Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 723,2).Date and name of copyist in colophon: tammat hādhihi risālah ... ʻalá yad kātibihā al-faqīr ilá Allāh ... Muḥammad ʻIrāqī al-Shiblanjī[?] ... wa-kāna dhālik fī 24 Rabīʻ al-awwal sanat 98[0?] [4 August 1572?].For another copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 835,11.Pp. [4-24]. Bound with: Risālah mukhtaṣarah fī al-rubʻ al-mashhūr bi-al-muqanṭarāt, pp. [24-30]."A treatise on the use of the sinuated quadrant."
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 578Origin: As appears below colophon on p.167, transcription likely completed 905 [1499 or 1500], with the date given in numerals (numeral khamsah looking like an inverted 'B' and numeral ṣifr looking like a closed hāʼ) ; paper, etc. and birth notices on p.168 are consistent with this dating. Colophon indicates that the copy was executed by the owner, one ʻAlī ibn ʻAbdī [?] (علي بن عبدي), though the text of the colophon seems to read "...وقع الفراغ في اول رجب سنه و تسعون [؟] و خمس مائة" indicating first of Rajab 591 [ca. 11 June 1195] as a date of completion. This may represent a mistake on the part of the copyist with "... اول رجب سنه خمس وتسعمائة ..." (or something to that effect) being the intended reading. In such a case the copy may be dated to 1 Rajab 905 [ca. Febrary 1500]. Alternatively, the colophon may have been copied verbatim from another manuscript.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4) -- c. Numerous inserts carrying glosses (pp.11-12, 39-40, 49-50, 51-52, 57-58, 59-60, 111-112, 153-154, 155-158 [bifolium]).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 160" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi 4), along with tooled border in a series of rules ; sewn in dull pink or beige thread, two stations ; endbands virtually gone though traces of headband remain ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, some pest damage, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) grouped in threes with 8-10 mm. between chains and 34-49 mm. between groups (see p.66, etc.) ; fairly thick, dense and sturdy, quite well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; written area of first few leaves surrounded by red rule-border (through p.19) ; numerous diagrams (in red and black ink) tracing inheritance arranged artistically in margins.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Turkish [?] hand ; serifless with tilt to the right and slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, freely ligatured ; colophon in script approaching taʻlīq.Layout: Written in 3-5 lines per page, with allowance for extensive interlinear and marginal glosses arranged artisitically in geometric shapes ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 IV(64), III+1 (71), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," reads " تمت الكتاب بحمد الله وحسن توفيقه على يد عبد الضعيف المذنب [؟] الى رحمة الله تعالى وقع الفراغ في تاريخ اول رجب سنة وتسعون وخمس مائة [؟] صاحبه ومالكه علي بن عبدي [؟] تاريخ سنة 905 [؟]"Explicit: "يرث بعضهم من بعض الا مما ورث كل واحد منهم من مال صاحبه"Incipit: "الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير البرية محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم تعلموا الفرائض وعلموها الناس ..."Title from inscription on upper board lining.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the celebrated work on the law of inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī (fl. 12th cent.), with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 493Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. would suggest mid to late 17th or even early 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 39c" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in dark blue and salmon) with dark brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap, envelope flap now lost) ; board linings in lavender or indigo paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled border in a series of striated s-shaped stamps ; sewn in cream or light yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light yellow and light rose, losses to head and tail ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather and paper, loss of envelope flap, fore edge flap detaching, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (vertical), crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.20, compare no.147 in Regourd, Catalogue cumulé des bibliothèques de manuscrits de Zabid, fascicule 1 and nos. 273 and 286 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, v.1), and "Z" and "Vd" with trefoil countermarks (see pp.18, 30, 74, etc., again compare Nikolaev nos. 273 and 276, as well as 198, 218, 282, 339 and Regourd, no.148) ; glazed (to glossy) and well-burnished, sturdy and fairly crisp.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated ; occasional textual dividers in the form of inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish or 'Syrian' hand ; virtually serifless (though occasional head-serifs do irregularly appear) with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, rounded with curvilinear descenders, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, open and closed counters.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 10 V(100), III-1 (105), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Explicit: "قلت لانه اعجبه الحديثان اوهما [اولهما] من باب الوعظ بمخالفة الهوى ومتابعة الشرع وثانيهما ترغيب في الدعاء فزاد خيرا وهذا اخر ما اوردناه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا امين م"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام العلامة الرحلة بقية المجتهدين ... عز الدين محمد بن جماعة بعد حمدا لله والصلوة والسلام الاتمان الاكملان على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه هذا شرح حسن على الاربعين النواوي رحمة الله تعالى على مصنفها في احاديث النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم مسمى بالتبيين في شرح الاربعين ..."Title from opening matter (author's preface) on p.9.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the commentary by ʻIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Ibn Jamāʻah (d.1416) on Kitāb al-Arba‘īn, or al-Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah, a well-commented collection of 40 traditions selected by Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d.1233).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 103Origin: As appears in colophon on p.438, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kharyūtī [?]. Transcription finished ("tammat kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah...") in Qusṭanṭinīyah (Istanbul) toward the end of Rajab 1116 [November 1705].Accompanying materials: Slips carrying notes (paginated pp.29-30, pp.113-114, pp.123-124).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 124. Commentary on legal work (al-Taudih?)."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with red-brown leather on spine, fore-edge flap and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; envelope flap covered in marbled paper with floral designs ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, rarely intact and nearly all quires are loose ; endbands virtually gone ; in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather and fore-edge flap lining, envelope flap detaching from fore-edge flap, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs in various leathers.Support: European laid paper of mainly two types ; first type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal), horn in scrollwork watermark (compare Heawood 2680, etc.), burnished but not very smooth ; second type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 18-20 mm. apart (horizontal), as well as watermark with crown, a bar carrying initials "A G" and grapes, very well-burnished and fairly smooth.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviations rubricated ; occasional overlining in red ; written area (through p.67) surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; neat, compact Ottoman hand ; virtually serifless ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; mainly closed counters ; pointing for two dots in the form of rounded inverted caret ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 V (20), I (22), 19 V(212), IV-1 (219) ; chiefly quinions ; final three leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (opening leaf carries ٦۱) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وتمت كتابة هذه النسخة الشريفة على يد الضعيف محمد ابن الحاج علي الخريوتي في بلدة قسطنطنية في اواخر شهر رجب في سنة سبع عشرة ومائة والف والحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه واله تم"Explicit: "لسلوك طريق الهدى انه ولي العصمة ومنه الهداية الى سواء الطريق وقد اتفق صبيحة يوم الثلثين من شهر مبارك الرمضان [كذا] سنة خمس وسبعين وثمانمائة [كذا] فراغ بنان البيان ... والحمد لله على نعمه العظام ومنحه الجسام والصلوة على نبيه محمد واله اصحابه البررة الكرام"Incipit: "اذا استعملت في النكاح لان العوض يجب بنفسه فيصير بمنزلة هبة عين في يد الموهوب ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Acephalous copy of al-Taftāzānī’s commentary on al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ, itself a commentary on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl both by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346), on uṣūl al-fiqh. Discrepancy in the date within the explicit/authorial colophon may be attributed to scribal error.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 75Origin: As appears in colophon p.714, copied by Muḥammad Yakan Muftīʻzādah (Mehmet Yeğen Muftizade). Transcription finished ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh ʻan taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb...") mid-Ramaḍān 1223 [November 1808].Accompanying materials: a. Detailed table of contents on unsewn quinion of European wove paper tucked inside upper cover (paginated pp.1-20) -- b. Single bifolium with gloss/excerpt (paginated pp.299-302).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 25. Commentary on Tankih al-usul."Binding: Pasteboards now faced in marbled paper (blue, yellow, white, etc.) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins dark brown leather (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures and doublure hinges in brown leather ; evidence of stamped mandorla under marbled paper facing on upper and lower covers ; decorative tooling on edges/turn-ins and fore-edge flap ; envelope flap in black leather with stamped and gold and red painted mandorla and cornerpieces, lined in marbled paper (blue, brown, yellow) ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; chevron endbands in dark brown/black and cream, in good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc. ; several repairs.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart ; watermarks include bird on pedestal with "C B" above and large lion passant ; some sections more heavily burnished than others and having a yellow-green tint.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and occasional notabilia rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of circles (resembling letter hāʼ or numeral khamsah ٥) in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand ; characteristically sans serif with effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 34 V(340), III (346) ; entirely quinions with final ternion ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ عن تحرير هذا الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في اليوم الجمعة النصف من رمضان الشريف سنة ثلاث وعشرين بعد المائتين والف من يد الفقير اضعف عباد الله السيد الشيخ محمد المدرس العريف بيكن مفتى زاده احسن الله اليه ... والحمد لله رب العالمين"Explicit: "لسلوك طريق الهدى انه ولي العصمة ومنه الهداية الى سواء الطريق و قد اتفق صبيحة يوم الاثنين التاسع والعشرين من ذي القعدة سنة ثمان وخمسين وسبعمائة فراغ بيان البيان ... والحمد لله على نعمة العظام ومنحة الجسام والصلوة على نبيه محمد صاحب الاعلام ... ما دامت الليالي والايام"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي احكم بكتابه اصول الشريعة الغراء... وبعد فان علم الاصول الجامع بين المعقول والمنقول ... ثم جمعت هذا الشرح الموسوم بالتلويح الى كشف حقائق التنقيح مشتملا على تقرير قواعد الفن ... قوله حامدا حال من المستكن ..."Title from opening on pp.22-23.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Taftāzānī’s commentary on al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ, itself a commentary on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl both by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346), on uṣūl al-fiqh.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 564Origin: As appears in colophons at the close of juzʼ I and the close of juzʼ II, main text copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ṣalāḥ ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq ibn Jaḥḥāf al-Qāsimī for the patron Fakhr al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Akwaʻ. Copying of juzʼ I finished 3rd Ṣafar 1090 [ca. 16 March 1679] ; transcription of juzʼ II finished ("wa-ittafaqa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak...") 2nd Shaʻbān 1090 [ca. 8 September 1679]. Gloss copied by al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥashr. Copying of gloss for juzʼ I finished 10th Ramaḍān 1090 [ca. 15 October 1679] ; copying of gloss for juzʼ II finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min raqm hādhihi al-ḥawāshī al-mubārakah...") 7th Shawwāl 1090 [ca. 11 November 1679]. While place of transcription is not explicitly stated, the nisbahs and affiliations of the patron, copyists, and former owners, and other features strongly suggest Yemen.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. note on slip of laid European paper inserted between leaves marked p.398-399 (pagination in pencil, Western numerals).Former shelfmark: From inscription on front flyleaf "IL 470" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboard covered with a variety of red (spine), dark brown (covers) and light brown (onlays, flap, repairs) leathers ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped mandorla (compare Déroche class. OSd8) with pendants, corner pieces, and border lozenges, all with leather onlays ; doublures of red brown leather ; interior of envelope and foreedge flap in light blue cloth ; pasted label on spine with former shelfmark ; upper doublure inscribed in ink with a verse from the poetry of Ibn Ḥamād al-Baṣrī beginning "لا اشتكي زمني هذا فاظلمه..." ; pasted label bearing illegible inscription on upper doublure ; in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of upper board, etc. ; repairs to spine, fore edge flap, etc. in brown and red leathers.Support: European laid paper of at least two types, a paper bearing the crown-star-three crescent watermark (see p.538 in ms., single chain lines vertical and spaced roughly 21 mm. apart, roughly 10-11 laid lines per cm.), a paper bearing crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.640 in ms., compare Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, v.1 nos. 257, 268, 273, etc., Heawood 1132 and Regourd, Catalogue cumulé des bibliothèques de manuscrits de Zabid, fascicule 1, nos. 147, 150 and 151, single chain lines vertical and spaced roughly 30 mm. apart), and a paper bearing the three crescents watermark and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.650 in ms., compare Heawood 863, single chain lines vertical and spaced roughly 21 mm. apart, roughly 9 laid lines per cm.) with “FC” countermark (see p.652 in ms., compare Regourd nos. 137 and 138).Support: European laid paper of many types ; codex opens with a paper bearing the crown-star-crescent watermark (62 mm. tall, single chain lines vertical and spaced 30 mm. apart, roughly 6 laid lines per cm.) and continues with at least five additional types in the opening juzʼ, concluding with another type bearing the crown-star-crescent with "B" below (see p.326, 356, etc., 101 mm. tall, single chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart, roughly 10 laid lines per cm.) ; other watermarks in the papers of this juzʼ include scrollwork or shield with "FB" below (see p.306) and cross in circle with "BB" below (motif similar to Heawood 934) ; the second juzʼ is also comprised of several papers featuring variations on the crown-star-crescent watermark, three crescents (tre lune) and crown-star-three crescent watermark ; near the opening of this juzʼ, a well-burnished paper with crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.390, 39, etc., 70 mm. tall, single chain lines vertical spaced 30 mm. apart, roughly 6-7 laid lines per cm., compare Regourd, Catalogue cumulé des bibliothèques de manuscrits de Zabid, fascicule 1, no.147) and paper bearing the three crescents watermark (see p.490, 80 mm., chain lines vertical and spaced 28 mm. apart, roughly 7-8 laid lines per cm., somewhat similar to Heawood 865), toward the close, a paper with crown-star-three crescent watermark (see p.538, 558, etc., 80 mm. tall, single chain lines vertical and spaced roughly 20-23 mm. apart, roughly 9-10 laid lines per cm.), and paper with another crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.640, 70 mm. tall, single chain lines vertical and spaced roughly 28-30 mm. apart, roughly 6-7 laid lines per cm.) with countermark "HZ" (see p.594) and another paper with three crescents watermark (see p.650, compare Heawood 863, single chain lines vertical and spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, roughly 9 laid lines per cm.) with “FC” countermark (see p.652, compare Regourd nos. 137 and 138).Decoration: Headings, words such as "قوله" linking the text and commentary, and some corrections rubricated (in matn and gloss) ; overlining in red ; red rule-borders throughout ; textual dividers in the form of red discs and black dot in circle with four red dots (compare types 2 and 19 in Regourd, Catalogue cumulé des bibliothèques de manuscrits de Zabid, fascicule 1).Script: Naskh ; main text and gloss in two distinct hands ; main text in a neat Yemeni hand, partially but irregularly seriffed with occasional rightward or leftward serifs on assorted ascenders (even free standing alif), effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders (though somewhat stiff), lām seated on the baseline with stiff horizontal stroke, many open counters, pointing mainly in distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah (mashkūlah) preferred (shaqq even appearing on occasional final kāf), partially vocalized, headings/keywords supplied in larger, bolded script that is partially seriffed ; gloss in small, rounded Yemeni hand, serifless with a slight tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, some free assimilation of letters, open and closed counters, pointing in distinct dots, kāf mabsūṭah appearing often, miniature kāf seated in final kāf larger than expected, headings/keywords again supplied in larger, bolded script.Layout: Written in 28 lines per page; frame-ruled.Collation: i, (IV-4)+1 (5), I (7), 7 IV (63), II (67), 3 IV (91), III+1 (98), 10 IV (178), IV+1 (187), 6 IV (235), III+1 (242), 9 IV (314), III+1 (321), IV-2 (327), i ; chiefly quaternions ; middle four leaves of the first quire (foliated ۳ through ۶) have been removed and inserted as the binion which follows the ninth quire (inserted between fol.۶۴ and fol.۶۵) ; entire leaves bearing the gloss (but with portions left blank and unmarked) are inserted occasionally and not reckoned in the foliation (but are reckoned in the pagination) ; occasionally lacuna in the gloss of the margin are marked "بياض" ; middle-of-the-quire marks appear in the form of oblique dashes on the lower left corner of the left hand leaf ; catchwords are present for main text and occasionally gloss, though often difficult to see due to the tight binding ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, top outer corner of the recto of each leaf ; each juzʼ foliated separately ; foliation of second juzʼ mistakenly skips ١٣۴ ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: [al-Talwīḥ] "Scribal," triangular, reads: واتفق الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب المبارك نهار الجمعة المباركة ثاني شهر شعبان الكريم احد شهور سنة تسعين والف والحمد لله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات وذلك بخط افقر العباد الى ربه يتولي امره وغفرانه محمد بن عبد الله بن صلاح بن عبد الخالق بن جحاف القاسمي غفر الله له ولامامه وللمسلمين امين امين [Ḥāshiyat Ḥasan Chalabī] "Scribal," triangular, reads: وكان الفراغ من رقم هذه الحواشي المباركة بعد العصر يوم السبت ليلة سابع شهر شوال الكريم الذي من شهور سنة تسعين والف سنة بخط الفقير الى كرم الله وعفوه الغني بالله عمن سواه الحسين بن احمد بن محمد بن احمد بن حشر غفر الله له ولوالديه وللمؤمنين والمؤمنات امينExplicit: [al-Talwīḥ] لسلوك طريق الهدى انه ولي العصمة ومنه الهداية الى سوا الطريق و قد اتفق صبيحة يوم الاثنين التاسع والعشرين من ذي القعدة سنة ثمان وخمسين وسبعمائة فراغ بيان البيان ... والحمد لله على نعمه العظام ومنحه الجسام والصلوة على نبيه محمد واله واصحابه البررة الكرام وسلم عليهم [Ḥāshiyat Ḥasan Chalabī] لا يجور السقوط حرمة تركها في الجملة بالاعذار هذا اخر ما اردنا ايراده في حواشي الكتاب مستعينا بالملك الوهاب وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم"Incipit: [al-Talwīḥ] الحمد لله الذي احكم بكتابه اصول الشريعة ... وبعد فان علم الاصول الجامع بين المعقول والمنقول ... وان كتاب التنقيح مع شرحه ... ثم جمعت هذا الشرح الموسوم بالتلويح الى كشف حقائق التنقيح مشتملا على تقرير قواعد الفن ... قوله حامدا لله [Ḥāshiyat Ḥasan Chalabī] الحمد لله على شمول نعمه الجسام ... فشرعت في حواشي التلويحTitle supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.al-Taftāzānī's commentary on al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ, itself a commentary on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl both by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346), on uṣūl al-fiqh. The text is arranged in two parts within the single volume, with table of contents for each. The complete text of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Fanārī's (d. 886/1481) gloss on al-Talwīḥ is provided in the margin by a different copyist.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 472Origin: As appears in colophon on p.336, copied by al-Sayyid Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad (Hafız Ahmet) with transcription completed 1 Jumādá I 1169 [ca. 2 February 1756] in Edirne.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 48" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in yellow, pink and dark brown, see envelope flap) with dark red leather over fore edge flap and edges/turn-ins (likely spine as well, but now covered in cream textile) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in peach / light orange wove paper ; sewn in dark green-blue thread, two stations ; worked endbands in dark green-blue and cream, damage with losses and exposed core ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, spine slant (cocked) etc. ; repairs in cloth.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including crown above name and grapes, others more difficult to observe (see p.12, 13, 32, 33, 38, 112, 113, etc.), thin and transluscent though sturdy, quite well burnished to glossy ; some foxing and staining.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated (text to be entered in red indicated in margin, see p.31, though often cut off) ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām of definite article and free-standing alif, effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V+1 (11), 16 V(171), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular reads "تمت بعون الله الملك الوالي [؟] والحمد لله رب العالمين حرره السيد حافظ احمد في مدينۀ ادرنه غره في جمادى الاول سنه ١١٦٩"Explicit: "هذا عظيم الشأنى هذا رسول البارى هذا خاتم الرسلى يا رب صل على جميع الرسلى والهم والصحبى مازينت بالنجمى واشرقت بالفجوى وضوات بالشمس في يومنا والغدوى الى انتهاء الامرى"Incipit: "الحمد لله ذي النعم المتواترة والفضل الجزيل ... وبعد فيقول محمد بن احمد العوفي في ذي العجز والنقص ... هذا مختصر في القرآات العشرة المتواترة باقوى حجة ... وسميته التسهيل وشفاء العليل لطالب جد مجد في الرحيل ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.4.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a work on Qurʼānic readings (qirāʼāt) by Mehmet b. Ahmet el-Avfî (d.1639 or 40). Preceded and followed by notes and excerpts in Turkish and Arabic.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 76Origin: Lacks dated colophon but paper would suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: Two small slips with excerpts in black ink (paginated pp.67-68 and pp.69-70).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 40. Commentary on Usul al-fikh."Binding: Pasteboards faced in block-printed paper (floral design, for best view see envelope flap) with spine and edges/turn-ins in red brown leather (paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid European paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; endbands nearly gone, only core and primaries remain ; in poor condition with much abrasion, staining, cracking and lifting of leather along fore-edge flap ; boards delaminating ; minor pest damage.Support: European laid paper, a few types ; quires bearing text in perhaps two papers, watermarks present but difficult to examine, laid lines vertical with roughly 10 laid lines per cm., chain lines spaced roughly 26-28 mm. apart ; blank quires in still a different European paper with watermark lion rampant in shield/scrollwork with crown above and "F C A" below, 22-23 mm. between horizontal chain lines, laid lines spaced roughly 13 per cm., highly burnished and medium thickness ; fourth to final quire (single bifolium) bears watermark "FIN DE ... 1742" comparable to Heawood 3265.Decoration: Text rubricated with keywords, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand ; characteristically serifless with effect of gentle slant to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, contrasting thickness in horizontal strokes compared to vertical, initial hāʼ looking like to two inverted commas, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: V (10), V+1 (21), 3 V(51), IV (59), 6 V(119), I (121), V (131), VI (143), III-1 (148) ; chiefly quinions ; text ends in fifth quire from end with final leaves of that quire ruled but left blank ; final four quires also blank ; final word of the last line of each verso repeated at the beginning of the top line of the recto of the following leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Explicit: "فالخليل لما خاف الاشتباه والتلبيس على القوم انتقل الى ملة اخرى لا يكون فيها اشتباه اصلا والثالث كقولنا"Incipit: "حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله مصليا وفي حيلته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة سعد جده وانجح جده يقول لما وقفني الله تعالى بتاليف تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.2. fol.116b-fol.148b : [blank].1. fol.1b-fol.116a : al-Tawḍīḥ [incomplete].Fine copy of the author's commentary on his Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, on the principles of jurisprudence. Incomplete ; ends abruptly with final quires left blank.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 930Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 79Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "التعليم الانتقادي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Ruled / lined wove paper of two types.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a thin to medium line (line thickness changes) ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written mainly in 26-29 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "لا يقال فيه ان لا يسع نفسه ... والله يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل"Incipit: "ان القضية التي تضمنت المسائل العظام المنطوية تحت نظرية العلم والتي لمست اساس الحضور والحقيقة وعرضت نفسها على كنت من جديد بوسيلة قراءته ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from heading at opening on p.1.Ms. codex.2. p.29-p.171 : [extracts from Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam with commentary] / Ibn al-ʻArabī.1. p.1-p.28 : [work on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant opening with "al-Taʻlīm al-intiqādī"].Careful copy of a work on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) addressing education, ethics, practical reason, history, etc. followed by what appears to be extracts from Ibn ʻArabī's (d.1240) Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam with commentary (anonymous and presumably that of ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī, d.1330?, see p.98).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 87Origin: As appears in colophon on p.475, composition finished 1st of Muḥarram 995 [ca. 12 December 1586]. This copy prepared by Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad, with transcription ("istinsākh") finished in the middle of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1024 [November 1615].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 46. Durar al-hukkam."Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now missing) ; doublures of fine combed marbled paper in pink, orange, blue and white ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped central mandorla with design comprable to Déroche class. OSv 1 and simple tooled rule border ; label on upper cover has only been partially removed ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; endbands in blue and yellow (?) nearly lost ; in fair condition with flap missing, much abrasion and staining, and losses to endbands.Support: European laid paper with laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 10 laid lines per cm. and chain lines running horizontally spaced 29 mm. apart ; lightly sized and burnished ; watermarks include anchor in circle with trefoil above (compare Heawood 2), crown with 6-pointed star above (similar to Heawood 1131), and "BG" with trefoil above countermark ; quire beginning at p.357 appears to be on a thinner European laid paper with crossbow in circle watermark.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of inverted commas ; text rubricated with keywords (اما بعد، قوله، الخ), section headings, overlining, textual dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; highly seriffed with right-sloping wedge-shaped head serif on nearly every shaft ; highly ligatured ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; often strong effect of descenders slanting sharply down to the left and of words descending to baseline (see p.306-316, p.323-33, etc.) though varies ; kāf mashkūlah preferred (even final kāf) ; line thickness and tendency to slant, descent to baseline, etc. vary but appears to have been supplied by the same copyist throughout.Layout: Written mainly in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, VI(12), 22 V(232), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (final count off by 12 pages - skips 234 and from 249 to 258).Dedication: Composed by al-Wānī for his son, Pīr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Wānī (see opening on fol.4b/p.10).Colophon: "Authorial" followed by "scribal," triangular, reads: "هذا اخر ما يسر الله تعالى بلطفه الرباني لاضعف عباده محمد الواني قول [؟] من التعليقات المتعلقة بدرر الحكام في شرح غرر الاحكام الواقع في غرة شهر محرم الحرام من شور سنة خمس وتسعين وتسعمائة في الهجرة النبوية المصطفوية والحمد لله سبحانه اولا واخرا والصلوة على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين واستنسخه[؟] الفقير الى الله المتين مصطفى بن احمد غفر الله لهما ولوالديهما لجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات افاض الله انارة البر [؟] ومد الله ظله الظليل علينا في اواسط شهر ذي القعدة الشريفة سنة اربع وعشرين والفExplicit: "ان يكون الموصي كما المشتري منه [؟] بالنظر الى الموصي له فان الاقالة بيع حتى الثالث"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على سيد المرسلين محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد فقد قال صاحب الدرر في صدر كتابه او الاستعانة ... [al-Wānī ʻalá al-Durar] الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه اما بعد فلما قراى علي الولد الاعز اعنى به موهبة [؟] الله تعالى من لطفه الرباني پير محمد بن محمد الواني كتاب الدرر والغرر درسا فدرسا حررت ما لاح في قلبي وجال في خلدي شيئا فشيئا ..."Title from colophon on p.475.Ms. codex.4. fol.232b : [blank].3. fol.4b-fol.232a : al-Taʻlīqāt al-mutaʻallaqah bi-Durar al-ḥukkām fī sharḥ Ghurar al-aḥkām / Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Wānī, al-shahīr bi-Wānqūlī.2. fol.4a : [blank].1. fol.1b-fol.3b : [opening passage on the preface of the Durar, etc.].Fine copy of the gloss (possibly also entitled Naqd al-Durar) by Vankuli Mehmet Efendi (Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Wānī, al-shahīr bi-Wānqūlī, d.1000/1592) on the Durar al-ḥukkām, the commentary by Molla Hüsrev (Muḥammad ibn Farāmurz, d.885/1480) on his Ghurar al-aḥkām, on principles of legal practice. Preceded by a brief passage discussing topics from the preface of the Durar, Hāshiyat al-Jurjānī ʻalá al-Kashshāf, etc.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 575Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 13th or 14th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover "IL 220" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in purple and black mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look) with dark blue-green cloth over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in brown wove paper ; resewn in yellow and cream thread, six stations ; worked chevron endbands (likely not original but with rebind) in yellow and blue ; overall in fair condition with some lifting and losses of paper, delamination of boards at corners, spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with roughly 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical, curved and quite distinct, 20 in 33 mm.) and chain lines barely visible (horizontal) though possibly grouped in twos (or twos and threes) with 7-8 mm. between chains and 39-44 mm. between groups (see pp.70-71, 122, etc.) ; rib shadows also visible ; thick and fairly sturdy, lightly burnished, worn and soft, dark cream in color with inclusions and indissolved fibers ; ink burn and some pest damage.Decoration: Keywords and section headings heavily bolded.Script: Naskh ; mainly a large 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand in a bold line ; mainly serifless (though very slight right-sloping head-serifs appear on occasional alif and initial lām) with curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, the lām alif al-warrāqīyah preferred, bar (shaqq) of kāf occasionally left off, some elongation of horizontal strokes, freely ligatured and only casually pointed in distinct dots ; opening quire (and recto of opening leaf of second, i.e. through p.21) supplied in a similar though different hand in a thinner line.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V-2 (8), 16 V(168), IV-1 (175), ii ; almost exclusively quinions ; opening quire (in a different hand) lacks catchwords, elsewhere catchwords present ; mid-quire marks in the form of ٢ in upper outer margin of the right-hand leaf and lower outer margin of the left-hand leaf ; quire numbering in the form of whole words with catch title ("الثاني") from the third quire on, in the upper outer corner of the recto of the opening leaf of each quire ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Explicit: "على مواضع التحقيق والاستعار بان مثل هذا علن [؟] ان يقال والله اعلم"Incipit: "تشمل ما تقدم [؟] ايضا وقول ا مع مراحيه [؟] عنه احتراز من قوله افعل ولا تفعل ..."Title from tail edge.Ms. codex.Fine copy of an odd second volume of a commentary (possibly of Ḥusām al-Dīn Abī al-Faḍl Muḥammad al-Nūrī, see GAL, S I, p.921) on al-Muntakhab fī al-uṣūl min al-Maḥṣūl of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1209) (compare the ms. in Dār al-Kutub al-Ẓāhirīyah, no.2811), opening in al-Faṣl al-sādis (presumably on al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh) and closing in al-Faṣl al-thālith ʻashar fī-mā ikhtalafa fīhi al-mujtahidūn.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 658Origin: As appears in colophon on p.109, opening work copied for himself by ʻAlī Nūr al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥasan Badr al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad Jalāl al-Dīn al-Barhamtūshī ( علي نور الدين بن الحسن بدر الدين بن محمد جلال الدين البرهمتوشي ) with transcription completed 3 Ramaḍān 977 [ca. 9 February 1570]. Second work appears to have been supplied by the same copyist around the same time.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on lower cover, "IL 411a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in black cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light olive green wove paper ; resewn in white thread, six stations ; overall in good condition.Support: European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29 mm. (horizontal), anchor in circle watermark with six-pointed star above (see pp.6 and 12,etc.), "AP" or "AS" countermark (see p.8), well-sized and burnished, sturdy though fairly crisp.Decoration: Section headings, keywords, and some abbreviation symbols (two-teeth stroke, etc.) rubricated.Script: Naskh ; compact, somewhat angular Egyptian hand in a medium to bold line (line thickness varies somewhat) ; serifless with slight inclination to the left (with words descending to baseline), elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf), foot of final isolated lām quite flattened and elongated (sits on baseline).Layout: Written in 21 lines per page.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 5 V(59), I (61), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; final added bifolium left blank ; quire numbering in the form of whole words in the upper outer corner of the recto of the opening leaf of each quire (partially cut off) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: [al-Wasāʼil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāʼil] "تم بحمد الله وعون ولله الحمد والمنة اولا واخرا وباطنا وظاهرا وسرا وعلانية ... وعلقه لنفسه ثم لمن شاء الله تعالى من بعده اقل عبيد الله ... علي نور الدين بن الحسن بدر الدين بن محمد جلال الدين البرهمتوشي الشافعي [؟] غفر الله تعالى بكرمه ذنوبه وستر بعفوه ذنوبه وذلك في اليوم المبارك الثالث من شهر رمضان المعظم ... من شهور سنة سبع وسبعين وتسعمائة احسن الله ختامها وما بعدها في خير وعافية وسلامة امين امين امين وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم"Incipit: [al-Wasāʼil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāʼil] "الحمد لله الاول فليس له اخر ... وبعد فهذا كتاب لطيف جامع للاوائل لخصت فيه كتاب الاوائل للعسكري وزدت عليه اضعافه ورتبته ترتيبا ... وسميته الوسائل الى معرفة الاوائل ..." ; [al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf] "الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فقد كثر السؤال عن الحديث المشهور على السنة الناس ان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يمكث في قبره الف سنة وانا اجيب بانه باطل ... فقصدني القاصدون في كشف وسألني الواردون ان اجعل فيه مؤلفا يزدان لوصفه فاجبتهم الى ما سألوا وشرعت لهم ... وسميته الكشف عن مجاوزة هذه الامة الالف ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.3. p.119-p.122 : [blank].2. p.110-p.118 : al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf / al-Suyūṭī.1. p.2-p.109 : al-Wasāʼil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāʼil / al-Suyūṭī.Careful copy of two works by al-Suyūṭī (d.1505), namely al-Wasāʼil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāʼil, a work of miscellaneous historical notices relating to origins, inventors and inventions, condensing and expanding on al-Awāʼil of Abū Hilāl al-Ḥasan al-ʻAskarī (d. ca.1010), followed by al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf, a treatise analyzing a spurious ḥadīth and addressing happenings at the end of time, lacking a few pages of text from the end.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 225Origin: As appears at the close of al-Kāfiyah on p.176, copied by ʻAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Ḥājj Sinān with transcription finished in the year 970 [1562 or 3]. Text of al-Wāfiyah in the same hand.Former shelfmark: "325 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto front flyleaf (p.1) ; "134" inscribed in pencil on added leaf (p.3)Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather with much darker leather over envelope flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in combed marbled paper in salmon, blue, red, white, etc. ; upper and lower covers bear central blind-stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition compare Déroche class. OSd 3) and tooled border ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and blue, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with minor staining, abrasion, lifting of leather, etc. ; subtle repairs to spine, areas of board edges (covering tooled border), and fore edge flap in dark red-brown leather.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (fairly indistinct, vertical or horizontal, varies), sturdy, fairly transluscent, medium to dark cream in color, quite well-sized and burnished ; closing flyleaves in European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and crossbow in circle watermark (trefoil above, V below), sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, headings and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; both al-Wāfiyah and interspersed text of al-Kāfiyah in the same compact Turkish hand ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes, slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated).Layout: Written mainly in 37-38 lines per page ; written area of each page arranged in three blocks of text - an upper and a lower block running horizontally with 9 lines each and a central block oriented vertically (running parallel to the spine of the text block) with 19-20 lines ; where the text of al-Kafiyah appears (pp.96-99, pp.147-153, pp.169-176, etc.) layout shifts to single column in 15 lines per page with glosses arranged in margins.Collation: ii, V (10), II (114), 8 V(94), ii ; quinions and a binion ; lacks proper catchwords, but but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله وتوفيقه على يد اضعف العباد عبد الغفار بن حاج سنان الملتجئ بحرم تعليم الصبيان عام سبعين وتسع مائة من الهجرة النبوية"Dedication: As appears in opening on p.6, composed for al-Amīr Nāṣir al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn al-Malik Jalāl al-Dīn Ibrāhim ibn Yaghrush Bīlkā Malik al-Khitan.Explicit: "فانك اذا قلت في يا زيدون اضربن اضربوا في الوقف وفي يا امرأة اضربن اضري في الوقف يعلم انه بدل عن النون او المحذوف المردود والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "احمد الله على عظمة جلاله حمد غريق بمطالعة جماله واشكره لجزيل نواله معتقد لمعاده ومآله ... وبعد فاني بعد ان شرحت كتاب الكافية في النحو اولا مع ايرادات واجوبة وابحاث كثيرة شرحته ثانيا مقتصرا على حل الفاظه وشرح معانيه والاشارة الى تحليل تركيباته ومبانيه وجعلته لرسم خدمت الامير الكبير ...سلالة الامراء والوزراء مفخر العرب والعجم ناصر الدولة والدين وشمس الاسلام والمسلمين يحيى بن المخدوم المعظم ملك ملوك الامراء والوزراء صاحب السيف والعلم صلاح العالم جلال الدنيا والدين ابراهيم بن يغرش بيلكا ملك الختن اعز الله انصارهما وضاعف في العالمين اقتدارهما بسبب اشتغالة هذا الكتاب الذي هو دستور في هذا الفن لاولى الالباب وسميته بالوافية في شرح الكافية لكونه وافيا لحل الفاظه وشرح معانيه"Title from opening on p.6.Ms. codex.Careful copy of the commentary by Rukn al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Sharaf Shāh al-Astarābādhī (d.1315 or 6) upon al-Kāfiyah, Ibn al-Ḥājib's grammatical treatise on naḥw (syntax). The text of al-Kāfiyah is included, in sections of differing layout interspersed throughout.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 546Origin: As appears in colophon on p.261, copied by Aḥmad ibn Faraj Allāh ibn Aḥmad with transcription completed "laylat ʻArafah" 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 989 [ca. 4 January 1582]. As appears in 'authorial colophon' on p.260, composition completed 10 Rajab 682 [ca. 4 October 1283]. Beginning after the close on p.260, copyist provides a brief transmission history for the copy from which he transcribed the current copy. Following the colophon on p.261 appears an excerpt from the author's commentary on this work Kitāb al-Kāfī fī sharḥ al-Wāfī (كتاب الكافي في شرح الوافي).Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inscription on 'title page' (p.1) "IL 409" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in red leather with central blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition reminiscent of Déroche class. NSd 5) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with abrasion and staining, some lifting and losses of leather, delamination of upper board, etc. ; likely recycled covers (now inverted).Support: European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), anchor in circle with star above watermark (see p.4, p.30, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished ; some leaves light peach or beige colored ; watermark of egg-like figure with six circles within, crown above and PIRENZE below in back flyleaf (compare nos. 378, 381, 387, and 394 dated 1724-1726 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1)Decoration: Section headings and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; occasionally indication of text to be rubricated in margins visible.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish hand (with Persianate features) ; virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred, initially somewhat compact but larger toward close.Layout: Written in 17-19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: [i,] 7 V(70), IV (78), VI (90), V (100), 2 VI(124), III+2 (132), i ; chiefly quinions ; front flyleaf now affixed to opening leaf ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between pp.47-48).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "كتبته وانا معتصم بالله ورسوله ... وانا الفقير احمد بن فرج الله بن احمد وقد حصل الفراغ من هذا الكتاب بعد هوي من الليل وهي ليلة عرفة سنة تسع وثمانين وتسعمائة والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد وآله وصحبه اجمعين ..."Explicit: "وقسم ما بقي على سهام ما بقي قد نجز الموعود بتوفيقه فاحسن بترتيبه وتلفيقه ... والحمد لله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات والصلوة على نبيه محمد واله وازواجه الطاهرات"Incipit: "الحمد لمن من على عباده وعباده بارسال رسوله وهداية سبله ... قال مولانا الصدر الامام ... حافظ الملة والدين ابو البراكات عبد الله بن احمد بن محمود النسفي ... قد كان يخطر ببالي ابان فراغي ان ألف كتابا جامعا لمسائل الجامعين والزيادات حاويا لما في المختصر ونظم الخلافيات مشتملا على بعض مسائل الفتوى والواقعات ... وسميته الوافي ولو وفقت لشرحه لارسمه بالكافي ..."Title from opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the Ḥanafī legal work modeled after al-Marghīnānī’s (d.1196 or 7) celebrated Hidāyah.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 44Origin: As appears in scribal colophon on p.626, copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Minshāwī al-Shāfiʻī al-Turābī [?]. Transcription finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah...") 8 Ramaḍān 1058 [ca. 26 September 1648]. Authorial colophon on p.625-626 indicates that composition was completed 17 Rajab 955 [ca. 22 August 1548].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 134. Kitab al-yawakit wa 'l-jawahir."Binding: Textblock only, cover lacking ; traces of spine lining and spine leather ; sewing intact in yellow thread, two stations ; endbands in cream, intact ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of several types ; opening leaves of a type with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (vertical), tre lune (three crescents) watermark (about 83 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.1, etc.) ; next mainly another type with similar measurements and tre lune watermark (about 75 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.24, 80 etc.) with occasional leaves of a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 19-20 mm. apart and small watermark resembling a pot / jug / vase with two handles faintly visible (see p.20, 38, 144, 190, etc.) ; further along in the codex, another type with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of small hand / glove (see p.338, 516, etc.) ; another type with 25-28 mm. apart (vertical) and larger hand / glove watermark (see p.342, 528, etc.) ; toward end of codex, two other tre lune types (see p.580 and p.626) ; all well-burnished, smooth and glossy ; some leaves surface-dyed in yellow.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on p.14 (incipit page) consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular (dome) piece (approaching w-shaped piece) ; rectangular piece carries empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in gold, red, white and blue on fields of blue ; scalloped dome and accent pieces (practically forming w-shaped piece) filled with floral vegetal pattern in gold, red, and white on field of blue, outlined in gold, red and blue and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; headpiece is set in a well of red and gold bands with white dot accents ; written area of incipit and facing page bordered in frame consisting of a series of gold bands if varying thickness with outermost blue fillet ; elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, inverted commas, etc. ; text rubricated and partially chrysographed with section headings, keywords, overlining, etc. in red, some in gold, and many keywords and headings also appearing in green, orange, brown, etc.Script: Naskh ; clear, likely Egyptian hand ; virtually serifless ; effect of slight tilt to the left ; mainly open counters, but some closed ; pointing in dots liberally spaced.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: II (4), V+1 (15), 30 V(315) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ۱ on p.15, facing incipit page) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.349-350).Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads: "وليكن ذلك اخر كتاب اليواقيت والجواهر في بيان عقائد الاكابر جعله [؟] خالصا لوجهه الكريم ونفع به مؤلفه وكاتبه وسامعه والناظر فيه ... وكان الفراغ من تأليفه في يوم الاثنين المبارك سابع عشر رجب سنة خمس وخمسين وتسعمائة بمنزلي بمصر المحروسة بخظ بين الصورين قال ذلك وكتبه مؤلفه عبد الوهاب ابن احمد الشعراني الشافعي حامدا ومصليا ومسلما ومحيعلا ومحوقلا ومستغفرا والحمد لله رب العالمين..." ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من كتابة هذه النسخة المباركة في يوم السبت ثامن شهر رمضان المعظم سنة ثمانية وخمسين والف على يد العبد الحقير العاجز المذنب الفقير عبد الرحمن بن محمد المنشاوي الشافعي الترابي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة ..."Explicit: "فانظر يا اخي عناية التوحيد باهله فالحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "احمد الله رب العالمين واصلي واسلم على سيدنا محمد ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى عفو ربه ومغفرته عبد الوهاب بن احمد بن علي الشعراني عفي الله عنه هذا كتاب الفته في علم العقائد سميته باليواقيت والجواهر في بيان عقائد الاكابر حاولت فيه المطابقة بين عقايد اهل الكشف وعقائد اهل الفكر ..."Title from titlepiece preceding table of contents on p.4.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Shaʻrānī's elucidation of Ibn ʻArabī's ṣūfī doctrine as it appears in al-Futuḥāt al-Makkīyah.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 627Origin: Appears to lack dated scribal colophon ; authorial colophon at close (not in main hand) provides a date of completion for the composition of this commentary, 973 [1565 or 6], and this copy may have been produced not long after. Paper, hand, etc. do suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and fore edge flap label, "IL 28" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in quite dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in marbled paper (pink, yellow, grey) ; upper and lower covers carry scalloped blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition of vertical and horizontal symmetry, compare Déroche class. OSd) as well as tooled border ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, fair condition but with losses to both head and tail ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather, fore edge flap ill-fitting, negative draw in upper cover, etc.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; mainly with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of anchor (two lines) in circle with star above (see p.212, 213, 270, 271, etc.), thin though sturdy, medium cream in color, well-burnished to glossy ; another type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and another larger watermark of anchor (single line) in circle (see p.18, 208, etc.).Decoration: Keywords, abbreviation symbols, and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact but bold Turkish hand ; virtually serifless with effect of tilt to the right, elongation and thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes.Layout: Written in 13-15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: V+1 (11), 12 V(131), IV-2 (137) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering in the form of whole words, rubricated, in the upper outer corner of the opening recto of each quire ; lacks proper catchwords but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Authorial," Turkish, reads "بو علمى نحو واضح داخى روشن اهلى اچره چون اتدي بو شرحم ... تمام اولدى بياضه چقدى بويل ديدم تاريخنى بتدى بو شرحم ٩٧٣"Explicit: "فاضبط هذه الضوابط الشريفة واحسن انها واحفظ هذه القواعد الطيفة ولاتنها ربنا لا تؤاخذنا نسينا او اخطأنا سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم الكتاب بعون الله"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي علمنا لسان العرب والشكر لله الذي اعطانا الفهم والطلب ... اما بعد فهذا مختصر في شرح ديباجة الافصاح اخذته من كتب المعتبرة وسميته بالايضاح"Title from opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Clear and well-annoted copy of an anonymous commentary on the preface (dībājah) of al-Ifṣāḥ, a grammatical work providing iʻrāb for the Fātiḥah and for the Kāfiyah of Ibn al-Ḥājib, questionably attributed to Ali Kuşçu (ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī, d.1474). Text of the preface of al-Ifṣāḥ has been entered on the 'title page' (p.1) by a former owner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 637Origin: As appears in colophon on p.108, transcription completed 9 Shaʻbān 1246 [ca. 23 January 1831]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.108), composition completed 5 Rabīʻ II 1030 [ca. 27 February 1621].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 247" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in dark red cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light blue-green wove paper ; upper cover bears gold-stamped title "العرف الندي" ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; overall in good condition.Support: European laid paper in at least two types ; one type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents and "I M C" watermarks (see p.16, 17, 38, 108, 109, etc.) ; another type with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and crescent with face watermark (see p.62, etc.) ; all well-burnished, fairly stiff and sturdy ; some staining and tears ; repairs in wove paper.Decoration: Keywords, some abbreviation symbols (stroke over keywords), and passages of text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; two clear Turkish or 'Syrian' hands ; opening hand (through p.26) a naskh, mainly serifless (though very slight right-sloping head-serif appears on some free-standing alifs) with curvilinear descenders, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, medial hāʼ sharply mudghamah, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred (even final kāf, without hamzah-like miniature kāf), bowl of final nūn fairly wide with point set just inside ; following hand (p.27 through close) a slightly more elegant naskh, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif mainly on free-standing alif (also occasional joined alifs, lām of definite article, etc.), tilt to the left, elongation in the vertical, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, initial hāʼ in nice wajh al-hirr (more pointed, with path of the penstroke quite evident), final kāf without shaqq and with hamzah-like miniature kāf.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, II-1 (3), II (7), III (13), II (17), 3 (20), 3 V(50), I (52), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "قال مؤلفه رحمه الله تعالى ورضي عنه فرغت منه يوم الجمعة المبارك خامس شهر ربيع الثاني لسنة ثلاثين والف من الهجرة النبوية ه" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاحد المبارك تسعة مضت من شهر شعبان المعظم الذهو من شهور سنة ۱۲٤٦ ستة واربعون ومائتين والف من الهجرة امين م"Explicit: "وقد تقدم انها من بحر الرمل وتقدم تفصيله وفي هذا القدر كفاية ونسأل الله ان يتقبل منا ذلك وان يسلك بنا احسن المسالك ... انك سميع قريب مجيب الدعوات يا رب العالمين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين ه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي نسج في الازل شقة النصيحة باعتزال ذكر الاغاني والغزل ... وبعد فان القصيدة الوردية اللامية المنظومة من بحر الرمل ووزنه فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلاة ثلاث مرات المسماة بنصيحة الاخوان ومرشدة الخلان ... وكنت ممن اطلع عليها مرارا عديدة وفي كل حين يظهر لي منها فوائد جليلة وقد حاولت نفسي المرة بعد المرة ان اكتب عليها ما فيه للعيون قرة ... وشرعت في شرح لطيف يحل الفاظها ... وسميته العرف الندي في قصيدة بن الوردي ..."Title from 'title page' (p.7) and opening matter (preface) on p.9.Ms. codex.Careful copy of the commentary by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Khaṭīb al-Ghamrī (fl. 1621) on Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī's (d. 1349) qaṣīdah called al-Lāmīyah or Naṣīḥat al-ikhwān wa-murshidat al-khillān, a moral poem of 77 verses in the ramal metre.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 626Origin: As appears in colophons on p.23, 42, and 185 copied for himself ("ʻallaqahā li-nafsih") by Abū Bakr ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl Ibn al-Ṣārim (ابو بكر بن احمد بن ابراهيم بن محمد بن اسماعيل ابن الصارم) with transcription of the poem [al-ʻUnqūd] completed 4 Rajab 834 [ca. 18 March 1431] and transcription of the poem and its commentary completed 14 Shaʻbān 834 [ca. 27 April 1431]. A notice for the copyist appears on p.186, identifying him as a merchant (tājir) of Sūq Jaqmaq and indicating that he was born in 807 [1404 or 5], died 14 Jumādá II 888 [ca. 20 July 1483], and was buried in Bāb al-Ṣaghīr in Damascus.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From recto of opening leaf (p.1) and spine label, "IL 209" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though envelope flap now missing, only fore edge flap remains) ; doublures and interior of foreedge flap in brown leather with block-pressed vegetal composition (arabesque) ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite blind-tooled geometric strapwork design with gold-tooled accents covering the entire panel, bordered rules outlining a series of s-shaped stamps and centered on a twelve-pointed star filled with a repeated rectangular pattern formed of a small lozenge-shaped stamp ; the same pattern fills the cornerpieces and elsewhere a small triangular stamp has been used to form the effect of a more detailed interlace pattern ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; endbands virtually gone ; overall in poor condition with upper cover fully detached, fore edge flap detaching, envelope flap lost, significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at spine), some delamination of boards, staining, wax drips on lower doublure, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm running horizontally (visible though often quite faint) and chain lines running vertically in groups of three (or groups of three and two) with 9-11 mm. between chains and roughly 42-50 mm. between groups ; stiff and thick though crisp, well-burnished, fairly smooth, dark cream with some inclusions.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, some vocalization, and text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas (three or six) in red.Script: Naskh ; clear though angular Syrian hand in a thin to medium line ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs appearing mainly on free-standing alif and occasional initial lām, hooked serif on shaqq of kāf, effect of tilt to the right, many open counters, pointing in distinct dots, ihmāl sign on in the form of v-sign on letter sīn ; more compact and of thinner line in Sharḥ al-ʻUnqūd ; some passages vocalized, mainly text of al-ʻUnqūd.Layout: Written in 11-12 lines per page ; hemistiches of al-ʻUnqūd in lines alternately justified to the right and left ; frame-ruled.Collation: III-1 (5), 8 V(85), III+2 (93) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization ; paginated with central bifolium of final quire lifted out and placed at end of textblock, hence mistaken pagination (i.e. p.178 is followed by 183, 184, 185, 186, 179, etc.) reflected in digitial object.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.8. p.186 : [notice for the copyist, Abū Bakr ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ṣārim].7. p.183-p.185 : [continuation of Sharḥ al-ʻUnqūd fī naẓm al-ʻuqūd].6. p.179-p.182 : [birth and death notices].5. p.44-p.185 : [Sharḥ al-ʻUnqūd fī naẓm al-ʻuqūd].4. p.43 : [originally left blank, now carries birth notice, reading/study statement, etc.].3. p.24-p.42 : [al-ʻUnqūd fī al-naẓm al-ʻuqūd] / Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mawṣalī al-Khalīlī.2. p.12-p.23 : [al-ʻAwāmil al-miʻah, or Miʻat ʻāmil] / ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jurjānī.1. p.1-p.11 : [poetic excerpt followed by an extensive listing of birth and death notices].Clear copy of al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah [Miʼat ʻāmil], ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jurjānī's (d. 1078?) popular manual of Arabic grammar, followed by al-ʻUnqūd, the metrical treatise (urjūzah) on Arabic grammar by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mawṣalī al-Khalīlī (d. 1334 or 5), followed by an anonymous commentary. A large number of birth and death notices are included throughout the codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 999Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 148Binding: Boards covered in dark blue textured cloth with dark blue leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "العلم والعرفان" ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands in brown ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of at least two different types (and cut to different sizes), ruled and unruled.Decoration: Text of opening and closing sections entered in a pinkish red ink.Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; opening and closing sections in a quick, compact hand in a thin to medium line , serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; central section in first an elegant modern naskh (see pp.98-142), and then a heavy ruqʻah (see pp.142-172).Layout: Written mainly in 15-20 lines per page.Collation: i, V (10), IV (18), VII (32), VI (44), II (48), VI (60), VII (74), IV (82), 4 (86), III (92), i ; catchwords present in opening sections (through p.95) ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals through p.8 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "ولما كانت الموارد اربعة كان العرش محمولا على اربعة اركان"Incipit: "قال الله تعالى ومن يؤت الحكمة فقد اوتى خيرا كثيرا وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم الحكمة يمانية والعلم يمان اشراة الى انهما آتيان من قبل القوة النظرية فانها الجهة اليمنى والتي منها اليمن والبركة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.Careful copy a selection of philosophical extracts and commentary in sections under the headings al-ʻIlm wa-al-ʻirfān (see p.1), Sharḥ qiṭʻah min awwal al-Fuṣūṣ al-ʻArabīyah (see p.56), al-ʻĀlam wāḥid (see p.65) and Shudhūr min al-Fann al-rubūbī min Funūn al-ḥikmah al-ʻulyā (see p.98). Sections from the opening text appear also in the final transcript (e.g. compare text of p.7 and p.121 under the heading "انقسام العلم على النظري والعلمي").
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 218Origin: As appears in colophon on p.71, composition completed ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min jamʻ hādhihi al-risālah wa-tartībihā...") 17 Jumādá I 1301 [ca. 15 March 1884] in Istanbul (دار الخلافة العثمانية) ; transcription likely soon after.Former shelfmark: "508 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "212" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.3).Binding: Only dark brown spine leather remains of cover original to textblock ; currently slipped into an ill-fitting (too large) cover with pasteboards covered in tan (to olive green, see flap) leather, though upper cover now lost ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in red leather with scalloped mandorla and pendants in gold-painted filigree leather appliqué over red, blue and green paper, along with tooled and gold-painted accents and border ; flyleaves in seafoam green surface-dyed wove paper with gold-painted border ; upper and lower covers bear exquisite gold-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition reminiscent of Déroche class. OAi2 7), pendants and cornerpieces, with gold-tooled accents and border in a series of oval stamps ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in green thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in green and gold, intact ; overall in rather poor condition with upper cover lost and lower cover and flap completely detached, lifting and losses of leather, abrasion, etc.Support: non-European laid paper (Persian?) with 10-12 laid lines per cm. with some curving and sagging ; very highly burnished to glossy ; crisp though sturdy ; dark cream in color.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated titlepiece on 'titlepage' (p.3) consisting of upper and lower rectangular panels carrying the title lettered in gold and a central diamond-shaped panel carrying the ex libris, accented by superb swirling floral vegetal decoration (gold, red, green-blue, etc.) in further upper and lower rectangular panels and in the area surrounding the central diamond shape ; elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening of text on p.5 consisting of tall, vaguely w-shaped piece with two additional small domes filled with a swirling floral vegetal design in pink, white, green, gold, etc. on a field of gold ; entire piece is set in a well filled with floral vegetal design in gold, pink, white, and green and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and deep blue (lapis lazuli or cobalt) ; incipit and facing page carry illuminated marginal decoration in the form of a border of swirling vines and flowers entirely in gold ; written area of incipit and facing page accented by gold cloudbands ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of heavy gold band outlined by gold and black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of rosettes, florets, knots, discs, etc. with red and green accents, no two on a page alike in composition ; keywords, hadith excerpts, etc. chrysographed ; edges of the textblock gilded (gilt).Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand, very well-executed ; partially serifed with right-sloping head-serif on ascenders of lām, ṭāʼ, etc. but not on free-standing alif ; mainly open counters ; curvilinear descenders ; rightward descenders tapered ; pointing in distinct dots, liberally spaced ; some elongation of horizontal strokes ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, VI (12), 2 V(32), II (36), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Dedication: Lengthy statement following titlepiece and preceding opening (see pp.4-5).Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من جمع هذه الرسالة وترتيبها في اليوم السابع عشر من شهر جمادى الاول سنة الف وثلاثمائة واحد في دار الخلافة العثمانية ايام دولة امير المؤمنين وخليفة رسول رب العالمين سلطان سلاطين البسيطة من قاص وداني مولانا السلطان الغازي عبد الحميد خان الثاني خلد الله تعالى ملكه امين"Explicit: "وان يحب لهم ما يحب لنفسه من الخير ويكره لهم ما يكره لنفسه من الشر وان يذب عن اموالهم واعراضهم وان يحثهم على التخلق باخلاق الله ورسوله اقتداء بما كان عليه السلف الصالح وهذا اخر ما وفق الله تعالى لاملائه وجمعه والحمد لله اولا واخرا ظاهرا وباطنا والصلاة والسلام على خاتم النبوة وعلى جميع النبيين وعلى جميع عباد الله الصالحين"Incipit: "ان ازهى ما تزينت به وجنات الطروس وازكى ما تعطرت به الارواح وانتعشت به النفوس حمد من رتب نظام العالم ببدائع غرائب حكمته ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير احمد بن محمد الخماش النابلسي اني ممن بلي بمعانات الاسفار والرحلة من دار الى دار وقد حبب الله لي اجتناء ثمرات الاخبار ... ولهذا طالما يلوح في خاطري ... بان اخدم الدين الحنفي والامة المحمدية بخدمة يعود نفعها على عموم اهل الملة الاسلامية ... فشرعت في جمع آيات قرآنية واحاديث نبوية دالة على افتراض طاعة اولى الامر من الملوك والسلاطين واتبعت ذلك بنبذ شريفة من علم السياسة وسميت هذا المؤلف المختصر بالعقد المنظم في افتراض طاعة الخليفة الاعظم ورتبته على مقدمة وبابين وفصلين وخاتمة ومن الله استمد القبول والتوفيق انه ولي ذلك"Title from titlepiece on p.3 and opening on p.10.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a collection of Qurʼānic verses and traditions (aḥādīth) on the duty of obedience to rulers and principally the Ottoman sultan as holder of the 'caliphate,' spiritual leader for Muslims and defender of Islam. Compiled and arranged by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khammāsh al-Nābulusī on the order of Sultan Abdülhamit II (1842-1918, r.1876-1909).
Watermarks: Grapes with crown and cartouche, initials PSL in roman.Text rubricated; corrections and extensive marginal notes in hand of copyist; titles on pp. [1] and [17] in another hand.Date in colophon: 1064.Pp. [1-12]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Rūdānī, Bahjat al-ṭullāb fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb, pp. [17-50].Poem on the sine quadrant in a muqaddimah and 20 bābs based on the author's own work al-Risālah al-Shihābīyah fī al-aʻmāl al-jaybīyah, a versification of Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī's Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 502Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. may suggest late 17th or early 18th century. Seal impression on 'title page' provides only approximate terminus ante quem of 1739 ; ownership statement on 'title page' provides terminus ante quem of 1753.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 98" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition having vertical and horizontal symmetry, similar to Déroche class. OSd 8) and pendants along with tooled rosette accents and border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in dark blue and cream [?], only headband intact ; overall in good condition with minor abrasion, staining, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, curved) and chain lines rarely visible ; well-burnished, beige in color, thin and transluscent though quite sturdy ; flyleaves in European laid paper (outer green surface-dyed) with "[La] Stella" and "[G e ] C. Cini" (compare paper of A43. MS. Shelley c. 7 dated 1821-22 in Barker-Benfield, Shelleyan writing materials in the Bodleian Library, pp.53-54).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.6 consisting of a rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by swirling floral vegetal decoration in white, lavender, and gold on fields of blue and green, surmounted by a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) with floral vegetal motifs in blue, dark pink, white, lavender, green, and black on a gold ground itself surmounted by undulating vegetal motifs resembling leaves and even feathers in gold, green and blue ; keywords rubricated ; text of written area surrounded by frame consisting of gold band with black fillets and outermost blue fillet ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; elegant and compact Egyptian or Turkish [?] hand ; extensively seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on most ascender letters (even free-standing alif), slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly closed counters, freely ligatured, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct dots, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 9 V(90), I+1 (93), ii ; almost exclusively quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of an oblique stroke in the lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Explicit: "والمعقبات فى قوله تعالى له معقبات من بين يديه ومن خلفه اتنهى ذلك والله تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله جاعل الملائكة رسلا اولى اجنحة مثنى وثلاث ورباع ... فهذا تأليف لطيف جمعته في اخبار الملائكة الابرار ... وسميته الحبائك في اخبار الملائك ..."Title from opening on p.6.Ms. codex.2. p.188-p.189 : Rafʻ al-ṣawt bi-dhabḥ al-mawt / Abū al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.1. p.6-p.187 : al-Ḥabāʼik fī akhbār al-malāʼik / Abū al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.Elegant copy of al-Suyūṭī's (d.1505) compilation of ḥadīth on angels followed by another very brief treatise of his entitled Rafʻ al-ṣawt bi-dhabḥ al-mawt. Contributions to the cataloguing from Ali Rafi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 559Origin: Details of transcription not specified, though detailed collation statement on fol.284a in name of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan [al-Ḥusayn ?] al-Tūqātī dated 27 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 715 [ca. 23 March 1316] provides terminus ante quem of 1316.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf and spine label, "IL 105b" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth with spine covered in black leather (quarter-bound); Western style binding; spine gold-stamped with title and author "الحواشي الخبازية عمر الخبازي" as well as decorative bands along ridges; not original to the codex, imprint/stain of the flap of a former binding is clearly seen on early flyleaf; in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly indistinct) and chain lines only rarely visible though grouped (group of three visible at least, see p.532); cloudy furnish, many inclusions, quite dense and sturdy, burnished; ink burn from acidic ink.Script: Naskh; old, scarcely pointed Syrian or Egyptian hand; entirely sans-serif, lām alif al-warrāqīyah used only occasionally; excessively acidic ink has damaged and led to loss of text; collation statement in a rough taʻlīq, partially seriffed and highly ligatured, with words descending onto the baseline and the ends of the lines slightly curving upwards in characteristic fashion.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page.Collation: iii, III+1 (7), III (13), I (15), 3 IV (39), 2 V (59), IV (67), V (77), 19 IV (229), V (239), 5 IV (279), III+1 (286), ii; chiefly quaternions; lacking catchwords; quire signatures (numbering) present for quires 2 through 37 (skipping 4 and 31) as the ordinal number of each quire written out on the outer corner of the first folio; the entire 31st quire appears to be missing and a statement to this fact is found on fol.239b; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals begins with ٢ on the folio following the incipit page, mistakenly skips a leaf at fol.269-270; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing.Explicit: "صغر الورثة واقوى الوصيين وصي الاب والجد واضعف الحالين حال كبر الورثة تم الكتاب بحمد لله ومنه"Incipit: "كتاب الطهارات قال الله تعالى يا ايها الذين امنوا اذا قمتم الى الصلوة..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf.Ms. codex.Commentary on al-Hidāyah, by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr Burhān al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī. Begins with Kitāb al-ṭahārāt. Additional excerpts at the beginning and end of text.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 582Origin: As appears in colophon on p.227, transcription completed in the first days of Ṣafar 1040 [September 1630].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (paginated pp.1-2) -- c. Insert with notes tipped in (paginated pp.47-48).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 86" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, evoking cross) and tooled border (repeated floral motifs flanked by zig-zag pattern) ; design continues on flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and cream, significant damage at head and tail ; overall in quite poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather (especially spine and flap), minor pest damage, almost fully detached at spine, etc. ; repairs to spine in brown leather.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (horizontal), crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.18, 24, 62, etc.) and "B C" [?] under trefoil countermark (see p.20, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished ; at opening another type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and hand / glove watermark (see p.6), fairly thick and sturdy, only lightly burnished.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red and black.Script: Maghribī ; fine hand in heavy line with sweeping descenders, etc.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: II (4), 10 V(104), IV (112) ; chiefly quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of "٢" in outer margin of right-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (some inserts paginated).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاحد اوائل صفر المعظم الخير من عام اربعين والف وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما"Explicit: "فيكون مستحبا ولما احتملت صلاته هذا الوجه توقف في ان يقول انه يكره انتهى بانتصار والله اعلم وهذا اخر ما يسر الله جمعه من الحواشي الموجودة جعل الله ذلك خالصا لوجهه الكريم ونفع به كما نفع باصله بجاه سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم"Incipit: "... يقول العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى يحيى بن محمد بن محمد الحطاب المالكي لطف الله به امين الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... وبعد فالموجب لسطور هذا الاوراق اني رأيت نسخة الوالد محمد بن محمد الحطاب من رسالة سيدنا الشيخ الامام ... جمال الدين ابو عبد الله محمد [كذا] بن ابي زيد القيرواني ... محتوية على حواش جميلة متضمنة لتقييدات ... فاردت في هذه الاوراق جمع شملها ونظم عقدها ... جعلت ذلك تذكرة لنفسي ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf verso (p.4).Ms. codex.3. p.227-p.228 : [assorted excerpts, partially blank].2. p.12- p.227 : Ḥāshiyat al-Ḥaṭṭāb ʻalá Risālat Ibn Abī Zayd / Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaṭṭāb.1. p.3-p.11 : [contents listings, former owners' marks, various excerpts, etc. ; partially blank].Fine copy a collection of glosses compiled by the author from the glosses appearing in a manuscript belonging to his father, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaṭṭāb (d.1546?), of al-Risālah, the renowned Mālikī treatise by Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (d. 996). Tables of contents at opening (p.3 and p.5) and contents listing on p.9 indicate that this copy of the text was once part of a collection of works (majmūʻah).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 610Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.119a-119b (p.237-238) copied by Khiḍr ibn Yūsuf al-Nābulusī al-ʻAqrabānī for his brother al-Ḥājj Muḥammad al-Khayyāṭ. Transcription finished ("wāfaqa al-farāgh min naskh hādhā al-ḥikam...istiktāban...") Sunday the last day of Rajab 1208 [ca. 3 March 1794].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on interior of upper cover, "IL 105c" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown and cream mottled paper with red leather over spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins (leather edged / leather framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; interior of envelope flap in same brown and cream decorative paper ; interior of fore edge flap in dark brown cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in laid European paper with partial watermark ("FF . PA") ; in good condition.Support: European laid paper with laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 25-30 mm. apart ; countermark "C S" visible in fol.5, fol.102, etc. ; flyleaves and pastedowns in a different European laid paper (chain lines running vertically and spaced roughly 30 mm. apart) with partial watermark or counter mark "FF . PA" ; final singulon appears to be of still a different European laid paper with chain lines running vertically and spaced 25-28 mm. and laid lines spaced roughly 7-8 laid lines per cm., cresent watermark in fol.199.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red discs ; text rubricated with section headings in red.Script: Naskh ; Syrian (?) hand ; virtually serifless ; strong horizontal character.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 10 V(100), VI (112), III (118), I (120), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied in cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular and triangular, reads: "وافق الفراغ من نسخ هذه الحكم يوم الاحد سلخ رجب الحرام المبارك الذي هو من شهور سنة ثمان وميتين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازكى السلام واسنى التحية على يد كاتبها الحقير الكسير الفاني خضر بن يوسف النابلسي العقرباني استكتابا الى اخيه الحاج محمد الخياط جعل في حفظ الاسباط آمين آمين والحمد لله رب العالمين عامله الله بالطافه الخفية وثبت جنانه على هذه الملة الحنفية وسلك به طريق الاسعار وبلغه اقصى المرار الحمد لولي الحمد حمدا يفوق حمد الحامدين على ممر السنين والشهور والايام والساعات وابد الابدين وسلم تسليما كثيرا الى يوم الدين الحمد لله رب العالمين آمين م م م"Explicit: "وما تحقق العارف بنيل المقام وسلم تسليما كثيرا على ممر الايام امين امين امين والحمد لله رب العالمين "Incipit: "وهو حسبي وعليه اتوكل وفوضت الامر اليه فالتفويض للعبد اجمل ... وبعد فهذه نبذة يسيرة من المعارف والحكم"Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Collection of pithy wise sayings and prayers. Description provided by Alison Vacca.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 966Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 115Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in dull gold ; cover gold-stamped with "الحكمة" ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Machine laid and wove paper of a few types ; opening type (through p.8 and again pp.25-32) machine laid, lined, with watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see pp.2, 4, etc. and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91) ; next type (pp.9-24, 33-40) also machine laid but unlined, no watermarks visible ; finally (p.41 to close) still another type, wove, unlined with same watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see pp.42, 44, etc. and again compare Walz).Decoration: Text executed entirely in red ink apart from that on pp.25-31, 39.Script: Ruqʻah ; careful, compact hand in a medium to bold line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 17-22 lines per page.Collation: i, 6 II(24), i ; exclusively binions ; pages between sections (corresponding to gatherings) left blank, some serving as 'title pages' (see pp.8,9, 17, 25) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, presumably supplied during digitization.Explicit: "الوقوف الصادق الوقوف مع مراد الحق الزمرد النقي"Incipit: "الغراب كناية عن جسم الكل الغنى الملك التام والغنى للذات لا يكون الا للحق اما الغني من العباد فهو من استغنى بالحق ...الظل هو الوجود الاضا في الظاهر ... ذو العقل هو الذي يرى الخلق ظاهرا والحق باطنا ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Careful copy of what may represent abridged excerpts from al-Kalimāt al-maḍnūnah bi-hā ʻan ghayr ahlihā by Muḥsin-i Fayz̤-i Kāshānī (d.1679) known as Mullā Muḥsin, a student of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 523Origin: As appears in colophon on p.460, copied by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mīrzā [?] al-Ḥanafī with transcription completed 13 Muḥarram 1122 [ca. 14 March 1710].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Scrap tag with title (pp. 37-38) -- c. Insert with notes (pp.349-50).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 98b" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled border ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, many broken ; overall in poor condition with staining and abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, moisture damage, upper cover detaching, fore edge flap far too small, etc.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 18-20 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) under cartouche with "B A" [?] and crown (see p.42, 43, etc.) ; thin and transluscent though sturdy, medium cream in color, well-burnished ; some ink burn.Decoration: Some keywords, abbreviation symbols, section headings and text being commented upon rubricated ; other keywords, section headings and notabilia (side-heads) large and bolded (often set apart even) in black, blue or green ink ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; small, clear 'Syrian' or Turkish hand [?] in a medium line ; extensively seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, slight inclination to the left, point of nūn set deep in bowl, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf), and pointing in distinct dots and strokes.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 4 (4), 22 V(224), III (230) ; almost exclusively quinions ; four added leaves at opening ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts, added leaves and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "نجز شرح الحصن الحصين لشيخ الاسلام ... محمد بن محمد بن محمد الجزري الشافعي ... ورضي الله عن شارحه فانه اجاد فيما اتى به وكان لهذا الحصن كمسك الختام لانه قد فتح مغلقه وابان رموزه وحل مشكله اسكنه الله اعلى فراديس الجنان ... وكان ذلك على يد احقرعباد الله واحوجهم الى غفرانه احمد بن محمد بن مرزا الحنفي ... وكان تحريرا في يوم الجمعة ثالث عشر محرم الحرام سنة الف ومائة واثنين وعشرين تمت م م م"Explicit: "ولكن المعتمد انه يحصل اصل السنة بذكر الرجل او المرأة والله الهادي الى الصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل ذكره حصنا حصينا من كل باب ودعاه حرز امينا للثواب ... اما بعد فيقول افقر عباد الله الغني واحوجهم الى كرمه الوفي ولطفه الحفي علي بن سلطان محمد الهروي ... ان هذا شرح متوسط غير مخل ولا ممل للعالمين على كتاب الحصن الحصين لشيخ القراء والمحدثين .... الشيخ محمد بن محمد بن محمد الجزري ... وسميته بالحرز الثمين للحصن الحصين حيث يبين ضبظ مبانيه ..."Title from opening on p.12.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Qārī al-Harawī’s (d.1605 or 6) commentary al-Ḥirz al-thamīn on al-Jazarī’s (d.1429) al-Ḥiṣn al-Ḥaṣīn, a devotional work with ḥadīth employed for prayer. Includes contents listing for an introduction on prayer and dhikr at opening (pp.8-9) and a brief text included by the copyist of the exemplar at close (pp.461-463).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 54Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon. Paper suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: Various inserts, mainly scraps with little to no writing but also a folded document (paginated pp.5-6, pp.67-68/the document, pp.253-254, and pp.273-274).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 14. Hisn al-hasin." ; on tail of textblock "٣٦" ; on interior of upper cover and fol.1a (p.1) "١٩".Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in paper ; upper and lower covers carrying blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with recessed paper onlay, filled with floral vegetal composition, along with blind-stamped rosette accents and border in incised fillets ; sewn in cream thread, mainly two stations, alternately sewn from two central stations through location where primaries would be sewn ; endbands entirely gone ; in poor condition with sever moisture damage, shrinkage, staining, abrasion, ill-fitting flap (small) ; assorted repairs.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart ; watermark of grapes with banner and crown above ; lightly burnished.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; text being commented upon overlined in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; frequent right-sloping head-serifs ; effect of tilt to the left ; many closed counters ; many descenders quite rounded (majmūʻah) ; point of final nūn often assimilated with bowl ; occasional superscripting at end of line.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 15 VI (180), V (190) ; chiefly sexternions ; last two leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals (off) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips from p.171 to p.180).Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads: "وانتهى فراغ تحرير هذا الشرح وتنميقه بعون الله تعالى وتوفيقه بمكة المشرفة قبالة القبلة المعظمة في النصف الاخير من جمادى الاخرى من شهور عام همان بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها الاف صلاة والوف تحية والحمد لله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات ... ويرحم الله عبدا قال امينا"Explicit: "والحمد لله اولا واخرا وباطنا وظاهرا وصلاته وفي نسخة على سيند الخلق وفي نسخة واشرفهم محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلام اي سلام الله تعالى كذلك عليه وعليهم انتهى"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل ذكره حصنا حصينا من كل باب ودعاه حرز امينا للثواب ... اما بعد فيقول [افقر] عباد الله الغني واحوجهم الى كرمه الوفي ولطفه الحفي علي بن سلطان محمد الهروي ... ان هذا شرح متوسط غير مخل ولا ممل للطالبين على كتاب الحصن [الحصين لشيخ] القراء والمحدثين ... الشيخ محمد بن محمد الجزري ... برد الله مضجعه وافاض علينا من مدده ... [سميته الحرز] الثمين للحصن الحصين حيث يبين ضبظ مبانيه ..."Title from opening on fol.1b (p.2).Ms. codex.Elegant though much damaged copy of al-Qārī al-Harawī's commentary al-Ḥirz al-thamīn on al-Jazarī's al-Ḥiṣn al-Ḥaṣīn, a devotional work.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 42Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Paper would suggest late 18th or early 19th century. Date in seal impression on fol.75b (p.148) provides a rough terminus ante quem of 1846 or 7.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 149. Al-Hizb al-azam, Dalail al-khairat, etc."Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers bear fine stamped, red and gold-painted scalloped mandorla with vegetal composition (compare Deroche class. NSd 7) and gold painted accents, along with gold-painted roll border in a series of s-shaped stamps and gold fillets ; sewn in dingy grey thread (once pink?), two stations ; endbands virtually lost, only traces of primaries remain ; in poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting and detaching of leather (particularly at spine), flap lost, boards exposed and delaminating at corners, etc.Support: European laid paper with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermark of grapes with crown above ; staining and smudging.Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.1) and on p.72 (nearly identical) consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular (dome) piece ; rectangular piece carries the basmalah in a cartouche defined by flanking accents in gold ; scalloped semi-circular piece carries swirling floral vegetal pattern in white, pink, red and black on a field of gold, outlined in blue and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; headpiece is set in a well of red and gold bands outlined by black fillets with blue and white circular accents ; written area of incipit and facing page bordered in gold frame ; elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs ; incomplete diagram showing the tombs of Muḥammad, Abū Bakr and ʻUmar on fol.43a (p.83) ; text rubricated with section headings, keywords, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Naskh influenced by nastaʻlīq ; fine Turkish or Persian hand ; sans serif ; effect of tilt to the right ; words often descending to baseline ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; horizontal strokes usually in heavier line and often elongated.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: 3 V(30), V-4 (36), V-1 (45), 2 V(65), VI (77) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords occasionally present (last word of final line recto repeating on following verso) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.1-2, mistakenly repeats p.91, and skips from p.107 to 109).Explicit: [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "اللهم صلى على محمد عبدك ورسولك النبي الامي الذي آمن بك وبكتابك واعطه افضل رحمتك واته الشرف على خلقك يوم القيامة واجزه خير الجزاء والسلام عليه ورحمة الله وبركاته" [Dalāʼil al-khayrāt] "صلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وامام المرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليمأ والحمد لله رب العالمين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل"Incipit: [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "الحمد لله الذي دعانا للايمان وهدانا بالقرآن واجاب دعوتنا بالفضل والاحسان ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الداعي الراجي مغفرة ربه الباري علي بن سلطان محمد القاري ستر عيوبهما لما رايت بعض السالكين يتعلقون باوراد المشياخ المعتبرين ... فخطر ببالي ان اجمع الدعوات الماثورة في الاحاديث المشهورة ... وسميته الحزب الاعظم لانتسابه واستناده الى الرسول الاكرم ..." [Dalāʼil al-khayrāt] "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم قال الشيخ الفقيه الامام العالم سيدي ابو عبد الله محمد بن سليمان الجزولي رحمه الله تعالى الحمد لله الذي هدانا للايمان والاسلام والصلاة والسلام على محمد نبيه ... وبعد فالغرض في هذا الكتاب ذكر الصلاة على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وفضائلها اذكرها محذوفة الاسانيد ليسهل حفظها على القاري وهي من اهم المهمات لمن يريد القرب من رب الارباب وسميته بكتاب دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار صلى الله عليه وسلم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.5. fol.76a-fol.77b : [assorted prayers, originally blank].4. fol.37b-fol.75b : Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār / al-Jazūlī.3. fol.32b-fol.37a : [assorted prayers, originally blank].2. fol.2b-fol.32a : al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham / al-Qārī al-Harawī.1. fol.1a-fol.2a : [assorted prayers, originally blank].Fine prayerbook containing al-Qārī al-Harawī's al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam followed by the celebrated Dalāʼil al-khayrāt of al-Jazūlī, with numerous assorted prayers and remedies on the remaining leaves.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 522Origin: As appears in colophons on p.183 and p.184, both texts copied by Muḥammad Darwīsh al-Āmidi (Mehmet Derviș el-Amidî), known as al-Ḥājj Darwīshʻzādah (Hacı Dervişzade) though date of transcription is not specified. Paper suggests early 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 100" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown to black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in blue-tinted paper ; doublure hinges in decorative paper (black with vegetal design in orange) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped central mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration) , pendants and cornerpieces with accents in numerous blind-tooled rosettes and gold-tooled guilloché roll border ; sewn in golden yellow thread, four stations ; only traces of primaries remain at head, endbands otherwise gone ; overall in fair to poor condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of gold leaf, leather and board linings, etc. ; repairs to spine and foreedge flap in dark brown leather.Support: European laid paper with 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including lion passant guardant (see p.156, etc.) and "G A" [or "V G" ?] (compare nos. 986, 987, etc. in Eineder, The ancient paper-mills) ; beige or dark cream in color, heavily burnished to glossy, thin and transluscent though quite sturdy ; some moisture damage with loss of text (see p.76, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpieces (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at openings on p.2 for al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam and excerpt from ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn (in margin) as well as at opening on p.4 for text of al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn (in margin) ; all consisting of w-shaped piece [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam/al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] or scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) [excerpt from ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] filled with simple floral vegetal decoration in gold, orange, pink, and red on fields of light blue, pink, green-blue and orange set in wells of yellow, green-blue, or pink with red or black accents, surmounting gold rectangular pieces carrying the titles in white (now mainly lost), and themselves surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and black ; central written area surrounded by gold frame, margins also outlined by gold rules ; use of gold cloud-bands in central written area on incipit and facing page ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs (central written area and margins) ; keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; virtually serifless with very slight effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, rightward descenders tapered, fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 37 lines per page with central written area carrying 11 lines of al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam and 26 lines of al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn on the diagonal in the margins (13 upper-outer, 13 outer-lower) ; frame-ruled.Collation: 8 V(80), 2 III(92) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present for text of main written area ; text of margins lacks proper catchwords but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: [al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] "تمت الحصن الحصين بعون الله وتوفيقه عن يد اضعف العباد السيد محمد درويش الامدى الشهير بالحج درويش زاده غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاقربائه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات الاحياء منهم والاموات" ; [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "قد تم الحزب الاعظم عن يد اضعف العباد السيد محمد درويش الامدى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاقربائه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات"Explicit: [al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] "ولا يدفعه سواك اللهم فرج عنا يا كريم يا ارحم الراحمين والحمد لله رب العالمين" ; [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد عبدك ورسولك النبي الامي الذي آمن بك وبكتابك واعطه افضل رحمتك واته الشرف على على [كذا] خلقك يوم القيامة واجزه خير الجزاء والسلام عليه ورحمة الله وبركاته سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين م م م"Incipit: [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "الحمد لله الذي دعانا للايمان وهدانا بالقرآن واجاب دعوتنا بالفضل والاحسان ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الداعي الراجي مغفرة ربه الباري علي بن سلطان محمد القاري ستر عيوبهما وغفر ذنوبهما لما رايت بعض السالكين يتعلقون باوراد المشياخ المعتبرين ... فخطر ببالي ان اجمع الدعوات الماثورة في الاحاديث المنشورة ...وهذا الجمع الذي هو معدن الدعاء ... وسميته الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم لانتسابه واستناده الى الرسول الاكرم ..." ; [excerpt from ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] "الحمد لله رب العالمين ربنا اتنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب قال الشيخ الامام ... شهاب الدين احمد بن علي بن حجر العسقلاني الشافعي المصري قال صاحب الشيخ الامام ... تاج القراء " ; [al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] "قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ... شمس الدين محمد بن الشيخ شمس الدين محمد بن محمد الجزري فسح الله تعالى في مدته واعاد علينا وعلى المسلمين من بركته اما بعد حمد الله الذي جعل الدعاء لرد القضاء ... فان هذا الحصن الحصين من كلام سيد المرسلين وسلاح المؤمنين من خزانة النبي الامين والهيكل العظيم من قول الرسول الكريم ... واخرجته من الاحاديث الصحيحة ابرزته عدة عن كل شدة ... وقد رمزت للكتب التي خرجت منها هذه الاحاديث بحروف تدل على ذلك ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on interior of upper cover and openings for each work.Ms. codex.4. p.183-p.184 : [prayer].3. p.4-p.183 : al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām sayyid al-mursalīn / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī.2. p.2-p.3 : [excerpt from ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī1. p.2-p.184 : al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī.Elegant prayerbook containing al-Qārī al-Harawī's (d.1605) al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham with Ibn al-Jazarī's (d.833/1429) al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām Sayyid al-mursalīn, a collection of ḥadīth employed in prayer, in the margins. al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn is preceded by an excerpt from the author's abrigdment ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn (pp.2-3) and followed by an additional prayer (pp.183-184).
On p. [1], illuminated ʻunwān and opening; text vocalized and rubricated and enclosed in gold borders.Date and copyist's name in colophon: sawwadahu al-faqīr al-sayyid ʻUthmān al-maʻrūf bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān ... sanat ithnā wa-thamānūn wa-miʼah wa-alf.Collections of sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad, derived from earlier collections of sound traditions, used for prayer.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 594Origin: As appears in colophon on p.129, transcription completed 19 Shaʻbān 1208 [ca. 22 March 1794]. Date composition completed given as 1141 [1728 or 9].Accompanying materials: Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (paginated pp.1-2).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 94" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (floral vegetal design in blue and red with white dots on a bright orange ground) with dark red and bright red leathers over spine, fore edge flap, and edges / turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewing mainly gone, stab sewn ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, some lifting and losses of paper and leather, etc.Support: European laid paper ; one type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and grapes on stem watermark (see p.60, 61, etc.), thin and transluscent, crisp though sturdy, well-burnished ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), quadraped (lion?) watermark (see p.124, 125, etc.) and "M M" countermark (in p.122) ; some leaves possibly tinted a faint blue ; some pigment burn (even breakthrough in opening leaf).Decoration: Written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold frame, elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; fine, compact Turkish hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif mainly on lām of definite article, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 IV(64), i ; exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "بالله وفقنا لختمه في سنة احد واربعين بعد الالف والمائة اللهم انفعنا به والطلبة العلوم" ; "Scribal," reads "تمت هذه الرسالة السنة ثمان مائتين والف في اليوم الشعبان المبراك تسع عشر م م م"Explicit: "في كل باب اي من حال من الاحوال تمت الرسالة مع شرحه لكن في بعض نسخ المتن وقع بدل قوله وهذا الذي ذكرنا اه هكذا وهذا غاية ما اوردناه في هذا الباب ومن الحق الهام الصواب الحمد لله الذي وفقنا لهذا التأليف بمحض لطفه وكرمه وما توفيقي الا بالله توكلت على الله واليه انيب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي عين البحث علم الاداب وعلم فيه طريق السؤال والجواب ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى عفو ربه القدير الشيخ محمد بن حسين بن محمود السينوبي مولدا الادرنوي موطنا ... لما رأيت هذا الكتاب للمؤمن المحقق ... احمد المشتهر بين الافاضل باسم طاش كبرى ... مرغوبا بين المحققين ومتداولا بين المحصلين وقع [ومع] ذلك كان بعض المواضع منه مشكلا على المتعلمين ... اردت مع قلة بضاعتي بل عدم استطاعتي ان اكتب حاشية موضحة بجميع عباراته ... وسميتها بالحاشية العونية على الرسالة الطاش الكبرى ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.3).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Maḥmūd al-Sīnūbī al-Adirnawī (Mehmet b. Hüseyin b. Mahmut Sînobî Edirnevî) upon the treatise on disputation (ādāb al-baḥth) by Taşköprüzade (Taşköprülüzade) İsamettin Ahmet Efendi (d.1561).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 553Origin: As appears in colophon on p.263, copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Musallamī ; date of transcription not specified though paper, etc. may suggest 14th or even late 13th century (see Humbert, pp.33-35).Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 97" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in blue and brown) with dark green cloth over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in beige wove paper ; resewn mainly in yellow thread, six stations, then black thread in final three quires ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in somewhat poor condition but with abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, delamination of boards at corners, staining, some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 9-10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced in threes with 13-17 mm. between chains and 35-38 mm. between groups (vertical) ; quite thick, sturdy and soft with laid and chain lines rather indistinct ; striated pattern and possible zigzag appears in many leaves (see p.30, 39, etc.) ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; clear, quite compact 'Syrian' or Egyptian [?] hand ; virtually serifless with curvinlinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, many closed counters, and slight effect of tilt to the left.Layout: Written in 33 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 1 (1), V+1 (12), 2 V(32), IV+1 (41), 9 V(131) ; chiefly quinions ; acephalous, with further leaves missing between first two leaves (as extant) for roughly 40 leaves missing altogether ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (opening leaf numbered ٣٢, following ٤۸) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and front flyleaf , mistakenly repeats p.39 and p.42).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "على يد الفقير الى الله تعالى عبد القادر المسلمي غفر الله له ولوالديه"Explicit: "وهذا اساس قياس جليل يفتح بمعرفته ابواب النجاة ويرقي بمراقيه مراقي الدرجات والله تبارك وتعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب ونسأله اللطف يوم الحساب انقضى تحرير الحاوي القدسي ونجز وابى محرره التطويل فاوجز وقد حوي بحمد الله ومنه مسائل مجموعات كثيرة في الاصوليين كاعتقاد الطحاوي وتمهيد النسفي ... وفي الفروع كجامع الصغير ومختصر القذوري ... لا ينقص مجموعه عن اربعين الف مسئلة والحمد لله وحده"Incipit: "في بيت مال المسلمين ..."Title from closing matter on p.263.Ms. codex.Acephalous early copy of the work of Ḥanafī law most commonly attributed to Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Nūḥ al-Qābisī al-Ghaznawī. See Isl. Ms. 92 for another ms. copy.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 29Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Paper and hand may suggest late 15th century. Replacement leaves very likely date from early 19th century. Perhaps signature of glossator on p.152 "تم هذا [...؟] على يدي المذنب اليه ... محمد بن الحاج علي في سلخ ... [؟]".Accompanying materials: Two blank slips (paginated pp.101-102 and pp.109-110).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 93. Al-Akaid." ; "٣۹۷" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper (blue, green and pink) with spine, fore-edge and edges/turn-ins in red leather (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in yellow European laid paper ; sewn in white thread, two stations (primaries in rose) ; fine worked endbands in blue-green and yellow ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, etc.Support: non-European paper, furnish extremely cloudy, likely laid but any laid and chain lines are extremely diffuse and difficult to see ; repairs in European paper ; replacement leaves at opening and close in a variety of papers - European laid, European wove, and non-European ; flyleaves and some replacement leaves in European laid paper with "E A D" mark visible.Decoration: Text rubricated with keywords, section headings, overlining, sigla and other abbreviations in red.Script: Naskh ; two main hands ; bulk of the text in a Turkish (?) hand, virtually serifless, rounded, freely ligatured, with slight tilt to the left, mainly closed counters, some sweeping descenders ; replacement leaves at opening and close in an Ottoman nastaʻlīq (talik), serifless, with mainly closed counters, effect of tilt to the right and words descending to baseline, extended in the horiztonal ; glosses in more angular nastaʻlīq (talik).Layout: Written in 21-29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, VI-1+1 (12), 5 VI(72), VI-11 (73), III+2 (81), I+1 (84), i ; chiefly sexternions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.171-172).Explicit: "يكون امامة كل من الخلفاء الاربعة حقا هذا ما عندي والله اعلم بجميع السرائر. خاتمة الكتاب ايها الراغب الى تحقيق الحق ... والثاني الشوق الى الحق ذلك فضل الله يؤتيه من يشاء والله واسع عليم والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلى الله على نبينا محمد خير البرية وعترته الطيبين تم تم تم"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي استحق الوجود والوحدة بالذات ... اما بعد فان العلوم وان تنوع افسامها وتفرع انقسامها لكن اشرفها مرتبة واعلاها منزلة هو العلم الآلهي ... فدعاني هذه المعاني تصنيف كتاب ... وسيته بالصحائف الآلهية ورتبته على مقصدين الاول في المبادي والثاني في المسائل ... واسوهبت من الله تعالى الهام الحق وافهام الصدق انه عليم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب ..."Title provided by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the treatise on theological matters by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarqandī (d.1303?).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 35Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.294a (p.596), copied by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājī Ramaḍān. Transcription finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah...") Muḥarram 1117 [April-May 1705].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts carrying extensions of the glosses (paginated pp.9-10, 15-16, 23-24, 35-36, 41-42, 45-46, 61-62, 231-232, 349-350), often sewn or tipped in.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 111. Al-Tarikat al-muhammadiyah."Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper (in blue, yellow, pink, white) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark brown (to black) leather (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in paper ; some red leather on flap ; marbled paper has been placed over blind stamped design (central lozenge with vegetal pattern) ; sewn in white thread, two stations, with primaries in dark blue thread ; fine worked chevron endbands in red and yellow ; in poor condition with much abrasion, staining, cracking and splitting of leather at joints, etc. ; upper board nearly detached and corners exposed and delaminating ; lower board cracked ; envelope flap is entirely gone and fore-flap is detaching from lower cover ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with roughly 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced 23-25 mm. apart ; watermarks include coat of arms with cross flanked by griffins, crown above and two circles below, upper with "A G R", lower with "I" (compare Heawood 755).Decoration: Text rubricated with abbreviation symbols, overlining, keywords, section headings, etc. in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, three inverted commas, etc.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; virtually serifless, but occasional right-sloping head-serif on lām, etc. even free-standing alif ; effect of slant to the left ; mainly closed counters ; hand may change where line thickness changes (pp.351-526) but a very similar Turkish naskh.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident), both central area and margins.Collation: VI (12), 9 V(102), IV+1(111), 2 V(131), IV (139), 3 V(169), III (175), 7 V(245), VI (257), V (267), VI (279), V (279), IV (297) ; chiefly quinions ; first three leaves and final three leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts, skips two pages each between pp.3-4, 57-58 and 139-140, mistakenly repeats p.557 twice).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماة بطريقة المحمدية والسيرة الاحمدية لمولانا البركوي محمد افندي تغمده الله مغفرانه واسكنه بحبوحة جنانه من يد الحقير المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الجليل ابراهيم ابن الحاجي رمضان يوم الثلث قبل الظهر من شهر المحرم في سنة سبع عشر ومائة والف والحمد لله والصلوة والسلام على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين م م م"Explicit: "وجلاء القلوب فعليك بها وطالعها حتى تعلم حقيقة مقالنا وقول الحمد لله الذي هدينا وما كنا نهتدي لو لا ان هدينا الله ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد اذ هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا امة وسطا خير امم ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل يتوافقان والكتاب والسنة يتطابقان ... فاردت ان اصنف الطريقة المحمدية واحببت ان ابين السيرة الاحمدية حتى يعرض عليها عمله كل سالك ..."Title from colophon on fol.294a (p.596).Ms. codex.Neat, well-glossed copy of the sermons and homilies of Birgivî (Birkawī, Birgilī) Mehmet Efendi.
Watermarks: Three crescents; Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; initials FA in orman; three face-in-the-moons. For the first two see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.Contains tables and sundial diagrams.Text and tables rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others (?); kurrāsahs numbered; foliation added in European arabic numerals in pencil.Date in colophon: qāla muʼallifuhu kāna al-farāgh min taʼlīf hādhā al-kitāb fī shahr Rajab min shuhūr sanat 1128 thamāniyah wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [June-July 1716] wa-kānat muddat taḥṣīl mā qaṣadtuhu fī hādhā al-kitāb ʻashar sanawāt wa-kusūr....An extensive treatise on the theory and making of sundials; perhaps in the hand of its author?
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 57Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Paper would suggest late 16th or early 17th century.Accompanying materials: A few scraps of paper carrying glosses, etc. (paginated pp.139-140, pp.235-236, pp.265-266) ; very small scrap between pp.268-269 carries former owner's mark and seal impression.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 12. Al-Islah, with commentary."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper, hinges in marbled paper (red, orange, blue, etc.) ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OSd 8), along with frame in series of s-shaped stamps flanked by blind-tooled fillets ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; chevron endbands in black and red, fair condition ; in quite poor condition with much abrasion, moisture damage, cracking and lifting of leather, losses to fore-edge flap, delamination of boards, envelop flap detaching from fore-edge flap, etc. ; repairs in various leathers and paper.Support: European laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced roughly 32 mm. apart ; anchor in circle watermark (compare Heawood 7).Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; text being commented upon overlined in red ; written area surrounded by red rule-border (opening through p.197).Script: Naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq ; at least two Turkish (possibly Persian) hands ; initial hand sans serif with effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, often exaggerated contrast in thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes ; second hand (from p.183 to close) similar though line is certainly thinner ; kāf mashkūlah preferred with bar (shaqq) appearing on even final kāf ; mainly closed counters ; ligature for kāf followed by alif, with alif curving up to meet the bar of the kāf (shaqq) forming a closed loop.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 16 V(169), IV (177), 8 V(257), IV (265), 3 V(295), V-1 (304) ; chiefly quinions ; no catchwords present, but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf repeated at first of initial line on following recto ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ۱ on incipit page, p.4) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization, includes flyleaves and inserts, mistakenly repeats two pages (skips from p.243 to p.242 and continues), mistakenly skips two pages between pp.447-448).Explicit: "وانما قال في الاختيار لانه يحل اكل الميتة في الاضطرار والله اعلم بالصواب واله المرجع والمآب تم"Incipit: "احمده على الهداية والوقاية في البداية والنهاية واشكره على ما انعم علي من التوفيق والعناية ... اما بعد فغير خاف على ذوي البصائر اي المختصر الموسوم بالوقاية ... وسميت المتن بالاصلاح تضمنه اصلاح ما في الوقاية من الذلل والشرح بالايضاح لاشتماله على ايضاح ما في الشرح المذكور من الخلل ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Clear copy of the author's own commentary on his Iṣlāḥ al-Wiqāyah, corrections to the commentary by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī on the work of his grandfather Burhān al-Sharīʻah Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Awwal, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah. Preceded by table of contents.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 26Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper would suggest early 17th century. Inscription on front flyleaf would indicate that the commentary was copied by Shaykh al-Qurrāʼ Shaʻbān Afandī. Whether he also authored the text is unclear.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 128. Commentary on Masabih."Binding: Pasteboards covered in European laid paper with red-brown leather over spine and turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; sewn in yellow thread, four stations ; endbands virtually gone, only traces remain ; in poor condition with much staining, abrasion, holes in spine, spine lining exposed, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. and chain lines (vertical) space roughly 30 mm. apart ; watermark crown with star and crescent above (compare Heawood 1132) ; countermark difficult to make out, includes trefoil.Decoration: Written surrounded by red rule-border ; text rubricated with section headings, keywords, overlining, sigla and other abbreviations, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish (?) hand ; virtually serifless, though occasional head-serifs appear indiscriminately ; very slight effect of tilt to the left ; open and closed counters ; free assimilation of letters such as rāʼ with final hāʼ also point of final nūn often assimilated with bowl.Layout: Written in 33 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: vi, V-9 (1), 10 V(91), ii ; chiefly quinions ; acephelous with roughly 89 leaves missing from the head of the text ; also ends abruptly ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (mistakenly skips ١١١) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some flyleaves).Explicit: " وهذا الكلام وفي بعض النسخ كلاهما على بناء الفاعل اي اعطي هو بها اكثر مما اعطي هو بها ويجوز ان يكون الاول على بناء الفاعل والثاني على بناء"Incipit: "والزكوة على ذلك ان ترك شيئا من المفروض تكمل في التطوع ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf.Ms. codex.Acephelous copy of a commentary on Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, the arrangement by Walī al-Dīn al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī (fl.1337) upon al-Baghawī's (d.1117?) extensive collection of traditions sorted by subject matter. Excerpts from several other commentaries on Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ are provided in the margins, including the Mirqāt al-mafātīḥ of al-Qārī al-Harawī (d.1605 or 6). Opens in Kitāb al-ṣalāh and ends in Kitāb al-buyūʻ, though the partial fihrist which has been provided extends further.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains tables explaining inheritance portions.Text not rubricated; name of author and his teacher underlined in red on p. [1]; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist."Faṣl fī ʻilm al-munāsakhāt bi-l-jadwal, in some copies stated to be taken from Ibn al-Hāʾim's Sharḥ al-kifāya." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 70 and plate XCIIa."A treatise on vested inheritance." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermarks: Anchor in circle; two anchors with REGISTER PAPER/1870 in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Contains astronomical figures and tables.Text rubricated; marginal commentaries and corrections in hand of copyist.On timekeeping and determining the direction of the qiblah by observation of the movements of the stars, in 4 arkān; copy missing its first page, but all of muqaddimah is complete.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 109Origin: As appears in colophon on p.114, transcription of the sharḥ by ʻAlī al-Qūshjī completed 3 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1113 [ca. 1 May 1702] ; paper suggests that other works were copied around the same time, even late 17th century.Accompanying materials: Inserted slip bearing glosses (paginated pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 61. Two commentaries on Al-Risalat al-wadiyah."Binding: Pasteboards (very thin, semi-limp) covered in marbled paper (mainly in white and shades of blue) with brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in European laid paper ; sewn in light pink thread, four and two stations ; overall in fair condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper in a few different types ; text of first work on type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of flower on stem with leaves ; next work on another type with laid lines spaced 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark ; final works on still another type with 14 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of bar carrying name/initials with grapes ; all types well-burnished.Decoration: Abbreviation symbols and keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; text of the sharḥ by ʻAlī al-Qushjī surrounded by frame consisting of a gold band flanked by black fillets.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq ; at least three different hands ; all virtually serifless with elongation of horizontal strokes ; naskh freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, final yāʼ and alif maqṣūrah mardūdah, and pointing in curved lines rather than distinct dots ; naskh-nastaʻlīq shows slight effect of words descending to baseline and letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15, 21 and 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 V(20), IV (28), III (34), V-1 (43), V (53), I+1 (56), III (62) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.8. p.121-p.126 : [blank].7. p.118-p.120 : [Risālah fī al-waḍʻ].6. p.116-p.118 : Sharḥ al-Sayyid al-Sharīf lil-qāḍī ʻAḍud al-Dīn / al-Jurjānī.5. p.115 : [blank].4. p.72-p.114 : [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah] / ʻAlī al-Qūshjī.3. p.70-71 : [blank].2. p.69 : [originally blank, now carries a listing of the author's works].1. p.2-p.68 : ʻIṣām al-Dīn ʻalá al-Waḍʻīyah / ʻIṣām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāyīnī.Fine copy of three of the principal commentaries on al-Ījī's seminal treatise in ʻilm al-waḍʻ, al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah, namely that of ʻIṣām al-Dīn al-Isfarāʼinī (d.1537), ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Qūshjī (Ali Kuşçu, d.1474), and ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (d.1413). Followed by a brief anonymous treatise on the same subject.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 501Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.260-261, copied by Ḥasan [?] ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad al-Kattānī [al-Kinānī?] with transcription completed 17 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1235 [ca. 25 September 1820]. Date composition was completed ("وكان الفراغ من جمعه .") is given as the first part of Jumādá II 985 [August 1577] which conflicts with claims in Kaḥḥālah, etc. for a death date of 980 [1572] for the author.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4) -- c. Inventory cataloguing slip with transcription of the colophon (pp.5-6) -- d. Inventory cataloguing slip for Isl. Ms. 570 (pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 253" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (red and yellow vegetal guilloché interlace designs over blue) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in red-violet wove paper ; sewn in white thread, two stations, gone or broken in many quires ; worked chevron endbands in red and cream, only headband intact ; overall in fair condition with some pest damage, minor abrasion, lifting of paper, etc.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (65 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.12, etc.) ; sturdy though crisp, burnished ; some pest damage and minor ink burn.Decoration: Keywords, headings, and text being commented upon rubricated ; simple red and yellow ruled rectangular piece carries basmalah at opening ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by frame of yellow and red rules, elsewhere surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Maghribī ; elegant hand with slight effect of tilt to the right and characteristic alif of prolongation, sweeping descenders, etc.Layout: Written in 20 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 13 V(130) ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and mistakenly skips two pages each between pp.123-124 and 179-180).Colophon: "Authorial," reads " وكان الفراغ من جمعه في اوائل جمادى الاخير عام خمسة وثمانين وتسع مائة والحمد لله ... والصلاة وعلى نبيه المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم" ; "Scribal," reads "وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاثنين بعد العصر سبعة عشر خلون من ذي الحجة في عام خمسة وثلاثين ومائتين والف على يد كاتبه ... العبد الفقير الحقير ... حسن ابن الحاج محمد الكتاني [؟] غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم انتهى"Explicit: "وهو قول ابن نافع وبالله تعالى التوفيق انتهى قد كمل هذا التعليق المبارك على المختصر الرشيد لسيدنا الشيخ الولي الصالح العالي العلامة العارف بالله ابا زيد عبد الرحمن الاخضري ... على يد جامعه ... عبد اللطيف بن محمد المرادي [؟] هو الشهير بابن المسبح ..."Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي اعلى معالم الاسلام ... وبعد فاني قصدت ... التعليق شرح مختصر الشيخ الفقيه العلامة ولي الله سيد ابي زيد سيد عبد الرحمن الاخضري ... وسميته بعمدة البيان في فرائض الاعيان ..."Title from opening on p.10.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a commentary by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad al-Murādī [al-Mirdāsī?], al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Musabbiḥ, on Mukhtaṣar fī al-iʻbādāt, a popular elementary treatise on ritual duties according to the Mālikī school by Abū Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Akhḍarī.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 429Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; decoration, hand, paper, etc. would suggest 16th century.Former shelfmark: "400 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "237" inscribed in pencil on 'title page’.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi2 1) and pendants, along with gold-painted accents and tooled border ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (spine and fore edge flap in particular), minor delamination of upper board, etc. ; repairs to fore edge flap in paper.Support: non-European (likely Persianate) laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, somewhat indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, fairly thick and sturdy, well-burnished ; severe moisture damage to incipit page.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche now carrying title "حديث اربعين لمولانا جامى" flanked by floral vegetal pieces in gold, pink, and orange on a field of blue, surmounted by a scalloped triangular piece or hasp continuing floral vegetal design, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area of incipit page (larger than written area elsewhere) appears to be gold or silver flecked, elsewhere only portions of the written area appear to be gold or silver flecked ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame with outermost blue rule ; ḥadīth text chrysographed.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless with characteristic descent of words to baseline and superscripting of final words and letters ; elongation of horizontal strokes ; text of ḥadīth fully vocalized.Layout: Written in roughly 9 lines per page, three of ḥadīth text and six of the Persian verse paraphrase with the hemistiches of four lines of verse divided and arranged on the diagonal ; written area divided to set off the ḥadīth text and elucidation ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV+1 (9) ; quaternion with added leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Authorial," reads " تمت ترجمه هذه الاربعين بتوفيق من هو ناصر ومعين سنه ست و ثمانين و ثمانمائة متع الله بها كل فريق فيه و الحمد لله على الاتمام و الصلوه و السلام على محمد و آله البررة الكرام"Explicit: "وقال لا يشبع المؤمن من دون جاره هر که در خطه مسلمانی باشد از نقد دین گر انمایه ... تمت ترجمه هذه الاربعين بتوفيق من هو ناصر ومعين سنه ست و ثمانين و ثمانمائة متع الله بها كل فريق فيه و الحمد لله على الاتمام و الصلوه و السلام على محمد و آله البررة الكرام اربعینهاى سالکان جامی هست بهر وصول صدر قبول بنود از فضل حق عجیب و غریب که بدین اربعین رسی بوصول"Incipit: "صحیح ترین حدیثی که راویان مجالس دین ... اما بعد این چهل کلمه است ازان کلمات که سهولت فهم و حفظ را بنظم فارسی ترجمه گر ده می آید امید ... لا يؤمن احدكم حتى يحب لاخيه ما يحب لنفسه هر کسی را لقب مکن مؤمن گرچه از سعی جان وتن کاهد ..."Title from headpiece at opening (p.2).Ms. codex.Fine copy of Jāmī's verse paraphrase of forty ḥadīth.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 557Origin: As appears in colophon on p.562, copied by Aḥmad ibn Khiḍr (Ahmet bin Hızır [Hazır]) with transcription completed 6 Rabīʻ I 958 [ca. 14 March 1551] in Edirne.Accompanying materials: a. Three inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. Insert carrying glosses (paginated pp.91-92).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover "IL 223" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in comb marbled paper (salmon, orange, red, blue) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla filled with vegetal composition with bird at center ; sewn in dull yellow thread, two stations ; overall in quite poor condition with flap missing, significant losses to upper outer corner of upper board (and opening quires), lifting and losses of leather, staining, abrasion, pest damage, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with 12-15 mm. between chains and 38-42 between groups ; quite sturdy and well-burnished, dark cream in color ; much staining ; losses of upper outer corners of opening quires (through p.142).Decoration: Section headings, keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; a few textual dividers in the form of inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf) with often sweeping shaqq, point of final nūn assimilated with bowl.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 27 V(270), IV (278), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (not visible in opening quires due to damage) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert and mistakenly skips ahead ten pages, following p.455 with p.466).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "تم الكتاب بعون الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد احمد بن خضر غفر الله لهم ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الاحياء منهم والاموات قد فرغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة بمحروسة ادرنه المحمية صانها الله عن الافات والبلية يوم الجمعة سادس ربيع الاول من سنة ثمانية وخمسين وتسعمائة من الهجرة النبوية"Explicit: "ومع ذلك يباح التناول اعتمادا على الغالب"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله اجمعين يقول العبد العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة ... هذا حل المواضع المقلقة من وقاية الرواية في مسائل الهداية اللتي الفها جدي ..."Title from opening on p.4.Ms. codex.Well-annoted copy of the commentary by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by the author’s grandfather, Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī (d. 1274 or 5), itself an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 96Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 16th century. Dated note on p.5 may provide a rough terminus ante quem of 1579-1580.Accompanying materials: Several slips with notes (paginated pp.51-52, pp.55-56, pp.61-62, pp.73-74, pp.95-96, pp.97-98).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 144. Sharh al-Wikayah."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather with repairs/reinforcements in red leather over spine and edges/turn-ins ; Type III binding (without flap, though textblock shows signs of having once been covered in a Type II binding, with flap) ; board linings in paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with floral vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi 5) and tooled accents ; sewn mainly in light blue thread, latter quires in red, two stations ; worked endbands in light blue and cream ; in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, flap detached at lower cover, etc.Support: Assortment of European and non-European laid papers ; European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (vertical) ; watermarks include anchor in circle with star above (compare Piccard no.119016) and angel in circle with flower or star above (compare Piccard no.21417) ; non-European laid paper with chain lines grouped in threes is quite well-burnished ; much staining throughout ; some leather burn ; numerous repairs.Decoration: Section headings, keywords and abbreviations rubricated ; overlining in black and red.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; effect of words descending to baseline, occasionally more exaggerated ; occasional extension of horizontal strokes ; final nūn often forming full circle with point at center.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: II (4), IV+1 (13), 5 IV(53), 2 V(73), IV-1 (80), 3 IV(104), III (110), V (120), V+1 (131), 5 IV(171), IV-1 (178), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present, though often cutoff ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and back flyleaves, skips two pages between pp.235-236).Explicit: "لدفع الخروج واسواق المسلمين لا يخلو عن المسروق والمغصوب والمحرم ومع ذلك يباح التناول اعتمادا على الغائب [الغالب؟] . تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب واليه المرجع والمآب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين يا رب العالمخين امين معين"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على خير خلقه محمد واله اجمعين يقول العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة بن محمود ... هذا حل المواضع المغلقة من وقاية الرواية من مسائل الهداية التى الفها جدي واستاذي الاعظم استاذ علماء العالم برهان الشريعة والحق والدين محمود بن صدر الشريعة ..."Title from opening (p.8).Ms. codex.Well-annoted copy of the commentary by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by the author's grandfather, Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī (d. 1274 or 5), itself an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 226Origin: As appears in colophon on p.419, copied by Aḥmad Imāmʻzādah al-Qasṭamūnī (Ahmet İmamzade el-Kastamoni) with transcription finished in Shawwāl 1197 [September 1783].Former shelfmark: "342 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "20" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.3).Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns/flyleaves in gold-flecked yellow-green surface-dyed paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped (over red-oranged recessed onlays) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, similar to Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces with gold-tooled and gold-painted accents as well as guilloché roll border ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and black, damaged ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown and grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.6, 20, etc.), heavily sized and burnished, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, light beige in color ; latter gatherings (from p.181) lighter in color and with " C C W" ["G C W" ?] watermark (see p.190, 191, 230, 231, 420, 421, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche and flanking floral motifs in gold, red, and green surmounted by a shallow w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in green and red on a filed of gold, surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue and set in a well of decorative bands in light blue, red, white, and gold ; written area throughout surrounded by frame consisting of a series of gold bands with an outer red fillet and a separate red fillet (narrow gold band for incipit and facing page) surrounding the area of the margins ; keywords rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; virtually serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 20 V(200), V+2 (212), i ; exclusively quinions (one anomalous) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips two pages each between pp.101-102 and 321-322).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب وقد كملت هذه المعرب في شهر شوال سنة سبع وتسعين ومائة والف عن يد عبد الضعيف الحاج احمد امام زاده القسطموني غفر له"Explicit: "ويجوز ان يكون صفة رجل حملا على محله القريب كما في الرضي هذا اخر ما اوردناه من الاعراب على اظهار الاسرار بعون الملك الستار ... اللهم اجعله خالصا لوجهك الكريم ... وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد الذي ارسل رحمة للعالمين وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين وعلى جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي رفع داء الجهل عنا بانزال قرآن عربي بين الهدى علينا ونصب اطباء العلماء بيننا بمحض لطفه واحسانه وكرمه لنا ... اما بعد فيقول الراجي من ربه الحسنى والزيادة حسين ابن احمد الشهير بزين زاده غفر ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما لما كان كتاب اظهار الاسرار للشيخ محمد البركي بديع الفضل في الاعصار منطويا على حقائق المباحث المعربية ومحويا على دقائق الاسرار الادبية ... سألني بعض الاخوان ... ان اكتب عليه اعرابا لا يغادر صغيرا ولا كبيرا الا احصاه ... فاجبتهم متضرعا الى من هو عليه هين يسير ... وسميته بحل اسرار الاخيار على اعراب اظهار الاسرار ..."Title from opening on p.5.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the commentary by Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad Zaynīʻzade on Iẓhār al-asrār, the work of Arabic grammar by Birgivî (Birgili, Birkawī) Mehmet Efendi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 136Origin: As appears in colophon on p.146, transcription finished 972 [1564 or 5]. Name of copyist has been rendered virtually illegible.Accompanying materials: Slip with notes and exercises inserted after back flyleaf (paginated pp.149-150).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 81. Explanations of Irab an kawaid." ; "٥٩٩" on tail of textblock.Binding: Limp covers in brown leather (goat?) with spine in tan leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; linings in laid paper ; sewn in pink [?] thread, two stations ; worked endbands in light blue and cream, headband entirely gone, tailband in fair condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, water damage, etc. ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; anchor in circle watermark (star above?) ; sturdy, thick and well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; textual divders in the form of inverted commas ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq (talik) ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; slight effect of words descending to baseline ; elongation of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15-17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6V (60), V+1 (71), 1 (72), i ; chiefly quinions ; lacks proper catchwords, but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert following back flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وقد وقع الفراغ من كتابة هذه الاوراق بقدرة العالي الخلاق على يد ... بن مولانا حسين بن محمد المحتاج الى رحمة خالق الخلائق في يوم الميثاق ... سنة ٩٧٢"Explicit: "ولقد احسن المصنف ... في ربط الخاتمة اذا علق في الفاتحة الاقتفاء جادت الصواب وفي الخاتمة الكافية بالتأمل تأمل هذا اخر ما يتيسر لنا ايراده لحمد الله ومنه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي رفع اسماء العلماء ... وبعد فيقول العبد المحتاج الى ربه الغني ابو الثناء احمد بن محمد الملتجئين الى لطفه الخفي ان المختصر الموسوم بالقواعد للامام الهمام ابن هشان ... لما كان قليل الحجم في المقدار جليل السهم في اثار ... سألني بعض الاخوان في الطريق واخلص الخلان في المضيق عند قراءته على ان اشرحه شرحا يبين التقسيمات في القواعد ويرفع النقاب عن وجوه مخدرات الامثلة والشواهد ... فضممتها في ضمن ذلك العقد القليل حتى كاد يقال انه كتاب لا يحتاج الى المغني بل يشفى العليل وسميته بحل معاقد القواعد ..."Title from opening on p.6.Ms. codex.Fine copy of Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Thanāʼ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Zīlī al-Shamsī's (d.1600) commentary on Ibn Hishām's (d.1360) grammatical treatise on inflection and the Arabic sentence.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 433Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely 19th century as suggested by paper, cover, date in seal impression, etc.Binding: Pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork with spine in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in painted lacquerwork ; doublure hinges in black leather ; upper and lower covers in painted lacquerwork of nearly identical composition consisting of swirling floral vegetal pattern of carnations, poppies, etc. in bronze on a field of olive green bordered in a floral vegetal pattern in gold on a wide band of black, flanked by bands of bronze ; upper and lower doublures in painted work of nearly identical composition consisting of floral vegetal pattern in green, pink, and yellow, outlined in gold on a field of red ; entire panel is bordered in a series of gold bands ; sewn in lime green, yellow, and dark blue (or black) thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light green and yellow ; in fair condition with some cracking, crazing, and loss of laquer ; upper board split and delaminating ; doublure hinges cracked and split ; abrasion.Support: non-European laid paper (likely Persian) ; quite transluscent, crisp and grey in tone ; no chain lines visible ; laid lines quite distinct, mainly oriented horizontally but occasionally vertically, spaced roughly 11-12 laid lines per cm. ; flyleaves in European laid paper, watermark eagle with "E A F" ; one of back flyleaves in wove paper ; many loose quires and dog-eared pages with some blocking due to moisture damage and tacky ink.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas ; gold cloud-bands and other accents surrounded basmalah and between two columns on incipit and facing page ; frame consisting of a gold band outlined in black fillets and outermost blue fillet surrounds the written area ; thin gold bands outlined in black fillets demarcate the columns within the written area and border the margin ; text partially rubricated with some section headings, portions of the gloss, textual dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; large clear Persianate hand ; mainly serifless with occasional left-sloping head serifs appearing on alif and lam of definite article ; mainly closed counters ; strong vertical character (somewhat elongated in vertical) ; occasional superscripting of letters and words ; some swooping tails ; fully vocalized in same ink ; gloss in a entirely different hand ; script more of a shikastah-nastaʻlīq with characteristic descent of words to baseline, elongated horizontal strokes, and characteristic long final yāʼ, etc.Layout: Written in roughly 14 lines per page plus lines of the gloss which vary widely ; single column divided to two column to set off poetry ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, IV+2 (10), II (14), 2 IV(30), 2+IV (40), 11 IV(128), 2+II (134), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; several blanks left between verses, likely for rubricated headings ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil Western numerals supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "كانما لبست او البست فنكا فقلصت من حواشيه عن السوق قد تم"Incipit: "لو كنت من مازن لم تستبح البى بنو اللقيطة من ذهل بن شيبانا اذا لقام بنصرى معشر خشن عند الحفيظة ان ذولوثة لانا"Title supplied by cataloguer from opening on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the famous anthology of poetry collected by Abū Tammām with a partial gloss in Persian.