Abstract: "A manuscript commentary on the AlmagestAbstract: the classical 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary pathsAbstract: probably prepared by Mirza Qazi bin Kashif al-Din al-Yazdi (d. 1664/5 CE)Abstract: Sheikh al-Islam and son of a physician to Shah 'Abbas I."
Watermarks: Face-in-the-Moon in double-bordered shield; Carbera De Mori Vittorio in script. For the former see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 19th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains geometrical diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and numbering of each kurrāsah in hand of copyist.Date in colophon: 5 Jumādá al-ūlá sanat 1312 hijrīyah [4 November 1894].For the sharḥ of Qāḍī Zādah on this work see Mich. Isl. Mss. 726 and 727.Text (not this copy) published."This work ... summarizes with their abridged demonstrations thirty-five fundamental propositions of Euclid's geometry." Hâmit Dilgan, "al-Samarqandī," in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, v. 12, p. 91a.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Tables rubricated.Date from owner's mark on p. [1].Tables for sexagesimal multiplication and for astronomical observations.
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.
Abstract: Collection of texts on inheritance law, mathematics, and astrology.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled central star and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1a: Persian verses.Contents: 2. leaves 1b-10a: al-Bāb al-thālith min al-manhaj al-rābiʻ min Ḥabl al-matīn fī al-mawārīth / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 3. leaves 10b-12b: Persian verses.Contents: 4. leaves 13a-21a: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 5. leaf 21b: Persian verses.Contents: 6. leaves 22a-49b: Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.Contents: 7. leaves 50a-89b: Ghunyat al-anām fī maʻrifat al-sāʻah wa-al-ayyām / al-Fayḍ al-Kāshī.Contents: 8. leaf 90a: Notes.Contents: 9. leaves 90b-122b: Farāʼiḍ / Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.Contents: 10. leaves 123a-124b: Notes concerning ḥisāb abjad and other topics.Ms. codex.Title from text 2.On spine: Label reading "Manhaj al-rābiʻ az Ḥabl al-matīn fī al-mawārīth" in Arabic script.Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 9 on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Marginal damp-staining and some repairs.Origin: Text 4, middle of Ṣafar 1110 H August 1698 (leaf 21a). Text 9, 6 Shaʻbān 1111 H 27 January 1700. Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Compostite manuscript written in at least three hands and on more than one type of paper containing eight treatises on astronomy and arithmetic with an introduction; diagrams within and between the works. Some of the works are dedicated to Muḥammad Valī Mīrzā, the third son of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qajar (see for example, f. 171v, 279r).
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
On p. [1], illuminated ʻunwān; text rubricated with overlining in gold; enclosed in gold borders; pages dyed pink (?); marginal commentary in hand of copyist.Date and copyist's name in colophon: waqaʻa al-farāgh min kitābatihi ... ʻalá yad al-faqīr ... ʻAbd al-Karīm ... fī yawm al-sādis wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Jumādá al-awwal ... min shuhūr sanat thamān wa-thamānīn wa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. 9 July 1580].On the laws of inheritance and descent (ʻilm al-farāʾiḍ).