Abstract: Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn. The first is entitled Mukhtaṣar uṣūl al-dīn in the ms. and is identical with al-Masāʼil al-khamsūn fī uṣūl al-dīn. The second, Ithbāt al-wājib, is dedicated to Ḥasan Pāshā (see fol. 22a), and is identical with Risālah fī Mabdaʼ al-awwal wa-ṣifātih (Kash al-ẓunūn. Ed. Fluegel, III, 437). Both titles appear in the ms.Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Gold-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis with an outer frame made of a gold running pattern and a single fillet on upper and lower covers. Similar outer frame on the envelope flap with a small stamp on its pointe.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-18b: Mukhtaṣar uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.Contents: 2. fol. 20b-76a: Ithbāt al-wājib or: Risālah fī mabdaʼ al-awwal wa-ṣifatih / Ḥusayn al-Khalkhālī.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a (see also fol. 2a). The second title is crossed out, with the mention "Risālah fī mabdaʼ al-awwal wa-ṣifātih lil-Khalkhālī" added by another hand.Text 1 is written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, 21 lines to the page, on glazed European paper with watermark, with marginal annotations by the same hand as the main text. Text 2 is written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with a frame made of gold, black and blue lines and an illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in blue and gold (fol. 20b), 11 lines to the page, on glazed paper, with marginal annotations by the same hand as the main text. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 19". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "ḥāʼ 91".Collation: Paper, fol. 78 ; 1¹⁶ 2⁴ 3-8⁸ 9⁸ (+2, fol. 77-78) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Abstract: "Anthology of letters and short textsAbstract: concerning historical events and important figures related to IranAbstract: and Khurasān in particular. The text starts with short notes mentioning events in the history of Iran from 992 to 1006 H. (fol. 1a-b)Abstract: followed by copies of lettersAbstract: and other short texts attributed to several important figures. The text also contains what appears to be letter models or samplesAbstract: some attributed to Mīr Rūḥ Allāh (fol. 30a)Abstract: and a Fatḥnāmah-i Khurāsān (fol. 5b). On fol. 402bAbstract: beginning of a text by ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Isḥāq al-Samarqandī (d. 887/1482; the author's name appears on fol. 403a)Abstract: incomplete at end. On fol. 413a-418b are several short texts written by another handAbstract: including two Fatḥnāmah and a letter."Binding note: Bound in dark red leather, with flap. The covers and flap have an outer frame consisting of a guilloche outlined by fillets in gold (faded on the covers). Brown leather doublure with a frame consisting of a single fillet.Ms. codex.Title from tail of text block.Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream laid paper; glossy.Origin: The copy is not dated.Incipit (fol. 1a): 992 در ين سال نواب سلطان حمزه ميرزا در قزوين قشلاق فرمودند ... 2أٔ صورة رقعة بخط مرحوم ميرزاكانى كه به ولد شهريارى كاشى نوشته دو كلمه كه حضرتIncipit (fol. 402b): بسم ... فتح صحايف انشا وابداع وشرح لطايف املا واختراع حمد وثناى بنشى بر كمال كه بر قلم زرين مثال ... 403أ ... وبعد چنين كويد فقير حقير طالب مكارم اخلاق عبد الرزاق بن اسحق السمرقندى باب الله عليهما كه چون حكمت كامله الهى ورحمت شامله نا متناهى اقتضا فرمود
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; spine repaired.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-31b: Mafātīḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 2. leaves 31b-34b: Tarjamat ḥadīth al-jabr wa-al-tafwīḍ / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 3. leaves 34b-37a: Risālah fī al-zakāh / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 4. leaves 37a-40a: al-Kaffārāt / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 5. leaves 40b-44b: Māl al-nāṣib / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 6. leaves 44b-49b: Sharḥ al-ziyārah al-maʼthūrah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Riḍā al-Qummī. Title from leaf 49b, line 14. Text completed Rajab 1085 H. in Mashhad.Contents: 7. leaves 49b-51b: Ajwibah ʻan asʼilat Majd al-Dīn Shūshtarī.Contents: 8. leaves 51b-52a: Nubadh min aḥkām sujūd al-tilāwah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 9. leaves 52a-54a: Ḥadīth on the eight doors of heaven and hell.Contents: 10. leaves 54b-87a: Asrār al-ṣalāh / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Contents: 11. leaves 87a-101b: Shukūk al-ṣalāh / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Ms. codex.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh (Arabic) and nastaʻliq (Persian) in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. First leaf detached. Damp staining across top of manuscript and some marginal paper repairs. Some loss of text on last leaf due paper loss and staining.Origin: Likely 18th century.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953
Abstract: Commentary on al-Manār fī uṣūl al-fiqh by Ḥāfiẓ al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī (d. 710/1310).Ms. codex.Title from fol. 2a (1a in the modern foliation in pencil).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for overlining. Key-words written in red on the margins. European paper with watermark. Ḥāshiyah on the margins (particularly on the beginning of the text) and on slips of paper pasted between the original folios. Several inscriptions in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, including a note mentioning a court case, in the courthouse of Maḥmūd Bey, regarding the theft of the manuscript by Muṣṭafá Kār, and his imprisonment and subsequent death in captivity. Prayer in Arabic on fol. 2a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals and in red ink using Arabic numerals (both omit the first fol.).Collation: Paper, fol. 248 ; 1¹⁰ (+ 1 at the beginning of quire) 2-24¹⁰ 25⁶ (+1 at the end of quire) ; the last word of the verso is repeated on the next recto.Origin: Copy completed in 1010 H, on the last day of Rabīʻ al-Awwal Sept. 28, 1601 by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá (colophon, fol. 247b, followed by verses of poetry in Arabic).Incipit: لله الحى الاحد حمد لا يحتويه الحد على ما اولانا علم الفروع ... وبعد يقول عبد اللطيف بن فرشته اوصلهما الله الى جنته برشده ان ارباب البطانة واصحاب الفطانة من خلص احبابى ... 3أ ... الحمد لله الذى هدانا اى دلّنا وقيل معناه خلق الهداية وهى الدلالة الموصلة الى المطلوب كذا ذكره صاحب الكشافExplicit: ولهذا اذا صبر فى هذين القسمين وهما الثالث والرابع حتى قتل صار شهيدا لانه يكون باذلا نفسه لاعزاز دين الله ولاقامة حق الشرع تم هذا الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla; brown leather doublures; edges and spine repaired.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-57b: Manāhij Shaykh Bahāʼī / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 2. fol. 58b-185b: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 1a, 58a; also present on partially torn spine labels.Physical description: Text 1, 8 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 2, 14 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Both texts: Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs.Origin: Likely 17th century.
Binding: Lacquered boards with floral decoration.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Carpet page, decorative borders, miniatures.Dimensions: 10 × 5⅝ in.Hand: Very distinct Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Abstract: "Compendium of medicineAbstract: being an abridgment of Ibn Sīnā's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. The text proper ends on fol. 178bAbstract: and is followed on fol. 179b-180a by an ijāzah for the copyist from Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qarāḥisārī(?)Abstract: dated end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 796 March 1394Abstract: and on fol. 180b-187bAbstract: by several short texts and inscriptions by various handsAbstract: some in Ottoman TurkishAbstract: including recipes of medication. Short texts and inscriptions on fol. 1a-3a."Binding note: Painted paper with arabesques of a floral pattern in black and orange on dark turquoise ground pasted on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Red leather spine and fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns. Slipcase in red leather and the same decorated paper, with title on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the upper margin of fol. 3b. The title appears on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap of the slipcase as "Matn Mūjiz min al-ṭibb".Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام الحبر قدوة العلاما ورئيس الحكماء فريد دهره ووحيد عصره ابو الحسين علاء الدين علي ابن ابى الحسن القرشى المتطبّب قدس الله روحه وبعد فقد رتّبت هذا الكتاب علي اربعة فنون الفن الاول فى قواعد جزءى الطب اعنى علمية وعملية بقول كلىExplicit: وكان تدبيرهم واحدا و استعملوا دواء جالينوس وغيره من العلاج المذكور تم الكتابPhysical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for the basmalah, headings and overlining. Soft dark cream paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Fol. 1-2 and 186-187 are later additions, with inscriptions. Marginal annotations. Topics written vertically in red on the margins.Collation: Paper, fol. 187 ; 1⁸ (-2 at the beginning of the quire ; + 2 later added leaves, European paper, fol. 1-2) 2-22⁸ 23⁸ (+1 ; +2 later added leaves, European paper).Origin: Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 795 March 1393 by Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī (colophon, fol. 178b).
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law in 79 unnumbered bāb; incomplete at end.Ms. component part.Title from leaf 186b, lines 2-3.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Extensive staining and a few paper repairs.Incipit: الحمد لله ... انى قد صنفت هذا الکتاب و جمعت فىه بىن الحکم و نظىره وسمىته نزهة الناظر
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Three-quarter red leather with black leather covers; blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 2a-77a: Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī al-jamʻ bayna al-ashyāʼ wa-al-naẓāʼir / Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥillī.Contents: 2. leaves 79b-266a: Kitāb al-Intiṣār / al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá.Ms. composite codex.Title from both texts.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 14 lines per page; written in naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper; rubrication in green and catchwords. Text 2, 17-19 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper; rubrication and catchwords; hand changes on leaf 238a; leaves 80-83 are replacements. Some damp-staining and a few repairs, particularly at the beginning and end of each text.Origin: Text 1, 16 Rabīʻ I 985 H 3 June 1577 (leaf 77a). Text 2, 22 Rabīʻ I 972 H 28 October 1564 (leaf 266a).
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan.Dimensions: 10¾ × 6½ in.Hand: Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Abstract: Second part of a Turkish commentary on the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ, beginning with the letter ʻayn to the end of the Dīvān.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from lower edge. Title given by a later hand on fol. 1b erroneously reads "Hafız Divani tercümesi."Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh-nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Damp staining around margins. In good condition.Origin: Original text completed the evening of 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 966 H 6 September 1559; this copy completed at the end of Jumādá II 1020 H September 1611 by Hacı Abdürrahim Semerkandî (fol. 233b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى عىن اعىان الدىن لاجراء عىن العلم و ىنبوع الىقىن