Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 830Origin: As appears in colophon on p.65, opening work copied by Mehmet bin Abdürrahman, khaṭīb in the Ayasofya Camii, with transcription completed in 1211 [1796 or 7]. As appears in colophon on p.101-102, transcription for second work executed by the same copyist (Darzade Mehmet bin Abdurrahman) and completed 18 Rajab 1204 [ca. 3 April 1790].Accompanying materials: Two scraps with listing of numerical values of the Arabic letters according to abjad (paginated pp.67-70).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in blue, salmon (orange) and white) with spine and edges/turn-ins in red leather (framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pale blue laid paper ; sewn in pale yellow thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper, small for text block, etc.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 21 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of lion with "A" visible underneath (see p.12,13, etc., face and tail visible in p.10,16, etc.), well-burnished to glossy, cream in color, thin and transluscent though sturdy.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Turkish hand ; serifless with slight inclination to the right and effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: VI (12), V (22), 2 VI(46), II (50) ; several senions with quaternion and binion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: [Vafiyetü'l-evkat] "قد تم هذه الرسالة عن يد عبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الغفور محمد بن عبد الرحمن الخطيب فى جامع ايا صوفيه غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه لسنه احدى عشر ومائتين والف م" ; [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve'l-fazle ve's-semt] "تمت الرسالة بعون الله تعالى تماما فى ۱۸ ب سنه ۱۲٠٤ قد تم هذه الرسالة عن يد عبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الغفور محمد بن عبد الرحمن الملقب بطار زاده غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه"Explicit: [Vafiyetü'l-evkat] "صونيه وارنجه در يكلوكى سكز زراع اولمش اولدر" ; [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve'l-fazle ve's-semt] "در قوس ارتفاع اوزرينه وضع ايلدك بو تقدير جه حيط سمت قبله يه مطابق اولدى قبله دحى قوس ارتفاعك طرفنه واقع اولدى"Incipit: [Vafiyetü'l-evkat] "الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد سيد الاولين والاخرين وعلى سائر الانبياء والمرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد بو عبد ضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الغفور مصطفى بن على الموقت بجامع الحاقانى السليمى ... ايدر ديلدمكه ربع مجيب ديمكله متعارف اولان الات رصديه ايجنده افاقى اولوب ... وبو رساله يه وافية الاوقات تسميه ايلدم ..." ; [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve'l-fazle ve's-semt] "الحمد لله الذى جعل البحر الاخضر الفلك قناطير المقطنرات ... وبعد بو احقر عباد الله مصطفى بن على الموقت بجامع الحاقانى السليمى ... وبو رساله يي كفاية الوقت لمعرفة الدائر والفضله والسمت برله تسميه ايدم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter of first work (p.4) and opening matter of second work (p.74).Ms. codex.4. p.103-104 : [blank].3. p.74-p.102 : Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve'l-fazle ve's-semt / Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.2. p.66-p.73 : [blank, with pp.67-70 representing two paginated inserts].1. p.4-p.65 : Vafiyetü'l-evkat / Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.Careful copy of two treatises by Muvakkit Mustafa b. Ali (d.1571), timekeeper in the mosque of Sultan Selim II (r.1566-1574), the first on the use of the sine quadrant (rubʻ mujayyab) in 22 bābs and the second on the use of the almucantar or bridged quadrant (rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt) in 12 bābs.
Treatise on the principle of the Islamic faith including divine attributes, Quranic revelation, the prophethood of Muhammad, the nature of angels, resurrection and the last days, correct ablution and acts of worship, and moral exhortation. Two supplications in Arabic added after the colophon (f. 56r - 57v).
Treatise on the principle of the Islamic faith including divine attributes, Quranic revelation, the prophethood of Muḥammad, the nature of angels, resurrection and the last days, correct ablution and acts of worship, and moral exhortation. Table of contents at the beginning.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 412Origin: Lacks formal dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. certainly suggest 15th century.Former shelfmark: "247 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "242" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper with dark brown leather over spine, foreedge flap, and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced leather edged framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; endbands gone apart from traces of primaries sewn through spine lining ; overall in extremely poor condition with significant losses of leather and paper, severe abrasion and pest damage, moisture damage, flap lost, spine lining exposed, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes with 9-10 mm. between chains and 41-47 mm. between groups (see p.28, 30, etc.), cloudy formation, quite sturdy, burnished ; much staining and tide lines ; many repairs including fills at edges of leaves and guards in manuscript "waste" (recycled paper) ; pp.117-122 on replacement leaves of different non-European paper with no chain lines visible.Decoration: Fine illuminated frontispiece (pp.2-3) in double-page illumination carries the title and opening with upper and lower panels carrying the title and supplication for the Prophet ("كتاب وسيله النجات في مولد اشرف الموجودات عليه افضل الصلوات واكمل التحيات"), mainly in gold thuluth set in cloud bands of blue and red though the opening panel carries the first part of the title on a field of blue (approaching cobalt or lapis lazuli) overlaid with swirling vegetal decoration (arabesque) in orange and white, surmounted by a length of arabesque (black, orange-red and gold) and vertical stalks (tīgh), and flanked by a roundel (ansa) partly lost ; entire written area of frontispiece surrounded by a frame consisting of gold bands and blue rules and basmalah also chrysographed ; keywords (الله، محمد، الخ) and section headings throughout text chrysographed or rubricated ; overlining and abbreviation symbols in red.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish hand ; mainly serifless (though left-sloping barbed head-serif appears on alif of lām-alif ligature), quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, some sweeping tails, very slight effect of tilt to the left, almost fully vocalized, گ represented by ك with three dots ; text of pp.108-121 supplied in at least two different hands.Layout: Written mainly in 9 lines per page, divided to two columns to set off poetry ; section headings centered ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-1 (9), 4 V(49), IV+1 (58), I+1 (61) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "كردلر سز بولسز اددن نجات عشقلادر ديله ايدك الصلات ... تنكردن يزبك درود يله سلام مصطفانك روحنه هر صبح شام اولسون آلينه دقى اصحابنه تابعين انصار وهم احبابنه امتندن راضى اولسون اول معين رحمة الله عليهم اجمعين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل محمد [؟]... كل موجود واشرف كل مخلوق واعز كل مولود ... نحمده على ما جعلنا من امة محمد الوفي بالعهود واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له ولا شبيه له الذي تقدس ذاته عن زمن معدود ... هذا اول كتاب مولد المصطفى عليه السلام الله آدن ذكر ادالم اولا واجب الدر جمله اشده هر قولا ..."Title from frontispiece (pp.2-3).Ms. codex.3. p.112-p.121 : [further verses, ending with "كيم سليمان بلرسه بو وقتى مصطفاكيب مصطفى السر"].2. p.108-p.111 : Medh-i Mustafa.1. p.1-p.107 : Vesîletüʼn-necat / Süleyman Çelebi.Fine (though damaged) early copy of the famous poem in praise of the Prophet by Süleyman Çelebi of Bursa (d.1422?) with preface in Arabic, followed by further verses supplied in different hands.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 675Origin: As appears in colophon on p.446, copied by Khalīl ibn Muḥammad (Halil bin Mehmet) with transcription completed in Istanbul during the first days of Rabīʻ II 1165 [February 1752].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 418" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards now covered in blue coated, textured paper with dull red leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (traces of gold rule border visible) ; Type II binding (once with, flap now lost) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in brown surface-dyed wove paper ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked endbands damaged with cores exposed and tailband virtually gone ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, loss of flap, etc.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20 and 21 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of lion rampant (see p.34, 35, etc.) and grapes under crown (see p.394, 395, etc.), thin, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, medium cream in color, well-burnished ; moisture damage in the upper outer corner of many leaves ; some pigment burn to breakthrough at the 'gilt' frame.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.6 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in white, pink, lavender, orange-red, and green on a gilt ground pricked here and there with three dots, surmounted by a scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration of the same type on grounds of blue and gold (also pricked) and itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents ; entire piece set into a well of orange-red with a series of black crosses ; text of incipit and facing page set off by gold strokes, effectively crude 'cloud-bands' ; written area surrounded by 'gold' frame (gone to green on many leaves) ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas ; occasional overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; clear, compact Turkish hand ; virtually serifless with effect of tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly curvlinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 21 V(210), VI (222), i ; quinions followed by a senion ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم بعونه سبحانه وتعالى في اوائل ربيع الثاني لسنه خمس وستين وماء [مائة] والف بمحروسة دار السلطنة العلية القسطنطنية المحميه حماها الله عن عامه البليه وانا العبد الفقير خليل بن محمد عاملهما الله تعالى بالحسنى والزياده والحمد لله وحده"Explicit: "اشتمال ايله اعلاى درجات امتيازده جلو كر قيلنمق شيوۀ خفيۀ تقديردن متسبعد [مستبعد] دكلدر"Incipit: "يا رب سحاب فيضى باران ايله اول فيضله كشت كامى ريان ايله ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Nabi's continuation of Veysî's (d. 1628) work on the sīrah of the Prophet, Dürretü't-tac fî sîret Sâhibi'l-mirâc or Siyer-i Veysî. Contents listing on front flyleaf and 'title page' (pp.4-5).
Continuation of Veysî's Dürretü't-tâc fi sîreti sâhibi'l-mi'râc: first biography of the Prophet Muḥammad divided into sections on Mecca and Medina.Title from f. 2v.According to the colophon (f. 175r), copy completed on 25 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1110 AH [October 30, 1698 AD] in the hand of Abū Bakr Ṣidqī.72 x 50 cm(60 x 25 cm).Light-cream laid paper, boards covered with marbled paper. Red leather spine.Signature of the copyist on ff. 1r and 175r and his seal on f. 1r.Written in an irregular dīvānī script, in one column, 19 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Qurʻanic verses, prayers and important names red overlined. Catchwords.MS Turk 19. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian.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. 682Origin: As appears in colophon on p.161, opening work copied by Derviş Mehmet ( Darwīsh Muḥammad / درويش محمد ) with transcription completed 11 Shawwāl 1107 [ca. 14 May 1696]. Transcription of other works likely completed around the same time, even early 18th century. Ijāzah (by the author, authorizing one Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar to transmit the work) at close of al-Ḥikam al-ʻirfānīyah dated 3 Muḥarram 970 [ca. 2 September 1562] in Mecca (possibly transcribed by the copyist verbatim from the exemplar).Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Insert carrying glosses (paginated pp.129-130) -- d. Scrap with note and seal impression (paginated pp.153-154).Former shelfmark: From inscription on inner front cover and spine label, "IL 153" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper (perhaps once marbled) with brown leather over edges/turn-ins (likely spine and fore edge flap as well, though now lost); Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in heavy cream and magenta thread, six stations ; overall in quite poor condition with flap lost, severe abrasion and staining, lifting and losses of leather, paper and boards, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to spine in light brown leather ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of several types ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of three hats (see p.10, 11, 214, 215, etc.) and scrollwork / arms with "P A" and/or balance [?] inside (see p.6, 15, etc.), thin and transluscent though sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished to glossy ; several other types including those with crown above grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.152, 155, etc.), "M F" (p.170, etc.), name (p.178, etc.), and grapes (p.180, 182, etc.) ; some moisture damage with losses of text (in some areas, resupplied, see p.63, etc.).Decoration: Keywords, section headings and some abbreviation symbols (two-teeth stroke, some signes de renvoi, etc.) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas, red discs, etc. ; some overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; three main Turkish hands ; Zübdetü'l-fuhûs in nastaʻlīq (talik) an elegant Turkish hand, characteristically serifless with effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq (talik) ; Silsiletü'z-zeheb and following menakıb (as well as many of the glosses throughout) supplied mainly in a clear Turkish naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; hand changes at p.170 to a similar but seemingly different Turkish naskh, more compact and in a thinner line, partially but irregularly seriffed (with right-sloping head-serif), some elongation of horizontal strokes, slight effect of words descending to baseline and of tilt to the left, free assimilation of letters ; final work supplied in still a different Turkish naskh, elegant, compact and serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, elongation of vertical strokes.Layout: Written in 19, 21 and 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: 7 V(70), V-1 (79), V+1 (90), 2 V(110), V-2 (118) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red and then black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some inserts).Colophon: [Zübdetü'l-fuhûs] "Scribal," triangular, reads "الحمد لله على اتمام هذه النسخة الشريفة من يد احقر العباد درويش محمد في وقت الضحى من شوال المكرم في يوم الحادى عشر سنه سبع مائة والف غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه م م" ; [al-Ḥikam al-ʻirfānīyah] "Authorial," triangular, reads "... هذه الحكم العرفانية للشيخ محمد بن عمر واجزته ... وانا الفقير علي بن حسام الدين وكان ذلك في مكة المشرفة ضحوة يوم الخميس ثالث شهر الله الحرام المحرم من شهور سنة سبعين وتسعمائة والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين م"Incipit: [Zübdetü'l-fuhûs] "حمد لا يعد ولا يحصى وشكر بى همتا وبى منتها اول عليم حكيم اولان خداى ذو العطايه كه فصوص قلوب ارباب خصوصى نقوش حكمت وزيب وزيور معرفت ايله مزين ومحلى قلوب ... اما بعد بو عليل وغليل وفقير وذليل اعنى شيخ اسمعيل المولوى الانقروى ... واول حضرتك اغمض تصنيفاتندن واجمل تأليفاتندن برى نقش فصوص ... اما اول حضرتك شرحى دخى الفاظ عربى وعبارات فارسى ايله اختلاط وامتزاج ايلدوكى اجلدن اكثر طالبه استنباط واستخراجى عسرت وصعوبتدن خالى دكلدر پس بو ذليل قليل البضاعة عبارت تركيده بر اسلوب جديد اوزره شرح وبيان ايتمكى ... وبوكا زبدة الفحوص في نقش الفصوص ديمكله نام ونشان ويردم ..." ; [Silsiletü'z-zeheb] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله اجمعين بو رساله اولدر كه طريق نقشبنديده اولان ويردلرين واجازتلرين بيان ايدر ..." ; [al-Ḥikam al-ʻirfānīyah] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد خاتم الانبياء وسيد المرسلين واله وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد فيقول احقر عباد الله علي بن حسام الدين الشهير بالمتقي هذه حكم عرفانية في معان [معاني] ارشادية واشارات قرآنية ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.4. p.206-p.239 : al-Ḥikam al-ʻirfānīyah / ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Junbūrī al-Hindī, al-shahīr bi-al-Muttaqī.3. p.168-p.205 : [manāqib (menakıb) pertaining to various Naqshbandī masters including Saʻd al-Dīn Kāshgharī, ʻUbayd Allāh Aḥrār, Ḥasan ʻAṭṭār, etc. possibly constituting (even with the preceding silsile) excerpts from a Turkish rendering of Rashaḥāt-i ʻayn al-ḥayāt by Fakhr al-Dīn Ṣafī ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Kāshifī].2. p.162-p.167 : Risalet Silsiletü'z-zeheb li's-sâde en-Nakşbendiye.1. p.1-p.161 : Zübdetü'l-fuhûs fî Nakşi'l-Fusûs / İsmail Ankaravî.Fine collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) opening with the Turkish commentary by İsmail Ankaravî on Ibn al-ʻArabī's (d.1240) Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ, an abridged version of Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, followed by a silsile (silsilah) for the Naqshbandīyah order and menakıb (manāqib) of several masters, possibly constituting excerpts from a Turkish rendering of Rashaḥāt-i ʻayn al-ḥayāt by Fakhr al-Dīn Ṣafī ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Kāshifī (d. ca.1532), and concluding with a collection of maxims, precepts and companion verses from the Qurʼān compiled by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Muttaqī al-Hindī (d.1567). Contents listing for opening work on 'title page' (p.1).
Manuscript. Persian; first 67 leaves have Turkish translation and there is a brief poem in Ottoman Turkish at end. Title based on comparison with printed editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; manuscript is incomplete lacking an unknown number of leaves at the beginning; leaves 1a-67b have interlinear Turkish translation and extensive marginal notes; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area Fol. 1a-134a, 2 leaves. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript. Contemporary brown leather binding with embossed center medallions.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 446Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; perhaps late 15th or early 16th century as suggested by paper and hand.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures and interior of flap in dark green leather ; hinges in blue paper cut with scalloped design ; upper and lower covers bear large stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla with pendants (compare Déroche class. OAi 10) as well as gilt roll border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps ; design continues on envelope flap ; upper and lower doublures carry tooled and gold-painted outline of scalloped mandorla and gold-painted rule border ; sewn in black thread, four stations ; endbands lacking ; in fair condition with much abrasion, staining, and lefiting of leather at edges and on spine ; some delamination of boards.Support: mainly Arab laid paper of perhaps two types, each with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly indistinct with some curving) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes, in one type spaced roughly 12-14 mm. apart with 30 mm. between groups (see p.4, etc.) and in another type spaced roughly 12 mm. apart with 38-40 mm. between the groups (see p.36, etc.), inclusions visible, sturdy, medium cream in color, burnished ; leaf carrying pp.23-24 delaminating at upper outer corner ; back flyleaf in heavy laid European paper with chain lines oriented horizontally spaced roughly 30 mm. and laid lines oriented vertically, quite distinct and spaced roughly 8-9 laid lines per mm. ; front flyleaf in smooth, thin European laid paper with chain lines oriented horizontally spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, laid lines very fine and faint, difficult to measure, watermark partially visible (lion rampant in shield).Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes appear in preface and throughout the text of the poem and its translation, often appearing between the saṭr and ʻajuz for each bayt ; written area of preface (pp.2-3) bordered in frame consisting of gold band outlined by black fillets ; partially rubricated with final words of the ʻajuz for each bayt occasionally in red.Script: Very fine calligraphy ; saṭr and first words of ʻajuz for each bayt in thuluth, final words of ʻajuz in tawqīʻ ; text of preface and elucidation in fine Ottoman naskh with right-sloping head serifs on lām of definite article and other ascenders apart from free-standing alif, gentle slant to the left ; preface, text of poem and elucidation fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 10-14 lines per page, 5 lines of the poem and 5-9 of the amplification, with the saṭr and first few words of the ʻajuz of each bayt filling the column width horizontally and the remainder of the ʻajuz appended diagonally, the elucidation in Turkish appearing on the following line or occasionally the following two lines centered below the saṭr and first few words of the ʻajuz ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board cearly evident).Collation: i, III(6), VI(18), i ; catchwords present, but only partially visible or completely cut off ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "ما رنحت عذبات البان ريح صبا واطرب ...العيس حادي العيس بالنغم وصلى الله على خير خلقه محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين وسلم تسليما"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام العالم حجة الادب لسان العرب قدوة الانام بقية السلف الكرام شرف الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن سعيد البوصيري رحمه الله سبب انشاء هذه القصيدة المباركة اني كنت قد اصابني خلط فالج ابطل نصفي ... وبه ثقتي وعليه التكلان من الخدلان امن تذكر جيران بذي سلم مزجت دمعا جرى من مقلة بدم اكد كمى ذى سلمدگى اهل وجيرتى كم قان ياش اغلمق كوزكك اولدى عادتى"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Būṣīrī's poem in praise of the Prophet accompanied by elucidation in Turkish ; opens with preface (see pp.2-3).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 448Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, hand, paper, etc. would suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: Slip of wove paper with notes in pencil "448 (Kasidat) al-Burdah Poem by al-Busiri 16th cent."Former shelfmark: "239 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf ; "122" inscribed in pencil on 'title page.'Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and narrow hinges in pale orange laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry central rectangular panel filled with gold-tooled and painted semé pattern as well as further accents in gold-tooled rosettes and border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps with flanking gold-painted fillets ; now sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition ; overall in good condition minor abrasion, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persianate) laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat distinct) and occasional single chain line visible, thick and sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; flyleaves and added leaves in European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of bird with "G B" below ; much staining and tidelines.Decoration: Exquisite (though damaged) frontispiece consisting of a double-page illumination carries the opening verses and elucidation in Persian set-off by cloud-bands, with adjacent scalloped triangular piece (or hasp), elaborate borders (outermost accented with perpendicular stalks [tīgh]), and upper and lower panels all carrying swirling vegetal design in shades of red, blue, lavender, green, white, and gold on fields of black, gold, and lapis lazuli ; written area throughout surrounded by frame in gold and green bands with outermost blue rule ; text of the Burdah mainly chrysographed, with some lines in blue ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes set off each hemistich ; illuminated floral decoration flanks elucidation in Persian.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Persianate and Turkish hands ; text of Burdah in a fine Persianate naskh, serifless, with curvilinear descenders and pointing in distinct dots, vocalized ; text of Persian elucidation in a fine nastaʻlīq with characteristic descent of words to baseline and elongation of horizontal strokes ; marginal Turkish elucidation in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik).Layout: Written in 12 lines per page with 6 additional lines of the Turkish elucidation on the diagonal in the outer margin ; three verses of the poem in 6 lines (filling the column width) with each saṭr and ʻajuz to a line) and elucidation in 6 lines (four on the diagonal, two horizontal but centered).Collation: ii, IV-1+1 (8), 2 IV(24), II+2 (30), ii ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present.Explicit: " ... واطرب العيس حادي العين بالنغم ... تا برانند اشترانرا بنده گان پر نغم ... اشترمتسه طرب ويردكجه تأثير نغم تم الترجمة بالخير م م"Incipit: "امن تذكر جيران بذي سلم مزجت دمعا جرى من مقلة بدم ای زیاد صحبت یارانت اندر ذی سلم اشک چشم امیختی با خون روان گرده بهم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Būṣīrī's poem in praise of the Prophet accompanied by elucidation in Persian and Turkish.