Abstract: "Casual copy of a commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-UṣūlAbstract: on the principles of jurisprudence."Binding note: Quarter bound in marbled paper and burgundy leather. Paper pastedowns. Worn; damaged.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a, in red ink).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red to overline the commented text; scarce use of dots. Script and paper different for fol.2-23, written in a careful thick naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink with use of red (122 x 62 mm.). European papers with watermark. A repair in paper covers part of fol. 2a. Table of contents on fol.1a-b. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements, a collation statement, verses of poetry in Persian. Marginal and interlinear annotations on the beginning of the text. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Title on tail of text block.Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of upper cover: "Raqm 206 ʻ".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on a Wednesday ("yawm chahār shambah") in 1035 H. 1625 or 6 (perhaps the numbers should be read 1635) H. in Balad Āwarnah Āvarneh? (fol. 225). Read and collated by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Bakr in Balad Āwarnah on 2 Jumādá al-Ākhar 1043H. 1633 (fol. 225b).Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله واله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة سعد جدّه وانجح جده يقول لما وفقنى الله لتاليف تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته معرضا عن شرح بعض المواضعExplicit: حرمة لا تحتمل السقوط وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنهما لم تسقط وهما حق الله تع ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله ولى العصمة والتوفيق
Abstract: "A dictionary and grammar of BaleybelenAbstract: the secret artifical language created by Muhyî-yi GülşenîAbstract: composed in Cairo in the second half of the 16th century (after Selim II's succession to the throne). The second of the two preliminary sections of the work is dated and was completed in 988 (1580 or 81)."Binding note: Brown leather with gold roll and two fillets around borders of covers. Pastedowns in yellow, olive and red marbled paper. Binding and paper restored by Jeffrey M. Rigby, 1985 (label inserted between fol. 164 and the lower cover).Ms. codex.Title from fol. 162a.17 lines per page. Written in a very small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, green and gold ink for rubrication. Text is written within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 21b and 41b have illuminated headpieces with mandorla style motifs in gold leaf in the center, surrounded by foliage pattern in gold ink on blue watercolor background. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thin, glazed paper with visible laid lines, and occasionally visible uneven chain lines. Most of it is light cream, with some sheets stained yellow, and fol. 2a and 163b are sprinkled in silver. Lower half of fol. 9 missing. Some water and wear damage, and repairs throughout, with some loss of text, chiefly towards the end of the ms.Ms. additions: three inscriptions on fol. 1a-1b, all in different hands, two in black ink and one in purple crayon, the latter signed Mehmet Veled, and all three providing information on the contents of the ms.Incipit: مقدمة الكتاب درت اصل وبر تتمه وضبط اوزره ضبط اولندى اصل اول لطفى در انسان تدنى بالطبع اولوبExplicit: خاتمه فى الرسالة الجامعة للتفرقة والتفريد ... والحرف والكيميا والسيميا والطب والطلسمات والله اعلم تم
Abstract: Elegant copy written by the great-grand-son of the author (see colophon, fol. 123b) of a description of the beauties of Damascus, together with its history, divided into six sections. For a more detailed description, see Hitti, P. Garrett coll.Binding note: Red leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central stamped mandorla and an outer frame made of blind-tooled fillets. Rebacked.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a)17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two red fillets. Painted title page in red and green (fol. 2a). European glazed paper. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 1). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied from an autograph by Aḥmad ibn Amīn? al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad, the author of this book, ibn ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Buṣrawī al-Ḥanafī in Damascus on 26 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1026 (colophon, fol. 123b).Incipit: الحمد لله الاول بلا بداية الاخر بلا نهاية ... وبعد فهذه اوراق اذكر فيها ان شاء الله تعالى ما تيسر الاطلاع عليه وسهل الوصول اليهExplicit: ريح من اليمن فتقبض ارواح المومنين وتقوم الساعة على شرار الخلق والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم وهو حسبى وكفى تم الكتاب
Abstract: Collection of three texts: Two commentaries on texts by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346) on uṣūl al-fiqh, -- a commentary on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl by the author (followed by a short text in Ottoman Turkish written by another hand on fol. 167b), and a commentary on al-Muqaddimāh al-arbaʻ by ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī --, and another short treatise by the same Siyālkūtī. The volume comprises two parts copied separately and bound together at a later date, Text 1 (fol. 1-167) and Text 2 and 3 (fol. 168-207).Contents: 1. fol. 1b-167a: Kitāb Tawḍīḥ maʻa Tanqīḥ / ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī.Contents: 2. fol. 167b: Short text in Ottoman Turkish.Contents: 3. fol. 168a-200a: Sharḥ al-Muqaddimāt al-arbaʻ / ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī.Contents: 4. fol. 200b-207b: al-Risālah al-Khāqānīyah / ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī.Ms. composite codex.Title provided by cataloger, from title of text 1 (rubric, fol. 2b).Physical description: Text 1 written in medium small thick nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 20 lines per page (162 x 75 mm.), on European paper with watermark. Important annotations on the margins, between the lines, and on small pieces of paper pasted between the original leaves. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts some but not all leaves pasted between the original fol.; this record follows the existing foliation).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 72". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1041/2 Ḥ".Origin: According to colophons, copy of text 1 completed on a Thursday in Muḥarram 1161 Jan. 1748, during the reign of Salīm Khān, in the Madrasat ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Afandī, by Islām ibn Bayrām Ghāzī ... (fol. 167a). Copy of text 3 completed in the middle of Shaʻbān 1228 Aug. 1813 in Qusṭanṭinīyah by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Asīrī(?) (fol. 200a).
Abstract: Commentary on a work on astronomy by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jighmīnī (d. after 1221) entitled al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʻilm al-hayʼah.Binding note: Marbled paper pasted on golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a.25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 42 and 52-56 (blank): glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Several inscriptions and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 54". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 242".Copied from an autograph on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 817 by ʻAbd Allāh ---? (colophon, fol. 51b, with hardly legible mention of the name of the copyist).Incipit: سبحانك اللهم يا مدير اطباق السماوات بلا عمد واوتاد على القطب ... وبعد فقد دلت البراهين العقلية والشواهد النقلية على ان اقصى ما يترجى للانسان من معارج الكمالات ... 2أ ... قوله وجعلته يشتمل على مقدمة ومقالتين وذلك لانّ 2ب ما ذكر فيه اما ان يكون مقصوداً بالذاتExplicit: وهذه السنة القمرية ناقصة عن السنة الشمسية بعشرة ايام وعشرين ساعة ونصف ساعة بالتقريب وليكن هذا اخر كلامنا فى شرح الكتاب والله سبحانه مفيض الخير و ...؟ الصواب والمرجو من اولى البصاير النقّادة ان يعمضوا(؟) عن الضرار(؟) وان لا يوخذوا بالهفوات
Abstract: A commnetary on al-Muqaddimah al-naḥwīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah, a work on grammar by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī.Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboard with envelope flap. Blind fillets around borders of covers and the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in yellow paper with a red pattern. Fore edge flap repaired in red leather. The ms. is disbound and loose inside the covers. Spine completely disintegrated and remains only partially. Label on upper cover: "Sharḥ Shaʻrānīyah min al-naḥw".Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a."Copied from the original in the author's hand and completed on the 29th of Ṣafar 1057 (1647) -- colophon (fol. 388b)."'21 lines per page. Most of the ms. is written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of redbut fol. 1-161 are in a different hand in medium small nastaʻlīq and on different (glazed European) paper (a later replacement?). Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick dark cream glazed paper. A short inscription and a signature (ownership statement?) in the name of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Barrī? al-Ḥanafīaccompanied by a stamp and dated 1101 (1689-90)on fol. 1a. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black and red ink. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil.'Explicit: قاله وكثير على عجل ووجل اضعف عباد الله البارى احمد بن الغنيمي الانصاري الخزرجى الانصارىIncipit: بسملة ومنه الامداد انه جزاد كريم الحمد لله الذي نحت اليه بالضماير الخالصة ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف احمد ابن محمد الغنيمي الانصاري الخزرجي ... فقد سالني من لا تسعني مخالفته
Abstract: Commentary on Kitāb al-Mawāqif by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). The commentary was completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand (see colophon, fol. 462b).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Traces of a fore-edge flap. Both covers are similarly tooled, with a central gold painted stamped mandorla and an outer frame made of gold painted fillets with a blind-tooled and gold painted s-shape running pattern. Brown leather doublure. Lower cover disbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink. The commented text is written in red ink on fol. 2b-8a, and overlined in red in the rest of the text. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold and blue on fol. 1b. The text is framed within a gilt and black and blue ink border. The last words of the verso are repeated at the beginning of the opposite recto. A few marginal notes by the same hand. On fol. (i)a: Verses of poetry dated 21.10.1894. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied in Dār al-Salṭanah Istanbul on 15 Shaʻbān 1022 (colophon, fol. 462b).Incipit: سبحان من تقدست سبحات جماله عن سمت الحدوث والزوال ... وبعد فانّ انفع المطالب حالا ومآلا ... 2ب ... قال بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم به نستعين فاقول ضمن المص خطبة كتابه الاشارة الى مقاصد علم الكلامExplicit: قال المصنف وليكن هذا آخر الكلام ... انه هو الغفور الرحيم وانا اقول هذا ما تيسر لنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه من كشف مشكلاته وتوضيح معضلاته وتحرير مسائله وتقرير دلايله ... وجعله ذخيرا لنا يوم الدين انه خير موفق ومعين
Abstract: Commentary on Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. Copy incomplete at end.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Red leather doublure.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-128a: Maqṣad 1.Contents: 2. fol. 129a-290b: Maqṣad 2 (incomplete at end).Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a.23 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Ḥāshīyah on the margins. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 291 is a later addition, with an ownership statement signed Muḥammad Laṭīf Afandī on the verso. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a: ownership statements ; verses of poetry and prayer in Persian. The lower part of the fol. is wanting. Saying attributed to Mawlānā Mubārakshāh on fol. 1b. Ownership statements and short waqf statement on fol. 2a. Inscription in red pencil using Arabic script on fol. 1a: "Raqm 94 ʻ".Incipit: اما بعد حمد واجب الوجود على نعمائه والصلوة على سيد انبيائه وعلى اكرم احبائه اى على اله واصحابه الذين هم موصوفون بزيادة الكرمEnd as extant: وتقرير الجواب ان هناك قسما ثالثا بيانه ان الحصول التدريجى حصول مل له هوية اتصالية متطبق على الزمان
Abstract: Treatise on Ḥanafī law, with important glosses and commentaries, in particular, according to the title, the commentary by Yaʻqūb ibn ʻAlī al-Rūmī ʻAlīʹzādah al-Banbānī (d. 931/1524).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have a similar blind stamped central mandorla and an outer frame made of fillets. Similar frame on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from fol. (iii)a.17 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-ii(a). Leaves with glosses and commentaries bound with or placed between the original fol. (see between fol. 25 and 26). These leaves are omitted by the modern foliation using Western numerals (counts fol. 1 as fol. iii) and by the foliation using Arabic numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf tā 107". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 876".Copy completed on Saturday 20 Ṣafar 952 (colophon, fol. 78b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي دلّنا على معرفته بالشواهد والاعلام ... وبعد فهذه عقود منظومة من سنن سيّد المرسلينExplicit: ومن السنة ان لا يذكر ميتا من المسلمين الّا بخير ... وقال صلعم لا تسبّوا الاموات فتؤذوا به الاحياء والحمد للّه ربّ العالمين والصلوة والسلام على رسوله خير البرية محمد واله الط---؟ الطاهرين تم
Abstract: Illustrated Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, including a book of spells describing incantation and talismans, and 56 painted illustrations.Binding note: Blind stamped and tooled red leather.Ms. codex.Title from end of text (written with tāʾ marbūtah).Physical description: 11 lines per page ; written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink. Arabic written in naskh. From fol. 50b on: written in nastaʻlīq in purple ink. Wove paper with embossed seal with inscription in Cyrillic on a few leaves. Annotations in English on the margins of the first leaves. Picture representing a young man placed at the end of the copy.56 illustrations in watercolor representing the signs of the Zodiac, demons linked to these signs, constellations, birth of stars, and archangels such as Mikāʾīl and Jibrāʾīl.Origin: According to note on fol. 1a, copied in Iṣfahān, Shaʻbān 1324 H. Sept.-Oct. 1906 by ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nāʾinī(?) al-Muṣāḥib. At the end of several texts accompanying the illustrations is the name Raṣṣād(?) B̄āshī, son of the late Jaʻfar, with dates ranging from 1330 to 1339 H. 1911 to 1921.Incipit: بسم ... بكير از زير قدم او يكمشت خاك واين جعارا هفت بخواند ... بسم ... اللهم اله السموات والارض اعجل اعجل اعجل ارجع ارجع ارجع حب الخير
Abstract: Treatise on fiqh, written in such a manner that it can be read in five different ways, with the text as such and four vertical "sub-texts" indicated by red ink.Binding note: Blue and white marbled paper pasted over brown leather on pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Gold painted frame on each cover.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 2a.23 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is written in seven columns framed by a red ink fillet. European glazed paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "al-ʻulūm al-adab 6". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1032". Inscription in arabic script on the lower edge of the text block: "... 15".Incipit: الحمد لله ولي الحمد ومستحقه ... وبعد فهذا كتاب جليل كتبته لم اسبق بعد اليه الفته مختصرًا فى الفقهExplicit: وصللى الله على محمد واله وسلم غاية التسليم الموجب لكرامة فى دار النعيم آمين آمين آمين الكتاب
Abstract: Treatise on Shīʻī law.Binding note: Limp binding (brown leather) ; smaller than text block.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1a).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium large nash with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper, with laid lines and fiber visible. Ḥāshiyah on the beginning of the text. Wear on first leaves ; a few holes with loss of text.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "316".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥusayn ...?, middle of Ramaḍān 1070 May 1660 (fol. 232b).Incipit: فهذا كتاب قواعد الاحكام فى معرفة الحلال والحرام لخصت فيه لب الفتاوى خاصته بينت فيه قواعد احكام الخصةExplicit: ولو قال ادفع اليه بعد موتى لم ينعزل الثامنة والحمد لوليه والصلاة على نبيه ووصيه و ... ائمة المعصومين