Abstract: A commentary on Ḥizb al-baḥr.Binding note: Brown, green and red striped cloth over pasteboard with envelope flap (evidence that this is a later addition and the original binding was in leather and had stamped mandorlas in the centre of covers). Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Binding damaged and upper cover is loose.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.17 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh (with elements of nastaʻlīq) in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed cream paper with prominent pulp in two shades, one almost orange. Foliation in black ink in Arabic numerals. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Text is undated, but the style and paper suggest an early date, 14th or possibly even 13th cent. (see Hitti).Ms. additions: short inscriptions on fol. iiia-b, chiefly prayers and invocations; a fairly long inscription on the author below the title on fol. 1a; text of Ḥizb al-baḥr in a later hand on fol. 52b-53b; fol. 54a-57b are a later addition on different paper (from another ms?; the paper is of poorer quality and due to damage the text on these fol. is much less legible), and contain a short text on fol. 54a, a qaṣidah by Abū al-Faḍl Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Tawzarī, known as Ibn al-Naḥwī (ca. 1041-1119 or 20) on fol. 54b-55a, a selection of poetry entitled: "Li-Shaykh al-Islām Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bakrī al-Ṣadīqī" on fol. 55b, and short inscriptions and invocations on fol. 56a-57b.Incipit: بسملة وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله سلم الحمد لله العلي بذاته وهو فى علوه دان فلا يحيط به العقول ... وبعد فقد سألنى بعض اخوان الصديقين من الطايفة العزيزة الشريفةExplicit: والله سبحانه وتعالى يرشدنا الى فهم حقايق اسمايه وصفاته ويهدينا الى طريق الصواب ومناجاته والاستعاذة بآياته انه هو الولى الهادى
Abstract: Treatise on medicine in two parts (see description of contents in the preamble of the text, fol. 3a-4b), also known as "Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī". The text is dedicated to Sulṭān Mujāhid al-Dīn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, i.e. Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Muẓẓafarī, ruler of Fars, 786-789/1384-1387, according to the Mashhad catalogue. Rieu suggests that the dedicatee is rather Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn of Kashmīr, 823-875/1420-1470. There is no evidence however that the laqab of the latter is Mujāhid al-Dīn (Storey, C. Persian Literature).Binding note: Half bound in paper and purple cloth.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the pastedown of the upper cover.Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin laid paper ; frame-ruled. Stained with water ; insect damage.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Origin: The copy is not dated. The paper and the script suggest the 19th cent.Incipit: يا فتاح رب يسر وتمم بالخير بسم ... شكر وسپاس مر خالقي را كه در خلقت انساني دقايق حكمت او بي پايانستExplicit: با عسل بر ذكر طلا كنند همين عمل كند والله اعلم بالصواب تمام شد
Binding: Splendid binding.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Folio 2b contains the minuscule signature of Rūzbihān the Illuminator على يد العبد روزبهان المذهب.Decoration: Two richly coloured pictures at the beginning; the first two pages of the text most luxuriously adorned in blue and gold; all the headings throughout beautifully illuminated.Hand: Very small, distinct, and clear 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 Arabic lexicography based on words of the Qurʼān. According to the beginning of the text, in 27 books (kitāb), arranged according to the first and last letters of a word. Incomplete at beginning and end.Binding note: Black leather (peeling) with blind tooling and stamping. Red-dyed paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from spine label (horizontal).Physical description: 23 lines to the page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The script gets larger towards the end of the copy, and tends towards nastaʻlīq. European paper with watermark.Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "326" (repeated in Western numerals on fol.1a).Beginning as extant: نسخه مسمى بكنز اللغات وبتوفيق قادر وهاب مرتبت بترتيب حروف ... اكنون بدانكه پيش از شروع در مقصود لا بد است از دانستن مقدمات چند اول انكه درين كتاب بقدر الوسعEnd as extant : ميخواند يغز وغزا ميكند يتموOther text on the margin on a similar topic (also incomplete at the beginning), with first bāb extant: باب الالف مع الالف انى واني واني ساعت والجمع انا انّا دريافتن كقوله تعالى غير ناظرين اناه
Abstract: Careful copy of a commentary of Kanz al-daqāʼiq, a treatise on Ḥanafī fiqh by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī, d. 710/1310.Binding note: Modern library binding in blue cloth over cardboards.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. (i)a.Physical description: 31 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq ibn black ink with use of red. European paper; glossy. Table of contents dated Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 1099 Feb.-March 1688 on fol. (i)b-(iii)b. Poem in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 160b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the five first leaves as fol. I-V). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on the first recto of the text).Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. (i)a: "Raqm 413".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Samarqand on Monday 18 Ramaḍān 912 Feb. 1, 1507 (fol. 159b).Basmallah: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعينIncipit: الحمد هو الوصف بالجميل الاختيارى سواء تعلق بالفضايل او بالفواضل واللام للجنس والمراد مطلق المسمّىExplicit: من الطريق مسجدا ومن المسجد طريقا صح اتخذ خانوتا وسط البرازين منع عنه والحمد لله الذي بنعمته يتم الصالحات وصلّى الله على محمد وآله وصحبه قال ثم قرأة المتن بحضرة والدى وشيخى واستادى و ... مولانا محمد المسكين لا زالت سموس اقباله ساطعة لامعة الى يوم الدين آمين يا رب العالمين واعلا درجته جاز فى اعلامه عليين مقام الانبياء والمرسلين بحق محمد وآله اجمعين ما ان مدحت محمد بمقالى ولكن محدت بمقالتى محمد بقاء الدهر التمام باكيف اهله وهذا دعاء ... من الكتب المعتبرة المتداولة الموثوق بها
Abstract: Treatise on the drawing of magical squares (with numbers, letters, words, etc.) in three sections (lawḥ). This text is also attributed to Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Yazdī (d. 858/1454).Binding note: Red leather over paper boards. Blind-stamped center and corner-pieces, with an outer frame consisting of two double-fillets.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 13).The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 2a, l. 7) and in several squares, the latter in the form "ʻamal Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī" or "ʻamal Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāʼūsī". See fol. 59a, 66a, 67b, 70a.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with squares, tables and circles in red, black and yellow ink. A few tables are left blank. The text is framed within a gold, black and red border, with an outer frame made of a single blue fillet. Simple illuminated headpieces in red and gold on fol. 1b, 35b and 60b. Laid paper ; glossy.Incipit: حمدى بر وفق اعداد نا متناهى مقرون تسبيح افراد وازواج مكوّنات
Abstract: A Persian-Turkish literary dictionary.Binding note: Olive paper over pasteboard on covers with brown leather on spine.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1b.'19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and underlined words. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper. Some water damage around the edges of text block, and some insect damage around the spine. Ms. additions: a table of numbers with their names in Persian with Turkish equivalents on fol. 1a; a list of additional words beginning with \'ya\' after the end of text on fol. 84a; an inscription on inside of lower cover stating that the copy is lacking two fol. Inscription on the lower edge of text block: "Lügat-i Halimî Çelebi132".'Incipit: حمد بليغ وثناى بى دريغ ... وبعد چنين ميكويد ضعيف وشكته بال ونحيف بر كشته حالExplicit: اكرچه خانهء عمرم بهيده كرد بجور اساس عمر دى اندرامان حق بادا
Binding: Binding with flowers and arabesques, rich in gold.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʻīl Gāzurgāhī, Majālis al-ʻushshāq (ff. 1a-197a).Decoration: Illustrated with 74 miniature paintings.Hand: Excellent 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: First two parts of a dictionary in four parts explaining unusual words mentioned in the Qurʼān and traditions, from al-hamzah maʻa al-bāʼ to rāʼ ḥāʼ (fol. 1a-225b) and from rāʼ khāʼ to the letter ʻayn (fol. 226a-450b).Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of leather over paper pasteboard with four sewing stations. Gold tooled decoration on the spine. Blue pastedown and endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from colophon of part 2 (al-safar al-thānī, fol. 451a).The name of the author does not appear in the manuscript.29 long lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red for entries, in two scripts: fol. 1a-142b are written in medium small naskh with elements of taʻlīq ; fol. 143a-451a are written in thick shakastah nastaʻlīq. Entries in black in the margin by the same hand. Indian paper (flax). The paper has been framed-ruled. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. No. "24" and "255" in Western numerals on the upper cover pastedown and endpaper. Inscription on modern spine label: "jild-i awwal ...".Copied on 11 Ramaḍān 976 in Patan (Gujarat, India) (colophon part 2, fol. 451a).The date mentioned at the end of the text might be the date when the text was completed by the author, and not the date of copy (see lithograph Lahore, 1314 1897). P. Hitti suggests that this might be an autograph.Collation: Paper ; fol. 454 ; a (blue endpaper) + v (endpapers) + 454 (fol. 451b-453b, blank) + i (endpaper) + a (blue endpaper).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كن لنهتدى لولا ان هدانا الله لقد جاءت رسل ربنا بالحق ... اما بعد فان علم الحديث لا يخفى اثارهExplicit: بالبيان الذي هو التعمق في المنطق واظهار التقدم علي الناس مبالغة لذم البيان وان هذه النقيصة ليست بمضرة مثل ذلك البيان
Abstract: Collection of texts on time-keeping and the use of various astronomical instruments. The volume consists of two distinct parts. The first part (fol. 1-20) contains a text in Ottoman Turkish copied in Edirne in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667. The second part (fol. 21-124) contains several texts in Arabic copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī, Egypt ("al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533, except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown leather and marbled paper.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-18b: Teshil ül-mikât Tasʹhīl al-mīqāt / Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī al-muwaqqit.Contents: 2. fol. 19a-20b: Several inscriptions and tables.Contents: 3. fol. 21a-25a : Muqaddimah fī maʻrifat al-ḥudūd / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 4. fol. 25b-34b: Risālat laqṭ al-jawāhir fī maʻrifat al-dawāʾir / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 5. fol. 35a-43a: al-Risālah al-gharbanīyah(?) fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 6. fol. 43b-44a: Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-taqwīm bi-ṭarīq al-ḥisāb.Contents: 7. fol. 45b-51b: Muqaddimah ʻalá al-rubʻ al-shamālī al-kāmil / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 8. fol. 52a-61a: ʻUmdat dhawī al-albāb fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-aʻmāl al-falakīyah bi-al-ḥisāb wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb / Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī.Contents: 9. fol. 62b-65a: Risālah āfāqīyah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-nisbah al-sittīnīyah.Contents: 10. fol. 65b-66b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ṭūl al-balad.Contents: 11. fol. 67a-73a: Risālat Niṣf dāʾirat al-muʻaddil / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī.Contents: 12. fol. 73b-75b: Fāʾidah Hādhihi al-thalāthah al-abwāb min ākhir al-Risālah al-sittīnīyah alladhī ilá al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Māridīnī.Contents: 13. fol. 75b-76a: Dāʾirah of "mā taṣādaqa min al-burūj wa-mā tabāghaḍa wa-mā taṣādaqa min al-nujūm wa-mā tabāghaḍa", with introduction.Contents: 14. fol. 76b: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-ʻulwīyah".Contents: 15. fol. 77a: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-suflīyah".Contents: 16. fol. 78b-96a: Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir / Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī.Contents: 17. fol. 97a-112b: Kitāb al-Luʾluʾ al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 18. al-Waḍʻ ʻalá al-jihāt fī al-basāʾiṭ wa-al-munḥarifāt.Contents: 19. fol. 125b: Verses of poetry in Ottoman Turkish and other inscriptions.Ms. codex.Title from table of contents on fol. (i)a (later hand).Physical description: First text written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 12 lines per page (147 x 80 mm.). Laid European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 300 mm.). The other texts written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, with 13 lines per page (140 x 100 mm.). Yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. Zād al-masāfir has 15 lines per page (fol. 78b-96a). European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 400 mm.). Contains tables and a circular diagram (fol. 76a). Fol. i is a later addition with a table of contents. Fol. 125 is a later addition with inscriptions. Stained with water.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻUlūm riyāḍīyah 32". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1019".Origin: According to colophons, Text 1 copied in Edirne, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667 (fol. 18b). The other texts are copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī (ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Barisī Kū(?) on fol. 66b), Egypt ("bi-al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 1533 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533 (fol. 34b, 66b, 73a, 112b, 113b), except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533 (fol. 94b).
Abstract: A collection of tratises in a variety of subjects, including tafsīr, theology, philosophy, metaphysics, semantics and science of time-keeping. Most are in Arabic, with few texts in Ottoman. Only texts 17 and 20 are dated, 3rd of Rajab 1096 and first 10 days of Rajab 1096 respectively (1685). Most texts are in same hand, appear to be contemporary and vary only slightly in style and layout.Binding note: Brown leather. Gold guilloche and fillets around borders of covers. Gold tooled mesh pattern in diamond shape in the centre of upper and lower covers. Marbled paper pastedowns. Label on upper cover: "Majāmiʻ 27".Contents: 1. Fol. 1b: Table of contentsContents: 2. Fol. 2b: Tafsīr "Yawm yaqūmu al-rūḥ wa-al-malāʼikah"Contents: 3. Fol. 3a: Ḥadīth "taken from Ḥāshiyat al-Kashshāf by Shaykh Akmal al-Dīn" and a short wird by Ibn al-ʻArabīContents: 4. Fol. 3b-7a: blankContents: 5. Fol. 7b: Manlā Aḥmad al-Anṣārī ʻalá qawl al-Bayḍāwī title from the table of contents.Contents: 6. Fol. 8a-8b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-TawbahContents: 7. Fol. 9a: Tafsīr Sūrat al-TawbahContents: 8. Fol. 9b-13b: Risālah mutaʻalliqah bi-iṣṭilaḥāt arbāb al-ḥadīth.Contents: 9. Fol. 14a-18b: blankContents: 10. Fol. 19a-19b: Risālat al-waḍʻContents: 11. Fol. 21a: Maqādīr sharʻīyah title from the table of contents.Contents: 12. Fol. 22a-24a: Tafsīr kabīr min Sūrat al-Aḥzāb.Contents: 13. Fol. 24b-28b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-Mulk.Contents: 14. Fol. 29a-32b: al-Risālah al-Walāʼīyah.Contents: 15. Fol. 32b-37a: Risālah fī radd al-Risālah al-Walāʼīyah.Contents: 16. Fol. 37b-39a: Risālah fī afʻāl al-ʻibād.Contents: 17. Fol. 39b-43a: Risālat al-Zawrāʼ.Contents: 18. Fol. 43b-46b: Sharḥ khuṭbat al-ZawrāʼContents: 19. Fol. 47a-56a: al-Ḥawrāʼ ʻalá al-ZawrāʼContents: 20. Fol. 56b-63a: Sharḥ al-dāʼirah al-ḤindīyahContents: 21. Fol. 63b-64a: Risālah fī ḥall al-taʼrīkh.Contents: 22. Fol. 64a-64b: Risālah fī al-gharaḍ wa-al-ghāyahContents: 23. Fol. 65a: an inscription concerning verses (in a risālah) coined by Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān (d. 1586?)Contents: 24. Fol. 65b-71b: blankContents: 25. Fol. 72a-80b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-kalām fī mawqif al-maʼmūm wa-al-imām.Contents: 26. Fol. 81a-84a: blankContents: 27. Fol. 84b-86a: Şeyhülislam hazretlerine maruz-i fakir (in Ottoman).Contents: 28. Fol. 86b-88b: blankContents: 29. Fol. 89a-90a: Taʻlīqah ʻalá qānūn al-khabr min al-miftāḥ lil-ʻAfīf title from the table of contents.Contents: 30. Fol. 90b-91a: blankContents: 31. Fol. 91b: a short paragraph containing a list of excerpts from a number of different worksContents: 32. Fol. 92a-92b: blankContents: 33. Fol. 93a-93b: Qānūn al-khabr min miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.Contents: 34. Fol. 94a-95b: blankContents: 35. Fol. 96a: a short text on ʻilm al-uṣūlContents: 36. Fol. 96b: a recipe (in Ottoman)Contents: 37. Fol. 97a-99a: blankContents: 38. Fol. 99b-112a: Esrârname title from the table of contents; the text is a risālah (in Ottoman) in metaphysics, and includes commentaries on a selection of ḥadīthContents: 38. Fol. 112b-116b: blankContents: 39. Fol. 117a-123a: al-Tanbīh ʻalá ghalaṭ al-ḥāmil wa-al-nabīhContents: "40. Fol. 123a-125a: al-ʻIddah fī al-nisāʼ wa-al-rijāl title from the table of contents; the text (in Ottoman) is an exposition by Ebussuud Efendi on the 'waiting time' between marriages"Contents: '41. Fol. 126a: a short text in tafsīr'Contents: 42. Fol. 126b: Fawāʼid Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ.Contents: 43. Fol. 127a-129a: blankMs. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Written surface varies. Catchwords present in most texts. Glazed European paper. An ownership signature, accompanied by a seal, in the name of Molla Sayyid Mehmet "protected by" Lalaʹzade on fol. 1a.
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite law and doctrine.Binding note: Full golden-brown leather; yellow paper doublures; front cover almost completely detached.Contents: 1. leaves 1a-82a: al-Fawāʼid al-Ḥāʼirīyah. Incomplete at beginning.Contents: 2. leaves 84a: Table of contents for volume.Contents: 3. leaves 84b-132b: al-Fawāyid al-jadīdah.Contents: 4. leaves 133a-135a: Fihrist fī al-Fawāyid al-Ḥāʼirīyah al-mashhūrah bi-Fawāyid al-ʻatīqīyah.Contents: 5. leaves 135b-136a: Fihrist fī al-Fawāyid al-jadīdīyah.Contents: 6. leaves 140b-186b: Risālat ijtihād akhbār.Contents: 7. leaves 186b-187a: Aṣl al-ashyāʼ al-ṭahārah.Contents: 8. leaves 187b-206a: Fawāyid rijālīyah.Contents: 9. leaves 206a-210a: Fī radd al-Ashāʻirah al-qāʼilīn bi-al-iḍṭirār wa-al-ijbār.Contents: 10. leaves 210b-223b: Aṣl al-barāʼah.Contents: 11. leaves 223b-228a: al-Istiṣḥāb.Contents: 12. leaves 228a-231a: Fī ʻibādat al-jāhil.Contents: 13. leaves 231a-232b: Fī al-muʻāmalāt.Contents: 14. leaves 232b-235b: Risālah fī al-qarḍ.Ms. composite codex.Edge title.Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 3, 15 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq in black on glazed laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Remaining texts, 19 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed laid European paper; catchwords. Leaves 1-78 almost entirely detached. Mild staining and smudging.Origin: Text 1 completed 22 Ṣafar 1227 H 7 March 1812, by Aḥmad ibn mawlānā Mullā Muḥammad Hādī navādah-i Mullā Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ shahīr bih Bihishtī (leaf 82a). Text 3, 15 Rajab 1235 H 28 April 1820, by Muḥammad Rafīʻ Nūrī (leaf 132b). Remaining texts likely early 19th century.
Abstract: Collection of several treatises on medicine, translated into Arabic by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. The ms. contains two main parts: the first text which is a later addition and texts 2-10, all written by the same hand. There seems to be two parts in this last section, the first called "al-Jawāmiʻ" (texts 2-6, see colophon, fol. 244b) and the last four texts.Binding note: Dark brown leather over pasteboards. Upper and lower covers have a simple outer frame made of single fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-40a: Kitāb Jālīnūs al-maʻrūf bi-al-Ṣināʻah al-ṣaghīrah / Galen.Contents: 2. fol. 41a-58b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-buḥrān / Galen.Contents: 3. fol. 59b-68a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-buḥrān / Galen.Contents: 4. fol. 69b-83a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayāt / Galen.Contents: 5. fol. 83b-84a: Blank.Contents: 6. fol. 84b-197b: Jumal min jawāmiʻ Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-ḥīlat lil-burʼ / Galen.Contents: 7. fol. 198a: Blank.Contents: 8. fol. 198b-244b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī tadbīr al-aṣiḥḥā / Galen.Contents: 9. fol. 245a-262a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī firaq al-ṭibb / Galen.Contents: 10. fol. 262b-263a: Blank.Contents: 11. fol. 263b-278b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-nabḍ ilá Ṭūtharun lil-mutaʻallimīn / Galen.Contents: 12. fol. 279a-281a: Blank.Contents: 13. fol. 281b-342b: Kitāb Jālīnūs ilá Aghlūqun fī shifāʼ al-amrāḍ / Galen.Contents: 14. fol. 343a: Blank.Contents: 15. fol. 343b-377b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Usṭuqusāt ʻalá raʼy Buqrāṭ / Galen.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the lower edge of the text block.21 lines per page. The first text is written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for the headings on European glazed paper with watermark. From text 2 on: written in careful and professional vocalized medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) on light cream glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible ; frame-ruled. Marginal notes (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, copied by the same hand, see fol. 42b, 53a). Smaller leaves are inserted between the ms. leaves, with inscriptions by the same hand as the main text (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, see between fol. 51 and 52; 112-113; 211-212). On fol. 1a: Obliterated seal. On fol. 41a (i.e., fol. 1a of the original ms.): Table of contents; several ownership statements, one dated 623 H., one dated 8 Muharram 902 H. in Dār al-Islām Qusṭanṭinīyah; one signed Kamāl al-Dīn al-mutaṭabbib al-Mūsawī. On fol. 377a: Seal with waqf inscription signed Dāmādzādah Fayḍ Allāh Afandī, dated 1174 H. On fol. 377b: Ownership statements. The quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in the form "7 min 3" (often cut off due to the trimming of the leaves, but still visible on some quires, see fol. 96a, 126a, 136a, 146a, 156a). Signs in the upper corner and lower corner of the opposite leaf marking the middle of the quire (see fol. 130-131; 220-221). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied by ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī in 572 H. (colophon of text 6, fol. 244b), except the first text, copied for Dāmādzādah by Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḥasanī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tūqātī in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1138 H. (colophon, fol. 40a).
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on astronomical instruments, one in 65 short chapters (see table of contents at the beginning of the text, fol. 2b-3a and in Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 5836) attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, the other comprising an introduction and 33 chapters (bāb) on an astronomical instrument called the celestial globe (same as Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 5869 and King, D. Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻilmīyah, 4/2/7.2). The text is followed on fol. 17a by a Faṣl fī al-dāʼir bayna al-ẓuhr wa-al-ʻaṣr wa-al-dāʼir bayna al-ʻaṣr wa-al-ghurūb.Binding note: Purple paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-12b: Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah / Qusṭā ibn Lūqā.Contents: 2. fol. 12b-17a: Risālah fī al-kurah dhāt al-kursī.Contents: 3. fol. 17a: Faṣl fī al-dāʼir bayna al-ẓuhr wa-al-ʻaṣr wa-al-dāʼir bayna al-ʻaṣr wa-al-ghurūb.Ms. codex.Title from modern note on fol. 2a. The title of Text 1 appears in the beginning of the text as "al-ʻAmal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah" (fol. 2b).25 lines per page. Written in clear medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the first fly-leaf as fol. 1). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "751/2 ḥāʼ". Inscription in pencil in Arabic script on the first fly-leaf (fol. 1a): "Thālith 149".Incipit Text 1 (fol. 2b): مقالة قسطا بن لوقا اليونانى فى العمل بالكرة الفلكية الفها لابى(؟) الحسن عبد الله ابن يحيى كلّ فاضل فمحبته واجبة والفاضل من الناس من كان عند امّه(؟) مفضلا والمفضل عند الله من كان كامل الفضلة فى النفس والبدنExplicit Text 1 (fol. 12b): معرفة عرض البلد من ارتفاع نصف النهار من كواكب الكرة اذا اردنا ذلك زفعنا الكواكب من(؟) اجزاء خلقة نصف النهار والله اعلم تمت هذه الرسالة بعون الله الملك الوهابIncipit Text 2 (fol. 12b): الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات العلي وزينها بمصابيح الذجى والصلوة ... وبعد فان الكرة المسماة بذات الكرسي كرة عجيبة وآلة غريبةExplicit Text 2 (fol. 16b): فى الافق ويرفع عن الافق بقدر ذلك النصف وعلى هذا القياس تم الكتاب بعون الله الوهاب الغفار الستار الذنوب
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).