Abstract: A work of encyclopeadic nature by Mahmut bin Kadı Manyas, known as Manyas oǧlu (see start of text), covering questions of fiqh (in a section written in the form of fetvas), science, including subjects of mathematics and animals, and ʻilm al-ḥurūf. Title in Ṭāhir, ʻOM, given as: "Acab ül-acayip".Binding note: Green fabric covering original binding in leather. Pastedowns in yellow paper. Flyleaves in marbled paper.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Copied by Mehmet bin Abdullah in 841 (1437-38) -- colophon (fol. 83b).13 lines per page. Text is written in black ink with use of red for rubrication, inside a single line frame in red ink. Glazed paper with prominent pulp and no chain or laid lines visible. Short inscriptions on verso of front flyleaf and fol. 1a. A small almond shaped stamp on fol. 1a and 1b. Some marginal annotations. Short inscriptions and numerical tables and lists on the inside of both covers.Incipit:الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة علي اقضل رسله محمد وآله اجمعين وبعد فيقول اضعف الناس واحوجهم الي الملك الناس محمود بن قاضي منياس المشهور بمنياس اوغليExplicit: نظر اكه ارشمش دكلدر والحمد لله على اتمام والصلوة اولا واخرا على افضل رسله محمد واله تمت
14th-century copy of a late 13th-century manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance, in the form of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on the Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah of 12th-century legal and mathematical scholar Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 281Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand, paper, etc. may suggest 16th century. Date in seal impression provides an approximate terminus ante quem of 1107 [1695 or 1696] depending on the elapsed time between the making of the seal and its impression in the ms.Binding: Pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork ; Type II binding (with flap) ; spine and fore edge flap in dark brown leather ; doublures and interior of envelope flap in red brown (dark red) leather with recessed inlays of paper in lapis lazuli, light blue, yellow, and green with filigree in brown and black leather ; upper and lower covers bear painted lacquerwork design in gold, green, red, black, and dark red of nearly identical composition ; design consists of scalloped central mandorla (reminiscent of Déroche class. OSd 8), pendants, and corner pieces with border consisting of a series of lozenges ; all are filled with an elaborate swirling floral vegetal design ; upper and lower doublures bear central scalloped mandorla, pendants and corner pieces in leather filigree (black and brown) and recessed paper inlays (lapis lazuli, green, light blue, and yellow) surrounded by simple gold-painted border accents ; interior of envelope flap continues design of doublures ; sewn in white and blue green threads (intertwined), two stations ; worked endbands in blue green, white and pink (traces) ; in poor condition with extensive abrasion to covers resulting in loss of lacquer and paint ; spine leather lifting and detaching from text block, upper cover detacing ; some pest damage ; boards delaminating ; endbands nearly gone ; paper label pasted to upper cover (no writing) ; currently housed in envelope.Support: non-European laid paper (untinted but gold-flecked) set in tinted leaves of non-European (likely Persian) laid paper, mainly alternating shades of blue (often toward green) and yellow, occasionally pink ; laid lines of set-in written area running horizontally spaced roughly 7 laid lines per cm. ; laid lines of tinted leaves running vertically spaced roughly 8-10 laid lines per cm. with curving and sagging ; chain lines difficult to view but may be sporadic short lengths ; a few inclusions ; well-burnished and smooth ; flyleaves of several paper types - European laid paper, non-European (likely Persian) laid paper (decorative silhouette paper), and Persian or Indian laid paper of no earlier than late 18th century.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1a consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by triangular or hasp piece ; rectangular piece carries lobed central lozenge in gold, with flanking pieces in gold and red all on a field of lapis lazuli with floral vegetal pattern in black, red, yellow, white, and lavender ; bordered in bands of white, blue, and gold (with swirling pattern) ; surmounted by triangular piece or hasp in gold and lapis lazuli with same floral vegetal pattern ; surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; a band of black with same floral vegetal pattern and flanking bands of red and gold separates the two pieces ; simple illuminated headpieces throughout and at close consisting of rectangular piece with central gold cartouche (empty) flanked by almond-shaped pieces in black or red on fields of lapis lazuli with swirling vegetal motif bordered in bands of gold and red ; "tailpiece" accompanied by flanking rectangular pieces with swirling floral vegetal pattern in black, red, yellow, white and lavender on fields of gold, bordered in blue ; written area surrounded by a frame consisting of a series of bands varying in color according to tint of surrounding leaf ; for lighter colored leaves the frame is in green, gold, black and blue and for darker colored leaves the frame is in blue, gold, black and red ; simple gold bands outlined by black fillets frame columns within written area.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; sans serif ; characteristic descent of words to baseline along with superscript of final words and letters at end of many lines ; characteristic letterforms ; contrast in thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes ; horizontal strokes often elongated.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page ; single column divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 4 III (24), II (28), IV (36), I (38), ii ; chiefly ternions ; catchwords present.Explicit: "من وفایی ندیده ام ز خسان گر تو بینی سلام من برسان ... چون مصفا شوی زرزق وزفن مرد گر دی اگر چه هستی زن"Incipit: "ای درون پرور برون آرای ای خرد بخش [بیخرد] بخشای"Title from inscriptions on front flyleaf and fol.1a.Ms. codex.Exquisite manuscript containing what appears to be excerpts from the mystical mathawī (mas̲navī) of Sanāʼī, Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqah wa-sharīʻat al-ṭarīqah.
Commentary on the summary of arithmetical operations by the late 13th- and early 14th-century scholar Ibn al-Bannāʼ. Demonstrates with examples the calculation of sums involving fractional numbers and square roots. Extensive marginal notes on a few leaves (p. 20-35). The first leaf is missing and the text ends abruptly. Several leaves have restored outer margins. Pages 189-194 missing text because of conservation after water damage.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. Four miniatures. Decorative borders.Dimensions: 10¾ × 7¼ in.Hand: Small but 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.
Binding: Lacquered boards with floral decoration.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. 8 miniatures. Floral borders.Dimensions: 13 × 8½ in.Hand: Small 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.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. Miniatures. Decorative borders.Dimensions: 12⅞ × 7⅞ in.Hand: Small 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.