Contains geometrical diagrams of lute strings and a drawing of a lute showing the sound characteristics of its body and fretboard.Text and tables rubricated; foliation in alphabetical numbers in hand of copyist; kurrāsahs numbered 1-3.Date in colophon: wa-yudhkar fī al-nuskhah al-aṣlīyah innahā thānī nuskhah nuqilat min nuskhah bi-khaṭṭ ʻAbd Allāh al-Sahrawardī muʼarrikhuhu bi-tārīkh awwal Jumād al-awwal sanat 727 [i.e. 25 March 1327] wa-taḥarrarat hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah fī yawm sittat Rabīʻ al-awwal sanat 1333 [i.e. 22 January 1915].Treatise on rhythm, playing the lute, singing, and the mathematical characteristics of music; in 11 faṣls.
Short versified description of calligraphers of Bukhoro (Uzbekistan). Taz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn (Memorial of calligraphers) is a book of verse in the mathnawi form. This type of poetry is based on a scheme of individually rhyming couplets and is used in many important works of Persian literature. The author, Muhammad Idris Khvajah Raji Bukhari (died 1919 or 1920), was a literary figure in the fabled city of Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan), capital of the Emirate of Bukhara. As the title of the book suggests, the work belongs to the tazkira (memorial) genre, and Raji Bukhari includes in it the names of the Bukharan calligraphers of his day and short accounts of their life and work. These miniature biographical sketches are preceded by an extended and whimsical description of the art of calligraphy itself, and of the various proportions and shapes of the Persian alphabet. Raji Bukhari concludes his work with a list of short references to various branches of knowledge, including logic and grammar. The manuscript, in a nastaʻliq script, was copied in 1908-9, possibly in Afghanistan. The scribe, Katib Kuchak Bukhari, notes that he based his text on the divan (or collected works) of Raji Bukhari. Bukhara came under the control of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. In 1920, following the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was declared the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic. It subsequently became part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. World Digital Library.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani in script with Face-in-the-Moon in double-bordered shield. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Tables rubricated; foliation added in hand of copyist.Sexagesimal multiplication tables.
Abstract: A collection of original poems of narrative, historical events and correspondence of the type called Muzdawijah.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Multi-colored endbands. Blind-stamped central mandorla with pendants. Tooled edging and blind-stamped corner motifs. Blind-stamped mandorla on flap. Mandorlas outlined in gold. Blue marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers. In a case (253 x 162 x 28) of red leather and red marbled paper. Interior of case has a woven pull band.Ms. codex.Title from label on case.In the introduction the author explains this special type of poetry and states that putting stories and events into verse is very natural to the Persian tongue and is called Mathnawi, but that it is natural neither to the Arabic nor the Indian tongues. The book is divided into seven divisions, each called a daftar. On folio 131 and the five following folios are a short biography of the author and the story of the composition of the book. On the title page is a statement that the book was bought for 60 piasters.Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 136 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with separation between hemistitches.Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر وتمم بالخير. الحمد لله وسلام على عبادهColophon: وهذه الرسالة الفائقة دالة على علو طبيعته ورشاقة صنيعته سلمه الله تعالى
Recto: beginning of Kitāb Istidrāk al-Sahw al-Mawjūd fī Kutub Raʾs al-Mathība [al-Fayyūmī] (‘The Book of the Correction of the Negligence Found in the Books of the Head of the Yeshiva, al-Fayyūmī’) by Mubaššir ha-Levi b. Nissi. Verso: note of possession with the name Ezekiel ha-Kohen b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. At the bottom of verso there are two lines in Arabic script that contain a short title of the book.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Bible commentary, dealing with mourning. Includes a discussion on whether the yešivot are closed during the period of mourning for a sage, for the Av Bet Din, for the Nasi, or for the Rayyīs al-Mathība. Quotes from Yehudai b. Naḥman Gaʿon that one does not recite the blessing for the mourners on a Sabbath; and also from Saʿadya that a mourner recites the Grace after meals to himself and recites the blessing אל אמת דיין אמת in place of the blessing הטוב והמטיב.Condition: Torn, stained, rubbedLayout: 23 lines
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone, name spelled out in roman. Cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains rough geometrical diagrams.Egypt, where it remained unfinished for a long while until its completion was facilitated."Text not rubricated, has overlinings in black; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; each kurrāsah numbered with notation: ʻAṭṭār/Ashkāl/K. [X]; colophon describes author's travels in compiling this work: "I compiled it during many travels, without stopping at what had already been written. I began to compose it in Cairo, Egypt, then traveled to Constantinople where I compiled some more, then I moved to Alexandria ...[?]... where I compiled even more. It was not completed until I returned toDate of 19th cent. based on author's death date."A short treatise on the commentary on the Ashkāl al-taʼsīs of Samarḳandī by Mūsá ibn Maḥmūd al-Rūmī Ḳāḍīzāda." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
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.
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.
Recto: letter with substandard orthography, dealing with a consignment of clothes. Verso: commentary on BT Qiddušin 26a and a general explanation of mathematical matters.Condition: torn, holes, faded, stainedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 14-15 lines in 2 columns (verso)