Abstract: "Collection containing two glosses on al-Shirwānī's commentary on Samarqandī's Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth."Binding note: Stiffened brown leather. Each cover has an outer ruled border made of three blind fillets; half of the upper cover is missing.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-34a: Risālah ʻalá Mawlá al-ʻImād al-muḥashshī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Fāḍil Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Ibn Shujāʻ al-Dīn al-shahīr bi-Khazramah.Contents: 2. fol. 34b-37b: blank.Contents: 3. fol. 38a-56a: Risālah ʻalá Sharḥ al-fāḍil Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.17 lines per page. Written in small but very clear naskh in black ink with use of red for "qāla" and "qawluhu", and to overline important words. In text no. 2, notes on content written in red in the margin. European glazed paper with watermarks; fol. 9 prev. 8 is a later replacement. Contains a few notes in the margin and some collation notes. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (starts on fol. 2; between fol. 35 and 38 prev. 34 and 35, two fol. blank).Collation: Paper, fol. 56 + i (modern endpaper) ; 1⁸ (+1, fol. 9) 2-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6⁸ (+1, fol. 48) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Copied by al-Ḥājj Qāsim in Qusṭanṭinīyah in 963 (from colophons, fol. 34a and 56a).
Abstract: Collection of traditions, compiled from the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim and al-Bukhārī. Incomplete at the beginning and the end.Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger (following R. Mach, Yahuda).The name of the author appears in the numbering of the quires as al-Ḥumaydī (see fol. 117a).The copy begins with the last ḥadīths transmitted through Ibn ʻUmar, followed by the ḥadīths transmitted through Abū Ḥamzah (fol. 1a). It comprises the ḥadīths transmitted through ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbbās (see fol. 59a), Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (fol. 70b), and the ḥadīths transmitted by Muslim through Companions of the Prophet such as ʻAbd al-Muṭallib ibn Rabīʻah (fol. 136a).17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink ; headings in a larger script. The text is vocalized. Light cream paper with laid lines visible (chain lines hardly visible on some leaves). Collation notes. Audition statements on some folio (see fol. 92b, 105b, 117b, 125b). Audition and collation statement signed by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Yūnīnī (fol. 1b and 119b; collated with a copy read in front of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ). Some leaves are missing (see between fol. 8-9, 16-17, 24-25, 26-27, 36-37, 43-44, 45-46, 47-48, 50-51, 54-55, 59-60, 63-64, 70-71, 80-81, 86-87, 115-116, 125-126, 126-127). The quires are numbered in the form "al-rābiʻah ʻashrah min al-thānī min al-Ḥumaydī", see fol. 117a). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Incipit: هذا واطوعنا بعده اللهمّ انت الصاحب فى السفر والخليفة فى الاهل اللهمّ اى أعوذ بك من وعثاء السفرExplicit: \\\\ وكانت عليك حُلّة وعليه حلّة فمسح رأسى وقال اللهمّ بارك فيه يا بن
Abstract: Al-Shamāʾil al-Nabawīyah, a treatise on the sīrah of the Prophet, by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892).Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.12 lines per page. Written in elegant large Andalusian Maghribi in brown ink with use of red and blue ink and gold leaf for headings and paragraphs. Text within a triple-line frame ruled in red and blue ink. Catchwords on verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Extensive marginal notes in at least two different hands. European paper. No titlepage and a portion of the beginning of the text missing. Extensive water and insect damage to the paper, but the text legible throughout.Label in Arabic on fol. 1a: "Raqm 66".Incipit: مالك بن أنس عن ربيعة بن ابي عبد الرحمان عن أنس بن مالك أنّه سميعه يقول كان رسول الله ... ليس بالطويل البائن ولا بالقصير ولا بالأبيض الأمهوقExplicit: حدثنا محمد بن علي قال سمعت ابي يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر حدثنا محمد بن علي اخبرنا النضر اخبرنا ابن عون عن ابن سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عن من تأخذون دينكم ... و الحمد لله اولا واخرا و الصلاة والسلام على صاحب المقام ... وسلم تسليما
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Abstract: History of the conquest of North Africa from Qayrawān to Zāb.Binding note: Modern Western type binding of pasteboards covered with paper.Ms. codex.Title from rubric (fol. 1b).16 to 17 long lines per page. Written in Maghribi script, in brown ink with some use of red and occasional green; with catchwords on the verso of each leaf, and on the recto of each leaf from fol. 7a. European paper. Modern foliation using Western numerals. There is a ḥabūs mark (fol. 109b). Good condition with water staining and some minor insect damage. Some wear on final leaves.Copied by ʻAlī ibn Abī Muʻizz al-Rajrājī on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1140 (colophon, fol. 109b).Incipit: قال وسميت القروان قروان ... عقبة ابن عامر رضي الله عنه نزل بافريقيةExplicit: قال الراوى لهذا الحديث هذا ما وجدنا في السفر١ من فتوح افريقية من بلاد المهدية الى بلاد زاب وفي السفر الثانيمن بلاد زاب الى اخر المغرب ... وكان النصر للمسلمين من فضل الله وبركته ... وصلى الله على نبينا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثير.Opening rubric: (هذا تاليف فتوح افريقية من مدينة القروان الى زاب ببلاد طانة (؟
Abstract: 'A work on Ḥanafī law and jurisprudence, being a redaction from the author\'s al-Muntakhab min ʻulūm al-madhhabAbstract: and several commentaries such as Sharḥ al-Karkhī and al-Isbījābī (see beginning of textAbstract: fol. 2b). The text is followed on fol. 229-230b by an incomplete text written by another handAbstract: entitled "Majlis amlāhu muṣannif hādhā al-kitāb".'Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (prfessional hand) in black ink (faded to brown), with larger script for headings. The text is vocalized. Dark cream paper, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Table of contents on fol. 1a-b. Several short excerpts on fol. 2a. Foliation in black ink (faded to brown) using Arabic numerals.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 10 Rajab 621 July 1224 by Bashīr ibn Ḥāmid ibn Sulaymān al-Jaʻfarī al-Tabrīzī (fol. 228b). According to notes on the margin of fol. 228b, collated on an autograph.Incipit: الحمد لله الاحد القديم الصمد الدايم ذي الكمال والدوام والجلال والاكرام والآلاء والنعم وصلى الله ... اما بعد فقد اختصرنا هذا الكتاب من كتابنا المنتخب من علوم المذهب ومن شروح بسيطة كشرح الكرخى ... كتاب الطهارات قال الله تعالى ياءيها الذين آمنوا اذا قمتم الى الصلوة فاغسلوا وجوهكم ... 3أ ففرض الله عز وجل في الوضوء غسلExplicit: لكل واحدة ثلثة اسهم وللاخت النصف اربعة وعشرون سعمًا وللاعمام اثنى عشر سهمًا لكل واحد سعمان تم الكتاب والحمد لله المنعم القديم المحمود العظيم وصلى الله على محمد رسوله الكريم ونبيه الحليم وعلى آله واصحابه وسلّم آخر عبارة المصنف الامير الامام الزاهد ايده الله وسدده
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīth arranged by topics.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. 2a.Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Red tear-drop text stops. Thick light cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves darker. On these leaves, ink corrosive. Marginal annotations (collation notes and glosses). Fol. 1 is a later addition. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including a price, two lines of poetry in praise of the text, and ownership statements. Table of contents by a later hand on fol. 1a-b.Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each quire; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "al-Khāmisah" on fol. 36a).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 27". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 130".Two leaves of another manuscripts were placed in the volume. They are now shelved separately in Fragments, leaves, etc. (Yahuda Series).Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Dūghān Sibṭ al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Badrānī, Thursday 12 re-written Dhū al-Qaʻdah ("khalat min") 846 March 14, 1443, from a copy copied from a copy collated on an autograph copy (fol. 180a, followed by a biographical note on the author and by the words: "Thānī nuskhah min al-Adhkār").Incipit: بسم ... اللهم صل على محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما ابدا الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار مقدر الاقدار مصرف الامور ... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم العزيز الحكيم فاذكروني اذكركمExplicit: قال ليس لاهل الشام حديث اشرف
ff. 86. 182 x 130; 125 x 85 mm. 15 lin. 732 H. ?.Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 580 (8, 4: Kitāb al-mustaghīthīn).The ms. is divided into 4 juzʼ each with special title page and title in the form given above; title page of the first juzʻ and the commencement of the text are missing.Incip. (as extant): ... قال ما ترىد الى دمى شأنك بالمال قال اما المال فلست ارىدThese words agree with ms. Garrett 1893, fol. 2a, lin. 13.
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
Abstract: A collection of hadith with sound isnads and contents and their use for determining correct action.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.الاجزاء من الاول وحتى الرابع من كتاب شفاء الاوام للتمييز بين الحلال والحرامLater additions and repairs dated February 1917. Sale note and multiple reading notes. Includes fragments by ʻAlī ibn Abī ṭālib.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جلدي كبير سقطت منه بعض الأوراق في آخره وتم استبدالها بأوراق أحدث منها. وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرليلة الجمعة 23/صفر/سنة1049هـ; ليلة الخميس الرابع شهر ربع الآخر1049ه; 2/جماد الأول/سنة1049هـ; نهاية نسخ الأوراق المستبدلة من اللقطة رقم (527-534): عشية الأحد لعشر خلت من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة1335هـNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Final pages added later in different hand.31 lines.
ff. 44. 225 x 165; 148 x 100 mm. 21 lin. Muḥarram 1196, Mūsá al-Wakīl al-Damirdāshī; on fol. 2b and 9a autogr. ijāzahs for Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn al-Zajjājī, dat. 1196 and 1197H.The authorʼs name does not appear in the text, but on fol. 2b ult. he refers to his al-Mirqāt al-ʻAlīyah fī sharḥ al-ḥadīth al-musalsal bi-al-awwalīyah.Not identical with Berlin 10253 (Brockelmann, GAL, II, 371, no. 6).Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذي اتصل فضله ... اما بعد فهذه احادىث وآثار واشعار مما املىتها من حفظى ولفظى في زاوىة القطب شمس الدىن ابى محمود الحنفى
ff. 126. 270 x 183; 193 x 120 mm. 31 lin. Shawwāl 947.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 95 (4: no. 1); S II, 87.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى نور قلوب العلماء بمصابىح
ff. 128. 206 x 123; 147 x 59 mm. 25 lin. Rabīʻ II, 1168, Muṣṭafá al-Isbīrī.Alphabetic index of verses: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 431 (20); S II, 455.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى انزل على عبده الکتاب ... وبعد فىقول
Abstract: Collection of texts by the founder of the Shaykhī school, followed by a Persian commentary on the supplication Davāzdah Imām.Binding note: Rebound in green cloth.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-7b: Answer to ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 2. leaves 7b-11a: al-Asʾilah al-Masʻūdīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 3. leaves 11a-12b: al-Risālah al-Zanjīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 4. leaves 12b-16a: Answer to Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sulṭān al-Najafī / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 5. leaves 16a-17a: al-Risālah al-Baḥrānīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 6. leaves 17a-21a: al-Risālah al-Ghadīrīyah / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 7. leaves 21a-24a: Wasāʾil al-himam al-ʻulyā fī jawāb masāʾil al-ruʾyā / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʾī.Contents: 8. leaves 24a-26b: Sharḥ-i Davāzdah Imām-i Khvājah Naṣīr / ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ḥasan Isfahānī.Ms. codex.Physical description: 27 lines per page (text 8, 36 lines); written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and smudging.Origin: 1258 H 1842 or 1843 (leaf 24a).
Copied A.H. 925 A.D. 1519 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Fīshī al-Shāfiʻī.Vol. I, fols. 244; 26.7 x 17.7 cm.; written surface 18.5 x 12.5 cm.; 33 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.Vol. II, fols. 204; 277 x 18 cm.; written surface 19 x 12.5 cm.; 31 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; ruled marginal lines in red in the second volume. The copyist of the first volume is a certain Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm. MS in good condition except worm-eaten and mended; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap. Title on edge of flap of volume I.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
ff. 130. 210 x 145; 175 x 125 mm. 18 lin. 14th cent. (a number of missing leaves suppl. by a later hand).Brockelmann, GAL, I, 440 (18: no. 1); S I, 610.Acephalous - on fol. 1a, lin. 2 begins the second ḥadīth: ... روى عن رسول الله ... من کشف عن اخىه کربه
Abstract: "Abridgement of the author's commentary on al-Ṭughrāʼī's Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam. The commentary is variously known as Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam and Ghayth al-adab alladhī insajama fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam. Brockelmann has misidentified the abridger of the present text as the person who financed the 1897 edition. In this copy the abridgement is ascribed to ʻĀʼishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʻūnīyah by a later hand on leaf 1b. Verses on leaves 1aAbstract: 21b-23a."Binding note: Quarter leather with paper covers.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, lines 6-7.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Text of Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam in red with verses numbered in margins. Repairs to inner margins, marginal insect damage, some staining.Origin: 1 Rabīʻ I 1055 H 27 April 1645 (leaf 21b).Incipit: الحمد لله حق حمده ... وبعد فاني لما وقفت على كتاب غيث الادب الذي انسجم في شرح لامية العجم من تصانيف ... صلاح الدين
Abstract: Short biographies of the great Muslim Imāms and the four orthodox caliphs. It contains the lives of Abū Ḥanīfah 699-767, Mālik ibn Anas 713-795, al-Shāfiʻī 767-820 and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal 780-855, after which occurs a section on the love of God followed by one on the virtues of the four orthodox caliphs. This is followed by a section on the asceticism of Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī, one on the excellences of ʻĀshūrāʼ, one on the birth of the Prophet, one on prayer and a section on the death of the Prophet. Following the colophon, further chapters are added on the Nile, saints, and in eulogy of the Prophet, apparently in the same hand.Binding note: Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-6a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Imām Abū ḤanīfahContents: 2. fol. 6a-10a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Imām al-Mālik ibn Anas.Contents: 3. fol. 10a-15b: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Shāfiʻī.Contents: 4. fol. 15b-19b: Faṣl fi manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.Contents: 5. fol. 20a-29b: Bāb fī maḥabbat Allāh.Contents: 6. fol. 29b-35a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-khulafā al-arbāʻah.Contents: 7. fol. 35a-38b: Faṣl fī manāsik al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Abī ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī.Contents: 8. fol. 38b-40b: Bāb fī faḍl ʻāshūrā.Contents: 9. fol. 40b-45b: Bāb fī mawlid Rasūl Allāh.Contents: 10. fol. 45b-50b: Bāb fī faḍl al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūl Allāh.Contents: 11. fol. 50b-57a: Bāb fī wafāt al-Nabī.Contents: 12. fol. 57b-60b: Faṣl fī dhikr Nīl Miṣr.Contents: 13. fol. 61a-88a: Faṣl fī dhikr al-awliyāʼ al-abrār wa-al-ṣāliḥīn wa-al-fuqarā al-akhyārīn.Contents: 14. fol. 88b-89b: Madīḥ fī al-Nabī ʻ.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Collation: Paper ; fol. 89 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 17-19 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; entries in red, green and yellow ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness and foxed, a few folios are mended.Origin: According to colophon copied 14 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1058 by Burhān al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mubārak al-Dāribī sic al-Baḍghānī (fol. 57a).Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل العلم للعلماء انساب انساباColophon: ووافق الفراغ من تعليق هذا الکتاب المبارك نهار الجمعة رابع عشر الحجة سنة ثمانية وخمسين والف وکتبه الفقير الى الله تعالى برهان الدين بن محمد بن احمد بن مبارك الداربي البضغاني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة والرحمة ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين آمين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Abstract: Arabic-Turkish glossary arranged by the alphabet.Binding note: Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Endbands.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Marginal and interlinear notes in Turkish and Arabic. On the two folios before fol. 1a occur a legend about the destruction of seven atheists, a verse from the Qurʼān (Sūrah II: 263), several autographs of owners, a statement dated 1188, a prayer and some stray writing. Folios 20 and 160 are defective and mended. On the folio after the colophon occur an autograph of an owner and some stray writing. This text is not the same as Hitti no. 288, though it is described as such; however, it is identical to no. 289-290, with the addition of an introduction.Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 160 + (1) ; catchwords ; paginated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 9-25 lines per page ; ruled.Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.Incipit: باب الالف المفتوحة
Abstract: Arabic-Turkish vocabulary arranged alphabetically.Binding note: Later? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Interlinear Arabic and Turkish notes throughout. On the title page is a memorandum of accounts. Between folios two and three are several missing. On the inside of both covers occur some stray writing. This text is not the same as Hitti no. 288, though it is described as such; however, it is identical to no. 289 and 291.Collation: Paper ; fol. 163 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 7-8 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition but stained with dampness; last two folios are defective.Origin: According to colophon copied 1151 by Aḥmad (fol. 163a).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين اذان ال محمد ال ابرهنمColophon: تمت الكتاب بعون الملك والوهاب كتب ضعيف والمحتاج الى رحمة الله ... احمد في سنة 1151
Abstract: Arabic-Turkish glossary arranged alphabetically.Binding note: Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Blind-stamped mandorla. Cover heavily worn and mended.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Marginal and interlinear notes in Arabic and Turkish throughout. Immediately after the colophon and on the page and four folios that follow occur several Turkish words with their explanations and several Turkish notes. On the page before the first occur a charm, several verses of poetry and several traditions. On the inside of both covers occur several verses of poetry, some Turkish statements and other writing. This text is not the same as Hitti no. 288, though it is described as such; however, it is identical to no. 290-291.Collation: Paper ; fol. 185 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 10-11 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition but stained with dampness.Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. باب الالف آذانColophon: تمت اللغات بعون الله الملك الوهاب
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn, and Shīʻī doctrine of imāmate, the later apparently incomplete at end.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible). Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with a floral motif with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of a running pattern and fillets. Rebacked.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-6a: Short excerpts from Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif by Jurjānī; a commentary on Āyat al-Nūr; a text on Wājib al-wujūd; Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ; Ibn Ḥajar; Bayḍāwī.Contents: 2. fol. 6b-7b: Table of contents of Kitāb Arbaʻīn by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, followed by a short biographic note on the author.Contents: 3. fol. 8a: Short excerpt on al-imkān al-khāṣṣ and al-imkān al-ʻāmm; inscriptions in Persian.Contents: 4. fol. 8b-136a: al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.Contents: 5. fol. 136b-182a: al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.Contents: 6. fol. 182b: Blank.Contents: "7. fol. 183a-184a: Short text on God's attributes apparently by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Bakr ibn MuḥammadContents: see end of textContents: fol. 184a)."Contents: '8. fol. 185a-188b: Excerpts from Itqān al-ʻulūm by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī reporting from Ṣawāʼiq al-muḥriqah by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī; Bayḍawī; Sharḥ al-Shmasīyah; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif by Jurjānī.'Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 183a-184a written in thick small naskh. Fol. 8-184 : European glazed paper. Fol. 1-7 and 185-188: fly-leaves on woven paper, with short excerpts written diagonally. Text 1 has been collated (see collation statement dated 17 Jumādá al-Thānī 1116 1704 on the margins of fol. 136a). Short excerpts and annotations on the margins. Long biographic note on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī after the colophon of text 1 (fol. 136a, 11 lines). Between fol. 135 and 136: Text in Persian on a small piece of paper. Some leaves loose.Copy of text 1 completed in 1115 by ʻAlī(?) ibn ʻAlī Akramghār(?) (colophon, fol. 136a).
Abstract: Treatise on principles of kalām in forty chapters (masʼalah, see table of contents on fol. 1a). Incomplete at end (in the middle of Masʼalah 33, see heading fol. 124b).Binding note: Upper cover made of paper pasted on brown leather over pasteboard. Lower cover made of red leather over pasteboard. Rebacked. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 17).25 lines per page. Written in medium small riqāʻ in black ink with use of red. Headings in larger script in black ink. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. A few notes on the margins and on small pieces of paper placed between the fol. of the ms. (between fol. 47 and 48, and fol. 84 and 85). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits a fol. between fol. 121 and 122).Collation: Paper, fol. 128 ; 1-16⁸ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit: سبحان المتفرد فى قيوميته بوجوب الازلية والبقا ... اما بعد فان الله تعالي لما وفقّني حتي صنفت فى اكثر العلوم الدينيةEnd of text as extant: \\\\ كالعلم باحوال العرش والكرسى واللوح والقلم والجنه والنار واطباق السموات واصناف الملايكه
ff. 234 (incompl. at end). 193 x 126; 125 x 62 mm. 19 lin. 17th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 401 (no. 1); S II, 425.Incip.: ... الحمد لله وسلام ... وبعد فلما ىسر الله
Abstract: "Treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: completed on 27 Jumādá II 969 March 1562 (see end of textAbstract: fol. 337a). The text is preceded on fol. 12a-15a by what appears to be a description of contentsAbstract: written by the same hand as the main text (beginning wanting). Fol. 332 is an addition with Abū Ḥanīfah's WaṣāyāAbstract: written by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl in Ṣafar 1145."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Central blind stamped scalloped mandorla filled with a floral arabesque, with two pendants on the vertical axis on covers. Blind stamp on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 17a, l. 5-6).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta. The text is framed within a single line in magenta. Thin dark cream European paper with watermark; some leaves dyed in light yellow or green. Quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-11b. Handmade label with inscriptions on the upper cover. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 12a). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Inscription in Western numerals in pencil on fol. (i)a: "62".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl ibn Muṣṭafá, and completed in the night of Friday 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1143 June 1731 (fol. 337b; the colophon is inscribed within a circle consisting of two lines in red ink).Beginning as extant: الشرع والادد القاعدة الثانية اذا اجمع الحلال والحرام غلب الحرام الحلال وبيان ما يقزع عليها من اشباه ... 15أ ... بسم ... الحمد لله على ما انعم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وبعد فان الفقه اشرف العلوم قدرا واعظمها اجراExplicit: على رأس شجرتين فتقطع نصفين رحمه الله تعالى وهذا آخر ما اوردنا من كتاب الاشباه والنظائر فى الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم ابى حنيفة النعمان ... وكان الفراغ من تأليفه فى السابع والعشرين من جمادى الآخرة سنة تسع وستين وتسعماية وكانت مدة تأليفه ستة اشهر مع تخلّل ايام توعك الجسد والحمد لله ... الى يوم القيام وكتبه مؤلفه بيده الفانية زين بن نجيم الحنفى ... هذا آخر ما قاله المؤلف ... بجاه نبيه محمد ومصطفاه وآله واصحابه ومن والاهBeginning of text fol. 332a: بسم ... قال ابو حنيفة ... لابنه حماد ... يا بنى ارشدك الله تعالى وايدك اوصيك بوصايا ان حفظتها
acephalous first rubʻ (10 kurrāsahs missing at the beginning) containing ṭahārah through ḥajj; ff. 316. 270 x 175; 200 x 125 mm. 33 lin. 16th cen.Commentary on the abridgment of Rawḍat al-ṭālibīn: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 244 (no. 10); S II, 254.Incip.: ... قال ... الحمد لله الذى اظهر لنا ثمر الروض من کمامه
Abstract: Collection of texts in different scripts on the Arabic language, questions of inheritance, poetry, the divisions of the Qurʼān.Binding note: Unbound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-9b: Athmān al-Qurʼān / Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Shaṭṭī.Contents: 2. fol. 10a: Appendix by a later hand.Contents: 3. fol. 11a-12a: Several short texts.Contents: 4. fol. 12b-16a: Kitāb fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd / Muḥammad Ibn Durayd.Contents: 5. fol. 17a-21b: Kitāb al-īdāḥ wa-al-irshād fī ḥall taṣwīr mā yushabbah li-nasab al-nāqah fī bayt Bānat Suʼād / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 6. fol. 22a-30a: Kitāb al-suruj al-muḍīʼah sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-falakīyah fī al-alghāz al-farḍīyah / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 7. fol. 30b-31b: al-Qawāʼid al-farḍīyah / Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Bisāṭī.Contents: 8. fol. 32a-34b: Kitāb ikhtiyār taḍmīkh al-taḍmīn / Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī.Contents: 9. fol. 35b-38a: Khalq al-insān / Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb.Contents: 10. fol. 38b: Excerpt from a poem.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger."The number of lines per page varies. Fol. 17a-31b are from the same hand: 15 lines per pagewritten in a very casual large script in black ink with use of red (autograph). Fol. 32a-38a are from the same hand: 19 lines per pagewritten in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid and chain(?) lines visible ; frame-ruled. Fol. 12-16 are narrower than the rest of the leaves (182 x 125 mm.). Fol. 5-6 (blank) and 10: later paper. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (with a fol. 18bisexplaining the discrepancy with Mach's catalog)."'Two of the texts are autographs written in 794 H. (see colophons fol. 21b30a).'
Abstract: "First volume of a commentary on Bukhārī's collection of ḥadīthsAbstract: comprising the text up to Bāb al-Ishārah fī al-ṣalāh. According to R. MachAbstract: the contents correspond to ed. Cairo (1959)Abstract: vol. 1-vol. 3Abstract: p. 351."Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Physical description: 33 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Collation notes and statements throughout. Occasional marginal annotation (mainly collation notes). Table of contents on fol. 1a, apparently by the same hand as the main text.Origin: According to colophon, copied on Monday 23 Shawwāl 856 Nov. 6, 1452 (fol. 278b).Incipit: الحمد لله الدى شرح صدور اهل الاسلام بالهدى ونكت فى قلوب اولى الطغيان فلا تعى الحكمة ابدا واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده ... اما بعد فقد ان الشرو فى ما قصدت له من شرح الجامع الصحيح على ما وعدت به فى اول المقدمة ... فاقول وبالله التوفيق اتصلت لنا رواية البخارى عنه من طريق ابي عبد الله محمد بن يوسف بن مطر بن صالح بن بشر الفريرى عنهExplicit: خاتمة اشتملت ابواب الشهر من الاحاديث ... عروة الموصول فى اخر الباب ومنها اثر عمر فلا ضربه على الصلوة بعد العصر والله الهادى الى الصواب منه المبدا واليه الماب تم الجزء الاول من فتح البارى لشرح البخارى
ff. 69. 215 x 151; 175 x 110 mm. 21 lin. 13th cen.Fragment of a collection of traditions divided into kitābs (subdiv. into bābs) which follow the usual order of law-books; the peculiarity of this collection is that the last three ruwāh in every isnād are Muḥammads, cf. the passage quoted below.The first complete book extant is kitāb al-wakālah which begins on fol. 1b as follows: ... کتاب الوکالة . باب فى وکالة الشرىك فى القسمة وغىرها . وقد اشرك النبى ... علىا فى هدىة ثم امره بقسمتها . حدثنا محمد قال حدثنا محمد قال حدثنا محمد قال حدثنا قصىبة ... عن على علىه السلام قال امرنى رسول الله ... ان اتصدقThe folio numbers (by a later hand) indicate that 59 leaves are missing at the beginning; there are lacunae after fol. 49 and 59; fol. 46b and 47a are blank; the ms. breaks off in litāb al-jihād wa-al-siyar which begins on fol. 64a.
ff. 184. 322 x 210; 220 x 110 mm. 18 lin. 18th/19th cen. (Imām Shāmil).Brockelmann, GAL, II, 109 (commentary c); S II, 105.Incip.: ... الحمد لله على افضاله ... هذا ما اشتدت الىه حاجة المتفهمىن
mutilus, ff. 215. 270 x 183; 180 x 110 mm. 15 lin. 15th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 144 (3); S II, 147.Incip.: ... استفتح باب العون ... وبعد فانى کنت سئلت ان اجمع ما وقع
ff. 225. 308 x 207; 207 x 109 mm. 20 lin. Shawwāl 997, Jamāl ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Gujarātī.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 144 (3); S II, 147.Incip.: ... استفتح باب العون ... وبعد فانى کنت سئلت ان اجمع ما وقع
ff. 228. 253 x 176; 171 x 121 mm. 23 lin. Ramaḍān 781.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 144 (3); S II, 147.Incip.: ... استفتح باب العون ... وبعد فانى کنت سئلت ان اجمع ما وقع
second rubʻ ff. 196. 305 x 225; 229 x 163 mm. 29 lin.Maghribi. Ramaḍān 995.Commentary on his Jamʻ al-nihāyah: Brockelmann, GAL, I, 166 (Ausz. 1, commentary); S I, 263.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى فتق رتق ظلمات الجهالات
first rubʻ ff. 211. 275 x 210; 230 x 155 mm. 29 lin. Maghribi. 17th/18th cen.Commentary on his Jamʻ al-nihāyah: Brockelmann, GAL, I, 166 (Ausz. 1, commentary); S I, 263.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى فتق رتق ظلمات الجهالات
Abstract: Collection of texts of Arabic literature.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla and an outer frame made of fillets. The envelope flap has a similar frame and a mandorla on its pointe. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-30b: Bard al-akbād fī al-aʻdād / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.Contents: 2. fol. 31a-76a: Tarjamat al-kātib fī ādāb al-ṣāḥib / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.Contents: 3. fol. 77a-111b: Lawʻat al-shākī wa-damʻat al-bākī / Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and green ink. European paper with watermark. Mention in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Sh 441" (repeated on a label pasted on the upper cover).On fol. 1a: Table of contents by a later hand, mentioning a Risālat ʻibrat al-labīb by al-Ṣafadī which does not appear in the copy.Collation: Paper, fol. 111 ; 1-7¹⁰ 8⁶ 9² 10-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (+1, fol. 109) 14² ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
ff. 223. 204 x 150; 150 x 100 mm. 17 lin. 19th cen.An account of his travels, visions, and association with the Rifāʻīyah, with numerous poems.Incip.: ... الحمد لله اتم الحمد ... اما بعد ... هذه کلمات انشقت عنها ستور اسرار
ff. 24. 175 x 128; 128 x 77 mm. 21 lin. Jumādá I, 956.Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 1010 (135a) ascribes this text to ʻUmar al-Maylānī, likewise the mss. in Arabische, türkische und persische Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek in Bratislava, 224 and 225. Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 1012 (154) ascribes it to Mawlānā Yūsuf. ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn, col. 260 attributes this work to Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Kūrānī (d. 768/1366: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 263); Fihris al-kutub al-mawjūdah bi-al-Maktabah al-Azharīyah, III, 545 to Ibn al-ʻArabī (title: Bayān al-asār lil-ṭālibīn al-abrār), see Yaḥyá, Histoire, no. 85.Incip.: ... الحمد لله القادر العلىم ... وبعد فالعلم أشرف منقبة
ff. 24. 220 x 160; 155 x 120 mm. 22 lin. autograph, Muḥarram 757.Concerning qiṣāṣ; divided into unnumbered faṣl; the title appears in the colophon.Incip.: ... اما بعد حمد الله ... فهذه فصول محکمة المبانى ... تضمنت مسائل مهمة الاقتصاص
ff. 189. 245 x 192; 180 x 90 mm. 25 lin. RabīʻI, 1304; collated by Muḥammad Shukrī al-Ālūsī, same date.Brockelmann, GAL, SN II, 420.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى اسهل اسباب السنة
Abstract: "Edifying treatiseAbstract: with examples from the conduct and oaths taking of important shaykhs. At the beginning of the text is a list of Shaʻrānī's shaykhs. The text is followed on fol. 183b-186a by a copy of the ijāzāt given by the ʻUlamāʾ of Egypt to the author."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold stamped and red-painted scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Edges, spine, fore-edge flap mended in red leather.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 2b).Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark; glossy. The text is framed within two single red lines (gold, black, blue and red on fol. 1b-2a). Crudely executed headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b. Subject headings written in black ink by a later hand on the margin. Fol. 181-182 apparently later replacements. Stained with water.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Saturday 12 Ramaḍān 1062 Aug. 17, 1652 (fol. 186a).Incipit: اقول وانا العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربّي عبد الوهاب ابن احمد بن على بن احمد بن كمال الدين بن موسى بن مولاي ابى عبد الله الزغلى بضم الزاي المعجمة وسكون الغين المعجمة سلطان تلمسن بارض المغرب واجل اصحاب سيدنا العارف بالله تعالى الشيخ ابى مدين شيخ مشايخ المغرب ... الحمد لله رب العالمين واصلي واسلم على سيدنا محمد ... واقول حسبى الله ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوى الا بالله العلي العظيم وبعد فهذه عهود ومواثيق اخذت علينا من ساداتنا ومشايخنا الذين عاصرناهم وبعضها اقبسناهاExplicit: ابن حمزه الرملي الانصارى الشافعى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والحمد لله لرب العالمين وصلى الله ... يقول مولفها ... قد ارسلت هذا الكتاب لسيدي الشيخ بن عبد الحق تغمده الله برحمته فمكث عنده سنة ونصفا ومر عليه مرات قال الشيخ ابو اللطف ابن عمه قد استفدت من هذا الكتاب المبارك فوايد كثيرة واخذته المينه قبل كتابته عليه رحمة الله تعالى وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم السبت المبارك ثانى عشر شهر رمضان المبارك سنة اثنين وستين والف احسن الله ختامها بمحمد واله امين امين امين
vol. 1 (rubʻal-ʻibādāt). ff. 395. 301 x 208; 233 x 135 mm. 35 lin. Rabīʻ II, 1099.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 252 (commentary 7); S II, 266.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى دبرالانام بتدبىره القوى
vol. 1 (rubʻal-ʻibādāt). ff. 349. 300 x 215; 193 x 115 mm. 33 lin. Shaʻbān 996.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 252 (commentary 7); S II, 266.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى دبرالانام بتدبىره القوى
vol. 2 (nikāḥ-bāb qaṭʻ al-ṭarīq). ff. 321. 300 x 205; 230 x 132 mm. 39 lin. 17th/18th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 252 (commentary 7); S II, 266.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى دبرالانام بتدبىره القوى
Incip.: ... الحمد لله الموفق لطلب العلم وتحصىلهvol. 1 (ṭahārah-farāʼiḍ). ff. 255. 265 x 181; 175 x 116 mm. 30 lin. 15th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 681 (commentary 16b).
Incip. (after isnād): ... قال الحمد لله ... وقفت ادام الله توفىقك ... على ما سألت عنه من حدىث ام زرعff. 19 (incompl. at end). 210 x 120; 170 x 83 mm. 19 lin. 13th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 456 (no. 4).
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.
Physical description: Inside the rim is Sūrah 108 of the Qurʾān in blue and at the bottom is Sūrah 112 in brown. On the outside is Sūrah 108 written in blue again, and the rest of the writing contains many repetitions of "lā ilāha illā Allāh" and "Allāhu akbar." Aside from the minor firing fault at the lip, it is in excellent condition.Origin: Likely made in China for the Islamic market in the 18th century.
Fols. 156; 20 x 14.6 cm.; written surface 15.3 x 8.9 cm.; 17 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:(1) A treatise on Christian theology entitled al-Burhān fī tathbīt al-īmān, a translation by ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʻAbd Allāh, the son of the bishop of Antioch, from the original Greek text of Sophronius, known as Fam al-Masīḥ, d. after A.D. 637. The treatise gives a resumé of the work of the first six church councils and the fundamentals of the Christian faith.Beg.: بسم الله ... کتاب البرهان في تثبىت الاىمان وهوColophon: فهذا ما انعم به علىنا واهب الخىرات المسىح الاهنا تعالى وفتح فانا لامانة البرهان على الاراء الصحىحة السلىمة وابادة فساد المذاهب الوخىمة الذي له المجد مع الاب والروح القدس الان ودائما الى اباد الدهور کلها امىن(2) A treatise on celibacy entitled Maqālah sābiʻah wa-tisʻīn fī-al-batūlīyah by Yūḥannā al-Dimashqī (John of Damascus) d. before A.D. 754.(3) Another treatise on celibacy entitled Risālah fī faḍīlat al-ʻiffah ʻan al-jimāʻ by Īliyā, bishop of Nusaybin (Turkey), sent to his brother, Abū Saʻīd Manṣūr ibn ʻĪsá. In this treatise the author refutes a saying about the impossibility of refraining from sexual intercourse stated in Kitāb al-Ḥayawān of al-Jāḥiẓ, A.H. 255 A.D. 868/9.(4) A treatise on the pre-determination of oneʼs age and provision for living, in the form of an answer to a question put to the Anbā Būluṣ, by Fakhr al-Dawlah ibn Yalmūs al-Kabūrī when the former was about to be ordained bishop of Cairo.Beg.: بسم الله ... مسألة سألها الشىخ فخر الدولة بن ىلموسColophon: تم جواب القدىس انبا بولص والسبح لله دائما. تم(5) A sermon about the cure for sorrow entitled Ṭibb al-ghamm wa-shifāʼ al-ḥuzn wa-al-hamm. The place for the name of the author is left blank.(6) A sermon on the text, ʻʻThere was a certain householder which planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and digged a winepress in it and built a towerʼʼ, Matthew 21:33.(7) A treatise on the computation of the cycles of the sun and the moon entitled Ḥisāb al-kuklus al-shamsī wa-al-qamarī. The treatise calculates the time of fasts and feasts and other ecclesiastical occasions from the year 7160 7215 of the creation.(8) A poem about the events that happened in Aleppo A.H. 1065 A.D. 1655 by ʻUbayd Allāh.MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: "Collection of texts on inheritance law along with a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's arithmetical treatiseAbstract: Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār. Note in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 136b."Contents: 1. fol. 1b-35a: Bāb masāʼil al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-wilāʼ.Contents: 2. fol. 35a-42b: Risālat al-mūṣá la-hu.Contents: 3. fol. 42b-58b: Faṣl fī ʻamal al-munāsakhah bi-al-jadwal wa-yusammá al-Shubbāk aydan.Contents: 4. fol. 58b-67b: Jāmiʻ al-aḥkām fī aṣnāf dhawī al-arḥām.Contents: 5. fol. 67b-69a: Risālah imtiḥānīyah. Concerning Islamic inheritance law.Contents: 6. fol. 69b: Hadith quoted from Sharḥ Mashāriq al-anwār.Contents: 7. fol. 71b-136a: Sharḥ Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār.Contents: 8. fol. 137b-141a: Manẓūmah fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ ʻalá madhhab al-Imām Zayd. Poem on inheritance law according to the Zaydī school.Contents: 9. fol. 141b-142a: Bab ul-ebyat li-ahval il-erbain. Poem on inheritance law in Ottoman Turkish.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: 17-25 lines per page; texts 8-9 in two columns. Written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Numerous charts and diagrams. Some dampstaining and foxing; fol. 136 partially torn away. Ms. appears to have been written by a single hand with the exception of texts 8-9 which appear to be later additions. Fol. 70a-71a, 137a, 142b blank.
Abstract: A collection of poems in eulogy of the Prophet and his family and on Ṣūfī love by various authors. Incomplete at the beginning.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue-green patterned paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Stray writing on the upper cover pastedown and the lower cover.Collation: Paper ; fol. 119 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 9 lines per page.Description: Watermarks ; MS in good condition.Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 20 Shawwāl 1198 by the redactor, Saʻd ibn Rajab ʻAntar al-Ṭālibī al-Shāfiʻī al-Shādhilī (fol. 119a).Incipit: تم کلام سيدي الحباكColophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذا المجموع في يوم الاثنين العشرين في شهر شوال سنة 1198 على يد کاتبها الفقير سعد ابن رجب عنتر الطالبي بلدا الشافعي مذهباً الشاذلي طريقة غفر الله له ولوالديه امين. تم
Abstract: A collection of verse and prose containing selections from the Kitāb alif bāʼ of Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī al-Andulusī, known as Ibn al-Shaykh, 576 1180/1; from the Kitāb al-Aghānī of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, 356 967; from Nahj al-Balāghah of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá 355-436 965/6-1044/5; and from the Kitāb Muthīr al-ʻAzm al-Sākin, attributed to Ibn al-Jawzī 510-597 1116/7-1200/1.Binding note: Contemporaneous? binding in brown leather in oblong or safīnah format. Blind-stamped mandorla and decorative tooled edging. Endbands. Lower edge of covers have evidence that there used to be a fastener.Collation: Paper ; fol. 29 + (55) ; catchwords.Description: Written in naskhi ; after the colophon are 54 blank folios ; watermarks (shield topped by a crown with letters underneath) ; MS in good condition.Final 4 folios contain twelve verses of poetry by Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī al-Ṭulayṭilī al-Andulusī, written by al-Qāḍī Aḥmad Qāṭin, a fāʼidah explaining the origin of the enmity between the dog and the cat, and recording the birth of two children in 1239 and 1240.Layout: 23-21 lines per page ; written on a slight slant ; text runs parallel with back of cover.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Colophon: لله دره. الله سبحنه سبحانه يرحم الضعفIncipit: نبذة من کلام الصاحب اسماعيل بن عباد تجري مجرى الامثال
Copied A.H. 1138 A.D. 1725/6 by the author ?.Fols. 69; 22.3 x 16.8 cm.; written surface 15 x 7.8 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in clear naskhi; with catchwords; headings in red.A collection of stories and wise sayings on religious, moral and social topics.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله الذي دبرامورنا من فضله وکرمهColophon: جمعها وکتبها بخطﻪ العبد الضعىف المذنب المحتاج الى عفو ربه الغني المصطفى القىرالشهري المتوطن بمرعش غفرالله له ولوالدىه ولجمىع المؤمنىن والمؤمنات بالطافه الواسعات في سنة ثمان وثلاثىن ومائة والف تارىخ سنة 1138Marginal notes and glosses. On page before the first is the basmalah; evidently the copyist intended to begin the MS on this page. After the colophon is a statement that this copy was made in A.H. 1150 A.D. 1737/8. MS in fair condition.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: A collection of stories containing: the story of the Shaykh al-Ḥadabī and Hārūn al-Rashīd; a story about some merchants; the tale of the Shaykh Shams al-Dīn and what befell him with the wisest man; the story of ʻAlī al-Jazzār; also two short paragraphs on magic with magic square diagrams.Binding note: Later? type III (without flap) binding in thick paper.Contents: 1. 1a-12b: Hādhihi Ḥikāyat al-Shaykh al-Ḥadabī maʻa Hārūn al-RashīdContents: 2. fol. 12b-14b: Miscellany including magic squareContents: 3. fol. 15a-18a: Miscellany including magic and a tale of some merchantsContents: 4. fol. 18b-25b: Hādhihi qiṣṣat al-fatá Shams al-Dīn wa-mā jara la-hu maʻa aṣlaḥ al-nāsContents: 5. fol. 25b-34b: Qiṣṣat ʻAlī al-Jazzār wa-mā jarā la-hu maʻa Malik BuʻdādCollation: Paper ; fol. ii + 35 ; catchwords.Description: Written in Maghribi ; rubricated ; final folio replaced by a later hand written in naskhi ; watermarks (crescents?) ; MS in fair condition.Layout: 17-19 lines per page.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Colophon: حكايت الشيخ الحدبي ... والفرق بين الجماعات وهو ملك الموت منوعات 1 تمت بحمد الله وحسن عونه وتوفيقه على يد الفقير الى ربه عبد الله له والم...ين امين امين امين امين امين امين منوعات 2 انتهى الكتاب المبارك سنة تم وصحح وكمل قصة الفتى شمس الدين لتمام والكمال والحمد لله على كل حال تمت صحح تمت قصة علي الجزار تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله على کل کل حال. امين امين ام مIncipit: حكايت الشيخ الحدبي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد منوعات 1 فبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد منوعات 2 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد قصة الفتى شمس الدين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد قصة علي الجزار بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد
Fols. 38; 17.5 x 13.6 cm.; written surface 13 x 10 cm.; 23 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red; with rubrications.A collection containing:1. ʻAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī, a tract on the articles of faith by al-Ṭaḥāwī, A.H. 321 A.D. 933. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 216; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1938.2. al-Sawād al-aʻẓam, a compendium of theology based on 62 questions and answers, by Abū al-Qāsim Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-ḥakīm al-Samarqandī, A.H. 342 A.D. 953.According to the MS the author is al-Bukhārī, A.H. 256 A.D. 870. Cf. ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 629; Brock. I, p. 174.3. al-Hidāyah min al-iʻtiqād, a commentary by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī, fl. ca. A.H. 720 A.D. 1320/1, on Badʼ al-amālī, an ode on the articles of faith by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Ūshī, fl. ca. A.H. 569 A.D. 1173/4. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 559; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2409.MS in good condition; Arabic binding. Probably from XVth century.Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Copied A.H. 1264 A.D. 1848 by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Jād Allāh.Fols. 442; 24 x 16.8 cm.; written surface 16.5 x 9.8 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:1. A work on judicial decisions according to ḥanafite law, entitled Kitāb Jāmiʻ lil-masāʼil al-muhimmāt fī al-aḥkām muʻīn li-man ibtulī bi-faṣl al-khuṣūmāt min al-fuḍalāʼ al-kirām, by Ibrāhīm ibn ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad Bīrīzādah al-ḥanafī, A.H. 1099 A.D. 1688.2. Another work on judicial decisions according to ḥanafite law, entitled Wāqiʻāt al-muftīn, by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Yūsuf al-ḥanafī al-ḥalabī, A.H. 1107 A.D. 1695/6 (see Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 120, 148). Printed in Būlāq, A.H. 1301 A.D. 1883/4.3. A short treatise on the judicial decisions concerning paying a fine for wounds, entitled al-ʻArūs al-ʻalawīyah fī al-ʻurūsh al-sharʻīyah, followed by another discussing the legitimacy of wearing silk by men, entitled Niʻmat al-qadīr fī-mā yaḥillu lil-rajul min al-ḥarīr, both by Muḥammad Ṭāhir Sunbul.A few marginal notes and glosses. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Fols. 98; 21 x 14.5 cm.; written surface 15.5-16 x 9-9.5 cm.; 18-19 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.A collection containing:1. A short treatise on syntax entitled ḥudūd al-naḥw.2. An ode by Diʻbil al-Khuzāʻī, A.H. 246 A.D. 860. The ode was recited before ʻAlī ibn Mūsá al-Riḍā, A.H. 202 A.D. 817. See Aghānī XVIII, p. 42.3. al-Fawāʼid, a work on theology by Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī. The copy was made in A.H. 1231 A.D. 1816 by ʻAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥsāʼī.4. A commentary on Sūrah LIII:9 by ʻAlī Naqi ibn Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī.5. A commentary by the same al-Aḥsāʼī on a Ṣūfī work by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jīlānī. The copy was made in A.H. 1231 A.D. 1816 by ʻAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥsāʼī.A few marginal notes. MS in fair condition; Arabic leather binding; blind stamped.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Copied A.H. 577 A.D. 1181.Fols. 57; 16.4 x 12.3 cm.; written surface 12.5 x 9 cm.; 12-13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi.A collection containing:1. al-Tanqīb ʻalá mā fī al-Maqāmāt min al-gharīb, a glossary of the uncommon words in the Maqāmāt (assemblies) of al-ḥarīrī, A.H. 516 A.D. 11 22/3 by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad ibn Ẓafar al-Ṣaqalī, A.H. 565 A.D. 1170. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 60.Copy incomplete at beginning.2. A fragment of a commentary on the Maqāmāt of al-ḥarīrī explaining the difficult terms, by Abū al-Barakāt ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn al-Anbārī, 577 A.D. 1181. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 62.Copy incomplete at end. Name of author inserted by a later hand. MS in good condition; modern Arabic cloth binding. One of the oldest in the collection.Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Fols. 48; 18 x 13-13.5 cm.; written surface 12.2-15 x 9-11 cm.; 19-25 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:1. ḥilyat al-ṭirāz fī ḥall masāʼil al-alghāz, a treatise on singular cases in jurisprudence by Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Zayd al-Khuzāʻī al-ḥanbalī al-Maqdisī, who flourished ca. A.H. 873 A.D. 1468/9. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5010. Copy was made A.H. 859 A.D. 1455 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maqdisī.2. A short note on oaths and divorce by Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah, A.H. 728 A.D. 1328.3. A discussion on the tradition inna aghbaṭa awliyāʼī ʻindī...4. al-Muʻīn ʻalá fiʻl sunnat al-talqīn, a manual on the liturgical instructions and prayers over the dead in preparation for the catechism by Munkar and Nakīr, by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as al-Nājī, A.H. 900 A.D. 1495. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 644. Copy is probably from XVIIth century.5. Risālah fī al-daʻwah bi-al-majhūl, a discussion of 70 legal cases by ʻAlam al-Dīn Ṣālih al-Bulqīnī, A.H. 868 A.D. 1464. Copy probably from XVIth century.6. A treatise on the ʻIrāqī and Syrian (Shaʼmī) system of weights. The copy was made in A.H. 966 A.D. 1558/9 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kurdī.MS in fair condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Copied A.H. 1121 A.D. 1709 by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muṣṭafá Qarah Qāḍī.Fols 104; 20.3 x 13.7 cm.; written surface 15.5 x 8 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:1. Murshid al-mutaʼahhil, a manual for married life and the mutual duties of parents and children, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Iznīqī, A.H. 821 A.D. 1418. See Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 493; cf. Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2052.2. Īqāẓ al-nāʼimīn, a short treatise asserting that piety and good works for utilitarian ends are void and bad, by Muḥammad ibn Pīr ʻAlī al-Bīrkilī, A.H. 981 A.D. 1573. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8842. On the two folios after the colophon is a fragment of a religious work.3. Dhukhr al-mulūk, a short work extolling the just ruler, condemning the despot and offering advice to potentates, by Muḥammad ibn Pīr ʻAlī al-Bīrkilī. Also known as Naṣīḥat al-mulūk.4. A fragmentary work on religious propriety. The work is incomplete at the beginning.5. al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf, a treatise refuting the idea that the last judgment would fall at the end of a thousand years from the time of Muḥammad. The author is given as Ibn Kamāl Pāshā, A.H. 940 A.D. 1533/4, while in fact the author is al-Suyūṭī, A.H. 911 A.D. 1505. See Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 211/2; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2753 ff.6. Waṣāyā al-Nabī, a collection of exhortations by the Prophet addressed to the Caliph ʻAlī.7. Anwār qudsīyah fī asrār rūḥīyah, an abridgment of earlier works on prayer, worship and the other religious duties. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3554.8. Ḥadāʼiq al-muʼminīn wa-riyāḍ al-muttaqīn, a summary of various earlier works on prayers, ablutions, and ceremonials.MS in fair condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: A collection of short excerpts including hadith, sayings of the four caliphs, Arabic grammar, and virtues of those named Aḥmad or Muḥammad.Binding note: Later binding. Covered in violet paper with yellow and black pattern.Contents: 1. fol. 1: Quotations from the sayings of the first four caliphs and others; a few traditions with Turkish commentsContents: 2. fol. 2: Discussion on the particles kay, matá and laʻallá based on the opinions of different grammariansContents: 3. fol. 3-4: Discussion on the virtues of those whose names are either Aḥmad or MuḥammadMs. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Marginal notes and glosses. The first folio is slightly smaller and by a different hand. MS in good condition.Collation: Paper ; fol. 4 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 14-22 lines per page.Description: Written in naskhi and Fārisī ; vowel signs on fol. 1 ; MS in good condition.Origin: According to colophon copied 29 Shaʻbān 894 (fol. 4b).
Copied A.H. 1264-67 A.D. 1848-1851 by Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad Falyūzī.Fols. 76; 21.7 x 15.8 cm.; written surface 16 x 9.7 cm.; 21 lines to page; on European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.A collection containing:1. Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, an anti-Christian polemical treatise by a convert, originally a Franciscan friar from Majorca, followed by several notes.2. A treatise containing answers to questions on eschatological matters by al-Ghazzālī, A.H. 505 A.D. 1111 entitled Ajwibat al-masāʼil. This work is also known as al-Ajwibah al-Ghazzālīyah fī al-masāʼil al-Uukhrawīyah. Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1303, 1309.3. A treatise refuting the doctrines of the Jews, establishing the prophethood of Muḥammad and showing the words that have been changed in the Bible, entitled al-Risālah al-hādiyah, by ʻAbd al-Salām al-Muhtadī al-Muḥammadī (see Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 456/7.Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; ruled marginal lines in red. On back of the last page and on the following are several notes about the prophecies concerning Muḥammad in the Bible. MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Copied A.H. 922 A.D. 1516.Fols. 55; 18.1 x 13.5 cm.; written surface 13.5 x 9 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.A collection containing:1. A short treatise on the relative merits of prayer and fasting. The authorʼs name appears only in part, since the first folio is defective, the part appearing being Abū ʻAbd Allāh Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Imām...2. A fāʼidah relative to the circumambulation of the Kaʻbah and the kissing of the Black Stone, by al-Adhraʻī, perhaps Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad, A.H. 783 A.D. 1381.3. A collection of judicial opinions by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī, A.H. 805 A.D. 1403.A few marginal notes. The last folio bears a fāʼidah written in A.H. 1002 A.D. 1593/4. MS in fair condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Fols. 222; 19.5-20 x 14.4-14.8 cm.; written surface 13.5-15 x 7.5-9 cm.; 13-21 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi and Fārisi; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:1. Risālah jāmiʻah li-zubdat ʻaqāʼid ahl al-sunnah wa-al-jamāʻah, a work on Muslim creed and doctrine by ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl ibn Yūsuf al-Qūnawī, A.H. 729 A.D. 1329. The copy was made in Diyārbakr A.H. 1123 A.D. 1711/2 by ʻAlī ibn ḥusayn ibn ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-ʻAwfī al-Ṭarabzūnī.2. al-Risālah al-sharīfah al-tartībīyah, a short work on Muslim creed and doctrine by Najjārʹzādah, described as a former mufti in Adana. The copy was made by the same copyist as the previous work in A.H. 1121 A.D. 1709/10.3. ʻUmdat al-ʻaqāiʼd, a statement of the articles of Muslim faith by Hāfiẓ al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī, A.H. 710 A.D. 1310/1. This is based on ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafī, a work on the same subject by Najm al-Dīn al-Nasafī, A.H. 537 A.D. 1142. For the present work see ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 261; A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 434. It has been edited by Cureton (for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, London, A.D. 1843) under the title ʻUmdat ʻaqīdat ahl al-sunnah wa-al-jamāʻah. The copy belongs probably to the XVIIIth century.4. Minaḥ al-azhar, a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥamad al-Qārī al-Harawī, A.H. 1014 A.D. 1606 on al-Fiqh al-akbar, a treatise on jurisprudence by Abū ḥanīfah, A.H. 150 A.D. 767. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 458/9, VI, p. 182; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1931. Probably from XVIIIth century.Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Collection is in different hands and on different kinds of paper. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding; blind stamped on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Fols. (1) 8, (2) 9, (3) 6; (1) 17.5 x 13.3 cm., (2) 18.5 x 13.4 cm., (3) 18.5 x 14 cm.; written surface (1) 14.2 x 9.5 cm., (2) 14.5 x 10 cm., (3) 16 x 10.5 cm.; (1) 19, (2) 14-21, (3) 17-23 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords in the third only.(1) Laws and regulations for ablution and purification.(2) A eulogy addressed to al-Qāḍī... al-Dīn al-Nashāʼī; another to al-Qāḍī Muḥyī al-Dīn, commander of the army in Egypt; three verses by al-Aṣmaʻī A.D. 739-831; a few verses by the unknown copyist; a long ode by Shihāb al-Dīn, son of the preacher of al-Manṣūrīyah; another by al-Ẓahīr al-Aʻraj; several riddles in verse; a felicitation in verse addressed to Sharaf al-Dīn al-Sharbashī on being appointed deputy-judge in Damascus, by ʻAbd Allāh al-Nābulusī the owner of the MS; and a Muwashshaḥ.(3) Poems of eulogy and on wine. One of the eulogies is dated A.H. 644 A.D. 1246/7 and another is addressed to al-Malik al-Manṣūr of ḥamāh, probably al-Manṣūr II Muḥammad, of the Ayyūbid dynasty of ḥamāh who reigned A.H. 642-683 A.D. 1244-1284.Beg.: (1) ابن عمر انه قال کان الرجال(2) اذا قال فىها المادحون(3) قد علق القرط في ذاكEnding: (1) ما لا ىوکل لحمه کالبغال(2) فابقى في العمر الا القلىل(3) ابکى لحبل وصالنا المقطوعThe fragments may all belong to XVIth century. Folios loose and foxed. On the back of the last folio of the third fragment are magical charms and scribblings.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Contents: 1. fol. 1b-12a: Persian treatise on the quadrant. Begins with faṣl dar alqāb-i khuṭūṭ-i rubʻ; dated 1096 H.Contents: 2. fol. 13b-31a: Risālat Kashf al-rayb fī al-ʻamal bi-al-jayb.Contents: 3. fol. 32b-40a: Risālah fī al-rubʻ al-mujayyab.Contents: 4. fol. 40b-51a: Mukhtaṣar dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb. A Persian treatise on the astrolabe compiled from the works of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭusī; in 20 bāb.Contents: 5. fol. 51b-53b: Ikhtiṣār mā yataʻallaqu bi-abwāb ʻamal al-layl wa-al-nahār bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab.Contents: 6. fol. 54b-61b: Risālah fī al-rubʻ al-mujayyab.Contents: 7. fol. 62b-67a: Bu risale amal-ı nücumu beyanindadir rub-i daire. Turkish treatise on the quadrant in 14 faṣl.Contents: 8. fol. 67b-77b: Işbu risale rub-i dair vaz edip cüzüsünün tarikindadir. Turkish treatise on the quadrant.Contents: 9. fol. 77b-81a: Risālah fī maʻrifat al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt.Contents: 10. fol. 81a-82a: Definitions of astronomical terms. In Arabic; followed by an extract on the astrolabe in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 82a.Contents: 11. fol. 84b-99b: Ahval-ı sahife-yi ceyb. Turkish treatise on the sine quadrant in 21 faṣl.Contents: 12. fol. 100b-131b: Risālat al-kurah.Contents: 13. fol. 132a-136a: Risālah fī al-kurah dhāt al-kursī.Ms. composite codex.
Fols. 171; 19 x 13.5 cm.; written surface 15 x 11 cm.; 15 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; entries and headings in red; green asterisks.MS in very poor condition; badly worm-eaten. Arabic leather binding with flap. Probably from XVIIth century.Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Fols. 350; 11 x 7.7 cm.; written surface 8.5 x 6.5 cm.; 9 lines to page on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in green and red.A safīnah on the tenets of the Druze religion, together with moral exhortations; Muslim anecdotes, some of which are of classical origins, and several Druze fatwas. The first tract is by al-Amīr ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān al-Tanūkhī, the foremost Druze commentator.Beg.: المرحوم الامىر جمال الدىن عبد الله بن الامىر ...Ending: ...تجري فاذا برجل ىعدواMS incomplete at beginning and end; in fair condition; worm-eaten and foxed. Arabic leather and cloth binding; blind stamped. Probably from XVIIIth century.Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Abstract: A rare and largely unpublished collection of Sufi texts, all in Arabic with the exception of text 8, which is in Ottoman Turkish. Pages inbetween texts (fol. 1a-3a, 31b-32a, 51a, 140b-141a, 117b-118a, 150b-153b) include Persian poems on mystical and Shiʻite subjects, entries in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, and ownership entries.Binding note: Leather binding blind-tooled with floral motifs, with flap; rubbed and front hinge cracked.Contents: 1. fol. 3a-28b: Hādhā al-kitāb Waṣāyāyi qudsīyah.Contents: 2. fol. 28b-31a: A treatise on the ten principles for the purification of the soul, by Abū al-Najīb al-Kubrá al-Khīwafī.Contents: 3. fol. 32b-48b: Mishkāt al-miṣbāḥ fī bayān awrād al-masāʾ wa-al-ṣabāḥ.Contents: 4. fol. 49a-50b: A short treatise on the sayings of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʻAī al-Bisṭāmī.Contents: 5. fol. 51b-117a: Ḥadāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq.Contents: 6. fol. 118b-140a: Kitāb al-Tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd.Contents: 7. fol. 141b-148b: Asrār Manāqib al-abrār.Contents: 8. fol. 149a-150a: Hāz̲ā Aṭvār-i qalb haft kūnah ast.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: 19-23 lines per page; written in naskhī script in black on thick laid paper. Chapter titles in red; keywords overlined in red. Many glosses and Persian verses added in the margins. The sixth text, al-Tajrīd, is written in a fine naskhī on thinner paper. A few words smudged, some pages browned, some margins dampstained, and two quires loose.Text 2 was copied by Aḥmad ibn Ilyās ibn Ṭūrmush (fol. 31); he may also be the copiest for text 1 as the texts appear to be written by the same hand.