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.
Watermarks: Scrollwork with 3 lions rampant; scrollwork shield with initials DC in roman; scrollwork with lion rampant; scrollwork with lotus (?); initials GBA in roman; scrollwork with GIUSEPPE in roman; VICO in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 3737.Contains logarithmic tables.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of author/copyist; marginal notes in another hand.al-ithnayn al-mubārak salkh Dhī al-Qaʻdah sanat 1239 [27 July 1824] ʻalá yad kātibihi al-mutarjim al-madhkūr.Date, provenance, name of copyist, and source of copy in colophon: wa-hādhā ākhir mā yasurruhu al-mawlá al-karīm min tarjamat hādhā al-majmūʻ al-ʻaẓīm wa-dhālika bi-naqlihi min al-lughah al-iṭāliyānīyah ilá al-lughah al-ʻarabīyah wa-ḥaṣala dhālika wa-tamma bi-al-madrasah allatī anshaʾahā walī al-niʻam tarjamah ʻalá yad al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr Aḥmad al-Ṭabbākh laṭafa bi-hi al-ḥukm al-khayr fa-kāna al-farāgh min tabyīḍihi baʻd naqlihi ilá musawwadah min aṣlihi yawmQuestions about the fundamentals of mathematics with their answers. Translated by the author from an Italian original while he was an instructor at the Dār al-Handasah. The introduction mentions Muḥammad ʻAlī and the scholl's director, ʻUthmān Nūr al-Dīn Afandī. See James Heyworth-Dunne, An Introduction to the History of Education in Modern Egypt (London, 1938), pp. 108-109.
Set of works on mathematics and astronomy copied together in what appears to be the same hand. The second work has a supercommentary copied in the margins. Several leaves of calculations and notations tipped or laid in; two tipped in pages have been foliated along with the leaves (f. 26, 33). Also includes one page in Ottoman Turkish (f.94v).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 885Origin: As appears in colophon on p.969 (and at close of باب الف ممدوده on p.978), copied by Mathurādās Khatrī, date not specified ; decoration, paper, etc. would suggest late 18th or early 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Scrap cut from a Luzac catalog page with description and price for this manuscript "PERSIAN AND HINDUSTANI MSS. 175 Bahar i ʻajam. The well-known Persian dictionary. MS. Folio. Over 1000 pp. Leather binding. The colophon is dated A.H. 1243 ( = A.D. 1827), under the reign of Muhammad Akbar Shâh (II.) £2 10s." (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Recycled card with handwriting of Emilie Savage-Smith [?] "ʻunwān or illum. frontispiece or heading." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Scrap of paper with title in ink "Bahār i ʻAjam." (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owens notes" (paginated pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 34Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep red leather ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry delicate gold-tooled border in a rope pattern ; spine stamped "BUHARE | UJUM" ; now sewn in white thread over three cords ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and blue, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper cover fully detached, some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, fairly distinct, some curving) and irregular chain lines faintly visible, sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; flyleaves / added leaves in wove paper.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.10 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche (carrying the basmalah) flanked by pendants and delicate swirling floral vegetal decoration in blue, red, orange, and white on a gold ground, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with more elaborate swirling floral vegetal decoration in red, orange, white, blue, green, etc. on grounds of gold with blue, green and white accents, itself surmounted by a pendant filled with similar decoration as well as fine vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, entire piece set into a well consisting of a rather heavy gold band outlined by narrow bands of orange and gold defined by black fillets ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame with innermost red rule, and outer red and blue rules, further blue rule defines margin ; keywords and headings rubricated ; overlining or two-teeth abbreviation symbol in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in distinct or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 14 IV(112), III (118), IV+1 (127), 12 IV(223), IV+2 (233), 26 IV(441), II (445), IV+1 (454), 3 IV(478), IV-1 (485), iii ; chiefly quaternions ; lacuna on p.458 marked with "ص" ; p.970 prior to opening of Bāb-i alif-i mamdūdah left blank ; 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 inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "الحمد لله والمنة که باتمام رسید منتخب کتاب بهار عجم تالیف استادی مخدومی تیک چند بهار بخط فقیر حقیر اضعف العباد متهراداس قوم کهتری فقط"Incipit: "مهار آفرینی که کلبرک ... دیباچه اصل بهار عجم سپاس و ستایش ایزد متعال را در خور که هريکى ار افراد انسان ..."Title from opening matter (p.11) and colophon (p.978).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the dictionary of words and idioms used by the Persian poets compiled by Tīk Chand Bahār (d.1766) with added preface.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله الذي تحصى نعمة جميع الحساب... :IncipitWritten in one column, 19 lines per page, in black and red.Paper. 20 x 13 cm. (12.5 x 6.8 cm.).Black cloth; tan leather spine and corners.According to the colophon (f. 80r), copy completed in the hand of Ṣāliḥ ibn Khūnd Miyān ibn Mawlānā Aḥmad ibn Mawlānā Shaykh Ḥusām al-Dīn.On f. 1r, ownership seal: Muḥammad Yūsuf Shāh, 1189 AH [1775 or 6 AD].MS Arab SM4287. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
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.
Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.
Watermark: Crown with grapes.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Date in colophon: qad intahá mā utīḥa jamʻuhu fī ghurrat al-awwal min al-akhīr min al-thānī ʻashar min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [25 September 1786?]."A treatise on number theory." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 114.
Text rubricated; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 691,2; diagrams and marginal notes in a different hand.Date in colophon: alf wa-miyah wa-ithnayn wa-thalāthīn Dhū al-Ḥijjah [October-November 1720].Pp. [1-47]. Bound with: ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimishqī, Sharḥ urjūzah fī ḥall al-ʻadad, pp. [48-53].Dimishqī's commentary on his own poem Nukhbat al-tuffāḥah, based on Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ashʻarī's poem al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah, on surveying. For a later copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 796,12.
Incomplete abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements, written on paper. The first 6 leaves (f. i-5) are replacements, written on different paper in a later hand. The replacement title page gives the incorrect title Taḥrīr Uqlīdis kāmil (Complete edition of Euclid, usually used to refer to the version edited by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which this is not).
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. 870Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest mid to late 16th or early 18th century dating ; dated ownership statement (see p.15, 184, etc.) provides terminus ante quem of 1750.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Hari-Karana, son of Mathurā-dāsa, Multānī. | Inshā. | Cat. of Pers. Bks. in BM Cat. several editions | n. f. in Mich. MSS." and (in hand of G. Meredith-Owens ?) "A work on epistolary style." -- b. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) Husselman notes"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 19Binding: Boards covered in shell 'marbled' paper (mainly in pink, blue and yellow) with orange-brown leather over spine and board corners (approaching half-binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in grey paper ; spine gold-stamped with "HER | KERN" and decorative bands ; edges of text block flecked with red ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, deterioration of leather, lifting and losses of spine leather, etc.Support: European and non-European (likely Indian or Persian) laid paper ; opening gathering in a paper with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct, curving) and no laid lines clearly visible, cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished, grayish tint ; thereafter (from p.31) in a European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (vertical or horizontal), and watermarks of three crescents (roughly 72 mm. long, parallel to chains, see p.40, 78, 112, etc.) and mount of six coupeaux with star above (see p.102, 126, 154, etc.), sturdy, medium cream in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated (text to be entered in red entered in inner margins) ; overlining in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ.Script: Shikastah-taʻlīq (taʻlīq with elements of shikastah) ; bold, elegant Indian [?] chancery hand in a heavy line ; partially seriffed with left-sloping head-serifs and highly ligatured with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, occasional reversed or recurved final descenders, etc.Layout: Written in roughly 10 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 (6), IV (14), 11 III(80), III-1 (85), 6 (91), ii ; almost exclusively ternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black strokes, lower outer corner of right-hand leaf, upper outer corner of left-hand leaf ; some added leaves (six each at the opening and close of the codex) bound in upside down ; catchwords present ; pagination initially in black ink, continued in pencil, Western numerals (every other leaf) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inner flyleaves and added leaves).Incipit: "بعد از حمد وثنای مر حضرت ایزد متعال ذو الحلال والافضال ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.15).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the collection of model letters of appointment and other official documents compiled (certainly after 1625, possibly after 1645) by Harkarn [Harkaran] ibn Mathurādās of Multān, secretary (munshī) of Iʻtibār Khān (d.1625). Contribution to the cataloguing from Hossein Mottaghi.
Watermarks: Eagle with FAG in roman; one crescent; three crescents. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains mathematical tables and diagrams.Text rubricated; overlining in black and red; marginal notes, diagrams, and corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 802,2); kurrāsahs 3-10 numbered.Date and copyist's name in colophon: wa-qad wāfaqa al-farāgh min naql hādhihi al-nusakh yawm al-aḥad al-mubārak thānī yawm maḍá min shahr Shaʻbān ʻām khamsah wa-thalāthīn wa-miʾatayn baʻd al-alf [i.e. 15 May 1820] ʻalá yad al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-fānī Muṣṭafá Muḥammad ʻArafah al-Dissūqī al-Burhānī.Text (not this copy) published.Pp. [1-185]. Bound with: Sālim ibn Sālim al-Qayrawānī, Hādiyat al-bādī li-kitāb al-Qalaṣādī, pp. [189-262].Ibn Ghāzī's Munyat al-ḥussāb is based on the Kitāb talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb of Ibn al-Bannāʾ. See David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 139 and 141-142."The author's commentary on his own poem on arithmetic entitled Munyat al-ḥussāb." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Text rubricated; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 700,2; marginal notes in a different hand; pp. [15-16] include experiments in calligraphy.Terminus post quem date given by note on p. [16]: tajribat al-qalam fī yawm al-sabt tāsiʻ wa-ʻishrīn shahr al-Muḥarram sanat aḥad wa-tisʻīn wa-thamānimiʾah [4 February 1486].Pp. [2-5]. Bound with: al-Muqbil fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah, pp. [6-14]."A poem on algebra with unidenfified commentary (not that of Sibṭ al-Māridīnī or of Zakarīyaʾ al-Anṣārī)." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist.Date on p. [34]: ithnay ʻashar shahr Jumādī al-awwal sanat 964 arbaʻ wa-sittīn wa-tisʻumiyah [13 March 1557].Text (not this copy) published.Pp. [1-36]. Bound with a list of traditions regarding the relative merit of prayer in the four holiest mosques, pp. [37-40]."A treatise on arithmetic." Cataloging by Elinor M Husselman, 1945.