Abstract: "A selection from Nef'î's divan."Binding note: Green paper embossed in flower pattern over pasteboard on covers, with brown leather on spine. Endleaves in yellow paper strengthened at the spine with strips of red, black and white pattern decorative paper. Label on upper cover: "291".Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1b.Copied by Osman Kemamî in 1262 (1846) -- colophon (fol. 24a). Following this is a note (in the same hand) about saying a prayer for the author, ending in the date :"sene 1152" (1739-40) ?.10 lines per page. Written in a medium small ruqʻah in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Fol. 1b has a simple text frame outlined in black and gold ink. Fol. 15b-16a have single line text frames in red ink. Throughout, the text is written in two columns, diagonally. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Fol. 1a and 24b both have additional verses written in the same hand. Few short inscriptions on front and back endleaves. "Divani Nefi" written in pencil on the recto of front flyleaf.Incipit: شاه عشقم عالم معنى مسلم در بكا خلق عالم بر نفس شاد اولمغه جانلر ويررExplicit: طبع نفعى كبى پرواز بلنداته نولا افتاب سايه صالمش بر همادر طره سى
Abstract: "Collection of the poems of Nef'î."Binding note: Limp brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla; marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from lower edge.On fol. 1a-2a, 88b-91, and the margins of 86a-88a, poems by various authors written by different hands.Physical description: 17 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in red; columns separated by double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining, mostly marginal. In good condition.
ff. 300 (acephalous) 245 x 167; 193 x 120 mm. 18 lin. Rabīʻ I, 605, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn ḥasan ibn Wāfī for the library of ʻIzz al-Quḍāh Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Dimyāṭī.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 168; S I, 267.Contains the riwāyah of al-Luʻluʻī; the contents correspond to vol. 2, p. 219 - v. 4, p. 246 of ed. Muḥammad Muhyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ḥamīd, Cairo, 1935.
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīths and letters by Abū Dāʼūd Sulaymān al-Sijistānī.Binding note: Lower and upper covers and envelope flap made of brown leather with a similar blind and gold tooled decoration, with a central roundel and an elaborate outer frame made of several fillets and running patterns. Rebound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents of the ms..Contents: 2. fol. 1b- 222a: Sunan / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 3. fol. 222b-223a: Risālah / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 4. fol. 224a-238b: Kitāb al-Marāsil / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 5. fol. 239a-243b: Tasmiyat shuyūkh Abī Dāʼūd ... al-Sijistānī / al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Jayyānī.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.41 lines per page. Written in Maghribī(?) script in black ink with larger script for headings. Glazed light cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible. Collation notes. Marginal notes. Some pages are carefully mended. Title on the lower edge of the text block (hardly egible). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.In the colophon of Text 1 (fol. 222a), it is stated that the copy was completed on Friday 25 Ramaḍān 589. The only other date in the ms. is 1241 H., the date of a collation by Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd (fol. 222a).
Abstract: Stories about Abū Nuwās, and some of his poems about wine, told by Abū Hiffān.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue embossed paper.Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 + (1) ; catchwords.Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; watermarks (circle with a cross inside, crown) ; MS in good condition.Layout: 21 lines per page.Marginal notes and glosses. Poems by various authors on fol. 1b and 2a.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Colophon: تم والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلمIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ابو هفان قال اخبرني
Fols. 171; 26.7 x 18.5 cm.; written surface 20.5 x 12.5 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Maghribi; headings and entries in red.Parts IV-XI of Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʼ.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم صلى الله ... اخبرنا الشىخColophon: اخر الجزء من الاصل وبتمامه تم الجزء الحادي عشر من الکتاب والحمد لله حق حمده وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد واله وسلم تسلىماA few marginal notes. MS contains eight parts. In the colophon the copyist states that it is the conclusion of the 11th part. Accordingly MS begins with the 4th part. MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Abstract: Last parts of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū al-Faḍl Ḥamd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Iṣbahānī from Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Khalīl Mufarraj(?) Mawlá Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd ibn al-Ḥarīrī al-Tajībī al-Ṭulayṭulī (fol. 17a, 32a, 51a). Incomplete at the beginning (contents correspond to ed. Cairo (1938), vol. 8, p. 77, l. 3 - end of the work; entries no. 369-689).Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather over cloth for the spine. The cloth extends as doublure of the upper and lower covers. Disparate pieces of paper as pastedowns. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a central medallion (different pattern on each cover) and an outer frame made of fillets with the inner corners delineated by fillets and stamped with a small flower motif.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of juzʼ 64 (fol. 17a).31 lines per page. Written in medium small script in black ink, with use of red for some punctuation and decoration of verses and re-inking of headings. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. The no. of the entry is written in red ink in the margin. Collation notes (collation statement on fol. 378a, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 566 H. 1171). End and beginning of parts (juzʼ) indicated on fol. 16a,17a, 32a, 51a, 67a (with a collation statement dated Mecca, Friday 18 Jumādá al-Ākhira 566 H.). Fol. 68-77 repaired with loss of text. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (fol. between 138 and 139: blank).On last fol. (fol. 378b): two reading certificates (samāʻ and ijāzah) for several persons, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī, the first dated Aleppo, 11 Rajab 624 H. 1227.Copied in Mecca at the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 566 (colophon, fol. 378a).Incipit: قال سمعت ابا تراب الزاهد يقول سمعت حاتما الاصم يقول قال لى شقيق البلخي اصحب الناس كما تصحب النارExplicit: والخلق الحسن الجميل رزقنا الله تعالى ما رزقهم من الاقبال عليه والانقطاع اليه وجمعنا وإياهم بطوله فى ساحة قدسه وبحبوحة جنته انه على ما يشاء قدير وهو حسبنا و نعم الوكيل
ff. 2 (incompl.). 176 x 131; 150 x 117 mm. 18 lin. Shaʻbān 591; on fol. la autogr. certificate of reading by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī, dat. Ṣafar 897; on fol. 2a samāʻ of the copyist Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn ʻImād, dat. 21 Rabīʻ I, 638, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh (al-Dimashqī, d. Jumādá II, 648: Shams al-Dīn V, 243); six other notes on fol. 2b.Incip.: ... اخبرنا ... شمس الدىن ابو الحجاج ىوسف بن عبد الله بن خلىل بقراتى علىه
Abstract: Second part of a commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have an elaborate outer frame and a central stamped mandorla. Portion of the same frame on the envelope flap, with small stamp on its point. Paper doublure. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. First two leaves damaged with loss of text. The text has been collated on an autograph copy by the author (see collation note on the margin of the colophon, fol. 205a).Copy completed on Sunday 12 Jumādá al-Awwal 719 July 1, 1319 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Mashhadī (colophon, fol. 205a).Incipit: سورة النساء وكوفيهم تسالون مح-- وحمزة والارحام بالخفض حملا نصف هذا البيت هو نصف --- قصيدة اي الكوفيونExplicit: وهو عندى اطيب والزرنب والقرنفل دون المسك والمندل فى الطيب فحسن تشبيه الصلاة على الصحابة بذلك لانهم في الصلاة تبع لرسول الله ... فلهذا اصابتهم نفحاتها وبركاتها رضي الله عنهم ورضي عنّا بهم امين يا ربّ العالمين
Copied A.H. 979 A.D. 1571.Fols. 225; 19.4 x 13.4 cm.; written surface 14 x 9 cm.; 15-17 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in clear naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; headings in red and green.A collection of discourses arranged in four divisions: (1) on morals and good conduct; (2) on politics; (3) on canon law and religion; (4) on miscellaneous themes. Dedicated to al-Malik al-Saʻīd Najm al-Dīn Ghāzī ibn Urtuq, who reigned A.H. 637-658 A.D. 1239-1260.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم ... ىقول العبد الفقىر الى مولاهColophon: وکان الفراغ من تحصىله نهار الخمىس بعد صلوة الظهر خامس شهر صفر من سنة تسع وسبعىن وتسعمائة من الهجرة النبوىة على صاحبها افضل الصلوة والسلامMarginal notes and glosses; the first 2 folios are by a later hand; also folios 139-225 are by a different hand. MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended and several are stained with dampness; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2440; A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 661; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1882/3; Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1950; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8779.Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1283, 1306, 1310.
Abstract: A collection of original poems of eulogy, satire and elegy.Binding note: Later half-bound type III binding (without flap) in red leather dark brown spotted paper.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Marginal notes and glosses. On title page is the date and place of birth of author as mentioned by Ibn Khallikān. After colophon are several poems by Abū Tammām not included in the dīwān, a story about the author mentioned by Ibn Khallikān and two verses by al-Subkī. Name of copyist is obliterated.Collation: Paper ; fol. ii +135 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 19 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; ruled ; first few folios frame-ruled in red.Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red in early part of ms ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition."Origin: According to colophon copied from 24 Shaʻbān to 24 Ramaḍān. Copyist's name obscured. (fol. 134a)."'Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر يا کريم. قال الاديب الشاعر المشهور ابوتمام حبيب ابن اوس الطائي.'Colophon: تم الکتاب المبارك يوم الاربعا عشرين من رمضان بعد مضي أربع ساعات وثلاثة عشر درجة وکان الشروع في کتابته يوم الاربعا رابع عشرين شعبان المعظم على يد الفقيرالى الله تعالى الباري ... الله له ولوالديه والمسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم