Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 860 v.5Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; dated seal impression provides only rough terminus ante quem of 1723 ; paper, etc. may suggest late 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" -- b. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 9 v.5Binding: Boards covered in light orange-brown leather decorated in "marbled calf" manner ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light-blue surface-dyed wove paper ; spine in dark green and brown leather, gold-stamped with decorative bands and title "ROOZUT OL SUFA 5" ; edges of text block red-flecked ; sewn in white thread over recessed cords ; Western style worked endbands, fair condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with minor abrasion and deterioration of leather, spine leather detaching, minor delamination of boards, etc.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper (characterized in inscription on inner front flyleaf (p.3) as "كاغذ ایرانی") with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct, curving) and chain lines occasionally visible, dark cream to beige in color, thin and sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a thin line ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline and tilt to the right, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 3 VI(36), V+1 (47), 2 VI(71), 3 (74), 5 VI(134), II (138), VI (150), V+1 (161), 2 VI(185), V+1 (196), VI (208), IV-1 (215), ii ; chiefly senions ; sewing difficult to examine but middle of the quire marks in the form of black strokes appear in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Incipit: "آرایش دیباجه مناقب و تاثیر [سلاطین] رفیع مقدار ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the fifth volume, addressing Chingiz Khān and his successors to the time of Tīmūr, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by the Tīmūrid historian Muḥammad ibn Khvāndshāh Mīr Khvānd (d.1498).
Abstract: "Collection of sixteen texts of the Druze communityAbstract: comprising texts 41-55 in Sylvestre de Sacy's description of Druze writings in Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838)."Binding note: Acquired from Brill, leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).Contents: 1. fol. 2a: Table of contents, written in black, red, and yellow.Contents: 2. fol. 2b-21b: al-Juzʼ al-awwal min al-sabʻah ajzāʼ.Contents: 3. fol. 21b-35b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Tanbīh wa-al-taʼnīb wa-al-tawbīkh wa-al-tawfīq.Contents: 4. fol. 35b-39a: Mathalan ḍarabahu baʻḍ ḥukamāʼ al-diyānah tawbīkhan liman qaṣura ʻan ḥafẓ al-imānah.Contents: 5. fol. 39a-44b: Risālah Banī Abī Ḥammār(?).Contents: 6. fol. 44b-49a: Taqlīd lāḥiq al-taqlīd al-awwal ilá al-Shaykh al-mukhtār.Contents: 7. fol. 49a-53b: Taqlīd al-Sikkīn.Contents: 8. fol. 53b-55b:Taqlīd al-Shaykh Abī al-Katāyib.Contents: 9. fol. 55b-58a: Taqlīd al-Amīr Dhī al-maḥāmid kafīl al-Muwaḥḥidīn Abī al-Fawāris Muʻḍad Ibn Yūsuf al-sākin bi-Fallajīn.Contents: 10. fol. 58a-60b: Taqlīd Banī Jarrāḥ.Contents: 11. fol. 60b-66a: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Jumayharīyah.Contents: 12. fol. 66b-69b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Taʻnīf wa-al-tahjīn li-Jamāʻat man bi-Sunhūr min Katāmat al-kātimīn al-ʻajīsiyīn.Contents: 13. fol. 69b-74a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-Wādī.Contents: 14. fol. 74a-91a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-Qusṭanṭinīyah al-munfadhah ilá Qusṭanṭīn mutamallik al-Naṣrānīyah.Contents: 15. fol. 91b-104b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Masīḥīyah wa-Umm al-qalāʼid al-niskīyah wa-qāmiʻat al-ʻaqāʼid al-shirkīyah.Contents: 16. fol. 104b-116b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Taʻaqqub wa-al-iftiqād li-idāʼ mā baqiya ʻalaynā min hadm sharīʻat al-Naṣārá.Ms. codex.Title from first text (fol. 2b).Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Red dots text-stops. Title written in red ink with black vocalization and fillings. Change in paper and script from fol. 50 to fol. 76, and from fol. 87 to fol. 116 (later replacement?, see fol. 76b-77a). Inscriptions on pastedowns and fol. 1a-b. Seriously worm damaged. Extremely fragile.
Watermark: GiorMagnani Almasso with scrollwork. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 3748.Contains geometrical diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; borders in blue and red; marginal notes in hand of copyist.For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 731 and 815,2."A compendium of arithmetic." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermark: Three hats. Cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2593 and 2597.Contains geometrical diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; substantial marginal notes in hand of copyist.Date, copyist's name, and provenance in colophon: qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr al-risālah al-ḥisāb ʻalá yad ... ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʻqūb al-Muftī Bayburd Arḍurūm sābiqan fī yawm al-khāmis ʻashar min shahr Muḥarram al-ḥarām fī waqt qarīb ghurūb zakāʾ fī madrasat Sulṭān Sulaymān al-marḥūm ... sanat 1112 [2 July 1700].For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 732 and 815,2."Treatise on arithmetic, in a muḳaddima and 10 bābs, with glosses and marginal commentary (unidentified) through the eighth bāb, and a number of loose leaves and slips laid in." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 119Origin: As appears in colophon on p.224, copied by ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá. Transcription of second work completed 12 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 17 December 1716]. As appears in colophon on p.248, transcription of third work completed 28 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 12 January 1717]. As appears in colophon on p.262, transcription of fourth work completed 23 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 7 January 1717]. As appears in colophon on p.285, transcription of fifth work completed 15 Ṣafar 1126 [ca. 2 March 1714]. As appears in colophon on p.354, transcription of final work completed 20 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 4 January 1717].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 141. Risalah fi 'l-hisab."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in pink and green, poor condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, severe lifting and losses of paper and leather (especially upper cover), delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three hats watermark ; well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, numerals, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; occasional textual divders in the form of red discs ; some geometric diagrams in red.Script: Naskh ; clear, bold Turkish hand ; seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on nearly all vertical shafts ; effect of tilt to left ; many closed counters ; tapered descenders ; portion of text on p.300 supplied in a different hand.Layout: Written in 17 and 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 2 V(20), IV (28), 7 V(98), 2 VI(122), V (132), IV+1 (141), 2 V(161), IV (169), III (175), ii ; chiefly quinions ; lacks proper catchwords, but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.355-356).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في الشهر المحرم في يوم ۱ ۲ على يد علي بن مصطفى غفر الله لهما ولوالديهما امين تم" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر محرم في يوم ۲٨" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم تم تم في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر محرم في يوم ۲۳" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم تم تم سنة ۱۱۲٦ في ص ۱٥" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر م في يوم ۲۰"Incipit: [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجميع نعمه عدد ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في الحساب مرتبة على مقدمة وعشرة ابواب" ; [Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "يا من عجز عن جميع تضاعف نعمه اقلام افهام العقلاء ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالمائي والچلي رسمت فيما مضى في ايام التحصيل واثناء التدريس والتعطيل تعليقات على المواضع المشكلة وتنبيهات على رموز المباحث المفصلة في الرسالة البهائية في الحساب المشهور فيما بين اولى الالباب ..." ; [Risālah fī fī asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ...] "الحمد لله حمدا يليق بجلاله والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وبعد فهذه رسالة مختصرة اذكر فيها اسماء الرسوم المرسومة على الالة المسماة بالاسطرلاب الشمالي ذات الصفائح وبعض اعمالها ..." ; [Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-marsūm bi-al-qanṭarāt] "قال الشيخ ...شهاب الدين احمد بن المجدي ... الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين وصلوته على سيدنا محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين وبعد فهذه رسالة في العمل بالربع المرسوم بالقنطرات ..." ; [Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab] "الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب مشتملة على مقدمة وعشرين بابا ..." ; [Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-mukhtaṣarah ...] "اي الف والاسم مشتق في السمو وهو العلو ..."Title supplied by catloguer.Ms. codex.13. p.288-p.354 : [Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj aʻmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār min rubʻ al-dāʼirah].12. p.287 : [blank].11. p.286 : ["Jadwal ṭūl al-buldān ..."].10. p.270-p.285 : Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.9. p.269 : [Excerpt addressing "maʻrifat darajat al-shams bi-al-taqrīb"].8. p.263-p.268 : [blank].7. p.250-p.262 : Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-marsūm bi-al-qanṭarāt / Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn al-Majdī.6. p.249-250 : [Excerpt from "Risālah min rasāʼil al-asṭurlāb," etc.]5. p.226-p.248 : [Risālah fī asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-ālah al-musammāh bi-al-asṭurlāb al-shamālī dhāt al-ṣafāʼih].4. p.225 : [blank].3. p.62-p.224 : [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Bahāʼīyah fī al-ḥisāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.2. p.58-p.61 : [blank].1. p.6-p.57 : Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Fine copy of a collection of treatises pertaining to mathematics and astronomy, including Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's manual of arithmetic, a commentary on the same by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.), an anonymous treatise on the astrolabe, a treatise on the astrolabic quadrant by Ibn al-Majdī (d.1447), a treatise on the use of the sine quadrant by Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (b. 1423), and an anonymous commentary on a treatise on time reckoning by Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaṭṭāb (d.1586 or 7). Brief excerpts (as well as a table) on astronomical topics are found between these main works.
Two treatises on mathematics, copied together. The second work, al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah, contains only the first maqālah and seems to be the Arabic translation of al-Qūshjī's Persian Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 685Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.123b (p.246), transcription of first work finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīrih wa-tanmīqih...") in latter Ṣafar, 1021 [April 1612] ; name of copyist is unclear, though he appears to have been muʼadhdhin (müezzin) in the Gazi Ali Bey mosque, likely of Vučitrn [Vıçıtırın], Kosovo. As appears in colophon on fol.179a (p.357), transcription of second work finished on the first of Muḥarram 1029 [ca. 8 December 1619] ; name of copyist (and perhaps also place of transcription) was recorded but later effaced and now illegible.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on fol.1a (p.1), "IL 215" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Heavy, thick, dark brown leather without boards (limp binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; upper and lower cover bear blind-tooled border and diamond design (slightly off-center) in four cross-like rosettes ; same cross-like rosettes appear in decorative border along upper and outer lengths of the cover ; entire design appears some what off-center, as though cover was decorated for larger codex and then cut to fit this ms. ; exposed interior of leather covers serve as "doublures" ; sewn in blue thread, two stations ; in fair condition, though quite worn, with leather cracked and abraded, but still well-attached to text block.Support: European laid paper with laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., chain lines (horizontal) spaced 27-28 mm. apart, and watermark of anchor in circle (single line) with leaf or trefoil above (see p.6, 12, 256, etc.), sturdy, heavily burnished ; same paper appears to have been used for both works ; countermark "B C" below trefoil is visible in p.254, etc.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red discs, three dots, etc. appear throughout ; text rubricated with textual dividers, overlinings (marking transcribed verse being commented upon, etc.), and section headings ("بيت" introducing verse, "رحمه", etc.) in red.Script: Copied in two distinct hands, one for each work, though hand at close of opening work is similar to that of second work and possibly supplied by the same copyist: [1] Naskh ; Turkish / Balkan hand ; virtually serifless with mainly closed counters, kāf mashkūlah preferred, final kāf having kāf ṣaghīrah (hamzah-like form) repeated twice, in typical position and above the vertical stroke ; occasional extremely slight effect of words descending to baseline and final letters or final word of line superscript ; [2] Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; Turkish / Balkan hand ; virtually serifless, though a left-sloping head serif on lām of definite article rarely appears, strong effect of words descending to baseline, final letters or words superscript or line curving up, mainly closed counters, point of final or free-standing nūn set down in or near return stroke of tall, wide bowl.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; impression of ruling board evident.Collation: V-1 (9), 7 V (79), III+1 (86), I (88), 3 V (118), IV (126), 5 V (176), II (180) ; chiefly quinions ; copy is acephelous with first leaf of first quire missing ; several leaves between the two works and following the second are left blank (though without loss of text) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: [1] Scribal, triangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ من تحريره وتنميقه عن يد [اضعف؟] العباد الله هدايته [؟] الله عن قصه بلون [؟] المؤذن بجامع غازي على بيك تحريرا في اواخر صفر المظفر في يوم خميس في وقت الظهر سنة احدى وعشرين والف من هجرة النبوية عليه افضل التحية م م م" ; [2] Scribal, triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في يوم الاحد من الشهر المحرم الحرام الشريف في وقت العصر سنة تسع وعشرين والف من هجرة النبوية عليه افضل التحية كتبه الحقير هدايته الله ..."Explicit: [1] توفيق حقه رفيق اولوب آلت اولمغه سعى اتمك كركدر والسلام تمت النسخة الشريفة المباركة [المسمى] بشرح جزيرة المثنوي المكين [؟] بلمحات لمعات المثنوي وهي مرآت للسالكين ... وهو الله في السماء والارض لا اله الا هو عليه توكلت وهو رب العرش العظيم [2] رحمه ما دام كه اغح[؟] بود غن دبره در باد صبا ياخود سو ندرردوه حادي نغمتي تمتIncipit: [1] صلوات صافيات وتحيات وافيات بي غايات اول شاه كزيده [2] الحمد لله الذي جعل النظام لانتظام الكلام والصلوة والسلام على محمد سيد الانام وعلى اله العظام واصحابه الكرام وبعد بو عبد فقير ورق حقير قليل البضاعة عديم البراعة حضرت فخر العابدين قطب الواصلين الموفق من عند الله رب العالمين شيخ سعد الله الخلوتيTitle from inscription on fol.1a.Ms. codex.4. fol. 179b-fol.180b : [blank].2. fol. 127a-fol.179a : Şerh-i kaside-yi Bürde/ Şeyh Sadullah Halvetî.2. fol.124a-fol.126b : [blank].1. fol.1a-123b : Şerh-i Cezire-yi Mesnevi/ Bağdadlı İlmî Dede.Two works, the first being İlmî Dede's Turkish commentary on on the Persian Jazīrah-i Mas̲navī, a selection by Yusuf Sinaneddin Sineçak (d.953/1546) of 360 verses from Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī's Mas̲navī and the second being Şeyh Sadullah Halvetî's Turkish commentary on al-Būṣirī's (d.694/1294) Arabic poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, al-Burdah, or al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-barīyah. Copy is acephelous with first leaf of first quire missing.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 294Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.353a (p.705), transcription finished in Rabīʻ I "shahr Mawlid al-Nabī" 901 [Nov-Dec 1495].Binding: Pasteboards covered in fine dark brown leather; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in light brown leather ; upper and lower covers feature a large rectangular central field with intricate, repeating geometrical/vegetal pattern, bordered by a relatively narrow frame ; frame contains a series of small panels, in which elements of the central pattern are featured ; pattern continues onto flap ; doublures feature a central medallion with two smaller pendants and corner pieces, all with filigree design over a background of lapis lazuli and outlined in gold paint ; edges of textblock gold-flecked and carry gold-painted vegetal decoration ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; endbands in green and gold ; in very poor condition with lower cover completely detached at spine, front cover and flap both on the verge of detaching, though decoration is in good shape ; evidence of made endpapers in red marbled paper, now removed ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and no chain lines visible ; lightly burnished ; relatively thin ; in good condition with some repairs and reinforcements.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpieces (ʻunwān/ʻanāwīn) found at the openings of each of the six books of the work (pp.4-5, 116, 214, 350, 458, 576) ; illuminated marginal decoration surrounds the prose dībāchah (pp.2-3) with lapis lazuli frame filled with a repeating, rectilinear vegetal pattern in gold, white, black, turquoise, and red and tīghs executed in blue ; frontispiece at the opening of the first book carries the first verses set apart in a double-page illumination with exquisite decoration matching the style of the dībāchah pages, but more elaborate ; aside from initial folia, written area surrounded by heavy gold frame and outermost blue fillet ; chapter headings often rubricated or chrysographed and set in cloud-bands of pink and yellow (gold?) cross-hatching ; text of dībāchah and colophon chrysographed.Script: Naskh ; headings and text of opening pages (dībāchah) done in tawqīʻ.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; incipit and facing page in 18 lines per page ; verses in frontispiece for opening book in 7 lines per page ; written area divided mainly into four columns, except on the initial pages of each book, which feature only a single column.Collation: i, III+2 (8), 9 V(98), IV+1 (107), 24 V(347), IV-2 (353), ii ; chiefly quinions, with one anomalous ternion and two anomalous quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," in Arabic, reads: "تم الکتاب المثنوی المعنوی المولوی بحمد الله و منه في شهر مولود النبی علیه السلام سنه احدي وتسعمایه الهجریه"Explicit: "قصه کوته کن که رفتم در حجاب هین خمش و الله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "هذا کتاب المثنوی وهو اصول اصول اصول [كذا] الدین فی کشف اسرار الوصول والیقین ..."Title from opening (p.2).Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī's didactic poetical work in double verses. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 861Origin: As appears in colophon at the close of each book, copied by ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Hamadānī (عطاء الله الحسینی الهمدانی). As appears in colophon on p.108, transcription of first book (المجلد الاول) completed 14 Shaʻbān 1314 [ca. 18 January 1897]. As appears in colophon on p.205, transcription of the second book (المجلد الثانى) completed Rajab 1315 [November-December 1897]. As appears in colophon on p.332, transcription of the third book (المجلد الثالث) completed 25 Ramaḍān 1315 [ca. 17 February 1898]. As appears in colophon on p.435, transcription of the fourth book (المجلد الرابع) completed in Jumādá I 1316 [September-October 1898]. As appears in colophon on p.548, transcription of the fifth book (المجلد الخامس) completed 19 Shaʻbān 1316 [ca. 2 January 1899]. As appears in final colophon on p.670, transcription of sixth book (المجلد السادس), Khātimah and entire work completed Shawwāl 1316 [February-March 1899].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" -- b. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- c. Slip with notes in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO. 5. Mas̲navī of Rūmī copied by ʻAṭāʼullāh al-Ḥusainī al-Hamadānī in 1316"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 10Binding: Boards covered in black leather with straight grain appearance (appears to have been grained by boarding) ; reminiscent of Type II binding with flap, though flap extends from upper cover and rests outside the lower cover where it is fixed with a metal clasp with pin catch closure ; board linings and hinges in shell marbled paper (mainly in pink, blue and yellow) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled rule-borders ; fore edge of text block purple-flecked ; sewn in dark red and bright green thread, four stations ; stuck-on endbands in red leather ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion and staining.Support: European wove paper, beige in color, highly burnished.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of each book (mujallad / daftar) following the dībāchah (see pp.4, 112, 210, "438" [338], 438, 550) ; pieces vary in shape (though mainly large w-shaped pieces) but are similar in coloration, for example at opening on p.4, headpiece consists of a vertically elongated w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in lavender, orange-red and blue on a gold ground with white, blue and turquoise accents, set in an elaborate well of gold, blue, turquoise, red and black bands (others include rectangular piece setting off the basmalah) ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of a heavy gold band defined by black fillets with innermost red rule and outermost blue rule, divisions within (and outer margin) defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; section headings rubricated or in blue ink.Script: Naskh ; exquisite Persianate hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with curvilinear descenders (some swooping), pointing in distinct dots, superscripting of final words and letters, mainly open counters, partially vocalized ; headings in seriffed tawqīʻ, fully vocalized.Layout: Written mainly in 24 lines per page, with written area divided to four columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV (8), 2 III+1(22), 10 IV(102), IV+1 (111), 6 IV(159), III (165), IV+2 (175), 5 IV(215), IV+2 (225), 6 IV(273), 2 IV+1(291), 4 IV(323), V (333), I (335), i ; chiefly quaternions ; catch title (المجلد الاول, المجلد الثانى, الخ) at the head of each page ; some leaves left blank between the close of one book and dībāchah of the next book ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "الحمد لله الذى وفقنى بتسويد وتحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة فى يوم السبت من شهر شوال المكرم في سنه ۱۳۱۶ وانا العبد المذنب عطاء الله الحسينى الهمدانى غفر الله له ولوالديه امين"Explicit: "قصه کوته کن که رفتم در حجاب هین خمش و الله اعلم بالصواب ... کرد شش باشد همیشه زان هوا"Incipit: "بشنو از نی چون حکایت میکند از جداییها شکایت میکند ..."Title from colophons on pp. 205, 332, and 548.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s celebrated didactic poetical work in double verses.