Abstract: "A selection from Nef'î's divan."Binding note: Green paper embossed in flower pattern over pasteboard on covers, with brown leather on spine. Endleaves in yellow paper strengthened at the spine with strips of red, black and white pattern decorative paper. Label on upper cover: "291".Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1b.Copied by Osman Kemamî in 1262 (1846) -- colophon (fol. 24a). Following this is a note (in the same hand) about saying a prayer for the author, ending in the date :"sene 1152" (1739-40) ?.10 lines per page. Written in a medium small ruqʻah in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Fol. 1b has a simple text frame outlined in black and gold ink. Fol. 15b-16a have single line text frames in red ink. Throughout, the text is written in two columns, diagonally. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Fol. 1a and 24b both have additional verses written in the same hand. Few short inscriptions on front and back endleaves. "Divani Nefi" written in pencil on the recto of front flyleaf.Incipit: شاه عشقم عالم معنى مسلم در بكا خلق عالم بر نفس شاد اولمغه جانلر ويررExplicit: طبع نفعى كبى پرواز بلنداته نولا افتاب سايه صالمش بر همادر طره سى
Abstract: "Collection of the poems of Nef'î."Binding note: Limp brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla; marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from lower edge.On fol. 1a-2a, 88b-91, and the margins of 86a-88a, poems by various authors written by different hands.Physical description: 17 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in red; columns separated by double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining, mostly marginal. In good condition.
ff. 300 (acephalous) 245 x 167; 193 x 120 mm. 18 lin. Rabīʻ I, 605, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn ḥasan ibn Wāfī for the library of ʻIzz al-Quḍāh Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Dimyāṭī.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 168; S I, 267.Contains the riwāyah of al-Luʻluʻī; the contents correspond to vol. 2, p. 219 - v. 4, p. 246 of ed. Muḥammad Muhyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ḥamīd, Cairo, 1935.
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīths and letters by Abū Dāʼūd Sulaymān al-Sijistānī.Binding note: Lower and upper covers and envelope flap made of brown leather with a similar blind and gold tooled decoration, with a central roundel and an elaborate outer frame made of several fillets and running patterns. Rebound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents of the ms..Contents: 2. fol. 1b- 222a: Sunan / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 3. fol. 222b-223a: Risālah / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 4. fol. 224a-238b: Kitāb al-Marāsil / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 5. fol. 239a-243b: Tasmiyat shuyūkh Abī Dāʼūd ... al-Sijistānī / al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Jayyānī.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.41 lines per page. Written in Maghribī(?) script in black ink with larger script for headings. Glazed light cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible. Collation notes. Marginal notes. Some pages are carefully mended. Title on the lower edge of the text block (hardly egible). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.In the colophon of Text 1 (fol. 222a), it is stated that the copy was completed on Friday 25 Ramaḍān 589. The only other date in the ms. is 1241 H., the date of a collation by Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd (fol. 222a).
Abstract: Stories about Abū Nuwās, and some of his poems about wine, told by Abū Hiffān.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue embossed paper.Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 + (1) ; catchwords.Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; watermarks (circle with a cross inside, crown) ; MS in good condition.Layout: 21 lines per page.Marginal notes and glosses. Poems by various authors on fol. 1b and 2a.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Colophon: تم والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلمIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ابو هفان قال اخبرني
Fols. 171; 26.7 x 18.5 cm.; written surface 20.5 x 12.5 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Maghribi; headings and entries in red.Parts IV-XI of Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʼ.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم صلى الله ... اخبرنا الشىخColophon: اخر الجزء من الاصل وبتمامه تم الجزء الحادي عشر من الکتاب والحمد لله حق حمده وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد واله وسلم تسلىماA few marginal notes. MS contains eight parts. In the colophon the copyist states that it is the conclusion of the 11th part. Accordingly MS begins with the 4th part. MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Abstract: Last parts of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū al-Faḍl Ḥamd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Iṣbahānī from Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Khalīl Mufarraj(?) Mawlá Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd ibn al-Ḥarīrī al-Tajībī al-Ṭulayṭulī (fol. 17a, 32a, 51a). Incomplete at the beginning (contents correspond to ed. Cairo (1938), vol. 8, p. 77, l. 3 - end of the work; entries no. 369-689).Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather over cloth for the spine. The cloth extends as doublure of the upper and lower covers. Disparate pieces of paper as pastedowns. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a central medallion (different pattern on each cover) and an outer frame made of fillets with the inner corners delineated by fillets and stamped with a small flower motif.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of juzʼ 64 (fol. 17a).31 lines per page. Written in medium small script in black ink, with use of red for some punctuation and decoration of verses and re-inking of headings. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. The no. of the entry is written in red ink in the margin. Collation notes (collation statement on fol. 378a, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 566 H. 1171). End and beginning of parts (juzʼ) indicated on fol. 16a,17a, 32a, 51a, 67a (with a collation statement dated Mecca, Friday 18 Jumādá al-Ākhira 566 H.). Fol. 68-77 repaired with loss of text. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (fol. between 138 and 139: blank).On last fol. (fol. 378b): two reading certificates (samāʻ and ijāzah) for several persons, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī, the first dated Aleppo, 11 Rajab 624 H. 1227.Copied in Mecca at the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 566 (colophon, fol. 378a).Incipit: قال سمعت ابا تراب الزاهد يقول سمعت حاتما الاصم يقول قال لى شقيق البلخي اصحب الناس كما تصحب النارExplicit: والخلق الحسن الجميل رزقنا الله تعالى ما رزقهم من الاقبال عليه والانقطاع اليه وجمعنا وإياهم بطوله فى ساحة قدسه وبحبوحة جنته انه على ما يشاء قدير وهو حسبنا و نعم الوكيل
ff. 2 (incompl.). 176 x 131; 150 x 117 mm. 18 lin. Shaʻbān 591; on fol. la autogr. certificate of reading by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī, dat. Ṣafar 897; on fol. 2a samāʻ of the copyist Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn ʻImād, dat. 21 Rabīʻ I, 638, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh (al-Dimashqī, d. Jumādá II, 648: Shams al-Dīn V, 243); six other notes on fol. 2b.Incip.: ... اخبرنا ... شمس الدىن ابو الحجاج ىوسف بن عبد الله بن خلىل بقراتى علىه
Abstract: Second part of a commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have an elaborate outer frame and a central stamped mandorla. Portion of the same frame on the envelope flap, with small stamp on its point. Paper doublure. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. First two leaves damaged with loss of text. The text has been collated on an autograph copy by the author (see collation note on the margin of the colophon, fol. 205a).Copy completed on Sunday 12 Jumādá al-Awwal 719 July 1, 1319 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Mashhadī (colophon, fol. 205a).Incipit: سورة النساء وكوفيهم تسالون مح-- وحمزة والارحام بالخفض حملا نصف هذا البيت هو نصف --- قصيدة اي الكوفيونExplicit: وهو عندى اطيب والزرنب والقرنفل دون المسك والمندل فى الطيب فحسن تشبيه الصلاة على الصحابة بذلك لانهم في الصلاة تبع لرسول الله ... فلهذا اصابتهم نفحاتها وبركاتها رضي الله عنهم ورضي عنّا بهم امين يا ربّ العالمين
Copied A.H. 979 A.D. 1571.Fols. 225; 19.4 x 13.4 cm.; written surface 14 x 9 cm.; 15-17 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in clear naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; headings in red and green.A collection of discourses arranged in four divisions: (1) on morals and good conduct; (2) on politics; (3) on canon law and religion; (4) on miscellaneous themes. Dedicated to al-Malik al-Saʻīd Najm al-Dīn Ghāzī ibn Urtuq, who reigned A.H. 637-658 A.D. 1239-1260.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم ... ىقول العبد الفقىر الى مولاهColophon: وکان الفراغ من تحصىله نهار الخمىس بعد صلوة الظهر خامس شهر صفر من سنة تسع وسبعىن وتسعمائة من الهجرة النبوىة على صاحبها افضل الصلوة والسلامMarginal notes and glosses; the first 2 folios are by a later hand; also folios 139-225 are by a different hand. MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended and several are stained with dampness; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2440; A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 661; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1882/3; Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1950; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8779.Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1283, 1306, 1310.
Abstract: A collection of original poems of eulogy, satire and elegy.Binding note: Later half-bound type III binding (without flap) in red leather dark brown spotted paper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Marginal notes and glosses. On title page is the date and place of birth of author as mentioned by Ibn Khallikān. After colophon are several poems by Abū Tammām not included in the dīwān, a story about the author mentioned by Ibn Khallikān and two verses by al-Subkī. Name of copyist is obliterated.Collation: Paper ; fol. ii +135 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 19 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; ruled ; first few folios frame-ruled in red.Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red in early part of ms ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition."Origin: According to colophon copied from 24 Shaʻbān to 24 Ramaḍān. Copyist's name obscured. (fol. 134a)."'Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر يا کريم. قال الاديب الشاعر المشهور ابوتمام حبيب ابن اوس الطائي.'Colophon: تم الکتاب المبارك يوم الاربعا عشرين من رمضان بعد مضي أربع ساعات وثلاثة عشر درجة وکان الشروع في کتابته يوم الاربعا رابع عشرين شعبان المعظم على يد الفقيرالى الله تعالى الباري ... الله له ولوالديه والمسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
Copied A.H. 1005 A.D. 1597 by Ibrāhīm ibn ḥājjī Yūsuf Sarkhābī.Fols. 218; 21 x 15.5 cm.; written surface 14.7 x 8.7 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with vowels; with catchwords; entries in red.A critical study of the various readings of the Koran according to the seven early readers.Beg.: بسم الله ... قرأ عاصم والکسائي مالك ىوم الدىنColophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تسوىد کتاب حجّة القراآت من تصنىف الشىخ الجلىل ابي زرعة عبدالرحمن ابن محمد بن نحله تغمده الله برحمته وکتب من نسخة تارىخ کتابة ذلك تلك النسخة من شهور سنة ثلث واربع مائة هجرىة على ىد اضعف عباد الله ابراهىم بن حاجي ىوسف سرخابي الاصل الساکن والحافظ في الحضرة الغروىة ؟ على مشرفها افضل الصلاة والتحىة ىوم الاثنىن من شوال لسنة الف وخمس من الهجرة النبوىة وصلى الله على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعىن تم تم تمMarginal notes and glosses; ruled marginal lines in red and blue. It is stated in the colophon that the present copy was made from another dated A.H. 403 A.D. 1012/3. MS in good condition; mended; Arabic leather binding; blind stamped and tooling. MS is rare.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: An abridgment of Kitāb al-Aghānī of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, containing songs, anecdotes, diverse information about desert and city life and biographies of ancient and medieval poets arranged alphabetically. This contains only the letter ʻayn.Binding note: Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Collation: Paper ; fol. 215 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.Description: Watermarks (roman-alphabet letters?) ; MS in good condition.Decoration: Simple illuminated gilt headpiece (fol. 1b). Frame and verse separators on fols. 1b and 2a in gold.Incipit: حرف العين. عبيد بن سريج. جميعا واياك صحق صحن دارEnding: حرف الغين المعجمة. غياث الاخطل
Copied A.H. 1201 A.D. 1786 by al Sayyid Muḥammad ... .Fols. 174; 19.4 x 15.1 cm.; written surface 15.5 x 10.9 cm.; 19-22 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Maghribi; with catchwords; headings in red; red rubrications.The first volume of the famous book al-Aghānī arranged according to the alphabetical order of the composersʼ names.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم کثىرًا أثىرا. هذا کتاب عليColophon: ووافق الفراغ منه ضحوة السبت العاشر من شهر الله صفر احد شهور السنة الاولى من الماىة الثالثة عشر رزقنا الله خىرها وکفانا شرهاMarginal notes; ruled marginal lines in red. On the title page occur a table of contents, al-shahādah written twice, a numerical charm and some scribblings. Before the colophon there is a statement that this copy was made for Amīr al-Muʼminīn. After the colophon occur an obliterated autograph of an owner, al-shahādah twice, one by Muḥammad ibn Abī Kālib and dated A.H. 1284 A.D. 1867. MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 571H; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7395-7; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2126.Printed in Būlāq, A.H. 1285; Leyden, A.H. 1305; Cairo, A.H. 1317.
Abstract: "Elegant copy of a commentary on Galen's Kitāb al-Nabḍ al-ṣaghīrAbstract: on pulse."Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and khakī leather. Modern paper pastedowns and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with scarce use of red for headings and entries. The text is framed within a single line in red ink (gold and green on fol. 2b-3a; gold and black on fol. 3b-4a). European paper with watermark. Drawing sketch representing some organ on fol. 48b.Decoration: Headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 2b, executed in gold, orange, blue, green, and in black ink.Collation: Paper, fol. i, 48, i ; i (free endpaper) 1¹⁰ (+1 at beginning of quire) 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ (-1 at the end of the quire) i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Western numerals in black ink on the upper cover: "822".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Wednesday 1 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1101 Dec. 1689 (fol. 46a).Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر التعليم الاول قال جالينوس قبل ال نبتدى بالكلام فى هذا الكتاب يجب ان ننظر فى الابواب الثمانية التى جرت العادة بتقديمها قبل كل كتاب ولنقدم الغرض على سايرها فنقول ان غرضه فى هذا الكتاب ان يعلمنا عن النبض واقسامه واسبابه والنبض هو حركة مكانيةExplicit: اذا ما كانت الرطوبة كثيرة وههنا ينقضى نعليمنا وبانقضايه تنقضى جملة الكتاب والحمد لله الموفق للخير والهادى الى سبيل الصواب
Abstract: A Quranic commentary.Title from title page.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.فرغ من قصاصته على الأم المنسوخ منها يوم الأربعاء لعله 6/ذي القعدة/سنة 1078هـكتاب البرهان فى تفسير القران / تاليف الامام الاعظم الناصر لدين الله ابو الفتح الناصر بن الحسين بن الناصر بن محمد بن عيسى بن محمد بن عبدالله ابن احمد بن عبدالله بن على بن الحسين بن زيد بن الحَسن بن عَلى ابن ابى طالب هـReading note, dated 17 May 1668. Ownership note, 20th century. Includes lines of poetry by the author about the tribes of Yemen along with a portion of his biography.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد بني إلى أحمر اللون عليه نقشة محفورة في الجلد تبدو عليه آثار بلل وكذلك الأرضة واضحة وعليه آثار معالجة لها وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر والأصفر وعليه بعض التعليقات والحواشي ويعود تاريخه إلى القرن الحادي عشر الهجري4/جمادى الاخرى /1078Incipit: بسم الله...رب يسر وعن يا كريم وبك نستعين الحمد لله الذي ذَلت الاشيا لعظمته واذعنت غُلْبُ الرقاب لقدرته وحارت الاوهام فى عظيم ملكوته...وصلى الله على من بعثه بالرحمة والهدى والحنفيّه الاولى فامر بالحق ونطق با الصدق محمد واله الطاهرين وان الله سبحانه عز عن كل شي شَانٍ شانُه لماَّ اظهرنا من الصفوة الطيّبه والعترةِ المرضيّة...راينا بعد استخارةِ الله عز وجل تفسيرَ الغامض من كتاب الله عز وجل الخفي الذي لا يعلم تاويلَه الا الله والراسخون في العلم...Explicit: كان يُعَوِّذُ الحسن والحسين عليهما السلام فيقول اعيذكما بكلمات الله التامّهِ من كل شيطان وَهَامَّه ومن كل عين لاَمَّه ونحن نستعيذ بالله مما عَوّذَ ونستمده جميلَ ما عَوّد وفقنا الله وقاريَهُ لِتَدَبُّرِ ما فيه وَتَفَهُّمِ معانيه فَبِهِ تَوْفِيْقُنَا وعليه تَوَكّلُنَا وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل. ونعم المولى ونعم النصير.Naskh script, written in black, red and yellow ink. Traces of water damage, dirt and some repairs. Includes some marginalia.28-34 lines.أبيات لأبي الفتح الديلمي قالها في قبائل اليمن يستنهضهم أيام دعوته سنة431هـ ويليها جزء من ترجمته وما ذكر من أبيات في مشهده المبارك. لقطة رقم (5).
Abstract: An extensive work on Sufism, followed by a poem on fol. 101a. Likely unique.Binding note: Contemporary quarter morocco with flap.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in naskhi script in black on modern glossy brown paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some insect damage, but text unaffected.Origin: Completed 29 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1305 AH (7 August 1888) (fol. 100b).
The title Fatāwá al-nawāzil appears in the preface of this copy; on fol. la of the same copy the title al-Nawāzil fī al-fiqh, and on bottom edge: Fatāwá kitāb al-nawāzil; title in Garrett no. 3967Y, fol. IlIa: Mukhtārāt al-nawāzil li-ṣāḥib al-Hidāyah; Garrett no. 3405Y, fol. 11a: Mukhtārāt al-nawāzil.Incip.: ... الحمد لله القدىم المنعم العظىم ... قال ... ابو اللىث اخوانى سألونى ان اضع لهم فى الفقه کتابا نافعا لما ىحتاج الىه فى الحوادث ... وسمىته فتاوى النوازل ... کتاب الطهارة . الطهارة فى اللغةff. 193. 206 x 145; 175 x 96 mm. 23 lin. Dhū al-Ḥijjah 108-(?), Ḥasan ibn al-Sayyid Jān al-Qaraḥiṣārī.Identical with Berlin 4845 (Fatāwá al-nawāzil, attributed to al-Samarqandī) and with Mukhtārāt al-nawāzil, usually ascribed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197) - for the latter title cf. Brockelmann, GAL, I, 469 (II); S I, 649; Bank. XIX/1, no. 1673; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻarabīyah (1887-1892/3), III, 126 (anon.); Fihris al-kutub al-mawjūdah bi-al-Maktabah al-Azharīyah, II, 257. As already noticed by Ahlwardt, the Kitāb al-nawāzil of al-Samarqandī described by Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn, (s.v. al-Nawāzil fī al-furūʻ, col. 1981) represents an entirely different work - for mss. of the latter cf. Brockelmann, GAL, I, 210 (no. 3); S I, 347; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻarabīyah (1887-1892/3), III, 144; Fihris al-kutub al-mawjūdah bi-al-Maktabah al-Azharīyah, II, 291.
Abstract: "Acephalous copy of the second part of Samarqandī's commentary of the QurʼānAbstract: comprising the text from sūrah 7:42 to the end of sūrah 18."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards with a small central blind-stamped mandorla and an outer border consisting of blind fillets for upper and lower covers. Upper cover disbound. Spine broken.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 174b).Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in clear medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red to overline the commented text ; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick, soft cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Chiefly quaternions. Marginal annotations (mainly collation notes; gloss by another hand at the end of the copy). Stained with water.Collation: Paper, fol. 175, i ; 1¹ (one leaf, fol. 1) 2-22⁸ 23⁸ (-2 at end of quire) i (later added fly-leaf ; European paper with watermark).Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Yaʻqūb, and completed on 8 Rajab 728 May 19, 1328 (fol. 175a).Beginning as extant: \\\\ فصدقناهم ونودوا ونودوا ان تلكم الجنة قال بعضهم قبل ان يدخلوها قال لهم خزنة الجنةExplicit: الى بيت المعمور حشو ذلك النور ملايكة يصلون ويستغفرون له حتى يستيقظ
acephalous ff. 118. 242 x 185; 203 x 135 mm. 21 lin. Dhū al-ḥijjah 716, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Khālid al-Maqdisī.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 211 (no. 9); S I, 348.
mutilus: begins in Kitāb al-Zakāh, breaks off in Kitāb al-Istiḥsān: ff. 128. 240 x 168; 185 x 130 mm. 23 lin. 13th/14th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 210 (no. 4-the vulgate recension); S I, 347 (4b); Berlin 4870 (anon., incompl.).
Abstract: Second part of the tafsīr of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, comprising the text from Sūrat Maryam (19) to Sūrat al-Nās (114).Binding note: Unbound quires placed within a binding consisting of brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap, with yellow paper pasted on covers and envelope flap. Yellow paper doublure.Ms. codex.Title from title page by a later hand (fol. 1a).Incipit: سورة مريم ثمان وتسعون اية كلها مكية يسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين كهيعص قراء ابن كثير وعاصم فى رواية حفص بنصب الهاء والياءExplicit: سورة الناس مدنية وهى ست ايات بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قوله تعالى قل اعوذ بربّ الناس يقول استعيذ بخالق الناس ... 324أ ... قال من لم يزعم انّهما من كتاب الله تعالى فعليه لعنة الله والملائكة اجمعين تم كتاب تفسير ابى الليث نصر بن ابراهبم السمرقندىPhysical description: 24 lines per page. Written in small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for overlining, re-inking and "maṭlab" on the margins. Light biscuit paper with pulp and thick laid lines visible. Occasional marginal annotation. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 1 and 324 consist of a leaf in European paper with watermark pasted on the recto and the verso respectively of an original folio. Some leaves apparently missing (see between fol. 13 and 14). Note on a modern piece of paper placed between fol. 3 and 4. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 43". Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (faulty). Water damage; mildew.Origin: Copy completed on 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 892 March 4, 1487 (colophon, fol. 324a, followed by verses of poetry on the margin, 2 lines in Arabic, 2 lines in Persian).
Abstract: A collection of original poems of eulogy, especially of the Prophet, satire and elegy arranged in alphabetical order of their rhyme, from alif to qāf.Binding note: Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather with repaired spine and replaced flap in red leather. Cover interiors in red leather. Blind-stamped with central mandorla outlined in gold, gilt frame, and simple tooled edging.Collation: Paper ; fol. 127 ; catchwords.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gilt with floral drawing and a gilt roundel on fol. 1b. Fol. 2a has gild frame.Description: Written in elegant naskhi ; readings in red/rubrication ; MS in poor condition, worm-eaten and foxed, loose folios and binding. MS is extremely rare.Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.Ms. codex.Though full name of author does not appear in MS, study of persons mentioned reveals that he lived in eleventh Muslim century; and in eulogizing the Prophet he designates himself as Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣiddīq. Probably this copy was made during lifetime of author.Title from heading (fol. 2b).Colophon: وهذا ما انتها انتهى الينا من هذا الديوان بحمد الله وعونه ولاحول ولاقوة الا بالله العلي العظيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرًا والحمد لله رب العالمين نفعنا الله تعالى بمولفه وحشرنا معه ولمن قرأ فيه ولمن دعا لکاتبه بالمغفرة امين والحمد لله وحدهIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل من البيان سحرا حلالا
Written by the author ?.Fols. 56; 22.6 x 10.2 cm.; written surface 20 x 8.5 cm.; 21-34 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; headings in red; with illumination.A collection of original poems in praise of Sayyidī Aḥmad al-Badawī A.H. 596-675 A.D. 1199/200-1276 together with a eulogy of the same saint by ʻAbd Allāh Abū al-Nūr al-Aḥmadī and another by an unknown devotee (baʻḍ al-muḥibbīn).Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. ىا سىدي احمد ىا بدوي ىا قطب الرجالColophon: مالي سواه مجب عندي وما * هذاك الى الاّ انه ىدعى حسنThe two folios before the first page bear a few verses of poetry, five illegible seals and two fāʼidahs. On back of the first page is a statement, signed by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad Tajjār Najjār and bearing his seal, that he read the contents of the MS and was very pleased with it. Folios 31 and 34 each has a tree of poetry. Text runs parallel with back of cover. MS in good condition; modern Arabic binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
vol. 1 (Sūrah 1-15). ff. 244 (lacunae) 303 x 202; 220 x 125 mm. 31 lin. 17th/18th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 579; S II, 651.Incip.: ... سبحان من ارسل رسوله بالهدى
Abstract: Elegant copy of several texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, on religious topics.Binding note: Brown leather over thin paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central mandorla and an outer frame made of gold painted fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. 2a: Verses of poetry by Fuzulî-i Bağdâdî, Nazârî Efendi and Ilmî Efendi, with mention of the dates of events such as the death of Kemalpaşazade, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (al-Jurjānī), Jāmī, etc..Contents: 3. fol. 2b-3a: Blank.Contents: 4. fol. 3b-4b: Several short excerpts.Contents: 5. fol. 5a: Blank.Contents: 6. fol. 5b-8a: Fatwá Abū al-Suʻūd Afandī in Ottoman Turkish / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd Title in table of contents: Risālah fī al-afʻāl al-ikhtiyārah.Contents: 7. fol. 8b-12a: Blank.Contents: 8. fol. 12b-15a: Risālat al-Naqshbandīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khādimī.Contents: 9. fol. 15b-17a: Blank.Contents: 10. fol. 17b-43b: Waṣāyā / Abū Saʻīd Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Khādimī.Contents: 11. fol. 44a-45b: Blank.Contents: 12. fol. 46a: Nuktah sabʻah ḥākim fī waqt sabʻah at the end of the page: Min al-Sabʻīyāt.Contents: 13. fol. 46b-48b: Several short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, some excerpted from Tafsīr al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍawī.Contents: 14. fol. 49a-55a: Verses attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʼ, etc..Contents: 15. fol. 55b-56a: Risālah fī bayān iṣṭilāḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth Title in table of contents: Muṣṭalaḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth; Definitions of several terms, starting with "mawqūf", "munqaṭaʻ", "muʻaḍḍal".Contents: 16. fol. 56b-57a: Blank.Contents: 17. fol. 57b: Taskhīr-i kabīr or Taskhīr-i qulūb Short text describing how to read a verse of the Fātiḥah each day of the week. On the margin, mention of al-Shaykh al-Karkhī.Contents: 18. fol. 58a: Blank.Contents: 19. fol. 58b-59b: Ṭabaqāt al-tābiʻīn min Kitāb al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.Contents: 20. fol. 60a: Blank.Contents: 21. fol. 60b-62b: Several prayers, some for travelers, attributed to Sayyid ʻAlīʹzādah Aḥmad, Abū al-Suʻūd, al-Zamakhsharī, al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʻī.Contents: 22. fol. 63a-66a: Blank.Contents: 23. fol. 66b-67a: Risālah fī bayān ṭabaqāt al-masāʼil / ʻAlī Çelebi Efendi Hayâlîzade (or: Hayânîzade) Title supplied according to ms. Leiden, 1884, with author: ʻAlī Çelebi Qinālīzāda; title in table of contents: Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ li-Hayâlî Zade ʻAlī Çelebi; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Risālah fī taḥqīq anwāʻ al-masāʼil ʻinda al-Ḥanafīyah; see GAL II, 433/10.Contents: 24. fol. 67b: Blank.Contents: 25. fol. 68a: Fī ziyādat al-ʻumr wa-nuqṣānihi bi-al-ʻamal / Ibn al-Kamāl.Contents: 26. fol. 68b: Blank.Contents: 27. fol. 69a-92b: Several short texts in prose and verse, comprising a Qaṣīdah li-Abī ʻAlī Ibn Sīnā fī majiʼ al-rūḥ bi-al-qālib(?); several short texts and ḥadith commenting on the meaning of some words and on questions related to exegesis, excerpted from al-Sabʻīyāt, Sharḥ al-Mawāqif, Sharḥ-i Kāfīyah, Sharḥ al-Kashshāf, Firdaws al-akhbār, etc., and attributed to Saʻd al-Dīn, Ibn Kamāl (fī --? al-Tajrīd), al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, ʻImād Kātibī, Jawharī, Ḥasan Çelebi, etc.; a text explaining what a mufassir should know (fol. 70b); questions and answers in Ottoman Turkish attributed to Abū al-Saʻūd (fol. 75a-78b); Waṣiyat Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī (fol. 79b; four lines); Munājāt Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻArabī (fol. 79b; six lines); a text mentioning the names of the Aṣḥāb al-Kahf; a text "fī quṭb al-athwāb" (fol. 81a); prayers and duʻaʼ, some in verses, and other verses of poetry attributed to Zayn al-Dīn al-Wardī, Ghars al-Dīn ibn Khalīl, al-Ṣalāḥ al-Ṣafadī, Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ḥājirī, Abū al-Faraj al-Waʼwaʼ, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bustī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suhaylī, al-Imām al-Nūrī (or al-Ghazālī, praising the Fātiḥah), al-Ghazālī in the Iḥyāʼ, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Wakīl, Munājāt of Shihāb al-Dīn (fol. 89b), al-Shāfiʻī, Saʻd al-Dīn, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sābiq, Ibn Rāwandī, ʻAlī, Ibn Fāris al-Lughawī, Abū Ismaʻīl, etc. (fol. 81b-92b); talisman on fol. 91a.Contents: 28. fol. 93a-94a: Waṣiyatʹnāmah / Mullā Khosraw.Contents: 29. fol. 94a-b: Several ḥadīth.Contents: 30. fol. 95a: Blank.Contents: 31. fol. 95b-97b: Mā ruwiya ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās fī tartīb al-anbiyāʼ.Contents: 32. fol. 98a: Names of the pre-Islamic Kings, from the Kitāb Bidāyat al-nihāyah, in Ottoman Turkish.Contents: 33. fol. 98b-139a: Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif wa-kāshif al-asrār / Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Samarqandī Title in table of contents: Tārīkh ṣaghīr al-musammá bi-Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif; title in Mach, R. Yahuda, following Kashf al-ẓunūn: Laṭāʼif al-afkār wa-kāshif al-asrār; the date Rabīʻ I 991 1583 is mentioned at the end of the text.Contents: 34. fol. 139b-141b: Blank.Contents: 35. fol. 142a-150a: Kitāb ʻUrf al-taʻrīf bi-al-mawlid al-sharīf / lil-Imām al-ʻallāmah al-shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī.Contents: 36. fol. 150b-151a: Blank.Contents: 37. fol. 151b-161a: Kitāb al-Indhār bi-wafāt al-nabī al-muṣṭafá al-mukhtār / lil-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-shaykh al-muḥaqqiqīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Dāʼūd al-Ḥanbalī al-Dimashqī al-Ṣāliḥī Title in table of contents: al-Risālah al-mutaʻallaqah bi-wafāt al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalay-hi wa-sallam.Contents: 38. fol. 161b-164a: Blank.Contents: 39. fol. 164b-169a: Risālat al-saqīfah / Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī Title in table of contents: Risālah fī ḥaqq al-khulafā bi----? al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalay-hi wa-sallam.Contents: 40. fol. 169b-170b: Risālah fī aḥkām al-sabb / Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥusām Çelebi Title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Risālah fī sabb al-Nabī.Contents: 41. fol. 170b: Waṣiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf.Contents: 42. fol. 171a-183b: Kitāb al-Munabbihāt li-istiʻdād yawm al-mīʻād / Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī Title in table of contents: Munabbihāt li-Ibn Ḥajar; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād.Contents: 43. fol. 184a: Qaṣīdah / li-Mawlānā Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.Contents: 44. fol. 184b-186b, l. 5: Fiqh al-Kaydānī (or: Maṭālib al-muṣallī) / Luṭf Allāh al-Kaydānī Title in table of contents: Risālah fī anwāʻ al-mashrūʻāt fī ākhirihi Ṭabaqāt al-mujtahidīn li-Ibn Kamāl; see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 1732.Contents: 45. fol. 186b, l. 5-187a: Risālah fī ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ / Ibn Kamāl Pāshā Title in table of contents: Ṭabaqāt al-mujtahidīn li-Ibn Kamāl.Contents: 46. fol. 187b-188a: Risālah fī jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī wa-istijābih / al-muʼallif Bustān al-ʻārifīn Title in table of contents: Risālah fī ḥaqq jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī li-Bustān al-ʻārifīn.Contents: 47. fol. 188b-190b: Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawj sic bi-al-riwāyah al-ṣaḥīḥah Title in table of contents: Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawjah, followed by an excerpt from Mukhtār al-Ṣaḥīḥ and from Tafsīr al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍawī.Contents: 48. fol. 191a-193a: Short texts in Ottoman Turkish and in Arabic on dhikr.Contents: 49. fol. 193b-196b: Several short excerpts in Ottoman Turkish on the Kalimat al-tawḥīd.Contents: 50. fol. 197a: Blank.Contents: 51. fol. 197b-206b: Anonymous commentary on al-ʻAḍudīyah; Title at the beginning of text: Risālah sharīfah lil-Qādī ʻAḍud muʼallif al-Mawāqif; title at the end of text: al-Risālah al-sharīfah fī al-akhlāq; title in table of contents: al-Akhlāq al-ʻAḍudīyah; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Sharḥ al-ʻAḍudīyah fī al-akhlāq.Contents: 52. fol. 206b-207b: Risālah fī labs al-maṣbūgh title from table of contents.Contents: 53. fol. 207b-208a: Sharḥ ʻAlī al-Qārī.Contents: 54. fol. 208a-b: al-Marātib al-khams al-qalbīyah title from table of contents / ʻAbd al-Salām, known as Başmakcızade, written in 1164-1165 H. 1751 (colophon, fol. 208b).Contents: 55. fol. 209a: Short saying attributed to Ibn Sīnā on girls of different ages, starting with: "Bint ʻashr lūz muqashsharah naẓarahā al-nāẓirīn").Contents: 56. fol. 209b-214a: Three short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, on the Qurʼān and ḥadīth, ending with an excerpt from Kitāb al-ʻaql wa-al-naql by Taqī al-Dīn, quoting Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-ʻIbādī, entitled in the table of contents "Man yuḥkam bi-kufrihi wa-man lā yuḥkam lil-Qāsim al-ʻIbādī".Contents: 57. fol. 214b-216b: Risālah fī ḥaqq al-Khiḍr ʻalayhi al-salām incomplete at end / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī Title in table of contents: al-Risālah al-Khidrīyah; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Kashf al-khidr ʻan amr al-Khiḍr.Contents: 58. fol. 217a-219a: Blank.Contents: 59. fol. 219b-254a: Risālah min ʻilm al-muḥādarah / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Title from table of contents; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Laṭāʼif al-ishārāt fī al-muḥāḍarāt wa-al-muḥāwarāt. According to Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn col. 533 (s. v. Jālib al-surūr) and col. 1551 (s.v. Laṭāʼif...), this is an abridgment of Jālib al-surūr wa-sālib al-ghurūr of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qarabāghī, d. 942/1535: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 566 (2), S II, 638; Chester Beatty Library: A handlist of the Arabic manuscripts, 5239. Identical with Muḥādarāt wa-muḥāwarāt, Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 57 (11a), Arabic manuscripts in the Yale University Library, 463.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.20 to 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Fol. 19 dyed in yellow. The paper has been frame-ruled. The text is framed within a gold and black border. In the texts in verses, verses are separated by gold borders (see fol. 87a). Illuminated headpices (ʻunwān) and divisions of the page with a floral motif in gold, pink, red green and white (fol. 2a, 4b, 12b, 17b, etc.). Hāshiyah written in a minaret shaped border on the margin of fol. 12b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Majmaʻ". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 208/2".Some texts are copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir, one of the disciples (tilmīdh) of Abū Bakr al-Marāshid in 1179 H. 1765 or 6 (fol. 161a). Others by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Khalīfah (Mehmet Halife) , known as Qurrah faqīh al-Lārandī from Lārandah (Larende or Karaman), in Anatolia, in 1180 H. 1766 or 7 (fol. 208b).
ff. 23. 210 x 155; 145 x 90 mm. 15 lin. the author completed his work 4 Rabīʻ II, 1131; probably autograph.Incip.: ... قوله ىعنى اشراط الساعة تفسىر للبعض کما هو ظاهر
Numb. fols. 40; 19.8 x 8 cm.; written surface 15 x 8.5 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in good naskhi; with full vowel signs; with catchwords; headings in red; with illumination.A collection of discourses, wise sayings and proverbs on good government, divided into 8 divisions: (1) good policy, (2) virtue in knowledge and action, (3) elements which aid in religious devotion and worship, (4) aids to the discipline of the tongue, (5) self discipline, (6) good conduct, (7) good behavior, and (8) aids to eloquence.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. قال الوزىر السىد ابو الحسىن بن احمد بن الحسن بن عليColophon: تم کتاب ىتىمة الدهر والحمد لله على اتمامه والثناء على توفىقه وانعامه والصلاة على محمد واله خىر انامهMarginal notes; first page illuminated in red and blue; ruled marginal lines in red and blue on first page and in red throughout the rest. On title page and on inside of front cover are several autographs of owners and some scribblings. On inside of back cover occur a magical table and some smeared writing. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8709².
Abstract: Commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī, also known as al-Shāṭibīyah, a versification by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194) of al-Taysīr li-ḥifẓ madhāhib al-qurrāʼ al-sabʻah by ʻUthmān al-Dānī (d. 444/1053).Binding note: Blue paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Leather spine with four sewing stations, with gilt working. Orange paper pastedowns and free endpaper. Two modern paper endleaves at the beginning of the copy.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 3a). On the left margin, note: "Hādhā sharḥ al-Fāsī wa-hādhā al-ʻunwān khaṭā" (crossed out).Incipit: يقول الفقير الى رحمة ربّه المستغفر من وزره وذنبه ... احمده حمد مومن موقن ... اما بعد فانّ جماعة من القرا المشتغلين بقصيدة الشيخ الامام ابى القسم الشاطبى ... قال الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ المقىء ابو القسم بن فره الرعينى ثم الشاطلى رحمه الله بدأت بسم الله ... ومويلا يقال بدات الشيء وابداته اى احدثتهExplicit: وهى ذات حل فتامل ذلك والله اعلم وهذا آخر الجز الاول ويتلوه فى الجز الثانى سورة العمران ان شاء الله تعالىPhysical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and commented text. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Fiber visible on the surface. Fol. 1-2 are apparently later additions on the same paper, with several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a Kabīkaj and a dāʼirah, and a table of the names and dates of readers of the Qurʼān, presented in Persian on fol. 1b-2a. Leaves apparently missing between fol. 19 and 20 (see catchword on fol. 19b and numbering of the quire on fol. 20a). The quires (mainly quinions) are numbered using Arabic numerals (starting with "4" on fol. 20a). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Note in the same hand as the second title on fol. 3a quoting the entry on this text in Kashf al-ẓunūn. On fol. 195b: Short text on the six reasons of illness according to the physicians of Fars, Rūm and al-Hind. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.). Title on the tail of the text block: "Kitāb al-Farīdah fī sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Qirāʼāt 15".Origin: Copy completed on Friday 8 Ṣafar 858 Feb. 1454 (in Arabic numerals) by Yūnus Ibn Aqbughā al-muqriʼ al-Mālikī (colophon, fol. 192b).
Abstract: The first part of a very large collection of fatwas by the author.Title from title page.الجزءُ الأَوّلُ مِنْ فَتَاوي سيدنا العلامة القدوة الحجة المحدث نفيس الدِّين سليمنُ بن يحيى ابن عمر مقبول الأَهْدَلOwnership note, dated August 1911. Includes multiple unknown fragments and poems.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد عليه غلاف قماشي وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والوردي والأحمر وبه أوراق في آخره عليها آثار معالجة من حريق وكذلك من الأرضه ويحتوي في أوله على فوائد متعددةIncipit: بسم الله...وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد افضل الخلق اجمعين واله الطيبين الطاهرين وصحابته الاكرمين وبعد فهذا ما يسر الله نقله من فتاوي شيخنا العلامة النبيل...Explicit: ولا شك ان المقبرة مما يكثر تكرر المرور بها فَهِيَ كالشارع والله سبحانه اعلم انتهى جوابه اهـ والله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآلهPersian naskh script, written in black, pink and red ink. Some traces of repairs.24 lines.فوائد ونقول متعددة وقصائد شعرية من اللقطة رقم (10-18) ثم (23-39).بيتان شعريان في صفحة الاختتام. لقطة رقم (454): رأت قمر السماء فاذكرتني ليالي وصلها بالرقمتينِ كِلانا نَاظِر ٌقمراً وَلَكِنْ رايت بعينِها ورأت بعينِ
Abstract: Manual on the principles of Hanafite law. This work is also known as al-Muntakhab fī uṣūl al-dīn and as al-Muntakhab al-Ḥusāmī.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown marbled paper and red paper. Paper pastedown and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Some leaves are dyed in dark orange. Dimension of leaves irregular. Marginal annotations, particularly at the beginning of the text. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits first fol.). Worm eaten.Two spine labels (vertical), reading respectively: "Uṣūl al-fiqh li-Muḥammad Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Akhsīkatī" (in Arabic script), and "155 crossed out 34" (in Arabic and Western numerals).Origin: Copy completed on Thursday 17 Shaʻbān 740 Feb. 17, 1340 by Sāwijī(?) ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad, known as Sirāj al-Malaṭī (colophon, fol. 48b, followed by verses of poetry in Arabic and Persian).Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله على نواله والصلوة على محمد وآله فان اصول الشرع ثلثة الكتاب والسنة واجماع الامة والاصل الرابع القياس المستنبط من هذه الاصول اما الكتاب فالقرآن المنزل على الرسولExplicit: وهي يوجب الاحاطة على سبيل الافراد ومعنى الافراد ان يعتبر كل اسم بانفراده ليس معه غيره والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب وصلّى الله على محمد الو الالباب
Abstract: A gloss on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī which is a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī. The latter work, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah, is in turn an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī.Binding note: Brown leather with envelope flap. The leather on upper and lower covers polished to a high gloss. Large central mandorlas on covers, blind stamped and painted in gold around edges. Envelope flap is in different black leather with a similar design made with a smaller mandorla and a couple of fillets along the inner edge of the flap. Lining to the envelope flap and pastedowns in cream paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather. The whole is inside a board box with a flap. The box has red morocco on edges and glossy black paper with yellow print design on the sides and the flap, and a pull-out cord woven in brown, cream and orange thread. Label on the fore edge of the flap: "Akhī Chalabī ʻalá Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah".Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. The text is within a frame outlined with one line of red ink. Glazed European paper. Few marginal annotations.Incipit: الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... قوله فان تكميل النفوس الانانية بالفضائل القدسية وتحليتها بالحصائل الانتيةExplicit: وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا تعتبراشاراته وكتابته
Abstract: A gloss on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, which is a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī. The latter work, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah, is in turn an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. This copy has an extra paragraph after the end of the main text not found in all copies and providing information on the original composition of the work. According to this information, the gloss was completed on the 8th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 901(1496).Binding note: Glazed marbled paper over pasteboard on covers and envelope flap. Brown leather on spine, around cover edges and on fore edge flap. Lining to the envelope flap and pastedowns in brown paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.Ms. codex.Title on fol. 256a and on the lower edge of text block."25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper. Some marginal annotation. The extra paragraph at the end starts with a couple of lines in the scribe's handbut is finished by a different hand. Ff. 5b-6a have a table of contents in black ink also in a later hand."'Incipit: الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانانية بالفضائل القدسية وتحليتها بالخصائل الانتية'Explicit: وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا تعتبر كتابته واشاراته تم بعون الله ... وختامه فى ثامن من ذو الحجة من حجة احدى وتسعمائة ... واخلت الغاربة
vol. 1 (ṭahārah through waqf). ff. 372. 293 x 192; 226 x 107 mm. 35 lin.Rabīʻ II, 1029.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 466 (commentary 7); S I, 645 (8).Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى هدانا فى البداىة
Buyfūʻ- end. ff. 400. 295 x 192; 220 x 107 mm. 35 lin. 1030 H.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 466 (commentary 7); S I, 645 (8).Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى هدانا فى البداىة
Abstract: Commentary on Mashāriq al-anwār al-nabawīyah, a collection of ḥadīths by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghānī (d. 650/1252).Binding note: Dark brown leather over cardboards for upper and lower covers. The covers are similarly blind stamped and tooled with a central stamped mandorla with a floral pattern, and an outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern. Golden brown leather doublure with blind six lobed stamp, and an outer border consisting of fillets. Rebacked. Traces of a now wanting envelope flap.Ms. codex.Title from colophon of Juzʼ 1 (fol. 197b).Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيد المرسلين محمد خاتم النبيين وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين قال الشيخ الامام العلامة احد دهره وفريد عصره ملك المحدثين رضي الملة والدين ابو الفضايل الحسن بن محمد بن الحسن الصغانى ... الحمد لله محيي الرحم ومجري القلم وذاري الامم وباري النسم ليعبدوه ولا يشركوا به قال العبد الفقير محمد بن محمود بن احمد غفر الله له وان اللام ببتعريف والتعريف باللامExplicit: افضل هو اللايق لمرتبته صلى الله عليه وسلّم ان يترقي من الادني الي الاعلي لا ان يتنزل من الاعلي الي الادني والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب تمّPhysical description: 33 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two lines in red ink on fol. 3b-4a. Cream paper, glossy, with thick laid lines, chain lines, and fibers visible. Fol. 1 and 417 are endpapers, with one side marbled in green, orange, yellow and blue. Fol. 2 is a later added endpaper (European paper). Fol. 3 consists of a sheet of the same paper with an original fol. pasted on its verso.Collation: Paper, fol. 417 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, at the beginning of the quire ; + 2, endpapers) 2-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-41¹⁰ + 7 fol. + 1 (endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals, in the form "al-thānī" (see fol. 12a).Origin: Juzʼ 1 completed on Yawm al-Arbaʻah 4 Ramaḍān 789 Sept. 18, 1387 (colophon juzʼ 1, fol. 197b ; a note by the same hand indicates that the first part was written five years after the second part). Copy of Juzʼ 2 completed during the night of 16 Ramaḍān 784 Nov. 1382 by ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān ibn al-Ḥusayn (or: al-Ḥasan) al-Rūmī(?) al-Dawlawī, in al-Qāhirah, in the Khānqāh al-Amīr al-marḥūm al-Sayfī SYKhwā(?) (colophon, fol. 414b). Collation statement by the same hand on the margin of both colophons (fol. 197b and 414b). On the margin of the colophon of juzʼ 2, reading statement by the same hand, stating that it was read in front of the author.
Abstract: "Kınalızade's work on ethics in 3 books (kitāb) composed in 1565 (fol. 6b-261b)Abstract: followed by two short treatises also on ethicsAbstract: virtue and moral qualities (fol. 263b-280b and 280b-296b)Abstract: the first of which is in Arabic and consists of a list of different concepts conditioning those qualities and the explanations thereofAbstract: starting with al-tawakkulAbstract: al-jahlAbstract: khawf al-dhamm wa-ḥubb al-madaḥ etc.Abstract: and the second is in Arabic and Ottoman and is dedicated to Sultan Abdülhamid I (ruled 1774-1789)."Binding note: Brown leather with a gold tooled mandorla with pendants in the center and 4 gold tooled corner pieces in foliage pattern on upper and lower covers. Envelope flap with same gold tooled design, consisting of a small mandorla, 2 corner pieces, and gold guilloche and fillets around the edges. Spine, fore-edge flap and borders of upper and lower covers repaired in different brown leather. Pastedowns and envelope flap lining in yellow paper sprinkled in silver. Fore-edge lining in olive fabric.Ms. composite codex.Title from the lower edge of text block.Main text was copied by Derviş Mehmet Ahlakî on the 15th of Shaʻbān 997 (1589), this being the 30th copy which he did -- colophon (fol. 261b). Given the dedication to Sultan Abdülhamid I, the second and third texts, which are written continuously, are from the 18th century and were subsequently bound with the first.Main text: 19 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a gold leaf frame outlined with three lines in black ink, with headings and verses in separately outlined sections. Fol. 6b has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) made in gold leaf with dark and light blue, orange and purple watercolors. Fol. 6b, 12a, 21a, and then every 10th leaf has a circular medallion on the margin, made with gold leaf with foliage pattern in black ink in the center with red circle around it and blue ink around the edges. Fol. 112b-116a have margins sprinkled in gold. Glazed dark cream paper with visible laid lines and prominent fibres. Foliation in Arabic numerals in red ink starts with 1 on fol. 7. Texts 2 and 3: 11 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Text written within a single line frame outlined in red ink. Very thin light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines and prominent fibres.Ms. additions: Several short inscriptions on fol. 1b; table of contents on fol. 2b-3a; two ownership statements on fol. 6a, one in the name of Mehmet Celaleddin, accompanied by a stamp dated 189 (1775-76), and the other in the name of Ömer Hüsameddin, dated 26 M 1227 (10 February 1812).Incipit text 1: درر زواهر حمد وثنا وغرر ظواهر سپاس وستايش كه كثرت افراد فرايدينه سلك شهور وايامده احتمال اجتماع وانتظامExplicit text 1: وعليه التكلان انه مفضل منعم حنان منان تمت الرساله المجموعه من مكارم الاخلاق بعون الله الملك الخلاقIncipit text 2: من الكلمات الصحيحة الدين النصيحة الحمد لله ... وبعد فان الدنيا الفانية سريعة الزوالExplicit text 2: مراد ما نصيحت بود وكفتيم حوالت با خدا كرديم ورفتيمIncipit text 3: الحمد لله ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل متطبقان وفى المآل متوافقانExplicit text 3: واستعمال اصناف حيل ومكايده بهر حال قيام عقلا وشرعا خير المرامدر
Copied A.H. 1219 A.D. 1805 by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mahdī.Fols. 4; 21.5 x 15 cm.; written surface 19 x 12 cm.; 18-24 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.A brief essay on the excellences and special privileges of the family of the Prophet.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. قال رجل في بعض المواقفColophon: حرر ىوم الاحد سادس عشر شهر ذيالحجة عام سنة 1219 کتبه افقر العباد الى ربه واحوجهم الىه الى علمه ابراهىم ابن محمد بن علي بن الحسىن المهدي وفقه اللهThe title of the work is written on the inside of the front cover. MS in good condition; Arabic binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Fols. 2; 21.8 x 15 cm.; written surface 18 x 10.2 cm.; 18-25 lines to page; on Arabic paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords.An ode on the decline of the study of tradition.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم الحمد لله وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. اما بعدEnding: قاموا بجد لردع الناکصىن على * اعقابهم وبسىف الله تحمىهMS in good condition; modern Arabic binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
ff. 216. 195 x 145; 151 x 98 mm. 21 lin. Jumādá I, 1086.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 541 (10: no. 2).Incip.: ... الحمد لله وسلام ... اما بعد حمد الله ... فقد التمس منى ... ان اجمع له دعوات النبى