Binding: Bound in apricot and blue marbled paper over boards with leather trim.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDimensions: 25.4 × 20 cm (size of leaf). 17.3 × 14.5 in (size of written area).Hand: Shikastah-Nastaʻlīq.Layout: 10.Record origin: Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.
Abstract: Collection of treatises, mostly in verse, on medicine.Binding note: Modern full leather with blind-stamping and tooling.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-3b: Mujarrabāt-i Abī Z̲arr. Metrical treatise on medicaments attributed to Abū Dharr, a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad.Contents: 2. leaves 3b-7a: Notes.Contents: 3. leaves 7b-88b: Ṭibb-i Shihābī / Shihāb al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Nāgawrī. A metrical compendium of medicine, also known as Shifāʼ al-maraz̤.Contents: 4. leaf 89a: Dar shinākhtan-i mazzah-i duhn. Short poem on popular medicine.Contents: 5. leaves 89b-90b: Fāyidah dar shinākhtan-i amrāz̤ az bawl-i marīz̤. Extract on diagnosing illness using urine.Contents: 6. leaves 91a-91b: Notes and verses.Ms. codex.Title from text 3, leaf 88b.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on brown glazed, laid Arabic paper. Poems in two columns. Rubrication and catchwords; first and last pages of text 3 framed in red. First leaf is pasted to another sheet of paper. Extensive water damage, but text still legible; a few paper repairs.Origin: 22 Ṣafar 1105 H 23 October 1693, by Nūr Muḥammad khalaf-i Muḥammad Qāyim ʻurifa bi- Kanbū Hāshimī (leaf 88b).Incipit (text 3): نخستىن کنم نوک خامه روان * بتوحىد پروردگار جهان
Abstract: History of Tīmūr (Tamerlane).Binding note: Red leather. The covers have a gold stamped central scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces. The outer border consists of fillets and a large guilloche. Paper pastedown and free endpaper. Traces of a now wanting flap.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 500b).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two gold rules outlined in black, with a blue outline. Dark cream laid paper, glossy, hardly translucid. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of the first leaf with text. Inscriptions on fol. 501a-b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (omits the first fol.). Stained with water.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece executed in gold, blue, and colors, on fol. 2b.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Spine label (vertical; partly wanting) with title in French: "Aly Al-Yezdy Histoire de Tamerlan".Three pieces of paper with printed text on the pastedown of the upper cover, the first with a notice in French describing the manuscript under no. 320 ; the second with the name "M. Silvestre de sacy" and inscriptions in pencil ; the third bearing the following text: "Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco 70, Avenue des Champs-Elysées".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Khalīl Allāh ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Shamītī(?), Thursday 10 Jumādá al-Awwal 887 June 27, 1482 (fol. 500b, in Arabic).Incipit: مدا كثيرا مباركا لمن توتى الملك من تشاء وتنزع الملك ممن تشاء وصلوه طيبه دايمه على خاتم الانبياء وسيد الاولياء محمد واله ... مقاله اول در ذكر صادرات احوال حضرت صاحب قراني انار الله برهانه بنام خدائي كه از نامه اوستExplicit: خلايق مرفه ز احسان او زمين وزمان تحت فرمان او الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد وآله اجمعين م
Abstract: "Illustrated copy of a Persian version of Qazwīnī's Book of marvels (version (a) in Storey's descriptionAbstract: Persian Literature (1927-)Abstract: vol. IIAbstract: 1Abstract: p. 125). Table of contents in the preamble (fol. 3a-5b). This copy is illustrated with 180 miniatures (most of them small) and 11 diagrams. Several elements show that this copy is not of the highest quality (text crossed outAbstract: ʻunwān left blank or with title written in a rough mannerAbstract: etc.). In additionAbstract: some miniatures are defective (see illustration of the Sun emerging behind the constellation of the LionAbstract: fol. 16b)."Binding note: Upper and lower covers are now detached and stored in a separate sleeve. Brown leather, with central panel with a deep gilt stamped central oval with double pendants, all outlined in gold with radiating flecks. Similarly tooled corner-pieces. The border consists of deep sunk gilt stamped cartouches, rosaces and corners ; gilt painting between stamps. Doublure : Red leather stamped and tooled in gilt, with inscriptions in cartouches reading: "Ḥubb al-fīrmān(?)" and "qadā tū āmān(?)" on one cover, "Muqarrir al-khāqān(?)" and a damaged and illegible inscription, probably starting with "Muḥammad"on the other.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 3a.Physical description: 20 lines to the page ; written in nastaʻlīq, in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and fiber visible. Margins of most leaves repaired. The text is framed within a medium large gold line outlined in black, with a blue outline on the outer edge (faded on several leaves). The miniatures are framed in one medium large gold line outline in black ; some miniatures go over the text frame (see e.g. fol. 9b, 87b, 193a, 236b). One small miniature on the margin (the deer on fol. 237b). Occasional lines of poetry and annotations written by another hand on the margins (see fol. 197b, 227b-228a). Dampness damage (stains, ink transfer from one page to the next), with loss of text. Modern foliation in pencil (blank after fol. 116, 179, 229).Decoration: Illuminated title page executed in opaque watercolors, ink, and gilt (fol. 1a); margins of fol. 1b-2a decorated with flowers in gold. The same floral motif appears on the sides of the colophon (fol. 240a).Decoration: Contains 165 miniatures in opaque watercolors and ink, representing planets (fol. 14b-18b), constellations such as Cassiopea (fol. 21b), inhabitants of exotic and fabulous islands, such as the inhabitants of Sumatra (fol. 56b) and of Wāqwāq (fol. 56b), fabulous animals, and monsters (see fol. 9b, 69b, 189b), Archangels (fol. 32b-34a), and various plants (fol. 107b on) and animals (fol. 196b on). Most miniatures are executed on a blue or gold sky, with Chinese clouds, with mountain or rocks behind which animals or human figures appear ; streams and trees are other common motifs.Decoration: Contains diagrams in gold and red.Origin: The copy (or the text?) is dated Ṣafar 895 1489 or 865 1460 and signed ʻAbd Allāh son of ʻAlī Bey Damāvandī in the colophon (fol. 240a). According to Moghadam, illustrations and binding probably from 18th century India.Incipit: العظمة لك والبراه لجلالك اللهم يا قايم الذات ومفيض الخيرات واجب الوجود وواهب العقول ... اما بعد همى كويد اصغر العباد زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود الكمونى القزوينى تولاه الله بفضله كه چون بحكم الاهى مفرقت اهل ووطن اتفاق افتادExplicit: ابو ريحان كويد كه بنده التماس كردم تا انرا حاضر آوردند ومن آن را ديدم وتعجب كردم تمت الكتاب بعون ملك الوهاب بتاريخ شهر صفر ختم بالخير والظفر سنه 895 (او 865) خاك پاى اهل ايمان عبد الله ولد علىبيك دماوندى م م م
Abstract: Collection of two treatises, one on propaedeutics, the other on the legal character of killing dogs. Very clear copy.Binding note: Marbled paper on brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-8b: Ghāyat al-Kamāl fī bayān afḍal al-aʻmāl / ʻAlī al-Muttaqī.Contents: 2. fol. 9a: Short inscription.Contents: 3. fol. 9b-10b: Blank.Contents: 4. fol. 11b-13b: Risālat qatl al-kilāb / Muḥammad SājaqlīʹZādah. The Risālah proper ends on fol. 11b; Fāʼidah on fol. 12a-13b.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a.13 lines per page. European glazed paper with watermark. Text 1 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two red lines. Text 2 written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single red line. A few marginal notes on text 2. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 122". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1362/2 Ḥāʼ".Text 1 copied by Nuʻmān Ibn Khalīl in 1161 (colophon, fol. 8b). Text 2 copied in 1162 by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Afandī (fol. 12b).
Abstract: "Collection of the author's ghazalsAbstract: arranged alphabetically; incomplete at beginning."Binding note: Limp red leather with black leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf; record follows erroneous foliation. There are seven front flyleaves, of which only the first four are numbered; the first leaf of the text is numbered 5.Physical description: 19 lines per page, in two columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. Marginal damp staining and a few repairs.Origin: Likely 18th century; collated by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Shuʻāʻ al-Mulk al-Shīrāzī on 8 Shawwāl 1354 H 3 January 1936 (leaf 2a).
Abstract: Elegant copy of several texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, on religious topics.Binding note: Brown leather over thin paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central mandorla and an outer frame made of gold painted fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. 2a: Verses of poetry by Fuzulî-i Bağdâdî, Nazârî Efendi and Ilmî Efendi, with mention of the dates of events such as the death of Kemalpaşazade, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (al-Jurjānī), Jāmī, etc..Contents: 3. fol. 2b-3a: Blank.Contents: 4. fol. 3b-4b: Several short excerpts.Contents: 5. fol. 5a: Blank.Contents: 6. fol. 5b-8a: Fatwá Abū al-Suʻūd Afandī in Ottoman Turkish / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd Title in table of contents: Risālah fī al-afʻāl al-ikhtiyārah.Contents: 7. fol. 8b-12a: Blank.Contents: 8. fol. 12b-15a: Risālat al-Naqshbandīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khādimī.Contents: 9. fol. 15b-17a: Blank.Contents: 10. fol. 17b-43b: Waṣāyā / Abū Saʻīd Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Khādimī.Contents: 11. fol. 44a-45b: Blank.Contents: 12. fol. 46a: Nuktah sabʻah ḥākim fī waqt sabʻah at the end of the page: Min al-Sabʻīyāt.Contents: 13. fol. 46b-48b: Several short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, some excerpted from Tafsīr al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍawī.Contents: 14. fol. 49a-55a: Verses attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʼ, etc..Contents: 15. fol. 55b-56a: Risālah fī bayān iṣṭilāḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth Title in table of contents: Muṣṭalaḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth; Definitions of several terms, starting with "mawqūf", "munqaṭaʻ", "muʻaḍḍal".Contents: 16. fol. 56b-57a: Blank.Contents: 17. fol. 57b: Taskhīr-i kabīr or Taskhīr-i qulūb Short text describing how to read a verse of the Fātiḥah each day of the week. On the margin, mention of al-Shaykh al-Karkhī.Contents: 18. fol. 58a: Blank.Contents: 19. fol. 58b-59b: Ṭabaqāt al-tābiʻīn min Kitāb al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.Contents: 20. fol. 60a: Blank.Contents: 21. fol. 60b-62b: Several prayers, some for travelers, attributed to Sayyid ʻAlīʹzādah Aḥmad, Abū al-Suʻūd, al-Zamakhsharī, al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʻī.Contents: 22. fol. 63a-66a: Blank.Contents: 23. fol. 66b-67a: Risālah fī bayān ṭabaqāt al-masāʼil / ʻAlī Çelebi Efendi Hayâlîzade (or: Hayânîzade) Title supplied according to ms. Leiden, 1884, with author: ʻAlī Çelebi Qinālīzāda; title in table of contents: Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ li-Hayâlî Zade ʻAlī Çelebi; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Risālah fī taḥqīq anwāʻ al-masāʼil ʻinda al-Ḥanafīyah; see GAL II, 433/10.Contents: 24. fol. 67b: Blank.Contents: 25. fol. 68a: Fī ziyādat al-ʻumr wa-nuqṣānihi bi-al-ʻamal / Ibn al-Kamāl.Contents: 26. fol. 68b: Blank.Contents: 27. fol. 69a-92b: Several short texts in prose and verse, comprising a Qaṣīdah li-Abī ʻAlī Ibn Sīnā fī majiʼ al-rūḥ bi-al-qālib(?); several short texts and ḥadith commenting on the meaning of some words and on questions related to exegesis, excerpted from al-Sabʻīyāt, Sharḥ al-Mawāqif, Sharḥ-i Kāfīyah, Sharḥ al-Kashshāf, Firdaws al-akhbār, etc., and attributed to Saʻd al-Dīn, Ibn Kamāl (fī --? al-Tajrīd), al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, ʻImād Kātibī, Jawharī, Ḥasan Çelebi, etc.; a text explaining what a mufassir should know (fol. 70b); questions and answers in Ottoman Turkish attributed to Abū al-Saʻūd (fol. 75a-78b); Waṣiyat Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī (fol. 79b; four lines); Munājāt Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻArabī (fol. 79b; six lines); a text mentioning the names of the Aṣḥāb al-Kahf; a text "fī quṭb al-athwāb" (fol. 81a); prayers and duʻaʼ, some in verses, and other verses of poetry attributed to Zayn al-Dīn al-Wardī, Ghars al-Dīn ibn Khalīl, al-Ṣalāḥ al-Ṣafadī, Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ḥājirī, Abū al-Faraj al-Waʼwaʼ, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bustī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suhaylī, al-Imām al-Nūrī (or al-Ghazālī, praising the Fātiḥah), al-Ghazālī in the Iḥyāʼ, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Wakīl, Munājāt of Shihāb al-Dīn (fol. 89b), al-Shāfiʻī, Saʻd al-Dīn, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sābiq, Ibn Rāwandī, ʻAlī, Ibn Fāris al-Lughawī, Abū Ismaʻīl, etc. (fol. 81b-92b); talisman on fol. 91a.Contents: 28. fol. 93a-94a: Waṣiyatʹnāmah / Mullā Khosraw.Contents: 29. fol. 94a-b: Several ḥadīth.Contents: 30. fol. 95a: Blank.Contents: 31. fol. 95b-97b: Mā ruwiya ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās fī tartīb al-anbiyāʼ.Contents: 32. fol. 98a: Names of the pre-Islamic Kings, from the Kitāb Bidāyat al-nihāyah, in Ottoman Turkish.Contents: 33. fol. 98b-139a: Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif wa-kāshif al-asrār / Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Samarqandī Title in table of contents: Tārīkh ṣaghīr al-musammá bi-Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif; title in Mach, R. Yahuda, following Kashf al-ẓunūn: Laṭāʼif al-afkār wa-kāshif al-asrār; the date Rabīʻ I 991 1583 is mentioned at the end of the text.Contents: 34. fol. 139b-141b: Blank.Contents: 35. fol. 142a-150a: Kitāb ʻUrf al-taʻrīf bi-al-mawlid al-sharīf / lil-Imām al-ʻallāmah al-shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī.Contents: 36. fol. 150b-151a: Blank.Contents: 37. fol. 151b-161a: Kitāb al-Indhār bi-wafāt al-nabī al-muṣṭafá al-mukhtār / lil-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-shaykh al-muḥaqqiqīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Dāʼūd al-Ḥanbalī al-Dimashqī al-Ṣāliḥī Title in table of contents: al-Risālah al-mutaʻallaqah bi-wafāt al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalay-hi wa-sallam.Contents: 38. fol. 161b-164a: Blank.Contents: 39. fol. 164b-169a: Risālat al-saqīfah / Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī Title in table of contents: Risālah fī ḥaqq al-khulafā bi----? al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalay-hi wa-sallam.Contents: 40. fol. 169b-170b: Risālah fī aḥkām al-sabb / Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥusām Çelebi Title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Risālah fī sabb al-Nabī.Contents: 41. fol. 170b: Waṣiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf.Contents: 42. fol. 171a-183b: Kitāb al-Munabbihāt li-istiʻdād yawm al-mīʻād / Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī Title in table of contents: Munabbihāt li-Ibn Ḥajar; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād.Contents: 43. fol. 184a: Qaṣīdah / li-Mawlānā Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.Contents: 44. fol. 184b-186b, l. 5: Fiqh al-Kaydānī (or: Maṭālib al-muṣallī) / Luṭf Allāh al-Kaydānī Title in table of contents: Risālah fī anwāʻ al-mashrūʻāt fī ākhirihi Ṭabaqāt al-mujtahidīn li-Ibn Kamāl; see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 1732.Contents: 45. fol. 186b, l. 5-187a: Risālah fī ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ / Ibn Kamāl Pāshā Title in table of contents: Ṭabaqāt al-mujtahidīn li-Ibn Kamāl.Contents: 46. fol. 187b-188a: Risālah fī jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī wa-istijābih / al-muʼallif Bustān al-ʻārifīn Title in table of contents: Risālah fī ḥaqq jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī li-Bustān al-ʻārifīn.Contents: 47. fol. 188b-190b: Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawj sic bi-al-riwāyah al-ṣaḥīḥah Title in table of contents: Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawjah, followed by an excerpt from Mukhtār al-Ṣaḥīḥ and from Tafsīr al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍawī.Contents: 48. fol. 191a-193a: Short texts in Ottoman Turkish and in Arabic on dhikr.Contents: 49. fol. 193b-196b: Several short excerpts in Ottoman Turkish on the Kalimat al-tawḥīd.Contents: 50. fol. 197a: Blank.Contents: 51. fol. 197b-206b: Anonymous commentary on al-ʻAḍudīyah; Title at the beginning of text: Risālah sharīfah lil-Qādī ʻAḍud muʼallif al-Mawāqif; title at the end of text: al-Risālah al-sharīfah fī al-akhlāq; title in table of contents: al-Akhlāq al-ʻAḍudīyah; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Sharḥ al-ʻAḍudīyah fī al-akhlāq.Contents: 52. fol. 206b-207b: Risālah fī labs al-maṣbūgh title from table of contents.Contents: 53. fol. 207b-208a: Sharḥ ʻAlī al-Qārī.Contents: 54. fol. 208a-b: al-Marātib al-khams al-qalbīyah title from table of contents / ʻAbd al-Salām, known as Başmakcızade, written in 1164-1165 H. 1751 (colophon, fol. 208b).Contents: 55. fol. 209a: Short saying attributed to Ibn Sīnā on girls of different ages, starting with: "Bint ʻashr lūz muqashsharah naẓarahā al-nāẓirīn").Contents: 56. fol. 209b-214a: Three short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, on the Qurʼān and ḥadīth, ending with an excerpt from Kitāb al-ʻaql wa-al-naql by Taqī al-Dīn, quoting Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-ʻIbādī, entitled in the table of contents "Man yuḥkam bi-kufrihi wa-man lā yuḥkam lil-Qāsim al-ʻIbādī".Contents: 57. fol. 214b-216b: Risālah fī ḥaqq al-Khiḍr ʻalayhi al-salām incomplete at end / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī Title in table of contents: al-Risālah al-Khidrīyah; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Kashf al-khidr ʻan amr al-Khiḍr.Contents: 58. fol. 217a-219a: Blank.Contents: 59. fol. 219b-254a: Risālah min ʻilm al-muḥādarah / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Title from table of contents; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Laṭāʼif al-ishārāt fī al-muḥāḍarāt wa-al-muḥāwarāt. According to Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn col. 533 (s. v. Jālib al-surūr) and col. 1551 (s.v. Laṭāʼif...), this is an abridgment of Jālib al-surūr wa-sālib al-ghurūr of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qarabāghī, d. 942/1535: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 566 (2), S II, 638; Chester Beatty Library: A handlist of the Arabic manuscripts, 5239. Identical with Muḥādarāt wa-muḥāwarāt, Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 57 (11a), Arabic manuscripts in the Yale University Library, 463.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.20 to 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Fol. 19 dyed in yellow. The paper has been frame-ruled. The text is framed within a gold and black border. In the texts in verses, verses are separated by gold borders (see fol. 87a). Illuminated headpices (ʻunwān) and divisions of the page with a floral motif in gold, pink, red green and white (fol. 2a, 4b, 12b, 17b, etc.). Hāshiyah written in a minaret shaped border on the margin of fol. 12b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Majmaʻ". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 208/2".Some texts are copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir, one of the disciples (tilmīdh) of Abū Bakr al-Marāshid in 1179 H. 1765 or 6 (fol. 161a). Others by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Khalīfah (Mehmet Halife) , known as Qurrah faqīh al-Lārandī from Lārandah (Larende or Karaman), in Anatolia, in 1180 H. 1766 or 7 (fol. 208b).
Abstract: "Ibn al-ʻArabī's metaphysical treatise in 27 chapters composed in 1226 in DamascusAbstract: accompanied by a short (incomplete?) glossary of Sufi terms. The latter is (loosely) arranged in alphabetical orderAbstract: starts with al-alifAbstract: al-ittiḥādAbstract: aḥadīyat al-jamʻ etc.Abstract: the terms covered correspond to the terms contained in Iṣṭilāḥāt al-Sūfīyah by ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-QāshānīAbstract: but there are much fewer of them and although some of the wording of the explanations is similar to that used by QāshānīAbstract: the text nevertheless differs."Binding note: Half leather with envelope flap (upper cover loose). Spine, fore-edge flap and the two fore-edge corners of upper cover in light brown leather. Covers and envelope flap in dark blue paper with flower pattern painted in yellow and black, over pasteboard. Lining to fore-edge flap in decorated paper painted in red, yellow and brown flower pattern. Pastedowns and lining to envelope flap in light cream paper.Contents: 1. Fol. 1b-15b: Iṣṭilāḥāt al-SūfīyahContents: 2. Fol. 17b-97a: Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikamMs. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.15 lines per page. Main text written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text of the glossary written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Although the style of writing differs, the two texts seem to be contemporary and written continuously in same ink and possibly same hand. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil."Ms. additions: Numerous short inscriptions on fol. 1aone of them dated 1163 (1750). Three short inscriptions and one ownership seal on fol. 99b. Ff. 16a-17a contain a text with the heading 'Faṣṣ ḥikmah fardīyah fī kalimah Muḥammadīyah' commenting on the final chapter of Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Ff. 97-98 contain a short commentary relating to Ibn al-ʻArabī's Mawāqiʻ al-nujūm. Extensive marginal annotations to the main text in a later hand."
Abstract: Treatise on Hanafite law and jurisprudence, in 40 chapters (faṣl). See table of contents in preamble of text, fol. 2b-7b. According to Kashf al-ẓunūn, it was started by the father of the author and completed by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm at the end of Shaʻbān 651 1253 in Samarqand. The text is followed on fol. 346b by a note attributed to the author copied from a manuscript of this text.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap, in brown leather and cream paper. Paper pastedowns. Leather doublure on fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from preamble (fol. 2b, l. 2).Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin light cream paper, glossy. Inscription in Ottoman Turkish on fol. (i)a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 6a). Title on head of text block: "ʻImādī".Origin: Copy completed on 11 Shawwāl 874 April 13, 1470 by ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd(?) ibn mawlānā Kafī(?) al-Ḥanafī(?) al-Bayḍāwī (colophon, fol. 346a).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وباسمه يبدأ كل كتاب ويختم وينثر كل خطاب وينظم وبالصلوة على رسوله محمد ... وبعد فان العلم فخر يبقى على مرور الايام حقاب وذكر يتوارثه الاعقاب بعد الاعقابExplicit: كان القول رب الارض كما اذا اختلف فى جريان ما الطاحونة وانقطاعه وقال القاضى الامام فخر الدين خان وينبغى ان يكون القول قول منك الشغل وتمامه فى اجارات فناواه تم الكتاب
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam."Binding note: Red leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers made with gold guilloche, fillets and small rosetta stamps. Same design on the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in dark cream paper. Label on upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 155".Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.11 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Text within double line frame outlined in red ink. Foliation in red ink in Arabic numerals starts with 5 on fol. 2. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper.Incipit: الحمد لله ... اعلم فتق الله بنور ارشاده فهمك وحقق علمه الاعلا الذاتي علمكExplicit: ما التمس بيانه من اسرار مستندات حكم الفصوص وفك ختومها وكشف اصولها مراتب من اضيف اليه دون التقدي ... وحسبنا الله ذو الجلال والكرام
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: Treatise on the demonstration of the existence of the Necessary existent, followed by a commentary by Mullā Ḥanafī. On the identity of the glossator, who completed his gloss on 9 Shaʻbān 926 25 July 1520 in Herat, see Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD). Bd. XVII, Reihe B,3, no. 103. Several ḥāshīyah on the margins.Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Square motif on its pointe of gold tooled meshwork with vertical pendants at the center of the upper and lower covers with a single fillet outer frame. The same square motif and outer frame are repeated on the envelope flap. Yellow-colored paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-36a: Ithbāt al-wājib / Jalāl al-Dīn al-DawwānīContents: 2. fol. 38a-79a: Sharḥ Ḥanafīyah ʻalá matn Ithbāt-i wājib li-Mullā Jalāl / Muḥammad al-Tabrīzī al-Ḥanafī.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a). The title of Text 1 appears on fol. 2b. The title of Text 2 appears on fol. 38a.15 and 17 lines per page. Written in shikastah nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Fol. 2b is written in a larger script, with use of magenta. Ḥāshiyah on the margins of Text 1 and the beginning of Text 2. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 98". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "749/2 Ḥāʼ".Copied by al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān in the middle of Ramaḍān 1105 (colophon Text 2, fol. 79a).
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