paper (notes, likely binder's notes, in pencil barely visible beneath board linings) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled rule borders, cornerpieces and central circular ornament (outline only) ; now sewn in rose thread, seemingly over two recessed cords ; overall in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct) and grouped chain lines (threes and possibly twos) with roughly 9-10 mm. between chains and 42-50 mm. between groups, somewhat cloudy formation, quite sturdy, medium cream to buff in color, burnished ; opening leaf possibly of different paper type ; moisture damage, tears and creases, some repairs / fills.Decoration: Headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; clear Syrian or Egyptian hand in a thin to medium line (line thickness changes) ; mainly serifless with large curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), casually pointed (tāʼ marbūṭah often unpointed) with pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, alif maqṣūrah often pointed as yāʼ, ihmāl sign on sīn, shaqq of kāf often quite horizontal, free-standing alif often terminating in a left-ward foot, final alif often with tail or spur extending below baseline.Layout: Written in 15-16 lines per page.Collation: i, IV+1 (9), i ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت منافع الاشربة في تاسع صفر سنة سبع وثمانين وسبعماية"Explicit: "واما من اراد ان يضيف اليه حوايج فليكن رمي [؟] الحوايج عند نضج الشعير ويغلى عليات حتى تخرج قوة الادوية منه ويرفع ويستعمل مع ما يوافقه من الاشربة نافع ان شا الله تعالى"Incipit: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صفة شراب بسفايج ساذج عن طبيب مشهور بسفايج خضر المكسر طري اربع اواقى يرض وينقع في ما حار شديد الحرارة يوما وليلة ويغلي بنار هادية حتى يبقى منه مقدار ما يحل رطل سكر واوقية عسل ..."Title from 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine, early copy of a work on potable medicaments, i.e. beverages or syrups (sharāb) attributed on the 'title page' to Amīn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Sīwāsī al-Abhārī (d. 733/1333).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 38Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 15th century. Cover likely contemporary with transcript.Accompanying materials: Slip of European laid paper with excerpt in black ink (paginated pp.85-86).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 18. Commentary on a work on theology by Al-Iji." ; "٣٩٤" on tail-edge of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublure hinges and interior of envelope flap extending onto lower doublure in red brown leather with block-stamped vegetal pattern ; board linings in paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled central circular medallion consisting of a series of concentric circles formed with a crescent-shaped stamp, accents in same stampe, and border in s-shaped stamps and scored fillets ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, four stations ; endbands virtually gone though traces remain ; in fair condition with abrasion, lifting and cracking of spine and fore-edge flap leather, some pest damage, repairs in blue cloth tape, and paper label bookplate pasted over upper cover.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with indistinct laid lines spaced 8 laid lines per cm. (20 laid lines in 25 mm.) ; chain lines grouped in threes running horizontally spaced roughly 10 mm. apart with roughly 43-45 mm. between the groups ; well-burnished with some burnisher's marks visible ; quite smooth ; some undissolved fibers.Decoration: Text rubricated with keywords, overlining, etc. in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; graceful hand ; sans serif ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; slight effect of tilt to the right ; some swooping tails ; initial hāʼ looking like two inverted commas.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii,13 IV(104), ii ; quire numbering in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears on the recto of the first leaf for the second through the sixth quires, thereafter likely cut off ; entirely quaternions ; catchwords present, though occasionally lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Explicit: "هو الوقت المشروع اولا وبعد الوقت المطنون تضيقه قبل الوقت و اقره اليه اد [؟]"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرع الاحكام وربطها بدلائل كلية وعلل تفصيلية للاحكام وابار معالم الدين بانوار الكتاب والخير ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf verso.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Abharī's gloss upon al-Ījī's (d. 756/1355) commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d. 646/1249) abridgement of his own Muntahá al-suʼl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal, on uṣūl al-fiqh. Copy ends abruptly and appears incomplete.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 495Origin: As appears in the audition statements on the margins of fol.9a (p.17) and fol.19a (p. 37), and fol. 36b (p. 72) seemingly copied by al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá ibn al-Ḥasan al-Lakhmī, who died in the year 699 [1299 or 1300] in Cairo. Either this copy or its exemplar appears to have been authorized by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bakrī al-Taymī al-Nīshābūrī thumma al-Dimashqī (d.656 in Cairo). Thus, the ms. was very likely copied in the mid to late 13th century. The audition statement/ijāzah in the margin of fol.19b (p.38) appears to be in the hand of al-Lakhmī's son Aḥmad.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on interior of upper cover, "IL 162" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth and black leather (modern Western quarter binding) ; board linings in sky blue paper ; in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper, approx. 32 mm for 20 vertical laidlines ; chainlines are difficult to estblish definitively ; on fol. 13a (p.25) there appear to be 5 sets of 2 chainlines, with 7-9mm between chainlines and 25-40 between sets.Decoration: Lacks decoration or rubrication ; ink has faded to brown.Script: Naskh ; one main hand, Egyptian (?) ; serrifed with a prominent rightward tear-drop serif on free-standing alif ; the lām-alif al-muḥaqqaqah is often used ; counters are inconsistent ; kāf often lacks bar ; mainly pointed ; audition statements, etc. are unpointed.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-5 (5), V-6 (9), 7 V(79) ; chiefly quinions ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals attests to the fragmentary nature of the present artifact ; catchwords lacking ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتبه لنفسه الحسن بن علي بن عيسى بن الحسن اللخمي ..."Explicit: "باب الحلف بالأنداد حدثنا ابو داود ثن الحسن بن علي قال ثنا عبد الرزاق قال أخبرنا معمر عن الزهري عن حميد بن عبد الرحمن عن أبي هريرة قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من حلف فقال في حلفه واللات فليقل لا إله إلا الله ومن قال لصاحبه تعال أقامرك فليتصدق بشىء"Incipit: "فأحكم الله عن ذلك ونهى عن ذلك حدثنا ابو داود ثنا أحمد بن شبوية المروزي ثنا عبد الله بن عثمان عن عيسى بن عبيد عن عبيد الله مولى عمر عن الضحاك بمعناه قال فوعظ الله [ في ] ذلك باب في الاستئمار "Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine early copy of a section of Abū Dāʼūd's Sunan, from roughly the middle of Kitāb al-Nikāḥ (just before Bāb fī al-istiʼmār) to the early part of Kitāb al-īmān wa-al-nudhūr (Bāb al-Ḥalf bi-al-andād). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1036Origin: As appears in final colophon on fol.210a, copied by Faḍīl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Nāʼīnī (see colophon at the close of juzʼ II for his full name "فضيل بن جلال الدين بن ابن حاجى محمد طاهر ابن خواجه احمد ولد سلغور شاه ولد عماده شاه ولد سلغور شاه نائينى"). Transcription finished ("tamma kitāb Baṣāʼir al-darajāt...) 1 Rabīʻ II 1072 [ca. 24 November 1661]. According to colophon following juzʼ III on fol.173a (p.345), copied in a school in the quarter / district (محله) of al-Karrān (perhaps in Isfahan).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 185Binding: Pasteboards faced in blue-green paper with red goatskin over spine and board corners (half-bound); Type III (without flap); pastedowns and flyleaves in what appears to be European wove paper with an embossed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne. TSL[?]"; very worn, upper cover detached from text block, entire case detaching from textblock at spine; poor condition.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with laid lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., no chain lines visible plainly enough for measuring; many inclusions; flyleaves and pastedowns in a European wove paper with impressed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne. TSL[?]".Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlinings and occasional textual dividers in the form of numeral khamsah in red.Script: Naskh ; fine, neat Persianate hand; essentially serifless (though occasionally serif on alif of lām alif ligature), point of final and free-standing nūn set down within wide, angled bowl (reminiscent of nastaʻlīq), pointing in distinct dots, curvilinear descenders, superscripting of final letters and words.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 25 IV (200), IV+2 (210), i; chiefly quaternions; catchwords present; leaves between each of the four ajzāʼ left partially blank and unmarked, but with no apparent loss of text; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied in cataloguing).Colophon: [final] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم كتاب بصائر الدرجات بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده [؟] والصلوة على من لا نبي بعده وذلك في غرة شهر ربيع الثاني سنة اثنان وسبعين والف وكتبه العبد الاذل المحتاج الى رحمة الله الغني ابن جلال الدين اكبر فضيل نائيني عفي عنهما" ; flanked by scribal verses in Persian, reading: "اي انكه ته اطالع مسعود بود دانى كه مرا از توچه مقصود بود يك فاتحه ازبهر نويسنده بخوان تاعاقبت كار تو محمود بود ان شاء الله" and duʻāʼ in Arabic, reading: "اللهم اغفر وارحم لكاتبه ولصاحبه برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Explicit: "قال قلت للرضا ان قوما من مواليك سالوني في ان تدعو الله لهم فقال والله اني لاعرض اعمالهم على الله في كل يوم"Incipit: "باب في العلم ان طلبه فريضة على الناس محمد بن الحسن المعروف بمموله عن ابراهيم بن هاشم عن الحسن بن محبوب يزيد بن علي بن الحسين عن ابيه عن ابي عبد الله عليه السلام قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه واله طلبه العلم فريضة على كل مسلم الا وان الله يحب بغاة العلم"Title from final colophon on fol.210a.Ms. codex.Collection of Traditions on the characteristics of the Ithná ʻasharī Shīʻī Imams by Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār (d.902 or 3), divided into four ajzāʼ (juzʼ 1 through juzʼ 4) with a colophon following each.
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 12Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Between pp.80-81, machine-made paper with accounts -- b. between pp.172-173, a commendation slip dated 1318 [1900] issued by a civil primary school in Erzurum and carrying the director's seal -- c. between pp.390-391, accounts slip on laid paper.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 67. Commentary on Kuran."Binding: Pasteboards covered in untinted laid paper with spine light brown leather (effective quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in maroon, intact at head and tail ; in fair condition with only minor abrasion on at corners and some red rot on spine leather.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertial) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal) ; pot watermark in at least three designs, one with empty interior except for bisecting line, two handles, four feet, with lid and surmounted by stalk and crown, another carrying "M" with lid surmounted by stalk and crescent, and another carrying "P B" with lid surmounted by stalk and floral motif.Decoration: Qur'ānic text overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, use of both freely ligatured with waw and lām occasionally assimilated, etc. ; chapter headings seriffed with rightward serif on alif and lām ; occasional vocalization added to Qur'ānic quotations by glossator ; glosses in several other hands.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page.Collation: i, 25 IV(200), IV + 1 (209) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "اله الناس من شر الوسواس اي الموسوس الوسواس بفتح الواو و"Incipit: "قوله تعالى والسماء ذات البروج الى اخر السورة قال الشيخ ابو الحنيفي رحمة الله عليه اعلم ان في هذه السورة كلاما من خمسة اوجه احدها في فضائل قرأتها والثاني في عدد اياتها وكلماتها وحروفها والثالث نزولها والرابع في تفسيرها والخامس فيما يتصل بها"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Clear copy of an odd final volume of a commentary on the Qurʼān attributed to Abū Saʻīd al-Ḥunayfī (al-Ḥanīfī), beginning in Sūrat al-burūj (85) and continuing through Sūrat al-nās (114). Incomplete with final leaves missing (ends in verse four of the final sūrah). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Abstract: Second part of a commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have an elaborate outer frame and a central stamped mandorla. Portion of the same frame on the envelope flap, with small stamp on its point. Paper doublure. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. First two leaves damaged with loss of text. The text has been collated on an autograph copy by the author (see collation note on the margin of the colophon, fol. 205a).Copy completed on Sunday 12 Jumādá al-Awwal 719 July 1, 1319 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Mashhadī (colophon, fol. 205a).Incipit: سورة النساء وكوفيهم تسالون مح-- وحمزة والارحام بالخفض حملا نصف هذا البيت هو نصف --- قصيدة اي الكوفيونExplicit: وهو عندى اطيب والزرنب والقرنفل دون المسك والمندل فى الطيب فحسن تشبيه الصلاة على الصحابة بذلك لانهم في الصلاة تبع لرسول الله ... فلهذا اصابتهم نفحاتها وبركاتها رضي الله عنهم ورضي عنّا بهم امين يا ربّ العالمين
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 433Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely 19th century as suggested by paper, cover, date in seal impression, etc.Binding: Pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork with spine in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in painted lacquerwork ; doublure hinges in black leather ; upper and lower covers in painted lacquerwork of nearly identical composition consisting of swirling floral vegetal pattern of carnations, poppies, etc. in bronze on a field of olive green bordered in a floral vegetal pattern in gold on a wide band of black, flanked by bands of bronze ; upper and lower doublures in painted work of nearly identical composition consisting of floral vegetal pattern in green, pink, and yellow, outlined in gold on a field of red ; entire panel is bordered in a series of gold bands ; sewn in lime green, yellow, and dark blue (or black) thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light green and yellow ; in fair condition with some cracking, crazing, and loss of laquer ; upper board split and delaminating ; doublure hinges cracked and split ; abrasion.Support: non-European laid paper (likely Persian) ; quite transluscent, crisp and grey in tone ; no chain lines visible ; laid lines quite distinct, mainly oriented horizontally but occasionally vertically, spaced roughly 11-12 laid lines per cm. ; flyleaves in European laid paper, watermark eagle with "E A F" ; one of back flyleaves in wove paper ; many loose quires and dog-eared pages with some blocking due to moisture damage and tacky ink.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas ; gold cloud-bands and other accents surrounded basmalah and between two columns on incipit and facing page ; frame consisting of a gold band outlined in black fillets and outermost blue fillet surrounds the written area ; thin gold bands outlined in black fillets demarcate the columns within the written area and border the margin ; text partially rubricated with some section headings, portions of the gloss, textual dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; large clear Persianate hand ; mainly serifless with occasional left-sloping head serifs appearing on alif and lam of definite article ; mainly closed counters ; strong vertical character (somewhat elongated in vertical) ; occasional superscripting of letters and words ; some swooping tails ; fully vocalized in same ink ; gloss in a entirely different hand ; script more of a shikastah-nastaʻlīq with characteristic descent of words to baseline, elongated horizontal strokes, and characteristic long final yāʼ, etc.Layout: Written in roughly 14 lines per page plus lines of the gloss which vary widely ; single column divided to two column to set off poetry ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, IV+2 (10), II (14), 2 IV(30), 2+IV (40), 11 IV(128), 2+II (134), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; several blanks left between verses, likely for rubricated headings ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil Western numerals supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "كانما لبست او البست فنكا فقلصت من حواشيه عن السوق قد تم"Incipit: "لو كنت من مازن لم تستبح البى بنو اللقيطة من ذهل بن شيبانا اذا لقام بنصرى معشر خشن عند الحفيظة ان ذولوثة لانا"Title supplied by cataloguer from opening on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the famous anthology of poetry collected by Abū Tammām with a partial gloss in Persian.
Abstract: "Elegant copy of a commentary on Galen's Kitāb al-Nabḍ al-ṣaghīrAbstract: on pulse."Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and khakī leather. Modern paper pastedowns and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with scarce use of red for headings and entries. The text is framed within a single line in red ink (gold and green on fol. 2b-3a; gold and black on fol. 3b-4a). European paper with watermark. Drawing sketch representing some organ on fol. 48b.Decoration: Headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 2b, executed in gold, orange, blue, green, and in black ink.Collation: Paper, fol. i, 48, i ; i (free endpaper) 1¹⁰ (+1 at beginning of quire) 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ (-1 at the end of the quire) i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Western numerals in black ink on the upper cover: "822".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Wednesday 1 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1101 Dec. 1689 (fol. 46a).Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر التعليم الاول قال جالينوس قبل ال نبتدى بالكلام فى هذا الكتاب يجب ان ننظر فى الابواب الثمانية التى جرت العادة بتقديمها قبل كل كتاب ولنقدم الغرض على سايرها فنقول ان غرضه فى هذا الكتاب ان يعلمنا عن النبض واقسامه واسبابه والنبض هو حركة مكانيةExplicit: اذا ما كانت الرطوبة كثيرة وههنا ينقضى نعليمنا وبانقضايه تنقضى جملة الكتاب والحمد لله الموفق للخير والهادى الى سبيل الصواب
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 640Origin: As appears in colophon on p.54, transcription completed 13 Rajab 1144 [ca. 11 January 1732].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover "IL 371" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin) covered in block-printed paper (repeating olive wreath motif in black with floral accents in white on a teal ground) with spine in red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; sewing now gone ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting of paper, etc. ; likely never attached to this textblock, serves as wrapper.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; one type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and grapes (raisin) under crown watermark (see p.44, 53, etc.) ; another type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and no watermarks visible ; all medium cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished ; some staining.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish (Eastern Anatolian) or 'Syrian' hand ; virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots (some conjoined), elongation of horizontal strokes, final yāʼ often unpointed, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf), point of final nūn set deep in bowl.Layout: Written in 30 lines per page (alternating two lines of two hemistiches per line with single centered hemistich per line) ; stanzas of the takhmīs for each bayt of the ʻAynīyah arranged such that the opening line carries the first two added hemistiches, the next line carries the third added hemistich and first hemistich of the bayt, and the third line (centered) carries the second hemistich of the bayt.Collation: 2 V(20), IV (28) ; two quinions and a quaternion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "وقد تم تخميس العينية المسمى بمنظوم عقود قلائد الدر النفيس في سر معنى التثليث والتخميس بحمد الله وذلك يوم الخميس ثالث عشر من رجب سنه الف ومائة واربعه واربعين سنه ۱۱٤٤ امين تم"Explicit: "وكل كمال فهو منه لقد نما وفاض على كل الوجود بماهما فلله من مولى سما فوق كلما عليه سلام الله مني وانما سلامي على نفسي النفيسة واقع"Incipit: "بافق سما الذات تجلي المطالع ويبدو لنا منها بدور طوالع وفيها لقلب القلب يا من يطالع فؤاد به شمس المحبة طالع فليس لنجم الغير [العذل] فيه مواقع"Title from 'title page' inscription (p.1) and colophon on p.54.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the takhmīs (amplification) by Abū al-Fatḥ Sirḥān al-Samarjī al-Sharnūbī upon al-Nawādir al-ʻaynīyah fī al-bawādir al-ghaybīyah, or al-ʻAynīyah, a ṣūfī qaṣīdah in ʻayn by al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (d.1428). Excerpts on 'title page' and final leaf (pp.55-56). Perhaps once part of a larger collected volume (majmūʻah).
Abstract: A Quranic commentary.Title from title page.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.فرغ من قصاصته على الأم المنسوخ منها يوم الأربعاء لعله 6/ذي القعدة/سنة 1078هـكتاب البرهان فى تفسير القران / تاليف الامام الاعظم الناصر لدين الله ابو الفتح الناصر بن الحسين بن الناصر بن محمد بن عيسى بن محمد بن عبدالله ابن احمد بن عبدالله بن على بن الحسين بن زيد بن الحَسن بن عَلى ابن ابى طالب هـReading note, dated 17 May 1668. Ownership note, 20th century. Includes lines of poetry by the author about the tribes of Yemen along with a portion of his biography.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد بني إلى أحمر اللون عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد تبدو عليه آثار بلل وكذلك الأرضة واضحة وعليه آثار معالجة لها وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأصفر وعليه بعض التعليقات والحواشي ويعود تاريخه إلى القرن الحادي عشر الهجري4/جمادى الاخرى /1078Incipit: بسم الله...رب يسر وعن يا كريم وبك نستعين الحمد لله الذي ذَلت الاشيا لعظمته واذعنت غُلْبُ الرقاب لقدرته وحارت الاوهام فى عظيم ملكوته...وصلى الله على من بعثه بالرحمة والهدى والحنفيّه الاولى فامر بالحق ونطق با الصدق محمد واله الطاهرين وان الله سبحانه عز عن كل شي شَانٍ شانُه لماَّ اظهرنا من الصفوة الطيّبه والعترةِ المرضيّة...راينا بعد استخارةِ الله عز وجل تفسيرَ الغامض من كتاب الله عز وجل الخفي الذي لا يعلم تاويلَه الا الله والراسخون في العلم...Explicit: كان يُعَوِّذُ الحسن والحسين عليهما السلام فيقول اعيذكما بكلمات الله التامّهِ من كل شيطان وَهَامَّه ومن كل عين لاَمَّه ونحن نستعيذ بالله مما عَوّذَ ونستمده جميلَ ما عَوّد وفقنا الله وقاريَهُ لِتَدَبُّرِ ما فيه وَتَفَهُّمِ معانيه فَبِهِ تَوْفِيْقُنَا وعليه تَوَكّلُنَا وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل. ونعم المولى ونعم النصير.Naskh script, written in black, red and yellow ink. Traces of water damage, dirt and some repairs. Includes some marginalia.28-34 lines.أبيات لأبي الفتح الديلمي قالها في قبائل اليمن يستنهضهم أيام دعوته سنة431هـ ويليها جزء من ترجمته وما ذكر من أبيات في مشهده المبارك. لقطة رقم (5).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 477Origin: As appears in colophon on p.120, transcription completed 25 Rabīʻ I 1237 [ca. 20 December 1821].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 20" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed textile (yellow on white) with red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted wove paper ; resewn in white thread over cords, six stations plus primaries ; worked chevron endbands in green-blue and orange-red, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with staining, some abrasion and lifting of leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 32 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (100 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p. 102, 103, etc.) ; crisp and sturdy ; well-burnished with burnisher's marks visible ; much staining.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ.Script: Naskh ; at least three Turkish hands ; all at least partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs, effect of tilt to the left, and curvilinear descenders ; opening hand (to p.44) freely ligatured ; medial hand (pp.45-74) showing some contrast in thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes ; final hand (from p.74) compact, quite rounded and exhibiting slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in 16-19 lines per page.Collation: 2 V(20), 2 IV(36), 2 V(56), I+2 (60), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "والفراغ عن هذه النسخة المباركة يوم الثلاثة خمسة والعشرين من شهر الربيع الاول سنت الف ومائتين سبعة وثلاثين عفا الله عمن كتبها او قرأها امين م م م م م م م م م م"Explicit: "وهذا هو الشائع يومئذ في البلاد وهو مستحب عند ذوي الارشاد والسداد والله اعلم هذا اخر الالف المألوف في كشف الحروف لجن على يد مؤلفه ومن اعتني بجمعه الراجي رحمة ربه الغفور ابو الفتح بن صدقة منصر [بن منصور ؟] السرميني ... والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي اعز بكتابه العزيز من كان ذليلا ... فقد استخرت الله الكريم الفتاح العليم في جمع اوراق اذكر فيها القراء السبعة الذين الختار الامام ابو بكر بن مجاهد ونحوه من المشايخ قرآاتهم وهو اول من صنف في القراءة السبع ... وسميت ذلك الالف المألوف في فرش الحروف ..."Title from close on p.119.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a treatise attributed to Abū al-Fatḥ [ʻAlī] ibn Ṣadaqah ibn Manṣūr al-Sarmīnī (fl. 1340) on Qurʼānic readings, specifically the seven readings collected by Ibn Mujāhid.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 466Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand, paper, etc. would suggest 14th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 53" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in shell 'marbled' paper (mainly in green-blue, brown and red) with red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted wove paper ; resewn in heavy cream thread, two stations (originally four) ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, delamination of lower board, gash in head of textblock, etc.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes or irregular threes and twos with 9-14 mm. between chains and 38-45 between groups (vertical, curved, see pp.56, 58, 68) ; quite dense and sturdy though crisp with many inclusions and undissolved fibers, lightly burnished ; staining and tidelines ; front flyleaf in wove paper ; back flyleaf in European laid paper.Decoration: Overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand ; serifless with effect of tilt to the right, many closed counters, only casually pointed (pointing for two and three dots in distinct dots), fairly rounded with curvilinear descenders, kāf mashqūqah preferred ; somewhat freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah evident).Collation: i, 11 IV(88), i ; exclusively quaternions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Explicit: "ان الساعة ايته [؟] لا ريب فيها اذ يتنازعون بينهم امرهم معنى اذ يختلفون فيما بينهم وقال بعضهم"Incipit: "الوافر قوله تعالى وممن جولكم من الاعراب منافقون معنى الاعراب الذين حوالي المدينة ومن اهل المدينة وهو عبد الله بن ابي واصحابه مردوا على النفاق ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of an extract from the commentary on the Qurʼān by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī (d.983?) covering the latter part of Sūrat al-Tawbah (9) from verse 101 through the opening of Sūrat al-Kahf (18) through verse 21. Inscriptions in red and green ink (possibly supplied by Yahuda) on front flyleaf (p.2) lists contents.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 577Origin: As appears in colophon on p.208, transcription completed 13 Shawwāl 1142 [ca. 1 May 1730].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Insert with notes (paginated pp.95-96).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 110" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped mandorla and pendants (with now greenish onlays), as well as tooled rule-border ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked endbands mainly gone though traces of tailband remain ; overall in poor condition with lifting and losses of leather (especially at spine), much abrasion and staining, upper cover detaching, etc.Support: European laid paper mainly with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of three crescents (88 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p. 32, 33, etc.) and six mounts with cross above and text beneath (see p.30, 35, 154, etc. and compare Monts - Six monts imbriqués nos.6-9 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans) ; medium cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished ; some staining.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated ; occasional textual divider in the form of hāʼ in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; partially seriffed with occasional left-sloping head-serif on joined alif, marked tilt to the left, occasional descent of words to baseline, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes, freely ligatured (point of final nūn often assimilated with bowl, etc.).Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 10 V(100), 2 (102) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تمت كتابة هذه [كذا] المجلد المبارك في يوم الثالث عشر شهر شوال سنة الف مائة اثنين واربعين تم تم تم"Explicit: "فقال ما دام احد الحرام ليس اعمل بالحلال يكفر تمت الكتاب بعناية الله المرشد بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب المسمى بخزانة الفقه عن تأليف الشيخ العالم الزاهد الفقيه المحقق والمدقق ابو الليث السمرقندي رحمة الله عليه وعلى جميع الفقهاء الدين [كذا] الصالحين والمشايخ الكبار والصغار من امة محمد عليه الصلوة والسلام الى يوم الحشر والقيام"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه الطيبين الطاهرين اعلم ان الفقه علم حسن وهو اجل العلوم وهو علم الدين والشريفة وقوام الشريفة به ... وقد اجتمع فيه فضائل الفقه معدودة الاجناس مجموعة النظائر تسهيلا في التحفظ وتيسرا للفهم ... وسميته خزانة الفقه ..."Title from opening matter on p.4 and closing matter on p.208.Ms. codex.Clear copy of the handbook of Ḥanafī law by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī.
Abstract: "Acephalous copy of the second part of Samarqandī's commentary of the QurʼānAbstract: comprising the text from sūrah 7:42 to the end of sūrah 18."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards with a small central blind-stamped mandorla and an outer border consisting of blind fillets for upper and lower covers. Upper cover disbound. Spine broken.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 174b).Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in clear medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red to overline the commented text ; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick, soft cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Chiefly quaternions. Marginal annotations (mainly collation notes; gloss by another hand at the end of the copy). Stained with water.Collation: Paper, fol. 175, i ; 1¹ (one leaf, fol. 1) 2-22⁸ 23⁸ (-2 at end of quire) i (later added fly-leaf ; European paper with watermark).Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Yaʻqūb, and completed on 8 Rajab 728 May 19, 1328 (fol. 175a).Beginning as extant: \\\\ فصدقناهم ونودوا ونودوا ان تلكم الجنة قال بعضهم قبل ان يدخلوها قال لهم خزنة الجنةExplicit: الى بيت المعمور حشو ذلك النور ملايكة يصلون ويستغفرون له حتى يستيقظ
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 671Origin: As appears in colophon on p.72, copied by Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Kayyāl (Mehmet Kemalettin İbnül Keyyâl) with transcription completed in latter Rajab 1017 [November 1608].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover, "IL 137" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in blue and red) with red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted wove paper ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of paper,lower board partially split, detaching at spine, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct) and no chain lines visible, dense and sturdy, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines, nibbled around edges.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with small right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām or joined alif, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly bold sweeping shaqq on kāf but occasionally represented by vertical stroke with miniature kāf seated above it, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page.Dedication: At the request of the grand vezir Ali Paşa (see heading at opening on p.2) "مفتئ زمان خواجه چلبى ابو السعود حضرتلرينك رساله مباركه سيدر كه مرحوم وزير اعظم على پاشا يسر الله له في الدارين ما يشا التماس ايدوب اكا ارسال ايتدوكيدر"Collation: 3 V (30), V-4 (36) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت الرساله بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في اواخر شهر رجب من شهور سنه سبعة عشر والف على يد الراجى عفو ربه محمد كمال الدين بن الكيال عفى عنه"Explicit: "كمسه باباسنوك واناسنوك حقلرينى اوده مش كبى اولور وعهدلرندن قورتلمش اولور"Incipit: "حمد وسباس وستايش بى قياس اول سامع الاصوات ومجيب الدعوات حضرتنه اولسون كم انك رحمت عميمه سى جميع عباده حاصل ونعمت جسيمه سى مطيع واهل عناده واصل در ..."Title from heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of brief treatise attributed to Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Hoca Çelebi, Mehmet Ebussuud [Ebusuud, Ebu's-suûd] Efendi, d.1574).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 11 v.2Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; paper suggests early 17th century.Accompanying materials: Several inserted slips carrying notes (paginated pp.55-56, 149-150, 241-242, 313-314, 365-366, 357-358) and folded document (paginated pp. 815-816).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 28 Abu Suud's Commentary on Kuran. Vol. 2." ; "٦٠" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather now overlaid with laid marbled paper (blue, pink, yellow, etc.) ; spine repaired with two pieces of red leather ; Type II binding (though flap now lost) ; upper and lower board linings in light green laid paper stamped with floral design ; traces of stamped mandorla in leather under marbled paper ; sewn in dark brown thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue, salmon and yellow, mostly intact at head and tail ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, boards delaminating at corners, leather on spine showing some splitting and red rot, etc. otherwise sound.Support: European laid paper mainly with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of man with stick over his shoulder in circle ; flyleaves in a different European laid paper with chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (vertical) and three hats and 'L V' in circle watermarks ; several older repairs, tide-lines and cockled pages especially at front of codex.Decoration: Sūrah headings rubricated or in blue ink, also often overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red and blue discs appear on page facing incipit page and following page.Script: Naskh ; mainly a clear Syrian hand, virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, many closed counters, curvilinear descenders, occasional superscripting of final words or letters of line, and pointing mainly in distinct dots, extensively vocalized ; more compact from p.567 on ; pp.681-684 supplied in a different hand, namely an elegant Ottoman naskh, partially seriffed, with effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, superscripting of final letters of words, and some elongation of horizontal strokes ; sūrah headings often in a larger tawqīʻ script.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1 (7), V+2 (19), 2 V(39), IV (47), 10 V(147), 2 IV(163), 3 V(193), IV (201), 4 V(241), IV (249), 2 V(269), IV (277), III-1 (282), 10 V(382), IV (390), 3 V(420), IV (428), 3 V(458), III+2 (466), 2 V(486), V+1 (497), II (501), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and inserts ; skips two pages each between pp.109-110, pp.217-218, pp.271-272, pp.415-416, pp.521-522 and pp.575-576).Colophon: "Authorial" and "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتب المؤلف عفى الله تعالى عنه في اخر نسخة الاصل اتفق الفراغ من تسويدها تيك الاوراق بتوفيق الله عز سلطانه ليلة الجمعة الاولى من شهر الله الحرام رجب الفرد لعام ٩٧٣ حامدا لله رب العالمين ومصليا على سيده محمد صلى الله تعالى عليه و على سائر الانبياء والمرسلين والملائكة المقربين اجمعين"Explicit: "واشرف ايامي يوم القاك يوم يقوم الناس لرب العالمين فريقا فريقا احشرين مع الذين انعمت عليهم من النبيين والصديقين الشهداء والصالحين وحسن اولئك رفيقا"Incipit: "اتى امر الله اي الساعة او ما يعمه وغيرها من العذاب الموعود للكفرة عبر عن ذلك بامر الله تعالى للتفخيم وتهويل وللايذان بان تحققه في نفسه"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of an odd second volume of Abū al-Suʻūd's commentary on the Qurʼān, beginning with Sūrat al-Naḥl (16) and ending with Sūrat al-Nās (114). See Mich. Isl. Ms. 11 v.1 for first volume. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 11 v.1Origin: As appears in colophon in lower margin of p.408 and on p.879, copied by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Nābulusī with transcription finished in Shawwāl 1017 [January-February 1609], apparently in Damascus ("... في مدينة الشام"). Copied for (bi-rasm) Farrukh Yāyā Bāshī (Bāshā) ibn Mullā Maḥmūd (Ferruh Yayabaşı b. Mulla Mahmud) who also endowed the book as a waqf for himself, his offspring, and scholars after him (compare Vollers 0214, Refaiya Library, University of Leipzig ; contributions to the cataloguing from Boris Liebrenz).Accompanying materials: Several slips with notes (paginated pp.17-18, pp.63-64, pp.201-202, pp.227-228, pp.229-300, pp.251-252, pp.253-254, and pp.749-750).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 28. Abu Suud's Commentary on Kuran. Vol.1." ; "٦٠" on head of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather now overlaid with laid marbled paper (blue, pink, yellow, etc.) and spine repaired with two pieces of red leather ; Type II binding (though flap now lost) ; upper and lower board linings in light green laid paper stamped with floral design ; traces of stamped mandorla in leather under marbled paper ; sewn in dark brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and blue, intact ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, boards severely delaminating at foreedge, leather on spine showing red rot, etc. otherwise sound.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. and chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart ; watermarks include fleur de lis, anchor, and 'V V' countermark ; lightly burnished ; leaves of varying heft ; tide-lines from water damage around edges of textblock but usually not entering written area ; several older repairs to leaves.Decoration: Sūrah headings and Qurʼānic passages usually rubricated, also often overlined in red or black ; written area of occasional pages throughout surrounded by red rule-border ; textual dividers in the form of red discs appear on page facing incipit page and following page.Script: Naskh ; clear Syrian hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless and compact with mostly closed counters, rectilinear descenders, alif maqsūrah pointed as yāʼ, pointing in distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf with shaqq) ; Qurʼānic text usually vocalized ; text of incipit page in a different hand.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 10 V(109), IV + 2 (119), 3 V(149), III (155), 2 VI(179), 19 V(369), V+1 (380), III (386), VI - 1 (397), V (407), IV+1 (416), 6 V(476), III (482), i ; incipit page appears be a replacement ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts ; follows p.303 with p.204, dropping 100 pages ; skips two pages between pp.711-712).Colophon: [p.408] "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم ذلك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه برسم مفخر امثاله العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى فرخ يايا باشى بن المرحوم ملا محمود رحمه الله رحمة واسعة و ختم لمن كان سببا في كتابته بالصالحات اعماله و اصلح اقواله و افقاله و احواله و رفع في الجنة له الدرجات و بدل سياته بالحسنات ... وجعله وقفا على ... ايام حياته ثم على اولاده وذريته ... وعلى اهل العلم من المسلمين راجيا بذلك وجه الله الكريم ... وشهد عليه كاتبه العبد الفقير محمد صلاح الدين بن محي الدين بن خليل بن حاج عبد القادر النابلسي غفر الله و لوالديه و لمشايخه ولاخوانه و لجميع المسلمين امين يا رب العالمين في شوال سنة ١٠١٧"Explicit: "من قرا سورة النحل لم يحاسبه الله تعالى بما انعم عليه في دار الدنيا و ان مات في يوم تلاها او ليلته كان له من من [كذا] الاجر كالذي مات و احسن الوصية و الله تبارك و تعالى اعلم و صلى الله على سيد محمد و اله و صحبه و سلم"Incipit: "سبحان من ارسل رسوله بالهدى و دين الحق و بين له شعائر الشرائع كل ما جل ودق انزل عليه ايات بينات و ابهر حجج قرآنا عربيا غير ذي عوج ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه الهادي ابو السعود بن محمد العمادي ان الغاية القصوى من تحرير نسخة العالم و من كان حرف منها مسطورا..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the first volume of Abū al-Suʻūd's commentary on the Qurʼān, beginning with Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and ending with Sūrat al-Naḥl (16). See Mich. Isl. Ms. v.2 for second volume. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 949Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. would suggest late 19th or even early 20th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 98Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern in olive green to gold ; upper cover gold-stamped with title "مجموعة رسائل" ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords (see gutter at p.34), also stab sewn ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion.Support: Machine laid paper with 16 laid lines per cm. and no chain lines or watermark visible, burnished, light brown in color, thin, transluscent and crisp ; quite brittle with some breakage at sewing, tears, etc., some accretions and staining.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated ; use of red for abbreviation symbols, especially occasional signes de renvoi ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; clear, carefully executed hand in a medium line ; mainly serifless with marked effect of tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, some free assimilation of letters, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes rather than distinct dots, partially vocalized (often in red ink).Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, V-4 (6), V-1 (15), 9 V(105), IV-2 (111), i ; almost exclusively quinions (some anomalous) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ٤٦) ; Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "ومن كلامه ورد كتاب سيدي الذي يؤمل لهلاله ان يبدر ولثغبه ان يستبحر ولمحار زمنه ان يفض عن"Incipit: "عليك انت بزينب ودعد وسم ايها الرجل بسوى سعد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine though acephalous and apparently incomplete copy (ends abruptly) of the collected letters of Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī (d.1057), renowned Arabic poet and prose author of the late ʻAbbāsid period.
Abstract: Commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī, also known as al-Shāṭibīyah, a versification by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194) of al-Taysīr li-ḥifẓ madhāhib al-qurrāʼ al-sabʻah by ʻUthmān al-Dānī (d. 444/1053).Binding note: Blue paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Leather spine with four sewing stations, with gilt working. Orange paper pastedowns and free endpaper. Two modern paper endleaves at the beginning of the copy.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 3a). On the left margin, note: "Hādhā sharḥ al-Fāsī wa-hādhā al-ʻunwān khaṭā" (crossed out).Incipit: يقول الفقير الى رحمة ربّه المستغفر من وزره وذنبه ... احمده حمد مومن موقن ... اما بعد فانّ جماعة من القرا المشتغلين بقصيدة الشيخ الامام ابى القسم الشاطبى ... قال الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ المقىء ابو القسم بن فره الرعينى ثم الشاطلى رحمه الله بدأت بسم الله ... ومويلا يقال بدات الشيء وابداته اى احدثتهExplicit: وهى ذات حل فتامل ذلك والله اعلم وهذا آخر الجز الاول ويتلوه فى الجز الثانى سورة العمران ان شاء الله تعالىPhysical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and commented text. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Fiber visible on the surface. Fol. 1-2 are apparently later additions on the same paper, with several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a Kabīkaj and a dāʼirah, and a table of the names and dates of readers of the Qurʼān, presented in Persian on fol. 1b-2a. Leaves apparently missing between fol. 19 and 20 (see catchword on fol. 19b and numbering of the quire on fol. 20a). The quires (mainly quinions) are numbered using Arabic numerals (starting with "4" on fol. 20a). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Note in the same hand as the second title on fol. 3a quoting the entry on this text in Kashf al-ẓunūn. On fol. 195b: Short text on the six reasons of illness according to the physicians of Fars, Rūm and al-Hind. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.). Title on the tail of the text block: "Kitāb al-Farīdah fī sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Qirāʼāt 15".Origin: Copy completed on Friday 8 Ṣafar 858 Feb. 1454 (in Arabic numerals) by Yūnus Ibn Aqbughā al-muqriʼ al-Mālikī (colophon, fol. 192b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 659Origin: As appears in colophon on p.43, opening work copied by al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Qāsim ( الحسين بن ابي القاسم ) with transcription completed 26 Rajab 1155 [ca. 26 September 1742] (date provided in ghubār numerals). As appears in colophon on p.130, final work copied for himself by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Saʻd ibn ʻAlī al-Jazāʼirī al-Mālikī al-Ashʻarī al-Baṣrī (احمد بن عبد العزيز بن سعد بن علي الجزائري المالكي الاشعري البصري ) with transcription completed with seven days left in Shaʻbān 1135 [ca. 29 May 1723] (date provided in ghubār numerals).Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on lower cover, "IL 334" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in coated orange paper with black cloth over spine (quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; exposed boards untinted, hinges in blue paper ; sewn in heavy white thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, minor delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper of two main types ; through p.58, type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 31-32 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of triple mount with cross above (see p.8, 12, 13, 18, etc.) and initials [?] in circle (see p.16, etc. and compare Monts - Trois monts imbriqués nos.9 and 9A in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans), sturdy and well-burnished ; from p.59 through close, type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.74, 80, etc.), thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Maghribī ; two main hands ; opening hand (through p.58, supplying bulk of first two works) compact and somewhat angular ; hand supplying final two works (from p.59) more uniform ; both with inclination to the right, sweeping descenders, etc. ; occasionally vocalized.Layout: Written in 31 and 29 lines per page.Collation: i, VI+2 (14), III (20), III+3 (29), 3 VI(65) ; sexternions [senions] and ternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips added 'title page').Colophon: [al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah] "Scribal," reads "انتهى ما اختصره ابو الفاسي رحمه الله من دواوين المالكية رضي الله عنهم على يد عبيد الله سبحانه الحسين ابن ابي القاسم غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاشياخه ولاخوانه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات الاحياء منهم والاموات ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم عام ١١۶۶ في شهر الله المعظم رجب الفرد بعد ان خلت منه ستة وعشرين ... والحمد لله رب العالمين" ; [al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "كملت المغارسة بحمد الله وحسن عونه على يد ناسخها لنفسه ثم لمن شاء الله في بعده العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير الراجي عفو ربه وغفرانه احمد بن عبد العزيز بن سعد بن علي الجزائري الاصل والمنشأ المالكي مذهبا الاشعري اعتقادا البصري اعرابا غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاشياخه ولوالديهم ولجميع المسلمين ووافق الفراغ منها ضحوة يوم الجمعة لسبع بقين من شهر الله المعظم شعبان من عام ۱۱3۶ عرفنا الله خيره وسلام على جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: [al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah] "قال الشيخ ابو عمران الفاسي رضي الله عنه هذا ما اختصرنا من الدواوين دون التطويل من المسائل [مسائل] المدونة مسئلة في تزويج المراة بعد الوقوع والنزول ..." ; [Kitāb al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "فيقول العبد الفقير الى الله ... عبد الرحمن بن عبد القادر ... الحمد لله الملك القديم العالم العلي العظيم الاكرم الكريم الرحمن الرحيم الخبير الحليم ... وبعد فلما كان باب المغارسة من جملة ما ينبغي للمؤلفين المختصرين ان يتعرضوا له ... طلب مني بعض اخواننا ... ان اجمع في الباب مسائل جملة [؟] وان اذكر في ذلك احكاما مهمة ... ولما لخصته وهذبته ودرجته وقربته ظهر ان اسميه بالتيسير والتسهيل في ذكر ما اغفله الشيخ خليل من احكام المغارسة والتوليح والتصيير ..."Title from added 'title page' (flyleaf).Ms. composite codex.4. p.60-p.130 : al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr / Abū Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī.3. p.59-p.60 : [Bāb nadb al-ghars from Mukhtaṣar Khalīl] / Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī.2. p.44-p.58 : [book on fiqh opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ].1. p.1-p.43 : al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah / Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī.Fine Maghribī copy of a collection of works on Mālikī law, opening with a collection of legal decisions attributed to Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī (d.1038), followed by a work of Mālikī fiqh in the same hand opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ, itself followed by Bāb nadb al-ghars or al-Mughārasah from al-Mukhtaṣar, the renowned compendium of Mālikī law by Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (d.1365), and concluding with a commentary on that very work, namely al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī (d.1685).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 64Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.49a (p.103), copied 1142 [1729 or 1730].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 88. Abu Hanifah's Al-Fikh al-akbar." ; on tail-edge in black ink "٣٩٣".Binding: Pasteboards faced in dark blue coated and textured paper (embossed with floral vegetal design) and green leather over spine, fore-edge flap and turn-ins (paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper and lower covers as well as envelope flap carry gold-stamped border ; flyleaves and pastedowns in green wove paper ; interior of fore-edge flap in blue-green silk ; interior of envelope flap in marbled paper (red, lavender, and white) ; sewn in white thread, six stations ; no endbands ; in good condition with only slight abrasion, staining, etc.Support: European laid paper, likely three types ; flyleaves in European laid paper with chain lines running horizontally spaced roughly 23 mm. apart and laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 15 laid lines per cm., eagle watermark and lion rampant in shield watermark ; early quires in heavy cream European laid paper with chain lines running horizontally spaced 28-30 mm. apart, laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 10 laid lines per cm., watermarks partially visible ; mid to latter quires in darker, crisp, thin and transluscent European laid paper with chain lines running horizontally spaced 26-28 mm., laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 12 laid lines per cm., watermarks and countermarks partially visible.Decoration: Text enclosed in red rule-border ; text rubricated with section headings, keywords, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; strong effect of slant to the left ; mainly serifless but with occasional right-sloping head serif appearing on joined alif, ṭāʼ, etc. ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; mix of open and closed counters.Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled ; many leaves of early quires left at larger dimension to accomodate marginalia, folded rather than trimmed.Collation: iii, 5 V (50), iii ; entirely quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, from second folio, first appears on fol.6 (p.17) with "٥" ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (flyleaves paginated).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة ١١٤٢"Explicit: "يوافق ويثبت على اعتقاد صحيح وعمل صالح من تعلق مشيئته الازلية في الازل بهدايته قول الامام الاعظم رحمة الله عليه يهدى من يشاء الى صراط مستقيم كانه قال فما علينا الا البلاغ المبين والله يهدى من يشاء الى صراط مستقيم اللهم يا هادي المهتدين اهدنا الصراط المستقيم"Incipit: "[al-Fiqh al-akbar] قال اصل التوحيد وما يصح الاعتقاد عليه يجب ان يقول امنت بالله وملائكه وكتبه ورسوله والبعث بعد الموت وبالقدر خيره وشره ... [Sharḥ al-Fiqh al-akbar] الحمد لله الذي هدانا الى طريق اهل السنة والجماعة بفضله العظيم ... فيقول العبد الضعيف المذنب ابو المنتهى عصمه الله تعالى الكبير الكريم عن الخطايا والمعاصي وعن الاعتقاد الفاسدة [كذا] العقيم ان كتاب الفقه الاكبر الذي صنفه الامام الاعظم ابو حنيفه رحمة الله عليه كتاب صحيح مقبول بين اهل السنة والجماعة..."Title supplied by catloguer from inscriptions on fol.1a (p.7).Ms. codex.3. fol.49b-50b : [left blank].2. fol.6a-fol.49a : [Sharḥ al-Fiqh al-akbar] / Abū al-Muntahá Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maghnīsāwī.1. fol.1a-fol.6a : al-Fiqh al-akbar / Abū Ḥanīfah.Well-annotated copy of the theological treatise attributed to Abū Ḥanifah (d.150/767), followed by a commentary by Abū al-Muntahá Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maghnīsāwī (d.1000/1592).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 941Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. strongly suggest early 17th century.Accompanying materials: "a. Slip of paper: 8348; b. Slip of paper: 13713" - from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 90Binding: Fiberboards covered in maroon cloth with brown leather over spine and board corners (half binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns (now fully detached from boards, traces of adhesive visible) and flyleaves in shell 'marbled' (printed pattern) wove paper in brown, red, blue and gold ; board corners and spine leather extending over boards edged in gold-stamped vegetal accents ; spine gold-stamped with decorative accents over raised bands ; edges of textblock speckled red ; spine label carries title and subject "الجزء الاول من تفسير ابي حيان وبه الثلث الاول | تفسير" ; sewn (not original) in white thread, six stations ; Western style endbands ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of cloth and leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), single chain lines evenly spaced roughly 28 mm. apart (vertical), three crescents watermark (see p.10, compare Heawood 863, Venice 1610), some inclusions and undissolved fibers ; heavy but crisp and well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and sūrah headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of small red discs, hāʼs (ه), and inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; clear Egyptian hand in a thin line ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, adhering fairly closely to baseline, many closed counters, pointing in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred.Layout: Written in 33 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: Original gatherings now difficult to discern, though likely quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "كمل الثلث الاول من النهر المأخوذ من البحر ويتلوه ان شاء الله تعالي سورة يونس عليه السلام والحمد لله وحده و بالله المستعان تم"Explicit: "في سوء العاقبة من الوقوع في العذاب ويحرص على هداهم ويرأف بهم ويرحمهم اللهم فصل عليه اشرف صلاة وسلم عليه ازكى سلام"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام العلامة الحافظ سيبويه الزمان ابو حيان محمد ابن يوسف بن علي رحمه الله ورضي عنه بحمدك اللهم استفتح وبنورك استوضح من فضلك استمنح ... وبعد فان لما صنفت كتابي الكبير المسمى بالبحر المحيط في علم التفسير عجز عن قطعه لطوله السابح ... فاجريت منه نهرا تجري عيونه ... وهذا النهر مدة من بحر ليس له حرز ..."Title from 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the first third (through the conclusion of Sūrat al-Tawbah [9]) of Abū Ḥayyān al-Gharnāṭī's (d.1344) commentary on the Qurʼān derived from his more extensive commentary al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ.
Abstract: The first part of a very large collection of fatwas by the author.Title from title page.الجزءُ الأَوّلُ مِنْ فَتَاوي سيدنا العلامة القدوة الحجة المحدث نفيس الدِّين سليمنُ بن يحيى ابن عمر مقبول الأَهْدَلOwnership note, dated August 1911. Includes multiple unknown fragments and poems.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه غلاف قماشي وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والوردي والأحمر وبه أوراق في آخره عليها آثار معالجة من حريق وكذلك من الأرضه ويحتوي في أوله على فوائد متعددةIncipit: بسم الله...وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد افضل الخلق اجمعين واله الطيبين الطاهرين وصحابته الاكرمين وبعد فهذا ما يسر الله نقله من فتاوي شيخنا العلامة النبيل...Explicit: ولا شك ان المقبرة مما يكثر تكرر المرور بها فَهِيَ كالشارع والله سبحانه اعلم انتهى جوابه اهـ والله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآلهPersian naskh script, written in black, pink and red ink. Some traces of repairs.24 lines.فوائد ونقول متعددة وقصائد شعرية من اللقطة رقم (10-18) ثم (23-39).بيتان شعريان في صفحة الاختتام. لقطة رقم (454): رأت قمر السماء فاذكرتني ليالي وصلها بالرقمتينِ كِلانا نَاظِر ٌقمراً وَلَكِنْ رايت بعينِها ورأت بعينِ
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 677Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From 'title page,' "IL 414" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in now dull yellow European laid paper (three crescent watermark visible) with red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in marbled paper in blue and cream yellow ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and pink, significant losses at head and tail ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant staining and abrasion, losses to upper board at lower corner, upper cover fully detached at spine, lifting and losses of leather, foreedge flap detaching at lower cover, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of perhaps two types ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and anchor (two line) in circle with star above watermark (see p.40, 46, 56, 60, 100, etc.) ; another type with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of font with lid and cross [leaf] (or cardinal’s mitre / chapeau) (see p.26 and compare Chapeau nos. 3447, etc. in Briquet, Les Filigranes, Chapeau nos.2-8 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans and nos. 31-32 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol. 1) ; sturdy and well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; some section headings in green-blue ; written area and columns within surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; compact, elegant, Turkish hand ; virtually serifless with very slight tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, occasional sweeping tails on qāf, etc., freely ligatured, pointing in strokes and distinct dots.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page with written area divided to four columns and two lines of verse per line, for 42 lines of verse per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 IV(16), VII (30), 2 IV(46), V (56), VI (68), V+1 (79), V (89), IV-2 (95) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.167-168).Explicit: "خيرله اولسون دني عقبيده شاد احمديى هر كه ايده خيرله ياد"Incipit: "ذكر بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قامونسدن [قامونسنه] بزه كيدر اى حكيم هر كيمككم يولداشى توفيق اولا هرنه سوزكم سويليا تحقيق اولا"Title from inscriptions on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the work by the renowned Ottoman poet Ahmedî on the life and deeds of Alexander the Great, expanding on the features of the legend as they appear in Firdawsī and Niẓāmī with many philosophical digressions and ending with a sketch of Islamic history concluding with an important versified history of the Ottomans.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 424Origin: As appears in colophon on p.197, transcription completed by the author in Muḥarram 1216 [May-June 1801]. A note on the 'title page' (p.1), "مترجم مرحوم خطيله", also indicates that the manuscript is in the hand of the author.Former shelfmark: "329 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings and flyleaves in orange-tinted, silver-flecked European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite stamped mandorla (gold-painted recessed onlays, vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) and pendants, as well as gold-tooled accents and guilloché roll border ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition with tailband and primaries detaching from textblock but still well-attached to spine lining ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion, some lifting of spine leather, spine lining detached from most of text block, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct, curved), no chain lines visible, cloudy formation with fibers and inclusions visible, quite sturdy, transluscent and crisp, highly sized and burnished, beige to light brown in color ; board linings and flyleaves in European laid paper with large scrollwork watermark (difficult to make out).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of the preface on p.2, consisting of scalloped w-shaped piece with gold cartouche (carrying the title "مرح المعالى فى شرح الامالى" in white) surrounded by swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold with red, blue, and light blue accents on a gold ground, entire piece set in an elaborate well of pink, black and light blue bands flanking a heavy band of gold interlace with red and turquoise accents and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red ; second superb illuminated headpiece at opening of the main text ( beginning with introduction, مقدمۀ كتاب) on p.8 ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy gold frame with divisions within defined by narrow gold bands ; elsewhere written area (and divisions within) surrounded by light blue (evoking silver) band defined by inner and outer red rules ; keywords and text being commented upon rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact hand in a heavy line ; serifless, with effect of words inclining to the right and descending to baseline, closed counters, elongated horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; text being commented upon fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V+1 (11), 9 V(101), i ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages each between pp.9-10 and 183-184).Dedication: As appears in opening matter (preface, see p.5) dedicated to Sultan Selim III (r.1709-1807).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular reads "نجز بقلم شارحه الحقير فى م سنه ١٢١٦"Explicit: "مفهوم بيت بو در كه بر كمسنه بنم ايچون بر كون كه مراد بر وقتدر دعاى خير ايدرسه مدت عمرمده زمايت قدرتمى آنك خير دعاسنده افراغ ايدرم فنرجو من الله العميم المراحم البسيط المكارم ان يعفو عنا وعن الناظم ويرحمنا ويرحمه ويرحم آبائنا وامهاتنا ومشايخنا واحبائنا وجميع المؤمنين بحرمة رسوله الامين ولله الحمد اولا واخرا"Incipit: "سبحان من توحد فى ذاته القديم سبحان من تفرد فى وصفته القويم ... اما بعد صورت مقدمۀ اتيه ده بيان اولنديغى اوزره جملۀ علوم شريفه وجلمۀ فنون منيفه دن علم كلام ايله معلم اولان ... بو عبد مكزين يعنى در مائده اواصر قواصم السيد احمد عاصم جعله الله من عصبة المعاصم ... شرح وامل سنه وضع قلم ابتدا اولنوب اسلوب مطلوب ومنهج مرغوب اوزره توفيق رب منعامله قرين حسن ختام ومرح المعالى فى شرح الامالى ايله بنام ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2 and in opening matter on p.4.Ms. codex.Elegant, apparently autograph copy of the commentary by the celebrated Ottoman offical historiographer (vak’anüvîs / vakanüvîs) Ahmet Asım Efendi, also known as Mütercim Asım (d.1820) on al-Ūshī's (fl. 12 cent.) renowned theological poem in lām, Badʼ al-amālī or Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʻabd fī badʻ al-amālī.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1046Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; hand, dates of composition, and especially paper would suggest the last two decades of the 18th century. Date of 1296 [1879] at the close of Hulâsatü'l-itibar on fol.69 is possibly a corruption of 1195 [1781], the date of composition of this work ; it appears to have been entered by the rubricator who supplied many of the textual dividers and some overlining.Accompanying materials: Slip with inscription in black ink between fol.11 and fol.12.Former shelfmark: On front flyleaf, from Bouwman Books "msturk194".Binding: Pasteboards (thin) covered in dark red brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures (board linings) in fine marbled paper (ebru) in grey, light blue, light brown and black ; upper and lower covers carry a ruled rectangular central panel and gold-tooled borders in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, tailband damaged ; overall in fairly goold condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines (horiztonal) per cm., chain lines (vertical) spaced 26 mm. apart, and watermark of scrollwork with horn in shield, crown above, trefoil and "D& C Blauw" below (mark of the Dutch papermaking firm of Dirk & Cornelius Blauw, see Voorn pp. 543-4 ; 558-9, roughly 115 x 115 mm. including name of firm, compare Gravell Nos. TJ 163, TJ 162, TJ 137, TJ 709, TJ 351 / SLD.349.2, SLD.349.1, SLD.345.1, SLD.400.1, SLD.378.1 dated 1783-1793).Decoration: Keywords and many notabilia rubricated ; written area surrounded by red rule-borders ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; fine, very neatly formed Ottoman hand, in a medium line ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing mainly in strokes or conjoined dots, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV+1 (9), V+1 (20), V (30), V+1 (41), V+1 (52), V (62), V+1 (73), III (79) ; final five leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in pencil, Western numerals (supplied by book seller).Incipit: [Sefaretname] "حمد موفور وسپاس نامحصور مالك ملكوت آسمان زمين اولان خدواند جهان آفرينه سزادركه ارسال رسل ورسائل ضمننده تبيين ملل واديان ... اما بعد تقرير كمترين بندكان ديوان سامى الحاج احمد رسمى بودركه بلاد شماليۀ غربيه دن جرمانيا او آلمانيا مملكتى داخلنده في الاصل سقصونه ايالتندن معدود اولان برآنده برق سنجاغنه القطورلق نشانى ..." ; [Hulâsatü'l-itibar] "ايفاى حمد وثناى خداوند علام واجراى وضيفۀ صلوة وسلام ختامندنصكره معروض انديۀ بهيۀ كرام بودركه فاتحۀ معمورۀ عالم ..." ; [Kıta-yi Halifetü'r-rüesa] "اشبو مقالۀ مشكين كلاله بيان وفيات ... محصوره اولميوب على العموم كتاب معارف انتسابه مسرح عيون اعتبار ومنهاج رفتار وانحدار اولمق ملاحظه سيله اواخر ملوك بني اميه واوائل دولت عباسيه ده رئيس الكتاب وفن كتابت وانشاده مقتداى شيخ وشاب اولان عبد الحميد بن سعيدك شرذمۀ [؟] كتابه دستور شمائل وشعار ... بلاغت علامه سى بطريق الترجمه بو محله ذيل وخاتمه قلنمشدر وهى هذه صناعت كتابت ومنقبت فصاحت وخطابتله موصوف اولان ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf.Ms. codex.5. fol.69b-fol.74b : [Kıta-yi Halifetü'r-rüesa] / Ahmet Resmî Efendi.4. fol.28b-fol.69a : [Hulâsatü'l-itibar] / Ahmet Resmî Efendi.3. fol.27b-fol.28a : [blank].2. fol.22b-fol.27a : [Layiha] / Ahmet Resmî Efendi.1. fol.1b-fol.22a : [Sefaretname-yi Ahmet Resmî] / Ahmet Resmî Efendi.Fine collection (mecmua) of works by Ahmet Resmî Efendi, opening with his Sefaretname, an account of his embassy to Berlin in 1177-78/1763-64, followed by the Layiha he presented to Muhsinzade Mehmed Paşa (d.1188/1774) as the Ottomans undertook negotiations with the Russians to end the Russo-Ottoman War (1768-74), next his critical and satirical history of that war Hulâsatü'l-itibar, and closing with an excerpt from Halifetü'r-rüesa (see pp.73-81 of the 1853 Istanbul edition), his biographical work on Ottoman chief scribes, addressing the scribal arts as modeled in the work of the first great scribe of Islam, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Kātib (d.750).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 419Origin: Lacks detailed colophon though partially effaced patronage statements appear with each work, and the statement following the final work (p.168) is dated 1098 [1686 or 7].Former shelfmark: "514 [?] T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures and lining of envelope flap in marbled paper (mainly in red and brown) ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted central ornament in a diamond shape (filled with crosshatch pattern) with rosette accents and stroke pendants, as well as tooled and gold-painted border in a series of s-shaped stamps with flanking fillets and rosette accents ; sewn in pink thread, two stations, failing ; worked chevron endbands in blue and yellow, only headband remains ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (mainly at fore edge flap), spine slant (slightly cocked), etc. ; repair to spine (rebacked) in cream textile.Support: non-European laid paper of a few types ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, for most fairly distinct, some appearance of curving) and somewhat irregular chain lines (mainly single but with occasional groups of two) sometimes appearing about 25 mm. apart, cloudy formation, dark beige to light brown in color, fairly thin and transluscent, well-burnished ; another type with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (fairly distinct) and occasional chain lines visible, typically tinted pale blue, mint green, pink or yellow, well-burnished.Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of each main work (see pp.8, 46, 58, 138), each consisting of a variation on a rectangular panel with gold cartouche (in one case carrying title, see p.58) surmounted by a semi-circular piece or dome overlaid with delicate floral and cloud motifs on grounds in gold and shades of dark and light blue with decorative bands and surmounting vertical stalks (tīgh) ; headings, keywords, excerpts, and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining some keywords) rubricated ; headings in selection of poetry chrysographed ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas and gold discs ; occasional overlining in red ; written area and divisions within surrounded by narrow gold frame defined by black fillets.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; elegant Ottoman hands in a medium line ; opening works (through p.148) in a fine nastaʻlīq/talik, serifless with effect of inclination to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in strokes or conjoined dots ; final works in careful naskh, two clear Ottoman hands, opening hand (pp.152-157) mainly serifless, compact yet vertically elongated with dramatic inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, free assimilation of letters, pointing in strokes or distinct dots ; second hand (p.160 to close) partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed, spacious and neatly formed with slight tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iv, V(10), IV+1 (19), III (25), 4 V(65), II+3 (72), II (76), V (86) ; chiefly quinions ; final leaves and some pages between works left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves serving as flyleaves at opening).Incipit: [Rahatü'l-eşbah] "حمد بيحد و شكر لا يعد اول حي وقيومه كه حياتى سرمديه [؟] در آز الده ... وبعد بو اضعف العباد اعنى وجدى ناصراد ... ونامنه راحة الاشباح فى بيان الارواح ديدم ..." ; [Risale-yi Hakikat-i nevm] "يا واجب الوجود يا فائض الجود جناب عزتكدن مأمول وعالى حضرتكدن ... وبعد بو فقير وحقير اعنى وجدى پر تقصير دير كه وقتا كيم راحة الاشباح نام رساله نك تحريرندن فارغ اولدمسه مراد ايدندمكه حقيقت نوم ايله حقيقت رؤيا بياننده بر رساله تحرير وآنده انواع واقسام رؤيايى على طريق الاجمال تسطير ايدم ... دانى اوچ مقاله اوزرينه ترتيب ايلدم وبالله التوفيق ..." ; [Risale-yi Kutü'l-ervah] "منت اول خداي منانه مخصوصدر كه آدمك روحنى تشريف اضافت ونفخت فيه من روحى ايله جميع ارواحدن ممناز ايلدى ... اما بعد بو فقير دلداده اعنى وجدى افتاده دير كه بوندن اول بعض اخوان صفانك التماسلريله راحة الاشباح نامنده بر رساله مفيده تحرير وانده روح انسانى حقنده وآرده اولان اقاويله اجمالا تسطير ايتمشيدم ... قوت الارواح اسميله مسمى اولمغه ..." ; [treatise on eşbah, etc.] "نحمدك يا واجب الوجود ونشكرك يا ذا الفضل والجود ونصلى على حبيبك المصطفى وعلى آله وصحبه اهل الصفا وبعد بو فقيره تردد ايدن ياراندن [؟] ابراهيم چلبى ديمكله معروف وطلب علم ومعرفتله موصوف بر ياغار ورفيق وفادار ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.9.Ms. codex.14. p.169-178 : [blank].13. p.168 : [partially effaced patronage statement].12. p.166-p.167 : Hādhā Sharḥ Aṣḥāb al-kahf.11. p.160-p.165 : [masāʼil opening with "Masʼalah ʻan al-nisāʼ al-Ṭahārāt...etc."].10. p.158-p.159 : [blank].9. p.152-p.157 : [selection of poetry].8. p.149-151 : [blank].7. p.138-p.148 : [another treatise on eşbah] / İbrahim Çelebi [?].6. p.137 : [blank].5. p.58-p.136 : Risale-yi Kutü'l-ervah.4. p.55-p.57 : [blank].3. p.46-p.54 : [Risale-yi Hakikat-i nevm ile hakikat-i rüya beyanında].2. p.44-p.45 : [blank].1. p.8-p.43 : Rahatü'l-eşbah fi beyanü'l-ervah / Ahmet Vecdi Efendi.Elegant copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of several brief treatises in Ottoman Turkish on spirits, sleep, dreams, the afterlife, etc. opening with a work by Ahmet Vecdi Efendi (d.1633), followed by a selection of poetry and excerpts in Arabic on assorted masāʼil, etc. Contributions to the cataloguing from Hossein Mottaghi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 380Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.990-991, copied by Mahmut, the translator/author's son, for the vizier Hazret Osman Paşa ( حضرت عثمان پاشا) with transcription completed 1 Ṣafar 1112 [ca. 18 July 1700].Accompanying materials: Slip of blue wove paper carrying notes in black ink (between pp.202-203).Former shelfmark: "٢٤٧" in black ink on spine label ; "362 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis] on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan / light brown leather framed in black leather (over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures / pastedowns and flyleaves in heavy laid paper with a speckled ebru design (marbled) in red, white, blue, green, purple, and black ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped (with gold-painted, red recessed onlays) scalloped mandorla and pendants, as well as wide, tooled and gold-painted border in a series of s-shaped stamps (forming guilloché roll) flanked by gold rules ; design continues on flap ; sewn in blue thread, broken for many of the gatherings in the first half of the text and sometimes repaired with red thread ; worked chevron endbands in brown and light blue, losses exposing cores of head and tailband ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, lifting (particularly where cover flanges overlap on spine) and losses of leather, envelope flap detaching from fore edge flap, etc.Support: European laid paper of at least three types ; first type with roughly 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) roughly 28 mm. apart, well-burnished, thick and creamy (see p.20, etc.) ; second type with roughly 14 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 23 mm. apart, well-burnished, thin and crisp, scrollwork / arms watermark (see p.571, etc.) ; third type with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 14 mm. apart, well-burnished, thin and crisp, watermark with grapes surmounted by a cartouche with "...RBE..." written inside surmounted by a crown (compare to Heawood 2385, see p.791, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in green and red on a gold ground, surmounted by a scalloped, semi-circular piece (dome) with floral floral designs in pink, lavender, red, and teal on a gold ground, itself surmounted by delicate vertical stalks (tīgh) in dark blue and flecked with gold above ; entire piece set in a well of white crosses on a thin red band ; text of written area surrounded by frame consisting of a heavy gold band flanked by black fillets and outermost gold rule ; section headings, keywords, notabilia and some vocalization rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of discs and inverted commas in gold (incipit and facing page, pp.4-5) and red ; edges of text block decorated with floral-vegetal motifs in gold.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline and elongated horizontal strokes, fully vocalized at times.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV+1 (9), 48 V (489), III+1 (496), ii ; chiefly quinions ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "قد استراحت قديمة القلم عن السياحت في ميادين الرقم ... على يد افقر من مشى تحت الخضرا... محمود ابن مترجم هذا الكتاب المستطاب ... وجعله هدية لخزانة كتب الوزير المكرم والدستور المفخم ... حضرت عثمن پاشا اناله الله بما يحبه ويشا وكثر من المستعدين من اولاه وجعل اخراه اولى من اوليه ... حرر في غرة صفر المظفر ختم بالخير والظفر من شهور سنه اثنى وعشرة و مائة بعد الالف من هجره من انزل عليه القران حرفا بعد حرف"Explicit: "وضلع امرأه ايله تعبير اولنور زيرا رسول اكرم غرابه فاسق الطلاق ومراه يي ضلعه تشبيه بيورديلر والله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وله و صحبه اجمعين"Incipit: "ان احسن الاحاديث بعد الحمد لمن جعل السقف الاخضر مرفوعا ... وبعد بو كمينۀ كم بضاعه وفقير قصير الباعه ..."Title from titlepiece on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the extensive Ottoman Turkish rendering (with commentary) by İshak Hocası Ahmet b. Heyreddin (d.1708) of al-Tirmidhī's (d.892) Kitāb al-Shamāʼil, a collection of traditions comprising the Prophet’s characteristics. Copy apparently executed by the author's son (see colophon) and collated by the author himself (see collation statement on p.1). Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 379Origin: As appears in colophon on p.1391, copied by Muḥammad ibn Khalīl (Mehmet b. Halil) ; date of transcription not specified ; paper suggests 18th century (perhaps mid century).Accompanying materials: a. Slip of wove paper with notes in black ink (between pp.230-321) -- b. Slip of laid paper with notes in black ink (between pp.726-727).Former shelfmark: "340 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of opening leaf (p.2) ; "٣٢ع | ٤خ" on spine label.Binding: Pasteboards covered in gold-flecked red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped (with orange paper onlay) and gold-painted mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. NA 4), surrounded by a tooled border consisting of an s-shape stamped chain in gold flanked by thin gold fillets ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in pink and yellow thread in a chevron pattern ; overall in fair condition with fore edge flap lost, repairs to spine and fore edge of lower board in a darker red leather, and abrasion on upper and lower covers.Support: European laid paper of several types ; one opening type with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 12 mm. apart, and watermark of grapes surmounted by a crown (see p.32) ; another with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, and watermark of "?AHE?NE" and figure (see p.46) ; another with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, and watermark of grapes surmounted by a crown with a heart motif (see p.136) ; another with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 21 mm. apart, watermark of grapes (see p.578) ; another with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 24 mm. apart, and watermark of LANGUEDOC (see p.592) ; all well-burnished, thin and crisp.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.10 consisting of rectangular piece with emtpy gold cartouche outlined in orange and flanked by floral vegetal accents in gold, light pink, and pale blue, surmounted by a scalloped semicircular piece (dome) outlined in orange and filled with floral vegetal accents in blue, pale blue, light pink, orange, and white, itself surmounted by delicate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, and set in a well consisting of a thick band of light pink ; written area throughout surrounded by a thick gold frame with outer black rule ; Qurʼānic passages rubricated in a range of red shades ; overlining in red ink.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium to bold line ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: II (4), 169 V (694), II (698) ; chiefly quinions ; final two leaves (following close of text) left blank ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "كتبه اضعف العباد محمد بن حليل م"Explicit: "ومراه يي ضلعه تشبيه بيورديلر صلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله و صحبه اجمعين و الحمد الله حمدا يوافي نعمه ويكافي مزيده كلما حمده الحامدون و ذكره الذاكرون تمت بعون الحق"Incipit: "ان احسن الاحاديث بعد الحمد لمن جعل السقف الاخضر مرفوعا ... وبعد بو كمينۀ كم بضاعه وفقير قصير الباعه ... لمؤلفه احمدم ... واقوم الوسائل في ترجمة الشمائل ديو نام زد قيلدم ... "Title from opening matter on p.14.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the extensive Ottoman Turkish rendering (with commentary) by İshak Hocası Ahmet b. Heyreddin (d.1708) of al-Tirmidhī’s (d.892) Kitāb al-Shamāʼil, a collection of traditions comprising the Prophet’s characteristics. Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Abstract: Manual on the principles of Hanafite law. This work is also known as al-Muntakhab fī uṣūl al-dīn and as al-Muntakhab al-Ḥusāmī.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown marbled paper and red paper. Paper pastedown and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Some leaves are dyed in dark orange. Dimension of leaves irregular. Marginal annotations, particularly at the beginning of the text. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits first fol.). Worm eaten.Two spine labels (vertical), reading respectively: "Uṣūl al-fiqh li-Muḥammad Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Akhsīkatī" (in Arabic script), and "155 crossed out 34" (in Arabic and Western numerals).Origin: Copy completed on Thursday 17 Shaʻbān 740 Feb. 17, 1340 by Sāwijī(?) ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad, known as Sirāj al-Malaṭī (colophon, fol. 48b, followed by verses of poetry in Arabic and Persian).Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله على نواله والصلوة على محمد وآله فان اصول الشرع ثلثة الكتاب والسنة واجماع الامة والاصل الرابع القياس المستنبط من هذه الاصول اما الكتاب فالقرآن المنزل على الرسولExplicit: وهي يوجب الاحاطة على سبيل الافراد ومعنى الافراد ان يعتبر كل اسم بانفراده ليس معه غيره والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب وصلّى الله على محمد الو الالباب
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 97Origin: As appears in colophon on p.447, transcription finished ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb...") in the first part of Jumādá I 929 [March 1523].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No.146. Glosses on the Wikayah."Binding: Pasteboard covered in dark brown leather with red-brown leather repairs on spine and at edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in laid paper ; cover bears blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with floral vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi2 5) ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and sky blue, fine condition ; overall in poor condition with upper cover and flap lost, significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes with 9-10 mm. between the chains and roughly 35 mm. between groups ; well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviations rubricated ; occasional overlining and textual divders in the form of discs in red ; written area (opening through p.64 and then p.251 to close) surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; effect of words descending to baseline, occasionally more exaggerated ; occasional extension of horizontal strokes ; colophon in thuluth.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 V(60), II+2 (66), V (76), II (80), 4 V(120), II (124), 6 V(184), IV+1 (193) ; chiefly quinions ; p.134 and p.444 left blank, unmarked ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts ; drops from p.132 to p.131 thus repeating pp.131-132).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب في اوائل جمادى الاولى في سنة تسع وعشرين وتسعمائة"Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته تم بعون الله تع"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى ..."Title from opening (p.7).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebi on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. (see Isl. Ms. 86 for another ms. copy of this work).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 558Origin: As appears in colophon on p.645, transcription completed 7 Rajab 1124 [ca. 10 August 1712].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Two inserts carrying notes (paginated pp.281-82 and pp.633-34).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and fore edge flap, "IL 133" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi) ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in dull pink or light brown thread, two stations ; endbands virtually gone, though traces of headband remain ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), watermarks including three crescents (81 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.12, 17, etc.) and crown-star-crescent (76 mm. tall, see p.10, 19, etc.), and countermark of "V G" under trefoil (see p.12) ; light cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; mainly a fine, compact Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly serifed with right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and other ascender letters, effect of tilt to the left, occasional effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders with some sweeping, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured with assimilation of initial alif with following lām, dot of final nūn with bowl, etc. ; hand changes at p.629, from there to p.649 text supplied in a nastaʻlīq (talik), sans serif with effect of tilt to the right ; final two leaves of the text in still a different naskh ; opening excerpt in a naskh with some influence of nastaʻlīq (talik), a clear Turkish hand, virtually serifless with effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated) and tilt to the left, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; opening excerpt in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: I (2), 32 V(322), I (324) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some inserts and mistakenly skips ahead from p.275 to p.277 and from p.277 to p.279).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "سوده [الحرف الاخير مشطوب] الحقير [كذا] هذه الاوراق في سنة اربع وعشرين ومائة والف السبع في شهر رجب المرجب في نصفه يوم پنجشنبه قرب غروب الشمس"Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى..."Title from opening matter on p.12.Ms. codex.7. p.653-p.654 : [blank].6. p.652 : [listing of notabilia].5. p.650-p.651 : [authorial colophon].4. p.649 : [excerpt].3. p.646-p.648 : [table of contents].2. p.9-p.645 : Dhakhīrat al-ʻuqbá fī sharḥ Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-ʻUẓmah / Akhī Chalabī.1. p.1-p.8 : [gloss upon a commentary on Sūrat al-Qadr].Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebī (Ahi Çelebî) on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. (see Isl. Ms. 86 and Isl. Ms. 97 for other ms. copies of this work). Preceded by an excerpt of a gloss upon a commentary on Sūrat al-Qadr (pp.1-8) and followed by table of contents (pp.646-648), closing excerpt (p.649), and authorial colophon in different hand (pp.650-651).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 86Origin: Authorial and scribal colophons appear on p.708, supplied by "Muṣṭafá al-Qāḍī" (qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min tanmīq hādhā al-kitāb...katabahu..."). Authorial colophon mistakenly claims composition begain in the year "91" Hijrī. Opening of scribal colophon (possibly transcribed verbatim from exemplar) suggests that transcription was finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb...") first of Rajab 908 [ca. 31 December 1502]. However, the paper, hand, etc. would more likely suggest a dating of late 16th or early 17th century, and perhaps the copyist intended 980 [ca. 7 November 1572] rather than 908.Accompanying materials: Three slips, all paginated -- a. pp.23-24 blank paper -- b. pp.289-290 text in black ink on one side -- c. pp. 465-466 notes in black ink on one side.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 16. Dakhirat al-ukba."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though only fore edge flap remains) ; board linings in blue and white shell marbled paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with gold painted accents ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; endbands in orange and white ; in poor condition, with envelope flap lost, abrasion on all corners of cover, tail end of spine missing and exposing deteriorating primaries.Support: European laid paper, a few different types ; one with very distinct laid lines (vertical) spaced roughly 9-10 laid lines per cm., chain lines spaced roughly 26-28 mm. apart, lightly burnished ; another thinner, more heavily burnished with roughly 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical, very fine and distinct) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart ; watermarks include crossbow (see p.220, compare Piccard no.123789), anchor in circle with trefoil above (p.196, compare Heawood 1 and 4) and figure (angel) in circle with "S c C" countermark (p.88/98, etc. matching Piccard no.21419 from Bari, 1587) ; loose leaves at beginning ; first two folia entirely detatched ; repairs made with similarly colored, laid paper ; water damage to head and tail of text, causing smudging of some glosses.Decoration: Red rule border appears for opening through p.48 ; textual divders in the form of inverted commas, stylized hāʼ, etc. ; text rubricated with keywords, textual dividers, notabilia, etc. in red.Script: Several different hands, as well as changes in ink and line thickness ; majority in a naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) with closed counters, superscripting of final words of line, esentially sans serif ; a few other hands in naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) appear, varying in size and elongation of horizontal strokes, with some exaggeration in thickness ; a few sections are supplied in a more standard naskh, though with slant to the left, mainly closed counters, occasional head-serifs on free-standing alif and initial lām ; hand first appears to change at p.44 and repeatedly thereafter, particularly in the latter quires (see pp.586-610, pp.611-624, pp.625-664, pp.665-684, etc.).Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: I+1 (3), V-1 (12), 3 V(42), IV(50), III(56), 8 V(136), II(140), V(150), VI(162), 3 V(192), IV(200), 3 V(230), II(234), 2 VI(258), V(268), I(270), 7 V(340), VI(352) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (occasionally correspond with second or third rather than first word of following page) ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink (scribe's hand) starting after incipit (p.11) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (pagination skips two leaves between p.41 and p.42, and includes inserts).Colophon: "Authorial" followed by "Scribal," rectangular, "تم بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم قال الشيخ الامام الهمام عفى الله عنه يوسف بن جنيد عفى عنهما الحميد المجيد المدرس في احدى المدارس ... في بلدة القسطنطنية حرسها الله تعالى عن القلوب القاسية هذا اخر ما [...؟] لي في شرح صدر الشريعة المسمى بذخيرة العقبى ... وكان ابتداء التاليف تقريبا في احدى وتسعين [كذا] من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام الى يوم الحشر والقيام. وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب في اول رجب الفرد بتاريخ سنة ثمان و تسعمائة على يد افقر عباد الله تعالى و اضعفهم و احوجهم الى رحمة رب العالمين . . . قد وقع الفراغ من تنميق هذا الكتاب المسمى ذخيرة العقبى [كذا] الحشية لصدر الشريعة العظمى والمحشي اخي چلبي رحمه الله كتبه الفقير اليه تعالى مصطفى القاضي ..."Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته الحمد لله الموصل بالاتمام قوله والمقيم الذي لا يموت ولا ينام قوله والكفيل الذي اوصل الارزاق للانام [؟] والعليم الذي يعلم بلا الحاف والزام [؟] والحكيم الذي لا يحكم بين خلقه بالاتقان والاحكام وصلى الله على نبيه المنعوت بالاختتام وعلى اله اصحابه الذين فازوا على قهر العدو بعناية الملك العلام"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى ..."Title from colophon on p.706 and edge title.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebi on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (see Isl. Ms. 97 for another ms. copy of this work). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 60Origin: As appears in colophon on p.747, copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻīl ibn Khalīl ibn Yūnis al-Malaṭī. Transcription finished ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min kitābat al-juzʼ al-thānī min al-ʻInāyah fī sharḥ al-Hidāyah...") in the mausoleum (turbah, türbe) of Amīr Yashbak in Cairo, 1st of Ramaḍān 889 [ca. 22 September 1484]. As appears in reading / study note in red ink adjacent to colophon on p.747, overlining in red completed Monday, 14 Rajab 1056 [ca. 26 August 1646] "يقول الفقير عبد الرحمن الحمد لله الذي شرفني بمطالعة هذا الكتاب وميزت الهداية عن العناية بوضع المداد الاحمر واتممت عند انتصاف النهار يوم الاثنين الرابع عشر من شهر رجب المرجب من شهور سنة ست وخمسين والف ...".Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 57. Al-Inayah."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark green-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though completely detached) ; doublures in red leather ; upper and lower covers carry large blind-stamped mandorla with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. NA 4) along with tooled and gold-painted roll border ; sewn in blue thread, two stations ; endbands in faded pink and cream, soiled but intact ; in poor condition with much abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather at fore-edge flap, etc. ; flap is completely detached at fore-edge.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with chain lines grouped in threes (vertical) with 9-12 mm. between the chains and 31-42 mm. between the groups ; well-burnished ; front flyleaves in European laid paper with anchor in circle (trefoil above) watermark ; added table of contents on leaves of European laid paper with grapes, crown, band watermark ; back flyleaves in European laid paper with crossbow in circle (trefoil above) watermark.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated ; text being commented upon overlined in red ; written area surrounded by red rule-border ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq ; clear Egyptian or Turkish hand (?) ; virtually serifless ; strong effect of tilt to the right ; mainly closed counters ; hand changes pp.297-312, even more reminiscent of nastaʻlīq, thinner line.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III (6), i, V-1 (15), 35 V(365), V-1 (374), ii ; chiefly quinions ; final two leaves ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ۱ on page facing incipit page/p.19, ends with ۳٦٤) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization, includes flyleaves, drops at p.300 and reappears at p.381 without mistake).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وقد وقع الفراغ من كتابة الجزء الثاني من العناية في شرح الهداية للشيخ الامام العالم العلامة الشيخ اكمل الدين تغمده الله برحمته واسكنه في فسيح جنته بعون الله وحسن توفيقه والصلوة على نبيه محمد وآله بالقاهرة المحروسة حماها الله عن الافات والعاهات في تربة الامير المرحوم يشبك الدوادار الكبير ... على يدا [كذا] احقر عباد الله واحوجهم وافقر مخلوقاته واضعفهم الراجي رحمة ربه الكريم وذي المن والفضل الجسيم عبد الرحمن بن المرحوم قاسم بن المرحوم احمد بن اسماعيل بن خليل بن يونس الملطي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن نظر فيه ودعا لهم ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين امين يا رب العالمين والحمد لله على اتمامه بمنه وكرمه وذلك غرة شهر رمضان المعظم سنة ۸۸۹"Explicit: "ان الرجل اذا لم يكن معه الا ثوب نجس فان كان ثلاثة ارباعه نجسا وربعه طاهرا فيصلي فيه ولا يصلي عريانا بالاجماع فلما جازت صلوته وهو نجس بيقين فلان يجوز بالتحري حالة الاشتباه اولي والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المعاد والمآب"Incipit: "اللهم اعني على اتمامه كتاب البيوع لما فرغ من ذكر انواع حقوق الله وذكر بعض حقوق العباد شرع في بيان ما بقي منها ..."Title from colophon.Ms. codex.Second volume, comprising the text from Kitāb al-Buyūʻ to Kitāb al-Khunthá, from Akmal al-Dīn al-Bābartī's commentary on al-Hidāyah, a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197) on his compendium of Ḥanafī law, Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ fī furūʻ al-fiqh al-Ḥanafī. Includes added table of contents (inserted between front flyleaves).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 450Origin: As appears in colophon at close of Saddi Iskandariĭ on p.530, copied by ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad al-Marghīnānī al-Kāshgharī with transcription completed 16 Rajab 890 [ca. 29 July 1485] in Herat. Statement at close of Sabʺai saĭër (here entitled Haft paykar) on p.654 indicates completion in Ramaḍān 889 [September-October 1484].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with notes in pencil on dating and copyist [from colophon on p.530] (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Turquoise-tinted scrap with ḥadīth of the Prophet regarding inscription of the basmalah "قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من كتب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وجوده فله الجنة صدق حبيب رب العالمين" (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Recycled slip with notes (likely in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas) on paper types and papermaking, "Devlet Shah", etc. (paginated pp.5-6).Former shelfmark: "504 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis" in pencil at close on p.654 ; "٨٩" in black ink on tail edge of text block.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; doublures in red-brown leather with elongated central mandorla and cornerpieces in delicate filigree appliqué over blue paper as well as gold-tooled accents and border ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition reminiscent of Déroche class NSh 1), pendants, and cornerpieces as well as gold-painted accents and border in blind rules and a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and cream, tab extending from spine leather (repair) protects headband, losses to tailband though core and primaries remain ; overall in somewhat poor condition with flap lost, abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, delamination of boards, opening leaf affixed to upper doublure, etc. ; repair to spine (rebacked) in brown leather.Support: non-European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct, some curving) and chain lines in pairs occasionally visible (see p.32, etc.), cloudy formation, somewhat thin, transluscent and crisp though dense and sturdy, cream color, well-sized and burnished ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece at opening of each mesnevi (see incipit page of opening work and pp.108, 258, 348, 532), rectangular with central scalloped cartouche or lozenge carrying the title in gold (or black) set in a swirling arabesque (in gold, green or red), surrounded by further delicate arabesques (in green-blue and red on gold ground or gold on light blue ground) ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets and outermost blue rule, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands ; headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless with characteristic descent of words to baseline and superscripting of final words and letters ; elongation of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page with written area divided to four columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV (8), IV+1 (17), 3 IV(41), IV+1 (50), 9 IV(122), II (126), III+1 (133), 4 IV(165), IV-2 (171), IV-1 (178), 10 IV(258), II+1 (263), 7 IV(319), III (325) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips opening leaf now affixed to upper doublure and includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "توكاندى بنجشنبه كونى رجب آيى ينينك اون آلتى سيندا تاريخ سيكزيوز توقسان دا فى دار السلطنه هراة حميت عن الآفات بيتكجى سى عبد السلم ابن عبد الصمد المرغينانى ثم الكاشغرى غفر الله ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما امين يا رب العالمين"Incipit: "بسم الله الحرمن الرحيم رشته غه چكتى نجه دريتيم ..."Title from ownership statements inscribed on incipit page at opening and 'title page' of each mesnevi.Ms. codex.Elegant early copy of the five mesnevis of Mir Ali Şîr Nevâî (d.1501), including Ḣaĭratul-abror (حيرت الابرار / Ḥayrat al-abrār), Farhād va Shīrīn (فرهاد و شيرين, entitled Khusraw va Shīrīn in headpiece, see p.108), Laĭli va Mazhnun (ليلى و مجنون / Laylī va majnūn), Saddi Iskandariĭ (سد اسكندرى / Sadd-i Iskandarī, here entitled Iskandarnāmah, see pp.347-8) and Sabʺai saĭër (سبعه سياره / Sabʻa-yi sayyār, here entitled Haft paykar, see pp.531-2).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 312Origin: As appears in colophon on p.59, copied by Jamāl Shāh Maḥmūd with transcription completed Ṣafar 984 [May 1576].Former shelfmark: "462 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap, but not flush with text block) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled border (blind rules) ; sewn in dark purple thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with some staining and minor abrasion.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct) and any chain lines not clearly visible, transluscent, sturdy, quite well-burnished, dark cream in color ; flyleaves in wove paper (indistinct embossed mark in front flyleaf).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of large rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the title ( "كتاب قران سعدين" ) and swirling vegetal design in white with floral motifs in pink, yellow, and red, flanked by floral vegetal design in gold on fields of blue, entire piece surrounded by bands of red, gold and blue and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of a narrow gold band defined by black fillets and red and blue rules, narrow gold bands separate the four columns within as well ; headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page with written area divided into four columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III (6), V (16), II (20), i ; ternion, quinion and binion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب بتاريخ شهر صفر سنه ۹۸۴ كاتبه جمال شاه محمود م م م"Explicit: "بر در شه خدمت من و السلام"Incipit: "حمد گویم که توفیق خداوند حنان ... نام این نسخۀ و الاست قران سعدین ... حمد خداوند سرایم نخست تا شود این نامه بنامش درست ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening (p.2).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the mas̲navī on the meeting of Sulṭān Muʻizz al-Dīn Kayqubād and his father Nāṣir al-Dīn Bughrā Khān by Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d.1325).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 313Origin: As appears in colophon on p.862, copied and illuminated (gilded) by Murshid al-Dīn ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Mudhahhib [al-Muẕahhib] with transcription completed 23 Muḥarram 894 [ca. 27 December 1488].Former shelfmark: "164 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in deep red leather with large central mandorla in leather filigree appliqué over blue paper and green silk as well as gold-painted accents and tooled border ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition somewhat similar to Déroche class. OSd 2 on a gold ground) and cornerpieces, along with tooled border featuring rows of s-shaped stamps ; design continues on flap ; sewn in light pink and blue thread, two stations, failing, gatherings loose ; worked chevron endbands in light green-blue and light pink, damaged, tailband gone ; overall in fairly good condition with minor staining, abrasion, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chains only faintly visible (possibly in pairs), sturdy and fairly thick, deep cream in color, well-sized and burnished to glossy.Decoration: Superb illuminated frontispiece on 'title page' (p.3) consisting of a scalloped almond (mandorla) or diamond shaped medallion with gold cartouche (carrying "لصاحبه السعادة والسلامة" mainly effaced) surrounded by floral vegetal pattern in green, gold, red, yellow, white, and pink on a lapis lazuli ground, bordered in gold with blue tīgh accents ; exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ ) at opening on p.4 consisting of large rectangular piece with central almond-shaped cartouche carrying title ( "ديوان امير خسرو دهلوى" ) in white over light blue arabesque and surrounded by swirling floral vegetal design (in gold, pink, white, yellow, turquoise, etc. on fields of lapis lazuli and gold) and lozenge border reminiscent of book cover design, surmounted by a row of arabesque and floral motifs in gold, red, turquoise, pink, white, yellow, etc. on fields of gold and lapis lazuli, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of gold band defined by black fillets and outermost blue rule ; section headings and keywords chrysographed or in blue.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page with written area often divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1 (7), 52 IV(423), IV-1 (430) ; exclusively quaternions (first and last anomalous) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf)Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads "تمت الكتاب من كلام افصح المتكلمين وقدوة الشاعرين امير خسرو دهلوى قدس الله روحه العزيز ورحمة الله عليه والحمد لله على اتمامه والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله واصحابه وازواجه ذرياته في يوم السبت ثالث عشرين محرم الحرام سنه اربع وتسعين وثمانمائة كتبه وذهبه العبد الراجي الى رحمة الله الملك الواهب مرشد الدين بن صدر الدين المذهب اللهم اغفر لصاحبه ولكاتبه ولقاريه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات"Explicit: "هر که علیکم نبگوید تمام به که سلامش نکنم و السلام"Incipit: "حمد رانم برزبان لله رب العالمین آنکه جان بخشید در قرآن هدی للمتقین ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening on p.4.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d.1325).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 323Origin: As appears in colophon on p.69, copied by Ibn ʻAli Quṭb al-Dīn al-Yazdī with transcription completed in the first part of Rajab 916 [October 1510].Former shelfmark: "406 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in pink-tinted laid paper ; fore edge flap lined in green silk ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted (on orange recessed inlays) rosette / mandorla (filled with vegetal composition vaguely reminiscent of Déroche class. OAi2 1) and cornerpieces along with tooled rosettes and gold-painted accents and border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, dirty, tailband damaged ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather at spine and fore edge flap, minor pest damage, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, faint and indistinct) and no chain lines clearly visible, well-burnished, beige in color ; staining and tidelines ; many bifolia guarded with recycled manuscript "waste" ; flyleaves in European laid paper.Decoration: Elegant (though damaged) illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of large rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the title in white ("ديوان مولانا شاهي") surrounded by swirling vegetal decoration in black, cartouche surrounded by swirling floral vegetal designs in gold, yellow, red, white and pink on a field of blue with gold accents, surmounted by triangular piece or hasp with upper most pendant and vertical stalks (tīgh) continuing floral vegetal design on gold and lapis lazuli ; written area (and columns within) surrounded by a gold frame defined by black fillets and outermost blue rule ; centered panels of written area left blank.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; compact, elegant Persianate hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 12 lines per page with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 2 III(12), II (16), III (22), V (32), II (36), i ; ternions, binions, and a quinion ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals through "٢٩" ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, mainly in Arabic, reads "تم هذه الابيات العبد الفير الى الطاف الصمدى ابن على قطب الدين اليزدى غفر ذنوبه وستر عيوبه في اوائل رجب المرجب من شهور سنه ست عشر وتسعمائة الهجره النبويه المصطفويه عليه افضل الصلوات واكمل التسليمات"Explicit: "سخن تا چند گویم پیچ هر [در] پیچ ترا من دوست میدارم دگر هیچ "Incipit: "ای نقش بسته نام خطت با سرشت ما این حرف شد ز روز ازل سر نوشت ما ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Amīr Shāhī, Aq Malik ibn Amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Sabzavārī (d.1453).
Khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī maʻrifat al-qūwā wa-al-khawāṣṣ Contains Ibn al-Raqqām’s Kitāb khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī ma‘rifat al-qūwā wa’l-khawāṣṣ [Compendium of competence in knowing faculties and characteristics], preceded by an anonymous poem on agriculture. As stated in the incipit, Ibn al-Raqqām’s treatise is an abridgement of Ibn Waḥshīya Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 9th cent. ’s Al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭīya. The work consists of an agricultural tract in fifteen chapters, and an account of 309 plants, with their actions and properties, which are listed and numbered in the table of contentsLayout: 23 linesScript: Clear Naskh, black inkAdditions: Catchwords in the interior bottom-margin of versos marginalia Marginal commentaries in black ink marginalia Numbers referring to the index of plants written in red ink in the margins of ff. 30v-118v
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 283Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.227a (p.453), copied (حرره) by Muḥammad Taqī in the village of Ashtān [?] (در قصبه اشتان). Transcription finished 7th Ramaḍān 1265 [ca. 27 July 1849].Accompanying materials: Slip of laid paper with writing ; on one side in black ink, what appears to be a list of books, works ; on the other side in red and black ink, notes on grammar.Binding: Pasteboards faced in red leather with spine, edges / turn-ins, doublures and doublure hinges in rich, green-blue (teal) leather (leather faced and edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) though not flush with this text block ; two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; upper and lower covers bear central scalloped mandorla and pendants, blind-stamped with recessed onlays in green (reminiscent of oxidized "gold" paint) and traces of gold paint on floral design within ; border composed of a series of s-shaped stamps, gold painted and flanked by gold fillets ; sewn in green thread, two stations ; fine chevron endbands in purple and green ; in good condition with some minor abrasion, wear at corners, staining, etc.Support: Machine wove paper of a few different types, all fairly thick, well-burnished ; watermarks / countermarks include Cyrillic "Г г С" (large letters in script, see p.8, 16, 24, 122, etc.), possible Cyrillic "К Я" (in p.158 etc.), Cyrillic "A Б" (p.202, 402, 404, 432, 442, etc. and cf. example in Klepikov p.38 dated 1851), and possible numerals 1 8 (p.424 etc.) 4 6 (p.400, 420 etc.) suggesting year 1846 ; embossed mark in p.233, 247, 322, 447, etc. (oval with only trace of border inscription, etc.) ; some staining, moisture damage, ink smudges ; tacky ink has resulted in blocking in some places.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of narrow rectangular panel with cartouche bearing the basmalah surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece with swirling floral vegetal design in light blue, pink, orange, red, pistachio and white, on a field of gold with lapis lazuli accents ; above the piece stand vertical stalks (tigh) in blue ; the piece is framed in a well consisting of a heavy red band with scalloped decoration in white, flanked by bands of pistachio and gold ; text throughout is ruled in a simple frame consisting of a narrow gold band outlined in black fillets with an outermost blue fillet and at some distance in the margin a second blue fillet ; text rubricated with section headings, overlinings, etc. in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; small, elegant Persianate hand in medium line ; sans serif with characteristic descent of words to baseline, superscripting of final letters and words, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; single column divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 26 IV (216), III+1 (223), II (227), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic and Persian, reads: "تمت الکتاب بعون الله الملک الوهاب بتاریخ یوم هفتم شهر رمضان المبارک سنه ۱۲۶٥ هزار و دویست و شصت و پنج هجری در قصبه اشتان حرره محمد تقی" followed by scribal verses.Explicit: "منم از قاضیان مشار الیه وان دگر کیر ماست عز علیه"Incipit: "مقدری نه بالت بقدرت مطلق کند ز شکل بخاری چو کنبد ازرق ..."Title from fore-edge.Ms. codex.Fine copy of collected poems (mainly his qaṣāyid and muqaṭṭaʻāt without systematic arrangement) of Awḥad al-Dīn Anvarī (d.1189 or 90).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 670Origin: As appears in colophon on p.753, copied by ʻImād ibn Muḥamad ʻImād. Date of transcription not specified. Paper, decoration, etc. suggests 16th or early 17th century. Ownership statement provides a terminus ante quem of 1629.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From upper board lining and spine label, "IL 9" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now fully detached) ; currently two piece binding (overlapping flanges visible at spine, may represent repair / reback) ; board linings in peach laid paper, hinges in yellow paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (and once gold-painted) scalloped mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi 7) set off by gold-painted strokes, tooled rosettes and chain border ; design continues on flap ; sewn in golden yellow thread, two stations, sewing failing ; worked endbands in golden yellow and metallic threads, only primaries and core with a few threads of headband remain, primaries sewn through textile spine lining ; overall in somewhat poor condition with flap fully detached from lower cover, cover almost fully detached from text block at spine except for intact primaries at headband, extensive abrasion, some lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; extensive repairs (also damaged) in brown leather including edging (which has been tooled in a series of s-shaped stamps) on upper and lower covers as well as head and tail of fore edge flap and likely reback ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct, fairly straight) and chain lines (possibly grouped in pairs) occasionally visible, cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; back flyleaf in European laid paper with anchor in circle watermark.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.30 consisting of rectangular piece with almond-shaped gold cartouche carrying title and flanking pieces all evoking bookcover design, set in field of dark blue with delicate vegital motifs in gold, green, red, white, light blue and yellow, bordered in band of dark blue with white crosses and dots flanked by two narrow gold bands ; written area and ruled margins surrounded by gold frame with outermost blue rule, narrower gold band defines central written area and triangular accents on margins within (occasionally filled with floral motifs) ; keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots in redScript: Nastaʻlīq ; small compact Persianate hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dotsLayout: Written in 51 lines per page, 17 lines in central written area and 34 lines of gloss on the diagonal in the ruled margins ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV-2 (6), 21 IV (174), IV+1 (183), III (189), III+1 (196), 2 III (202), 5 IV (248), III + 1 (255), 14 IV (372), III-1 (376), i ; leaves between opening contents listing and opening of text originally left blank (pp.21-29) ; middle of the quire marks in the form of ه (numeral khamsah or letter hāʼ) in black ink in the upper outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals from pp.353-377 and in black ink from pp.379-753, beginning with Arabic numeral 38 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," mainly Arabic, reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب والحمد لله اولا واخرا وظاهرا وباطنا وصلى الله على محمد واله الطيبين وعترته الطاهرين اجمعين وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثيرا على يد الفقير الحقير تراب اقدام الفضلا عماد بن محمد عماد ... گر بهم برزده بینی خط من عیب مکن که مرا محنت ایام بهم برزده است"Incipit: [matn] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم رب سهل و تمم بالخیر الحمد لمن وفقنا امداد حمد بی عد و اعداد سپاس بی قیاس مبدعی را که آثار ابداع او بر هر ورقی از اوراق و شجری از اشجار سمت ..." ; [ḥashiyah] "و به نستعين حمد و سپاس عتاری را جل جلاله و عم نواله و عظم شانه ..."Title from rubricated inscription on 'title page' (p.29).Ms. codex.Fine copy of a work of materia medica (pharmacopoeia) by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī known as Ḥājjī Zayn al-ʻAṭṭār (d.1403 or 4) with extensive gloss on the margins. Opens with acephalous contents listing (p.1-21). Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1060Origin: As appears in colophon at close (p.451), transcription of this the first volume completed 12 Rabīʻ II 484 [ca. 29 July 1444].Accompanying materials: a. Slip of paper with note in Persian in pen identifying title, date of copying, and subject -- b. Index card with descriptive notes typed in German as well as transcription in clear black ink of note on other slip "اختيارات بديعى دائره المعارف طب"Binding: Heavy boards covered in brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; likely two piece binding (trace of seam of overlapping flanges visible on spine) ; board linings in European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants filled with symmetrical floral / vegetal decoration, set off by rules dividing cover to quadrants and border in a row of s-shaped stamps defined by blind rules ; now sewn in white thread, two stations, no traces of endbands (perhaps lost in rebinding), rather tightly bound ; slightly larger than textblock and likely not original ; subtle repair to spine in red brown leather, new hinges in dark brown leather ; sound and overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion.Support: non-European (possibly Persianate) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly straight) and chain lines occasionally visible ; formation somewhat cloudy with many inclusions (plant matter, bits of fiber, etc.), thin though sturdy and quite well-burnished to glossy, beige to light brown in color ; flyleaves in European laid paper (potentially machine laid) with "GIOR MAGNANI" below scrollwork with bird above tower (compare Heawood 3748) ; numerous native page repairs in brown paper.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2, rectangular in shape with title "كتاب اختيارات بديعي" in gold tawqīʻ in cartouche over swirling vegetal ground, flanked by delicate vegetal motifs in gold on azure blue ground, surrounded by now oxidized bands (with paper breakthrough) and surmounted by further decorative band in blue, gold and white with red accents, itself surmounted by fine tīgh ; keywords and headings rubricated, along with two-teeth stroke abbreviation.Script: Naskh with some elements of nastaʻlīq ; elegant, spacious Turkic or Persianate hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless with elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, long but fairly straight shaqq on kāf, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders and terminating strokes of tāʼ, bāʼ, etc., pointing mainly in distinct dots but occasionally with stroke for two dots, point of final and free-standing nūn set down within tall, angled bowl (rightward stroke typically higher than leftward stroke which occasionally curves and nearly forms a complete circle around dot), rāʼ often set within preceding dāl (particularly in instances of در), some free assimilation of letters, etc.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page (single column) ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 2 IV(16), 2+IV (26), 9 IV(98), IV+1 (107), IV (115), III+1 (122), 13 IV(226), i ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; occasional foliation in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals, often toward the middle of the page in the outer margin ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت المجلد الاول عن کتاب الموسوم باختیارات فی یوم 12 الجمعه عن [؟] ربیع الثانی سنه 848 هجریه م"Incipit: "امداد حمد بی عدد و اعداد سپاس بی قیاس مبدعی را که آثار ابداع او بر هر ورقی از اوراق و شجری از اشجار سمت ..."Title from colophon on p.451.Ms. codex.Elegant early copy of the first volume of Ikhtiyārāt-i badīʻī, a work of materia medica (pharmacopoeia) by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī known as Ḥājjī Zayn al-ʻAṭṭār (d.1403 or 4).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 273Origin: Lacks dated colophon. According to note on 'title page' (fol.1a/p.1) executed by the renowned Timurid calligrapher Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī (d.1520). Relatively consistent with his style and thus likely executed late 15th or early 16th century. Mounting and illumination possibly later in the 16th century.Former shelfmark: "٢١" and "216 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Western style binding (without flap) ; board linings in shell marbled paper (mainly in lavender, pink, and yellow-green) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-painted rules and tooled border in a series of annular stamps ; now sewn in white thread, four stations ; overall in fairly good condition with some staining and minor abrasion though fully detached from text block ; while cover is not sized to be flush with text block, this appears to have been intentional as adhesive paper pattern on interior of spine matches that on spine of text block.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper ; written area mounted in a frame of exquisite silhouette paper (laid with 6 laid lines per cm., chains occasionally visible, sturdy, well-burnished) in two floral compositions, one with floral vegetal motifs only, the other with bird motifs as well ; recto of each framing leaf in pastel blue and verso in pink (quite possibly composite with leaves of two distinct tints affixed to each other).Decoration: Superbly executed illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of a rectangular piece with gold cartouche surrounded by intricate swirling arabesques with floral motifs in gold, white, red, yellow, green, and pink on a lapis lazuli ground with gold accents all bordered in bands of gold, white, blue, red and heavy gold interlace, surmounted by a band of floral vegetal decoration in gold, white, yellow, pink, and red over alternating eight-pointed stars in turquoise and gold on a black ground, itself surmounted by an triangular piece or hasp filled with further swirling arabesques with floral motifs in gold, white, red, pink, yellow, etc. on a gold ground with lapis lazuli accents, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in lapis lazuli ; written area gold-flecked and surrounded by frame consisting of bands of gold, blue, red, and turquoise, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; rich floral vegetal accents appear occasionally flanking text ; compositions of silhouette paper in some leaves outlined in gold (in lower margin of fol.13a (p.25), bird motif in paper, elsewhere enhanced by the illuminator in the same bird theme, has been elaborated as a goat instead).Script: Nastaʻlīq ; compact, exquisite hand ; serifless, with slight effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 10 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 2 III(12), II (16), i ; two ternions and a binion ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "الهى بحق آنكه ترا حاجت نست رحمت كن برآنكه او را حجت نست تمت الكتاب"Incipit: "این چند كلمه است از نصايح و اشعار نديم بارگاه حضرت جبارى خواجه عبد الله انصارى عليه الرحمه و المغفره ای ز دردت بيدلانرا بوی در مال آمده ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Sublime copy of a selection of maxims and verses by Abū Ismāʻīl ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī al-Harawī (d.481/1089), attributed to the celebrated Timurid calligrapher Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī (d.926/1520, see p.248 in Bayānī, Aḥvāl va āsār-i khūshʹnavīsān : nastaʻlīq navīsān, vol.1 and pp.30-32 in Soucek, "The Arts of Calligraphy").
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 952Origin: As appears in colophon on p.380, final gatherings (11-19, from p.203 to close) copied by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb Sulaymān with transcription completed 30 Jumādá II 1200 [ca. 30 April 1786]. Transcription of opening gatherings (through p.202) possibly completed earlier, even early to mid 18th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 101Binding: Pasteboards covered with shell marbled paper in green-blue, dark blue, red, and yellow with maroon leather over spine, fore edge flap, and board corners ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board lining and endpapers (pasted to opening and closing gatherings) in untinted wove paper ; wrapper binding, case with no signs of attachment, gatherings of text block never sewn though possibly once supported by two strips of leather or textile pasted to the spine (see traces of adhesive) ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types ; opening section (through p.202) in a few tre lune types, including one with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents / tre lune watermark (95 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see pp.10, 16, 46, 60, 68, 78, etc.) another with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents / tre lune watermark (87 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see pp.24, 32, 34, 41, 48, 58, etc.), all quite sturdy, light cream in color, well-burnished ; next section (pp.203-262) in a type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26-28 mmm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of double-headed eagle with "FNF" (see pp.210, 212, etc. and compare no.1156 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1) and crescent (with human profile) in shield (see pp.204, 208, 222, etc.), quite sturdy, medium cream to buff in color, well-burnished ; final section (p.263 to close) in a type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of crescent (with human profile) in shield (see pp.264, 266, etc.) and countermarks "A G" above "Andrea Galvani Pordenone" in script (see pp.270, 272, etc.),Decoration: Keywords, section headings and notabilia rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots in red.Script: Naskh ; several Egyptian hands in bold to thin lines ; opening through p.188 in a clear though somewhat awkward hand in a bold line, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the right, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, some elongation of horizontal strokes ; pp.189-202 in a quicker, more compact and freely ligatured hand in a thin line, partially seriffed with effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, some sharp, rectilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; from p.203 to close a much neater, more careful hand with Turkish features, mainly serifless (though very small serifs appearing occasionally) with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ ; replacement bifolium (pp.103-104, 121-122) in still a different hand, an elegant Ottoman naskh.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 19 V(190), i ; exclusively quinions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals below letter ك on recto of opening leaf of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes endpapers).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الكتاب على يد افقر العباد الى الله عز وجل عبد الوهاب سليمان في ليلة الثلاث المبارك ليلة ثلاثين من جمادى اخر من شهور سنة ١٢٠٠ من الهجرة النبوية م وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله وحده"Explicit: "اليه منا ترجع الامور قال تعالى واليه يرجع الامر كله وافضل الصلاة والسلام على النبي المصطفى سيد الانام اي الخلق صلى الله عليه وسلم كلما ذكره الذاكرون"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي وصل من انقطع اليه بدينه القويم ورفع من اسند امره اليه باتباع سنة نبيه الكريم ... وبعد فان الفية علم الحديث المسماة بالتبصرة والتذكرة للشيخ الامام الحافظ شيخ الاسلام ابي الفضل عبد الرحيم زين الدين بن الحسين بن عبد الرحيم بن ابي بكر ابن ابراهيم العراقي لما اشتملت علي نقول عجيبة ومسائل غريبة ... طلب مني بعض الاعزة ... ان اضع عليها شرحا ... وسميته بفتح الباقي بشرح الفية العراقي ..."Title from opening on p.4.Ms. composite codex.Elegant copy of the commentary by Zayn al-Dīn Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī al-Sunaykī (d. ca. 1520) upon al-ʻIrāqī's al-Alfīyah fī ʻilm al-ḥadīth or Tabṣirat al-mubtadiʼ wa-tadhkirat al-muntahī or al-Maqāṣid al-muhmalah, itself a versification of Kitāb Maʻrifat anwāʻ ʻilm (‘ulūm) al-ḥadīth or ʻUlūm al-ḥadīth of ‘Uthmān Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī (d.1243).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 476Origin: As appears in colophon on p.382, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Zardanāwī [?] with transcription completed 11 Rajab 1142 [ca. 30 January 1730].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, "IL 360" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in very dark brown to black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped lozenge-shaped pendant (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSh 1) along with tooled rule border ; sewn in cream thread, four stations ; worked endbands in cream, headband in good condition, tailband gone ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper cover fully detached, lifting and losses of leather at fore edge flap, abrasion, staining, some negative draw in upper cover, minor delamination of board in fore edge flap, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm., chain lines spaced 19 mm. apart, and cartouche with "A D [?]" above grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.10, 11, 30, 31, etc.) ; quite well-burnished to glossy, crisp, thin and transluscent though sturdy ; some ink burn.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated.Script: Naskh ; clear, medium 'Syrian' or Turkish [?] hand ; seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on most ascenders (including free-standing alif), slight effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: i, 19 V(190), I (192) ; almost exclusively quinions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ منه صبحية يوم الاثنين في اا عشر يوما حلول من رجب سنه ۱۱۴۲ وذلك على يد محمد ابن علي الزردناوي [؟] اللهم اغفر له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولاخوانه في الله تعالى ولكل المسلمين اجمعين امين امين امين"Explicit: "قاله ابو عمرو ولم يزد الاصل في سورتي الفلق والناس على قوله وليس في الفلق والناس وقف حسن نعتمده تم الكتاب بعون الله وحسن توفيقه"Incipit: "قال عمدة المحققين زين الملة والدين ابو يحيى زكريا الانصاري الشافعي ... الحمد لله على آلائه والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله واصفيائه وبعد فهذا مختصر المرشد في الوقف والابتداء الذي الفه العلامة ابو محمد الحسن بن علي بن سعيد العماني رحمه الله تعالى وقد التزم ان يورد فيه جميع ما اورده اهل هذا الفن ... وسميته المقصد لتلخيص ما في المرشد ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.2.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the abridgment by Abū Yaḥyá Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī of al-Murshid fī al-waqf wa-al-ibtidāʼ, a work on recitation of the Qurʼān (specifically al-waqf wa-al-ibtidāʼ, i.e. sectioning or phrasing with pauses and starts) by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Alī ibn Saʻīd al-ʻUmānī.
Abstract: A commentary on a work of Greek logic and philosophy, divided into five sections.Title from title page.Contents.هذا القراءاه فيها بعض الطمس وهي كالآتي: كان تمام قراءة الكتاب المبارك لدى سيدي العلامة الشرفي الحسن بن علي ابن ابراهيم في الجامع المقدس وذلك يوم الربوع الموافق 13شهر شعبان سنة 1353هـ، الحقير محمد----؟كتاب المطلع على ايساغوجي في المنطق / للشيخ العلامه شيخ الاسلام زكريا الانصاريصفي الاسلام والدين أحمد بن محمد الجديريجيده، وهو عباره عن مخطوط صغير منزوع الغلاف، تم كتابته بالمداد الأحمر والأسودشهر شعبان سنة 1298هـIncipit: بسم الله... الحمد لله الذي منح احبته باللطف والتوفيق ويسرلهم سلوك سبيل الطريق... وبعد فهذا شرح لكتاب العلامه اثير الدين الأبهري رحمه الله المسمى بايساغوجي في المنطق يحل الفاظه ويبين مراده ويفتح مغلقه ويقيد مطلقه على وجه لطيف ومنهج منيف وسميته المطلع قال رحمه الله تعالى بسم الله ... اى ابتدء وابتدى بالبسمله عملا بكتابه العزيز ... اما بعد يوتى بها للانتقال من اسلوب الى اخر...Explicit: هو البرهان لاغير لتركبه من المقدمات اليقينيه ولكونه كائنا في اكتساب العلوم التصديقيه والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم بالصواب تم بحمد لله سبحانه وله المنهPersian naskh script, written in red and black ink.17 lines.فائدة في صفحة العنوان أبيات في العلم: ارى الة العلم مشنوّه***ولا يدرك العلم الا بها
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 552Origin: As appears in colophon (fol.277a), transcription completed by ("tamma hādhā al-kitāb ʻalá yad...") Muḥammad ibn Shukr [?] ibn Muʻallá Shukrlak [?] al-Dabrī [?] in the months of 716 [1316 or 17].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf "IL 211C" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in red textured cloth with brown leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in green-blue wove paper ; spine gold-stamped with title and author "شرح القدوري للاقطع" as well as gold accents flanking raised bands ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, somewhat indistinct) and grouped chain lines occasionally visible, mainly grouped in threes with 11-14 mm. between chains and 38 mm. between groups (see final leaf fol.277/p.254) cloudy formation, obvious inclusions, quite thick and sturdy, well-burnished ; added table of contents at opening supplied on folded piece of European laid paper.Decoration: Elegant illuminated titlepiece (badly damaged but repaired) in gold, blue and white with black outlining on fol.1a, upper rectangular panel carries title and author, text carried in medallion (shamsah) of lower panel difficult to make out ; textual dividers in red ; section headings, pen flourishes above قال، etc. rubricated.Script: Naskh ; two elegant Syrian or Egyptian hands ; opening hand serifless with elongation of horizontal strokes and broad, sweeping descenders, pointing in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah often pointed as yāʼ ; hand changes at fol.191a, much more rounded and freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page in the first two quires and thereafter 25-27 lines per page ; impression of ruling board evident.Collation: I (2), 15 V (152), IV (160), 3 V (190), III (196), I (198), 7 V (268), IV+1 (277) ; chiefly quinions ; lacks catchwords ; early quires (2nd through 19th) are numbered with ordinals written in Arabic (ثاني، ثالث، رابع، إلخ) in the upper corner of the outer margin on the recto of the first leaf of each quire ; foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals (curious inverted nine) in black ink begins with "١" on second leaf, skips 222, hence final count is off ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Dedication: "تم النصف الثاني من كتاب شرح القدوري للاقطع سنة ست عشرة وسبعمائة بتقديم الشيخ المهملة [?] وهو على مذهب الامام الاعظم المحرم ابي حنيفة النعمان غفر الله له ..."Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم هذا الكتاب على يد محمد بن شكر [؟] بن معلى شكرلك [...؟] الدبرى في شهور سنة ست عشرة وسبعمائة وهو يحمد الله ويصلي على نبيه محمد واله ويسلم ويسأل غفران الذنوب وستر العقوب وكشف الكروب امين"Explicit: "وقدرها دائق ونصف وعلى هذا القياس تعمل جميع من [...?] المسائل"Incipit: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم كتاب النكاح قال الشيخ ابو نصر احمد بن محمد البغدادي رحمة عليه النكاح في اللغة حقيقة ..."Title from inscription on recto of front flyleaf.Ms. codex.Second volume of al-Aqṭaʻ's commentary on Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī, a compendium of Ḥanafī law. Added table of contents at opening of codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 144Origin: As appears in colophon on p.126, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān (Mehmet Ösman) in the school of Ali Efendi, Trabzon. Transcription finished 25 Ramaḍān 1104 [ca. 30 May 1693].Accompanying materials: Insert carrying glosses (paginated pp.87-88).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 110. Ardabili's commentary on the Unmudaj." ; "٥٩٣" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped mandorla with orange onlays and gold-painted accents, accompanied by a border of gold fillets ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; traces of worked endbands remain ; overall in fair to poor condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper, mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermark with three bars in scrollwork ; crisp but sturdy, well-sized and burnished, dark cream in color with some inclusions ; a second type of European laid paper appears toward the end of the codex (name watermark, difficult to examine) ; flyleaves in still a different type (watermark with name in bar) ; some smudging and staining.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: mainly Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; only partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs appearing on bar of kāf (shaqq) and irregularly on joined alif, initial alif lām, etc. ; mainly closed counters ; very slight effect of words descending to baseline ; rounded and freely ligatured though rightward descenders mainly tapered ; alif maqṣūrah regularly mardūdah ; replacement leaf (p.17-18) in a naskh with strong influence of nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 5 V(50), IV+1 (59), II (63) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert ; skips two pages between pp.43-44).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب ... على يد اضعف الخلائق المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى محمد ابن عثمان ... في اليوم خمس وعشرين من شهر رمضان المبارك في يوم ... السبت وقت العصر في شهر طربزون في مدرسة على افندى سنه اربع ومائة والف تم"Explicit: "وعصمنا الله من شرورهم و ... لحوارهم والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب "Incipit: "الحمد لله [الذي] جعل العربية مفتاح البيان وصيرها آلة بها تحترز [؟] عن الخطأ ... وبعد يقول الفقير المولى ... جمال الله والدين محمد ابن عبد الغني الاردبيلي غفر الله له لما رأيت مختصر الامام الهمام ... جار الله ... انموذجه في النحو قليل اللفظ كثير المعنى صغير الحجم ... ولم يكن له شرح يفيد طالبه ويلقي اليه مقاصده ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.11).Ms. codex.3. p.130-p.133 : [Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʻabd fī Badʼ al-Amālī] / ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Farghānī.2. p.127-129 : [blank].1. p.12-126 : Sharḥ Unmūdhaj Maḥmūd al-Zamakhsharī / al-Ardabīlī.Fine copy of al-Ardabīlī's commentary of the Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw, a treatise on Arabic grammar by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī (d.1144). Followed by the renowned theological poem of al-Ūshī (12th cent.), Badʼ al-Amālī (or Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʻabd fī Badʼ al-Amālī) in a different hand.
Abstract: Aceph. copy of the first part of a commentary on al-Irshād ilá qawāṭiʻ al-adillah fī uṣūl al-iʻtiqād by Imām al-Ḥaramayn, ending before "al-Qawl fī khalq al-aʻmāl". The first quire in the copy as extant is the 11th (see note on fol. 2a, incomplete). The first complete quire is the 12th (fol. 4-13). See Mach, R. yahuda for a more detailed description of the contents.Binding note: Golden brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Orange paper with decorations in blue and yellow pasted on the two covers and the envelope flap. Small round stamps and fillets on the fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns. Envelope flap disjointed. The last folio has traces of a leather doublure with embossed decoration.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 182a).21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Kabīkaj in an ownership statement on fol. 182b, signed ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Sharīf. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. The quires (quinions) are numbered using Arabic ordinals, in the form "al-Thānī ʻashar min al-awwal min Sharḥ al-Irshād lil-Anṣārī raḥimahu Allāh" (see fol. 4a). Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "R37" (repeated on the first fly-leaf in red pencil, in the form "37R").Copy completed on Saturday 11 Rajab 739 by ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maghribī al-muʼaddib (colophon, fol. 182a).Beginning of text as extant: اذا سلطن...لة تنتهى لا محالة الي حالهٍ لا تقبل القسمة بالفعل ولا بالوهمExplicit: للمخترعات ويتصل بذلك خلق الاعمال وما تمس الحاجة اليه من قدر العباد
Abstract: A collection of five short risālahs, most of them by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Arwādī (d. ca. 1858), in a variety of fields, including Islamic theology, ethics and Sufism. Text 3 is followed by four pages of Sufi litanies and prayers on ff. 15b-17a. Other pages between the texts are blank. All texts are in same hand, copied by Muṣṭafá ibn al-marḥūm al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Shuhnī (colophon of text 5, fol. 41b). The texts are not dated but the date of the completion of text 4 is given as the 21st of Ṣafar 1268 (16th December 1851) and, at the same time, text 4 is followed (on fol. 42a) by an authographed ijāzah issued to Veysi-paşa by the author Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Arwādī, dated 12th of Rajab 1268 (2nd of May 1852). This means that the ms. was copied in between those two dates, i.e. in 1852.Binding note: Brown leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled panel design on covers and envelope flap, made with a gold roll, fillets and small rosetta stamps as corner pieces. Lining to envelope flap and endleaves in light green glossy paper embossed in a floral pattern. Lining to fore-edge flap in green fabric.Contents: 1. Fol. 1a-4b: Nūr al-kawākib fī maʻrifat al-uṣūl wa-al-furūʻ wa-al-wājib.Contents: 2. Fol. 9a-12b: Nūr al-mishkāh fī ʻilm al-tawḥīd.Contents: 3. Fol. 12b-15a: al-Durr al-maslūk fī intihāʼ ghāyat al-sulūk.Contents: 4. Fol. 19a-26b: Sharḥ ḥizb al-baḥr.Contents: 5. Fol. 29a-41b: al-ʻIqd al-farīd fī ʻulū al-asānīd.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.Written in elegant medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is within a double line frame in red ink, except on ff. 1b-2a which have a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Illuminated head piece on fol. 1b in gold leaf and green, blue, purple and brown watercolors. Titles of individual texts in red ink. Catchwords present throughout. Light cream modern paper.Ms. additions: an authographed ijāzah, accompanied by a seal, issued to Veysi-paşa by the author Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Arwādī, dated 12th of Rajab 1268 (2nd of May 1852) -- fol. 42 a.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1034Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.225b, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Muḥammad Riḍā al-Fashkalī [al-Qashkalī ?]. Transcription ("katabahu...") begun first of Jumādá I 1073 [ca. 12 December 1662] and finished in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1074 [May-June 1664].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 183 ; from spine label "۲۸[?]".Binding: Thin pasteboards (very flexible) faced in red textured paper with purple paper over cloth on spine and and brown cloth at corners (half-bound); Type III binding (without flap); board linings in laid paper with single chain lines spaced roughly 26 mm. apart, laid lines spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm.; what remains of spine label bears a portion of a former shelfmark; sewn in white thread, two stations, now also stab sewn; overall in somewhat poor condition with paper covering spine ripped and detaching, abrasion, staining, etc. ; remains whole and well-affixed to text block despite significant wear.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with laid lines running vertically, spaced roughly 9 laid lines per cm. ; some thin with many undissolved fibers, other heavy with many undissolved fibers; if chain lines are present they are very difficult to see clearly and measure.Decoration: Notabilia (side heads) rubricated ; overlining and occasional textual dividers in the form of discs and the numeral khamsah "۵" in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; essentially serifless (though with occasional serif on lām of lām alif ligature), kāf mashqūqah preferred, tail of lām short and flattened, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, some sweeping descenders, gentle effect of inclination to the left ; marginalia in several hands, including some bearing the influence of nastaʻlīq / talik.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 28 IV (224), I (226), i ; almost exclusively quaternions; a type of quire or section numbering appears on the verso of the first leaf of each quire beginning from the third but with "الثاني"; catchwords present; pagination in red pencil, very large Hindu-Arabic numerals, is completely unreliable and inaccurate - first mistakenly repeats ۱٢٩, then continues through ٢٢٢ off by one page, abruptly stops then resumes at what is actually p.234 (fol.117b) with "١٣۴" (i.e., off by one hundred pages) then immediately repeats "١٣٦" by mistake and then repeats "١٦۴" by mistake; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals continues through fol.180 only, but is fully accurate; pagination in pencil, Western numerals supplied during collation by cataloguer.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب اسماعيل بن محمد رضا الفشكلي عفي عنهما ابتدء في غرة جمادى الاول سنة 1073 فرغ في ... شهر ذي القعدة سنة 1074 تم تم تم"Explicit: "وذلك لقولهم اليك وعليك واما حتى ... على الى والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب وصلى الله على محمد النبي الامي العربي واله الاطياب وسلم تسلميا"Incipit: "رب وفق لاكماله بحق محمد واله اما بعد حمد الله تعالى والصلوة على محمد وعترته المعصومين فقد عزمت على ان اشرح مقدمة ابن الحاجب في التصريف والخط وابسط الكلام في شرحها كما في اختها بعين [كذا, بدل بعض] البسط فان اكثر الشراح قد اقتصروا على شرح مقدمة الاعراب وهذا مع قرب التصريف من الاعراب في مساس الحاجة اليه ومع كونهما من جنس واحد بعيد من الصواب وعلى الله المعول في ان يوفقني لاتمامه بمنه وكرمه وبالتوسل بمن انا في مقدس حرمه عليه من الله ازكى السلام وعلى اولاده العز [أو الغر؟] الكرام قال المصنف تولى الله مكافاته..."Title from inscriptions on "added title page" and fol.1a.Ms. codex.Commentary of Raḍī al-Dīn al-Astarābādhī (d. 686 or 8/1287 or 9) on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d. 646/1249) celebrated manual of morphology, al-Shāfīyah.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team. Image descriptions based in part on CarboniRecord origin: S. (1988)Record origin: Il Kitab al-bulhan di Oxford."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: "This copy is the author's autograph."Hand: 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.
Binding: The volume is bound in a European restored binding incorporating older pasteboard covers. The older covers are covered with dark-red leather, having a blind, oval medallion (floral arabesques and scalloped edges), with pendants; the design on each cover is framed by two gilt fillets enclosing a gilt braid. Part of the original fore-edge flap remains on one of the covers; the envelope flap is now missing. The edges and spine are of recent dark-brown leather. The doublures are of plain brown leather with two gilt frames, and the endpapers are modern.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: There are scattered marginalia, mostly written in the same hands as annotated many of the illustrations. The fifth book (maqālah) also has a separate numbering of the individual leaves written in red ink in the upper left corner. On Folio 1a there are later pious statements and invocations written near the illuminated roundel.Decoration: Contains a depiction of Dioscorides and 289 illustrations of medicinal plants.Dimensions: 24.6 × 16.6 cm (size of leaf). 16.8 × 10.8 cm (size of written area).Hand: The text is written in a medium-large professional and consistent Naskh with occasional vocalization, with dark-brown ink and headings in red. The letters ḥāʾ and ʿayn frequently have minuscule letters underneath. Háčeks occur frequently over the letter rāʾ and occasionally over sīn; the letter ﻫ, when an attached pronoun, frequently has a minuscule letter over it.Layout: Written in one column throughout; 15 lines per page; the text area has been frame-ruled.Origin note: Copied in al-Madrasah al-Niẓāmīyah, Baghdad?; 25th Dhū al-Ḥijjah 637. AH; 17th July 1240. CERecord origin: Manuscript description based on NCAM-1 = Emilie Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Volume I: Medicine, University of Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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.
Binding: European binding (repaired) of pasteboards covered with mottled brown leather. The covers have a central frame of four fillets with scallops interspersed with palmettes; at each corner of the central frame are large blind-stamped flower-heads. The covers also have narrow outer frames of two fillets. The spine (five cords) is undecorated. The pastedowns and endpapers (fols. ii–ii, iii–iv) are modern. The numeral 91 has been inked on the fore-edge of the manuscript.Contents note: Ff. 10a-12a are incomplete; f. 12b is blank; some of the tables ff. 48a-49a are incomplete; f.50a has been added by a later hand. Ff. 4b-5a, 12b and 93b-94a contain pencilled notes in several languages by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8).Dimensions: 26.4 × 18.0 (17.2 × 11.0) cm; the pages have been trimmed.Hand: Main text in Arabic naskh; notes in several other Arabic and Persian hands in addition to three European hands: Greaves, Bernard and unidentified.Layout: 21 lines per page, blank ink with red rubrics; from f. 50a, the text is enclosed in red-inked frames. Tables are laid out in grids using red and black ink.Record origin: "Description abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entry No. 6Record origin: pp. 26-30."
Abstract: Epitomes of four natural treatises of Aristotle (completed on Monday 16 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 554 1159, see fol. 129a), followed by the epitome of the De anima and of the Metaphysics.Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-129a: Jawāmiʻ al-ṭabīʻīyāt, contains Jawāmiʻ kalām Arisṭū fī al-Samāʻ al-ṭabīʻī (fol. 1b-45a) -- Kitāb al-Samāʼ wa-al-ʻālam (fol. 45a-75b) -- Kitāb al-Kawn wa-al-fasād (fol. 75b-88a) -- Kitāb al-Āthār al-ʻulwīyah (fol. 88a-129a).Contents: 2. fol. 129b-166b: Kitāb al-Nafs.Contents: 3. fol. 167a-230b (= fol. 233): Kitāb Mā baʻd al-tābīʻah incomplete at end.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.20 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with pulp and laid lines visible. On fol. 1a: Text on the six sorts of natural sciences (anwāʻ al-ʻulūm al-ṭabīʻīyah) ; undated ownership statements. Two modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (both faulty). This record follows the foliation in larger script. First folio loose.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 916Origin: 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. 65Binding: 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 and decorative accents over raised bands "بقاء النفس ابن سمنا [كذا]| J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine, but appears to be over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper of at least two different types.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated or in purple ink (multiple shades of red also used).Script: Ruqʻah ; two or three compact hands ; opening hand (also supplying a few other sections) quite neat and carefully executed in a bold line, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, strong horizontal character adhering consistently to the baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots ; section headings in naskh or tawqīʻ ; from p.19 to p.178, a quick hand in a medium line with slight effect of inclination to the right ; from p.179 to close, hand similar to the opening hand but in a much thinner line.Layout: Written mainly in 25 lines per page.Collation: In section carrying Kitāb al-Samāʻ wa al-ʻālam, pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (appearing on every other page) and one quire numbered (see p.219) ; in section carrying draft treatise on modern philosophy, (p.237 to close) verso of each leaf left blank and foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly repeats p.291 two additional times).Explicit: "ذلك الصفيع الذي كان هو القدح المعلي في خلال وغضون النصف الاخير من القرن التاسع عشر تم الكتاب"Incipit: "قد استوفينا الكلام في الفن الاول على الامور العامة في الطبيعيات ثم تلوناه بالفن الثاني في الأجرام السماوية والعالم والصور والحركات الأولى في عالم الطبيعية وحققنا أحوال الأجسام التي تفسد والتي لا تفسد ثم تلوناه بالكلام على الكون والفساد وأسطقساته ثم تلوناه بالكلام على أفعال الكيفيات الأولى وانفعالاتها والأمزجة المتولدة عنها وبقى علينا ان نتكلم على امور الكائنة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from rubricated heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.12. 3. p.237-p.477 : Madkhal al-falsafah al-ḥadīthah.11. 2. p.235-p.236 : [blank].10. p.233-234 : [excerpt from al-Kawn wa-al-fasād] / Ibn Sīnā.9. p.232 : [blank].8. p.231 : [title page for al-Nabāt].7. p.179-p.230 : al-Fann al-thānī min Ṭabīʻīyāt al-Shifāʼ fī al-Samāʻ wa al-ʻālam / Ibn Sīnā.6.19-p.178 : [excerpt from what appears to be a work on ʻilm al-kalām, opening in the second chapter and continuing with al-Iʻrāḍ, al-Jawāhir, al-Ilāhīyāt, and al-Samʻīyāt and concluding with a preface for the excerpt, followed by the introduction and first chapter, al-Umūr al-ʻāmmah].5. p.17-p.18 : [excerpt from Kitāb al-Nafs] / Ibn Sīnā.4. p.16 : [blank].3. p.15 : [excerpt from] al-Fann al-thāmin fī al-Ḥayawān min jumlat al-Ṭabīʻīyāt / Ibn Sīnā.2. p.3-p.14 : [excerpt from al-Nabāt] / Ibn Sīnā.1. p.2 : [excerpt from Kitāb al-Nafs] / Ibn Sīnā.Careful copy of assorted excerpts from al-Ṭabīʻīyāt, the section on natural sciences from Ibn Sīnā's Kitāb al-Shifāʼ, opening with excerpts from Kitāb al-Nafs (fann 6), al-Nabāt (fann 7), al-Ḥayawān (fann 8), al-Samāʻ wa al-ʻālam (fann 2), and al-Kawn wa-al-fasād (fann 3) and bound together with what appears to be a work on ʻilm al-kalām, as well as a working draft of an anonymous treatise on modern philosophy, addressing Hegel, etc., the opening page of which appears to have been mistakenly bound into Isl. Ms. 913 (see p.3 of that volume).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 978Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 127Binding: 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 "الغائب المفقود للاشارات" ; sewn in heavy white thread, seemingly over two recessed cords (difficult to examine) ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion at spine and board edges.Support: Wove paper.Decoration: Text executed entirely in a pinkish-red ink.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a 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 ; opening leaves in a more carefully executed naskh with elements of ruqʻah.Layout: Written in 10-12 lines per page.Collation: i, 3 V(30), V-1 (39), i ; exclusively quinions ; pages between sections (corresponding to gatherings) left blank, with some serving as section 'title pages' (see pp.21, 41, 61) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "قد عرفت اصناف المقدمات في مواضعها النمط الثامن في البهجة والسعادة"Incipit: "النمط الرابع في الوجود وعلله انه قد يغلب على اوهام الناس ان الموجود هو المحسوس وان ما لا يناله الحس بجوهره ففرض وجوده محال ..."Title from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Carefuly copy of a selection of extracts from Ibn Sīnā's (d.1037) al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt, opening in al-Namaṭ al-rābiʻ and concluding with al-Namaṭ al-sābiʻ.
Abstract: Collection of philosophical texts, mainly from Avicenna and al-Fārābī.Binding note: Red leather over paper pasteboards with a blind-tooled outer frame.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. 1b-2b: al-Khuṭab wa-al-taḥmīdāt / Avicenna.Contents: 3. fol 3b-12b: Risālah ilá Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad al-Bīrūnī / Avicenna.Contents: 4. fol. 13b-17a: Maqālah fī khaṭaʼ man qāla inna shayʼan huwa jawhar wa-ʻaraḍ maʻan / Avicenna.Contents: 5. fol. 17b-68a: Kitāb al-Mubāḥathāt / Avicenna.Contents: 6. fol. 68b-70Ab: Ajwibah ʻan ʻashr masāʼil / Avicenna.Contents: 7. fol. 70Ab-71a: Risālah fī al-radd ʻalá man qāla inna al-insān talāshā wa-faniya / Aflāṭūn.Contents: 8. fol. 71b-89b: Iḥṣāʼ al-ʻulūm / Fārābī.Contents: 9. fol. 90b-93a: Maqālah fī qawānīn ṣināʻat al-shuʻarāʼ / Fārābī.Contents: 10. fol. 93b-125a: al-Kitāb fī mabādiʼ ārāʼ ahl al-madīnah al-fāḍilah / Fārābī.Contents: 11. fol. 125b-130a: Tafsīr li-baʻḍ suwar kalām Allāh / Avicenna.Contents: 11a. fol. 125b-128a: Tafsīr sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ / Avicenna.Contents: 11b. fol. 128a-129b: Tafsīr sūrat al-Falaq / Avicenna.Contents: 11c. fol. 129b-130a: Tafsīr sūrat al-Nās / Avicenna.Contents: 12. fol. 130b-142a: Kitāb Taḥqīr al-ladhdhāt / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.Contents: 13. fol. 142b-149a: Risālat al-Firdaws / Avicenna.Contents: 14. fol. 149b-156a: al-Siyāsah / Avicenna.Contents: 15. fol. 156b-158b: Risālat al-arzāq / Avicenna.Contents: 16. fol. 159a-160a: Risālah fī īḍāḥ barāhīn mustanbaṭah fī masāʼil ʻawīṣah / Avicenna.Contents: 17. fol. 160b-175b: Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Anūlūṭīqā al-ūlá / Fārābī.Contents: 18. fol. 176a-177a: Risālah fī ḥarakat al-kull / Alexander of Aphrodisias.Contents: 19. fol. 177b-266a: Taʻlīqāt / Avicenna.Contents: 20. fol. 266b-270a: Kitāb fī ibṭāl aḥkām al-nujūm / Fārābī.Contents: 21. fol. 270b-293b: Kitāb fī al-ārāʼ al-ṭabīʻīyah allatī taqūl bihā al-ḥukamāʼ / Pseudo-Plutarchus.Contents: 22. fol. 294a-295a: al-Maqālah fī al-jihah allatī yaṣiḥḥu ʻalayhā al-qawl fī aḥkām al-nujūm / Fārābī.Contents: 23. fol. 295b-305a: Risālah ilá al-Iskandar fī al-ʻālam wa-al-makhlūqāt De mundo / Pseudo-Aristotle.Contents: 24. fol. 305b-310b: Sharḥ Waṣāyā Fūthāghūras al-faylasūf.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.23 lines per page. Written by one hand in a very clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid (and chain?, see fol. 302) lines visible. Collation notes (collation statements, see fol. 2b, 70Ab, 125a, 130a, where it is stated that this was copied from a copy by Mawlānā Khusraw Shāhī). The copyist is commenting on his exemplar (see fol. 12b). Foliation using Arabic numerals in the middle of the upper margin. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals in the left corner of the lower margin. The quires are numbered (see fol. 16a); catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 143 is a later replacement. Some leaves are mended, with the text missing often re-written on the repair. From fol. 181 on, hole in each leaf (the text missing is re-written on the repair up to fol. 269, from there on, loss of text).Copied in Shawwāl 677 according to colophons (fol. 12b and 175v).
Origin: Colophon gives date for the completion of this manuscript as Monday in the middle ten days of the month of Muḥarram, 1122 / March 1720.Binding: Simple leather bound codex with medallion-shaped tooled designs on upper and lower covers as well as envelope flap, which have eroded.Decoration: Double red line borders text.Script: Text written in black naskh script with rubrications. Initial two folios lack borders and are written in a different hand. These seem to have been pasted in after the book was bound.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.The Story of Yūsuf (Joseph) in 27 majālis (sessions), composed of verses from the Qurʼān, ḥadīths, moral reflections, and edifying anecdotes, in both verse and prose.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 411Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; statement on 'title page' identifying work and author appears to be dated 1160 [1747] and provides a rough terminus ante quem ; paper, decoration, etc. also certainly suggest 18th century.Former shelfmark: "478 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in maroon leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in pink surface-dyed, textured wove paper (embossed in vegetal pattern of large leaves, flowers and vines) ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted border and outline of central panel ; sewn in golden yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in magenta and dark blue, good condition ; overall in good condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) under crown (see p.18, 28, etc.), transluscent and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of gold rectangular piece surmounted by scalloped dome filled with floral vegetal decoration in white, pink, light blue, and lavender with red accents on a gold ground, entire piece set in a well of red with white accents and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area (and divisions within) surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; section headings chrysographed.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on most ascenders (even occasional free-standing alif), effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 5 V(50), IV (58), ii ; quinions followed by a quaternion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "سهو وعصيانه افندم بقمه فرقتك آتش ايله يقمه"Incipit: "حمد اول خالقه كه يكتادر حكمنده عقلا شيدادر ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Ayn-ı Ekber Mehmet Efendi's (d.1722) versified Turkish work on the characteristics of the Prophet.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 661Origin: As appears in colophon on p.76, opening work copied by Aḥmad al-Hānī al-Hilālī with transcription completed 1130 [1717 or 18]. As appears in colophon on p.188, transcription of second work completed around the time of the mawlid (birthday of the Prophet) 1188 [1774].Accompanying materials: Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 378" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (rows of interlaced curves in red, studded with aquamarine accents in dots and strokes, all on a bright orange ground) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; tooled accents on fore edge flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in mauve and cream, good condition ; text block trimmed around marginalia ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, cover detaching at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (88 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.14, 26, 34, 35, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished ; another type with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 31 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (82 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.108, etc.), sturdy and somewhat thick, burnished.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; written area of incipit and facing page of opening work surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Maghribī ; two main hands ; hand supplying opening work quite neat and uniform, exhibiting little deviation from the vertical and adhering closely to the baseline, with characteristic sweeping descenders, etc. ; hand supplying second work less uniform, occasional tilt to the right or left, etc. ; opening leaf of second work seemingly supplied in a different hand.Layout: Written in 23 and 24 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 3 V(30), II (34), I (36), V-1+1 (46), V (56), IV (64), V (74), IV (82), V (92) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb] "Scribal," triangular, reads "كمل بحمد الله وحسن عونه على يد كاتبه الفقير الى ربه الراجي عفو مولاه الشريف احمد الهاني الهلالي وكان الفراغ منه يوم الخميس في ثلالثة [ايام؟] بقين من [...؟] عام ثلاثين ومائة والف تم الكتاب وانقضى وفعلنا الذي وجب رحم الله من قرأ ومن دعا للذي كتب" ; [Sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn] "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ منه يوم الثلاثة انتهى بمولده صلى الله عليه وسلم عام ثمانية وثمانين ومائة والف ..."Incipit: [Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb] "الحمد لله الملهم بحمده ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغني خالد بن عبد الله الازهري هذا شرح لطيف على قواعد الاعراب ..." ; [Sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn] "الحمد لله الواسع الجود والعطاء الذي شهد بوجوب وجوده ... وبعد فاهم ما يشتغل به العاقل اللبيب في هذا الزمان الصعب ان يسعى فيما ينقذ به مهجته من الخلود ... سميته موصل الطلاب الى قواعد الاعراب ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.3. p.78-p.188: ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawhīd al-ṣughrá al-musammá bi-Umm al-barāhīn / Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yusūf al-Sanūsī.2. p.77 : [blank].1. p.6-p.76 : Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb ilá qawāʼid al-iʻrāb / Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Azharī.Fine Maghribī copy of the commentary by Zayn al-Dīn Khālid ibn ʻAbdallāh al-Azharī (d.1499) upon Ibn Hishām's popular grammatical textbook, Qawāʻid al-iʻrāb, followed by a commentary by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d.1490) upon his own ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawhīd al-ṣughrá, or Umm al-barāhīn, on the essentials of faith.
Abstract: A commentary on an important work of Arabic grammar.Title from title page.Title from the edge of the manuscript.قال في الأم بلغت القصاصه للكتاب؟ مع جميع الحواشي مع حضور نسخة معنا وكذلك مع حضور مغني اللبيب في يوم الخميس شوال سنة13_ _لقطة198.تم لنا قراة هذا الكتاب الجليل مع بعض الطلبة لعله 17 رجب سنة 1363هـ، كتب الحقير محمد بن أحمد الكبسي & تم لنا بحمد الله قراءة هذا السفر الجليل مع بعض الأخوان يوم الأحد الموافق 1ربيع الأول سنة 1365هـ، كتب محمد بن أحمد الكبسي. لقطة199.كتابْ موصل الطلاب الى قواعد الاعراب/ الفه العلم العلامه وفريد دهره وزمانه وجيه الدين والمذكر بالمتقدمين خالد بن عبدالله الازهريOwnership and reading notes by the Kibsī family. Includes numerous fragments, among them lines of poetry by ʻAfīf Tilimsānī, fragments on different topics of Arabic grammar, a fragment on the meaning of the word "sayyid", lines of poetry by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ʻAqabī about ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Mutawakkil, a fragment by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī al-Jalāl, a fragment by Khāliṣ Muḥammad al-Makkī, a poem by Ibn Faraḥ, several fragments by various authors about Muhammad and the Quran, a fragment by Muḥammad ibn ʻIzz al-Dīn Muftī, an excerpt by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Ḥūthī on the Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, a statement by Imam Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī to his son, a fragment about Imam Manṣūr Billāh, a fragment by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Wazīr, a fragment about Ghazzālī, a fragment by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar Zamakhsharī, a fragment by Imam al-Mahdī, lines of poetry by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Mutawakkil, lines of poetry by Imam Sharaf al-Dīn, poetry about grammar by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar al-Khalīl, a poem by Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī, a judgment by ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, an excerpt from his Nahj al-balāghah, a fragment on grammar by ibn al-Ḥājib, a fragment on grammar by Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Mahdī Maqbalī, and lines of poetry by Ibn al-Wardī. Also includes a supercommentary by ʻIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Shuwayl.بعناية/ محمد بن محمد بن محمد الكبسيجيده وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مجلد بني وعليه غشاية قماش ازرق كحلي عليه ورود، تم كتابة المخطوط بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر الفاتح والبنفسجي كما أن عليه حواشي مرتبة بشكل جميل.في شهر محرم الحرام مفتاح سنة 1358هـ & قال في الام هذا المجلد مما تفرد بتحصيله لنفسه الحقير حسن بن علي بن يحيى بن محمد بن إبراهيم الريمي، بتاريخ شهر ذي الحجة الحرام سنة 1313هـ .لقطة199.ذكر في الأم أن الفراغ من التحشية 17/محرم/1311هـ لقطة 198 .Incipit: بسم الله... وبه استعين وعليه اتوكل... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغني خالد بن عبدالله الازهري هذا شرح لطيف على قواعد الاعراب سالنيه بعض الاصحاب بحل المباني وتبين المعاني وسميته موصل الطلاب الى قواعد الاعراب نافعا ان شا الله بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم البا متعلقه بفعل محذوف تقديره افتح...Explicit: وفى هذا القدر الذى ذكره المصنف كفايه لمن تامله لان التامل اصل فى ادراك الامور كلها ولذلك خص على التامل فى ختم الكتاب كما فعل فى افتتاحه حيث قال يقتفى بمتاملها جاده الصواب والله الموفق والهادى الى سبيل الخيرات بمنه وكرمه ...فختم كتابه بما ابتدا به والحمدلله اولا واخرا وظاهرا وباطنا كما يحب ربنا ويرضى ...Naskh script, written in black, red, green and purple ink.14-15 lines.عليه عدّة فوائد متفرقة كثيره وهي كالآتي: 1-أبيات شعرية وفوائد متفرقة لقطه3. 2-أبيات لطيفه للعفيف التلمساني، مطلعها: للمنطقيين اشتكى ابداً**عينى رقيبى فليته هجعا...& بيتين لبعضهم، مطلعها: مقدمات الرقيب كيف غدت**عند لقاء الحبيب متصله...لقطه18. 3- فوائد نحوية متفرقة كالآتي: فائدة: لغز نحوي أوله: نحو الزيدون يقومون فالزيدون مبتدا...& فائدة في قوله هذا شرح لطيف...& فائدة للمرادي قال بعض المتأخرين في الظرف والجار والمجرور...& فائدة في القواعد في اولها قوله وضمنه معنى تسلك الجر والدليل على التضمين...& فائدة يظهر الاعراب في الإسم الصحيح حيث لا مانع من ظهورها...& فائدة في اعراب ياهولآ محله الضم...& فائدة حاصل صور البسمله...لقطه20-21. 4- فائدة في معنى السيد، قال السيد اصله المتولي للسواد اي الجماعة الكثيره...& أبيات شعرية نحوية لغز، مطلعها: ان زيد فان عمرُ الكريمَ**مستهز او ان حليما...& فائدة في اعراب الحمد لله...& بيتن من الشعر عبارة عن لغز...& أبيات لسيدنا العلامة محمد بن أحمد العقبي أنشاها في السيد الجليل عبدالملك بن عبدالكريم بن المتوكل كان عاملاً في صور، مطلعها: الا يا عير في البلد التهامي**خذى في السير مقبلة هيامي...لقطه21. 5- فائدة حلصها سيدي العلامة عبدالله بن علي الجلال، ذكر في الام قال في الام نقل من خط يده وهي تحرير باهر وضابط في رفع افعل التفضيل الاسم الظاهر، قال في الأم تمت من خط مؤلفها رحمه الله وقع التمام صبح يوم الثلاثاء سلخ شهر القعدة الحرام سنة...لقطه22-23. 6- فائدة للشريف الخالص محمد عنقا الحسني المكي المعروف بالخالص في بحث افعال التفضيل...& فائدة تذييل قصيدة بن فرح لما اهمل؟ بعض انواع الحديث التي أولها قوله: عراف الرجا فيك معضل...لقطه23. 7- فوائد ونقول متفرقة منها: عن بعض العلماء عن النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم أنه قال ينزل الله تعالى البلا على عباده في كل سنة في اخر ربوع في شهر صفر في جميع...& فائدة في علم العربية...& فائدة في المصباح في الصلاة بعد العصر...& فائدة سئل السيد العلامة محمد بن عزالدين المفتي رحمه الله في التسبيح الذي ينادى في الصوامع...& فائدة نقل من خط السيد العلامة عزالدين محمد بن علي الحوثي في كتاب القاموس المحيط في شجرة تخرج في ارض اليمن في أخر الزمان كأنه إشارة الى التتن...& وصية لمولانا أمير المؤمنين القاسم بن محمد بن علي عليه السلام أوصا بها ولده عزالدين محمد...& فائدة عن الإمام المنصور بالله أنه قال عرقاب...& فائدة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم في بكا الصبي في المهد...& فائدة من خط السيد إبراهيم بن الوزير، قال اعلم ان الظهر يكتب بالظا...لقطه24-25. 8- أبيات قيل وجدت تحت راس الغزالي وصيّه وفيها الحث على العزله...& من كلام أمير المؤمنين كرم الله وجهه في الجنه يوم موت الزهراء عليها السلام...& فائدة وما احسن قول جار الله الزمخشري/ أريد البقا والعلم والحلم والنها**ومالا وعرساً ساجي الطرف عوهجي؟...& فائدة مما قيل فيمن جمع النحو وابتدعه والفه...& أبيات شعرية صغيرة متفرقة...& فائدة إذا اردت ان تكون احفظ الناس...لقطه26. 9- فائدة للإمام المهدي رضي الله في الاسم الذي من قراه حصل له ما يريد...& فائدة أبيات لسيدي العلامة ضيا الدين اسحاق بن يوسف بن أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام...& فائدة: ال ينقسم الى قسمين اسميه وحرفيّه...& أبيات لبعض أولاد الإمام شرف الدين عليه السلام حين قطع عليه بعض مصروفاته...& أبيات صدرت من رجل جهل النحو، والجواب عليه للفقيه عبدالله بن عمر الخليل...& أبيات صغيرة متفرقة مع الغاز نحويه...لقطه27. 10- القصيدة الفاخرة لشيخ الاسلام ابي حفص عمر بن مظهر بن الوردى البكري، مطلعها: اعتزل ذكر الآغاني والغزل**وقل الفصل وجانب من هزل...لقطه28-31. 11- فائدة:في من هو الكافيجي...لقطه31. 12- فائدة: الحاصل في حذف عايد الموصول...لقطه33-34. 13- فوائد نحوية متفرقة صغيرة على صفحة العنوان...لقطه35.1-أبيات لعلها تقريض، مطلعها: عقود من النحو منظومة**يواقتها حشو اعرابه...لقطه199. 2-حكم تامّلها تروى عن أمير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب صلوات الله عليه...لقطه 200-201 . 3-من كلامه صلوات الله عليه في نهج البلاغة...لقطه201. 4- فائدة من قول السيد رحمه الله في بحث المبني...& بيتين من الشعر في صعود المرء في المراتب العاليه وهبوطه... & فائدة من غاية التحقيق في لام الجنس...& فائدة في الإضافة، وأولها: اعلم أن الاضافة كما عرفت قسمين...& فائدة ضابط في الفرق بين الا وانما على قول الشيخ ابن الحاجب في بحث الفاعل ووقع مفعوله بعد الا...لقطه202-203. 5- فائدة للفقيه صالح بن مهدي المقبلي صاحب المنار على أبيات الانصاف...& بيتين من الشعر لابن الوردي وقد حبس المعلم الصبيان يوم الخميس...لقطه203.
Abstract: First part of a commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillīʼs Tahdhīb al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl.Binding note: Limp brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 21-23 lines per page; written in casual naskh and shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. A few repairs and occasional smudging.Origin: 11 Rabīʻ II 1262 H 8 April 1846 (leaf 162b).Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك ... وبعد فان الالتفات
Abstract: Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillīʼs Tahdhīb al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl; incomplete at end.Binding note: Rebound in quarter leather with cloth covers.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 16.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic and European papers. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Extensive damp staining on first half of manuscript, but text still legible.Origin: According to Mach, 16th century.Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك حمدا لا يقدر حصره ... اما بعد فان الالتفات الى علم اصول الفقه
Abstract: Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillīʼs Tahdhīb al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl.Binding note: Full maroon leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-stamped fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 21-24 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; last two leaves are replacements. Back cover detached. Marginal damp staining.Origin: 18th century?Incipit: اللهم اني احمدك ... وبعد فان الالتفات
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 554Origin: As appears in colophon on p.63, transcription of first work (with second word to follow) completed 27 Muḥarram 955 [ca. 8 March 1548].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip (on recycled card) in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Scrap with notes, etc. (see pp.65-66).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 258a2" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in dark blue, green, white, etc.) with dark red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted European laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in lavender and yellow, in fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, minor delamination of boards at corners, staining, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly straight and distinct), chain lines grouped in threes with 11-15 mm. between chains and 26-34 mm. between groups (vertical) ; fairly thin and transluscent, lightly sized and burnished, many inclusions ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Section headings, keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, inverted commas, hāʼ, etc.Script: Naskh ; large, clear 'Syrian' hand in a medium to bold line ; virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many closed counters, pointing mainly in distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf) with hooked serif on shaqq.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 V(60), I+1 (63), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes scrap with notes and some flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "نجز كتاب الغصب للامام العالم العلامة احمد بن محمد بن سليمان العلامي الحنفي رحمه الله تعالى ويليه كتاب الجناية للمؤلف ايضا بتاريخ يوم الخميس سابع عشري شهر الله المحرم الحرام سنة خمس وخمسين وتسعمائة احسن الله تعالى عاقبها امين"Incipit: [Kitāb al-ghaṣb] "كتاب الغصب وهو محرم بالاجماع ياثم به ان علم ان ما اخذه لغيره ..." ; [Kitāb al-jināyah] "كتاب الجناية وفيه فصول الاول فيما يضمن بارسال الدابة وادخالها وربطها ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from 'title pages' on p.3 and p.67.Ms. codex.3. p. 67-p.125 : Kitāb al-jināyah / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-ʻAllāmī al-Ḥanafī.2. p.64 : [blank].1. p.3-p.63 : Kitāb al-ghaṣb / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-ʻAllāmī al-Ḥanafī.Clear copy of two legal works, the first on illegal appropriation or use of rights of another (ghaṣb) and the second on crime (jināyah) by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-ʻAllāmī al-Ḥanafī.
Abstract: "A commentary on a work on topics of Zaydi-Mu'tazilite theology."Title from introduction.Contents.صادف الفراغ من قراءة هذا السفر لدى الاستاذ العلامة علي بن محمد فضه يوم السبت سلخ جماد الأول سنة 1361هـ، الحقير الى الله علي بن حسن بن محمد الجربعده الاكياسDedication, reading and ownership notes. Includes fragments of poetry and a prayer.بعناية/ محمد بن حسن الجربجيده، وهو عبارة عن مخطوط مجلد بجلد والجلد ملفوف بقماش، تم كتابة المخطوط بالمداد الأسود والأحمر ، كما عليه حواشي بالمداد الأسود مرتبة بشكل جميليوم الأربعاء سلخ محرم الحرام من سنة 1355هـIncipit: بسم الله... وبه استعين وعليه اتوكل... اما بعد فهذى كتاب لطيف حجمه عظيم ان شا الله نفعه وقدره اختصرته من كتاب شفا صدور الناس في شرح معانى الاساس... وسميته عده الاكياس اذا هو الصفوه من معرفه الله سبحانه وتنزيهه...Explicit: الا الذين اشهد الله بايمانهم وحكم بنجاتهم من عتره خاتم النبئين وسيد الاولين محمد صلى الله عليه واله وسلم... ورزقنا الله التوفيق لسلوك سبيلهم. والتمسك بهداهم. والثبات على طريقتهم. بحقه عليه. وحق كل ذى حق لديه. انه جواد كريم. روف رحيم. عدل حكيم. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله الطيبين الطاهرين. ولا حول ولا قوه الا بالله العلى العظيم.Naskh script, written in red and black ink. Frequent marginalia arranged in geometric patterns.19-23 lines.عليه عدة فوائد: 1-وفق عزيمة للمعسر & 2-دعاء لتنوير البصر & 3-في كيفية تعبير الرويا. لقطه3
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 212Origin: As appears at close on p.37, composed and or copied by Aḥmad ibn al-Maghribī. Date of transcription not indicated. Paper suggests 15th or 16th century.Former shelfmark: "238 T...[?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "136" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.9).Binding: Pasteboards covered in textured paper (painted in shades of gold, red, orange, green, etc.) with red leather over spine and edges/turn-ins ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves (made endpapers) in shell marbled paper (blue and brown) ; upper and lower covers bear gold-painted border ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light green and yellow, intact ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, etc.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with chain lines grouped in threes, 9-11 mm. between the chains and 39-42 mm. between the groups, heavy and thick ; added leaves in European laid paper with 10-11 laid lines per cm., chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart, and watermarks including spread eagle with 'T S C' below, coat of arms with lion rampant guardant and crown above.Decoration: Simple titlepiece on p.9 consisting of rectangular panel ruled in red carrying title, etc. in red and black ; headings and keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas (often three) or discs in red ; written area of incipit and facing page, as well as explicit and facing page, surrounded by red-rule border.Script: Naskh ; clear Egyptian or Syrian [?] hand ; virtually serifless, with many open counters, pointing in distinct dots, sweeping descenders, tapered rightward descenders, yāʼ of fī often mardūdah, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred with even final kāf bearing shaqq, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, etc. ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page (written area occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry) ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 2 I(4), V (14), III (20), 2 I(24), i ; several blank added leaves preceding and following text ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves).Colophon: "وهذا ما انتهى الينا من وفات رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وشرف وكرم وزاده شرفا وكرما وتعظيما اللهم اغفر لمالك هذا الكتاب وكاتبه وقارئه وسامعه ومن كتب من اجله ولوالديهم وامواتهم واموات المسلمين اجمعين اللهم صلى على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين خدمة العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى احمد بن المغربي"Explicit: "وكانت اول من لحق بالنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من اهل بيته رضي الله عنها"Incipit: "الحمد لله المعروف بالكرم قبل وجود الوجود الموصوف بالكرم والفضل والجود والمنزه في وحدانيته عن الابناء والاباء والجدود ..."Title from titlepiece on p.9.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a work on the birth and death of the Prophet, perhaps compiled by Aḥmad ibn al-Maghribī. Added title on 'title page' would indicate this once accompanied another work.
Abstract: Short treatise on the principles of religion, comprising an introduction, five chapters (bāb) - tawḥīd, ʻadl, nubuwwah, imāmah, maʻād -, and a conclusion.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (first unumbered fol. b). The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text.Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European cream paper, with watermark; glossy; frame-ruled. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Last fol. (fol. 30 in the modern foliation, is a added blank leaf). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad Ḥusayn (or Ḥasan) Ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar ...?, on 5 Ṣafar 1253 May 11, 1837 (fol. 29b).Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وآله الطاهرين اما بعد فيقول العبد المسكين احمد بن زين الدين الاحسائى انه قد التمس منى بعض الاخوان الذين يجب طاعتهم ان اكتب لهم رسالة فى بعض ما يجب على المكلفين من معرفت اصول الدين اعنى التوحيد والعدل والنبوة والامامة والمعاد وما يلحق بها بالدليلExplicit: والرضاء فى كل حال بقدره وقضائه فانه ولى كل خير وصلى الله على محمد واله الطاهرين
Abstract: Collection of several short treatises, chiefly by Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Binding note: Blind stamped and tooled golden brown leather. Rebacked.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-32b: Treatise on divine science or metaphysics (ilāhiyāt), in twelve fāʾidah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 2. fol. 33b-37b: Answers to eight questions, on exegesis of some Qurʾanic verses and hadiths, on the saying of the Ishrāqīyūn that what is simple is everything, on the vision of God, and on the afterlife / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 3. fol. 38a-45a: Answers to five questions, on intelligence, soul, and spirit / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 4. fol. 45b-49a: Risālah khiṭābīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 5. fol. 49b-52b: Answer to three questions from Kāẓim ibn ʻAlī Naqī al-Simnānī, on creation, the miʻrāj, and the ʻālam al-mithāl / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 6. fol. 53a-75b: Risālah Precisions on three questions by Mullā Kāẓim ibn ʻAlī Naqī al-Simnānī / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 7. fol. 76a-79a: Risālah Answer to a letter from Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Baḥrānī / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 8. fol. 79b-82b: Risālah on visions / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 9. fol. 83a-87a: Risālah on visions / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 10. fol. 87b-93a: Commentary on the hadīth "Allāh ... khalaqa isman" / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 12. fol. 93a-96a: On impeccability / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 13. fol. 96b-112a:Risālah Jawāb sayyid Muḥammad Bakkāʾ / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 14. fol. 112b-113a: Jawāb maktūb kataba mawlānā ʻAlī al-Rashtī al-Jīlānī ilayh / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 15. fol. 113a-125b: On afterlife / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 16. fol. 126b-132a: Sharḥ ḥadīth Raʾs al-jālūt / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 17. fol. 126b(margin): Ḥadīth Raʾs al-jālūt.Contents: 18. fol. 126b-142a (margin): Kitāb al-Fawāʾid al-Riḍāwīyah / Saʻīd al-Qummī.Contents: 19. fol. 133a-136b: Risālah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 20. fol. 136b-137b: Letter to Mullā ʻAlī Akbar, on intention / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 21. fol. 138b-141a: al-Risālah al-Rashīdīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 22. fol. 141b-142b: Fī bayān mā yumkinu al-ʻibārah ʻanhu min ṣifat taʻalluq ʻilm Allāh bi-al-maʻlūmāt / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 23. fol. 142b-162a: Answer to Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Futūḥ / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 24. fol. 162a-163b: Min suʾālāt Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 25. fol. 164a-165b: Min Risālat rafʻ al-nizāʻ bayn al-shaykh Aḥmad wa-al-sayyid ʻAbd al-Ṣamad / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 26. fol. 165b-167a: Commentary on the ḥadīth qudsī "Law lā-ka la-mā khalaqtu al-aflāk wa-law lā ʻAlī la-mā khalaqtuka" / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 27. fol. 167b-178a: al-Risālah al-dhahabīyah / ʻAlī ibn Mūsá al-Riḍā with preface by Muḥammad Bāqir Majlisī.Contents: 28. fol. 179a-185a: Answer to al-sayyid Ismaʻīl / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 17-18 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark ; the leaves are dyed in blue. Small pieces of paper with prayer(?) placed between fol. 85 and 86. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.; this record follows this foliation, hence the discrepancy with Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist).Chiefly quaternions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf.Handmade label on upper cover, with inscription in Arabic numerals reading: "344".Origin: According to colophons, copied by Mahdī ibn Ibrāhīm, or Muḥammad Mahdī Ibn Ibrāhīm, al-Kahdamī(?) (fol. 75b) al-Rashtī (fol. 185a), from Ramaḍān to Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1236 June-Aug. 1821 (fol. 45a, 49a, 52b, 75b, 79a, 82b, 87a, 93a, 112a, 132a, 177b, 185a). One colophon mentions the Ribāt Pusht-i Bādām (fol. 49a). The Kitāb al-Fawāʾid al-Riḍāwīyah was written on the margin of fol. 126b-142a by Murtaḍá Ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Ṭ---, known as Farhang, Tehran, 1313 H. sh. 1935 (fol. 142a).
Abstract: "Volume 2 of a commentary on Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: on afʻāl al-ṣalāh."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; blue paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 3.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Outer edge slightly moldered; text block almost completely detached from binding.Origin: According to Āghā Buzurg, volume 4 of this work was completed the evening of ʻId al-Aḍḥá 1229 H 22 November 1814. This copy was likely completed in the early 19th century. According to the spine label, the text was copied by Āqā Shaykh Muḥammad Khūʼī.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي احکم شرايع الدين بمطالع الانوار ومسالك اليقين
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 256Origin: As appears in colophon on p.271, Wasāʼil al-sāʼil copied from an exemplar in the hand of the author with transcription completed ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min raqmih...") 22 Muḥarram 1132 [ca. 5 December 1719]. As appears in colophon on p.301, transcription of Nubdhah min inshāʼ al-shaykh Shams al-Dīn al-Nawājī completed 28 Muḥarram 1132 [ca. 11 December 1719].Former shelfmark: "252 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "126" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.5).Binding: Pasteboards (thin, semi-limp) faced in dark red leather with dark brown leather now over spine and edges / turn-ins (possibly a repair) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in bright magenta coated paper ; upper and lower covers carry central blind-stamped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition) and flanking rosettes (typically seen on envelope flap compositions), along with constellations of tooled rosette accents and border in a series of s-shaped stamps and outermost gold fillets (over edging) ; sewn in golden yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in golden yellow and red, good condition ; overall in good condition with minor abrasion and staining.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal) and no watermarks visible though perhaps cut off or otherwise obscured ; creamy and well-burnished ; some ink burn to breakthrough ; repairs in European wove paper.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening of Wasāʼil al-sāʼil on p.6, partially damaged and restored, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling vegetal decoration, mainly in red and gold ; Section headings and keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by frame consisting of gold band with red and black rules ; written area in bulk of text surrounded by red-rule border.Script: Naskh ; clear Egyptian, 'Syrian,' or Turkish hand ; extensively but somewhat inconsistently seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on ascenders of alif (even freestanding), lām, ṭāʼ and ẓāʼ ; some elongation of horizontal strokes ; pointing for two and three dots in lines, with three dots represented by a curved mark resembling the letter dāl ; mainly curvilinear descenders ; freely ligatured.Layout: Written mainly in 23 lines per page with written area often divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 4 V(40), IV (48), II (52), 2 IV(68), 3 V(98), III (104), V (114), 3 IV(138), V+1 (149), ii ; quinions and quaternions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [Wasāʼil al-sāʼil] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وهذا اخر ما وجدناه مكتتبا من كلام هذا الامام روح الله سبحانه وتعالى روحه وجعل من الرحيق المختوم غبوقه وصبوحه بمنه وكرمه وكان الفراغ من رقمه وقت العصر من يوم الاثنين المبارك ثاني عشري محرم الحرام افتتاح عام اثنين وثلاثين بعد مائة والف احسن الله سبحانه وتعالى ختامها آمين ونقل جميعه من خط الناظم رحمه الله تعالى وصلى الله على خير خلقه محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم" ; [Nubdhah min inshāʼ al-Shaykh Shams al-Dīn al-Nawājī] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وهذا اخر ما يسر الله كتابته من كلام هذا الامام عليه رحمة الملك العلام وكان الفراغ من كتابته في اليوم الثامن والعشرين من شهر محرم الحرام افتتاح عام اثنين وثلاثين بعد مائة والف خلت من الهجرة النبوية على مشرفها افضل الصلاة وازكى التحية وعلى آله وصحبه ذوي الرتب العلية"Incipit: [Wasāʼil al-sāʼil] "حمدا لمن اطلع ثمار الادب على افنان الالسنة العربية ... وبعد فان مما يشفي القريحة الجريحة ... اعمال البدائية في انواع المحاضرات ... الاستاذ الاعظم والملاذ المعظم المولى محمد زين العابدين ... امرني وله الفضل ان اجمع له من ذلك ما هو حسب الامكان من الوجدان فاجبته قائما على قدم الطاعة ... سميتها وسائل السائل ورتبها على حروف المعجم وعلى الله القبول ..." ; [Nubdhah min inshāʼ al-Shaykh Shams al-Dīn al-Nawājī] "الحمد لله الذي فضل صناعة الكتابة وزاد اهلها شرفا وزينا ... وبعد فاعلم الكتابة علم شريف وفن لطيف لا يألفها الا صاحب ذوق سليم ولا يأنفه الا طبع غير مستقيمTitle supplied by cataloguer from 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.4. p.302-p.306 : [blank].3. p.272-p.301 : Nubdhah min inshāʼ al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah Shams al-Dīn al-Nawājī.2. p.5-p.271 : Wasāʼil al-sāʼil / Badr al-Dīn al-Dhahabī [?].1. p.1-p.4 : [blank].Fine copy of Wasāʼil al-sāʼil a collection of poems and prose attributed to Badr al-Dīn al-Dhahabī [?], compiled on the order of al-Mawlá Muḥammad Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn. Followed by a selection of essays by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Nawājī (d.1455) for which he obtained an ijāzah in ʻilm al-kitābah from Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ṣāʼigh al-Mukattib (d.1441 or 2) (see statement at opening on p.302).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 454Origin: As appears in colophon on p.408, original (now opening) section copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Abī Shāmah al-Ḥanbalī al-Dārānī with transcription completed 21 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 840 [ca. 26 June 1437] in madrasat Shaykh al-Islām Abī ʻUmar in Damascus. As appears in colophon on p.519, transcription of added section completed 29 Ramaḍān 1103 [ca. 14 June 1692].Accompanying materials: Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf and spine label, "IL 344a I" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip in Isl. Ms. 453).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather with red leather repair to spine ; Type III binding (without flap), likely not original to codex (traces of envelope flap suggest original binding was Type II) ; doublures (board linings) in an elegant marbled paper (mainly in pink, dark blue, and lime green) ; upper hinge and repair to lower cover in green textile ; upper and lower covers carry large blind-stamped (with tan leather recessed onlay) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NA 6) with gold-painted accents and tooled pendants (a cluster of rosette stamps), as well as tooled and gold-painted border ; sewn in pink thread, two stations, many threads broken ; worked chevron endbands in poor condition, significant losses to headband especially with core exposed ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion and staining, flap lost, etc. ; repairs in red leather (also damaged) ; housed in box for protection.Support: Earlier, original section on non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (20 in roughly 25 mm., horizontal), chain lines (four groups of three visible in some bifolia, see pp.132-33 etc.) with 8-11 mm. between chains and 44-46 mm. between groups, dark cream with some inclusions, well-burnished, fairly smooth ; flyleaves, replacement leaves and added section on European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines (vertical) spaced 28 mm. apart, three crescents watermark (see p.414, 96 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, similar to Heawood 866), and "V C" under trefoil countermark (see p.410, 412), creamy, well-burnished, with some staining and tide lines.Decoration: In original section, sūrah headings and Qurʼānic text being commented upon rubricated ; in later addition, sūrah headings and keywords introducing Qurʼānic excerpts rubricated, Qurʼānic text overlined in redScript: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; opening original section in naskh, an elegant Syrian hand in a thin to medium line, serifless with mainly closed counters, descenders more rectilinear (though final yāʼ more curvilinear and sweeping), extension of horizontal strokes, bowl of final nūn dramatically sweeping, pointing in distinct dots, kāf occasionally without shaqq ; later added section (and replacement leaves, pp.69-76) in nastaʻlīq (talik), elegant Turkish hand in a medium to bold line, serifless with effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page.Collation: ii, IV+1 (9), 19 V(199), I+1 (202), 5 V(252), IV (260) ; chiefly quinions ; inner bifolia of fourth quire (pp.69-76) on replacement leaves supplied with later addition ; catchwords present ; quire numbering in the form of whole words on the upper outer corner of the recto of the opening leaf of each quire in the earlier section only ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and added leaves).Colophon: [original] "وافق الفراغ من نسخه في يوم الثلثاء الحادي والعشرين من شهر ذي حجة الحرام سنة اربعين وثمان مائة على يد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير محمد بن محمد بن حسن بن ابي شامه الحنبلي الشهير بالداراني عفا الله عنه وعن والديه وعن من نظر فيه ودعا له ولجميع المسلمين وذلك بمدرسة شيخ الاسلام ابي عمر قدس الله روحه ونور ضريحه" ; [added section] "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تم الجلد الثاني من تفسير معالم التنزيل للامام البغوي بعون الله عز وجل في اليوم التاسع والعشرين من شهر رمضان لسنة ثلث ومائة بعد الالف الحمد لله رب العالمين ... والحمد لله رب العالمين سنه ۱۱۰۳ ويليه سورة المريم"Explicit: "قال من قرأ من اول سورة الكهف واخرها كانت له نورا من قدمه الى ساقه ومن قرأها كلها كانت له نورا من الارض الى السماء"Incipit: "سورة المائدة مدينة كلها الا قوله اليوم اكملت لكم دينكم ..."Title from 'title page' (p.5).Ms. composite codex.Composite manuscript representing the second of four volumes of al-Baghawī's commentary on the Qurʼān, consisting of two sections: an earlier, original section (through p.408) treating Sūrat al-Māʼidah (5) to Sūrat al-Ḥijr (15), and a later addition (p.409-close) treating Sūrat al-Nahl (16) to Sūrat al-Kahf (18). Contents listing on flyleaf at opening (p.4).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 4Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Paper and ownership statements suggest late 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Folded scrap with sums (paginated pp.113-116) -- b. Entire quaternion from another manuscript (paginated pp.337-352) -- c. Folded slip with "دعاء ايمان" (paginated pp.483-486).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 27. Maalim al-tanzil."Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and interior of flap in yellow paper ; upper and lower covers bear large, blind-stamped, scalloped mandorla with red-brown leather recessed onlays and gold-painted accents, along with guilloché roll border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in pink and yellow-brown thread, two stations ; endbands in cream, headband partly gone, only traces of primaries and core remain for tailband ; in poor condition with abrasion, staining, severe lifting and losses of leather at fore-edge flap, upper cover fully detached, delamination of boards, some loose quires, and spine slant (cocked) ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper in what appears to be several types with spacing of chain lines ranging from 16-20 mm. apart to 27-28 mm. apart and spacing of laid lines ranging from 9 laid lines per cm. to 12 laid lines per cm. ; numerous watermarks including three hats, horn, three circles with initials and cross above, etc. ; various types seem fairly evenly distributed throughout the codex, even within each quire ; crisp and not too thick, though sturdy ; varying from lightly burnished to well-burnished and nearly glossy ; some leaves with a yellowish tint ; some staining and leather burn.Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) in gold, outlined in red and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area of incipit and facing page bordered in frame with gold band outlined by black, red, and blue fillets ; textual dividers in the form of discs, commas, etc. in red and green ; text rubricated with headings, keywords, overlining, text of Qurʼān being commented upon, etc. in red ; some notabilia (side-heads) and keywords in green.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish or Persian hand ; virtually serifless, but head-serifs appearing irregularly on final alif (left-sloping), lām of definite article, etc. ; mainly closed counters ; some sweeping descenders ; free assimilation of some letters including final alif and following alif or lām, final hāʼ and dāl, etc.Layout: Written in 35 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 35 V (350), IV(358), 4 V(398), IV+1 (407) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals accompanying an initial kāf appearing in the upper outer corner of the recto of the first leaf of each quire from quire 2 through quire 12 ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Explicit: "واني خفت الموالي والموالي بنو العم وقال مجاهد العصبة وقال ابو صالح الكلالة وقال الكلبي الورثة"Incipit: "اخبرنا الشيخ الامام الفقيه ... المريدي رحمه الله تعالى قال اخبرنا الشيخ الامام ... الهرري قرأة عليه قال ثنا شيخنا الامام ... ابو محمد الحسين بن مسعود المعروف بالفرا رضي الله عنه اجازة ان لم يكن سماعا قال الحمد لله ذي العظمة والكبرياء والعزة والبقاء ... اما بعد فان الله جل ذكره ارشد رسوله بالهدى ودين الحق رحمة للعالمين ..."Title from titlepiece on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.4. fol.406a-fol.407b : [blank].3. fol.359a-fol.405b : al-Juzʼ al-thālith min Maʻālim al-tanzīl fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān.2. fol.358a-fol.358b : [blank].1. fol.1a-fol.357b : al-Rubʻ [al-awwal wa-]al-thānī min Tafsīr al-Baghawī.Fine copy of the first three quarters of al-Baghawī's celebrated commentary on the Qurʼān. Third quarter appears incomplete as it ends abruptly in Sūrat Maryam (19).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 453Origin: As appears in colophon on p.512, copied by Muʼmin ibn Khwājah ibn Mūsá ( Mümin bin Hoca bin Musa ) with transcription completed mid-Ramaḍān 851 [November 1447] in Sāmsūn [?] (i.e. Samsun ?).Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (for all four volumes, now Isl. Ms. 453, 454, 455, 456) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Slip with title and inventory number in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (paginated pp.47-48).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 344a I" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather with red leather repairs to spine and fore edge flap (now lost) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; doublures (board linings) in an elegant marbled paper (mainly in lavender, red, and dark blue over white) with hinges in shell marbled paper (in blue, pink and yellow) ; upper and lower covers carry large blind-stamped (with tan leather recessed onlay) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NA 6) with gold-painted accents and tooled pendants (a cluster of rosette stamps), as well as tooled and gold-painted border ; sewn in red and yellow thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and light yellow (tail, fair condition) and red and yellow (head, quite good condition) overall in poor condition with significant abrasion and staining, flap lost, lifting and losses of leather (especially at board edges), upper cover detaching, etc. ; repairs in red leather (also damaged).Support: non-European (likely Arab) paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes with 8-10 mm. between chains and 40-45 mm. between groups ; well-burnished, thick and sturdy, dark cream to beige in color.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas or hāʼ in red ; overlining in orange-red.Script: Naskh ; elegant, compact Turkish hand with Persianate features in a medium line ; serifless with effect of tilt to the left (occasionally to the right), slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), rounded but with more rectilinear descenders, pointing mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, some elongation of horizontal strokes, freely ligatured, hāʼ mudghamah looking like two inverted commas ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 24 V(249), II+1 (254), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present but occasionally cut off ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة في بلد سامسون [؟] بحضرت مولانا حاجى الدين ... على يد العبد الضعيف النحيف المذنب المحتاج الراجي الى رحمة ربه اللطيف مؤمن بن خواجه بن موسى غفر الله له ولوالديه ... وقت الضحى في يوم الخميس في واسط شهر رمضان المبارك تاريخ سنه احد وخمسون وثمانمائة من هجرة النبوية ... والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Explicit: "وانه لغفور رحيم قال عطا سريع العقاب لاعدائه غفور لاوليائه رحيم بهم"Incipit: "قال شيخنا الامام الاجل السيد محي السنة ناصر الحديث ... الحمد لله ذي العظمة والكبرياء والعزة والبقاء والرفقة والعلاء ... اما بعد فان الله جل ذكره ارسل رسوله صلعم بالهدى وديي الحق رحمة للعالمين"Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.First of four volumes of al-Baghawī's commentary on the Qurʼān, from Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (1) to Sūrat al-Anʻām (6) ; contents listing on 'title page' (p.3).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 455Origin: As appears in colophon on p.359, copied by Niẓām ibn Ḥuwayān [?] al-Bīshkīnī (Pīshkīnī or Bīshgīnī, likely a reference to the Pīshkīnids of Ahar), with transcription completed in Ṣafar 776 [July-August 1374].Accompanying materials: Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf and spine label, "IL 344a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip in Isl. Ms. 453).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather with red leather repairs to spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap, now fully detached) ; doublures (board linings) in an elegant marbled paper (mainly in pink, dark blue, and brown) ; upper and lower covers carry large blind-stamped (with tan leather recessed onlay) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi 6) with gold-painted accents and tooled pendants (a cluster of rosette stamps), as well as tooled and gold-painted border ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; endbands in light blue and light pink, damaged, exposing brown leather of core ; overall in quite poor condition with spine split through (at p.286), lower cover detached, flap fully detached, some abrasion and lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection ; repairs in red leather (also damaged).Support: non-European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and occasional chain lines visible roughly 20 mm. apart (possibly in large group) ; well-burnished and fairly smooth, dark cream in color, fairly crisp, cloudy formation ; back flyleaves in European laid paper with crown above grapes (raisin) watermark.Decoration: Keywords and vocalization rubricated ; Qurʼānic passages being commented upon overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; elegant, compact Persianate hand ; mainly serifless (though rightward serif on shaqq of kāf) with slight effect of tilt to the right, especially long and vertical free-standing alifs, contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), many closed counters, casual pointing mainly in distinct dots, final nūn quite round with dot set down in.Layout: Written in 24 lines per page.Collation: 7 IV (56), 2 IV-1 (70), 13 IV 174), II+1 (179), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present (though often obscured by repairs) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت جلد الثالث من كتاب معالم التنزيل في تفسير القرآن من تصنيف الامام الحافظ محيي السنة ركن الاسلام ابي محمد الحسين بن مسعود الفرا البغوي قدس الله روحه ... بحمد الله وحسن افضاله والصلوة والسلام على محمد ... على يد عبد الضعيف المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى نظام بن حويان البيشكيني غفر الله له ولوالديه في شهر المبارك صفر سنه ست وسبمعين وسبعمائة"Explicit: "وكان الله غفورا رحيما للمؤمنين والمؤمنات والله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "كهيعص قرأ ابو عمرو بكسر الهاء وفتح الياء ..."Title from colophon on p.359.Ms. codex.Third of four volumes of al-Baghawī’s commentary on the Qurʼān, from Sūrat Maryam (19) to Sūrat al-Aḥzāb (33) ; contents listing on opening leaf (p.4).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 456Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.206b, copied ("wa-faragha min kitbatih [kitābatih ?]...") by Walī ibn Muṣṭafā ibn Isḥaq (Veli b. Mustafa b. İshak). Below the colophon, the date 906 [1500 or 1501] has been supplied ("تاريخه سنة ستة وتسعمائة"), perhaps by one of the glossators (compare gloss in upper margin and scribal verses in outer margin). A birth notice below the colophon ("تاريخ مولود عبدى بن ولى خليفة [؟] سنة تسع وتسعمائة") is further dated 909 [1503 or 4], likely supplied by one of the glossators. Paper, hand, etc. are consistent with a late 15th century dating.Accompanying materials: Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas along with several slips tipped in or bound in (see fol.40-41, fol.85-86, fol.102-103, etc.).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, "IL 344a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Thin pasteboard covered in brown leather with red leather repairs ; once Type II binding (with flap) though only traces of fore-edge flap remain ; upper and lower covers carry large gold-stamped central mandorla (compare Déroche class. OAi6) with pendants and gold-stamped border ; board linings of marbled paper in blue, red, and white ; endpapers of marbled paper in red, blue, green, yellow, and purple ; in poor condition, though much repaired.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with chain lines running vertically and grouped in threes ; laid lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 9 laid lines per cm. ; endpapers of heavy European laid paper, chain lines clearly visible and spaced roughly 22-27 mm. apart, bearing watermark with crown, grapes (raisin) and name "VANANT" [?].Decoration: Sūrah headings and Qurʼānic excerpts rubricated.Script: Naskh ; clear, neat Turkish hand in a medium line ; entirely sans serif, rounded with curvilinear descenders, effect of slight tilt to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots or strokes (representing three dots in particular), point of final nūn often assimilated with bowl ; glosses in various hands.Layout: Written in 25 ines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: 20 V (200), III+1 (207) ; quinions followed by ternion with added leaf ; seventh quire has misplaced single bifolium, correctly paginated and now inserted between fol.63b and fol.64a (Western pagination) ; catchwords present but occasionally cut off due to trimming of leaves ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing, referenced in description).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular or trapezoidal, reads: "والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله واصحابه وعترته الطيبين الطاهرين اجمعين وفرغ من كتبته [؟] العبد الضعيف المفتقر الى رحمة الله تعالى وغفرانه ولي بن مصطفى بن اسحق غفر الله لهم ولجميع اقربائهم امين يا رب العالمين تم"Explicit: "اخبرنا...انه قال النبي صلى الله ع م يقول ما اذن الله لشيء ما اذن لنبي حسن الصوت بالقران يجهر به اخر الكتاب"Incipit: "سورة يس مكية بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يس ول والقلم باخفاء النون..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fourth volume of al-Baghawī's commentary on the Qur'an, from Sūrat Yā Sīn (36) to Sūrat al-Nās (114). Lengthy extratextual quotations, notes, and glosses following the text and on slips tipped in or bound in various places (see fol.40-41, fol.85-86, fol.102-103, etc.).
Abstract: "Second part of Baghawī's commentary of the QurānAbstract: comprising the commentary of sūrat Āl ʻImrān and al-Nisāʼ (3-4). The text is followed by three reading statements on fol. 226a and short excerpts on fol. 226b."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind and gold-tooled with a central panel consisting of a six lobed roundel made of several intertwined fillets. The spaces between the fillets are filled with impressions of a small gold stamp (gold now almost completely wanting). The central panel is outlined by a frame of several fillets, with the inner corners outlined by similar fillets and filled with impressions of gold stamp (gold wanting). Outer border of fillets and a running pattern of impressions of a stamp with floral pattern. Embossed leather doublure. Traces of a now wanting fore-edge flap and envelope flap.Ms. codex.Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a).Incipit: سورة ال عمران مدنية قوله تعالى الم الله لا اله الّا هو قال الكلبى والوبيع بن آنس وغيرهما نزلت هذه الآياتExplicit: يومًا ترجعون فيه الى الله فعاش بعدها احد وعشرين يومًا والله سبحانه اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد النبى الامى وعلى آله وصحبه وسلّمPhysical description: 19 lines per page. Written in round medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for commented text. The text is framed within a gilt frame outlined in black with blue outline on fol. 1b-2a. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible (a few leaves darker) ; frame-ruled. Chiefly quinions. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a. Inscriptions on the doublure of the upper cover.Decoration: Illuminated title-page (ʻunwān), apparently left unfinished. Cartouche in gold, white, black, blue, and red, with title written in white on a gold and blue ground. Roundel in gold outlined in black on the left margin. Six lobed roundel in gold outlined in black encompassing a space left blank underneath the cartouche. The cartouche and roundels are outlined in blue ink.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the doublure of the upper cover: "Raqm 346".Collation: Paper, fol. 227 ; 1¹⁰ (-2, before fol. 1) 2-22¹⁰ 23¹⁰ (-1, end of quire) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals.Origin: Collation statement dated last decade of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 854 Dec. 1450 (margin of colophon, fol. 225b).
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīth arranged by topic.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pastedowns for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Silver tooling and stamping on covers and flaps. Paper pastedown (the doublure of the lower cover has apparently a now covered central mandorla, see trace on the opposite folio).Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 343b).Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and re-inking. European paper with watermark. Marginal and interlinear annotations. Annotations on slips of paper pasted between the original leaves. First four fol. apparently later additions, with a table of contents and short excerpts from several texts. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits first fol.).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥadīth 29(?)". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "259/2 Ḥ".Origin: Copy completed on 15 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 898 Feb. 3, 1493 by ʻAbd al-Awwal Ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muhājirī (colophon, fol. 343b).Incipit: الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى والصلوة التامة الدايمة على رسوله ... قال الشيخ الامام الاجلّ السيّد محىى السنة ناصر الحديث شيخ الاسلام ابو محمد الحسين بن مسعود البغوى الفرآ اما بعد فهذه الفاظ صدرت على صدر النبوة وسنن سارت عن معدن الرسالةExplicit: من الحسان عن انس رضى الله عنه قال قال رسول الله صلّى الله عليه وسلّم مثل امّتى مثل المطر لا يدرى اوله خير ام آخره
Abstract: Commentary on the Qurʼān. Colophon and eulogy at the end of the copy in Ottoman Turkish.Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers have a central deep-sunk gold stamped mandorla with a floral motif, with two pendants on the vertical axis. Edges repaired, covering the border. The envelope flap has a gold stamp with a floral motif outlined in gold on its point. Gold painted border consisting of a double fillet and a guilloche. Golden brown doublure with a frame of two gilt fillets (repaired). Flyleaves with one side yellow.Ms. codex.Title from title page fol. 1a.Incipit: الحمد لله ذى العظمة والكبرياء والعزة والبقاء ... اما بعد فان الله جل جلاله ارسل رسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم بالهدى ودين الحق رحمة للعالمينExplicit: عن محمد بن ابراهيم عن ابى سلمة بن عبد الرحمن عن ابى هريرة رضى الله عنه انه سمع رسول الله ... يقول ما اذن الله لشى ما اذن لنبى حسن الصوت بالقرآن يجهر به هذا اخر كتاب التفسير الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته على نبيه محمد وصحبه وسلّم اجمعين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيلPhysical description: 55 lines per page. Written in very small clear thin naskh in black ink, with use of red for overlining of the text commented and for headings. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in blue, gold, and floral ornaments in red, yellow, pink, etc. on fol. 1b. The text is framed within gold, black and blue lines. The name of the sūrah commented is written in red ink on the upper left margin of the recto of each leaf and on the margins. Biscuit paper, glossy, with thick laid lines and pulp visible; fibers visible on the surface. Collation notes on the exterior of the frame throughout. Note mentioning the number of parts, leaves and lines of the copy on fol. 248b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf.Origin: Copy completed in 1044H. (colophon, fol. 248a). Collated by Salmān ibn Muḥammad in 1161 H. 1748 (collation statement, fol. 248a, left margin).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 480Origin: As appears in colophon on p.534, copied by Aḥmad ibn ... Dāwūd ibn Ayyūb ibn Aḥmad al-Jawraq [al-Jawzaq?] with transcription finished ("faragha minhu...") 6 Muḥarram 715 [ca. 12 April 1315].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 338a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown and dark brown leathers with upper and lower covers mismatched ; Type II binding (originally with flap, now lost) ; upper board lining in laid European paper ; lower board lining in wove paper ; upper cover bears blind stamped mandorla (with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSd 1) and pendants surrounded by tooled accents ; lower cover bears a tooled rule border ; sewn in heavy brown thread, four stations ; overall in poor condition with lifting and losses of leather (particularly at spine), abrasion and staining, upper cover detaching, etc. ; repairs to board edges in dark blue cloth ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper (likely Arab, even Egyptian) with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and faint chain lines apparently arranged in 4 sets of 2, with 11-15 mm. between the chains and 43-52 mm. between the groups (compare the Cairene paper of 1326 in Table III of Humbert).Decoration: Some abbreviations (sigla) and vocalization for basmalah and headings rubricated ; keywords set off with red accents ; textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas (in red) and letter hāʼ (outlined in black, filled with red) ; diagram in the margin of p.402 accompanied by a note (not in the copyist's hand) explaining that it replicates a figure inscribed in al-Jamʻ bayna al-Ṣaḥīḥayn of al-Ḥumaydī (d. 488/1095) ; it corresponds to a drawing made by the Prophet described in the ḥadīth alongside the figure.Script: Naskh ; bold, highly legible Egyptian [or Iraqi?] hand ; mainly serifless, though occasional left-sloping head serifs appear on medial lām, etc. ; alifs vertical and slightly tapered ; swooping descenders and frequent elongation of horizontal strokes ; both open and open and closed counters ; kāf mabsūṭah regularly employed, even for final kāf ; alif maqṣūrah often written with two dots above ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: IV (8), 10 V(108), VI (120), 4 V(160), VI (172), 9 V(262), III - 1 (267) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering in the form of whole words appears in the top left corner of the recto of the first leaf for quires 11 through 15 ; catchwords present ; pagination in Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "تم ... ومنه والحمد لله حق حمده فرغ منه بتوفيق الله وحسن تيسيره في يوم الجمعة السادس من شهر محرم سنة خمس وسبعماية ... احمد بن ... داود بن ايوب بن احمد الجورق [؟] ارشده الله واصلح شانه وقضى حوائجه وحوائج المسلمين بمنه وكرمه "Explicit: "من الحسان قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم مثل امتي مثل المطر لا يدرى اوله خير ام اخرة"Incipit: "الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى والصلاة التامة الدائمة على رسوله المجتبى محمد سيد الورى وعلى آله نجوم الهدى قال الشيخ الامام الاجل المحقق محيي السنة ابو محمد الحسين بن مسعود الفراء البغوي رحمة الله عليه اما بعد فهذه الفاظ صدرت عن صدر النبوة وسنن سارت عن معدن الرسالة ..."Title from inscription on interior of upper cover.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Baghawī's collection of traditions (aḥādīth) compiled from Bukhārī, Muslim, Tirmidhī, Abū Dāʼūd, etc. and organized by subject matter. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻī law, mostly by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī (d. 1719), written by the same hand.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of clear brown leather over paper pasteboards, with two blind-tooled fillets encompassing an inner border made of a single blind-tooled fillet.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-52a: al-Fawāʼid al-Ḥāʼirīyah / Muḥammad Bāqir Bahbahānī (d. 1791 or 2).Contents: 2. fol. 52b-54b: Blank.Contents: 3. fol. 55a-61a: Risālah fī al-istiṣḥāb / Muḥammad Bāqir Bahbahānī (d. 1791 or 2).Contents: 4. fol. 61b-62b: Blank.Contents: 5. fol. 63a-77a: Risālat Muqaddimat al-wājib / Muḥammad Sharīf Mazandarānī (d. 1829 or 30)Contents: 6. fol. 77b-94a: Risālah fī al-ishtirāk / al-Sayyid Mahdī ibn ʻAlī.Contents: 7. fol. 95a-169a: Tadhkirah / Muḥammad Jaʻfar Jāblāqī (fl. 1811).Contents: 8. fol. 169b-170b: Blank.Contents: 9. fol. 171a-176b: Taʻlīq ʻalá mabḥath al-zawāl min Sharḥ al-Lumʻah al-Dimashqīyah / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 10. fol. 176b-181a: Rasāʼil fī al-mawāzin / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 11. fol. 181a-182b: Risālah fī masʼalat wujūb al-mahr ʻinda mawt al-zawj aw al-zawjah qabl al-dukhūl / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 12. fol. 182b-183b: Risālah fī masʼalat al-mahr / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 13. fol. 183b-188b: Risālah fī al-daʻwā ʻalá al-mayyit / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 14. fol. 188b-189a: Kitāb al-Saʻādāt. Selections / Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq (d. 765 or 6).Contents: 15. fol. 189a-191a: Risālah fī ṣiḥḥat al-ṣulḥ ʻalá al-majhūl / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 16. fol. 191b-195b: Risālah fī ghusālat al-najāsah / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 17. fol. 195b-204a: Risālah fī anna al-insān baʻd al-mawt ḥayy ḥaqīqatan / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 18. fol. 204a-209a: Masʼalat tajwīz al-ʻudūl min kull sūrah ʻalá al-jaḥd / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 19. fol. 209a-221b: Risālah fī ajwibat thalāth masāʼil Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad al-Jārūdī / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 20. fol. 221b-231a: Masāʼil tataʻallaqu bi-al-ʻiṭārah bal bi-muṭlaq al-tijārah al-Risālah al-ʻAṭṭārīyah / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 21. fol. 231a-237b: Hal al-ṭalqah wa-al-ṭalqatayn tabqá bi-al-taḥlīl aw tanhadam / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 22. fol. 237b-239b: Ajwibat masāʼil Yaḥyá ibn Ḥusayn al-Ahsāʼī / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 23. fol. 239b-244b: Risālah fī al-najāsah / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 24. fol. 245a-248a: Ajwibat masāʼil ʻAbd al-Imām al-Aḥsāʼī / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baḥrānī Ibn ʻUṣfūr (d. 1718 or 19).Contents: 25. fol. 249a-292b: al-Durrah / Muḥammad Mahdī Ṭabāṭabāʼī, Baḥr al-ʻUlūm (d. 1797 or 8).Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.21 to 22 lines per page. Fol. 249b-292b: 12 lines per page. Most texts are written in small naskh in black ink, apparently by the same hand. European glazed paper with watermark. Fol. 1 is a fly-leaf, with inscription. Ownership statements on fol. 2a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.There are several notes which mention that these texts were copied at the request of Jaʻfar Muḥammad Kāẓim in Mashhad Ḥusayn Karbalāʼ in 1239 (see fol. 2a, with seal), 1234 (fol. 63a, 77a), 1236 (fol. 249a).
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite law and doctrine.Binding note: Full golden-brown leather; yellow paper doublures; front cover almost completely detached.Contents: 1. leaves 1a-82a: al-Fawāʼid al-Ḥāʼirīyah. Incomplete at beginning.Contents: 2. leaves 84a: Table of contents for volume.Contents: 3. leaves 84b-132b: al-Fawāyid al-jadīdah.Contents: 4. leaves 133a-135a: Fihrist fī al-Fawāyid al-Ḥāʼirīyah al-mashhūrah bi-Fawāyid al-ʻatīqīyah.Contents: 5. leaves 135b-136a: Fihrist fī al-Fawāyid al-jadīdīyah.Contents: 6. leaves 140b-186b: Risālat ijtihād akhbār.Contents: 7. leaves 186b-187a: Aṣl al-ashyāʼ al-ṭahārah.Contents: 8. leaves 187b-206a: Fawāyid rijālīyah.Contents: 9. leaves 206a-210a: Fī radd al-Ashāʻirah al-qāʼilīn bi-al-iḍṭirār wa-al-ijbār.Contents: 10. leaves 210b-223b: Aṣl al-barāʼah.Contents: 11. leaves 223b-228a: al-Istiṣḥāb.Contents: 12. leaves 228a-231a: Fī ʻibādat al-jāhil.Contents: 13. leaves 231a-232b: Fī al-muʻāmalāt.Contents: 14. leaves 232b-235b: Risālah fī al-qarḍ.Ms. composite codex.Edge title.Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 3, 15 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq in black on glazed laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Remaining texts, 19 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed laid European paper; catchwords. Leaves 1-78 almost entirely detached. Mild staining and smudging.Origin: Text 1 completed 22 Ṣafar 1227 H 7 March 1812, by Aḥmad ibn mawlānā Mullā Muḥammad Hādī navādah-i Mullā Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ shahīr bih Bihishtī (leaf 82a). Text 3, 15 Rajab 1235 H 28 April 1820, by Muḥammad Rafīʻ Nūrī (leaf 132b). Remaining texts likely early 19th century.
Abstract: A work on Zaydi fiqh.Title from title page.كتاب نكت العبادات وجُمَل الزيادات / تاليف القاضي الاجَل جعفر بن احمد بن ابي يحيWork copied for Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻĀmir, descendent of Zaydi imam al-Hādī ilá al-ḥaqq Yaḥyá ibn al-ḥusayn (859-911) and prominent figure during the reigns of Imām al-Qāsim and his son al-Muʼayyid billāh Muḥammad. Ownership notes scratched out. Includes various lines of poetry by Imām Manṣūr bbilāh ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamzah.إبراهيم بن أحمد بن عامر بن علي بن محمد بن علي بن الرشيد بن أحمد...بن الامام الهادي إلى الحق يحيى بن الحسينجيده ولكن تم كتابة وإضافة ما كان مبتوراً منه من أوراق أصلية في أول المخطوط وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمريوم عرفة من شهر ذي الحجة سنة1034هـIncipit: كتابَ الطهارت بَابَ فروض الوضو مسله فروض الوضو ثمانيه...Explicit: مسلهُ فاذا عاد من دار الحرب...وذلك مما لا خلاف فيه بين علما المسلمين تم الكتاب...بوم الخميس...ولا حول...برسم سيدي...بن الامام الهادي الى الحق يحيى بن الحسين عليلمNaskh script in black and red ink. Eight folios have been misplaced within the codex.18 lines.أبيات شعرية متفرقة للإمام المنصور بالله عبدالله بن حمزة (لقطة رقم 3)
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.