Abstract: "Part one of the famous Qur'an commentaryAbstract: beginning with surat Maryam and ending with surat al-Nās."Title from title page.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.عليه تمام قراءة في سنة 1256هـ بخط العلامه أحمد عبدالرحمن المجاهد ثم تصحيحاً كاملاً في شهر شوال سنة1270هـ. لقطة رقم (781)النصف الثانى من كتاب الكاشف عن حقائق التنزيل وعيون الاقاويل ومحجبات التاويل / تاليف الشيخ العلامه وبحر العلم الزاخر والفضل الباهر الفائق للامم الاوايل والاواخر...جار الله ابي القاسم محمود بن عمر الزمخشرىDedication to Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-ʻAbdī. Ownership notes dated 1794 and 1916. Reading note dated 1840. Collation note dated 1853. Includes an excerpt from a certain work entitled "al-Itqān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān" on the meaning of the phrase "lā jarama".بعناية : محمد بن قاسم بن سالم بن علي العَبْدِيجيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير إلى متوسط الحجم مغلف بقماش مخطط بالأخضر والأحمر وقد كُتب بخط ممتاز رائع استخدم فيه المداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر والأصفر ، وعليه بعض الحواشي والتعليقاتنهار الجمعة لعله سلخ شهر شوال سنة 1059هـIncipit: سُورة مريم مَكيَّه وهي سبعونتِسْعُوْنوثمان او تسع ايات بسم الله الرحمَن الرحيم كهيعص ذكْرُ رحمَتِ رَبِّكَ عَبْدَهُ زَكَرِيآءَ...قَولهُ كهَيَعص بفتح الهَآ وَكسرِ اليَا حَمزةٌ وبكسرهما عَاصم وَبضمّهما الحسَنُ...Explicit: مِنَ الجِنَّةِ والنَاسِ بَيَانٌ للذي يُوَسْوسُ على ان الشيطان ضربان جِنىّ وانسِيٌّ...وَانا اعود باللهِ وبهمَا وبجميع كلمة اللهِ الكَامِلَةِ التَآمة...وَالحَمدُ للهِ اوَّلاً واخِرا...تَمَّ الكِتابُ وَالحمْدُ للهِ الكَريم الوَهَّاب...وَلاَحَوْلَ وَلاقُوَّةَ الاَّ بالله العَلي العَظيمNaskh and thuluth scripts, written in black, red, green and yellow ink. Some marginalia appended.31 lines.نقل من كتاب" الإتقان في تفسير القرآن" في معنى تفسير " لا جرم " . لقطة رقم (15)
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1042Origin: As appears in final colophon on p.155 (and colophons on p.32, p.48, p.65, p.130, etc.), transcription executed by Mīr ʻAṭā Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Harawī ( مير عطا محمد الحسينى الهروى ) and completed 12 Ḥūt [Asfand] 1299 Hijrī Shamsī, corresponding to 21 Jumādá II 1339 Hijrī Qamarī [ca. 2 March 1921].Accompanying materials: a. Photocopy of Small white card with notes in German on authors, date and title (presumably in hand of Dr. Gruening, see letter from Schulte) and page from legal pad with description in hand of J. Eilts "in Persian | Panj Kitāb a collection of five poetical works and a commentary by Mīr ʻAṭṭā Muḥammad was completed on the 21st day of the month of Jumadah 2 in the year 1339 (1921) of the lunar Islamic calendar. It was dedicated to Sulṭān Aḥmad Kabīr of Kabul. One "book" of poetry is by Saʻdī and another by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār. The other authors were not mentioned. Inside front cover is dedication to Mīrzā (Prince) Muḥammad Āṣṣāf Munajjim and the date 1310 of the Solar calendar." -- b. Photocopy of letter from Frank J. Schulte of Grand Rapids, to Dr. Howard H. Peckham, Clements Library, University of Michigan, dated 13 November 1976 and received 18 November 1976, describing and offering to the Library this manuscript and Isl. Ms. 1043.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 191Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork, spine in dark greenish-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; doublures in fine painted lacquerwork of swirling floral vegetal composition in gold on a dark red ground ; upper and lower covers bear paintings (each unique) of swirling floral composition namely central panel filled with clusters of roses, peonies, irises, etc. in red, yellow, orange, and blue set among leaves in shades of green, surrounded by a heavy band of similar floral designs, all set off by cornerpieces and vegetal borders in gold ; sewn in red and white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and red, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with minor lifting and losses of leather, minor crazing, etc. ; ill-fitting and likely much earlier than text block.Support: non-European (likely Indian or 'Afghani') laid paper with roughly 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, quite thick and distinct, fairly straight) and no chain lines visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, beige in color, well-sized and burnished to glossy ; tissue leaves interleaved at opening and close of many works to protect illuminated decorations.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of each section (p.18, p.34, p.50, p.68, p.132, p.140), generally consisting of a rectangular piece containing a pious formula (shahādah, ḥasbalah, ḥawqalah, etc.) in bold thuluth in monumental style, surmounted by a scalloped dome, hasp, semi-circular piece, w-shaped piece etc. (opening headpiece on p.18 surmounted by emblem of the Bārakzay dynasty [Bārakzī]) filled with bold floral vegetal designs mainly in bright blue or lapis lazuli and gold with red, light green, yellow, etc. accents ; many headings appear in rectangular pieces set off by flanking vegetal designs (or in rare occasions animals, see pp.60-63) in gold with red and blue accents on fields of blue, green, red, etc. ; written area surrounded by frame in gold with outermost blue rule ; margin also defined by blue rule-border ; written area of incipit and facing page at each opening accented with gold cloud-bands ; written area of preceding 'title page' or page at close left blank but surrounded by a decorative vegetal border and cornerpieces in blue or red ; keywords and headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant, spacious and carefully executed hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing in conjoined dots, gāf marked with additional stroke above shaqq / sar kash ; Arabic excerpts in a bold naskh seriffed with dramatic left-sloping head-serif on many ascenders, right-sloping head-serif on other descenders, rounded with many sweeping descenders ; some headings in tawqīʻ or thuluth.Layout: Written in 12-16 lines per page, with written area often divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: 10 IV(80), II (84) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; opening and final quires left entirely blank and unruled ; middle of the quire marks in the form of an oblique stroke in black ink in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Dedication: At close on p.154, dedication to Amīr Amān Allāh Khān ( امير امان الله خان ) [Amānallāh Shāh], king of Afghanistan (r.1919-1929), and Muḥammad Sarwar Khān ( محمد سرور خان ).Colophon: "Authorial" and "Scribal," reads "امر بنوشتن مجموعه كثير المنفعه كه مشهور به پنج کتاب است فرمودند ... اطاعة لامره العالى به تحرير اين مجموعه مباركه پرداختم تا همه آن مجموعه مباركه سمت تحرير پذیرفت وانا العبد المذنب اقل السادات والعلماء مير عطا محمد امام مسجد ... حضرت سلطان سيد احمد كبير قدس الله سره العزيز ... فى تاريخ يوم چهار شنبه ١٢ ماه حوت سنه هجرى شمسى ١٢٩٩ يكهزار و دو صد و نود نه مطابق سنه هجرى قمرى ٢١ شهر جمادى الثانى يكهزار و سه صد و سى و نه سنه ١٣٣٩ تمت بالخير ...اللهم افتح لنا بالخير واختم لنا بالخير واجعل عواقب كل امورنا بالخير امين"Title from closing matter on p.155.Ms. codex.14. p.156-p.168 : [blank].13. p.154-p.155 : [copyist's epilogue].12. p.140-p.153 : [Risālah-i Qāz̤ī Quṭb ?] / Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn [?].11. p.138-p.139 : [blank].10. p.132-p.137 : Ṣad pand-i sūdmand-i Luqmān-i Ḥakīm.9. p.131 : [blank].8. p.68-p.130 : [Pandnāmah-i ʻAṭṭār] / Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār.7. p.66-p.67 : [blank].6. p.50-p.65 : [Maḥmūdnāmah] / Maḥmūd Lāhūrī.5. p.49 : [blank].4. p.34-p.48 : [Nām-i Ḥaqq] / Sharaf al-Dīn Bukhārī.3. p.33 : [blank].2. p.18-p.32 : [Karīmā] / Saʻdī.1. p.1-p.17 : [mainly blank].Splendid copy of a collection of didactic poetical works on proper conduct of life.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 95Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely late 14th or 15th century.Accompanying materials: Vast number of slips bearing notes, virtually all tipped in (paginated pp.7-8, pp.11-12, etc.).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London. "No. 123. Kanz al-dakaik."Binding: Pasteboards faced in laid paper with brown leather over spine, fore-edge and edges/turn-ins (paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and green (headband) and in red and cream (tailband) ; in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, moisture damage, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with extremely faint laid and chain lines, very difficult to examine ; numerous repairs ; added leaf with table of contents in European laid paper.Decoration: Abbreviations rubricated throughout ; overlining in red throughout ; keywords, section headings and abbreviations rubricated in excerpts ; written area of final excerpt (p.275-278) surrounded by rule-border in two fillets.Script: Naskh ; Syrian or Turkish hand ; virtually serifless ; large and clear, quite rounded, with open and closed counters, occasional slight effect of tilt to the left and swooping descenders, section headings in bold thuluth ; two additional hands supply the text of the exerpts (from p.272 to p.278) ; the first of these (see p.272-274) similar but more compact, with many closed counters, swooping descenders, etc. ; the final (see p.275-278) more compact, in a heavier line and with fewer swooping descenders ; pointing in main hand and final hand utilizes inverted caret for two dots ; in second hand inverted caret or distinct dots for two dots, and inverted comma for three dots ; marginalia in numerous other hands.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; excerpts of final leaves in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III+1 (7), 2 III(19), I(21), 6 V(81), VI-1 (92), 2 (94) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes vast number of inserts).Explicit: "ثم اقسم المبلغ على التصحيح ومن صالح من الورثة على شيء فاجعل كان لم يكن واقسم على سهام من بقي ما بقي"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي أعز العلم في الاعصار وأعلى حزبه في الامصار ... قال مولانا ... ابو البركات عبد الله بن احمد بن محمود النسفي ... رايت الهمم المائلة الى المختصرات ... واردت ان الخص الوافي ... فشرعت فيه بعد التماس طائفة من اعنان الافاضل ... وسميته بكنز الدقائق ..."Title from opening (p.6).Ms. codex.Extensively annotated copy of the important treatise of Ḥanafī fiqh, a synopsis of the author's own Kitāb al-Wāfī, modelled on the Hidāyah of ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7), followed by exerpts.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 97Origin: As appears in colophon on p.447, transcription finished ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb...") in the first part of Jumādá I 929 [March 1523].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No.146. Glosses on the Wikayah."Binding: Pasteboard covered in dark brown leather with red-brown leather repairs on spine and at edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in laid paper ; cover bears blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with floral vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi2 5) ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and sky blue, fine condition ; overall in poor condition with upper cover and flap lost, significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes with 9-10 mm. between the chains and roughly 35 mm. between groups ; well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviations rubricated ; occasional overlining and textual divders in the form of discs in red ; written area (opening through p.64 and then p.251 to close) surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; effect of words descending to baseline, occasionally more exaggerated ; occasional extension of horizontal strokes ; colophon in thuluth.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 V(60), II+2 (66), V (76), II (80), 4 V(120), II (124), 6 V(184), IV+1 (193) ; chiefly quinions ; p.134 and p.444 left blank, unmarked ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts ; drops from p.132 to p.131 thus repeating pp.131-132).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب في اوائل جمادى الاولى في سنة تسع وعشرين وتسعمائة"Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته تم بعون الله تع"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى ..."Title from opening (p.7).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebi on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. (see Isl. Ms. 86 for another ms. copy of this work).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 238Origin: As appears at close, calligraphy executed by ʻUthmān, known as Ḥāfiẓ Kalām al-Wahhāb (i.e. Hafız Osman Efendi) in 1099 [1687 or 8]. Decoration and earlier mounting likely 18th century. Most recent mounting and borders likely 19th century.Former shelfmark: "546 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on reverse of uppermost panel ; "113" in pencil in border adjacent to illuminated headpiece.Binding: The three pieced panels of the levha are mounted on boards backed with silk, edged and hinged together with red-brown leather, unfolding like a triptych but vertically ; some repairs to the edging in purple leather ; minor hinge repairs in Japanese paper.Support: European laid paper, well-burnished, pieced and mounted on boards.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) appears in a rectangular panel above the baş makam, consisting of a semi-circular piece (dome) filled with a depiction of al-Masjid al-Ḥarām at Mecca (kaʻbah visible) and set off by an outer border of swirling vegetal designs in white, lavender, mint green, pink, gold, etc. on a blue ground with heavy gold and black borders and surmounting vertical stalks (tīgh) ; the same vegetal designs fill the area around the göbek and the koltuklar ; a black and gold frame surrounds the uppermost rectangular panel, the baş makam, the square containing the göbek, hilâl (in gold), and names of the çiharyâr, the ayet and the etek ; bands of turquoise and gold surround the circles with names of the çiharyâr ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes accent the hilye text ; a heavy border in olive green with gold painted floral accents, itself set-off by white fillets and framed by black and gold bands, surrounds the entire levha.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; basmalah (besmele), āyah (ayet) and names of the first four caliphs (çiharyâr) in thuluth (sülüs) ; hilye texts (of the göbek and etek) in naskh (nesih).Layout: Baș makam with besmele (opening with "انه من سليمان وانه" in small cartouche above "بسم") ; göbek with 9 lines of text ; ayet in a single line ; etek with 4 lines of text.Collation: Three 'panels' (likely once a single levha, now pieced) hinged together with red-brown leather, opening for display as a levha.Colophon: "كتبه اضعف الكتاب عثمان المعروف بحافظ كلام الوهاب سنه تسع وتسعين والف"Explicit: "يقول ناعته لم ار قبله ولا بعده مثله صلى الله عليه وسلم"Incipit: "عن علي كان اذا وصف النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لم يكن بالطويل الممغط ولا بالقصير المتردد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. (three panels hinged together).Exquisite hilye (written depiction of the Prophet) executed by the master who developed this graphic form of the hilye, Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698). Decoration and mounting later, likely in at least two distinct stages (18th and 19th century).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 470Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand may suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. (pp.1-2)-- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 169" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in shades of pink and blue) with red leather over spine, fore edge flap and fore edge of upper board ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in European laid paper ; sewn in grey thread, two stations ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion, lifting and losses of leather.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with roughly 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines grouped in threes (horizontal) with roughly 8-11 mm. between chains and 36-39 mm. between groups ; well-burnished and quite smooth ; firm and fairly crisp.Decoration: Section headings, keywords, and abbreviations (abbreviation symbols) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; mainly sans serif though left sloping head-serif appears occasionally on alif of lām-alif ligature ; effect of tilt to the left ; many open counters ; pointing in distinct dots, with two dots occasionally oriented vertically ; fully vocalized ; section headings in larger curvilinear script approaching thuluth.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 6 V (60) ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords inconsistently present ; quire signatures (numbering) in the form of full words in the top left corner of the recto of the first leaf of each quite ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Explicit: "واخر دعوانا بتوفيق ربنا ان الحمد لله الذي وحده علا وبعد صلاة الله ثم سلامه على سيد الخلق الرضي متنخلا محمد المختار للمجد كعبة صلوة تباري الريح مسكا ومندلا وتبدي على اصحابه نفحاتها بغير ثناه زرنبا وقرنفلا كملت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن تأييده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد و اله وسلم تسليما"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الاجل الامام المقرئ ابو القاسم بن فيره بن خلف بن احمد الرعيني ثم الشاطبي رضي الله وارضاه بدأت ببسم الله في النظم اولا تبارك رحمانا رحيما وموئلا وثنيت صلى الله ربي على الرضى محمد المهدى الى الناس مرسلا"Title from inscriptions on interior of upper cover and 'title page' (p.7).Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Shāṭibī's versification (ṭawīl, in 1173 verses) of al-Dānī's compendium of the seven readings, al-Taysīr, intended as a didactic poem which eases the task of memorization via a clever mnemonic device in the form of carefully introduced sigla. A table with these sigla and abbreviation symbols appears on the recto of the opening leaf of the codex (p.5). Table of contents on 'title page' (p.7) would indicate that this work was once part of a collection of texts from which it has been since separated. Description provided by Maxim Romanov.
A page of anonymous alchemical poetry in Ottoman Turkish, which has been struck through and cancelled. Its catchword does not match the first word of the following folio.Begins (f. 112v, lines 2-3):گل ای نجم سعادت آفتابی ° اِشِت گل كيبی بو نازک جوابیندندر سيم وزريا علم كميا ° قوپر هر قطردن صبريله درياEnds (fol. 112v, lines 21-22):كه تربيّت اولب عرض مطهّر ° كه اولرسيم دمنده گاه اولر زراگرحل اوله پر مئله ظاهر ° درون جانده گورينه جواهرf. 112vMaterial: PaperDimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [168 x 112 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic foliation in the purple crayon typical of Lebanese bookdealers of the 19th centuryRuling:
Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm (ff. 113r-158v: 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm)Script:
Naskhwith
nasta‘līqtendencies and some titles in
thuluth(ff. 113r-158v:
naskh)Scribes: Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī (ff. 3r-112v) and Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (ff. 113r-158v)Ink: Black ink, with rubricated, yellow and green headings and overlinings in red (ff. 113r-158v: black)Binding: British Museum bindingCondition: Some worm damage, foxing, and tears towards the fore edge. Folios 19, 21 and 24 have been replaced.Marginalia: Extensive marginal corrections, conjectures, glosses in Arabic and Persian and other evidence of collation and textual study (ff. 113r-158v: very few)
Abstract: "Part one of the famous Qur'an commentaryAbstract: up to surat al-Kahf."Title from title page.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.عليه شروع في قراءة بمحروس شهارة في محرم الحرام سنة 1356هـ بخط صاحب المكتبة.لقطة رقم(19) ، وكذلك عليه سماع من أول سورة النساء لدى الوالد العلامه العلم القاسم بن الوجيه بتاريخ 2/جماد الآخر/سنة1367هـ بخط السيد العلامة محمد بن أحمد بن محمد الكبسي ثم قال بخطه:بلغ قراءته لدى سيدي الوالد العلامه العلم الى منتهى سورة الأنفال وذلك في الليلة المسفرة عن صبيحة يوم الأربعاء الموفي لـ28من شهر رمضان الكريم...محمد بن احمد بن محمد الكبسي.لقطة رقم (17).كتَابُ الكَاشفْ عَنْ حَقَآئِقِ التَنْزيْلِ وعُيوْنِ الاقَاوِيْل ومحجبَاتِ التأْويْل / تاليف الشيخ العلاّمه ذى العلم الزاخر والفضل الباهِر...جار الله ابي القسم محمود بن عمر الزمخشريMultiple ownership notes, dated 1701, 1732, 1785 and 1803. Reading notes, dated 1937 and 1948. Includes several fragments, among them lines of poetry by the author, a prayer in praise of Muhammad by ʻAlī, and excerpts from the Shams al-ʻulūm wa-dawāʼ kalām al-ʻArab min al-kulūm by Nashwān ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥimyarī and the Sharḥ Qāḍī Zayd.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد كبير إلى متوسط الحجم مغلف بغلاف كحلي وقد كُتب بخط ممتاز رائع استخدم فيه المداد الأسود والأحمر والأخضر والأصفر ، وعليه بعض الحواشي والتعليقات1059؟Incipit: بِسْمِ الله...وَبِهِ الثّقَهُ ومِنْهُ الإِعَانَةُ الحَمْدُ للهِ الذي انزلَ القرانَ كلاماً مُؤَلفاً مُنَظَماً...والصَّلوة على خير من اوحي اليهِ حَبيب الله ابي القَسم محمد بن عبداللهِ بن عبدالمطلب بن هاشم...اعلم ان متن كل علمِ وعمود كل صِنَاعةٍ طبقات العلمآ فيه مُتَدَانيه...سُورَةُ فاتحه الكتاب مكيه وقيل مدنيه...Explicit: مَنْ قرا سوره الكهف من آخِرِهَا كانت له نُوراً من قَرْفه الى قدمِه ومن قرأها كلها كانت له نوراً منَ الارض الى السّمَآ...يصلون عليه حتى يستيقظ سُوْرة مَرْيَم مَكّيّهْ وَهىَ سَبعُون وَثمانُ أَوْ تسْعُ أَياتٍ بسمِ اللهِ...قال رب اني وهن العظم منى واشتعل الراس شيْباًNaskh and thuluth scripts, written in black, red, green and yellow ink. Some marginalia appended.31 lines.1-قصائد وأبيات شعرية لجار الله الزمخشري وغيره . لقطة رقم (11-12) . -2-دعاء الاستخارة بعد صلاة ركعتين بإخلاص وتوجه وإقبال ، ثم صلاة على النبي محمد صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم مشهورة الفضل تليها ستة أبيات لأمير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب كرم الله وجهه في الجنة أولها : لضرب ألفٍ وجذع ألفٍ..وقطع كفٍ وقلع ضرسِ...وآخرها : أهون من وقفةٍ بدارٍ..تلقاك بوابه بعبس . لقطة رقم (19) . -3-فوائد ونقول من شمس العلوم وشرح القاضي زيد وغيرها في التفسير واللغة والشعر . لقطة رقم (20-23)1-فائدة في أنواع المدود (تجويد)-2-فوائد متفرقة في التفسير . لقطة رقم (707-708)
Lines 1-9 give instructions for producing false ambergris (عنبر); lines 9-15 give instructions for a distillation process for oil of cloves and roses; and lines 16-17 give brief instructions for the washing of
ṭaḥīnah.Begins (f. 159v, lines 1-4):خذ من الشب ٣٠ درهم ومن البارود ٣٠ درهم وقطرهمبالقرعة والأنبيق وبعده خذ من اللادن ٣٠ درهموقطعه قطع صغار وبعد اطرحه في ذلك الماء القاطر علىالنار اللينة ...Ends (f. 159v, lines 14-18):... وكذلك الرملة مناع الورد لاكن الوردبزبادة النكرار وتقم الماء الورد على ٣ أقسام أو ٥ أقسام أو سبعة أقسام انتهىصفة غسل الطحينة خذ دهنه بالماء وبعد عليه حتى تذهبرائحة افعل به ما شئت انتهى لو كانت الكتب تنيكم بحالاتي كتبت من دموعأياتيf. 159vMaterial: PaperDimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [168 x 112 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic foliation in the purple crayon typical of Lebanese bookdealers of the 19th centuryRuling:
Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm (ff. 113r-158v: 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm)Script:
Naskhwith
nasta‘līqtendencies and some titles in
thuluth(ff. 113r-158v:
naskh)Scribes: Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī (ff. 3r-112v) and Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (ff. 113r-158v)Ink: Black ink, with rubricated, yellow and green headings and overlinings in red (ff. 113r-158v: black)Binding: British Museum bindingCondition: Some worm damage, foxing, and tears towards the fore edge. Folios 19, 21 and 24 have been replaced.Marginalia: Extensive marginal corrections, conjectures, glosses in Arabic and Persian and other evidence of collation and textual study (ff. 113r-158v: very few)
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 230Origin: As appears in colophon on p.38, executed by es-Seyyid Abdullah, known as el-İmam, pupil of Hafız Osman Efendi, with transcription finished in 1109 [1697 or 8].Former shelfmark: "332 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1) ; "118" also inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in olive-tan leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in purple coated and embossed paper with central gold-painted floral accents and border ; upper and lower covers carry stamped, gold-painted scalloped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition over red onlays) and pendants as well as gold guilloché roll border ; design continues on flap ; sewn in yellow thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (at foreedge especially), staining, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, contrasting direction for written area and surrounding frame into which it has been set / mounted) and occasional chain lines visible, cloudy formation, crisp and transluscent, well-sized and burnished to glossy ; final leaf in wove paper.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) appears at opening on p.2 consisting of a rectangular panel with empty gold cartouche and flanking floral pieces in pink, white, red and orange on fields of gold and blue, surrounded by heavy frame or well in bands of gold and black interlace, white crosses on a red ground, and white crosses on a blue ground, and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area surrounded by frame in heavy gold band outlined by black fillets with a narrow gold band outlining the panels formed by the layout of alternating line filling the column width and three centered lines.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening and every fourth line (saṭr or ʻajuz of a particular bayt) in a fine thuluth ; following three lines (ʻajuz or saṭr of continued or following bayt) in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 9 lines per page with the opening line (the basmalah) and every fourth line thereafter (saṭr or ʻajuz of a particular bayt) filling the column width and the three following lines (ʻajuz or saṭr of continuing or following bayt) centered below.Collation: i, IV+I (10), IV+2 (20), i ; two anomalous quaternions ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appearing in the lower-inner left corner of the written area beginning with the incipit page ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه الفقير السيد عبد الله المعروف بالامام من تلاميذ عثمان افندي غفر الله ذنوبهما آمين سنة ۱۱۰۹"Explicit: "ما رنحت عذبات البان ريح صبا واطرب العيس حادي العيس بالنغم اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق واكمل الخلق محمد واله والطاهرين اجمعين وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثيرا الى يوم الحشر والقرار ما دام الدهور والايام"Incipit: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم آمن تذكر جيران بذي سلم مزجت دمعا جرى من مقلة بدم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of al-Būṣīrī's poem in praise of the Prophet executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher, Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (Yedikuleli Seyyid Abdullah Efendi, d.1731), favorite pupil of the celebrated calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).
Instructions for the production of a distilled ‘hot water’ (ماء حار ; f. 159r, line 23, transcribed below) that can split and dissolve stone. The text begins abruptly and appears to have been copied by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (محمد بن سليمان الموصلي) (see colophon, f. 158v, line 21).Begins (f. 159r, lines 1-3):وذكر لي أنه من أخذ ملح الطعام الحيدراني مع وزنه جير غير مطفئ وبيته فيالفرن ليلة وجره وعقد هكذا ٧ مرات فإنه يكونوا دهنًا وقيل إنه من أخذ منهذه الدهن والعقرب ذائب في بوط وزن ٥ درهم ورماه على العقربEnds (f. 159r, lines 19-23):... قال الحكيم إذا زوج النطرونبالنشادر يتولد منها مفتاح صفة مياه الصناعة خذملح الطعام وملح مر وملح طبرزد وملح حيدراني وملح هندي وملح قليوملح بول أجزاء سواء ومثل الجميع عقابًا فحلهما بالرطوبة وقطرهما فإنهيقطر منهما ماء حار يفلق الصخور والحجر يحلها بإذن الله تعالىf. 159rMaterial: PaperDimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [168 x 112 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic foliation in the purple crayon typical of Lebanese bookdealers of the 19th centuryRuling:
Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm (ff. 113r-158v: 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm)Script:
Naskhwith
nasta‘līqtendencies and some titles in
thuluth(ff. 113r-158v:
naskh)Scribes: Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī (ff. 3r-112v) and Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (ff. 113r-158v)Ink: Black ink, with rubricated, yellow and green headings and overlinings in red (ff. 113r-158v: black)Binding: British Museum bindingCondition: Some worm damage, foxing, and tears towards the fore edge. Folios 19, 21 and 24 have been replaced.Marginalia: Extensive marginal corrections, conjectures, glosses in Arabic and Persian and other evidence of collation and textual study (ff. 113r-158v: very few)
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 231Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration and calligraphy reminiscent of the Timurid style characteristic of late 15th century Herat ; paper would also suggest late 15th or possibly early 16th century ; binding would suggest 16th century.Former shelfmark: "224 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "196" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in lined paper pasted over brown leather doublures, likely with leather filigree appliqué, see interior of envelop flap ; upper and lower covers carry large gold-stamped panel stamp (repeated twice to fill the entire area) filled with symmetrical vegetal design incorporating chi clouds, as well as border in a series of lozenge- and rosette-shaped stamps with outermost series of tooled s-shapes ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with lifting and losses of leather, abrasion, staining, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and sporadic chain lines mainly visible only in short lengths ; thick and sturdy though crisp ; well-sized and burnished ; machine laid paper stabilizing opening leaf carries an embossed mark (or "imitation watermark") reads "اثر جديد عهد همايون".Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying sūrah heading in white and defined by looping white banding (with black crosses) on grounds of gold and lapis lazuli overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern, all bordered in a series of elaborate bands in gold, white, lapis lazuli, black, red, turquoise, etc. ; surmounted by a narrower rectangular panel carrying lozenges filled with delicate vegetal decoration, itself surmounted by an uppermost semi-circular piece (dome) evoking half of an eight-lobed piece (defined by looping white banding) in gold and lapis lazuli with arabesque in turquoise and further swirling vegetal decoration, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; simpler illuminated headpiece consisting of rectangular panel with cartouche carrying the sūrah heading in white on a gold ground flanked by accent pieces in gold and lapis lazuli with swirling vegetal pattern and surrounded by bands of white, gold, blue, red, etc. appears at opening of each sūrah thereafter (p.16, p.28, p.37, and p.43) ; verse dividers in the form of interlace rosettes in gold with black, red, and blue accents appear throughout ; marginal decoration in the form of roundels in blue, green, and gold with "عشر" in white 'Kufic' script, other roundels in gold and blue with what appears to be "خمس" in white (many effaced) ; written area throughout surrounded by elaborate frame consisting of a series of narrow bands in gold, light blue, dark brown to red, turquoise, and lapis lazuli ; floral decoration in blue, gold, red, and black reminiscent of the central decorative panel and pendants of a book cover flank the centered lines ; upper, middle, and lower large lines chrysographed (vocalization in black).Script: Fine calligraphic specimen ; elegant Persian hand ; lines in upper and lower panels of each page in muḥaqqaq, line in central panel in thuluth, lines in intermediate panels in naskh, sūrah headings in riqāʻ ; partially seriffed (mainly right-sloping wedge head-serif) ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 9 lines per page with uppermost, middle, and lowermost large lines filling the column width and two sets of three compact lines centered between them ; frame-ruled.Collation: 3 IV (24) ; exclusively quaternions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.5. p.43-p.47 : Sūrat al-Nabaʼ.4. p.37-p.43 : Sūrat al-Mulk.3. p.28-p.36 : Sūrat al-Wāqiʻah.2. p.16-p.28 : Sūrat al-Fatḥ.1. p.2-p.16 : Sūrat Yāsīn.Elegant copy of a selection of sūrahs (suwar) from the Qurʼān, namely Sūrat Yāsīn (36), Sūrat al-Fatḥ (48), Sūrat al-Wāqiʻah (56), Sūrat al-Mulk (67) and Sūrat al-Nabaʼ (78).