Abstract: "Collection containing two glosses on al-Shirwānī's commentary on Samarqandī's Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth."Binding note: Stiffened brown leather. Each cover has an outer ruled border made of three blind fillets; half of the upper cover is missing.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-34a: Risālah ʻalá Mawlá al-ʻImād al-muḥashshī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Fāḍil Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Ibn Shujāʻ al-Dīn al-shahīr bi-Khazramah.Contents: 2. fol. 34b-37b: blank.Contents: 3. fol. 38a-56a: Risālah ʻalá Sharḥ al-fāḍil Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.17 lines per page. Written in small but very clear naskh in black ink with use of red for "qāla" and "qawluhu", and to overline important words. In text no. 2, notes on content written in red in the margin. European glazed paper with watermarks; fol. 9 prev. 8 is a later replacement. Contains a few notes in the margin and some collation notes. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (starts on fol. 2; between fol. 35 and 38 prev. 34 and 35, two fol. blank).Collation: Paper, fol. 56 + i (modern endpaper) ; 1⁸ (+1, fol. 9) 2-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6⁸ (+1, fol. 48) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Copied by al-Ḥājj Qāsim in Qusṭanṭinīyah in 963 (from colophons, fol. 34a and 56a).
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: Description in part based on Savage-Smith, E. and Rapoport, Y. (2013), An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe, pp. 2-4.
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."
Abstract: Collection of traditions, compiled from the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim and al-Bukhārī. Incomplete at the beginning and the end.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger (following R. Mach, Yahuda).The name of the author appears in the numbering of the quires as al-Ḥumaydī (see fol. 117a).The copy begins with the last ḥadīths transmitted through Ibn ʻUmar, followed by the ḥadīths transmitted through Abū Ḥamzah (fol. 1a). It comprises the ḥadīths transmitted through ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbbās (see fol. 59a), Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (fol. 70b), and the ḥadīths transmitted by Muslim through Companions of the Prophet such as ʻAbd al-Muṭallib ibn Rabīʻah (fol. 136a).17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink ; headings in a larger script. The text is vocalized. Light cream paper with laid lines visible (chain lines hardly visible on some leaves). Collation notes. Audition statements on some folio (see fol. 92b, 105b, 117b, 125b). Audition and collation statement signed by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Yūnīnī (fol. 1b and 119b; collated with a copy read in front of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ). Some leaves are missing (see between fol. 8-9, 16-17, 24-25, 26-27, 36-37, 43-44, 45-46, 47-48, 50-51, 54-55, 59-60, 63-64, 70-71, 80-81, 86-87, 115-116, 125-126, 126-127). The quires are numbered in the form "al-rābiʻah ʻashrah min al-thānī min al-Ḥumaydī", see fol. 117a). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Incipit: هذا واطوعنا بعده اللهمّ انت الصاحب فى السفر والخليفة فى الاهل اللهمّ اى أعوذ بك من وعثاء السفرExplicit: \\\\ وكانت عليك حُلّة وعليه حلّة فمسح رأسى وقال اللهمّ بارك فيه يا بن
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Binding: The volume is bound in a European binding of pasteboards covered with brown leather. The covers have frames formed of two gold fillets. There are five cords on the spine, with two gold fillets either side of each cord. The pastedowns are modern and are blank except for annotations of the manuscript number and a bookplate for St John’s College and E Libris Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt. Oxon. on the back pastedown.Contents note: Annotations by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8), fols. 12a/b, 13a, 15a.Contents note: Contents described on fol. iii b: Collatio Mensium Arabicorum, Cophticorum, Græcorum, & Judaicorum. Vide pag. 1. ubi habes hunc titulum doctissimi ipsius Pocockij a later hand has crossed out the last two words, and written in pencil: Gul. Laudi manuscriptum. Nec non Tabulæ quædam Astronomicæ. Omnia imperfecta. In margine passim occurrunt Notæ Viri eruditissimi Joan. Grauij, Prof. Astronom. Sauil.Contents note: In item 1, it is evident from numbers placed on each table that there were originally 23, though tables 5–6, 14–15, and 20–1 are now missing and two tables carry the number ‘9’. Ff. 10a/b, 11a and 17b are blank except for frames formed of two black-inked lines.Dimensions: 21.3 × 13.9 (text area 17 × 10.2) cm.Hand: Both items written in a variable (small to medium) Arabic naskh using black and red inks. The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red- and black-inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table.Layout: The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red and black inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table. Lines per page vary.Origin note: "No copyist's signature or date(s) or place(s) of copying."Record origin: "Descriptions 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: Entries. Nos. 4 and 10Record origin: pp. 19-22Record origin: 41-2."
Abstract: 'A work on Ḥanafī law and jurisprudence, being a redaction from the author\'s al-Muntakhab min ʻulūm al-madhhabAbstract: and several commentaries such as Sharḥ al-Karkhī and al-Isbījābī (see beginning of textAbstract: fol. 2b). The text is followed on fol. 229-230b by an incomplete text written by another handAbstract: entitled "Majlis amlāhu muṣannif hādhā al-kitāb".'Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (prfessional hand) in black ink (faded to brown), with larger script for headings. The text is vocalized. Dark cream paper, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Table of contents on fol. 1a-b. Several short excerpts on fol. 2a. Foliation in black ink (faded to brown) using Arabic numerals.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 10 Rajab 621 July 1224 by Bashīr ibn Ḥāmid ibn Sulaymān al-Jaʻfarī al-Tabrīzī (fol. 228b). According to notes on the margin of fol. 228b, collated on an autograph.Incipit: الحمد لله الاحد القديم الصمد الدايم ذي الكمال والدوام والجلال والاكرام والآلاء والنعم وصلى الله ... اما بعد فقد اختصرنا هذا الكتاب من كتابنا المنتخب من علوم المذهب ومن شروح بسيطة كشرح الكرخى ... كتاب الطهارات قال الله تعالى ياءيها الذين آمنوا اذا قمتم الى الصلوة فاغسلوا وجوهكم ... 3أ ففرض الله عز وجل في الوضوء غسلExplicit: لكل واحدة ثلثة اسهم وللاخت النصف اربعة وعشرون سعمًا وللاعمام اثنى عشر سهمًا لكل واحد سعمان تم الكتاب والحمد لله المنعم القديم المحمود العظيم وصلى الله على محمد رسوله الكريم ونبيه الحليم وعلى آله واصحابه وسلّم آخر عبارة المصنف الامير الامام الزاهد ايده الله وسدده
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīth arranged by topics.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. 2a.Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Red tear-drop text stops. Thick light cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves darker. On these leaves, ink corrosive. Marginal annotations (collation notes and glosses). Fol. 1 is a later addition. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including a price, two lines of poetry in praise of the text, and ownership statements. Table of contents by a later hand on fol. 1a-b.Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each quire; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "al-Khāmisah" on fol. 36a).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 27". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 130".Two leaves of another manuscripts were placed in the volume. They are now shelved separately in Fragments, leaves, etc. (Yahuda Series).Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Dūghān Sibṭ al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Badrānī, Thursday 12 re-written Dhū al-Qaʻdah ("khalat min") 846 March 14, 1443, from a copy copied from a copy collated on an autograph copy (fol. 180a, followed by a biographical note on the author and by the words: "Thānī nuskhah min al-Adhkār").Incipit: بسم ... اللهم صل على محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما ابدا الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار مقدر الاقدار مصرف الامور ... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم العزيز الحكيم فاذكروني اذكركمExplicit: قال ليس لاهل الشام حديث اشرف
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).
Abstract: A collection of hadith with sound isnads and contents and their use for determining correct action.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.الاجزاء من الاول وحتى الرابع من كتاب شفاء الاوام للتمييز بين الحلال والحرامLater additions and repairs dated February 1917. Sale note and multiple reading notes. Includes fragments by ʻAlī ibn Abī ṭālib.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جلدي كبير سقطت منه بعض الأوراق في آخره وتم استبدالها بأوراق أحدث منها. وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرليلة الجمعة 23/صفر/سنة1049هـ; ليلة الخميس الرابع شهر ربع الآخر1049ه; 2/جماد الأول/سنة1049هـ; نهاية نسخ الأوراق المستبدلة من اللقطة رقم (527-534): عشية الأحد لعشر خلت من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة1335هـNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Final pages added later in different hand.31 lines.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 271Origin: Versified chronogram at end (fol.182b, "اخلاق محسنى") gives dating for completion of composition; this reading, without the preposition "ز", yields the more widely accepted date of 900 H. As appears in colophon on fol.182b, copied by Maḥmūd ibn Najīb. Transcription finished ("tamma al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb taḥrīran fī tārīkh...") 12 Rabīʻ I 922 [ca. 15 April 1516].Binding: Pasteboard covered in red-brown leather; Type II binding (with flap); upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central mandorla (Déroche class. NSh1) with pendants and simple gold rule-border; smaller mandorla on envelope flap; doublures in light-blue coated paper embossed with vegetal pattern; in good condition.Support: Persian laid paper; laid lines oriented vertically but too faint to count; chain lines not visible; flyleaves are fashioned from a light-blue coated paper, embossed with a vegetal pattern, that is also used for the doublures.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece on fol.2b; marvelously rendered in two rectangular panels; lower panel contains the basmalah, executed in red nastaʻlīq, in a central cartouche flanked by two, smaller palmette-like lozenges; lower panel is framed by an elaborite golden braid; background is predominantly lapis-lazuli, with vegetal/floral patterns executed in gold, red, pink, green, black, and white; upper panel continues the background motif and color palette; three small, predominantly black, palmette-like lozenges serve as the pivot for the repeating vegetal pattern in this panel, but these are subdued figures and are rather absorbed into the lapis-lazuli background and intriquate vine patterns; upper panel is surmounted by five verticle, decorative stalks; written area framed by a rule-border in dark blue, black, and gold; gold frames set off verses and some chapter titles; text is polychrome, with main text in black, Arabic quotations in dark blue, gold, and occasionally red, and chapter titles in dark blue or gold; the words "شعر" and "بيت" as they occur throughout the text introducing verses of poetry are rendered in red and blue, and occasionally, gold; main text of incipit page decorated with gilt cloudbands.Script: Main text in nastaʻlīq; chapter headings in tawqīʻ; Arabic quotations of Qur'anic verses and Hadith in naskh and vocalized; basmalah in cartouche of illuminated headpiece in nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: ii, 23 IV (184), i; quaternions; cacthwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ١ on fol.3a (Western pagination) and concludes with ١۸۰ on fol.182a; fihrist of chapter titles (fol.6a-7a) corresponds with foliation.Dedication: Composed for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin (شاه ابو المحسن ), one of the sons of the Tīmūrid pādishāh Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, on the occasion of his coming to court (in Herat) from Marv (see fol.4a-4b, Western pagination).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads: "رب اختم بالخير والحسنى تمت [كذا] الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا في تاريخ اثنى عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنه اثنى عشرين و تسعمايه بخط العبد الحبيب [المجيب ؟] محمود بن نجيب"Explicit: "با خامه گفتم ای كه زهر ساختى قدم وز مقدم تو چشم سخن يافت روشنى اخلاق محسنى بتامى نوشته تاريخ هم نويس ز اخلاق محسنى"Incipit: "حضرت يادشاه على الاطلاق غرت كلمته و جلت عظمته منشور دولت سلطان المرسلين"Title from opening on fol.5a.Ms. codex.A work on ethics in 40 chapters, composed by Kāshifī for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin, a son of Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander.
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.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Naskh and Nastaʻlīq in various hands.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 451Origin: As appears in colophon on p.261, transcription completed Rajab 1171 [March-April 1758].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From inscription on interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 26" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-stamped paper (repeating pattern of squares filled with rows of diamonds in contrasting black on dull yellow and red-orange on white, also lining fore edge flap and covering envelope flap) with red leather over spine, fore edge of upper board, and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted Europea laid paper (three crescents watermark visible) ; sewn in light pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in dark blue and yellow, quite good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (horizontal), grapes (raison) surmounted by crown watermark (see p.16, 17, etc.), and several words including "LANGUEDOC" (p.36, 37, etc.) ; sturdy though fairly thin and transluscent, burnished, medium cream in color.Decoration: Simple headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.8 consisting of two empty rectangular pieces surmounted by a double semi-circular piece set into a well, all in red rules ; keywords, section and table headings, abbreviation symbols (letters representing the juzʼ, ḥizb, ʻushr and āyah, explained in opening table on p.9), sūrah titles and notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; written area and table within outlined in a red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand in a narrow line ; mainly serifless (though occasional serif appears) with slight effect of tilt to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; Qurʼānic excerpts vocalized.Layout: Written in roughly 25 lines per page with written area divided to tabular format of 25 lines and 6 columns (passage of text, juzʼ, ḥizb, ʻushr, āyah and sūrah title).Collation: i, 3 V(30), V-1 (39), V (49), IV (57), 6 V(117), V+1 (128), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals above letter ك in the upper outer corner of the opening recto of each quire from the second ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم وكمل هذا الكتاب الشريف في رجب الفرد سنة احدى وسبعين ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف صلى الله عليه وسلم"Explicit: "يهدي به الله من اتبع و - - و مائدة"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الكتاب واتاه الحكمة وفصل الخطاب ... وبعد فيقول العبد الحقير عبد الله الوزير الشهير بچته جى ... لما احتجت الى وجدان ايات القرآن في اكثر الزمان سنح لخاطري الفاتر ان اجمع كتابا مع قلة البضاعة مشتملا على جداول في بيان مواضع الايات بطرح عزيب ووضع عجيب فلما يسر الله الاتمام سميته بانهار الجنان من منابيع آيات القرآن ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.8.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a concordance by Çetecî Abdullah Paşa b. İbrahim el-Cermakî (ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm, d.1760) outlining various subjects addressed in the Qurʼān in tabular form ; preceded by preface and table elucidating the meaning of the abbreviation symbols employed (pp.8-9).
Abstract: Collection of texts by the founder of the Shaykhī school, followed by a Persian commentary on the supplication Davāzdah Imām.Binding note: Rebound in green cloth.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-7b: Answer to ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 2. leaves 7b-11a: al-Asʾilah al-Masʻūdīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 3. leaves 11a-12b: al-Risālah al-Zanjīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 4. leaves 12b-16a: Answer to Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sulṭān al-Najafī / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 5. leaves 16a-17a: al-Risālah al-Baḥrānīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 6. leaves 17a-21a: al-Risālah al-Ghadīrīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 7. leaves 21a-24a: Wasāʾil al-himam al-ʻulyā fī jawāb masāʾil al-ruʾyā / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 8. leaves 24a-26b: Sharḥ-i Davāzdah Imām-i Khvājah Naṣīr / ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ḥasan Isfahānī.Ms. codex.Physical description: 27 lines per page (text 8, 36 lines); written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and smudging.Origin: 1258 H 1842 or 1843 (leaf 24a).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 7Origin: As appears in colophon on p.1178, copied by Ḥasbī Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan al-Arzanjānī in Erzincan. Transcription finished mid-Rajab 1177 [January 1764].Accompanying materials: Roughly ten inserted slips, most carrying glosses, some tipped in, all paginated (see pp.17-18, pp.49-50, pp.51-52, pp.107-108, pp.523-534, pp.885-886, pp.893-894, pp.895-896, pp.1151-1152, pp.1163-1164).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 49. Anwar al-tanzil." ; possible former shelfmark on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures and interior of flap in brown leather ; upper and lower covers bear large, blind-stamped, scalloped mandorla with symmetrical vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OSd 9) ; upper and lower doublures carry gold-painted outline of scalloped mandorla with pendants ; along with gold-painted roll border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; fine chevron endbands in yellow and blue ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, ill-fitting flap, etc.Support: European laid paper in at least two types ; the first type with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (vertical), watermarks include grapes with initials and crown and "P P [?]" countermark ; a second type with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), watermarks include lion rampant in scrollwork with crown above ; thin, crisp and fairly transluscent, though sturdy.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.10) consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular piece (dome) ; rectangular piece (surrounded by interlace border in lavender) carries empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in gold on fields of blue; semi-circular piece (set in a well of interlace in blue and black) contains floral motifs in gold and red on fields of blue, bordered in gold, red and blue and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents ; written area (and margin) of incipit and facing page outlined in gold frame, thereafter written area bordered in red rule-border ; text rubricated with keywords, overlining, sigla other abbreviations, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish / Eastern Anatolian hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping (nearly horizontal) head-serif appearing often on lām of definite article ; rounded though adhering to baseline (apart from occasional superscripting) ; very slightest effect of tilt to the left.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V+1 (11), 4 V(51), V+1 (62), V (72), IV+1 (81), 22 V(301), VI (313), 12 V (433), V+1 (444), 14 V (584), iv ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with first folio of text proper, continues with numerous mistakes (e.g. skips ۸۲, repeats ۲۳۷ then skips a leaf, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.493-494 and between pp.529-530, drops from p.899 to p.890).Cololphon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads: "قال المصنف ... قد اتفق اتمام تعليق سواد هذا الكتاب المنطوي على فرائد قواعد ذوي الاباب ... الموسوم بانوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل وهو سبحانه حقيق بان يحقق الرجا" ; "Scribal," rectangular then triangular, reads: "الحمد لله الذي وقفنا بخدمة كتابه المبين ... قد من الله تبارك وتعالى باتمام هذا الكتاب المستطاب بيد الفقير الى رحمة ربه العليم وشفاعة نبيه الكريم حسبي سليمان بن احمد بن حسن الارزنجاني ... بمدينة ارزنجان حماها الله ... في اواسط رجب المبارك لسنة سبع وسبعين ومائة والف ... اعننا الله فيما يحبه ويرضاه لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله"Explicit: "من الجنة والناس بيان للوسواس او الذي او متعقلق يتوسوس اي يوسوس في صدورهم من جهة الجن والناس وقيل بيان للناس على ان المراد به ما يعم القبيلتين ... فكانما قرأ الكتب التي انزلها الله تعالى"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرا ... وبعد فان اعظم العلوم مقدارا وارفعها شرفا ومنارا علم التفسير الذي هو رئيس العلوم الدينية ورأسها ومبنى قواعد الشرع واساسها ..."Title from authorial colophon.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Bayḍāwī's celebrated commentary on the Qurʼān. Table of contents, listing of commentaries upon the work, and biographical sketch for the author included at opening.
Abstract: "Abridgement of the author's commentary on al-Ṭughrāʼī's Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam. The commentary is variously known as Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam and Ghayth al-adab alladhī insajama fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam. Brockelmann has misidentified the abridger of the present text as the person who financed the 1897 edition. In this copy the abridgement is ascribed to ʻĀʼishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʻūnīyah by a later hand on leaf 1b. Verses on leaves 1aAbstract: 21b-23a."Binding note: Quarter leather with paper covers.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, lines 6-7.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Text of Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam in red with verses numbered in margins. Repairs to inner margins, marginal insect damage, some staining.Origin: 1 Rabīʻ I 1055 H 27 April 1645 (leaf 21b).Incipit: الحمد لله حق حمده ... وبعد فاني لما وقفت على كتاب غيث الادب الذي انسجم في شرح لامية العجم من تصانيف ... صلاح الدين
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 431Origin: As appears in colophon on p.16, executed by Sulṭān ʻAlī [possibly Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī?] ; date of transcription not specified ; decoration, hand, etc. suggest early 16th century.Former shelfmark: "450 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of both front flyleaves.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark purple leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light-blue textured paper ; upper and lower covers bear gold-painted central floral motif with tooled borders in gold (two different shades) ; sewn in heavy yellow thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather and paper, etc.Support: Written area mounted in lovely silhouette paper (floral designs in pink) in leaves of non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct) and no chain lines visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche and surrounding floral vegetal accents in gold, red, lavender, orange, pink, light blue, white, etc. on a field of lapis lazuli bordered in bands of lapis, gold and orange-red, surmounted by a scalloped triangular piece or hasp set in a narrow rectangular piece continuing the floral vegetal design and itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in lapis lazuli ; written area throughout surrounded by frame in bands of green and gold with outermost blue rule ; panels within written area (and entire written area of incipit page) gold-flecked ; ḥadīth text in light-blue and white ink.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 roughly 9 lines per page, three of ḥadīth text and six of the Persian verse paraphrase with the hemistiches of four lines of verse divided and arranged on the diagonal ; written area divided to set off the ḥadīth text and elucidation ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV (8), ii ; single quaternion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "احقر العباد سلطان على"Explicit: "ومن كلامه صلى الله عليه و آله لا يشبع المؤمن من دون جاره هر که در خطه مسلمانی باشد از نقد دین گر انمایه ... تمت ترجمه هذه الاربعين بتوفيق من هو ناصر ومعين سنه ست و ثمانين و ثمانمائة متع الله بها كل فريق فيه و الحمد لله على الاتمام و الصلوه و السلام على محمد و آله البررة الكرام اربعینهاى سالکان جامی هست بهر وصول صدر قبول منست از فضل حق عجیب و غریب که بدین اربعین رسی بوصول"Incipit: "صحیح ترین حدیثى که راویان مجالس دین ... این چهل کلمه است ازان کلمات که سهولت فهم و حفظ را بنظم فارسی ترجمه گر ده مي آید امید ... لا يؤمن احدكم حتى يحب لاخيه ما يحب لنفسه هر کسی را لقب مکن مؤمن گرچه از سعی جان وتن کاهد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of Jāmī's verse paraphrase of forty ḥadīth, possibly executed by renowned Timurid calligrapher Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī (d.1520).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 432Origin: As appears in colophon, copied by Muḥammad Zakarīyā Samarqandī with transcription completed in the year 1256 [1840 or 41].Former shelfmark: "548 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf ; "233" inscribed in pencil on 'title page'.Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork, spine in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in fine painted lacquerwork of composition evoking book cover design with central mandorla and pendants (filled with flowers and leaves in shades of pink and green on a black ground) set in a red ground with swirling floral vegetal pattern in gold and surrounded by border in black with white dots and flanking gold fillets (composition of upper doublure mirrors that of lower doublure) ; upper and lower covers bear paintings of nearly identical floral composition in mirror image to one another on an orange or bronze background, namely a central cluster of peonies, poppies, etc. with roses, poppies, buds, and other floral forms all in shades of pink and white with leaves in various shades of green, and surrounded by decorative bands with floral motifs in various sizes on bands of red and black ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and losses to lacquerwork and pasteboard, text block almost fully detached from cover, etc. ; cover large for textblock and perhaps not original.Support: Quite heavy wove paper ; surfaced dyed pale blue and pale green.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening consisting of rectangular piece with empty cartouche and flanking vegetal accents (all in gold) set between heavy gold bands and surmounted by a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) all in gold ; written area (and panels within) surrounded by gold rule-border ; ḥadīth text, preface and closing matter chrysographed.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 mainly in 9 lines per page, three of ḥadīth text and six of the Persian verse paraphrase with the hemistiches of four lines of verse divided and arranged on the diagonal ; written area divided to set off the ḥadīth text and elucidation ; text of preface in 8 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V+I (12) ; quinion with added single bifolium ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "على يد ضعيف الفقير الحقير كتبه العبد المذنب محمد زكرياى سمرقندى غفر الله تعالى ذنوبه ١٢٥۶"Explicit: "لا يشبع المؤمن من دون جاره صدق النبي هر که در خطه مسلمانی باشد از نقد دین گر انمایه ... تمت الاربعين حديث مع ترجمه اربعینهاى سالکان جامی هست بهر وصول صدر قبول بنود از فضل حق عجیب و غریب که بدین اربعین رسی بوصول ... ما تازه گناهیم و عطای تو قدیم است"Incipit: "صحیح ترین حدیثی که راویان مجالس دین ... اما بعد این چهل حدیث کلمه است ازان کلمات که سهولت فهم و حفظ را بنظم فارسی ترجمه گر ده مي آید امید ... لا يؤمن احدكم حتى يحب لاخيه ما يحب لنفسه هر کسی را لقب مکن مؤمن گرچه از سعی جان وتن کاهد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Jāmī's verse paraphrase of forty ḥadīth.
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn, and Shīʻī doctrine of imāmate, the later apparently incomplete at end.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible). Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with a floral motif with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of a running pattern and fillets. Rebacked.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-6a: Short excerpts from Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif by Jurjānī; a commentary on Āyat al-Nūr; a text on Wājib al-wujūd; Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ; Ibn Ḥajar; Bayḍāwī.Contents: 2. fol. 6b-7b: Table of contents of Kitāb Arbaʻīn by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, followed by a short biographic note on the author.Contents: 3. fol. 8a: Short excerpt on al-imkān al-khāṣṣ and al-imkān al-ʻāmm; inscriptions in Persian.Contents: 4. fol. 8b-136a: al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.Contents: 5. fol. 136b-182a: al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.Contents: 6. fol. 182b: Blank.Contents: "7. fol. 183a-184a: Short text on God's attributes apparently by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Bakr ibn MuḥammadContents: see end of textContents: fol. 184a)."Contents: '8. fol. 185a-188b: Excerpts from Itqān al-ʻulūm by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī reporting from Ṣawāʼiq al-muḥriqah by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī; Bayḍawī; Sharḥ al-Shmasīyah; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif by Jurjānī.'Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 183a-184a written in thick small naskh. Fol. 8-184 : European glazed paper. Fol. 1-7 and 185-188: fly-leaves on woven paper, with short excerpts written diagonally. Text 1 has been collated (see collation statement dated 17 Jumādá al-Thānī 1116 1704 on the margins of fol. 136a). Short excerpts and annotations on the margins. Long biographic note on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī after the colophon of text 1 (fol. 136a, 11 lines). Between fol. 135 and 136: Text in Persian on a small piece of paper. Some leaves loose.Copy of text 1 completed in 1115 by ʻAlī(?) ibn ʻAlī Akramghār(?) (colophon, fol. 136a).
A copy of Galen's Τέχνη ἰατρική (
Ars medica) in the Arabic version thought to be by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī. In Arabic, the text is called الصناعة الصغيرة (
Ars parva). The text is accompanied by a commentary by Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib (أبو الفرج عبد الله بن الطيب). The copy is dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 448 (February-March 1057; see colophon fol. 114v, line 16, transcribed below), just 14 years after Ibn al-Ṭayyib's death in 435/1043.Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-6):تفسير الشيخ الحـ[...]ـب الفيلسوف أبي الفرج عبد الله بن الطيبأطال الله بقاه لكتاب جالينوس الموسوم بالصناعة الصغيرةالتعليم الأوللما كانت الأبدان الغير بقية كلما عددناها ودناها شدًا كماقال بقراط ...Ends (f. 114, lines 8-11):صداعًا والحلو لعلظه يولد عدًا غليظًا وأصناف الحمروإنها نافع وموافق لمزاج الإنسان وإنها لا (!) قدشرحت من كتاب تدبير الأصحاء وهاهنا ينقضي تعليمناوبانقضائه ينقضي الكتاب بأسرهColophon (f. 114v, lines 11-16):... تم تفسيرالشيخ الفاضل الفيلسوف أبي الفرج عبد الله بن الطيبأطال الله بقاه لكتاب جالينوس الموسوم بالصناعة الصغيرةوالحمد لله كثيرًا (؟) وصلى الله على خير به (؟) من خلقه محمد وآله وسلم تسليمًأ (؟)فرغ من نسخه حسن بن محمد بن أحمد بن محمد ولي آل محمد المعروف بابن صباحالمسكي الفلسطيني في اليوم الثاني عشر من ذي الحجة سنة ثمان وأربعين وأربعمائةA note in English written about AD 1773 and bound into the volume as folio 1 gives a brief history of the manuscript, mistakenly claiming that Ibn al-Ṭayyib was a Jew; he was a Nestorian Christian.Codex; ff. i+114+iMaterial: PaperDimensions: 210 x 143 mm leaf [143 x 91 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling: No ruling visible; 17-20 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cmScript:
Naskh; almost entirely unpointedInk: BlackBinding: European binding of brown leather; both covers gilt tooled with coat of arms and inscription 'Bibliotheca Arundeliana'Condition: Minor worm damage, some repairs; some quires looseMarginalia: Almost none
Abstract: "Treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: completed on 27 Jumādá II 969 March 1562 (see end of textAbstract: fol. 337a). The text is preceded on fol. 12a-15a by what appears to be a description of contentsAbstract: written by the same hand as the main text (beginning wanting). Fol. 332 is an addition with Abū Ḥanīfah's WaṣāyāAbstract: written by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl in Ṣafar 1145."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Central blind stamped scalloped mandorla filled with a floral arabesque, with two pendants on the vertical axis on covers. Blind stamp on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 17a, l. 5-6).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta. The text is framed within a single line in magenta. Thin dark cream European paper with watermark; some leaves dyed in light yellow or green. Quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-11b. Handmade label with inscriptions on the upper cover. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 12a). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Inscription in Western numerals in pencil on fol. (i)a: "62".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl ibn Muṣṭafá, and completed in the night of Friday 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1143 June 1731 (fol. 337b; the colophon is inscribed within a circle consisting of two lines in red ink).Beginning as extant: الشرع والادد القاعدة الثانية اذا اجمع الحلال والحرام غلب الحرام الحلال وبيان ما يقزع عليها من اشباه ... 15أ ... بسم ... الحمد لله على ما انعم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وبعد فان الفقه اشرف العلوم قدرا واعظمها اجراExplicit: على رأس شجرتين فتقطع نصفين رحمه الله تعالى وهذا آخر ما اوردنا من كتاب الاشباه والنظائر فى الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم ابى حنيفة النعمان ... وكان الفراغ من تأليفه فى السابع والعشرين من جمادى الآخرة سنة تسع وستين وتسعماية وكانت مدة تأليفه ستة اشهر مع تخلّل ايام توعك الجسد والحمد لله ... الى يوم القيام وكتبه مؤلفه بيده الفانية زين بن نجيم الحنفى ... هذا آخر ما قاله المؤلف ... بجاه نبيه محمد ومصطفاه وآله واصحابه ومن والاهBeginning of text fol. 332a: بسم ... قال ابو حنيفة ... لابنه حماد ... يا بنى ارشدك الله تعالى وايدك اوصيك بوصايا ان حفظتها
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1058Origin: As appears in colophon on p.38, transcription completed in the last days of Muḥarram 898 [ca. November 1492].Binding: Limp brown leather covers with dark brown leather over spine (type of quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap), tight back though not fully flush with text block (ill-fitting or deliberate squares) ; now linings (potentially once flyleaves) in what appears to be European laid paper ; now sewn in white thread, not original ; overall in good condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: non-European (possibly Persianate) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly straight) and chain lines only rarely visible in pairs (see p.32) ; only somewhat cloudy furnish with inclusions and bits of fiber visible, heavy and sturdy, quite well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; chiefly a clear Turkish / Turkic hand ; serifless with effect of words inclining slightly to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, foot of lām, kāf, etc. quite curvilinear, kāf mashqūqah preferred with shaqq (curving upward) on even final kāf, final tāʼ marbūṭah often given as tāʼ maftūḥah, point of final or free-standing nūn set either down at center or floating above tall bowl, very casually pointed with pointing for two dots typically via conjoined dots, etc.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page (single column) ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board quite evident).Collation: III-2+3 (7), IV (15), IV-1+4 (26) ; 19 original leaves (paginated 1-38) with 7 added leaves, 3 at the opening of the codex, 4 at the close ; original composition of opening gathering uncertain due to repairs ; mainly quaternions originally ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, center of lower margin of each text page ; added leaves at opening and close of codex not paginated.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب فى اواخر شهر محرم سنه ٨٩٨ اللهم اغفر لكاتبه ولقاريه ولمن نظر فيه آمين رب العالمين تم"Explicit: "يكون محتويا الى النساء ويكون محفوظا عن اذى الجن والارواح وغيرها والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "لما راينا ان الجزء الاول المختص باسرار الرجال انتهى الى آخره على ما تقدم ذكرها وفصولها لزمنان [كذا] نذكر ايضا فى اسرار النساء التي تدعو الى موافقهن وتوجب الميل اليهن..."Title from opening matter on p.1.Manuscript codex.Fine copy of a treatise of materia medica attributed to Galen, including a number of recipes for drugs intended to treat various sexual conditions.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 922Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974). Copy perhaps partly made from a printed edition.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 71Binding: 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 "اسرار الآيات | الشيرازي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of two distinct types, one lined and one unlined.Decoration: Many opening headings and passages executed in contrasting purple ink ; others simply larger and bolded.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; two or three modern hands in a medium to bold line ; naskh partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, words adhering to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, occasionally more carefully executed ; ruqʻah, compact hand with slight effect of inclination to the right, serifless and freely ligatured with pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page.Collation: Pages between some sections left blank (see pp.37-40, 71-71) ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (first sixteen pages only) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [Asrār al-āyāt] "Scribal," reads "تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماه باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات للمحقق القويم صدر الدين الشيرازي الشهير وسوف نتبعها ان شاء الله تع بمتن العرشية ومتن المشاعر"Incipit: [preface] "نحمدك اللهم يا من تحيرت [؟] في بيداء كبريائه الالباب وغرقت في بحار معرفته عقول الاولياء ... وبعد فان هذا الكتاب المستطاب الذي هو قرة عيون اولى الالباب الموسوم باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات من مصنفات الحكيم الكامل ... صدر الحق والملة والدين محمد بن ابراهيم الشهير بصدر المتالهين الشيرازي ..." [Asrār al-āyāt] "هذا كتاب اسرار الآيات وانوار البينات لامام المتألهين محمد المعروف بصدر المتألهين الشيرازي طاب ثراه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... نحمدك اللهم يا من بيده ملكوت الارض والسماء واليه تتشوق الكائنات ... اما بعد فيقول انزل خلق الله واحوجهم الى كرامة رب العالمين محمد المدعو بصدر الدين هذا بيان للناس وهدى ورحمة للمتقين ..." [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "نحمد الله ونستعين بقوته التي اقام بها ملكوت الارض والسماء وبكلمته التي انشأ بها نشأتي الآخرة والاولى على تهذيب القوى القابلة للاستكمال ... وبعد فان اقل الخلائق قدرا وجرما واكثرهم خطأ وجرما محمد الشتهر بصدر الدين الشيرازي يقول ايها الاخوان السالكون الى الله بنور العرفان ..." [al-ʻArshīyah] "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره بالاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو الرب الجليل ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title from preface on p.1 and heading preceding opening on p.2.Ms. codex.3. p.326-p.425 : Matn al-ʻArshīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.2. p.268-p.326 : Kitāb al-Mashāʻir / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.1. p.2-p.267 : Asrār al-āyāt wa-anwār al-bayyināt / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.Careful copy of the treatise on Qurʼān interpretation by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640), followed by his Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, and al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology.
Abstract: Collection of texts in different scripts on the Arabic language, questions of inheritance, poetry, the divisions of the Qurʼān.Binding note: Unbound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-9b: Athmān al-Qurʼān / Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Shaṭṭī.Contents: 2. fol. 10a: Appendix by a later hand.Contents: 3. fol. 11a-12a: Several short texts.Contents: 4. fol. 12b-16a: Kitāb fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd / Muḥammad Ibn Durayd.Contents: 5. fol. 17a-21b: Kitāb al-īdāḥ wa-al-irshād fī ḥall taṣwīr mā yushabbah li-nasab al-nāqah fī bayt Bānat Suʼād / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 6. fol. 22a-30a: Kitāb al-suruj al-muḍīʼah sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-falakīyah fī al-alghāz al-farḍīyah / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 7. fol. 30b-31b: al-Qawāʼid al-farḍīyah / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 8. fol. 32a-34b: Kitāb ikhtiyār taḍmīkh al-taḍmīn / Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī.Contents: 9. fol. 35b-38a: Khalq al-insān / Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb.Contents: 10. fol. 38b: Excerpt from a poem.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger."The number of lines per page varies. Fol. 17a-31b are from the same hand: 15 lines per pagewritten in a very casual large script in black ink with use of red (autograph). Fol. 32a-38a are from the same hand: 19 lines per pagewritten in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid and chain(?) lines visible ; frame-ruled. Fol. 12-16 are narrower than the rest of the leaves (182 x 125 mm.). Fol. 5-6 (blank) and 10: later paper. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (with a fol. 18bisexplaining the discrepancy with Mach's catalog)."'Two of the texts are autographs written in 794 H. (see colophons fol. 21b30a).'
Abstract: "First volume of a commentary on Bukhārī's collection of ḥadīthsAbstract: comprising the text up to Bāb al-Ishārah fī al-ṣalāh. According to R. MachAbstract: the contents correspond to ed. Cairo (1959)Abstract: vol. 1-vol. 3Abstract: p. 351."Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Physical description: 33 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Collation notes and statements throughout. Occasional marginal annotation (mainly collation notes). Table of contents on fol. 1a, apparently by the same hand as the main text.Origin: According to colophon, copied on Monday 23 Shawwāl 856 Nov. 6, 1452 (fol. 278b).Incipit: الحمد لله الدى شرح صدور اهل الاسلام بالهدى ونكت فى قلوب اولى الطغيان فلا تعى الحكمة ابدا واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده ... اما بعد فقد ان الشرو فى ما قصدت له من شرح الجامع الصحيح على ما وعدت به فى اول المقدمة ... فاقول وبالله التوفيق اتصلت لنا رواية البخارى عنه من طريق ابي عبد الله محمد بن يوسف بن مطر بن صالح بن بشر الفريرى عنهExplicit: خاتمة اشتملت ابواب الشهر من الاحاديث ... عروة الموصول فى اخر الباب ومنها اثر عمر فلا ضربه على الصلوة بعد العصر والله الهادى الى الصواب منه المبدا واليه الماب تم الجزء الاول من فتح البارى لشرح البخارى
Origin: Possibly author's working copy, with many notes in marginalia. This copy finished 993/1585.Decoration: Titles and place names in red and gold ink. Central text on each page is framed in simple blue and gold border. Initial page features an elaborite design in blue, gold, orange, and green paint. Incidental maps and diagrams in margins are usually executed in blue ink. Map of Mediterranean world laid in page 22. A single page of notes with diagram depicting the kaʻbah as the center of the world along with many notes is laid into this codex.Script: Text written in naskh script with black ink.Binding: Leather bound codex with tooling on upper and lower covers as well as envelope flap; gold paint on medalions.Title from rubricated inscription on opening leaf (p.3) and inscription on 'title page' (p.7).Ms. codex.Geographical work ; geographical dictionary.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 233Origin: As appears in colophon on p.95, executed by Hakkakzade Hafız Feyzullah with transcription completed in the year 1200 [1785 or 6].Former shelfmark: "476 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "40" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.5).Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in silver-flecked olive-green tinted European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry central lozenge-shaped panel in gold- and silver-tooled semé pattern of rosette stamps along with decorative border on black and red leathers consisting of two guilloché rolls accented by gold fillets ; design continues on flap ; accompanied by slipcase with tail edge and pentagonal flap (carrying title) and woven pull tape, also covered in red leather (lined in yellow paper) with scalloped mandorla and pendants filled with tooled / cut and gold-filled vegetal composition over black leather onlays, as well as rosette stamp and stroke accents and guilloché roll border flanked by gold fillets ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and cream, good condition ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion at edges, repairs to joints and hinges in Japanese paper ; both volume and slipcase housed in custom box.Support: non-European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct), thin, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, heavily sized and burnished to glossy, beige in color ; pastedowns and flyleaves in European laid paper.Decoration: Brilliant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.6 consisting of w-shaped piece with cartouche carrying title "هذا اصحاب بدر" in red and accented by scalloped domes in gold against a field of blue all overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern in white, pink, yellow, blue, mint green, etc. ; entire piece is set in a well of green, gold, and white bands with red and gold accents and is surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; simpler illuminated tailpieces flanking close of Aṣḥāb Badr and Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼon p.52 and p.65, and at opening of Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼ (p.52) and Munājāt aṣḥāb Badr (p.65) fine illuminated headpieces carrying the titles in red ; superbly executed illuminated tailpiece accenting close of the munājāt and colophon on p.95, consisting of cloud-bands in gold, some overlaid with vegetal decoration, as well as narrow rectangular panel with swirling vegetal decoration in shades of blue, yellow, white, and pink on a blue ground and a larger rectangular panel reminiscent of book cover design in shades of gold, pink, blue, yellow, mint green, etc. surrounded by heavy interlace border ; written area surrounded by heavy gold frame accented by narrower gold, black and red fillets ; eight panels outlined by narrow gold band ; textual dividers in the form of elaborate illuminated rosettes with accents in white, red, blue, pink, etc. appear in the text of the munājāt ; titles and benediction (tarḍiyah) following each Companion's name rubricated.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; a splendid naskh, seriffed, with characteristic tilt to the left, and sweeping tails on final yāʼ, alif maqṣūrah, and nūn ; fully vocalized.Layout: For text listing the Companions, written area divided to eight panels, two columns with four panels in each column ; within each panel appears a Companion's name and benediction (tarḍiyah) in roughly three lines, for a total of eight Companions per page ; text of the munājāt written in 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 4 V(40), III (46), iii ; quinions and a ternion ; traces of catchwords (often cut off) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears at center head of the recto of some leaves (see p.25, etc.) and lower center of the verso of other leaves (see p.48, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (some flyleaves paginated).Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب حافظ فيض الله المعروف بحكاك زاده لسنة مأتين وألف من هجرة من له العز والشرف"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.5. p.96-p.100 : [blank].4. p.65-p.95 : Hādhā Munājāt aṣḥāb Badr.3. p.52-p.65 Hādhā Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼ.2. p.6-p.52 : Aṣḥāb Badr.1. p.1-p.5 : [blank].Exquisite calligraphic specimen in the hand of Hakkakzade Hafız Feyzullah, employing a listing of the ṣaḥābah or Companions of the Prophet who took part in the battle of Badr, followed by a prayer (munājāt) addressed to them.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 885Origin: As appears in colophon on p.969 (and at close of باب الف ممدوده on p.978), copied by Mathurādās Khatrī, date not specified ; decoration, paper, etc. would suggest late 18th or early 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Scrap cut from a Luzac catalog page with description and price for this manuscript "PERSIAN AND HINDUSTANI MSS. 175 Bahar i ʻajam. The well-known Persian dictionary. MS. Folio. Over 1000 pp. Leather binding. The colophon is dated A.H. 1243 ( = A.D. 1827), under the reign of Muhammad Akbar Shâh (II.) £2 10s." (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Recycled card with handwriting of Emilie Savage-Smith [?] "ʻunwān or illum. frontispiece or heading." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Scrap of paper with title in ink "Bahār i ʻAjam." (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owens notes" (paginated pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 34Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep red leather ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry delicate gold-tooled border in a rope pattern ; spine stamped "BUHARE | UJUM" ; now sewn in white thread over three cords ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and blue, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper cover fully detached, some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, fairly distinct, some curving) and irregular chain lines faintly visible, sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; flyleaves / added leaves in wove paper.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.10 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche (carrying the basmalah) flanked by pendants and delicate swirling floral vegetal decoration in blue, red, orange, and white on a gold ground, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with more elaborate swirling floral vegetal decoration in red, orange, white, blue, green, etc. on grounds of gold with blue, green and white accents, itself surmounted by a pendant filled with similar decoration as well as fine vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, entire piece set into a well consisting of a rather heavy gold band outlined by narrow bands of orange and gold defined by black fillets ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame with innermost red rule, and outer red and blue rules, further blue rule defines margin ; keywords and headings rubricated ; overlining or two-teeth abbreviation symbol in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in distinct or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 14 IV(112), III (118), IV+1 (127), 12 IV(223), IV+2 (233), 26 IV(441), II (445), IV+1 (454), 3 IV(478), IV-1 (485), iii ; chiefly quaternions ; lacuna on p.458 marked with "ص" ; p.970 prior to opening of Bāb-i alif-i mamdūdah left blank ; lacks proper catchwords but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "الحمد لله والمنة که باتمام رسید منتخب کتاب بهار عجم تالیف استادی مخدومی تیک چند بهار بخط فقیر حقیر اضعف العباد متهراداس قوم کهتری فقط"Incipit: "مهار آفرینی که کلبرک ... دیباچه اصل بهار عجم سپاس و ستایش ایزد متعال را در خور که هريکى ار افراد انسان ..."Title from opening matter (p.11) and colophon (p.978).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the dictionary of words and idioms used by the Persian poets compiled by Tīk Chand Bahār (d.1766) with added preface.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 894Origin: As appears in colophon on p.189 (accompanied by scribal verses), copied by Murtaz̤á ibn Muḥammad with transcription completed in 1073 [1662 or 3].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, called Jāmī. Bahāristān | Have many parts of the Haft Awrang, and some other poems, but apparently not this in Mich. MS. Isl." (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip of paper with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 18 Bahāristān of Jāmī | copied in 1073" (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginted pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Husselman and Meredith-Owen notes" (paginated pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 43Binding: Boards covered in grey mottled (sponge-stained look) paper with green fading to tan leather over spine and board corners (half binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted laid paper ; spine accented with raised bands and gold-stamped title, author and shelfmark "BEHĀRI- STĀN E DJĀMĪ | MS. 1073" ; head edge of text block gilt ; sewn in white thread, over recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fair condition with slight abrasion, loss of pigment, etc. ; not original, note on upper pastedown describes rebinding.Support: European laid paper of a few types ; opening type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of three crescents (about 80 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.24, 30, 84, 42, etc.) ; another type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.38, 42, 54, 56, 190, etc.) ; another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain line spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal) and three crescents watermark (75 mm. tall, perpendicular to chains, see p.118, 150, etc.) ; all quite sturdy, dark cream in color, well-sized and burnished.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; written area of incipit page surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a medium line ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, exaggerated elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, occasional effect of words descending to baseline ; hand changes just before close (pp.187-189) to a more compact nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iv, V (10), 2 VI(34), 4 V(74), VI (86), I (88), iii ; quinions and senions ; catchwords present ; text of p.26 apparently mistakenly entered by the copyist upside down (dotted lines provided for navigational clues) ; foliation in black ink, Western numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد الضعيف عباد الصمد مرتضى بن محمد غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفره ... سنه ثلث وسبعين بعد الالف سنه ۱۰۷۳ ..."Incipit: "چو مرغ امر ذی بالی ز آغاز نه از نیروی حمد آید به پرواز ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of Jāmī's collection of sayings, anecdotes, short notes and stories.
Abstract: Collection of texts of Arabic literature.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla and an outer frame made of fillets. The envelope flap has a similar frame and a mandorla on its pointe. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-30b: Bard al-akbād fī al-aʻdād / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.Contents: 2. fol. 31a-76a: Tarjamat al-kātib fī ādāb al-ṣāḥib / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.Contents: 3. fol. 77a-111b: Lawʻat al-shākī wa-damʻat al-bākī / Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and green ink. European paper with watermark. Mention in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Sh 441" (repeated on a label pasted on the upper cover).On fol. 1a: Table of contents by a later hand, mentioning a Risālat ʻibrat al-labīb by al-Ṣafadī which does not appear in the copy.Collation: Paper, fol. 111 ; 1-7¹⁰ 8⁶ 9² 10-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (+1, fol. 109) 14² ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 71Origin: As appears in opening on pp.24-25, assembled over the course of nearly three years then set down by the author in 1161 [1748]. A note on 'title page' (p.23) indicates that this ms. is a draft (مسودة) of the work, as attested by the layout and numerous lacunae, likely in the author's hand.Accompanying materials: Two scraps each with notes, etc. (paginated pp.111-112 and pp.569-570).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 152. Bahr al-fatawi."Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped central mandorla with rosettes accenting linear pendants and frame in tooled fillets ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; endbands in red and blue, tail band in fair condition, head band in poor condition with losses and exposed core ; in poor condition with significant abrasion (even gashes), lifting and cracking of leather, lower cover detaching at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; crown and grapes watermark ; lightly burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and vocalization rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; fine Turkish / Eastern Anatolian hand ; characteristically sans serif with effect of slight tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, many sweeping descenders and elongated horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes ; opening partially vocalized in red ink.Layout: As may be expected of a draft or rough copy (مسودة), the number of lines per page varies widely throughout.Collation: i, III+1 (7), 6 IV(55), VI (67), 3 V(97), II+1 (102), V+1 (113), V (123), IV (131), V (141), III (147), VI (159), 2 IV(175), VI (187), V (197), VI (209), 2 VIII (241), VI (253), III (259), IV+1 (268), VIII+1 (285), V (295), IV (303), III (309), VI (321), 2 IV (337), IV+1 (346), V (356), II (360), III (366), V+1 (377), 4 IV(409), III (415) ; numerous lacunae (unmarked) as may be expected of draft or rough copy (مسودة), regularly appearing between chapters ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "فان كانت حية فالثلثان للاختين والسدس للام والسدس الباقي للاخت لام ولا شحاء للاخ لاب الذي هو القائل وان كانت ميتة فالسدس الباقي له"Incipit: "احمد الله الذي جعل المجتهدين المتقدمين هداة المؤمنين ببيان الاحكام ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى عفو ربه الغني الشهير بقاضي زاده محمد الارزني مولدا ومحتدا المفتي بمدينة ارزن الروم برتبة قضاء حلب الشهباء لما ضاقت منطقة التحرير عما كتب في كتب الفتاوى وقصرت يد القدرة عن ضبط ما حرر فيها جمعت بقدر الوسع من وقت افتائي فيها بعض واقعات الفتوى وغيره في مجموعة غير مرتبة الى قريب من ثلثين سنة ثم بيضها في سنة احدى وستين ومائة والف من تردد لدي من الفضلاء شكر الله سعيه فصارت مجموعة كبرى وبحرا ذخارا فسميتها ببحر الفتاوى راجيا ان تكون ذخيرة العقبى وعازما على الطافي بها بعد هذا بعض واقعات الفتوى بعناية الله تعالى ..."Title from opening (pp.24-25).Ms. codex.Fine draft or rough copy (musawwadah) of an extensive collection of legal decisions assembled and set down by Qāḍīʹzādah Muḥammad al-Arzanī, muftī in Erzurum. A detailed table of contents precedes the text (pp.9-16).
Abstract: "Edifying treatiseAbstract: with examples from the conduct and oaths taking of important shaykhs. At the beginning of the text is a list of Shaʻrānī's shaykhs. The text is followed on fol. 183b-186a by a copy of the ijāzāt given by the ʻUlamāʾ of Egypt to the author."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold stamped and red-painted scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Edges, spine, fore-edge flap mended in red leather.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 2b).Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark; glossy. The text is framed within two single red lines (gold, black, blue and red on fol. 1b-2a). Crudely executed headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b. Subject headings written in black ink by a later hand on the margin. Fol. 181-182 apparently later replacements. Stained with water.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Saturday 12 Ramaḍān 1062 Aug. 17, 1652 (fol. 186a).Incipit: اقول وانا العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربّي عبد الوهاب ابن احمد بن على بن احمد بن كمال الدين بن موسى بن مولاي ابى عبد الله الزغلى بضم الزاي المعجمة وسكون الغين المعجمة سلطان تلمسن بارض المغرب واجل اصحاب سيدنا العارف بالله تعالى الشيخ ابى مدين شيخ مشايخ المغرب ... الحمد لله رب العالمين واصلي واسلم على سيدنا محمد ... واقول حسبى الله ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوى الا بالله العلي العظيم وبعد فهذه عهود ومواثيق اخذت علينا من ساداتنا ومشايخنا الذين عاصرناهم وبعضها اقبسناهاExplicit: ابن حمزه الرملي الانصارى الشافعى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والحمد لله لرب العالمين وصلى الله ... يقول مولفها ... قد ارسلت هذا الكتاب لسيدي الشيخ بن عبد الحق تغمده الله برحمته فمكث عنده سنة ونصفا ومر عليه مرات قال الشيخ ابو اللطف ابن عمه قد استفدت من هذا الكتاب المبارك فوايد كثيرة واخذته المينه قبل كتابته عليه رحمة الله تعالى وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم السبت المبارك ثانى عشر شهر رمضان المبارك سنة اثنين وستين والف احسن الله ختامها بمحمد واله امين امين امين
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.
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).
Title from spine.Text rubricated and enclosed in borders of gold, blue, and red; extensive marginal commentary throughout; illumination on pp. [1-2]; substantial damage to pages with some repairs; purple silk bookmark; unusual leather and velvet binding (late 19th- early 20th cent.?); marbled edges.Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn....Dates of copying and copyist's name in colophon: (Arabic and Persian) tamma ... min yad ʻabd al-ḍaʻīf ... Shāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn Zīrbāʾī ... rūz-i jumʻah māh-i Shawwāl vaqt-i ẓuhr sanat khams fa-sabʻīn fa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. March-April 1568] ... [in margin] nuqilat min nuskhah nuqilat min nuskhat walad al-muʾallif ... wa-kāna naskh al-kitāb ... fī yawm al-aḥad wa-al-sābiʻ min Jumād al-awwal sanat khams wa-sabʻīn wa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. 9 November 1567] ʻalá yad afqar ShāhFor the Ṣaḥīḥ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 183.Commentary by an unidentified author on the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī, a collection of traditions of the prophet Muḥammad.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 593Origin: As appears in colophon on p.475, transcription completed 9 Jumādá II 994 [ca. 28 May 1586]. Date composition completed given as Rabīʻ I 985 [May 1577].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 17c" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in purple wove paper (over marbled paper) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche class. NSd 11) and pendants, along with tooled rosette accents and rule-border ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in brown and cream, good condition ; overall in quite poor condition with significant losses of leather (exposing boards and linings), delamination of boards, abrasion, staining, etc. ; repairs in dark brown and purple leather as well as dark pink textile (also lining fore edge flap) ; likely not original, somewhat ill-fitting and trimmed down (area around glosses preserved via careful trimming and folding) ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle watermark (see p.64) ; well-sized and burnished to glossy ; staining and some ink burn.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; clear, compact Ḥijāzī, 'Syrian' or Egyptian [?] hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless with very slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly closed counters, pointing mainly in distinct dots (though casually pointed), occasional vocalization.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off verses ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 6 V(69), IV (77), 15 V(227), IV (235), I (237), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "وقد فرغ مؤلفه من تحريره ووقفت انامل اقلامه من تحبيره في ليلة يسغر صباحها عن سبع مضين من شهر ربيع الاول سنة خمس وثمانين وتسعمائة" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من تعليق هذه النسخة المباركة في يوم الاربعاء تاسع شهر جمادى الاخير سنة ۹۹۴ احسن الله عاقبتها وغفر لكاتبها ومالكها ولمن دعا لهم ولجميع المسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين"Explicit: "ما لاح نجم على افق السماء وما هب النسيم على العشاق بالطيب والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام الاثمان الاكملان على سيد الانبياء والمرسلين محمد واله وصحبه الطيبين الطاهرين وسائر الانبياء والرسل وال كل التابعين ومن تبعهم باحسان الى يوم الدين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل المسجد الحرام حرما امنا ومثابة للناس وامر بتطهير الكعبة البيت الحرام للطائفين والعاكفين وازال عنه الخوف والبأس ... اما بعض فلما وفقني الله تعالى لخدمة العلم الشريف وجعلني من جيران بيته المعظم المنيف [تشوقت] نفسي الى الاطلاع على علم الاثار وتشوقت الي فن التاريخ وعلم الاخبار ..."Title from 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Fine early copy of the chronicle of Mecca by Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāḍī Khān Maḥmūd al-Makkī al-Ḥanafī al-Nahrawālī (al-Nahrawānī, d.1582).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 299Origin: As appears in colophon on p.321, copied by Bābā Shāh ibn Sulṭān ʻAlī (بابا شاه بن سلطان علی) with transcription completed in Shaʻbān 989 [September 1581].Former shelfmark: "594 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in magenta surface-dyed and gold-flecked European paper upper and lower covers gold-painted in mitred-panel style, with large floral vegetal designs filling central rectangle and guilloché roll border around the perimeter ; sewn in red thread, two stations, some leaves loose ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and lifting of leather.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper of perhaps two types ; written area with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, quite indistinct) and faint chain lines irregularly visible, sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; written area mounted in leaves tinted deep blue with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct) and faint chain lines irregularly visible, sturdy though fairly transluscent, well-burnished.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece with rubricated title in gold cartouche flanked by scalloped pieces in gold and red on field of lapis lazuli (with effect of book cover design) overlaid with delicated, swirling vegetal decoration in gold with floral accents in red, pink, yellow, lavender, and blue, bordered in bands of gold, pistachio green / turquoise and white and surmounted by scalloped dome in gold and lapis with similar vegetal decoration, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in white ; illuminated marginal decoration in saz leaves and floral forms completes illuminated double-page opening (pp.2-3) ; written area throughout delicately gold flecked and bordered in frame of gold, pistachio, red and white bands with columns within defined by narrow gold bands flanked by black fillets ; written area mounted in leaves tinted deep blue ; headings rubricated, chrysographed or in blue ink ; illustrated with five paintings (see p.67, 114, 150, 176, 298).Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite calligraphic hand in a delicate line ; characteristically serifless with effect of words gently descending to baseline, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in distinct dots, bowl of nūn wide with dot set just down within.Layout: Written in 12 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 5 IV (40), II (44), III+1 (51), 8 IV (115), III+1 (122), 4 IV (154), IV-1 (161), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," mainly Arabic, reads "فرغت من تحرير هذه الكتاب الشريف فى تاريخ شهر شعبان سنه تسع وثمانين وتسعمايه حرره العبد بابا شاه بن سلطان علي غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبهExplicit: "بضاعت نیاوردم الا امید خدایا ز عفوم مکن نا امید"Incipit: "بنام خداوند جان آفرین حکیم سخن در زبان آفرین ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of the Būstān, the celebrated mas̲navī of Saʻdī (d.1292), renowned Persian poet and prose writer. Apparently attributed in the colophon to the calligrapher Bābā Shāh Isfahānī (d.1587 or 8). Illustrated with five miniatures. Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 300Origin: As appears in colophon, copied by Muḥammad al-Kātib al-Nūr with transcription completed in Rabīʻ I 993 [March 1585] in the village of Zarah [Zirih ?] in Bākharz.Former shelfmark: "536 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards faced in spring green silk with red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (silk faced, leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures and hinges in marbled paper (in dark blue and white) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled guilloché borders defined by gold rules ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: Written area on non-European (likely Persian) laid paper set into border of tinted paper and mounted in frame of tinted (or marbled) paper of varying shades (dark blue, yellow, dark greek, pale pink, etc.), hinged together with contrasting tinted and gold-painted guards ; frames with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, quite distinct) and occasional chain lines visible (possibly grouped), quite well-burnished ; flyleaves in European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (vertical) and crown watermark (front) and with 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and three hats watermark (back).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the title in red "بوستان" surrounded by delicate swirling floral vegetal designs in gold, white, and red on a field of lapis lazuli with gold accents, surrounded by bands of white (with black crosses), gold and turquoise and surmounted by a much narrower rectangular piece with black cartouches filled with delicate swirling vegetal design in gold, white and red and set off by orange, turquoise and gold accents, itself surmounted by a band of gold and black interlace and flanked by bands of white (with black crosses) and turquoise ; headings rubricated ; written area gold-flecked and surrounded by a frame consisting of a colored width of the paper (surface-dyed in shades varying by page) flanked by narrow bands of gold, turquoise, red, gold, blue and black, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; marginal decoration in grand floral vegetal motifs in gold.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite hand in a delicate line ; serifless with effect of inclination to the right, words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 12 lines per page, mainly divided to two columns. ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 3 (3), 3 III(21), i ; catchwords present.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تحريرا فى شهر ربيع الاول سنه ٩٩٣ كتبه العبد المذنب محمد الكاتب النور غفر ذنوبه وستر عيوبه بولايت باخرز در قريۀ رزه صورت تحرير يافت"Explicit: "بضاعت نیاوردم الا امید خدایا ز عفوم مکن [نا] امید""Incipit: "بنام خداوند جان آفرین حکیم سخن در زبان آفرین ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' and illuminated headpiece at opening.Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of selections from the Būstān, the celebrated mas̲navī of Saʻdī (d.1292), renowned Persian poet and prose writer. Contributions to the cataloguing from Ali Rafi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 302Origin: As appears in colophon, copied by Sulṭān Ḥusayn ibn Jamshīd with transcription completed in Ramaḍān 953 [October-November 1546]. Mounting carried out much later ; paper with embossed mark suggests 19th century.Former shelfmark: "186 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Semi-limp boards faced in dull red leather with dark green leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (leather faced and edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in dull green-brown leather ; doublure hinges in same dark green leather ; upper and lower covers carry traces of stained blue border defining a central rectangular panel ; now sewn in cream thread over two cords (quite wide, not recessed, flexible sewing, apparent as ridges on spine), other sewing holes visible ; overall in fair condition with staining, abrasion, etc. ; framing may constitute a repair.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper ; written area later mounted in borders of tinted (in varying shades of blue, lavender, etc.) and gold-flecked wove paper with almond shaped embossed mark ("... SMYRNA [SMYRNA]" see fol.7, 9, etc. compare embossed mark in paper of Isl. Ms. 10, copied in Kharparūt [i.e. Harput, Kharberd / Kharpert, etc. now Elazığ] in 1853) ; some breakthrough at frames.Decoration: Exquisite double-page illumination at opening consisting of large rectangular panels each divided to central rectangular panel carrying opening text set off by cloud-bands (in gold with delicate floral motifs in blue), flanking vertical panels filled with delicate arabesques in red, black, gold, lavender, yellow, etc. on fields of blue set in lozenges defined by narrow white bands, and upper and lower rectangular panels with gold lozenges carrying verses ("خوشتر از كتاب در جهان يارى نيست در غمكده زمانه غمخوارى نيست هر لحظه از او بگوشه تنهائى صد راحتى است هرگز آزادى نيست") in white surrounded by rich, swirling arabesques with floral accents in gold, white, pink, lavender, etc. on fields of gold and blue set off by looping bands in white ; elswhere throughout, written area surrounded by a gold frame with outermost blue rule ; section headings set off in splendid rectangular headpieces (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) carrying headings in white.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite hand in a thin to medium line ; serifless with effect of inclination to the right, words descending to baseline, elongation and slight contrast in thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 12 lines per page, mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6), III-3 (9), III (15), 2 II(23) ; ternions and binions ; catchwords present.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "وقع الفارغ من كتابته فى شهر رمضان المبارك سنه ثلاث وخمسين وتسعمائة كتبه العبد سلطان حسين بن جمشيد "Explicit: "بضاعت نیاوردم الا امید خدایا ز عفوم مکن نا امید"Incipit: "بنام خداوند جان آفرین حکیم سخن در زبان آفرین خداوند بخشنده ی دستگیر کریم خطا بخش پوزش پذیر عزیزی که هر کز درش سر بتافت..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of selections from the Būstān, the celebrated mas̲navī of Saʻdī (d.1292), renowned Persian poet and prose writer.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 241Origin: As appears at the close of each piece (kıta), executed by es-Seyit el-Hac Mustafa İzzet. In three of the signatures he includes "known as Reisülulema". He has signed the final piece "Bende-yi Al-i aba, Seyit İzzet Mustafa," a modest expression which, according to M. Uğur Derman (see Letters in gold, p.118), he preferred to use in his later years. Only one of the pieces is dated 1282 [1865 or 6] with the others likely completed around the same time or slightly later.Former shelfmark: "570 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "93" in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Boards now covered in green and black mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look, traces of another paper underneath) with dark purple to black leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; boards lined in same mottled paper ; panels hinged together in accordion format with same dark purple to black leather and hinged into case ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion and staining.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into frames of blue and orange-tinted paper, and mounted.Decoration: Written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by further gold and black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red and green-blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large opening line of each panel in thuluth (sülüs), followed by four lines in naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line of thuluth and four smaller lines of naskh.Collation: Four panels hinged together in accordion (concertina) format ; opens vertically.Colophon: [1] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [2] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه امين سنة ١٢٨٢" ; [3] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [4] "بندۀ آل عبا سيد عزت مصطفى"Incipit: "اذكروا الله ذكرا كثيرا قال رسول الله صلوات الله عليه وسلامه مثل الذي يذكر ربه والذي لا يذكر ربه مثل الحي والميت ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) of four kıtalar employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 242Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by Hasan Rıza Efendi in imitation of a model by the renowned calligrapher Kazasker (Kadiasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876) with transcription completed in 1304 [1886 or 7]. Signature in the illuminated panel to the left of the close identifies the gilder (mudhahhib, müzehhip) as Hasan Rıza.Former shelfmark: "563 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "94" inscriped in pencil on recto of opening leaf/'panel'.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark lavender leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in golden yellow to orange surface-dyed paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite gold-stamped scalloped octagonal piece (filled with vegetal decoration emanating from a central floral motif) and rosette accents (at the apices of the scallops, forming pendants, etc.), as well as elaborate tooled border in gold accented by gold-painted fillets ; overall in somewhat poor but fair condition with only minor abrasion, losses of silk, panels detaching from spine and warping in some, and lifting of spine leather.Support: Well-burnished paper mounted on heavy board, with area framing written area surface-dyed (golden yellow to orange) and gold-flecked, edged in red silk ; sheets of red wove paper rest between many of the panels.Decoration: Illuminated panels consisting of rectangular panels filled with various swirling vegetal patterns on fields of gold, blue, light pink, etc. and surrounded by frames in blue, green, light pink, red, etc. flanking mainly the lines of naskh ; entire written area surrounded by heavy gold and light pink frames with narrower gold rules surrounding panels within ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes with accents in green, pink, blue, white, etc.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large line of each page in a fine thuluth ; central lines of each page in a superb naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of ḥadīth text or excerpts.Layout: Written in 5 and 6 lines per page, a large line of thuluth followed by four or five lines of naskh, with lines in thuluth and those in naskh constituting two distinct streams of text ; written area is divided into upper panel accomodating the large line of thuluth and centered lower panel carrying the more compact lines of naskh ; opens vertically with writing parallel to spine.Collation: Six heavy leaves or 'panels' hinged together.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "حرره الحاج السيد حسن رضا مقلدا بمصطى عزت غفر الله ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما امين سنه ١٣٠۴"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing assorted ḥadīth, executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Hasan Rıza Efendi (d.1920), a master of naskh and thuluth.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 237Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by İbrahim Rodosi ; date of transcription not specified, though calligrapher's activity (acquiring his icazet shortly after the death of his first teacher İsmail Zühdî in 1731) suggests mid to late 18th century.Former shelfmark: "559 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "116" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather with spine in a lighter red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla filled with symmetrical vegetal composition (compare binding ornament on cover of Isl. Ms. 230), as well as tooled border consisting of guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets ; panels hinged together with red-brown leather ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting of leather, spine split near head, etc.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (in some cases surface-dyed pink) pieced, set into frame consisting of other surface-dyed and gold-flecked papers in combinations of orange and green, blue and pink, orange and magenta, yellow and green, green and magenta, lavender and orange, etc. (papers of facing pages match) set off by gold bands and white fillets.Decoration: Decorative illuminated pieces consisting mainly of scalloped semi-circular pieces (domes) overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern in gold, red, pink, white, blue, etc. flank the compact central lines ; other illuminated flanking pieces of different vegetal composition appear on some panels ; written area surrounded by frame in bands of gold varying thickness ; textual divders in the form of illuminated rosettes with accents in pink, white, blue, etc.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; two large lines of each page in thuluth ; two central lines of each page in naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of text though both open in alphabetic exercises.Layout: Written in four lines per page, two large lines in thuluth (sülüs) and two more compact lines in naskh (nesih) ; written area divided into upper and lower panels accommodating the large lines and a central panel divided to accomodate the two more compact lines.Collation: Ten 'panels' (mounted leaves) edged in and hinged together with red-brown leather ; opens vertically.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "مشقه اضعف الكتاب ابراهيم الردوسي"Explicit: [in thuluth / sülüs] "سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجل ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك" ; [in naskh / nesih] "فان امارتي بالسوء ما اتعظت من جهلها بنذير الشيب"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) executed by the Ottoman calligrapher İbrahim Rodosi (d.1787). Comprises a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) in two scripts (thuluth / sülüs and naskh / nesih) employing the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat), composed word exercises (mürekkebat) with the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı), invocations, and a portion of the text of al-Buṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-Burdah.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 240Origin: As appears at close, executed by Mustafa el-Haşimî known as Kadızade in 1195 [1780 or 1].Former shelfmark: "550 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on upper board lining ; "107" in pencil on recto of opening panel.Binding: Pasteboards faced in gold-flecked, pale yellow paper and framed in tan leather (covering board edges / turn-ins and likely spine at one time) now with dark purple leather (and Japanese paper repair) over spine (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; opens vertically ; board linings in magenta paper ; gold rule-borders on leather edging ; overall in fairly good condition ; repairs in Japanese paper ; occasional repair to hinges in same dark purple leather.Support: Written area on well-burnished laid paper, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (pale peach-tinted, pink-tinted, light blue-tinted, orange-tinted, etc. with colors of facing panels matching) and mounted.Decoration: Written area (and divisions within) surrounded by gold frame set off by black and white fillets ; written area set into a frame of tinted paper (colors of facing panels match).Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; in thuluth (sülüs) and naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in four lines per page ; two large lines thuluth and two smaller centered lines in naskh, constituting two distinct streams of textCollation: Eleven 'panels' hinged together with tan leather.Colophon: "مشقه اضعف العباد السيد مصطفى الهاشمى المعروف بقاضى زاده سنه ١١٩٥ه"Explicit: "وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجد ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير ا ب ت ج ح د ز ذ ر س ش ص ط ع و ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) in this case a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) employing first (in seventeen kıt'alar) the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat) and closing with three kıt'alar of mürekkebat exercises employing the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı) and a prayer.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 229Origin: As appears in colophon on final panel, executed by Mahmud Celâleddin in 1206 [1791 or 2] and copied from a model executed by Hafız Osman Efendi in 1108 [1696 or 7].Former shelfmark: "99" in pencil on recto of opening panel ; numeral and "T. D. M" [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis] on verso of final panel.Binding: Boards covered (faced) in blue and white marbled paper (kumlu ebru) with red leather over spine and board edges / turn-ins (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in same marbled paper ; panels hinged together in same red leather ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into frames of marbled paper (ebru) mainly in shades of blue, pink, yellow and black, and mounted on thin boards.Decoration: Illuminated rectangular pieces filled with vegetal decoration in shades of gold, pink, orange, and lavender on fields of blue, gold, etc. flank mid and lower sections of written area on each panel ; written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red, orange and blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large lines of each panel (typically opening and closing lines) in thuluth (sülüs), with central lines in naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in 6 to 13 lines per page, including two lines of thuluth with four centered lines of naskh, two lines of thuluth with eight diagonal lines of naskh, one line of thuluth with seven lines of naskh, one line of thuluth with nine diagonal and then three horizontal lines of naskh, etc. ; thuluth and naskh carry separate streams of text.Collation: Five 'panels' edged and hinged together with red leather ; numbered in pencil with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper outer corner of the written area for each piece ; opens vertically.Colophon: "كتبه من لا قدر له ولا قدر ولا نخل بواديه ولا سدره اضعف العباد الكتاب عثمان المشتهر بحافظ كلام الوهاب شاكرا لله الملك الوهاب ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثيرا سنة ثمان ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف ونقلها محمود المعروف بجلال الدين مع الكتبة والتنقيح بعينها غفر الله ذنوبهما ١٢٠٦"Explicit: "نور المسلم من شاب شيبة في الاسلام كتب الله بها حسنة وكفر عنه بها خطيئة ورفعه بها درجة اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق واكمل الخلق محمد واله الطاهرين اجمعينIncipit: [thuluth] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين وعليه التكلان من الخذلان ..." ; [naskh] "والدباران ياتيها بعد ان تفوته ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Mahmud Celâleddin Efendi (d.1829) in imitation of a model executed by the master calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 236Origin: Lacks dated colophon, but at the close includes four statements each attesting to its authenticity as a specimen in the hand of 'the late shaykh,' likely Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya (d.1519 or 20). Signators of the statements include Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756), renowned student of Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731), accompanied by his seal ; Seyyid Abdullah's son and student Emirefendizade Seyyid Abdülhalim (d.1759), accompanied by his seal dated 1135 [1722 or 3] ; likely Yahya Fahrettin (d.1756), student of İkinci Derviş Ali (d.1716) ; and possibly Yahya b. İsmail (Kirişci) (d.1759). Thus the calligraphy would have been executed in the early 16th century (if not late 15th century), and signatures, initial piecing, etc. in the first half of the 18th century. Mounting possibly later.Former shelfmark: "553 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of lower cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in magenta-tinted, gold-flecked paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted frames each consisting of a guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets ; panels hinged together with green silk (possibly once in accordion format) ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion.Support: Written area on well worn leaves, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (pink-tinted, yellow-tinted, magenta-tinted and gold-flecked, and blue-tinted and gold-flecked, though colors of facing panels match), and mounted on other leaves of gold-flecked, magenta-tinted, European laid paper with watermarks of "F C" under three stars and three hats.Decoration: Illuminated floral vegetal pieces appear in panels flanking the written area on each of the first four pages, consisting of a central floral piece filled with a vegetal decoration in gold, pink, red, white, and blue continued as cornerpieces on a blue ground ; each of these decorative panels is surrounded by an elaborate frame in pink, gold interlace, and blue ; decoration of final page forms an elegant illuminated tailpiece continuing the vegetal pattern in pink, red, orange, white, and green on fields of blue and gold and accommodating the close of the text as well as the four statements of authenticity ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes with blue, red and white accents appear throughout.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; an elegant naskh, partially seriffed, with very slight tilt to the left and some sweeping descenders.Layout: Written in 12-15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: Six 'panels' (mounted leaves) hinged together with silk ; all originally joined back to back at both edges, now only at one edge except for two of the six ; opens vertically.Explicit: "اللهم انصر من نصر الدين واخذل من خذل المسلمين امين يا رب العالمين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Incipit: "صدق الله العظيم وبلغ رسوله الكريم ونحن على ما قال ربنا وخالقنا ورازقنا مولينا من الشاهدين اللهم ربنا تقبل منا ختم القرآن ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing a prayer text (duʻāʼ), likely executed by the master Ottoman calligrapher, Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya (d.1520).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 234Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh, likely Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731), who was a favorite pupil of the celebrated calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698). He received his icazet in 1102 [1690 or 91] and died around 1144 [1731]. Undated but most likely executed between 1690 and 1731.Former shelfmark: "109" inscribed in pencil at opening ; "542 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on hinge of lower cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) in marbled paper (mainly in pink, brown, yellow, blue, and white) ; upper and lower covers carry incised and gold-painted (with red leather inlay) symmetrical scalloped panel resembling four-lobed flower or lozenge with domes emerging from the long edges, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps with gold-painted accents ; panels hinged together with dark brown leather ; in somewhat poor but fair condition with significant staining, some abrasion and lifting of leather, etc.Support: Well-burnished European laid paper mounted on heavy laid paper (roughly 8 laid lines per cm.) with marbled frame (several variations in dark green, red, light blue, yellow, dark lavender, etc. ; papers of facing panels match).Decoration: Written area and panels within surrounded by frame consisting of heavy and narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; textual dividers in the form illuminated rosettes with red and blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening line of each page in fine thuluth ; five centered lines thereafter in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 6 lines per page, one large line in thuluth and five more compact lines in naskh ; written area divided to upper panel (accomodating the large line) and centered lower panel (for the shorter lines) ; opens vertically with writing parallel to spine.Collation: Six 'panels' (two leaves each) hinged together ; 'pagination' in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears toward the left of each panel apart from the last.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير السيد عبد الله رضي عنه مولاه"Explicit: "اللهم صل وسلم على نبي الرحمة وشفيع الامة الضعيفة محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين اجمعين"Incipit: "روي عن ابي سعيد الخدري رضي الله تعالى عنه قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الا ان رجب شهر الله الاصم فمن صام من رجب يوما ايمانا واحتسابا استوجب رضوان الله الاكبر ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing the text of assorted ḥadīth, executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731), favorite pupil of the celebrated calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 244Origin: In colophon, attributed to "Ḥamd Allāh al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Shaykh," Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya, with date of transcription is not specified. Colophon is questionable though attribution for most of the kıta'lar is likely accurate would suggest completion in the late 15th or early 16th century. Pieced and mounted at a later date, even late 16th or 17th century, with some repairs and replacements supplied.Former shelfmark: "335 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" on verso of final panel ; "100" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; hinged together with red-brown leather in accordion format ; doublures in dark slate blue leather with border and area of mandorla and cornerpieces (on reverse) gold-flecked and lined in gold ; upper and lower covers carry superb stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces, along with gold-painted accents and tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps approaching a guilloché roll ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion and lifting of leather at board edges.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (repaired in many places) pieced and set into an elaborate frame of decorative papers, the outermost being richly colored marbled paper of several types and adjacent to it a border of pieced colored papers, some also gold-flecked ; other decorative papers fill the remaining areas surrounding the text ; specimens and borders mounted on leaves of well-burnished European laid paper.Decoration: Gold-flecked or painted decorative papers often flank lower panel carrying lines of naskh ; written area (and panels within) surrounded by frames consisting of gold and red-orange rules ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large line of each page in thuluth ; lines of each page in naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of text.Layout: Written mainly in 6 or 9 lines per page, a large line of thuluth and 5 or 8 compact lines of naskh (alternating pages carrying 5 or 8 lines) with lines in thuluth and those in naskh constituting two distinct streams of text ; written area divided into upper panel accommodating the large line and centered lower panel accommodating the more compact lines ; 8 lines of naskh mainly written on the diagonal.Collation: Twelve 'panels' hinged together in accordion format ; panels are numbered on the verso with Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink beginning with ٣.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبها حمد الله المعروف بابن الشيخ حامدا الله تعالى على نعمه ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين اجمعين"Explicit: [thuluth] "الخط الحسن نزهة العين وريحانة القلوب انه ولي الهداية والتوفيق" ; [naskh] "اذا استشرت الجاهل اختار لك الباطل"Incipit: [thuluth] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم سئل كسرى انوشروان ما ..." ; [naskh] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي وسئل كسرى ما بالكم اليوم اذ كنتم احق بتعليم الناس اشد استغلالا بالتعلم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Superb album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing mainly hadīth pertaining to sentiments of Kisrá Anūshirvān (Khosrow or Khusraw I, d.579), with most of the kıt'alar executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya (d.1520).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 243Origin: As appears in signature on each panel, executed by Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi known as İmamzade (d.1756), who acquired his icazet in 1705.Former shelfmark: "545 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on upper board lining ; "39" in pencil on recto of opening panel.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) and reverse of opening and closing panels in fine marbled paper (ebru in blue, red, pink, green, etc.) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled borders ; panels edged and hinged together with red brown leather ; overall in fairly good condition ; repairs to spine and hinges in Japanese paper.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (yellow-tinted, mint-tinted, pink-tinted, orange-tinted, and untinted, all gold-flecked and with colors of facing panels matching) and mounted.Decoration: Illuminated rectangular pieces filled with vegetal decoration in shades of gold, pink, orange, etc. flank lower central written area on each panel ; written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by bands of turquoise and white as well as black fillets ; illuminated floral accents in shades of pink, light green, red, gold, etc. set off text and frames.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening large line of each panel in thuluth (sülüs), following lines naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in roughly nine lines per page, a large line with eight following lines on the diagonal.Collation: Six 'panels' (mounted leaves) edged and hinged together with brown leather ; opens vertically.Colophon: Each panel signed "حرره الفقير محمد راسم," "حرره الفقير محمد راسم المعروف بامام," etc.Explicit: "وفوقه عرش الرحمن ومنه تفجر انهار الجنة"Incipit: ""بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ان المرأة تقبل في صورة شيطان قال النبي صلوات الله عليه وسلامه ان المسلم اذا انفق على اهله نفقة وهو يحتسبها كانت له صدقة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) comprising kıt'alar employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756), renowned student of Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 235Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by one Ḥamdī [Hamdî] with possible date or number for this piece.Former shelfmark: "567 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in golden olive-tinted and gold-flecked paper with black leather over board edges/turn-ins (leather edged / framed binding) ; board linings in yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled and gold-painted rosettes and guilloché roll border ; panels hinged together with dark brown to black leather ; in fair condition with some abrasion and lifting of leather at board edges and joints/hinges (some split).Support: Well-burnished European laid paper bordered by strips of marbled paper and tinted-frame (orange, pink, etc. though papers of facing panels match) ; watermark faintly visible in final panel but difficult to make out.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of strips of marbled paper (in pink, blue, and white) flanked by white and green fillets and heavy and narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; panels within written area surrounded by narrow gold band ; textual dividers in the form illuminated rosettes with white, pink, red and blue accents ; additional illuminated floral accents appear above elongated horizontal strokes and elsewhere to set-off text.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening line of each page in thuluth ; four centered lines thereafter in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line in thuluth and four more compact lines in naskh ; written area divided to upper panel (accommodating the large line) and centered lower panel (for the shorter lines).Collation: Ten 'panels' (consisting of written area and border pieces mounted on another leaf) hinged together in accordion format (opens vertically) ; 'pagination' in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears in the upper left-hand corner of each panel.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب حمدى ۷۹"Explicit: "وللخازن مثل ذلك لا ينقض بعضهم اجر بعض شيئا اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق محمد واله الطاهرين"Incipit: "قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن ابي هريرة رض قال قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم اذا مضى شطر الليل او ثلثاه ينزل الله تبارك وتعالى الى سماء الدنيا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing the text of assorted ḥadīth, executed by one Hamdî.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 374Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoraton, etc. would suggest early 19th century.Former shelfmark: "419 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in pink wove paper (darker fibers visible within the sheet) ; upper and lower covers carry large stamped (with gold-painted recessed onlays in red-orange) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd) and pendants with tooled rosette and gold-painted accents, as well as guilloché roll border in gold ; design continues on flap ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather at fore edge flap (revealing interior / flesh side of teal leather lining fore edge flap), etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of "C & I HONIG" under crowned shield with horn (see p.2, 20, 28-29, 84, 248, etc.) and countermark "IV" (see p.6, etc.) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of winged-figure (cherub) holding aloft banner with "ALMASSO" and "GM" (see opening leaf, p.18 and final leaf) ; all sturdy, well-burnished, and tinted a pale blue.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of table of contents (fihris) on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying the title in red ("جلد اول مكى از ترجمۀ معارج النبوة في السير") flanked by faint gold floral motifs, surmounted by scalloped dome filled with central floral motif surrounded by swirling vegetal pattern all in same faint gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; another fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text on p.20, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in gold, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling vegetal composition with floral motifs all in gold with red accents, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red, entire piece set in a well of pink and light blue bands ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy gold frame with outermost red rule, elsewhere written area surrounded by narrower faint gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost red rule, divisions within table of contents defined by narrow faint gold bands outlined by black fillets ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs ; section headings, key words and passages, and notabilia rubricated.Script: Naskh ; clear, bold Turkish hand ; partially serifed with teardrop head-serifs on most ascenders apart from alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, many open counters, curvlinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, extensively vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 38 V(380), V+1 (391), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Dedication: As appears in preface on pp.23-24, composed for Sultan Süleyman I (r.1520-1566).Explicit: "صكره مدينه كلدى بعض رواياتده زبير برينه طلحه بن عبد الله ديرلر تم الجلد المكى ويتلوه الجلد المدنى م"Incipit: "الله ولى التوفيق الهادى الى سبيل الصواب واحسن الطريق الاف حمد وثناء بى قياس واصناف شكر وسپاس مرصوص الاساس جناب حقه جل وعلا كه مشيت شرف غايتى ... سبب تحرير كتاب وباعث تذكير خطاب در ..."Title from headpiece at opening of table of contents on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant first volume (addressing Mecca, roughly the muqaddimah through rukn 3) of the translation by Muṣṭafá ibn Jalāl, i.e. Mustafa Çelebi Celâlzade, known as Koca Nişancî (d.1567), of the voluminous biographical work on the life of the Prophet by Muʻīn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Farāhī al-Haravī, known as Mullā Miskīn or Muʻīn al-Miskīn (d.1501 or 2). Table of contents at opening (pp.2-15).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 375Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. would suggest early 19th century.Former shelfmark: "412 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), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in dark green textured (embossed in scalloped patterns) and coated paper ; upper and lower covers carry large stamped (with gold-painted recessed onlays in red-orange) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd) and pendants with tooled rosette and gold-painted accents, as well as guilloché roll border in gold ; design continues on flap ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and pink, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, fore edge flap detaching from lower cover, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of "C & I HONIG" under crowned shield with horn (see p.6, 24, 30, 36, 40, 498, etc.) and countermark "IV" (see p.4, 8, etc.) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of winged-figure (cherub) holding aloft banner with "ALMASSO" (see p.2) ; all sturdy, well-burnished, and tinted a pale blue.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of table of contents (fihris) on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying the title in red ("جلد ثانى مكى از ترجمۀ معارج النبوة في السير") flanked by faint gold floral motifs, surmounted by scalloped dome filled with central floral motif surrounded by swirling vegetal pattern all in same faint gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; another fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text on p.20, consisting of rectangular piece with empty (though traces of inscription in red ink) gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in gold, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling vegetal composition with floral motifs all in gold with red accents, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red, entire piece set in a well of light blue and pink bands ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy gold frame with outermost red rule, elsewhere written area surrounded by narrower faint gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost red rule, divisions within table of contents defined by narrow faint gold bands outlined by black fillets ; section headings, key words and passages, and notabilia rubricated.Script: Naskh ; clear, bold Turkish hand ; partially serifed with teardrop head-serifs on most ascenders apart from alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, many open counters, curvlinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV+1 (9), V+1 (20), 37 V(390), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.557-558).Explicit: "الحمد لله على هذه العطية كتاب اخره ايرشدى خطاب اولدى الحمد لله على التوفيق واستغفر الله من كل تقصير وغفرانك ربنا واليك المصير نعم المولى ونعم النصير سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين الفاتحه"Incipit: "اول حضرتك صلى الله عليه وسلم مدينه منوره يه وصولى وتشريف قدوم ايچون انصارك استقبالدر ..."Title from headpiece at opening of table of contents on p.4.Ms. codex.Elegant second volume (addressing Medina, roughly rukn 4 and the tatimmah / khātimah) of the translation by Muṣṭafá ibn Jalāl, i.e. Mustafa Çelebi Celâlzade, known as Koca Nişancî (d.1567), of the voluminous biographical work on the life of the Prophet by Muʻīn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Farāhī al-Haravī, known as Mullā Miskīn or Muʻīn al-Miskīn (d.1501 or 2). Table of contents at opening (pp.4-17).
Abstract: "Collection of texts on inheritance law along with a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's arithmetical treatiseAbstract: Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār. Note in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 136b."Contents: 1. fol. 1b-35a: Bāb masāʼil al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-wilāʼ.Contents: 2. fol. 35a-42b: Risālat al-mūṣá la-hu.Contents: 3. fol. 42b-58b: Faṣl fī ʻamal al-munāsakhah bi-al-jadwal wa-yusammá al-Shubbāk aydan.Contents: 4. fol. 58b-67b: Jāmiʻ al-aḥkām fī aṣnāf dhawī al-arḥām.Contents: 5. fol. 67b-69a: Risālah imtiḥānīyah. Concerning Islamic inheritance law.Contents: 6. fol. 69b: Hadith quoted from Sharḥ Mashāriq al-anwār.Contents: 7. fol. 71b-136a: Sharḥ Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār.Contents: 8. fol. 137b-141a: Manẓūmah fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ ʻalá madhhab al-Imām Zayd. Poem on inheritance law according to the Zaydī school.Contents: 9. fol. 141b-142a: Bab ul-ebyat li-ahval il-erbain. Poem on inheritance law in Ottoman Turkish.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: 17-25 lines per page; texts 8-9 in two columns. Written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Numerous charts and diagrams. Some dampstaining and foxing; fol. 136 partially torn away. Ms. appears to have been written by a single hand with the exception of texts 8-9 which appear to be later additions. Fol. 70a-71a, 137a, 142b blank.
Abstract: Commentary on 3:102.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger. The name of the author appears in the colophon as Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Naqīb al-Ḥanafī (fol. 8b). R. Mach identifies this author with Abu al-ʻAbbas Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanafī ibn al-Naqīb, 771-816 1369-1413 (see GAL, II, 112/14).Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Worm-eaten.Collation: Paper, fol. 8 ; 1⁸ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscriptions in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "49" and "---(?) 57".Origin: According to colophon, autograph copy dated Sunday, 23 Jumādá al-Awwal 782 Aug. 25, 1380 (fol. 8b).Incipit: بسم ... وبه العون الحمد لله جاعل العلما انجما ... 2أ ... اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم يا ايها الذين امنوا اتقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تموتن إلا وانتم مسلمون ... بنعمته اخوانا الكلام على هذا الاية الشريفة يقع فى اماكن سبعة الاول فى تسمية السورة وعدد اياتهاExplicit: وهذا ما تيسر من الكلام على هذه الاية الشريفة ولنختم هذا المجلس بالدعا فنقول اللهم يا واسع العطا ... الى يوم الدين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Abstract: "First volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼAbstract: a treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: comprising Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf."Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a blind stamped panel with a large central madorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and corner pieces. Grey, green and orange marbled paper pastedown and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 288b-289a).Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin light biscuit paper with pulp and laid lines visible. The first 4 fol. are later additions on European paper with watermark. Fol. 26-72, 158-173, and 214-235 in the modern foliation are later replacements. Important marginal annotations on the original leaves. Annotations on pieces of paper pasted between the leaves. The first six folios of the text (fol. 4-9 in the modern foliation in pencil) have the upper part mended, with the text recopied on the repair. Table of contents on fol. 3a-4a. Several inscriptions and short texts on fol. 5a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Origin: Copy completed on Yawm al-Khamīs 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 824 April 1421 by Ṣadr al-Dīn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn ibn ʻAlāʼ al-qāḍī al-Wāshjhī (colophon, fol. 289a).Former shelmark: Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 442". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1645".Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعاير الشرع واحكامهExplicit: في الشرب والنزول والغنىّ لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلّة لغناه والله تعالى اعلم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 860 v.2Origin: As appears in colophon on p.1156 (and in inscription on inner front flyleaf, p.1), latter section (p.679 to close) copied by Sayyid Mihr ʻAlī ʻAẓīmābādī with transcription completed 19 Shawwāl 1241 [ca. 27 May 1826]. Opening section likely copied around the same time.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" -- b. Slip with note "12-29-65 Mr. Partington just brought in these 2 v. of MSS D" -- c. Scrap with note in black ink "Rawḍat al-Safā vol. 2 AH 1241"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 9 v.2Binding: Boards covered in light orange-brown leather decorated in "marbled calf" manner ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a light-blue surface-dyed wove paper ; spine in dark green and brown leather, gold-stamped with decorative bands and title "ROOZUT OL SUFA 2" ; edges of text block red-flecked ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; worked Western style endbands in fair condition with tailband detaching ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and deterioration of leather, etc.Support: non-European (likely Indian or Persian) laid paper of two main types ; opening type (carrying pp.9-678) with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, somewhat indistinct, some curving) and chain lines irregularly visible, somewhat cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished, dark cream in color ; opening three leaves and leaves carrying p.679 to close mainly in a paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, somewhat indistinct, curving) and no chain lines clearly visible, somewhat cloudy formation, sturdy, well-burnished, cream in color.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; overlining and occasional textual dividers in the form of three dots also in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; two main hands ; opening three leaves (pp.4-8) and final section (pp.679-1156) supplied in a fine hand in a medium line, serifless and compact with elements of shikastah, effect of words descending to baseline and tilt to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; text of pp.9-678 in another much finer nastaʻlīq, serifless and spacious with horizontal strokes in a heavy line, somewhat exaggerated contrast in thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes, effect of words gently descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV+2 (10), 56 IV(458), IV+2 (468), 13 IV(572), III (578), ii ; almost exclusively quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique black strokes in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and the lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf (through p.678) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تم المجلد الثانی ... بتاریخ نوزدهم شهر شوال سنه ۱۲۴۱ یکهزار و دو صد و چهل و یک تحریر على ید المذنب المحتاج سید مهر علی عظیم آبادی غفر الله له وستر عیوبهم وسلم تسلیما ..."Incipit: "عنوان صحیفه مرادات و فهرست مجموعه حادثات ..."Title from inscription on inner flyleaf (p.1).Ms. composite codex.Fine copy of the second volume, addressing the Prophet and al-Khulafāʼ al-Rāshidūn, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by the Tīmūrid historian Muḥammad ibn Khvāndshāh Mīr Khvānd (d.1498).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1013Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. would suggest late 19th century.Accompanying materials: "a. Slip of paper with notes in Jameson’s handwriting: 'Sections from the Koran / Collection of prayers / Sulaymān purchase / 10-20-70' -- b. Slip of paper with notes in Jameson’s handwriting: '?Section of the Koran? / Bought on Mr. Sulaymān’s trip. All on one order no. / Brought to RBR on 10-27-70 by Mr. Eilts. Purchased by Mr. Sulaymān from Librarie Tunisienne in 1967. Letter & invoice in MSS file' " - from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993, no longer in volume.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 162Binding: Boards covered in red cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; spine gold-stamped with 'title' ("قرآن كريم") and decorative bands ; now sewn in white thread (rarely visible, see p.44) ; stuck-on endbands in mint green ; overall in quite good condition ; certainly not original (impression of a flap visible in many leaves).Support: Light brown machine wove paper with embossed mark ("imitation watermark") "BATH" under crown (see p.49-50, 53-54, 57-58, and 59-60, 267-268, etc.) ; pigment burn to breakthrough at inner border of frame surrounding written area in many leaves and minor pest damage.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of empty rectangular piece bordered in salmon (orange) and gold, surmounted a scalloped dome carrying title for opening section "دلائل الخيرات مقدمۀ" surrounded by floral vegetal decoration in gold, lavender, green, salmon, and blue, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in light blue ; written area surrounded by gold frame consisting of heavy gold band defined by black fillets with outermost red rule ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated roundels / rosettes with red and blue accents ; simple illuminated headpieces appear at other section headings throughout text.Script: Naskh ; exquisite, bold Ottoman hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs mainly on lām (initial, final and isolated) and other ascenders apart from alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly open counters, pointing in conjoined dots ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: Too tightly bound to discern gatherings ; pp.26-29 left blank, likely intended for a depiction of the rawḍah and minbar or Mecca and Medina but never executed ; catchwords present (partially lost to trimming) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وامام المرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما والحمد لله رب العالمين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل تمت الدلائل"Incipit: "صلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله الذى هدانا للايمان والاسلام والصلوة على محمد نبيه ... وبعد هذا فالغرض فى هذا الكتاب ذكر الصلوة على النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم وفضائلها نذكرها محذوفة الاسانيد ليسهل حفظها على القارئ وهي من اهم المهمات لمن يريد القرب من رب الارباب وسميته بكتاب دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلوة على النبى المختار ابتغاء لمرضات الله تعالى ومحبة فى رسوله الكريم ..."Title from opening matter on p.3.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Jazūlī’s (d.869/1465) celebrated collection of prayers for the Prophet, description of his tomb, his names, etc. followed by closing prayers (دعاء ختم سهليه and صلوات الصفا).
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. 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. 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).
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 5.Physical description: 24 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Original text completed on 11 Shawwāl 430 H 6 July 1039; this copy, 1257 H 1841 or 1842 (leaf 114b).Incipit: الحمد لله حمد الشاکرين الذاكرين
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 850Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. would suggest 17th century ; dated seal impression can suggest only a very rough terminus ante quem of 1765.Accompanying materials: Slip with description and price of this manuscript cut from a seller's catalog "[ARABIC MANUSCRIPT]. ATTAYI. Divan, or Collection of poems. 84 leaves, double column, headings and titles in solid gold, each poem and page within heavily gilt borders, 2 'unwans in blue and gold. 20 by 11.2 cm., 12mo, contemporary goatskin. Arabia, xviii century. $17.50 Fine calligraphic example, charmingly executed. On the last blank leaf is a detailed flowered ornamental pencil outline in prepared for the illuminator, of interest as showing the method of work."Former shelfmark: "46 . 47" in black ink on cover label.Binding: Pasteboards (thin) covered in brown leather once edged in black leather (see traces on lower cover) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) in once marbled paper (mainly pink, yellow, etc.) ; upper and lower covers carry tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps, originally in gold over black leather, now lost from many areas ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, moisture damage, lifting of leather, etc. ; spine repair in black leather (overlaping flanges visible).Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (mainly vertical but occasionally horizontal) and occasional chain lines visible, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, some leaves tinted pink or yellow ; flyleaves in European laid paper ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Divan-ı Atayi on p.6 consisting of rectangular piece with small gold cartouches carrying the title "ديوان عطايى" in black surrounded by swirling arabesques with floral accents in gold, light blue, and black on a lapis lazuli / cobalt ground, bordered in heavy gold band with delicate floral vegetal pattern in blue and black as well as narrower blue and gold bands defined by black fillets, entire piece surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; another exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Divan-ı Nizâmî on p.72 consisting of rectangular piece carrying the title "ديوان نظامى" in black surrounded by delicate swirling arabesques with floral accents in gold, black, and light blue on grounds of gold and lapis lazuli / cobalt, entire piece bordered in a narrow gold band defined by black fillets and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame defined by black fillets ; keywords and headings chrysographed.Script: Naskh ; compact, bold Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional ascenders (even free-standing alif), effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, freely ligatured, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, with three dots represented by a c-shaped stroke.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV (8), V (18), IV (26), V (36), IV (44), V (54), IV (62), V (72), IV (80), II (84), i ; alternating quinions and quaternions ; leaves between the two works (pp.70-71) and at close (pp.171-172) ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Incipit: [Divan-ı Atayi] "يينه عزم رزم قلدى سرور خاور كنش كم ديار هنده چكدى صبحدم لشكر كنش" ; [Divan-ı Nizâmî] "يا اشرف البرية يا سيد الوري اعلى الاله ذاتك قدرا ومنزلا "Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.4. p.171-p.172 : [blank].3. p.72-p.170 : Divan-ı Nizâmî / Karamanlı Nizâmî.2. p.70-p.71 : [blank].1. p.6-p.69 : Divan-ı Atayi / Nevizade Atayi Ataullah bin Yahya.Elegant copy of the Turkish dīvāns of two Ottoman poets, Nevizade Atayi Ataullah bin Yahya (d.1635) and Karamanlı Nizâmî (Şeyh Nizamettin b. Veliettin of Karaman, fl. 15th cent.).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 403Origin: As appears in colophon on p.427, copied by Shujāʻ al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī with transcription completed in Shaʻbān 989 [September 1581].Former shelfmark: "229 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "٤٠" on front flyleaf (p.1) ; "٦٩٧" on spine label.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark red leather with central mandorla and cornerpieces in gold-painted leather filigree appliqué over blue paper, pendants in black filigree appliqué over gold leaf, as well as gold-painted accents ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (with once gold-painted recessed onlays in dark red leather) mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSd 3), pendants, cornerpieces and border lozenges ; design continues on flap ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, poor condition with tailband entirely gone and headband significantly damaged with losses of threads and core exposed ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, fore edge flap detaching, etc. ; numerous repairs in another dark red-brown leather (at edges, spine / rebacked, joints, hinges / rehinged, etc.).Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct, some curving) and occasional pairs of chain lines only faintly visible, somewhat cloudy formation , some inclusions, quite sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; later flyleaves in European laid paper ; breakthrough at frames in many leaves ; numerous repairs (fills, guards, etc.).Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.6, consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surrounded by elegant arabesques with floral accents in gold, red, yellow, and light blue on a lapis lazuli ground and bordered in a bands of red and heavy gold interlace, surmounted by a large scalloped w-shaped piece filled with delicate arabesques in gold, light blue, yellow, red and white on grounds of gold and lapis lazuli divided by bands of white and turquoise to a series of scalloped dome or diamond shapes, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) and set in a well of light blue and gold ; another exquisite illuminated headpiece (rectangular piece surmounted by scalloped dome set in heavy band) at opening of section on p.108 ; written area surrounded by a frame consisting of bands of red, turquoise, and gold defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule, divisions within (some gold-flecked) defined by narrow gold bands outlined with black fillets ; keywords and headings chrysographed ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, with written area often divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 IV(48), II (52), 20 IV(212), I (214), ii ; almost exclusively quaternions ; leaves between sections left blank (pp.102-107) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "فرغ من تمت الديوان نجاتي عليه الرحمة فى يوم السبت شهر شعبان المبارك سنه ٩٨٩ تسع وثمانين وتسعمائه عن يد الفقير الحقير شجاع الدين محمد شيرازى"Explicit: "دنيا ايچنده باغ ارم كورمك استين سورسن يوزن مزارنه اول يوجه حضرتك"Incipit:"بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اولدى چو عنوان ديوان قديم كلوكز اولالم كه وبى كاه ذاكر لا اله الا الله ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Necâtî Bey (İsa) Edirnevî (d.1509).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 679Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.281b, copied by Nāʻil Ṣuḥufī [?]. Date transcription finished appears as a chronogram "غزلق" or 1137 [غ1000 + ز7 + ل30 + ق100 =1137, i.e. 1724 or 1725].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 fol.1a (p.1), "IL 132 a1" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and interior of envelope flap in pink tinted laid paper ; interior of foreedge flap in light brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry central blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (elongated) and pendants with vegetal pattern (compare Déroche class. OSd 8) accented with gold and red paint, bordered by fillet with strokes and dots at apices and sprandels of scallops in gold paint ; frame of striated s-shaped stamps painted gold and bordered by two gold fillets also in gold paint ; at corners and midpoints of frame, dots and strokes in gold paint ; foreedge flap decorated with fillets and heavy vegetal pattern (vine) in gold paint ; in fair condition with significant wear and pest damage but intact and still well-attached to text block.Support: European laid paper, mainly with laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 11-12 laid lines per cm., single chain lines running horizontally spaced roughly 25-26 mm. apart, and watermark of three hats (tre cappeli) or caps (see p.38, 58, 230, 232, etc.), well-burnished, thin though quite sturdy; very few if any inclusions ; countermark of "V d" under trefoil appears in p.136.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) on fol.1b consists of a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) flanked by scalloped accents filled by a vegetal pattern in gold, blue, red, and black on fields of gold and blue ; dome and flanking pieces are outlined in a blue fillet and surmounted by vertical stalks (ṭīgh) in blue positioned at alternating spandrels ; entire piece is bordered by an elaborate frame consisting of a band of blue with minute cross or diamond shapes flanked by narrow gold bands outlined by fillets ; elaborate frames appear throughout, consisting of gold band (of at least three thicknesses) bordered by black fillets surround both the entire written area for each folio as well as the columns of text within ; text rubricated with titles, headings, etc. in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, point of final and free-standing nūn set at mouth of tall, wide, angled bowl, occasionally nearly assimilated with it, hāʻ mudghamah looking like two inverted commas, pointing (for two and three dots) often in conjoined dots or strokes.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page; written area consists of a broad single column most often divided into two columns and framed thusly, though this layout varies ; in certain sections a centered column of two hemistiches of verse alternates with verse laid in two columns, divided at each hemistich ; headings usually appear centered on the single column or across its width; frame-ruled.Collation: i,12 V (120), IV (128), I (130), 6 V (190), IV+1 (199), 3 V (229), V+1 (240), 2 I (244), i ; chiefly quinions; leaves falling between the various sections of poetry left partially blank (though without missing text) and leaves following close of text intially left blank but now carry additional matter including lines of poetry, lines on Ebussuud Efendi, etc. ; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمام شد ديوان نابى رحمه الله تعالى في تاريخ غزلق دست حقير نائل صحفى [؟] تم"Explicit: "طاغيلرسه كور رآنى نكران جمع اولور ايه اولور آب روان"Incipit: [rubric]" قصيده در توحيد باري جل شانه براى باعث ترتيب ديوان ابراهيم پاشا رح [text] تعالى الله زهى ديوانطراز صورت معنا كه جسم لفظله روح مآ لي ايلمش الما ..."Title from inscription below headpiece on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Collected poems (ghazalīyāt, qaṣāyid, rubāʻiyāt, etc.) of Nabi, followed by a few additional excerpts at close of codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 678Origin: As appears in colophon at close of opening section (p.57), copied by Muḥammad al-Amīn (Mehmet Emin) with transcription completed 1176 [1762 or 3].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf and spine label, "IL 123a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (repeated square with dots pattern in contrasting blue and white forming a fish scale effect) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings/doublures in block-printed paper (repeated 8-petaled flower in purple with yellow and pink circle background accents) ; sewn in dull pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and cream, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, upper cover detaching, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) under crown and name (see p.26, 27, etc.) ; 'gold'-flecked ; break-through at frame in leaf carrying pp.57-58.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying title in red "ديوان باقى افندى رحمة الله عليه" surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in lavender, pink, orange-red, gold, and red on fields of blue and gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with orange-red accents and all set in a well of lavender with blue crosses ; another illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on p.68 echoes the first, consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying title in red "ديوان باقى افندى رحمة الله عليه رحمة واسعة" flanked by floral motifs in orange-red, white, lavender and gold on fields of blue and gold, surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in light blue, lavender, pink, white, orange-red, gold, and red on fields of blue and gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with gold and red accents and all set in a well of pink with blue crosses; written area and two columns within surrounded by gold frame ; keywords, some headings and catchwords rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least two elegant, medium hands ; sans serif with effect of words descending to baseline, characteristic letterforms ; final leaves (from p.312) in more of a naskh-nastaʻlīq, slightly more compact, more highly ligatured and partially seriffed with slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in roughly 12 lines of verse per page, on the diagonal in two columns with each hemistich to a diagonal line for roughly 24 hemistiches per page ; headings not on the diagonal ; written area divided to two columns to set off the verses.Collation: IV (8), V (18), VII+1 (33), 13 V(163), VI (175) ; chiefly quinions ; several leaves ruled but left blank between opening section and following (pp.58-66), p. 67 carries text that has been crossed out, final leaves also ruled but left blank (pp.345-348) ; catchwords present (rubricated) ; in mid to latter quires, foliation visible in lower outer corner of the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (inlcudes back flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "كتبه العبد الضعيف المذنب الفقير محمد الامين غفر الله ذنوبه سنه ۱۱۷٦"Explicit: "افرين صد افرين اول طبع كوهر باشنه"Incipit: "بحمد الله شرف بولدى ينه ملك سليمانى جلوس اتدى سعادت تحتنه اسكندر ثانى ..."Title from headpieces at openings on p.2 and p.68.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the collected poems of the celebrated Turkish poet, Baki Efendi (d.1600).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 83Origin: As appears in colophon on p.526, copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Iskandar. Transcription completed ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min katb hādhā al-kitāb...") at noon on Friday 18 Rabīʻ II 966 [ca. 28 January 1559].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts carrying notes, glosses (paginated pp.13-14, pp.95-96, pp.177-178, pp.185-186, pp.189-190, pp.197-198, pp.229-230, pp.237-238, pp.261-262, pp.323-324, pp.395-396) and in two cases, detailed diagrams (paginated pp.65-66 and pp.111-112).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 84. Work on Hanafi law by Muh. b. Faramurz."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper (over marbled paper) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with vegetal composition (horizontal and vertical symmetry as with Déroche class. OSd) ; sewn mainly in white thread (rarely yellow), two and four stations, though many threads are loose, broken or missing threads and textblock is entirely detached at spine ; endbands lost though traces of primaries in yellow and green visible ; in very poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, fore-edge flap detaching from lower cover, etc. ; various repairs in brown leathers ; cover extremely ill-fitting (far too small) ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper with chain lines grouped in threes, 11-16 mm. between the chains and 32-39 mm. between the groups ; flyleaves in European laid paper with three crescents (tre lune) watermark ; added leaves carrying table of contents in European laid paper with crown above grapes or beaded diamond watermark ; latter quires of text in European laid paper with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and some notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; some overlining and textual dividers in the form of discs in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish or Persian hand ; virtually sans serif, though quite miniscule right-sloping head serif occasionally appears on lām, etc. ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred ; kāf alif ligature forming complete loop ; occasional very slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, II (4), 24 V(244), IV (252), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.453-454).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ من كتب هذا الكتاب في يوم الجمعة وقت الظهر الثامن عشر في شهر ربيع الاخر من سنة ست وستين وتسعمائة على يد عبد اضعف عباد الله عبد الرحيم بن الحاج اسكندر عفى عنهما الملك المعبود القادر الحمد لله على الاتمام وعلى كل حال في الاسلام والصلوة والسلام على رسوله سيد الانام وعلى اله العظام واصحابه الاكرام" ; followed by authorial colophon.Explicit: "كان فسخهما بمنزلة الاقالة فيلزم الوصي كما لو تقابلا حقيقة فاذا فسخ القاضي لم يكن اقالة فلا يلزم الوصي. هذا اخر ما من الله تع علي بلطفه من شرح غرر الاحكام المسمى بدرر الحكام واستطلاع اراء فضلاء الامة العظام ... ليس الغرض الاصلي من هذه الكلمات التمدح بل الامثال بما يفهم من قوله تع واما بنعمة ربك فحدث"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع القويم بمحكمه كتابه واعلى اعلام الدين المستقيم بمعظم خطابه ..."Title from close on p.525.Ms. codex.5. fol.252b : [blank].4. fol.251b-fol.252a : Risale-yi istihlaf / Kemalpaşazade.3. fol.251a : [originally blank, now carries various excerpts].2. fol.5a-fol.250b : Durar al-ḥukkām / Molla Hüsrev.1. fol.1a-fol.4b : [added table of contents].Fine copy of Muḥammad ibn Farāmurz Mullā Khusraw's commentary upon his own treatise on principles of Ḥanafī legal practice, Ghurar al-aḥkām, followed by a brief treatise by Kemalpaşazade on a question concerning qāḍīs.
Book compiled by Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Kibsī. Ownership note, dated 1954.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير بني غامق اللون عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد وقد بدأ جلده في التآكل من طرف المخطوط جهة خيوط الحباكة وعليه آثار بلل وهو متنوع الخطوط وأحجام الخطوط والنُسَّاخ متعددون وعليه آثار بلل ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرCompiled volume, works of various origins and copyists. Naskh, Persian naskh and thuluth scripts, written in black and red ink. Traces of water damage and worm holes. Obscured labeling on the edge of the manuscript.
Includes ownership note, dated July, 1954.جيدة ، وهو مغلف بقماش أسود ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأزرق والأحمرخطت الكتب وجمعت في حدود سنة 1380هـIncipit: صور الشفعةExplicit: براهين الكتاب والأمهات فيما يجب للعتره من المعاملاتPersian naskh script, written in black, blue and red ink.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law, preceded by a fihrist on leaf 1a.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 9.Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in naskh and nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Numerous replacements of full or partial leaves. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: Juzʼ 1 completed 2 Shawwāl 940 H 16 April 1534, by Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Harawī (leaf 199b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي انطق السنتنا بحمده
Abstract: Treatise comprising an introduction, ten books (kitāb) and ten sections (bāb) on fiqh (Shāfiʻī), completed on Thursday 29 Shaʻbān 856 H. (see fol. 144b). Identical with Chester Beatty, no. 3207. The text is followed by a biographical treatise by the same author on the Shafiʻī judges in Miṣr and al-Shām since the beginning of the rule of the Turks in 648 H. (fol. 145b-150b; presented on fol. 144b).Binding note: Only the leather spine is extant.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b, l. 28-29).35 to 37 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink, with use of red for headings and re-inking. Dark cream glazed paper with laid lines and chain lines visible. Table of contents (incomplete) on fol. 3b. Collation notes. Annotations on smaller pieces of paper between some leaves (see between fol. 28 and 29, 85 and 86). Fol. 1a-3a: several additions (fāʼidah). Fol. 151b: prayer. Some leaves are damaged (see fol. 11b), others are missing (see between fol. 3 and 4). Ownership statement on fol. 2a. Fol. 1a: label with inscription in Arabic "Dimashq 174". Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.The author says he entered the field in 822 H. (see fol. 3b, l. 25-26).Incipit: بسم ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله الحمد لله الذى خلق الانسان وعلمه البيان واطلق فيه اللسان وفهّمه الاحكام لاقامة شرايع الاسلام ... اما بعد فان العدالة والقضايا من الوظايف الخطيرةExplicit (fol. 144b): وللولي النظر الخاص فى الامور الجزيبة التى لا يجبط بها قاعدة فاستفده انتهى هذا ما تيسر جمعه والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب
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. 282Origin: As appears in colophon on p.373, copied by Ibn marḥūm Abū al-Khayr [?] Āshtiyānī al-Qummī Yaʻqūb with transcription completed in Āshtiyān in 22 Muḥarram 1252 [ca. 9 May 1836].Former shelfmark: "17/4" in ink on 'title page' (p.1) ; "103 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on final leaf (p.376).Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork, spine in quite dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; two-piece binding (overlapping flanges visible) ; doublures in fine painted lacquerwork with paintings of a tall narcissus-like plant with leaves in shades of green and flowers and buds in yellow with pink accents at the head of a central stalk, flanked by smaller pink flowers, all on a red ground with border in black with gold accents (composition of upper doublure mirrors that of lower doublure) ; upper and lower covers bear paintings of nearly identical floral composition in mirror image to one another on a deep golden-orange or bronze-colored background, namely a central cluster of peonies, poppies, tulips, etc. with additional buds and floral forms filling the main panel all in shades of pink, light blue, lavender, and white with leaves in various shades of green, and surrounded by decorative band of floral vegetal motifs on a deep golden-orange or bronze-colored ground framed in black borders with gold accents ; sewn in light red (opening nine and final six quires) and spring green thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light red and spring green, fair condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion and losses to lacquerwork and pasteboard, cracking and crazing of lacquer, minor delamination at board corners, breakage and losses at joints where spine leather meets boards, spine almost fully detached except where primaries are sewn through spine lining, etc. ; not flush with text block, slightly tall and wide ; housed in box for protection.Support: European machine laid paper mainly with chain lines 21 mm. apart and "laid lines" in a cross-hatch pattern, watermarks include "BENto PICARDO" (see p.4, 12, 358, etc.), scrollwork with motif resembling diamond flanked by C's and 1833 below (see p.364, etc. compare motif as appears in Heawood nos. 3728 and 3747), and six-pointed star with eFIGLI below (see p.352, 370) ; crisp, transluscent though sturdy, light cream with tinge of gray, well-burnished.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the title in black ("ديوان امير معزى") flanked by arabesque motifs in gold, red and blue, surmounted by a scalloped dome filled with swirling arabesque in gold with red and blue accents, all set in a well of gold and black bands framing red vegetal accents ; written area surrounded by a frame of gold bands defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule, columns within also defined by gold bands.Script: Nastaʻlīq (with elements of shikastah-nastaʻlīq) ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless, with slight effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes, freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page, written area mainly divided to two columns; frame-ruled.Collation: 6 IV(48), III+2 (56), 15 IV(176), 2 III(188) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink in the upper outer margin of the verso of the final leaf of each quire ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "بتاريخ يوم دوشنبه بيست و دويم شهر محرم الحرام هزار و دويست و پنجاه و دو هجرى در قريه اشتيان صورت اتمام پديرفت حرره العبد اقل ابن مرحوم ابو الخير [؟] آشتيانى القمى يعقوب ..."Explicit: "بهر جشنى كه بنشينى سعادت همنشين بادت بهر راهى كه بخرامى سلامت راهبر بادت"Incipit: "ستاره سجده برد طلعت منير ترا زمانه بوسه دهد پايه سرير ترا ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Muʻizzī (Amīr Muʻizzī), Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik (d. between 1125-7).
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. 344Origin: As appears in colophon on p.172, copied by Ḥusayn ibn Shams al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī with transcription completed in haste ("ʻalá sabīl al-istiʻjāl...") Rabīʻ II 868 [November-December 1463].Former shelfmark: "447 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in brown leather with gold-painted central ornament (four-petalled flower), rule-border and accents, as well as border in blind rules ; upper and lower covers carry central blind-tooled scalloped mandorla having fleurons in the manner of a three-sepaled calyx at the upper and lower extremities and filled with interlace pattern (compare Weisweiler W 89-95) all defined in a simple gold-painted rule, as well as tooled border in a series of rules and s-shaped stamps ; sewn in light blue thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, faint, somewhat indistinct) and grouped chain lines faintly visible (likely in pairs), sturdy and well-burnished, dark cream in color.Decoration: Headings chrysographed.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 11-12 lines per page, mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6), III+1 (13), III (19), II (23), IV (31), I (33), III (39), 3 IV(63), III (69), VIII+1 (86), I (88) ; miscellany of ternions, quaternions, etc. ; catchwords occasionally present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads "وقد وقع الفراغ من هذه الديوان على سبيل الاستعجال بيد اضعف عباد الله الغنى حسين بن شمس الحسينى الجرجانى تجاوز الله عن سيائه وذلك فى شهر ربيع الثانى لسنه ثمان وستين وثمانمائة هجرية"Explicit: "چون تو بر اسرار دیماهی [؟] علیم ختم شد استغفر الله العظیم"Incipit: [Dīvān-i Fattāḥī] "شراب عشق صافی گشت در خمخانه دلها الا یا ایها الساقی ادر کاسا و ناولها ..." ; [Muntakhab-i Shabistān-i khayāl] "بعد از لوازم توبه واستغفار ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.6. p.156-p.176 : [further verses opening "بنام آهنگ از خمهای افلاک شراب فیض فطرت ریخت بر خاک " and likely comprising Dīvān-i Khumārī mentioned on the title page].5. p.153-p.155 : [blank].4. p.65-p.152 : [further poems, likely comprising the Dīvān-i asrār mentioned on the title page].3. p.58-p.65 : [Muntakhab-i Shabistān-i khayāl] / Ḥakīm al-Dīn al-Asrārī.2. p.54-p.57 : [blank].1. p.2-p.53 : [Dīvān-i Fattāḥī] / Muḥammad Yaḥyá ibn Sībak.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Muḥammad Yaḥyá ibn Sībak (d. 1448 or 9), known mainly as Fattāḥī, as well as Tuffāḥī, Asrārī or Khumārī, accompanied by other excerpts.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 340Origin: According to colophon on p.503, supposedly copied by Muḥammad Masīḥ Shīrāzī with transcription completed 17 Muḥarram "٨٠۴" [ca. 27 August 1401], which seems impossible given Kalīm's dates ; 17 Muḥarram 1084 [i.e. ca. 4 May 1673] may have been intended. Ownership statement on 'title page' (p.1) provides a terminus ante quem of 1684.Former shelfmark: "121 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather seemingly covered with lacquer ; Type II binding (with flap) ; two-piece binding (overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; doublures in dark red leather gold-tooled with oval central ornament, crosses above and below, corner accents and border (all built up of small annular stamp) defined by gold rules ; upper and lower covers carry stamped central lozenge, pendants and cornerpieces (central lozenge and cornerpieces filled with composition of vegetal designs surrounding bird) painted red and bronze-gold and layered with lacquer, as well as border in gold-painted vegetal designs defined by gold fillets ; sewn in golden yellow and blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in golden yellow and blue thread ; overall in somewhat poor condition with envelope flap almost fully detached from fore edge flap (losses at joint), some lifting and losses of lacquer and leather, abrasion, losses and delamination of boards at edges, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct) and irregular chain lines visible, dense and sturdy though thin, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; flyleaves in European laid paper ; extensive pest damage in final seven leaves ; flyleaves in European laid paper.Decoration: Superb illuminated double-page opening on p.2-3 with headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by gold pendants surrounded by delicate floral vegetal decoration in orange, yellow, lavender, white, and red on a lapis and gold ground, surmounted by elongated scalloped dome filled with chi cloud and floral motifs in gold, orange, light blue, white, lavender, etc. surrounding pink pendants, all set in a well of now dark brownish blue with white accents flanked by narrow blue and gold bands ; marginal decoration of gold-painted plants and animals (lion, fox, rabbit, phoenix, antelope, etc.) completes the double-page illumination ; another exquisite illuminated headpiece at opening of ghazals on p.250 ; written area throughout surrounded by gold frame with blue outermost rule, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands ; text of written area of double page opening set off by gold cloud-bands, elsewhere flecked with gold ; gold-painted vegetal and animal decoration at close of some sections (see pp.249 and 491).Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a medium line, compactly filling the line ; characteristically serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in conjoined dots, point of final nūn set down in wide, slightly angled bowl.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page with written area often divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 9 IV(72), III (78), 9 IV(150), III (156), 6 IV(204), III+1 (211), 2 IV(227), IV+1 (236), 2 IV(252), i ; chiefly quaternions ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "بتاریخ هفدهم شهر محرم الحرام سنه ٨٠۴ سمت تحریر یافت علی ید الاحقر بل اللاشی محمد مسیح شیرازی م م م"Explicit: " آرایش روزگار امروز ازوست بر روی زمانه زلف پر پیچ و خمیست"Incipit: "شوق هر کس را که در راه طلب سر میدهد گر در آرد اول از پا آخرش پرمیهد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the collected poems of Kalīm Abū Ṭālib (d. 1651). Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 407Origin: As appears in colophon on p.584, transcription of Dīvān-i Khvājah-i Salmān completed 3 Ramaḍān 823 [ca. 11 September 1420], apparently by one Furṣat Gharīb. All other texts seemingly transcribed by the same copyist. As appears in colophon in margin on p.221, transcription of Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ completed 20 Ramaḍān 823 [ca. 28 September 1420].Former shelfmark: "97 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "٢٢٧" on tail edge of text block.Binding: Pasteboards faced in fine silk textile (in red with green stripes defining rectangular panels containing floral motifs) with dark red leather over spine, fore edge, and edges / turn-ins (silk faced and leather edged framed binding) ; accompanied by slipcase faced in black coated and textured paper (embosed with scroll / interlace pattern) and edged in dark maroon leather, lined in printed marbled paper and fitted with yellow woven pull cord ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in bright red coated and textured paper (embossed with a scroll / interlace pattern virtually identical to that on the slipcase) ; decorative border on leather of upper and lower covers consisting of tooled and gold-painted band in chain pattern and gold and white-painted dome and stroke accents ; fore edge and envelope flaps are similarly decorated ; flap of slipcase carries contents ("اسامى ديوانچها كه در اين مجموعه ديوان سلمان حاشو ديوان حافظ ديوان كمال ديوان عصمت") with the four titles set among vegetal decoration (painted in gold, slate blue and white) ; gold-painted vegetal pattern on edges of text block ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and pink, in fair condition though tail band is detaching due to damage to primaries ; overall in fairly good condition with pest damage at spine, minor abrasion to fore edge flap, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, fairly indistinct) and no chain lines visible, cloudy formation, quite crisp, thin and trasluscent though sturdy, well-burnished ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Superb double-page illuminated at opening (pp.2-3) consisting of four rectangular pieces carrying verses in gold tawqīʻ and ornamented with delicate floral motifs and a border of lozenges mainly in blue, gold and white above and below the central written area (also bordered in lozenges with delicate vegetal designs in gold) ; further illuminated cartouches carrying headings (in particular at openings of dīvāns of Ḥāfiẓ, Kamāl, and ʻIsmat on pp.2, 222, and 474) appear in the margin ; additional illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of ghazals on p.380, consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying heading in gold "غزليات مولانا جمال الدين سلمان" surrounded by delicate floral vegetal motifs in shades of blue, pink, white, gold, red, etc. on grounds of blue, black, etc. ; written area, margins and divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords and headings chrysographed ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes ; illuminated arabesques accent margins.Script: Naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq ; compact hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless and fairly vertical with elongation of horizontal strokes, some sweeping descenders, rāʼ somewhat elongated and slightly reversed, many closed counters, pointing mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, occasionally kāf is written as vertical stroke with miniature kāf seated above (effect of the whole being resemblance to hamzah seated on alif), interesting form of dāl-rāʼ (در) in which rāʼ is nested in dāl and 'horizontal' stroke of dāl is angled and parallel to stroke of rāʼ ; most headings in an elegant, highly ligatured tawqīʻ.Layout: Varies ; at opening of codex written with mainly 21 lines per page (divided into two columns) in the central written area and as many as 40 lines on the diagonal ; at close of codex written mainly in 14 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1 (7), 6 IV(55), III (61), 29 IV(293), ii ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.545-546).Colophon: [Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ] "Scribal," reads "تم ديوان ملك الشعرا املح الكلام واوضح اللسان شمس الملة والدين محمد الحافظ الشيرازى طيب الله مضجعه ورحم الله له ولكاتبه ولناظره ولمن قال امين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين في عشرين من شهر رمضان المبارك لسنة ثلاث وعشرين وثمانمائة الهجرية م" ; [Dīvān-i Khvājah-i Salmān] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الديوان على يد الفقير الحقير اقل عباد الله المجيب فرصت غريب فى الثالث من رمضان المبارك لسنه ثلاث وعشرين وثمانمائه الهجرية ٨٢٣"Incipit: [Dīvān-i Khvājah-i Salmān] "هر دل که در هوای جمالش مجال یافت عنقای همتش دو جهان زیر بال یافت ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from collation statement at close on p.584.Ms. codex.4. p.474-p.549 : Dīvān-i Khvājah ʻIsmat / Khvājah ʻNaṣīr al-Dīn ʻIṣmat Samarqandī.3. p.222-p.473 : Dīvān-i Shaykh Kamāl al-Khujandī / Kamāl Khujandī.2. p.2-p.221 : Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ / Ḥāfiẓ.1. p.2- p.584 : Dīvān-i Khvājah-i Salmān / Jamāl al-Dīn Salmān Sāvājī.Elegant majmūʻah containing an early copy of the Dīvān or collected poems of Jamāl al-Dīn Salmān Sāvājī (d.1376), the renowned panegyrist of the Jalāyirids, along with excerpts from the dīvāns of Ḥāfiẓ, Kamāl, and ʻIsmat on the ruled margins.
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).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 337Origin: As appears in closing matter (colophon including patronage statement) on pp.676-7, executed for Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār (1769-1834, r.1797-1834) ("ḥasaba al-amr amīr bī-naẓīr... Fatḥ ʻAlī Khān, al-shahīr bi-Bābā Khān, Qājār Quvānlū ... sawwadahu wa-nammaqahu..."), apparently before his ascension to the throne, by Ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Sāravī Muḥammad (author of Tārīkh-i Muḥammadī, still living in 1802) with transcription completed 23 Jumādá I 1203 [ca. 19 February 1789]. Statement dated Rabīʻ I 1232 [January-February 1817] on 'title page' (p.3) names the copyist and indicates that the manuscript was presented to the Imperial Library.Former shelfmark: "432 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "١۷" inscribed in pencil on opening leaf (p.1, serves as flyleaf) ; possible inventory inscription on fore edge of text block.Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork with spine in dark gray leather ; Type III binding (without flap), two-piece binding (overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; upper and lower doublures in fine painted lacquerwork of a central medallion evoking a four-petalled flower and pendants of vegetal design in gold on a red ground, framed in gold ; upper and lower covers bear paintings of nearly identical composition with entire panel virtually filled with swirling vines in yellow / gold, leaves of green and grapes of dark red on a pale orange ground, surrounded by vegetal borders in gold on dark red and green grounds ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red, cream and [?] (now gray), good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and losses to lacquerwork and pasteboard, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of several types ; opening type with 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 19-22 mm. apart (vertical) and watermarks of "FC" under scalloped crown (see p.8, etc.) and shield with lion rampant, "F" below and scalloped crown above (see p.10, 14, 16, etc.) ; next type with 11-13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of smiling lion passant guardant with "F" below (see p.12, 20, 22, etc.) and "FC" only (see p.26, 28, etc.) ; next (and majority) type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 19-21 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of "FL" under scalloped crown (see p.98, 120, 360, 680, etc.) and three hats (see p.100, 154, 184, 340, 488, etc.) ; all highly sized and burnished, thin and crisp though quite sturdy.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular panel with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs and swirling vegetal design in gold, red, blue, and white on fields of blue and red, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling vegetal design and floral motifs in green, lavender, orange, red, pink, and yellow on a blue and gold ground with outline and accents in white and black, all set in a well of blue with white accents ; rich illuminated marginal decoration (including inner margin) on incipit and facing page (pp.4-5) consisting of elaborate swirling floral vegetal design in green, orange, yellow, pink, lavender, and light blue on a gold ground, on incipit page (p.4) surrounding a domed medallion in gold carrying the name of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār ("السلطان فتحعلي شاه قاجار"), possibly added later upon his ascent to throne ; additional exquisite double illuminations at openings on pp.342-343 and 344-345, including headpieces and marginal decoration (on pp.344-345, marginal decoration includes birds in pink, blue and orange) ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by frame of red with gold accents, gold cloud-bands setting off the text, and vertical bands of blue and red arabesque framing the columns ; written area elsewhere surrounded by frame of gold bands defined by black fillets (columns and divisions within written area also defined by gold bands and black fillets) ; keywords and section heading rubricated ; occasional textual dividers in the form of three or four red discs.Script: Shikastah (shikastah-nastaʻlīq / شكسته نستعليق ) ; elegant Persian hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in roughly 19 lines per page, with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV (8), 34 IV(280), V+3 (293), 2 III(305), III+1 (312), 3 IV(336), II (340) ; Chiefly quaternions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal," including patronage statement, in Persian and Arabic, reads "حسب الامر امیر بی نظیر زیبنده تاج و سریر ... فتحعلی خان الشهیر ببابا خان قاجار قوانلو خلد الله سلطانته باتمام این کلیات واختتام این ابیات معجز آیات پرداخت ... سوده ونمقه العبد المحتاج الى الله الصمد ابن محمد تقى الساروى محمد في يوم الاربعا ثالث عشرون شهر جميدى الاول من شهور سنه ۱۲۰۳"Explicit: "اگر که گاه بودی محتشم را نکته آموزی"Incipit: "نفیر مرغ سحر خوان چو شد بلند صدا پرید زاغ شب از روی بیضه بیضا ..."Title from statement on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Splendid copy of the Dīvān of Muḥtasham-i Kāshānī (d.1587 or 9) executed by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Taqī Sāravī for Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār (1769-1834, r.1797-1834) before his accession to the throne.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 338Origin: As appears in inscription on 'title page' (p.1) and in colophons on p.201 and 331, copied by one ʻAbd al-Ghanī Bakrī [?]. As appears in colophon on p.201, transcription of qaṣāyid completed in Dhū Qaʻdah 1028 [October-November 1619]. As appears in colophon on p.331, transcription of later section completed Ṣafar 1029 [February 1620]. Transcription of other sections likely completed around the same time.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather with tan leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (possibly inverted recylcled cover with doublures now out) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pink-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry central mandorla and pendants in gold-painted leather filigree appliqué over blue and green paper ; now sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and spring green, fairly good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, staining, minor pest damage, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct) and occasional pairs of chain lines faintly visible, somewhat cloudy formation, thin though sturdy, beige in color, well-sized and burnished ; some leaves tinted dull yellow or pale peach ; many leaves split and repaired (e.g. written area with headpiece and catchword of incipit page have been trimmed and mounted onto another leaf, etc.).Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of dībāchah on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the title for the opening section (preface) in white ("ديباچه ديوان عرفي") flanked by elegant floral vegetal motifs in red, white, yellow, pink, lavender, and turquoise on fields of lapis lazuli and black, surmounted by a large (vertically elongated) w-shaped piece filled with superbly executed swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, red, pink, lavender, yellow, turquoise, white, and light blue on fields of lapis lazuli and gold, entire piece set into an elaborate well of red, blue, gold, white, and turquoise bands ; another exquisite illuminated headpiece at the opening of the dīvān proper (begins with the qaṣīdahs) on p.22 similar in composition to the first but with vertically elongated scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) surmounting rectangular piece, more generous use of white and turquoise, well of heavy gold interlace with turquoise and lavender accents, and vertical stalks (tīgh) in tact ; written area of dībāchah incipit and facing page surrounded by a frame consisting of a series of red, gold, black and blue fillets, with text set off by gold cloud-bands ; written area elsewhere gold-flecked and surrounded by frame in gold with outermost blue rule ; additional illuminated headpieces appear at openings of sections on p.202, 230, 334, 368.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV (8), I (10), 4 IV(42), III (48), 2 IV(64), III (70), 4 IV(102), 2 III(114), IV (122), III (128), IV (136), III (142), IV (122), III (128), IV (136), III (142), 3 IV(166), III (172), IV (180), I+1 (183), 4 IV(215), III (221), IV (229), II (233), III (239), 6 IV(287), III (293), 3 IV(317), V+1 (328) ; leaves between dībāchah and opening of dīvān left blank (pp.20-21) as well as between later sections (see pp.228-229, 332-333, 366-367) ; pp.295, 209, 351 left partially blank (perhaps for illustration never realized) ;catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "تمت القصايد العرفيه تحريرا بتاريخ شهر ذى قعده سنه ١٠٢٨ كتبه الداعى عبد الغنى بكرى [؟] اللهم اغفر [له] ولوالديه" ; "تمت فى تاريخ شهر صفر سنه ١٠٢٩ كتبه الداعى عبد الغنى"Incipit: [dībāchah] " حمدی که از نهایت شایستگی منزه از شایبه معین و تخصیص آمده اجمال آن ..." ; [dīvān, opening in the qaṣīdahs] "ای متاع درد در بازار جان انداخته ای متاع ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Exquisite (though damaged) copy of the Dīvān of ʻUrfī Shīrāzī (d.1590 or 91).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 318Origin: As appears in colophon on p.358, copied by Niẓām ibn Mīr ʻAlī with transcription completed in Rabīʻ I 1035 [December 1625].Former shelfmark: "126 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in glossy, surfaced-dyed blue wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted guillioché roll (series of s-shaped stamps) and flanking rules ; sewn in dark brown or gray thread, two stations, tightly bound ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, good condition ; housed in sturdy slipcase covered in dark purple / blue leather with tooled and gold-painted borders and rosette accents, lined with yellow paper and fitted with peach / orange woven pull cord ; overall in fairly good condition ; one narrow side of slipcase detaching.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct) and occasional single chain lines visible, dense and sturdy though transluscent, medium cream in color, well-burnished ; some creasing, tears and cockling due to tight binding ; repairs in European laid paper and wove paper.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpieces at opening of preface on p.2 and at opening of dīvān proper (with ghazals) on p.9, each consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surmounted by rectangular piece filled with scalloped domes in gold and lapis all overlaid with swirling floral vegetal decoration in red, yellow, green, light blue, etc., set in a rich well of heavy gold interlace and turquoise, dark red / brown, and gold bands, and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; text of incipit and facing page at opening of preface and opening of dīvān set off by gold cloud-bands ; written area surrounded by gold frame of medium gold band and outermost gold and blue fillets, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black ; keywords and headings chrysographed ; some overlining in gold.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; spacious, elegant hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with gentle descent of words to baseline, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, point of final nūn set down in somewhat narrow, slightly angled bowl.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 22 IV (176), II-1 (179), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; cathwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت بعون الله الملک الغنی فی ید العبد المذنب نظام ابن میر علی غفر ذنوبه فی تاریخ شهر ربیع الاول سنه خمس وثلثین والف من الهجرت النبویهExplicit: "گفتم سخن تو گفت حافظ گفتا شادی همه لطیفه گویان صلوات"Incipit: "حمد بیحد و ثناى بیعد خداوندی را که جمیع دیوان حافظان ارزاق بپروانه ..."Title from inscriptions on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of the masterful poet Ḥāfiẓ (Khvājah Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, d.1390?). Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 342Origin: As appears in colophon on p.421, copied by Maqṣūd ʻAlī Shīrāzī with transcription completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1106 [July-August 1695].Former shelfmark: "123 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather (pebbled, in style of shagreen) with red-brown leather over edges / spine (possibly repairs or at least added later) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in dark red brown leather with central mandorla in gold-painted filigree appliqué (composition with two birds) over blue paper as well as pendants and gold-painted border ; outermost flyleaves in marbled paper (mainly blue and green) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (with recessed onlays) and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition having crane-like bird at center) and pendants, as well as tooled and gold-painted borders ; now sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, quite good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper cover fully detached at joint, lower cover almost fully detached at joint, much abrasion, some lifting and losses of leather (filigree, etc.) ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and no chain lines clearly visible, cloudy formation, well-burnished, thin and transluscent, crisp though sturdy ; in latter quires, another type with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, more distinct, curved) and irregular chain lines in pairs (see p.222, etc.).Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of qaṣāyid on p.2 consisting of large rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying title in white ("قصاید صایب سلمه الله تعالى") surrounded by elegant vegetal composition in gold, orange-red, yellow, lavender, white, etc. on fields of lapis lazuli, red, and turquoise with white and black accents, surmounted by w-shaped piece filled with swirling vegetal composition in gold, orange-red, yellow, white, lavender, turquoise, etc. on fields of lapis lazuli and gold, all set in a well of blue, red and white ; incipit and facing page carry fine illuminated marginal decoration consisting of swirling vegetal compositionwith sāz leaves and floral motifs mainly in gold with lapis lazuli, red and turquoise accents ; text of incipit and facing page set off by gold cloud-bands ; written area (including columns within) throughout surrounded by gold frame defined by black and outermost blue fillets ; another splendid illuminated headpiece at opening of ghazalīyāt on p.16 (with written area, mounted in replacement leaf).Script: Nastaʻlīq ; 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 mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV-1 (7, opening leaf pasted down), 16 IV(135), III (141), 8 IV(205), IV-1 (212), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between p.215-216).Colophon: "Scribal," mainly in Arabic, reads "تمت الغزليات قدوة المتأخرين حضرت صايب الملقب به مستعد خان سلمه الله تعالى بتاريخ شهر ذي حجه الحرام سنه ۱۰۶ كتبه الفقير مقصود على شيرازى تم"Incipit: "تا نگردیدست خورشید قیامت آشکار مشت آبی زن بروی خود ز چشم اشکبار..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the collected poems (mainly qaṣīdahs and ghazals) of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʻAlī Ṣāʼib (d.1676?).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 868Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand, paper, etc. may suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Z̤ahīr, Abū Naṣr, Fāryābī | Dīvān. | n. f. in Mich. MSS." (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) Husselman notes" (paginated pp.5-6).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 17Binding: Boards covered in red cloth with dark red-orange leather over spine and board corners (half binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a sponge 'marbled' (mottled, cloudy appearance) laid paper in shades of red, pink and yellow ; head edge of text block gilt ; spine carries raised bands and gold-stamped "ZAHĪR AD-DĪN FĀRYĀBĪ | MS." ; sewn in white thread over five recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands in dark green ; overall in good condition.Support: non-European laid paper (much repaired) with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, indistinct, some curving) and chain lines faintly visible, cloudy formation, sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; flyleaves and replacement leaves in European laid paper ; some pest damage.Decoration: Section headings rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless with effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, quite rounded ; headings in a large, elegant naskh.Layout: Written mainly in 15 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; decorative layout toward the latter part of the work with fewer lines and every other line on the diagonal (see p.243, etc.).Collation: iii, IV+1-3+3 (9), 9 IV(81), II (85), IV+1 (94), 2 IV(110), IV-2+2 (118), 3 IV(142), i ; original fragment almost exclusively quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black strokes, lower outer corner of right-hand leaf, upper outer corner of left-hand leaf ; numerous blank replacement leaves have been inserted where original fragment was lacking ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (upper outer corner of verso of each original leaf) ; foliation in black ink, Western numerals (in upper margin of verso of each original leaf) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts, flyleaves and added leaves and mistakenly skips ahead four pages following p.15 with p.20).Incipit: "طغرل بن ارسلان ملک الشعرا ظهیر الدین فی مدح السلطان چو زهره وقت صبوح از افق بسازد جنگ زمانه راست [تیز] کند ناله مرا آهنگ ..."Title from inscriptions on 'title page' (p.13).Ms. codex.Fine though fragmentary copy of the Dīvān of the court poet Ẓahīr al-Dīn Abū al-Faz̤l Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Fāryābī (d.1201).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 642Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.139b, copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad min al-Baladay An...[?]. Transcription finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min naskhih...") Wednesday, 10 Jumādá I 887 [ca. 27 June 1482]. As appears in ex libris on fol.1a, copied for ("bi-rasm") ʻAlā’ī al-Dīn ibn ...[?] Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shahīd al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Sa‘īdī.Former shelfmark: From inner margin of fol.1a "IL 132a" and spine label, "IL 132" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather (goatskin) with red leather (goatskin) repairs; Type II (with flap) though flap is now missing; may be original, given the contemporaneous dating of the similar cover on Chester Beaty Library Moritz Collection 60 (see Bosch, Carswell, & Petherbridge no.77, p.201); upper and lower cover bear a design blind-tooled with gold paint, consisting of of frame, central scalloped mandorla, and accents; frame has a central motif made with interlocking S-shaped stamps, two fillets on either side, and an innermost fifth fillet painted gold; corners of the frame are marked with diagonal lines of small crosses, similar to the ones on the titlepiece; at center is 10-lobed mandorla, the scallops of which have a double gold painted outline, as well as small circles at the apex of each scallop and small crosses where the ends of each scallop meet; ogival points have simple, three-pointed calyxes atop slightly arched crossbars; interior of the mandorla bears another calyx with additional ogival calyxes, which are also painted gold on the upper cover; within the mandorla an elaborate filled pattern is present, but difficult to see; doublures are of a slightly lighter brown leather, have four-fillet frames and bear small, hand-tooled, sixteen-lobed shamsas with clearly visible centering lines that extend to the edges of the innermost fillet of the frames; in poor condition.Support: non-European laid paper, at least three types are used; one paper is rather thick with chainlines running horizontally in alternating groups of 2 and 3, individual chainlines spaced 11 mm. apart and groups spaced roughly 40 mm. apart; another paper seems quite similar except for having been tinted a brownish-ochre; third paper is of a similar color to the second, but smaller, thinner, more highly burnished, and rather ragged at the edges; the tinted papers appear to have been laid into the quires to embellish the copy.Decoration: Titlepiece on fol.1a consists of a rectangular panel bearing the title in red tawqīʻ above a central panel bearing a circular medallion (shamsah) with 'pendants' (Weisweiler class. 57-60) bordered in gold-painted black double-lines filled with a central pattern of small crosses and carrying an ex libris in red tawqīʻ; piece is framed with an outermost red fillet, a gold-filled double black line, a central series of equilateral crosses that seem to recall blind-tooling techniques, another gold-filled double black line, and final, innermost red fillet; text is polychrome with the main text in black and a variety of other colors used in various combinations for the headings and the dots separating the hemistitches, often with some sort of scheme of alternating colors; in the opening quires, both the chapter headings and the dots are in red, but in subsequent quires the dots may be red while the titles are in lime green;a slate-blue color also often appears; often the dots will be outlined in either black or yellowish-white ink; obviously executed with careful attention.Script: Naskh; small to medium Turkish hand with thin, elongated ascenders and elongated, swooping descenders; generally sans serif; quite legible; fully vocalized; text of titlepiece in tawqīʻ script.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page; single column but with the hemistitches divided by colored dots to appear as two columns; frame-ruled.Collation: IV (8), V (18), IV (26), 3 V (56), IV (64), III (70), V + 1 (81), IV (89), II (93), 2 III (105), 3 V (135), II (139); catchwords lacking; pagination in pencil, Western numerals supplied in cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الديوان المبارك بحمد لله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاربعا عاشر جمادى الاول من شهور سنة سبعة وثمانين وثمانة ماية وكتبه العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد بن محمد من [؟] البلدي انكورية [...؟]"Explicit: " فنحن نحكم ولا يحكم علينا شيء"Incipit: "حروف الهمزة قال رضي الله عنا به حققت عهد مجيتي [كذا] وولاي بشهود توحيدي وحكم وفاي"Title from titlepiece on fol.1a.Ms. codex.Collected poetry of the Ṣūfī shaykh and poet ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Wafāʼ (d.1405), arranged alphabetically according to the final letter of each bayt. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 634Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.368b (p.736), copied by Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad [...?]. Transcription finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min naskhih...") Saturday 20 [?] Jumādá II 1176 [ca. 6 January 1763] in Bilād al-bayt [?].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 126" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in darkened red-brown leather (color of envelope flap a much more vibrant red), repairs to spine and interior of fore edge flap in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and interior of envelope flap in laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled central circular piece (composition quite similar to Déroche class. NSv 1 or 2) with pendants and simple frame ; in somewhat poor condition with fore-edge flap detaching from lower cover and envelope flap, repairs to joints between the covers and the spine, much abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with laid lines running horiztonally spaced roughly 13 laid lines in 20 mm. and chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 23-25 mm. apart ; lightly burnished.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red discs ; text rubricated with section titles, occasional paragraphs in prose at the beginnings of new sections, and textual dividers in red.Script: Naskh ; fine Syrian or Turkish hand (?) ; virtually sans serif with occasional right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and left-sloping head-serifs on alif of lām alif ligature ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; elongated, horizontal character with contrast between thicker horizontal strokes and thinner vertical strokes.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; poetry often arranged in two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-4(6), 16 V (166), II (170), III (176), 19 V (366), I (368), i ; chiefly quinions ; at least one bifolium and very likely two bifolia are missing from the center of the first quire in the introductory matter of the text (missing text corresponds to p.7-13 of the 1854 Būlāq edition) ; catchwords present but occasionally lost to trimming ; traces of perhaps an earlier foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals (see p.391, 583, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من نسخه ببلاد [؟] البيت بعد صلاة المغرب عشرين [؟] في جماذ [كذا] الثاني على يد محمد بن الشيخ محمد [..؟] من شهور سنة 1176"Explicit: "وما تلى عبد الغني المديح به يخص ذلك الفريح"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي فتح خزائن الامكان بمفاتيح الكرم والامتنان واظهر سره المكنون بين الكاف والنون انما امره لشيئ اذا اراده ان يقول كن فيكون"Title from inscription of 'title page' fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.The first bāb of the collected poems of the author, Dīwān al-dawāwīn wa-rayḥān al-rayāḥīn fī tajallīyat al-ḥaqq al-mubīn, with a poem praising Ibn al-ʻArabī at the close. Description provided by Maxim Romanov.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 246Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.210b (p.420), copied by Sulaymān ibn Yūnus ibn Khaṭṭāb ibn Shaḥḥādhah [?] ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥurayz al-Satafī [?] al-Mālikī. Transcription finished "wa-kāna al-farāgh min istinsākh hādhā al-dīwān..." 14 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1016 [ca. 31 March 1608].Accompanying materials: a. between pp. 322-23 folded slip with numerals, etc. -- b. between pp.404-405 slip in laid paper with verses copied in ruqʻah.Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves as well as interior of envelope flap in shell marbled paper (pink, brown and white) ; interior of fore edge flap in same brown leather ; upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central piece and decorative border (formed from two repeating vegetal pattern stamps and interlocking architectural pattern stamp) along with pendants and corner pieces (formed from a repeated scrolling floral pattern stamp) ; envelope flap bears complementary design formed from same stamps ; sewn in cream thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and blue ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, fading, some pest damage, loss to endbands, and spine slant (cocked) ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper ; laid lines oriented horizontally or vertically (some variation from quire to quire) spaced roughly 7-9 laid lines per cm. (also varying) with some sagging or curving ; chain lines very feint and indistinct but occasionally visible - may be grouped ; quite firm, somewhat crisp, and of medium translucency ; well burnished ; only a few inclusions and undissolved fibers visible ; flyleaves in European laid paper, laid lines vertical spaced roughly 11 laid lines per cm. ; chain lines horizontal spaced 30 mm. apart ; large shield/scrollwork (six pointed star within) watermark partially visible in back flyleaf.Decoration: Illuminated titlepiece on fol.1a (p.1) consisting of upper and lower rectangular panels with central roundel (shamsah) ; upper panel bears title in gold thuluth ; shamsah bears author's name,etc. in blue and gold, highly ligatured tawqi verging on thuluth ; lower panel continues blessings upon the author in gold thuluth ; outlined by vegetal accents in blue ; framed in pink band with blue crosses and a series of gold bands outlined with black fillets ; superbly executed illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of rectangular panel surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) surmounted by vertical stalks (tigh) in blue and gold ; rectangular panel contains stylized cartouche in gold carrying title "ديوان شعر ابي الطيب" in white, surrounded by floral vegetal decoration in gold, orange-red, white, light blue, etc. on a field of lapis lazuli flanked by semi-circular pieces in light-blue and gold ; semi-circular piece carries floral vegetal design in gold, orange-red, pink, white, etc. on fields of lapis lazuli and gold ; bordered in a well with blue crosses on a pink band ; between the two pieces a rectangular band floral vegetal decoration in gold, blue, orange-red, and white on a field of black ; written area and margin (including decoratively arranged lines) framed in a series of gold bands flanked by black fillets ; incipit and facing page various floral designs in orange-red, blue, white, green, and gold ; partially chrysographed with section (divisions by letter) headings in gold ; text of titlepiece in gold and blue ; text rubricated with verse headings, numerals corresponding to glosses, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; large, clear hand of Persianate character (Iraqi ?) ; mainly sans serif but with occasional right-sloping head serif on free-standing alif, lām of definite article, etc. and left-sloping head serif on joined alif, etc. (irregular), kāf mashqūqah preferred, but mabsūṭah also appears, slight effect of inclination to the left, elongation of horizontal strokes, some sweeping descenders, quite rounded and curvilinear, pointing in distinct dots, point of final / free-standing nūn set down in bowl ; fully vocalized ; glosses of very similar character only thinner line and smaller size (likely supplied by same copyist).Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; single column, often divided to two to set off poetry, and fine ruled margin with lines arranged obliquely in decorative geometric patterns (triangles, zig-zag, etc.) ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V-1(9), 19 V(199), VI(211), ii ; chiefly quinions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular then rectangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من استنساخ هذا الديوان المبارك رابع عشر شهر ذي القعدة من شهور سنة ستة عشر والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلات والسلام تم وعلى يد العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى سليمان بن المرحوم يونس بن خطاب بن شحاذة بن محمد بن حذير الستفي المالكي غفر الله له ولوالديه ومشايخه واخوانه ولمن طالع فيه ودعا لم [كذا] بالمغفرة ولكل المسلمين اجمعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وسلم"Explicit: "ومثلك يؤتى من بلاد بعيدة ليضحك ربات الحداد البواكيا. وقال ايضا يمدح سيف الدولة ... وكانه جيش ابن حرب رعته حتى كانك يا علي علي. تم شعر ابي الطيب برياذاته والحمد لله كما هو اهله. يقول كاتب اصله المنقول منه هذه النسخة نقلت هذا الديوان من نسختين ..."Incipit: "قافية الهمزة قال ابو الطيب احمد بن الحسين المتنبى رحمه الله ومولده بالكوفة في كندة سنة ثلث وثلثماية يمدح سيف الدولة وكان امره باجازة ابيات على هذا الوزن وهذا الروي شعر عذل العواذل حول قلبي التائه وهوى الاحبة منه في سودائه ..."Title from titlepiece on fol.1b (p.2).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the renowned dīwān and glosses, closing with a discussion of the source material for the recension contained in the model from which this manuscript was transcribed.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 646Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 19th century, perhaps late 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4).Former shelfmarks: From verso of front flyleaf and spine label, "IL 122" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Wooden boards covered in dark mahogany leather ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in dark green and cream mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look) ; raised spine ridges ; sewn in cream thread, six stations ; stuck-on endbands ; textile bookmark (register) attached to spine at head ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion at board edges, etc.Support: European wove paper ; some moisture damage and blocking.Decoration: Written area surrounded by triple rule-border in red and blue (two innermost red rules and outermost blue rule) ; columns within the written area defined by red rules.Script: Ruqʻah ; serifless, only very slight tilt to the left, effect of occasional words descending to baseline, letterforms mainly characteristic of ruqʻah, pointing in strokes (horizontal stroke for two dots, stroke resembling inverted comma for three dots) rather than distinct dots, somewhat freely ligatured ; rare passages in naskh (see pp.414-415).Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page ; written area divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 45 V(450), i ; chiefly quinions ; final five leaves unruled and left blank ; quire numbering in the form of Hind-Arabic numerals accompanied by ك at the center head of the written area of the opening recto of each quire from the eighth (see p.145, 165, etc.) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and eventually off by 100 pages, dropping from p.511 to p.412).Explicit: "لا سيما مع شيء يطنطن وشيء في القرصال [؟] يبقبق"Incipit: "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم قال الشيخ الامام العلامة وحيد دهره وفريد عصره بدر الدين محمد بن برهان الدين ابراهيم الشهير بالبدر البشتكي اسبغ الله ظلاله اما بعد الحمد لله المتفرد بالجمال [المفرد بالجلال] والصلاة والسلام على محمد جامع محاسن الكمال ... وبعد فيقول [الفقير] الى كرم مولاه الغني به عما سواه محمد بن ابراهيم بن محمد البدر البشتكي غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه هذا ديوان شعر شيخنا العلامة جمال الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن حسن ابن ابي الحسن بن صالح بن يحيى بن طاهر بن محمد ابن الخطيب عبد الرحمن بن نباته المصري ... قافية الهمزة قال يمدح سيدنا محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم وشرف ومجد وكرم شجون نحوها العشاق فاؤا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from preface on p.5.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collected poems of Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī (d.1366), compiled by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bashtakī (d.1426 or 7) from the main collection made by the poet himself and other smaller collections.
Abstract: Commentary on Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah, a collection of ḥadīth arranged by topic by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Baghawī (d. 516/1122).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper cover, with a large central stamped mandorla and an outer border consisting of fillets and a running pattern of impressions of a inverted s-shape stamp. Paper over paper pasteboards with brown leather edges for lower cover (severely damaged). Paper pastedown. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from preamble (fol. 1b).Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small round naskh in black ink with use of red. Larger script for headings. Cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 1a-b. Dampness damage.Origin: Copy completed by Binyāmīn ibn mawlānā Ibrāhīm on Saturday(?) 27 Ṣafar 871 1466 (colophon, fol. 200b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى شرح صدور العالمين لانوار السنة والكتاب واوضح بلطايف صنعه للعالمين مسالك الخير ومناهج الصواب ... وبعد فانّ العبد المفتقر الى الله الغنى عثمان بن حاجى بن محمد الهروى تاب الله عليه وعلى ابائه يقول --؟ تقرر باتفاق -- واطباق ذوى العلم والعقل ان من اشرف العلوم منزلة وارفعها درجة واوضحها منارا ... 3أ ... قال الشيخ الامام الاجل السيد محىى السنة ركن الاسلام ناصر الحديث قدوة الامة ابو محمد الحسين بن مسعود البغوى نعمة الله عليه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده افتتح الكتاب بعد التيمن بالتسمية بالحمد لله بركا لقوله تع لرسوله قل الحمد لله وسلامه على عبادهExplicit: فالمتاخرون بزلوا انفسهم فى التلخيص والتحرير وصرفوا عمرهم فى التقرير والتاكيد فكل مغفور و سعيهم مشكور و اجرهم موفور ونسئلك اللهم المغفرة انك غفور شكور
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. 45Origin: As appears in colophon on p.131, transcription finished ("qad istarāḥa qalam al-tabyīḍ ʻan al-taswīd..." see p.129) 15th Jumādá I 1173 [ca. 4 January 1760]. The copyist is not identified. The author is named on fol.1b (p.2) and appears to be the Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ayyūb al-Izmīrī named by Kaḥḥālah (see ed. Dimashq, 1957 p.29).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No.5. Hizb al-bahr, with commentary."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with red leather for spine and turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) though flap now missing ; board linings in yellow European laid paper, hinges in brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central panel in lozenge shape filled with floral design ; sewing in red thread, two stations ; only traces of primaries (in yellow) remain, otherwise endbands lost ; in fair condition though upper cover is detaching from spine, much abrasion, staining, and some delaminating of boards.Support: European laid paper with chain lines running horizontally evenly spaced roughly 24 mm. apart and laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 12 laid lines per cm. ; highly burnished with burnishers marks evident ; three hats watermark (compare Heawood 2596-2599) visible in second to final quire particularly (see p.108, 110, etc.) ; scrollwork / shield watermark partially visible also.Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of rectangular piece with empty cartouche surmounted by semicircular piece with floral vegetal design in pink and gold, surmounted by gold stalks ; decorative frame on incipit and facing page consists of a series of gold bands and black fillets, thereafter a plain rule-border in red ink ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; text rubricated with section headings, key words, textudal dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with occasional left sloping head serif on alif of lām alif ligature ; rounded with a very slight tilt to the left.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 6 V (60), IV-1 (67) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization).Colophon: "Scribal", triangular, reads: "قد استراح قلم التبييض عن التسويد ومن الله التكميل بالقبول والتسديد وله الحمد على جميع نعمه بلا غاية ولا تحديد ... تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة ۱۱۷۳ في ۱٥ جمادى الاولى"Explicit: "رب العالمين خالق الخلائق ومصلحها وسيدها"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل ... العلماء العارفين احرازا في [؟] ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى الغني القدير احمد بن عمر الداعى في الازمير [؟] عفا عنهما العلي الكبير لما كان الحزب الجليل والحرز الجميل لامامنا الكامل الجلي الشيخ ابو الحسن الشاذلي ... ومع هذا قد شرحه المتبحرون واقتفى اثرهم المقلدون لكن لم يشهر منها ما يروى الجنان التمس منى بعض الاخوان زاد كما لاتهم الملك المنان ان اكتب عليه نبذة من الفرائد ... و لما تم بحمد الله الاكبر سميته فتح العلي البر شرح الحزب البحر ... ثم ان شيخنا ..."Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Early fair copy of Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Izmīrī's commentary on al-Shādhilī's popular Ḥizb al-baḥr.
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's al-Risālah al-naflīyah."Binding note: Full maroon leather with violet paper doublures; spine and edges repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 12.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Damp-staining, mainly marginal; a few repairs.Origin: 25 Ramaḍān 990 H 23 October 1582, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻĀmilī al-Shāmī (184b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرع لنا معالم دينه الفرضية و النفلية و شرح صدورنا بلمعة من بيان دروس الاحكام التكليفية
Abstract: A commentary on a work of Arabic grammar.Title from introduction.Contents; ownership note on p. 1.ضحوة السبت 11/رمضان/سنة 897هـالفوائد الضيائيهOwnership notes. Dedication to ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥaymī. Includes excerpts from the dīwān of al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī Habal.بعناية مالكه: عبدالرحمن بن حسن الحيميجيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه نقشة محفورة على الجلد تم استبدال الصفحات الأولى منه بورق حديث يبدو أنه كتب بخط صاحب المكتبة السيد العلامة محمد بن محمد بن محمد الكبسي وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر وبداية الصفحات الأصلية عليها إطار مزدوج من اللقطة رقم (51-128)بعد صلاة العصر يوم الخميس لعله 15/جماد الآخر/سنة 1086هـIncipit: بِسْمِ اللهِ...الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيئه وعلى اله واصحابه المتادبين بآدابه اما بعد فهذه فوائد وافيه بحل المشكلات الكافيه...Explicit: المفتوح ما قبلها يقلب الفا كقولك اضربن اضربا تشبيها لها بالتنوين...اللهم اجعل خاتمه امورنا خيرا ولا تلحق بنا من تبعه سرورنا ضيرا...لقطة رقم 290Naskh script, written in black and red ink, with the text enframed in red. Some pages have been replaced, written in Persian naskh script. Two torn pages.25 lines.نقول من ديوان القاضي الشيعي شرف الدين الحسن بن علي بن جابر الهبل. لقطة رقم (291) أولها: حب علي وبنيه اهل التقى والرشد فرض على كل الورى من والدٍ أو ولد
Abstract: 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 fiqh and ḥadīth.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboard (visible). The upper and lower covers are similarly blind tooled with a central square pattern and an outer frame consisting of an s-shape running pattern and several fillets. Rebacked. Damaged.Contents: 1. fol. 2a: Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. 3a: Several inscriptions.Contents: 3. fol. 3b-8b: Fawāʼid fiqhīyah / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sharīshī (d. 1368).Contents: 4. fol. 9a-12a: Several short excerpts, quoting al-Shāmil, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Subkī, the Ṣiḥaḥ of Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī.Contents: 5. fol. 12b-14b: Alghāz / Abū Yūsuf Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī (d. 804 or 5).Contents: 6. fol. 15a: Short quotation from Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Subkī.Contents: 7. fol. 16a-22a: Faṣl al-munāzaʻah fī taḥqīq kasr awāʼil al-afʻāl al-muḍāriʻah / Muḥammad ibn Yūnus Abū Zurʻah (d. 1348 or 9).Contents: 8. fol. 22b: Inscriptions.Contents: 8. fol. 23a-29b: Risālah fī al-ruwāt al-thiqāt. Selections / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Dhahabī (d. 1348), abridgment by Muḥammad ibn Yūnus Abū Zurʻah (d. 1348 or 9).Contents: 9. fol. 30b-31b: Inscriptions.Contents: 10. fol. 32a-41b: Asmāʼ al-ṣaḥābah alladhīna ittafaqa ʻalá al-ikhrāj lahum aṣḥāb al-kutub al-sittah.Contents: 11. fol. 42a-52b: Several paragraphs dealing mostly with legal matters, starting with a quotation from Sharaf al-Dīn al-Mursī (d. Rabīʻ al-Awwal 655/1257). Ibn ʻAqīl is also quoted (fol. 49b).Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Number of lines per page varies. Written in several scripts, mostly casual medium large naskh, in black ink. Dark cream paper with chain and laid lines visible. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals, counting the first flyleaf as fol. 1.Text 3 (Faṣl al-munāzaʻah) was copied on 25 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 746 (fol. 16a).