Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 271Origin: Versified chronogram at end (fol.182b, "اخلاق محسنى") gives dating for completion of composition; this reading, without the preposition "ز", yields the more widely accepted date of 900 H. As appears in colophon on fol.182b, copied by Maḥmūd ibn Najīb. Transcription finished ("tamma al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb taḥrīran fī tārīkh...") 12 Rabīʻ I 922 [ca. 15 April 1516].Binding: Pasteboard covered in red-brown leather; Type II binding (with flap); upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central mandorla (Déroche class. NSh1) with pendants and simple gold rule-border; smaller mandorla on envelope flap; doublures in light-blue coated paper embossed with vegetal pattern; in good condition.Support: Persian laid paper; laid lines oriented vertically but too faint to count; chain lines not visible; flyleaves are fashioned from a light-blue coated paper, embossed with a vegetal pattern, that is also used for the doublures.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece on fol.2b; marvelously rendered in two rectangular panels; lower panel contains the basmalah, executed in red nastaʻlīq, in a central cartouche flanked by two, smaller palmette-like lozenges; lower panel is framed by an elaborite golden braid; background is predominantly lapis-lazuli, with vegetal/floral patterns executed in gold, red, pink, green, black, and white; upper panel continues the background motif and color palette; three small, predominantly black, palmette-like lozenges serve as the pivot for the repeating vegetal pattern in this panel, but these are subdued figures and are rather absorbed into the lapis-lazuli background and intriquate vine patterns; upper panel is surmounted by five verticle, decorative stalks; written area framed by a rule-border in dark blue, black, and gold; gold frames set off verses and some chapter titles; text is polychrome, with main text in black, Arabic quotations in dark blue, gold, and occasionally red, and chapter titles in dark blue or gold; the words "شعر" and "بيت" as they occur throughout the text introducing verses of poetry are rendered in red and blue, and occasionally, gold; main text of incipit page decorated with gilt cloudbands.Script: Main text in nastaʻlīq; chapter headings in tawqīʻ; Arabic quotations of Qur'anic verses and Hadith in naskh and vocalized; basmalah in cartouche of illuminated headpiece in nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: ii, 23 IV (184), i; quaternions; cacthwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ١ on fol.3a (Western pagination) and concludes with ١۸۰ on fol.182a; fihrist of chapter titles (fol.6a-7a) corresponds with foliation.Dedication: Composed for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin (شاه ابو المحسن ), one of the sons of the Tīmūrid pādishāh Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, on the occasion of his coming to court (in Herat) from Marv (see fol.4a-4b, Western pagination).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads: "رب اختم بالخير والحسنى تمت [كذا] الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا في تاريخ اثنى عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنه اثنى عشرين و تسعمايه بخط العبد الحبيب [المجيب ؟] محمود بن نجيب"Explicit: "با خامه گفتم ای كه زهر ساختى قدم وز مقدم تو چشم سخن يافت روشنى اخلاق محسنى بتامى نوشته تاريخ هم نويس ز اخلاق محسنى"Incipit: "حضرت يادشاه على الاطلاق غرت كلمته و جلت عظمته منشور دولت سلطان المرسلين"Title from opening on fol.5a.Ms. codex.A work on ethics in 40 chapters, composed by Kāshifī for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin, a son of Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 451Origin: As appears in colophon on p.261, transcription completed Rajab 1171 [March-April 1758].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 inscription on interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 26" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-stamped paper (repeating pattern of squares filled with rows of diamonds in contrasting black on dull yellow and red-orange on white, also lining fore edge flap and covering envelope flap) with red leather over spine, fore edge of upper board, and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted Europea laid paper (three crescents watermark visible) ; sewn in light pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in dark blue and yellow, quite good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (horizontal), grapes (raison) surmounted by crown watermark (see p.16, 17, etc.), and several words including "LANGUEDOC" (p.36, 37, etc.) ; sturdy though fairly thin and transluscent, burnished, medium cream in color.Decoration: Simple headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.8 consisting of two empty rectangular pieces surmounted by a double semi-circular piece set into a well, all in red rules ; keywords, section and table headings, abbreviation symbols (letters representing the juzʼ, ḥizb, ʻushr and āyah, explained in opening table on p.9), sūrah titles and notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; written area and table within outlined in a red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand in a narrow line ; mainly serifless (though occasional serif appears) with slight effect of tilt to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; Qurʼānic excerpts vocalized.Layout: Written in roughly 25 lines per page with written area divided to tabular format of 25 lines and 6 columns (passage of text, juzʼ, ḥizb, ʻushr, āyah and sūrah title).Collation: i, 3 V(30), V-1 (39), V (49), IV (57), 6 V(117), V+1 (128), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals above letter ك in the upper outer corner of the opening recto of each quire from the second ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم وكمل هذا الكتاب الشريف في رجب الفرد سنة احدى وسبعين ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف صلى الله عليه وسلم"Explicit: "يهدي به الله من اتبع و - - و مائدة"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الكتاب واتاه الحكمة وفصل الخطاب ... وبعد فيقول العبد الحقير عبد الله الوزير الشهير بچته جى ... لما احتجت الى وجدان ايات القرآن في اكثر الزمان سنح لخاطري الفاتر ان اجمع كتابا مع قلة البضاعة مشتملا على جداول في بيان مواضع الايات بطرح عزيب ووضع عجيب فلما يسر الله الاتمام سميته بانهار الجنان من منابيع آيات القرآن ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.8.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a concordance by Çetecî Abdullah Paşa b. İbrahim el-Cermakî (ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm, d.1760) outlining various subjects addressed in the Qurʼān in tabular form ; preceded by preface and table elucidating the meaning of the abbreviation symbols employed (pp.8-9).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 7Origin: As appears in colophon on p.1178, copied by Ḥasbī Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan al-Arzanjānī in Erzincan. Transcription finished mid-Rajab 1177 [January 1764].Accompanying materials: Roughly ten inserted slips, most carrying glosses, some tipped in, all paginated (see pp.17-18, pp.49-50, pp.51-52, pp.107-108, pp.523-534, pp.885-886, pp.893-894, pp.895-896, pp.1151-1152, pp.1163-1164).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 49. Anwar al-tanzil." ; possible former shelfmark on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures and interior of flap in brown leather ; upper and lower covers bear large, blind-stamped, scalloped mandorla with symmetrical vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OSd 9) ; upper and lower doublures carry gold-painted outline of scalloped mandorla with pendants ; along with gold-painted roll border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; fine chevron endbands in yellow and blue ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, ill-fitting flap, etc.Support: European laid paper in at least two types ; the first type with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (vertical), watermarks include grapes with initials and crown and "P P [?]" countermark ; a second type with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), watermarks include lion rampant in scrollwork with crown above ; thin, crisp and fairly transluscent, though sturdy.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.10) consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular piece (dome) ; rectangular piece (surrounded by interlace border in lavender) carries empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in gold on fields of blue; semi-circular piece (set in a well of interlace in blue and black) contains floral motifs in gold and red on fields of blue, bordered in gold, red and blue and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents ; written area (and margin) of incipit and facing page outlined in gold frame, thereafter written area bordered in red rule-border ; text rubricated with keywords, overlining, sigla other abbreviations, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish / Eastern Anatolian hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping (nearly horizontal) head-serif appearing often on lām of definite article ; rounded though adhering to baseline (apart from occasional superscripting) ; very slightest effect of tilt to the left.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V+1 (11), 4 V(51), V+1 (62), V (72), IV+1 (81), 22 V(301), VI (313), 12 V (433), V+1 (444), 14 V (584), iv ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with first folio of text proper, continues with numerous mistakes (e.g. skips ۸۲, repeats ۲۳۷ then skips a leaf, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.493-494 and between pp.529-530, drops from p.899 to p.890).Cololphon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads: "قال المصنف ... قد اتفق اتمام تعليق سواد هذا الكتاب المنطوي على فرائد قواعد ذوي الاباب ... الموسوم بانوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل وهو سبحانه حقيق بان يحقق الرجا" ; "Scribal," rectangular then triangular, reads: "الحمد لله الذي وقفنا بخدمة كتابه المبين ... قد من الله تبارك وتعالى باتمام هذا الكتاب المستطاب بيد الفقير الى رحمة ربه العليم وشفاعة نبيه الكريم حسبي سليمان بن احمد بن حسن الارزنجاني ... بمدينة ارزنجان حماها الله ... في اواسط رجب المبارك لسنة سبع وسبعين ومائة والف ... اعننا الله فيما يحبه ويرضاه لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله"Explicit: "من الجنة والناس بيان للوسواس او الذي او متعقلق يتوسوس اي يوسوس في صدورهم من جهة الجن والناس وقيل بيان للناس على ان المراد به ما يعم القبيلتين ... فكانما قرأ الكتب التي انزلها الله تعالى"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرا ... وبعد فان اعظم العلوم مقدارا وارفعها شرفا ومنارا علم التفسير الذي هو رئيس العلوم الدينية ورأسها ومبنى قواعد الشرع واساسها ..."Title from authorial colophon.Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Bayḍāwī's celebrated commentary on the Qurʼān. Table of contents, listing of commentaries upon the work, and biographical sketch for the author included at opening.
Table of contents on pp. [1-2]; illuminated ʻunwān and chapter heading on pp. [5-6]; illuminated tailpiece; subsequent chapter headings treated more simply; gold rosettes mark sentence breaks on pp. [5-6]; text rubricated, Koranic citations overlined in red; text enclosed within gold borders; marginal supercommentaries written in hand of copyist; edges painted with gilt in foliate patterns."Baiḍāwī's commentary on the Koran, with supercommentaries by Shihāb, Sheikh Zādah, Saʻdī Efendī, ʻAṣām, Ghanī Zādah, Sinān Efendī, and others." Cataloging by William Hoyt Worrell, 1925. This is the author'smostfamous and popular work.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 977Origin: 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. 126Binding: 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 "شروح تهذيب الاخلاق | J.H.D." ; sewn in heavy white thread, seemingly over two recessed cords, though difficult to examine ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact, elegant hand in a thin to medium line (line thickness changes) ; 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.Layout: Written mainly in 17-21 lines per page.Collation: i, 2 VIII(32), i ; two octonions (gatherings of eight bifolia) ; pages between sections (corresponding to gatherings) left blank, with one serving as section 'title page' (see p.33) ; pagination in pencil and black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, in opening section only through page٢٨ ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "ثم اعلم ان من وصل الى مرتبة اكتساب الفضائل وجب عليه تأديب غيره وافاضة ما اعطاه الله على ابناء جنسهIncipit: "نحمدك اللهم ولا نحصى ثناء عليك ونستغفرك ونسترضيك ونتوب اليك ... اما بعد فان الله تعالى بعد ان خلق الخلائق وذرأ البرايا اصطفى منها نوع الانسان وجبله من طين مؤلف من مختلف الاركان والمواد ... وكان مما ظفرت به يدي واسعدني به دهري كتاب تهذيب الاخلاق وتطهير الاعراق للحكيم الفاضل ... ابو [كذا] علي احمد بن محمد بن يعقوب بن مسكويه ... فلهذا وذاك وجدتني نشطا الى تهذيبه وتلخيصه ... فما زلت اعاني النفس في ذلك ... فذلكة الكتاب والكتاب يشتمل على مقدمة ومقالات اربع ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Careful though incomplete copy of an anonymous abridgement of Abū ʻAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Miskawayh’s (d. 1030) treatise on ethics, Tahdhīb al-akhlāq wa-taṭhīr al-aʻrāq. See Isl. Ms. 934 for another manuscript copy.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 987Origin: 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. 136Binding: 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 "اقوال الاقدمين في الكونيات حكم سقراط | J.H.D." ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition though with curvature in boards (negative draw in upper board, positive draw in lower board).Support: Wove paper of two types ; opening type (first gathering, through p.32), machine wove, lined / ruled in blue ; thereafter in a sturdy machine wove type, dark cream to beige in color.Decoration: Text executed entirely in red ink.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium to bold 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.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: i, 2 VIII (32), V (42), IV (50), i ; catchwords present ; pages left fully or partially blank between sections (each comprising a single gathering), some (corresponding to the opening recto of the gathering ) to serve as 'title pages' (see pp.33, 65, 85) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "فانه يفتضح بها على رؤوس الاشهاد يوم الدين"Incipit: "حكم سقباط الباري لم تزل هوية فقط وهو جوهر فقط وهو غير مدرك من جهة كنهه ووصفه الاخص لان الحقائق كلها من جهة جوهره ..."Title from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Careful copy of a collection of excerpts from ancient philosophy, including that of Socrates (سقراط), Plato (افلاطون), Pythagoras (فيثاغورث), Empedocles (ابندقلس), Plutarch (فلوطرخيس), Porphyry (فرفوريوس), etc., addressing cosmology.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 431Origin: As appears in colophon on p.16, executed by Sulṭān ʻAlī [possibly Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī?] ; date of transcription not specified ; decoration, hand, etc. suggest early 16th century.Former shelfmark: "450 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of both front flyleaves.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark purple leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light-blue textured paper ; upper and lower covers bear gold-painted central floral motif with tooled borders in gold (two different shades) ; sewn in heavy yellow thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather and paper, etc.Support: Written area mounted in lovely silhouette paper (floral designs in pink) in leaves of non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct) and no chain lines visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche and surrounding floral vegetal accents in gold, red, lavender, orange, pink, light blue, white, etc. on a field of lapis lazuli bordered in bands of lapis, gold and orange-red, surmounted by a scalloped triangular piece or hasp set in a narrow rectangular piece continuing the floral vegetal design and itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in lapis lazuli ; written area throughout surrounded by frame in bands of green and gold with outermost blue rule ; panels within written area (and entire written area of incipit page) gold-flecked ; ḥadīth text in light-blue and white ink.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless with characteristic descent of words to baseline and superscripting of final words and letters ; elongation of horizontal strokes.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: ii, IV (8), ii ; single quaternion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "احقر العباد سلطان على"Explicit: "ومن كلامه صلى الله عليه و آله 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 منست از فضل حق عجیب و غریب که بدین اربعین رسی بوصول"Incipit: "صحیح ترین حدیثى که راویان مجالس دین ... این چهل کلمه است ازان کلمات که سهولت فهم و حفظ را بنظم فارسی ترجمه گر ده مي آید امید ... لا يؤمن احدكم حتى يحب لاخيه ما يحب لنفسه هر کسی را لقب مکن مؤمن گرچه از سعی جان وتن کاهد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of Jāmī's verse paraphrase of forty ḥadīth, possibly executed by renowned Timurid calligrapher Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī (d.1520).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 430Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; decoration, paper, etc. suggest 16th century.Former shelfmark: "524 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "231" inscribed in pencil on 'title page’ (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper (in red and green) with red leather over spine, fore edge of upper board, and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted European laid paper ; sewn in dark pink thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather and paper, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, quite thin though sturdy, burnished ; staining and tide lines ; back flyleaf in European laid paper with "GFA" under eagle watermark.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the basmalah flanked by floral vegetal accents in gold, yellow, red and white on a field of blue (approaching lapis lazuli), surmounted by larger rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche and surrounding floral vegetal accents in gold, red, and light blue on a field of blue bordered in bands of red and heavy gold interlace, itself surmounted by a scalloped triangular piece or hasp continuing the floral vegetal design ; larger rectangular piece and triangular piece are set in an elaborate well of gold, red, green, and blue bands and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area throughout gold-flecked and surrounded by a gold frame with outer gold and blue rules.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless with characteristic descent of words to baseline and superscripting of final words and letters ; elongation of horizontal strokes ; contrast in thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes.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 (7), I (9), i ; quaternion (anomalous, "missing leaf" possibly pasted to leaf carrying incipit page) followed by single bifolium ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "لا يشبع المؤمن من دون جاره صدق هر که در خطه مسلمانی باشد از نقد دین گر انمایه... اربعینهاى سالکان جامی هست بهر وصول صدر قبول منست از فضل حق عجیب و غریب که بدین اربعین رسی بوصول"Incipit: "صحیح ترین حدیثی که راویان مجالس دین ... این چهل کلمه است ازان کلمات که سهولت فهم و حفظ را بنظم فارسی ترجمه گر ده می آید امید ... لا ؤمن احدكم حتى يحب لاخيه ما يحب لنفسه هر کسی را لقب مکن مؤمن گرچه از سعی جان وتن کاهد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of Jāmī's verse paraphrase of forty ḥadīth.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 432Origin: As appears in colophon, copied by Muḥammad Zakarīyā Samarqandī with transcription completed in the year 1256 [1840 or 41].Former shelfmark: "548 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf ; "233" inscribed in pencil on 'title page'.Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork, spine in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in fine painted lacquerwork of composition evoking book cover design with central mandorla and pendants (filled with flowers and leaves in shades of pink and green on a black ground) set in a red ground with swirling floral vegetal pattern in gold and surrounded by border in black with white dots and flanking gold fillets (composition of upper doublure mirrors that of lower doublure) ; upper and lower covers bear paintings of nearly identical floral composition in mirror image to one another on an orange or bronze background, namely a central cluster of peonies, poppies, etc. with roses, poppies, buds, and other floral forms all in shades of pink and white with leaves in various shades of green, and surrounded by decorative bands with floral motifs in various sizes on bands of red and black ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and losses to lacquerwork and pasteboard, text block almost fully detached from cover, etc. ; cover large for textblock and perhaps not original.Support: Quite heavy wove paper ; surfaced dyed pale blue and pale green.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening consisting of rectangular piece with empty cartouche and flanking vegetal accents (all in gold) set between heavy gold bands and surmounted by a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) all in gold ; written area (and panels within) surrounded by gold rule-border ; ḥadīth text, preface and closing matter chrysographed.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless with characteristic descent of words to baseline and superscripting of final words and letters ; elongation of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written mainly in 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 ; text of preface in 8 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V+I (12) ; quinion with added single bifolium ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "على يد ضعيف الفقير الحقير كتبه العبد المذنب محمد زكرياى سمرقندى غفر الله تعالى ذنوبه ١٢٥۶"Explicit: "لا يشبع المؤمن من دون جاره صدق النبي هر که در خطه مسلمانی باشد از نقد دین گر انمایه ... تمت الاربعين حديث مع ترجمه اربعینهاى سالکان جامی هست بهر وصول صدر قبول بنود از فضل حق عجیب و غریب که بدین اربعین رسی بوصول ... ما تازه گناهیم و عطای تو قدیم است"Incipit: "صحیح ترین حدیثی که راویان مجالس دین ... اما بعد این چهل حدیث کلمه است ازان کلمات که سهولت فهم و حفظ را بنظم فارسی ترجمه گر ده مي آید امید ... لا يؤمن احدكم حتى يحب لاخيه ما يحب لنفسه هر کسی را لقب مکن مؤمن گرچه از سعی جان وتن کاهد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Jāmī's verse paraphrase of forty ḥadīth.
Watermarks: Face-in-the-Moon in double-bordered shield; Carbera De Mori Vittorio in script. For the former see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 19th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains geometrical diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and numbering of each kurrāsah in hand of copyist.Date in colophon: 5 Jumādá al-ūlá sanat 1312 hijrīyah [4 November 1894].For the sharḥ of Qāḍī Zādah on this work see Mich. Isl. Mss. 726 and 727.Text (not this copy) published."This work ... summarizes with their abridged demonstrations thirty-five fundamental propositions of Euclid's geometry." Hâmit Dilgan, "al-Samarqandī," in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, v. 12, p. 91a.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1058Origin: As appears in colophon on p.38, transcription completed in the last days of Muḥarram 898 [ca. November 1492].Binding: Limp brown leather covers with dark brown leather over spine (type of quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap), tight back though not fully flush with text block (ill-fitting or deliberate squares) ; now linings (potentially once flyleaves) in what appears to be European laid paper ; now sewn in white thread, not original ; overall in good condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: non-European (possibly Persianate) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly straight) and chain lines only rarely visible in pairs (see p.32) ; only somewhat cloudy furnish with inclusions and bits of fiber visible, heavy and sturdy, quite well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; chiefly a clear Turkish / Turkic hand ; serifless with effect of words inclining slightly to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, foot of lām, kāf, etc. quite curvilinear, kāf mashqūqah preferred with shaqq (curving upward) on even final kāf, final tāʼ marbūṭah often given as tāʼ maftūḥah, point of final or free-standing nūn set either down at center or floating above tall bowl, very casually pointed with pointing for two dots typically via conjoined dots, etc.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page (single column) ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board quite evident).Collation: III-2+3 (7), IV (15), IV-1+4 (26) ; 19 original leaves (paginated 1-38) with 7 added leaves, 3 at the opening of the codex, 4 at the close ; original composition of opening gathering uncertain due to repairs ; mainly quaternions originally ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, center of lower margin of each text page ; added leaves at opening and close of codex not paginated.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب فى اواخر شهر محرم سنه ٨٩٨ اللهم اغفر لكاتبه ولقاريه ولمن نظر فيه آمين رب العالمين تم"Explicit: "يكون محتويا الى النساء ويكون محفوظا عن اذى الجن والارواح وغيرها والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "لما راينا ان الجزء الاول المختص باسرار الرجال انتهى الى آخره على ما تقدم ذكرها وفصولها لزمنان [كذا] نذكر ايضا فى اسرار النساء التي تدعو الى موافقهن وتوجب الميل اليهن..."Title from opening matter on p.1.Manuscript codex.Fine copy of a treatise of materia medica attributed to Galen, including a number of recipes for drugs intended to treat various sexual conditions.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 922Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974). Copy perhaps partly made from a printed edition.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 71Binding: 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 "اسرار الآيات | الشيرازي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of two distinct types, one lined and one unlined.Decoration: Many opening headings and passages executed in contrasting purple ink ; others simply larger and bolded.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; two or three modern hands in a medium to bold line ; naskh partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, words adhering to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, occasionally more carefully executed ; ruqʻah, compact hand with slight effect of inclination to the right, serifless and freely ligatured with pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page.Collation: Pages between some sections left blank (see pp.37-40, 71-71) ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (first sixteen pages only) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [Asrār al-āyāt] "Scribal," reads "تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماه باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات للمحقق القويم صدر الدين الشيرازي الشهير وسوف نتبعها ان شاء الله تع بمتن العرشية ومتن المشاعر"Incipit: [preface] "نحمدك اللهم يا من تحيرت [؟] في بيداء كبريائه الالباب وغرقت في بحار معرفته عقول الاولياء ... وبعد فان هذا الكتاب المستطاب الذي هو قرة عيون اولى الالباب الموسوم باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات من مصنفات الحكيم الكامل ... صدر الحق والملة والدين محمد بن ابراهيم الشهير بصدر المتالهين الشيرازي ..." [Asrār al-āyāt] "هذا كتاب اسرار الآيات وانوار البينات لامام المتألهين محمد المعروف بصدر المتألهين الشيرازي طاب ثراه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... نحمدك اللهم يا من بيده ملكوت الارض والسماء واليه تتشوق الكائنات ... اما بعد فيقول انزل خلق الله واحوجهم الى كرامة رب العالمين محمد المدعو بصدر الدين هذا بيان للناس وهدى ورحمة للمتقين ..." [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "نحمد الله ونستعين بقوته التي اقام بها ملكوت الارض والسماء وبكلمته التي انشأ بها نشأتي الآخرة والاولى على تهذيب القوى القابلة للاستكمال ... وبعد فان اقل الخلائق قدرا وجرما واكثرهم خطأ وجرما محمد الشتهر بصدر الدين الشيرازي يقول ايها الاخوان السالكون الى الله بنور العرفان ..." [al-ʻArshīyah] "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره بالاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو الرب الجليل ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title from preface on p.1 and heading preceding opening on p.2.Ms. codex.3. p.326-p.425 : Matn al-ʻArshīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.2. p.268-p.326 : Kitāb al-Mashāʻir / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.1. p.2-p.267 : Asrār al-āyāt wa-anwār al-bayyināt / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.Careful copy of the treatise on Qurʼān interpretation by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640), followed by his Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, and al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Tables rubricated.Date from owner's mark on p. [1].Tables for sexagesimal multiplication and for astronomical observations.
Watermarks: Three crescents; initials PP/FVF in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Calculations rubricated.Date in headings of pages.Described inside cover as a "first draft of a calendar," this piece includes calculations for the visibility of the lunar crescent at the beginning of each of the Islamic months for the year 1209 [i.e. 1794-5] and for a lunar eclipse on 15 Rajab of that year [i.e. 5 February 1795].
Watermarks: Praying figure; hillock with initials FT in roman. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2610-2616.Contains brief astronomical tables.Text rubricated; text enclosed in red or black borders; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 813,2; corrections and marginal notes in other hands.Pp. [1-5]. Bound with: [2] Tashīl al-ʻibārah fī takmīl mā naqaṣa min al-yasārah, pp. [6-41]; [3] Astronomical treatise, pp. [43-62]; [4] Calendrical work, pp. [66-84]; [5] Fragments in Turkish, pp. [85-90].Fragments on calendar conversion and star observation, including a short calendrical table for Islamic years 1122-1126 [i.e. 1710-1714].
Text rubricated and overlined in red; marginal commentary in Turkish in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 750,2-4).Date based on that in colophons of Mich. Isl. Mss. 750,2-3.Pp. [1-5]. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Kifāyat al-qanūʻ fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ, pp. [6-24]; [3] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [25-38]; [4] Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat waqt al-imsāk fī ḥiṣṣat al-fajr, pp. [39-44].Assorted material on timekeeping and the Coptic calendar.
Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; eagle with letters A and FNF in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and 860.Tables rubricated.Possible date of late 15th cent.-early 16th cent. based on coverage of calendrical tables.Astronomical tables for the latitude of Cairo based on the Raṣd of Ulugh Beg (1349-1449), including calendrical tables for the years 871-931 [1466-1525].
In Maghribī script.Tables rubricated in red and green.Date in heading for tables on pp. [1-3]: ... rasama fī Rajab sanat 1167 [April-May 1754].Astronomical tables made in the year 1754 for latitude 36,40⁰ (Tunis); includes tables for timekeeping on each day of the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar and a table of latitudes and longitudes for cities in North Africa, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and Arabia.
Watermarks: Three crescents; Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum ,1950), pp. 24 and 36.Tables rubricated; some foliation in pencil.Probable 18th-cent. date based on start date of tables.Entirely tables: astronomical tables, star catalogs, and geographical tables based on those of Ulugh Beg. Calendrical table for Islamic years 1110 [1698] to 2100 [2658].
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text and table rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; marginal notes in another hand.Possible 17th-cent. date based on table showing correspondence of Islamic years 990-1500 [i.e. 5 February 1582-16 November 2077] with Coptic years 1299-1794.Deals with the conversion of calendars in the Coptic and Islamic systems, making astronomical observations, and a very brief treatment of numerology. Text unidentified; copy defective (introduction missing), text begins with faṣl 1 and consists of 3 faṣls followed by 7 bābs and a khātimah. Colophon missing.
Watermarks: Britannia (?); initials CIS in sans serif caps.Contains tables of zodiacal signs and latitudes and longitudes of cities in many different countries.Text rubricated; two copyists: pp. 7-17 (anonymous) and pp. 18-27 (named above).ʻudhran li-annahu jalla man la yasʾhū lā siyyamā fī hādhihi al-azmān allatī kādat al-ʻulūm an tandarasa wa-kathara fīhā al-jahl wa-maʻ iʻtirāfī bi-annī lastu min ahl hādhā al-shaʾn wa-lākin al-ṭamaʻ fī al-ajr ajraʾanī ʻalayhi wa-al-rijāʾ fī thawābihi awdamanī ilayhi wa-bi-Allāh al-iʻtimād wa-bihi thiqatī tamma....Date and author/copyist's name in colophon: wa-aqūl wa-anā al-faqīr ... Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Khaṭīb ... qad tamma tabyīḍ hādhihi al-waraqāt fī yawm al-ithnayn yawm al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrūn min Dhī al-Ḥijjah min sanat 1303 min hijrat al-nabī ... fa-al-marjūw miman aṭlaʻa ʻalá zallah aw ʻathar fīhā ʻalá hafwah an yuṣalliḥahā baʻd imʻān al-naẓr fīhi idh qīlakum muzayyiq ṣaḥīḥan li-ajl kawn fahmuhu qabiḥan fa-idhā taḥaqqaqa al-khaṭaʾ iltamas lī fīhāPp. 7-27. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [28-33]; [3] Astronomical tables, 1 leaf.Title unidentified, in 20 bābs and a khātimah; copy defective: text begins at end of bāb 2.
Origin: Possibly author's working copy, with many notes in marginalia. This copy finished 993/1585.Decoration: Titles and place names in red and gold ink. Central text on each page is framed in simple blue and gold border. Initial page features an elaborite design in blue, gold, orange, and green paint. Incidental maps and diagrams in margins are usually executed in blue ink. Map of Mediterranean world laid in page 22. A single page of notes with diagram depicting the kaʻbah as the center of the world along with many notes is laid into this codex.Script: Text written in naskh script with black ink.Binding: Leather bound codex with tooling on upper and lower covers as well as envelope flap; gold paint on medalions.Title from rubricated inscription on opening leaf (p.3) and inscription on 'title page' (p.7).Ms. codex.Geographical work ; geographical dictionary.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 233Origin: As appears in colophon on p.95, executed by Hakkakzade Hafız Feyzullah with transcription completed in the year 1200 [1785 or 6].Former shelfmark: "476 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "40" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.5).Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in silver-flecked olive-green tinted European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry central lozenge-shaped panel in gold- and silver-tooled semé pattern of rosette stamps along with decorative border on black and red leathers consisting of two guilloché rolls accented by gold fillets ; design continues on flap ; accompanied by slipcase with tail edge and pentagonal flap (carrying title) and woven pull tape, also covered in red leather (lined in yellow paper) with scalloped mandorla and pendants filled with tooled / cut and gold-filled vegetal composition over black leather onlays, as well as rosette stamp and stroke accents and guilloché roll border flanked by gold fillets ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and cream, good condition ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion at edges, repairs to joints and hinges in Japanese paper ; both volume and slipcase housed in custom box.Support: non-European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct), thin, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, heavily sized and burnished to glossy, beige in color ; pastedowns and flyleaves in European laid paper.Decoration: Brilliant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.6 consisting of w-shaped piece with cartouche carrying title "هذا اصحاب بدر" in red and accented by scalloped domes in gold against a field of blue all overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern in white, pink, yellow, blue, mint green, etc. ; entire piece is set in a well of green, gold, and white bands with red and gold accents and is surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; simpler illuminated tailpieces flanking close of Aṣḥāb Badr and Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼon p.52 and p.65, and at opening of Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼ (p.52) and Munājāt aṣḥāb Badr (p.65) fine illuminated headpieces carrying the titles in red ; superbly executed illuminated tailpiece accenting close of the munājāt and colophon on p.95, consisting of cloud-bands in gold, some overlaid with vegetal decoration, as well as narrow rectangular panel with swirling vegetal decoration in shades of blue, yellow, white, and pink on a blue ground and a larger rectangular panel reminiscent of book cover design in shades of gold, pink, blue, yellow, mint green, etc. surrounded by heavy interlace border ; written area surrounded by heavy gold frame accented by narrower gold, black and red fillets ; eight panels outlined by narrow gold band ; textual dividers in the form of elaborate illuminated rosettes with accents in white, red, blue, pink, etc. appear in the text of the munājāt ; titles and benediction (tarḍiyah) following each Companion's name rubricated.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; a splendid naskh, seriffed, with characteristic tilt to the left, and sweeping tails on final yāʼ, alif maqṣūrah, and nūn ; fully vocalized.Layout: For text listing the Companions, written area divided to eight panels, two columns with four panels in each column ; within each panel appears a Companion's name and benediction (tarḍiyah) in roughly three lines, for a total of eight Companions per page ; text of the munājāt written in 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 4 V(40), III (46), iii ; quinions and a ternion ; traces of catchwords (often cut off) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears at center head of the recto of some leaves (see p.25, etc.) and lower center of the verso of other leaves (see p.48, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (some flyleaves paginated).Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب حافظ فيض الله المعروف بحكاك زاده لسنة مأتين وألف من هجرة من له العز والشرف"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.5. p.96-p.100 : [blank].4. p.65-p.95 : Hādhā Munājāt aṣḥāb Badr.3. p.52-p.65 Hādhā Aṣḥāb Badr min al-shuhadāʼ.2. p.6-p.52 : Aṣḥāb Badr.1. p.1-p.5 : [blank].Exquisite calligraphic specimen in the hand of Hakkakzade Hafız Feyzullah, employing a listing of the ṣaḥābah or Companions of the Prophet who took part in the battle of Badr, followed by a prayer (munājāt) addressed to them.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Text rubricated; finding aids and marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Discusses three different calendrical systems: Arabic, Byzantine, and Coptic, and the astrological significance of their days and months for harvests, the rising and falling of the Nile, and historical events."A treatise on astrology arranged in 2 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 100.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 71Origin: As appears in opening on pp.24-25, assembled over the course of nearly three years then set down by the author in 1161 [1748]. A note on 'title page' (p.23) indicates that this ms. is a draft (مسودة) of the work, as attested by the layout and numerous lacunae, likely in the author's hand.Accompanying materials: Two scraps each with notes, etc. (paginated pp.111-112 and pp.569-570).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 152. Bahr al-fatawi."Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped central mandorla with rosettes accenting linear pendants and frame in tooled fillets ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; endbands in red and blue, tail band in fair condition, head band in poor condition with losses and exposed core ; in poor condition with significant abrasion (even gashes), lifting and cracking of leather, lower cover detaching at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; crown and grapes watermark ; lightly burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and vocalization rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; fine Turkish / Eastern Anatolian hand ; characteristically sans serif with effect of slight tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, many sweeping descenders and elongated horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes ; opening partially vocalized in red ink.Layout: As may be expected of a draft or rough copy (مسودة), the number of lines per page varies widely throughout.Collation: i, III+1 (7), 6 IV(55), VI (67), 3 V(97), II+1 (102), V+1 (113), V (123), IV (131), V (141), III (147), VI (159), 2 IV(175), VI (187), V (197), VI (209), 2 VIII (241), VI (253), III (259), IV+1 (268), VIII+1 (285), V (295), IV (303), III (309), VI (321), 2 IV (337), IV+1 (346), V (356), II (360), III (366), V+1 (377), 4 IV(409), III (415) ; numerous lacunae (unmarked) as may be expected of draft or rough copy (مسودة), regularly appearing between chapters ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "فان كانت حية فالثلثان للاختين والسدس للام والسدس الباقي للاخت لام ولا شحاء للاخ لاب الذي هو القائل وان كانت ميتة فالسدس الباقي له"Incipit: "احمد الله الذي جعل المجتهدين المتقدمين هداة المؤمنين ببيان الاحكام ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى عفو ربه الغني الشهير بقاضي زاده محمد الارزني مولدا ومحتدا المفتي بمدينة ارزن الروم برتبة قضاء حلب الشهباء لما ضاقت منطقة التحرير عما كتب في كتب الفتاوى وقصرت يد القدرة عن ضبط ما حرر فيها جمعت بقدر الوسع من وقت افتائي فيها بعض واقعات الفتوى وغيره في مجموعة غير مرتبة الى قريب من ثلثين سنة ثم بيضها في سنة احدى وستين ومائة والف من تردد لدي من الفضلاء شكر الله سعيه فصارت مجموعة كبرى وبحرا ذخارا فسميتها ببحر الفتاوى راجيا ان تكون ذخيرة العقبى وعازما على الطافي بها بعد هذا بعض واقعات الفتوى بعناية الله تعالى ..."Title from opening (pp.24-25).Ms. codex.Fine draft or rough copy (musawwadah) of an extensive collection of legal decisions assembled and set down by Qāḍīʹzādah Muḥammad al-Arzanī, muftī in Erzurum. A detailed table of contents precedes the text (pp.9-16).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1036Origin: As appears in final colophon on fol.210a, copied by Faḍīl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Nāʼīnī (see colophon at the close of juzʼ II for his full name "فضيل بن جلال الدين بن ابن حاجى محمد طاهر ابن خواجه احمد ولد سلغور شاه ولد عماده شاه ولد سلغور شاه نائينى"). Transcription finished ("tamma kitāb Baṣāʼir al-darajāt...) 1 Rabīʻ II 1072 [ca. 24 November 1661]. According to colophon following juzʼ III on fol.173a (p.345), copied in a school in the quarter / district (محله) of al-Karrān (perhaps in Isfahan).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 185Binding: Pasteboards faced in blue-green paper with red goatskin over spine and board corners (half-bound); Type III (without flap); pastedowns and flyleaves in what appears to be European wove paper with an embossed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne. TSL[?]"; very worn, upper cover detached from text block, entire case detaching from textblock at spine; poor condition.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with laid lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., no chain lines visible plainly enough for measuring; many inclusions; flyleaves and pastedowns in a European wove paper with impressed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne. TSL[?]".Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlinings and occasional textual dividers in the form of numeral khamsah in red.Script: Naskh ; fine, neat Persianate hand; essentially serifless (though occasionally serif on alif of lām alif ligature), point of final and free-standing nūn set down within wide, angled bowl (reminiscent of nastaʻlīq), pointing in distinct dots, curvilinear descenders, superscripting of final letters and words.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 25 IV (200), IV+2 (210), i; chiefly quaternions; catchwords present; leaves between each of the four ajzāʼ left partially blank and unmarked, but with no apparent loss of text; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied in cataloguing).Colophon: [final] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم كتاب بصائر الدرجات بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده [؟] والصلوة على من لا نبي بعده وذلك في غرة شهر ربيع الثاني سنة اثنان وسبعين والف وكتبه العبد الاذل المحتاج الى رحمة الله الغني ابن جلال الدين اكبر فضيل نائيني عفي عنهما" ; flanked by scribal verses in Persian, reading: "اي انكه ته اطالع مسعود بود دانى كه مرا از توچه مقصود بود يك فاتحه ازبهر نويسنده بخوان تاعاقبت كار تو محمود بود ان شاء الله" and duʻāʼ in Arabic, reading: "اللهم اغفر وارحم لكاتبه ولصاحبه برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Explicit: "قال قلت للرضا ان قوما من مواليك سالوني في ان تدعو الله لهم فقال والله اني لاعرض اعمالهم على الله في كل يوم"Incipit: "باب في العلم ان طلبه فريضة على الناس محمد بن الحسن المعروف بمموله عن ابراهيم بن هاشم عن الحسن بن محبوب يزيد بن علي بن الحسين عن ابيه عن ابي عبد الله عليه السلام قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه واله طلبه العلم فريضة على كل مسلم الا وان الله يحب بغاة العلم"Title from final colophon on fol.210a.Ms. codex.Collection of Traditions on the characteristics of the Ithná ʻasharī Shīʻī Imams by Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār (d.902 or 3), divided into four ajzāʼ (juzʼ 1 through juzʼ 4) with a colophon following each.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 673Origin: As appears at close on p.523, dated Rabīʻ II 1153 [June-July 1741] "في ربيع الاخر سنه ١١٥٤".Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 35" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in now silvery laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSd 8), pendants and corner pieces along with tooled accents (strokes and rosette stamp) and border (rules flanking a series of s-shaped stamps) ; sewn in red and yellow (from around p.144) thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, only headband remains ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at board edges), delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to spine, fore edge flap and board edges in black leather, also damaged.Support: European laid paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown above cartouche with name and grapes (raisin) below (see p.16, 54, 246, etc.), sturdy and dense, beige in color, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.16, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral accents in gold and red on a blue ground surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with somewhat crudely executed floral vegetal decoration in gold, white, yellow and red on fields of blue and gold with red accents ; entire piece set into a well consisting of a series of colored bands (in red, gold, yellow, and white) with crosses repeated in black ; written area of incipit page surrounded by a gold frame, elswhere central written area and margins surrounded by a red rule-border ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas, discs, etc. ; some overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; two elegant Ottoman hands ; opening hand (through p.334) partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām or other ascender, marked effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes or conjoined dots rather than distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters (dots) ; from p.335 to close (as well as table of contents, pp.4-14), another elegant naskh, seriffed with left-sloping wedge or barb head-serifs on most ascenders (vertical stroke of final kāf and even shaqq of medial or initial kāf also seriffed), effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, dramatic contrast of thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in heavy strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6), 21 V(216), 2 IV(232), 3 V(262), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and added leaves, mistakenly skips two pages between pp.423-424).Explicit: "اخره تفويض ايتمك استدكده زيد مجرد زراعت ايتدكلريمك حقوقلرينى ارا ايتمكله زراعت ايتمدكلرينك تفويضندن عمروى منعه قادر اولورنى الجواب اولماز"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع على احسن الترتيب والنظام وجعل علماء الشريعة خلفاء رسوله في بيان الحلال والحرام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى رحمة ربه الغني محمد فقهى العينى لله در علامة زماننا ... مظهر الاحكام الربانية مفتي السلطنة العثمانية مولانا ابو الفضل عبد الله افندى اليكيشهرى فقد بذل جهده في الافتاء لذوي الحاجات ... واني لما استسعدت بخدمته [؟] العليا ... اردت ان ارتب هذا الكتاب المستطاب ليسهل الاطلاع على تفاريق الواقعات ... واثبت في الهامش نقل كل مسئلة ... فلما صار ذلك كتابا مرتبا ... سميته ببهجة الفتاوى ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.17.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collection of legal decisions by Yenişehirli Abullah Efendi (d. 1742 or 3), compiled (with an Arabic preface) and annotated in Arabic by Muḥammad Fiqhī al-ʻAynī (fl. 1702). Table of contents provided at opening (pp.4-14).
Watermarks: initials A.R.T. with crown and shield; cursive monogram AG or GA.Text enclosed in thin triple border; borders decorated in Maranao style in black, red, and yellow. Work created in the Philippines.Praises of the Prophet Muhammad in Arabic; nonreligious verses in margins in Maranao.
Title from spine.Text rubricated and enclosed in borders of gold, blue, and red; extensive marginal commentary throughout; illumination on pp. [1-2]; substantial damage to pages with some repairs; purple silk bookmark; unusual leather and velvet binding (late 19th- early 20th cent.?); marbled edges.Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn....Dates of copying and copyist's name in colophon: (Arabic and Persian) tamma ... min yad ʻabd al-ḍaʻīf ... Shāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn Zīrbāʾī ... rūz-i jumʻah māh-i Shawwāl vaqt-i ẓuhr sanat khams fa-sabʻīn fa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. March-April 1568] ... [in margin] nuqilat min nuskhah nuqilat min nuskhat walad al-muʾallif ... wa-kāna naskh al-kitāb ... fī yawm al-aḥad wa-al-sābiʻ min Jumād al-awwal sanat khams wa-sabʻīn wa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. 9 November 1567] ʻalá yad afqar ShāhFor the Ṣaḥīḥ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 183.Commentary by an unidentified author on the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī, a collection of traditions of the prophet Muḥammad.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 593Origin: As appears in colophon on p.475, transcription completed 9 Jumādá II 994 [ca. 28 May 1586]. Date composition completed given as Rabīʻ I 985 [May 1577].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 17c" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in purple wove paper (over marbled paper) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche class. NSd 11) and pendants, along with tooled rosette accents and rule-border ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in brown and cream, good condition ; overall in quite poor condition with significant losses of leather (exposing boards and linings), delamination of boards, abrasion, staining, etc. ; repairs in dark brown and purple leather as well as dark pink textile (also lining fore edge flap) ; likely not original, somewhat ill-fitting and trimmed down (area around glosses preserved via careful trimming and folding) ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle watermark (see p.64) ; well-sized and burnished to glossy ; staining and some ink burn.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; clear, compact Ḥijāzī, 'Syrian' or Egyptian [?] hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless with very slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly closed counters, pointing mainly in distinct dots (though casually pointed), occasional vocalization.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off verses ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 6 V(69), IV (77), 15 V(227), IV (235), I (237), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "وقد فرغ مؤلفه من تحريره ووقفت انامل اقلامه من تحبيره في ليلة يسغر صباحها عن سبع مضين من شهر ربيع الاول سنة خمس وثمانين وتسعمائة" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من تعليق هذه النسخة المباركة في يوم الاربعاء تاسع شهر جمادى الاخير سنة ۹۹۴ احسن الله عاقبتها وغفر لكاتبها ومالكها ولمن دعا لهم ولجميع المسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين"Explicit: "ما لاح نجم على افق السماء وما هب النسيم على العشاق بالطيب والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام الاثمان الاكملان على سيد الانبياء والمرسلين محمد واله وصحبه الطيبين الطاهرين وسائر الانبياء والرسل وال كل التابعين ومن تبعهم باحسان الى يوم الدين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل المسجد الحرام حرما امنا ومثابة للناس وامر بتطهير الكعبة البيت الحرام للطائفين والعاكفين وازال عنه الخوف والبأس ... اما بعض فلما وفقني الله تعالى لخدمة العلم الشريف وجعلني من جيران بيته المعظم المنيف [تشوقت] نفسي الى الاطلاع على علم الاثار وتشوقت الي فن التاريخ وعلم الاخبار ..."Title from 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Fine early copy of the chronicle of Mecca by Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāḍī Khān Maḥmūd al-Makkī al-Ḥanafī al-Nahrawālī (al-Nahrawānī, d.1582).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 241Origin: As appears at the close of each piece (kıta), executed by es-Seyit el-Hac Mustafa İzzet. In three of the signatures he includes "known as Reisülulema". He has signed the final piece "Bende-yi Al-i aba, Seyit İzzet Mustafa," a modest expression which, according to M. Uğur Derman (see Letters in gold, p.118), he preferred to use in his later years. Only one of the pieces is dated 1282 [1865 or 6] with the others likely completed around the same time or slightly later.Former shelfmark: "570 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "93" in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Boards now covered in green and black mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look, traces of another paper underneath) with dark purple to black leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; boards lined in same mottled paper ; panels hinged together in accordion format with same dark purple to black leather and hinged into case ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion and staining.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into frames of blue and orange-tinted paper, and mounted.Decoration: Written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by further gold and black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red and green-blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large opening line of each panel in thuluth (sülüs), followed by four lines in naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line of thuluth and four smaller lines of naskh.Collation: Four panels hinged together in accordion (concertina) format ; opens vertically.Colophon: [1] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [2] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه امين سنة ١٢٨٢" ; [3] "حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه امين" ; [4] "بندۀ آل عبا سيد عزت مصطفى"Incipit: "اذكروا الله ذكرا كثيرا قال رسول الله صلوات الله عليه وسلامه مثل الذي يذكر ربه والذي لا يذكر ربه مثل الحي والميت ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) of four kıtalar employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 242Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by Hasan Rıza Efendi in imitation of a model by the renowned calligrapher Kazasker (Kadiasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876) with transcription completed in 1304 [1886 or 7]. Signature in the illuminated panel to the left of the close identifies the gilder (mudhahhib, müzehhip) as Hasan Rıza.Former shelfmark: "563 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "94" inscriped in pencil on recto of opening leaf/'panel'.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark lavender leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in golden yellow to orange surface-dyed paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite gold-stamped scalloped octagonal piece (filled with vegetal decoration emanating from a central floral motif) and rosette accents (at the apices of the scallops, forming pendants, etc.), as well as elaborate tooled border in gold accented by gold-painted fillets ; overall in somewhat poor but fair condition with only minor abrasion, losses of silk, panels detaching from spine and warping in some, and lifting of spine leather.Support: Well-burnished paper mounted on heavy board, with area framing written area surface-dyed (golden yellow to orange) and gold-flecked, edged in red silk ; sheets of red wove paper rest between many of the panels.Decoration: Illuminated panels consisting of rectangular panels filled with various swirling vegetal patterns on fields of gold, blue, light pink, etc. and surrounded by frames in blue, green, light pink, red, etc. flanking mainly the lines of naskh ; entire written area surrounded by heavy gold and light pink frames with narrower gold rules surrounding panels within ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes with accents in green, pink, blue, white, etc.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large line of each page in a fine thuluth ; central lines of each page in a superb naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of ḥadīth text or excerpts.Layout: Written in 5 and 6 lines per page, a large line of thuluth followed by four or five lines of naskh, with lines in thuluth and those in naskh constituting two distinct streams of text ; written area is divided into upper panel accomodating the large line of thuluth and centered lower panel carrying the more compact lines of naskh ; opens vertically with writing parallel to spine.Collation: Six heavy leaves or 'panels' hinged together.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "حرره الحاج السيد حسن رضا مقلدا بمصطى عزت غفر الله ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما امين سنه ١٣٠۴"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing assorted ḥadīth, executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Hasan Rıza Efendi (d.1920), a master of naskh and thuluth.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 239Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely 18th or 19th century.Former shelfmark: "561 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on spine 'lining' where it extends onto upper cover ; "112" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Unbound ; leaves/'panels' were originally hinged together via green silk and adhesive ; paper has been wrapped around the long (horizontal) edge to join the leaves and form a spine ; 'panels' are delaminating and separating from one another ; some abrasion ; currently housed in envelope.Support: Well-burnished laid paper set into heavy (likely thin pasteboard) painted and gold-flecked frame, edged in green silk ; colors of facing panels match (orange, purple, and green).Decoration: Written area surrounded by gold-stamped border in interlocking geometric design ; written area divided into rectangular panels by gold rules ; often a white fillet appears at the center of the gold-flecked frame.Script: A fine thuluth.Layout: Written in two lines per page.Collation: Nine leaves or 'panels' originally hinged together.Incipit: "رب يسر ولاتعسر رب تمم بالخير وه"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing alphabetic exercises (müfredat).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 237Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by İbrahim Rodosi ; date of transcription not specified, though calligrapher's activity (acquiring his icazet shortly after the death of his first teacher İsmail Zühdî in 1731) suggests mid to late 18th century.Former shelfmark: "559 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "116" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather with spine in a lighter red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla filled with symmetrical vegetal composition (compare binding ornament on cover of Isl. Ms. 230), as well as tooled border consisting of guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets ; panels hinged together with red-brown leather ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting of leather, spine split near head, etc.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (in some cases surface-dyed pink) pieced, set into frame consisting of other surface-dyed and gold-flecked papers in combinations of orange and green, blue and pink, orange and magenta, yellow and green, green and magenta, lavender and orange, etc. (papers of facing pages match) set off by gold bands and white fillets.Decoration: Decorative illuminated pieces consisting mainly of scalloped semi-circular pieces (domes) overlaid with swirling vegetal pattern in gold, red, pink, white, blue, etc. flank the compact central lines ; other illuminated flanking pieces of different vegetal composition appear on some panels ; written area surrounded by frame in bands of gold varying thickness ; textual divders in the form of illuminated rosettes with accents in pink, white, blue, etc.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; two large lines of each page in thuluth ; two central lines of each page in naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of text though both open in alphabetic exercises.Layout: Written in four lines per page, two large lines in thuluth (sülüs) and two more compact lines in naskh (nesih) ; written area divided into upper and lower panels accommodating the large lines and a central panel divided to accomodate the two more compact lines.Collation: Ten 'panels' (mounted leaves) edged in and hinged together with red-brown leather ; opens vertically.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "مشقه اضعف الكتاب ابراهيم الردوسي"Explicit: [in thuluth / sülüs] "سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجل ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك" ; [in naskh / nesih] "فان امارتي بالسوء ما اتعظت من جهلها بنذير الشيب"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) executed by the Ottoman calligrapher İbrahim Rodosi (d.1787). Comprises a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) in two scripts (thuluth / sülüs and naskh / nesih) employing the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat), composed word exercises (mürekkebat) with the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı), invocations, and a portion of the text of al-Buṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-Burdah.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 240Origin: As appears at close, executed by Mustafa el-Haşimî known as Kadızade in 1195 [1780 or 1].Former shelfmark: "550 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on upper board lining ; "107" in pencil on recto of opening panel.Binding: Pasteboards faced in gold-flecked, pale yellow paper and framed in tan leather (covering board edges / turn-ins and likely spine at one time) now with dark purple leather (and Japanese paper repair) over spine (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; opens vertically ; board linings in magenta paper ; gold rule-borders on leather edging ; overall in fairly good condition ; repairs in Japanese paper ; occasional repair to hinges in same dark purple leather.Support: Written area on well-burnished laid paper, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (pale peach-tinted, pink-tinted, light blue-tinted, orange-tinted, etc. with colors of facing panels matching) and mounted.Decoration: Written area (and divisions within) surrounded by gold frame set off by black and white fillets ; written area set into a frame of tinted paper (colors of facing panels match).Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; in thuluth (sülüs) and naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in four lines per page ; two large lines thuluth and two smaller centered lines in naskh, constituting two distinct streams of textCollation: Eleven 'panels' hinged together with tan leather.Colophon: "مشقه اضعف العباد السيد مصطفى الهاشمى المعروف بقاضى زاده سنه ١١٩٥ه"Explicit: "وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجد ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك"Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير ا ب ت ج ح د ز ذ ر س ش ص ط ع و ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) in this case a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) employing first (in seventeen kıt'alar) the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat) and closing with three kıt'alar of mürekkebat exercises employing the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı) and a prayer.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 229Origin: As appears in colophon on final panel, executed by Mahmud Celâleddin in 1206 [1791 or 2] and copied from a model executed by Hafız Osman Efendi in 1108 [1696 or 7].Former shelfmark: "99" in pencil on recto of opening panel ; numeral and "T. D. M" [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis] on verso of final panel.Binding: Boards covered (faced) in blue and white marbled paper (kumlu ebru) with red leather over spine and board edges / turn-ins (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in same marbled paper ; panels hinged together in same red leather ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into frames of marbled paper (ebru) mainly in shades of blue, pink, yellow and black, and mounted on thin boards.Decoration: Illuminated rectangular pieces filled with vegetal decoration in shades of gold, pink, orange, and lavender on fields of blue, gold, etc. flank mid and lower sections of written area on each panel ; written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by black fillets ; illuminated textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red, orange and blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large lines of each panel (typically opening and closing lines) in thuluth (sülüs), with central lines in naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in 6 to 13 lines per page, including two lines of thuluth with four centered lines of naskh, two lines of thuluth with eight diagonal lines of naskh, one line of thuluth with seven lines of naskh, one line of thuluth with nine diagonal and then three horizontal lines of naskh, etc. ; thuluth and naskh carry separate streams of text.Collation: Five 'panels' edged and hinged together with red leather ; numbered in pencil with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper outer corner of the written area for each piece ; opens vertically.Colophon: "كتبه من لا قدر له ولا قدر ولا نخل بواديه ولا سدره اضعف العباد الكتاب عثمان المشتهر بحافظ كلام الوهاب شاكرا لله الملك الوهاب ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثيرا سنة ثمان ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف ونقلها محمود المعروف بجلال الدين مع الكتبة والتنقيح بعينها غفر الله ذنوبهما ١٢٠٦"Explicit: "نور المسلم من شاب شيبة في الاسلام كتب الله بها حسنة وكفر عنه بها خطيئة ورفعه بها درجة اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق واكمل الخلق محمد واله الطاهرين اجمعينIncipit: [thuluth] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين وعليه التكلان من الخذلان ..." ; [naskh] "والدباران ياتيها بعد ان تفوته ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Mahmud Celâleddin Efendi (d.1829) in imitation of a model executed by the master calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 236Origin: Lacks dated colophon, but at the close includes four statements each attesting to its authenticity as a specimen in the hand of 'the late shaykh,' likely Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya (d.1519 or 20). Signators of the statements include Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756), renowned student of Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731), accompanied by his seal ; Seyyid Abdullah's son and student Emirefendizade Seyyid Abdülhalim (d.1759), accompanied by his seal dated 1135 [1722 or 3] ; likely Yahya Fahrettin (d.1756), student of İkinci Derviş Ali (d.1716) ; and possibly Yahya b. İsmail (Kirişci) (d.1759). Thus the calligraphy would have been executed in the early 16th century (if not late 15th century), and signatures, initial piecing, etc. in the first half of the 18th century. Mounting possibly later.Former shelfmark: "553 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of lower cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in magenta-tinted, gold-flecked paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted frames each consisting of a guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets ; panels hinged together with green silk (possibly once in accordion format) ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion.Support: Written area on well worn leaves, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (pink-tinted, yellow-tinted, magenta-tinted and gold-flecked, and blue-tinted and gold-flecked, though colors of facing panels match), and mounted on other leaves of gold-flecked, magenta-tinted, European laid paper with watermarks of "F C" under three stars and three hats.Decoration: Illuminated floral vegetal pieces appear in panels flanking the written area on each of the first four pages, consisting of a central floral piece filled with a vegetal decoration in gold, pink, red, white, and blue continued as cornerpieces on a blue ground ; each of these decorative panels is surrounded by an elaborate frame in pink, gold interlace, and blue ; decoration of final page forms an elegant illuminated tailpiece continuing the vegetal pattern in pink, red, orange, white, and green on fields of blue and gold and accommodating the close of the text as well as the four statements of authenticity ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes with blue, red and white accents appear throughout.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; an elegant naskh, partially seriffed, with very slight tilt to the left and some sweeping descenders.Layout: Written in 12-15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: Six 'panels' (mounted leaves) hinged together with silk ; all originally joined back to back at both edges, now only at one edge except for two of the six ; opens vertically.Explicit: "اللهم انصر من نصر الدين واخذل من خذل المسلمين امين يا رب العالمين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Incipit: "صدق الله العظيم وبلغ رسوله الكريم ونحن على ما قال ربنا وخالقنا ورازقنا مولينا من الشاهدين اللهم ربنا تقبل منا ختم القرآن ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing a prayer text (duʻāʼ), likely executed by the master Ottoman calligrapher, Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya (d.1520).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 234Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh, likely Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731), who was a favorite pupil of the celebrated calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698). He received his icazet in 1102 [1690 or 91] and died around 1144 [1731]. Undated but most likely executed between 1690 and 1731.Former shelfmark: "109" inscribed in pencil at opening ; "542 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on hinge of lower cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) in marbled paper (mainly in pink, brown, yellow, blue, and white) ; upper and lower covers carry incised and gold-painted (with red leather inlay) symmetrical scalloped panel resembling four-lobed flower or lozenge with domes emerging from the long edges, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps with gold-painted accents ; panels hinged together with dark brown leather ; in somewhat poor but fair condition with significant staining, some abrasion and lifting of leather, etc.Support: Well-burnished European laid paper mounted on heavy laid paper (roughly 8 laid lines per cm.) with marbled frame (several variations in dark green, red, light blue, yellow, dark lavender, etc. ; papers of facing panels match).Decoration: Written area and panels within surrounded by frame consisting of heavy and narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; textual dividers in the form illuminated rosettes with red and blue accents.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening line of each page in fine thuluth ; five centered lines thereafter in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 6 lines per page, one large line in thuluth and five more compact lines in naskh ; written area divided to upper panel (accomodating the large line) and centered lower panel (for the shorter lines) ; opens vertically with writing parallel to spine.Collation: Six 'panels' (two leaves each) hinged together ; 'pagination' in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears toward the left of each panel apart from the last.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير السيد عبد الله رضي عنه مولاه"Explicit: "اللهم صل وسلم على نبي الرحمة وشفيع الامة الضعيفة محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين اجمعين"Incipit: "روي عن ابي سعيد الخدري رضي الله تعالى عنه قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الا ان رجب شهر الله الاصم فمن صام من رجب يوما ايمانا واحتسابا استوجب رضوان الله الاكبر ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing the text of assorted ḥadīth, executed by the renowned Ottoman calligrapher Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731), favorite pupil of the celebrated calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 244Origin: In colophon, attributed to "Ḥamd Allāh al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Shaykh," Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya, with date of transcription is not specified. Colophon is questionable though attribution for most of the kıta'lar is likely accurate would suggest completion in the late 15th or early 16th century. Pieced and mounted at a later date, even late 16th or 17th century, with some repairs and replacements supplied.Former shelfmark: "335 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" on verso of final panel ; "100" inscriped in pencil at opening.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; hinged together with red-brown leather in accordion format ; doublures in dark slate blue leather with border and area of mandorla and cornerpieces (on reverse) gold-flecked and lined in gold ; upper and lower covers carry superb stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces, along with gold-painted accents and tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps approaching a guilloché roll ; overall in good condition with only minor abrasion and lifting of leather at board edges.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (repaired in many places) pieced and set into an elaborate frame of decorative papers, the outermost being richly colored marbled paper of several types and adjacent to it a border of pieced colored papers, some also gold-flecked ; other decorative papers fill the remaining areas surrounding the text ; specimens and borders mounted on leaves of well-burnished European laid paper.Decoration: Gold-flecked or painted decorative papers often flank lower panel carrying lines of naskh ; written area (and panels within) surrounded by frames consisting of gold and red-orange rules ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; large line of each page in thuluth ; lines of each page in naskh ; fully vocalized ; each continues a distinct stream of text.Layout: Written mainly in 6 or 9 lines per page, a large line of thuluth and 5 or 8 compact lines of naskh (alternating pages carrying 5 or 8 lines) with lines in thuluth and those in naskh constituting two distinct streams of text ; written area divided into upper panel accommodating the large line and centered lower panel accommodating the more compact lines ; 8 lines of naskh mainly written on the diagonal.Collation: Twelve 'panels' hinged together in accordion format ; panels are numbered on the verso with Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink beginning with ٣.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبها حمد الله المعروف بابن الشيخ حامدا الله تعالى على نعمه ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين اجمعين"Explicit: [thuluth] "الخط الحسن نزهة العين وريحانة القلوب انه ولي الهداية والتوفيق" ; [naskh] "اذا استشرت الجاهل اختار لك الباطل"Incipit: [thuluth] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم سئل كسرى انوشروان ما ..." ; [naskh] "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي وسئل كسرى ما بالكم اليوم اذ كنتم احق بتعليم الناس اشد استغلالا بالتعلم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Superb album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing mainly hadīth pertaining to sentiments of Kisrá Anūshirvān (Khosrow or Khusraw I, d.579), with most of the kıt'alar executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Şeyh Hamdullah of Amasya (d.1520).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 243Origin: As appears in signature on each panel, executed by Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi known as İmamzade (d.1756), who acquired his icazet in 1705.Former shelfmark: "545 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on upper board lining ; "39" in pencil on recto of opening panel.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) and reverse of opening and closing panels in fine marbled paper (ebru in blue, red, pink, green, etc.) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled borders ; panels edged and hinged together with red brown leather ; overall in fairly good condition ; repairs to spine and hinges in Japanese paper.Support: Written area on well-burnished paper, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (yellow-tinted, mint-tinted, pink-tinted, orange-tinted, and untinted, all gold-flecked and with colors of facing panels matching) and mounted.Decoration: Illuminated rectangular pieces filled with vegetal decoration in shades of gold, pink, orange, etc. flank lower central written area on each panel ; written area and divisions within surrounded by frames of gold defined by bands of turquoise and white as well as black fillets ; illuminated floral accents in shades of pink, light green, red, gold, etc. set off text and frames.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening large line of each panel in thuluth (sülüs), following lines naskh (nesih).Layout: Written in roughly nine lines per page, a large line with eight following lines on the diagonal.Collation: Six 'panels' (mounted leaves) edged and hinged together with brown leather ; opens vertically.Colophon: Each panel signed "حرره الفقير محمد راسم," "حرره الفقير محمد راسم المعروف بامام," etc.Explicit: "وفوقه عرش الرحمن ومنه تفجر انهار الجنة"Incipit: ""بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ان المرأة تقبل في صورة شيطان قال النبي صلوات الله عليه وسلامه ان المسلم اذا انفق على اهله نفقة وهو يحتسبها كانت له صدقة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) comprising kıt'alar employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756), renowned student of Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 235Origin: As appears in colophon, executed by one Ḥamdī [Hamdî] with possible date or number for this piece.Former shelfmark: "567 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in golden olive-tinted and gold-flecked paper with black leather over board edges/turn-ins (leather edged / framed binding) ; board linings in yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled and gold-painted rosettes and guilloché roll border ; panels hinged together with dark brown to black leather ; in fair condition with some abrasion and lifting of leather at board edges and joints/hinges (some split).Support: Well-burnished European laid paper bordered by strips of marbled paper and tinted-frame (orange, pink, etc. though papers of facing panels match) ; watermark faintly visible in final panel but difficult to make out.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of strips of marbled paper (in pink, blue, and white) flanked by white and green fillets and heavy and narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; panels within written area surrounded by narrow gold band ; textual dividers in the form illuminated rosettes with white, pink, red and blue accents ; additional illuminated floral accents appear above elongated horizontal strokes and elsewhere to set-off text.Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; opening line of each page in thuluth ; four centered lines thereafter in naskh ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 5 lines per page, one large line in thuluth and four more compact lines in naskh ; written area divided to upper panel (accommodating the large line) and centered lower panel (for the shorter lines).Collation: Ten 'panels' (consisting of written area and border pieces mounted on another leaf) hinged together in accordion format (opens vertically) ; 'pagination' in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears in the upper left-hand corner of each panel.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب حمدى ۷۹"Explicit: "وللخازن مثل ذلك لا ينقض بعضهم اجر بعض شيئا اللهم صل وسلم على اشرف الخلق محمد واله الطاهرين"Incipit: "قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن ابي هريرة رض قال قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم اذا مضى شطر الليل او ثلثاه ينزل الله تبارك وتعالى الى سماء الدنيا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) employing the text of assorted ḥadīth, executed by one Hamdî.
Watermarks: Three circles with cross.Contains a numerical table.Text not rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; notes in French on small slips of paper bound into volume.A miscellany of Koranic verses, prayers, and spells, probably numerological and magical spells.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no.860.Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist.Date and copyist's name in colophon: wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah yawm al-sabt muwāfiq arbaʻah ayyām khalat min Dhī al-Ḥijjah alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat 1300 [6 October 1883] muwāfiq 26 Tūt sanat 1600 qibṭīyah ʻalá yad kātibihi Aḥmad Saʻd Luqbā[?] al-Marṣafī baladan al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban.Commentary by unidentified author on Tuḥfat al-ikhwān, a poem on timekeeping by Aḥmad ibn Qāsim.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1041Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip of paper with notes in hands of Eilts and Jameson [according to R. Dougherty] "Astrological text | various hands with introductions & commentaries [crossed out to read] Prayers. | Date unknown | author unidentified | Brought to RBR on 10-27-70 by Mr. Eilts. | Purchased by Mr. Sulaymān from Librarie Tunisienne in 1967. Letter & invoice in MSS file." and on reverse "Religious text | prayers | Dalāʼil al-Hayrāt [sic] | دلايل الحيرات" (paginated p.1-2).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 190Binding: Boards covered in untinted paper with black cloth over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; stab sewn (resewn) in white thread ; overall in fairly qood condition.Support: European laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (perpendicular to the chains, 95 mm. tall, see pp.10, 28-30, etc.) ; well-sized and burnished, sturdy.Decoration: Many keywords and section headings rubricated, others in green, blue or yellow ; some headings bordered in green or red ; textual dividers in the form of yellow discs ; written area surrounded by red rule-border ; tables of the Prophet's names on the diagonal (with instructions for recitation in margin of p.33) ; depictions of the rawḍah and minbar in yellow with red and green accents (p.42 and p.43).Script: Maghribī ; spacious, clear hand with slight inclination to the right ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV (8), 7 V(78), I (80), i ; chiefly quinions ; pagination in blue ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and flyleaves).Explicit: "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وامام المرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما انتهى انتهى بحمد الله وحسن عونه والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وسلم تسليما قال الشيخ الامام ابو عبد الله محمد بن سليمان الجزولي رحمه الله الحمد لله الذي هدانا للايمان والاسلام والصلاة والسلام على محمد نبيه ... وبعد هذا فالغرض في هذا الكتاب ذكر الصلاة على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وفضائلها نذكرها 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 ابتغاء لمرضات الله تعالى ومحبة في رسوله الكريم ..."Title from opening matter on p.21.Ms. codex.4. p.154-p.162 : [al-Ṣalāh al-Mashīshīyah and assorted closing prayers and excerpts].3. p.20-p.153 : Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār / al-Jazūlī.2. p.18-p.19 : [incitement / propaganda (taḥrīḍ) for Dalāʼil al-khayrāt and in praise of its author "ولبعض العلماء في التحريض لدلائل الخيرات ومدح مؤلفه رضي الله عنه"].1. p.5-p.17 : [opening prayers and excerpts].Fine Maghribī copy of al-Jazūlī’s (d.869/1465) celebrated collection of prayers for the Prophet, description of his tomb, his names, etc. with opening and closing prayers, etc.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1013Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. would suggest late 19th century.Accompanying materials: "a. Slip of paper with notes in Jameson’s handwriting: 'Sections from the Koran / Collection of prayers / Sulaymān purchase / 10-20-70' -- b. Slip of paper with notes in Jameson’s handwriting: '?Section of the Koran? / Bought on Mr. Sulaymān’s trip. All on one order no. / Brought to RBR on 10-27-70 by Mr. Eilts. Purchased by Mr. Sulaymān from Librarie Tunisienne in 1967. Letter & invoice in MSS file' " - from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993, no longer in volume.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 162Binding: Boards covered in red cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; spine gold-stamped with 'title' ("قرآن كريم") and decorative bands ; now sewn in white thread (rarely visible, see p.44) ; stuck-on endbands in mint green ; overall in quite good condition ; certainly not original (impression of a flap visible in many leaves).Support: Light brown machine wove paper with embossed mark ("imitation watermark") "BATH" under crown (see p.49-50, 53-54, 57-58, and 59-60, 267-268, etc.) ; pigment burn to breakthrough at inner border of frame surrounding written area in many leaves and minor pest damage.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of empty rectangular piece bordered in salmon (orange) and gold, surmounted a scalloped dome carrying title for opening section "دلائل الخيرات مقدمۀ" surrounded by floral vegetal decoration in gold, lavender, green, salmon, and blue, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in light blue ; written area surrounded by gold frame consisting of heavy gold band defined by black fillets with outermost red rule ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated roundels / rosettes with red and blue accents ; simple illuminated headpieces appear at other section headings throughout text.Script: Naskh ; exquisite, bold Ottoman hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs mainly on lām (initial, final and isolated) and other ascenders apart from alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly open counters, pointing in conjoined dots ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: Too tightly bound to discern gatherings ; pp.26-29 left blank, likely intended for a depiction of the rawḍah and minbar or Mecca and Medina but never executed ; catchwords present (partially lost to trimming) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وامام المرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما والحمد لله رب العالمين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل تمت الدلائل"Incipit: "صلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله الذى هدانا للايمان والاسلام والصلوة على محمد نبيه ... وبعد هذا فالغرض فى هذا الكتاب ذكر الصلوة على النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم وفضائلها نذكرها محذوفة الاسانيد ليسهل حفظها على القارئ وهي من اهم المهمات لمن يريد القرب من رب الارباب وسميته بكتاب دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلوة على النبى المختار ابتغاء لمرضات الله تعالى ومحبة فى رسوله الكريم ..."Title from opening matter on p.3.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Jazūlī’s (d.869/1465) celebrated collection of prayers for the Prophet, description of his tomb, his names, etc. followed by closing prayers (دعاء ختم سهليه and صلوات الصفا).
On pp. [30-31], illustrations of the mosques of Medinah (left) and Mecca (right).Illuminated ʻunwān; text rubricated and vocalized; gold borders; marginal commentary in hand of copyist.Muḥammad ibn al-ḥājj Ismāʻīl ... li-sanat iḥdá wa-thamānīn wa-miʾah wa-alf ... sanat 1181 [i.e. 28 July 1767].Date, copyist's name, and sources for copy in colophon: wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min takmīl hādhihi al-nuskhah ... fī ghurrat Rabīʻ al-ākhir bayn al-ẓuhr wa-al-ʻaṣr fī arbuʻāʾ al-shahr wa-qad ṣaḥḥaḥtu hādhā al-kitāb al-mustaṭāb min al-nuskhatayn al-muʻtabirayn aḥadahumā al-nuskhah allatī ṣannafahā ṣāḥib al-taʾlīf Sulaymān al-Jazūlī ... wa-nuskhatuhu al-ākhir li-ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī ... wa-anā al-faqīr ... al-mushtahir bayna atrābihi Qayyim Zādah DarwīshFor other copies of this text, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 199, 249,2, and 852."A collection of prayers for the Prophet, description of his tomb, his names etc., published several times." Encyc. Islam, v. ii, p. 527a.
On pp. [39-40], illuminated illustrations of the mosques of Medinah (left) and Mecca (right).Illuminated ʻunwān on p. [1]; illuminated marginal rosettes marking division of text into ḥizbs; text vocalized and enclosed in gold borders; illuminated chapter headings; gilded rosettes mark phrase endings; copyist's name in colophon: Maḥmūd ibn Muṣṭafá.Suggested date of 18th cent. noted on catalog card in repository.For other copies of this text, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 200, 249,2, and 852.Text (not this copy) published.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 214Origin: Final record entries dated Ṣafar 1026 [February-March 1617] ; copy likely executed just after.Former shelfmark: "537 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro de Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (in shades of lavender, brown, etc.) with spine in gray leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in coated, green surface-dyed wove paper ; sewn in red thread, six stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, fairly indistinct), cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished.Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surrounded by arabesques and floral motifs in gold with pink and red accents on a field of bright blue (cobalt), bordered in a band of red with white crosses and surmounted by a scalloped dome or triangular piece filled with similar vegetal decoration also on grounds of gold and blue, all set in a well of gold bands and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; second illuminated headpiece (rectangular with empty gold cartouche and delicate floral designs in white, pink, light blue, gold, etc.) on at opening of main text following preface on p.4 ; written area surrounded by gold frame ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes ; some keywords and headings chrysographed or overline in gold, others rubricated or in white ink ; marginal decorations in the form of roundels setting off seal impressions (on the rectos of many folia see pp.2-3, 5, 7, 9) with gold and blue borders and vertical stalks, or carrying invocation "نحمد الله على نعمائه الجميلة وعلى آلائه الجليلة وعلى الطافه الجزيلة حمدا دائما كثيرا" (p.4) or vegetal designs (see pp.6, 8, 10, i.e. on the versos of those same folia, filling the outline of the roundel bordering the seal impression on the recto) .Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; exquisite Turkish / Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of inclination to the right, gentle descent of words to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in strokes or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 29-30 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, II (4), I+1 (7), i ; catchwords present (though now obscured in some places) ; pagination in Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "أن الشريف جليل ابن صلبي للشريف سيدى [؟] ابن الشريف مصطفى ابن الشريفة سلام من النسب الطاهر وذلك بعد أن أبرز حجة دالة على شرف جده وهو الشريف مصطفى ... معنونة بعنوان النقباء السالفين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي خلق من الماء بشرا فجعله نسبا وصهرا وربى شجرة هذا النسب بمياه الحسب والادب والتقوى وجعل أصلها آدم الصفي الذي اجتباه ربه وهدى وأطلع ثمرتها النامية السامية في غصنها الاعلى سيد الورى فصارت كشجرة طيبة أصلها ثابت وفرعها في السما ... وبعد فالسبب الداعي إلى تحرير هذه النميقة الأنيقة والوثيقة الوثيقة هو أنه قد تبين وبهر وتعين وظهر وكالشمس في رابعة النهار اشتهر باخبار العالم العامل الرباني خادم الشرع الشريف الصمداني ... شيخ الاسلام ... مولانا اسعد افندي ... ابن المولى المرحوم ... مولانا سعد الدين ... أن شيخي ومولاي ... الشيخ السيد محمود افندى الاسكدارى ... من النسب الطاهر وسيادته بين الأنام بين وظاهر ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.3. p.12-p.14 : Nat-i Hazret-i Server-i Kainat ve Müfahhar-i mevcudat2. p.11 : [blank].1. p.2-p.10 : [records of the office of nakibüleşraf].Elegant copy of what appears to be a record book of the Niqābat al-Ashrāf (office of nakibüleşraf or nakıbü'l-eşraflık) with each entry after the first (which is for al-Shaykh al-Sayyid Maḥmūd Afandī al-Uskudārī / Şeyh Mahmut Efendi Üsküdarî, d.1626) numbered and signed "شهود الحال خدام مجلس النقابة." Entries are followed by a poem in praise of the Prophet in Ottoman Turkish. Identification and contributions to the description provided by Ahmad Nazir Atassi. "Each entry is an attestation in front of prominent witnesses that a certain person has proven to be a sharīf by a document he produced that was signed by some previous Naqīb al-Ashrāf and that testifies the sharīfian rank of one of his ancestors." - from description provided by Ahmad Nazir Atassi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 86Origin: Authorial and scribal colophons appear on p.708, supplied by "Muṣṭafá al-Qāḍī" (qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min tanmīq hādhā al-kitāb...katabahu..."). Authorial colophon mistakenly claims composition begain in the year "91" Hijrī. Opening of scribal colophon (possibly transcribed verbatim from exemplar) suggests that transcription was finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb...") first of Rajab 908 [ca. 31 December 1502]. However, the paper, hand, etc. would more likely suggest a dating of late 16th or early 17th century, and perhaps the copyist intended 980 [ca. 7 November 1572] rather than 908.Accompanying materials: Three slips, all paginated -- a. pp.23-24 blank paper -- b. pp.289-290 text in black ink on one side -- c. pp. 465-466 notes in black ink on one side.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 16. Dakhirat al-ukba."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though only fore edge flap remains) ; board linings in blue and white shell marbled paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with gold painted accents ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; endbands in orange and white ; in poor condition, with envelope flap lost, abrasion on all corners of cover, tail end of spine missing and exposing deteriorating primaries.Support: European laid paper, a few different types ; one with very distinct laid lines (vertical) spaced roughly 9-10 laid lines per cm., chain lines spaced roughly 26-28 mm. apart, lightly burnished ; another thinner, more heavily burnished with roughly 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical, very fine and distinct) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart ; watermarks include crossbow (see p.220, compare Piccard no.123789), anchor in circle with trefoil above (p.196, compare Heawood 1 and 4) and figure (angel) in circle with "S c C" countermark (p.88/98, etc. matching Piccard no.21419 from Bari, 1587) ; loose leaves at beginning ; first two folia entirely detatched ; repairs made with similarly colored, laid paper ; water damage to head and tail of text, causing smudging of some glosses.Decoration: Red rule border appears for opening through p.48 ; textual divders in the form of inverted commas, stylized hāʼ, etc. ; text rubricated with keywords, textual dividers, notabilia, etc. in red.Script: Several different hands, as well as changes in ink and line thickness ; majority in a naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) with closed counters, superscripting of final words of line, esentially sans serif ; a few other hands in naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) appear, varying in size and elongation of horizontal strokes, with some exaggeration in thickness ; a few sections are supplied in a more standard naskh, though with slant to the left, mainly closed counters, occasional head-serifs on free-standing alif and initial lām ; hand first appears to change at p.44 and repeatedly thereafter, particularly in the latter quires (see pp.586-610, pp.611-624, pp.625-664, pp.665-684, etc.).Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: I+1 (3), V-1 (12), 3 V(42), IV(50), III(56), 8 V(136), II(140), V(150), VI(162), 3 V(192), IV(200), 3 V(230), II(234), 2 VI(258), V(268), I(270), 7 V(340), VI(352) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (occasionally correspond with second or third rather than first word of following page) ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink (scribe's hand) starting after incipit (p.11) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (pagination skips two leaves between p.41 and p.42, and includes inserts).Colophon: "Authorial" followed by "Scribal," rectangular, "تم بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم قال الشيخ الامام الهمام عفى الله عنه يوسف بن جنيد عفى عنهما الحميد المجيد المدرس في احدى المدارس ... في بلدة القسطنطنية حرسها الله تعالى عن القلوب القاسية هذا اخر ما [...؟] لي في شرح صدر الشريعة المسمى بذخيرة العقبى ... وكان ابتداء التاليف تقريبا في احدى وتسعين [كذا] من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام الى يوم الحشر والقيام. وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب في اول رجب الفرد بتاريخ سنة ثمان و تسعمائة على يد افقر عباد الله تعالى و اضعفهم و احوجهم الى رحمة رب العالمين . . . قد وقع الفراغ من تنميق هذا الكتاب المسمى ذخيرة العقبى [كذا] الحشية لصدر الشريعة العظمى والمحشي اخي چلبي رحمه الله كتبه الفقير اليه تعالى مصطفى القاضي ..."Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته الحمد لله الموصل بالاتمام قوله والمقيم الذي لا يموت ولا ينام قوله والكفيل الذي اوصل الارزاق للانام [؟] والعليم الذي يعلم بلا الحاف والزام [؟] والحكيم الذي لا يحكم بين خلقه بالاتقان والاحكام وصلى الله على نبيه المنعوت بالاختتام وعلى اله اصحابه الذين فازوا على قهر العدو بعناية الملك العلام"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى ..."Title from colophon on p.706 and edge title.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebi on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (see Isl. Ms. 97 for another ms. copy of this work). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 558Origin: As appears in colophon on p.645, transcription completed 7 Rajab 1124 [ca. 10 August 1712].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Two inserts carrying notes (paginated pp.281-82 and pp.633-34).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and fore edge flap, "IL 133" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi) ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in dull pink or light brown thread, two stations ; endbands virtually gone, though traces of headband remain ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), watermarks including three crescents (81 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.12, 17, etc.) and crown-star-crescent (76 mm. tall, see p.10, 19, etc.), and countermark of "V G" under trefoil (see p.12) ; light cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; mainly a fine, compact Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly serifed with right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and other ascender letters, effect of tilt to the left, occasional effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders with some sweeping, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured with assimilation of initial alif with following lām, dot of final nūn with bowl, etc. ; hand changes at p.629, from there to p.649 text supplied in a nastaʻlīq (talik), sans serif with effect of tilt to the right ; final two leaves of the text in still a different naskh ; opening excerpt in a naskh with some influence of nastaʻlīq (talik), a clear Turkish hand, virtually serifless with effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated) and tilt to the left, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; opening excerpt in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: I (2), 32 V(322), I (324) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some inserts and mistakenly skips ahead from p.275 to p.277 and from p.277 to p.279).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "سوده [الحرف الاخير مشطوب] الحقير [كذا] هذه الاوراق في سنة اربع وعشرين ومائة والف السبع في شهر رجب المرجب في نصفه يوم پنجشنبه قرب غروب الشمس"Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى..."Title from opening matter on p.12.Ms. codex.7. p.653-p.654 : [blank].6. p.652 : [listing of notabilia].5. p.650-p.651 : [authorial colophon].4. p.649 : [excerpt].3. p.646-p.648 : [table of contents].2. p.9-p.645 : Dhakhīrat al-ʻuqbá fī sharḥ Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-ʻUẓmah / Akhī Chalabī.1. p.1-p.8 : [gloss upon a commentary on Sūrat al-Qadr].Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebī (Ahi Çelebî) on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. (see Isl. Ms. 86 and Isl. Ms. 97 for other ms. copies of this work). Preceded by an excerpt of a gloss upon a commentary on Sūrat al-Qadr (pp.1-8) and followed by table of contents (pp.646-648), closing excerpt (p.649), and authorial colophon in different hand (pp.650-651).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 97Origin: As appears in colophon on p.447, transcription finished ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb...") in the first part of Jumādá I 929 [March 1523].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No.146. Glosses on the Wikayah."Binding: Pasteboard covered in dark brown leather with red-brown leather repairs on spine and at edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in laid paper ; cover bears blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with floral vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi2 5) ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and sky blue, fine condition ; overall in poor condition with upper cover and flap lost, significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes with 9-10 mm. between the chains and roughly 35 mm. between groups ; well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviations rubricated ; occasional overlining and textual divders in the form of discs in red ; written area (opening through p.64 and then p.251 to close) surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; effect of words descending to baseline, occasionally more exaggerated ; occasional extension of horizontal strokes ; colophon in thuluth.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 V(60), II+2 (66), V (76), II (80), 4 V(120), II (124), 6 V(184), IV+1 (193) ; chiefly quinions ; p.134 and p.444 left blank, unmarked ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts ; drops from p.132 to p.131 thus repeating pp.131-132).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب في اوائل جمادى الاولى في سنة تسع وعشرين وتسعمائة"Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته تم بعون الله تع"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى ..."Title from opening (p.7).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebi on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. (see Isl. Ms. 86 for another ms. copy of this work).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 962Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Accompanying materials: Several slips with brief notes (roughly one line on each slip) in Arabic and English on the contents and collation.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 111Binding: 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 "دعاية مبشرات للبهاء| J.H.D." ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords, tightly bound ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Machine wove paper of at least two different types.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium to heavy line ; 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 in 17-21 lines per page.Collation: i, 6 VI(72), V (82), 2 (84), IV (92), i ; chiefly senions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "سبحانك اللهم يا الهي قد نزلت من سماء عز احديتك مياه الوجود بوجودك ورحمانيتك ..."Title from inscription at head of incipit page (p.1).Ms. codex.Careful copy of a selection of Bahai tracts taken from the letters of ʻAbd al-Bahāʼ ʻAbbās Afandī (d.1921), etc.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 83Origin: As appears in colophon on p.526, copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Iskandar. Transcription completed ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min katb hādhā al-kitāb...") at noon on Friday 18 Rabīʻ II 966 [ca. 28 January 1559].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts carrying notes, glosses (paginated pp.13-14, pp.95-96, pp.177-178, pp.185-186, pp.189-190, pp.197-198, pp.229-230, pp.237-238, pp.261-262, pp.323-324, pp.395-396) and in two cases, detailed diagrams (paginated pp.65-66 and pp.111-112).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 84. Work on Hanafi law by Muh. b. Faramurz."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper (over marbled paper) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with vegetal composition (horizontal and vertical symmetry as with Déroche class. OSd) ; sewn mainly in white thread (rarely yellow), two and four stations, though many threads are loose, broken or missing threads and textblock is entirely detached at spine ; endbands lost though traces of primaries in yellow and green visible ; in very poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, fore-edge flap detaching from lower cover, etc. ; various repairs in brown leathers ; cover extremely ill-fitting (far too small) ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper with chain lines grouped in threes, 11-16 mm. between the chains and 32-39 mm. between the groups ; flyleaves in European laid paper with three crescents (tre lune) watermark ; added leaves carrying table of contents in European laid paper with crown above grapes or beaded diamond watermark ; latter quires of text in European laid paper with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and some notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; some overlining and textual dividers in the form of discs in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish or Persian hand ; virtually sans serif, though quite miniscule right-sloping head serif occasionally appears on lām, etc. ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred ; kāf alif ligature forming complete loop ; occasional very slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, II (4), 24 V(244), IV (252), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.453-454).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ من كتب هذا الكتاب في يوم الجمعة وقت الظهر الثامن عشر في شهر ربيع الاخر من سنة ست وستين وتسعمائة على يد عبد اضعف عباد الله عبد الرحيم بن الحاج اسكندر عفى عنهما الملك المعبود القادر الحمد لله على الاتمام وعلى كل حال في الاسلام والصلوة والسلام على رسوله سيد الانام وعلى اله العظام واصحابه الاكرام" ; followed by authorial colophon.Explicit: "كان فسخهما بمنزلة الاقالة فيلزم الوصي كما لو تقابلا حقيقة فاذا فسخ القاضي لم يكن اقالة فلا يلزم الوصي. هذا اخر ما من الله تع علي بلطفه من شرح غرر الاحكام المسمى بدرر الحكام واستطلاع اراء فضلاء الامة العظام ... ليس الغرض الاصلي من هذه الكلمات التمدح بل الامثال بما يفهم من قوله تع واما بنعمة ربك فحدث"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع القويم بمحكمه كتابه واعلى اعلام الدين المستقيم بمعظم خطابه ..."Title from close on p.525.Ms. codex.5. fol.252b : [blank].4. fol.251b-fol.252a : Risale-yi istihlaf / Kemalpaşazade.3. fol.251a : [originally blank, now carries various excerpts].2. fol.5a-fol.250b : Durar al-ḥukkām / Molla Hüsrev.1. fol.1a-fol.4b : [added table of contents].Fine copy of Muḥammad ibn Farāmurz Mullā Khusraw's commentary upon his own treatise on principles of Ḥanafī legal practice, Ghurar al-aḥkām, followed by a brief treatise by Kemalpaşazade on a question concerning qāḍīs.
On pp. [1-2], text decorated with gold ʻunwān and borders; Koranic text and chapter headings in purple (chapter headings sometimes separated from text with red rules), commentary in black; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; marginal notations in purple indicate chapter headings and division of Koranic text into 30 sections; author's name found in notations in upper left corners of pages marking beginning of each kurrāsah, many of these notations have been cut away.Dates in copyist's notation on p. [165]: wa-kamala al-awwal wa-huwa al-aṣl al-musawwad mimmā ḥarrarahu al-mawlá al-hammām Maḥmūd wa-sammā Durr al-asrār sādis al-Muḥarram ʻām 1272 [i.e. 18 September 1855] wa-ḥaṣal rasm suṭūrihi wa-waṣala kamāl surūrihi wasaṭ hilāl al-rasūl al-akram ʻām 1284 [i.e. 1867 or 8] ... ḥarrarahu mawlá al-salām sāmaḥahu mawlāhu al-malik al-ʻādil al-ʻallām. Date in colophon: sanat 1274 [1857 or 8].Text (not this copy) published.Commentary on the Koran.
Watermarks: horn in scrollwork; ALMASSO in roman. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2772 and 3748.Contains astronomical tables.Text rubricated and ruled in red.Date of composition, name of copyist, and date of copying in colophon: qāla al-muʾallif ... kātibuhu Riḍwān fī yawm al-khāmis wa-ʻishrīn min shahr Ramaḍān sanat 1105 [20 May 1694] ... wa-qad nasakhahā min nuskhah nusikhat min nuskhat al-muʾallif ... fī shahr Ṣafar sanat 1239 [October-November 1823] tisʻah wa-thalāthīn wa-miyatayn wa-alf hijrīyah ʻalá yad al-faqīr Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī."An extensive treatise on timekeeping consisting of an introduction and tables lifted from the main Cairo corpus." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 107. Contains astronomical tables, star catalogs, and tables giving correspondences of the Islamic and Coptic calendars from 1819 to 1987.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 642Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.139b, copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad min al-Baladay An...[?]. Transcription finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min naskhih...") Wednesday, 10 Jumādá I 887 [ca. 27 June 1482]. As appears in ex libris on fol.1a, copied for ("bi-rasm") ʻAlā’ī al-Dīn ibn ...[?] Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shahīd al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Sa‘īdī.Former shelfmark: From inner margin of fol.1a "IL 132a" and spine label, "IL 132" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather (goatskin) with red leather (goatskin) repairs; Type II (with flap) though flap is now missing; may be original, given the contemporaneous dating of the similar cover on Chester Beaty Library Moritz Collection 60 (see Bosch, Carswell, & Petherbridge no.77, p.201); upper and lower cover bear a design blind-tooled with gold paint, consisting of of frame, central scalloped mandorla, and accents; frame has a central motif made with interlocking S-shaped stamps, two fillets on either side, and an innermost fifth fillet painted gold; corners of the frame are marked with diagonal lines of small crosses, similar to the ones on the titlepiece; at center is 10-lobed mandorla, the scallops of which have a double gold painted outline, as well as small circles at the apex of each scallop and small crosses where the ends of each scallop meet; ogival points have simple, three-pointed calyxes atop slightly arched crossbars; interior of the mandorla bears another calyx with additional ogival calyxes, which are also painted gold on the upper cover; within the mandorla an elaborate filled pattern is present, but difficult to see; doublures are of a slightly lighter brown leather, have four-fillet frames and bear small, hand-tooled, sixteen-lobed shamsas with clearly visible centering lines that extend to the edges of the innermost fillet of the frames; in poor condition.Support: non-European laid paper, at least three types are used; one paper is rather thick with chainlines running horizontally in alternating groups of 2 and 3, individual chainlines spaced 11 mm. apart and groups spaced roughly 40 mm. apart; another paper seems quite similar except for having been tinted a brownish-ochre; third paper is of a similar color to the second, but smaller, thinner, more highly burnished, and rather ragged at the edges; the tinted papers appear to have been laid into the quires to embellish the copy.Decoration: Titlepiece on fol.1a consists of a rectangular panel bearing the title in red tawqīʻ above a central panel bearing a circular medallion (shamsah) with 'pendants' (Weisweiler class. 57-60) bordered in gold-painted black double-lines filled with a central pattern of small crosses and carrying an ex libris in red tawqīʻ; piece is framed with an outermost red fillet, a gold-filled double black line, a central series of equilateral crosses that seem to recall blind-tooling techniques, another gold-filled double black line, and final, innermost red fillet; text is polychrome with the main text in black and a variety of other colors used in various combinations for the headings and the dots separating the hemistitches, often with some sort of scheme of alternating colors; in the opening quires, both the chapter headings and the dots are in red, but in subsequent quires the dots may be red while the titles are in lime green;a slate-blue color also often appears; often the dots will be outlined in either black or yellowish-white ink; obviously executed with careful attention.Script: Naskh; small to medium Turkish hand with thin, elongated ascenders and elongated, swooping descenders; generally sans serif; quite legible; fully vocalized; text of titlepiece in tawqīʻ script.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page; single column but with the hemistitches divided by colored dots to appear as two columns; frame-ruled.Collation: IV (8), V (18), IV (26), 3 V (56), IV (64), III (70), V + 1 (81), IV (89), II (93), 2 III (105), 3 V (135), II (139); catchwords lacking; pagination in pencil, Western numerals supplied in cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الديوان المبارك بحمد لله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاربعا عاشر جمادى الاول من شهور سنة سبعة وثمانين وثمانة ماية وكتبه العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد بن محمد من [؟] البلدي انكورية [...؟]"Explicit: " فنحن نحكم ولا يحكم علينا شيء"Incipit: "حروف الهمزة قال رضي الله عنا به حققت عهد مجيتي [كذا] وولاي بشهود توحيدي وحكم وفاي"Title from titlepiece on fol.1a.Ms. codex.Collected poetry of the Ṣūfī shaykh and poet ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Wafāʼ (d.1405), arranged alphabetically according to the final letter of each bayt. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 634Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.368b (p.736), copied by Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad [...?]. Transcription finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min naskhih...") Saturday 20 [?] Jumādá II 1176 [ca. 6 January 1763] in Bilād al-bayt [?].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 126" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in darkened red-brown leather (color of envelope flap a much more vibrant red), repairs to spine and interior of fore edge flap in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and interior of envelope flap in laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled central circular piece (composition quite similar to Déroche class. NSv 1 or 2) with pendants and simple frame ; in somewhat poor condition with fore-edge flap detaching from lower cover and envelope flap, repairs to joints between the covers and the spine, much abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with laid lines running horiztonally spaced roughly 13 laid lines in 20 mm. and chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 23-25 mm. apart ; lightly burnished.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red discs ; text rubricated with section titles, occasional paragraphs in prose at the beginnings of new sections, and textual dividers in red.Script: Naskh ; fine Syrian or Turkish hand (?) ; virtually sans serif with occasional right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and left-sloping head-serifs on alif of lām alif ligature ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; elongated, horizontal character with contrast between thicker horizontal strokes and thinner vertical strokes.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; poetry often arranged in two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-4(6), 16 V (166), II (170), III (176), 19 V (366), I (368), i ; chiefly quinions ; at least one bifolium and very likely two bifolia are missing from the center of the first quire in the introductory matter of the text (missing text corresponds to p.7-13 of the 1854 Būlāq edition) ; catchwords present but occasionally lost to trimming ; traces of perhaps an earlier foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals (see p.391, 583, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من نسخه ببلاد [؟] البيت بعد صلاة المغرب عشرين [؟] في جماذ [كذا] الثاني على يد محمد بن الشيخ محمد [..؟] من شهور سنة 1176"Explicit: "وما تلى عبد الغني المديح به يخص ذلك الفريح"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي فتح خزائن الامكان بمفاتيح الكرم والامتنان واظهر سره المكنون بين الكاف والنون انما امره لشيئ اذا اراده ان يقول كن فيكون"Title from inscription of 'title page' fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.The first bāb of the collected poems of the author, Dīwān al-dawāwīn wa-rayḥān al-rayāḥīn fī tajallīyat al-ḥaqq al-mubīn, with a poem praising Ibn al-ʻArabī at the close. Description provided by Maxim Romanov.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 246Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.210b (p.420), copied by Sulaymān ibn Yūnus ibn Khaṭṭāb ibn Shaḥḥādhah [?] ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥurayz al-Satafī [?] al-Mālikī. Transcription finished "wa-kāna al-farāgh min istinsākh hādhā al-dīwān..." 14 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1016 [ca. 31 March 1608].Accompanying materials: a. between pp. 322-23 folded slip with numerals, etc. -- b. between pp.404-405 slip in laid paper with verses copied in ruqʻah.Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves as well as interior of envelope flap in shell marbled paper (pink, brown and white) ; interior of fore edge flap in same brown leather ; upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central piece and decorative border (formed from two repeating vegetal pattern stamps and interlocking architectural pattern stamp) along with pendants and corner pieces (formed from a repeated scrolling floral pattern stamp) ; envelope flap bears complementary design formed from same stamps ; sewn in cream thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and blue ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, fading, some pest damage, loss to endbands, and spine slant (cocked) ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper ; laid lines oriented horizontally or vertically (some variation from quire to quire) spaced roughly 7-9 laid lines per cm. (also varying) with some sagging or curving ; chain lines very feint and indistinct but occasionally visible - may be grouped ; quite firm, somewhat crisp, and of medium translucency ; well burnished ; only a few inclusions and undissolved fibers visible ; flyleaves in European laid paper, laid lines vertical spaced roughly 11 laid lines per cm. ; chain lines horizontal spaced 30 mm. apart ; large shield/scrollwork (six pointed star within) watermark partially visible in back flyleaf.Decoration: Illuminated titlepiece on fol.1a (p.1) consisting of upper and lower rectangular panels with central roundel (shamsah) ; upper panel bears title in gold thuluth ; shamsah bears author's name,etc. in blue and gold, highly ligatured tawqi verging on thuluth ; lower panel continues blessings upon the author in gold thuluth ; outlined by vegetal accents in blue ; framed in pink band with blue crosses and a series of gold bands outlined with black fillets ; superbly executed illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of rectangular panel surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) surmounted by vertical stalks (tigh) in blue and gold ; rectangular panel contains stylized cartouche in gold carrying title "ديوان شعر ابي الطيب" in white, surrounded by floral vegetal decoration in gold, orange-red, white, light blue, etc. on a field of lapis lazuli flanked by semi-circular pieces in light-blue and gold ; semi-circular piece carries floral vegetal design in gold, orange-red, pink, white, etc. on fields of lapis lazuli and gold ; bordered in a well with blue crosses on a pink band ; between the two pieces a rectangular band floral vegetal decoration in gold, blue, orange-red, and white on a field of black ; written area and margin (including decoratively arranged lines) framed in a series of gold bands flanked by black fillets ; incipit and facing page various floral designs in orange-red, blue, white, green, and gold ; partially chrysographed with section (divisions by letter) headings in gold ; text of titlepiece in gold and blue ; text rubricated with verse headings, numerals corresponding to glosses, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; large, clear hand of Persianate character (Iraqi ?) ; mainly sans serif but with occasional right-sloping head serif on free-standing alif, lām of definite article, etc. and left-sloping head serif on joined alif, etc. (irregular), kāf mashqūqah preferred, but mabsūṭah also appears, slight effect of inclination to the left, elongation of horizontal strokes, some sweeping descenders, quite rounded and curvilinear, pointing in distinct dots, point of final / free-standing nūn set down in bowl ; fully vocalized ; glosses of very similar character only thinner line and smaller size (likely supplied by same copyist).Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; single column, often divided to two to set off poetry, and fine ruled margin with lines arranged obliquely in decorative geometric patterns (triangles, zig-zag, etc.) ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V-1(9), 19 V(199), VI(211), ii ; chiefly quinions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular then rectangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من استنساخ هذا الديوان المبارك رابع عشر شهر ذي القعدة من شهور سنة ستة عشر والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلات والسلام تم وعلى يد العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى سليمان بن المرحوم يونس بن خطاب بن شحاذة بن محمد بن حذير الستفي المالكي غفر الله له ولوالديه ومشايخه واخوانه ولمن طالع فيه ودعا لم [كذا] بالمغفرة ولكل المسلمين اجمعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وسلم"Explicit: "ومثلك يؤتى من بلاد بعيدة ليضحك ربات الحداد البواكيا. وقال ايضا يمدح سيف الدولة ... وكانه جيش ابن حرب رعته حتى كانك يا علي علي. تم شعر ابي الطيب برياذاته والحمد لله كما هو اهله. يقول كاتب اصله المنقول منه هذه النسخة نقلت هذا الديوان من نسختين ..."Incipit: "قافية الهمزة قال ابو الطيب احمد بن الحسين المتنبى رحمه الله ومولده بالكوفة في كندة سنة ثلث وثلثماية يمدح سيف الدولة وكان امره باجازة ابيات على هذا الوزن وهذا الروي شعر عذل العواذل حول قلبي التائه وهوى الاحبة منه في سودائه ..."Title from titlepiece on fol.1b (p.2).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the renowned dīwān and glosses, closing with a discussion of the source material for the recension contained in the model from which this manuscript was transcribed.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 646Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 19th century, perhaps late 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4).Former shelfmarks: From verso of front flyleaf and spine label, "IL 122" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Wooden boards covered in dark mahogany leather ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in dark green and cream mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look) ; raised spine ridges ; sewn in cream thread, six stations ; stuck-on endbands ; textile bookmark (register) attached to spine at head ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion at board edges, etc.Support: European wove paper ; some moisture damage and blocking.Decoration: Written area surrounded by triple rule-border in red and blue (two innermost red rules and outermost blue rule) ; columns within the written area defined by red rules.Script: Ruqʻah ; serifless, only very slight tilt to the left, effect of occasional words descending to baseline, letterforms mainly characteristic of ruqʻah, pointing in strokes (horizontal stroke for two dots, stroke resembling inverted comma for three dots) rather than distinct dots, somewhat freely ligatured ; rare passages in naskh (see pp.414-415).Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page ; written area divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 45 V(450), i ; chiefly quinions ; final five leaves unruled and left blank ; quire numbering in the form of Hind-Arabic numerals accompanied by ك at the center head of the written area of the opening recto of each quire from the eighth (see p.145, 165, etc.) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and eventually off by 100 pages, dropping from p.511 to p.412).Explicit: "لا سيما مع شيء يطنطن وشيء في القرصال [؟] يبقبق"Incipit: "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم قال الشيخ الامام العلامة وحيد دهره وفريد عصره بدر الدين محمد بن برهان الدين ابراهيم الشهير بالبدر البشتكي اسبغ الله ظلاله اما بعد الحمد لله المتفرد بالجمال [المفرد بالجلال] والصلاة والسلام على محمد جامع محاسن الكمال ... وبعد فيقول [الفقير] الى كرم مولاه الغني به عما سواه محمد بن ابراهيم بن محمد البدر البشتكي غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه هذا ديوان شعر شيخنا العلامة جمال الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن حسن ابن ابي الحسن بن صالح بن يحيى بن طاهر بن محمد ابن الخطيب عبد الرحمن بن نباته المصري ... قافية الهمزة قال يمدح سيدنا محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم وشرف ومجد وكرم شجون نحوها العشاق فاؤا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from preface on p.5.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collected poems of Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī (d.1366), compiled by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bashtakī (d.1426 or 7) from the main collection made by the poet himself and other smaller collections.
On p. [1], illuminated ʻunwān; text rubricated with overlining in gold; enclosed in gold borders; pages dyed pink (?); marginal commentary in hand of copyist.Date and copyist's name in colophon: waqaʻa al-farāgh min kitābatihi ... ʻalá yad al-faqīr ... ʻAbd al-Karīm ... fī yawm al-sādis wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Jumādá al-awwal ... min shuhūr sanat thamān wa-thamānīn wa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. 9 July 1580].On the laws of inheritance and descent (ʻilm al-farāʾiḍ).
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist (?) and others.Date in colophon: taḥrīran fī awākhir shahr Dhī al-Qaʻdah ʻām sabʻah wa-ʻishrīn wa-alf min hijrat al-nabawī [i.e. November 1618].Pp. [5-19]. Bound with: [2] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bannāʾ, Abwāb yastadillu bi-hā ʻalá al-awqāt wa-al-sāʻāt wa-yuʻlam bi-hā awqāt al-ṣalāh, pp. [20-47]; [3] Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qalaṣādī, Kashf al-asrār ʻan ʻilm ḥurūf al-ghubār, pp. [48-116].On timekeeping and the conversion of calendars.
Text rubricated; ʻunwān on p. [2].Date, copyist's name, and provenance in colophon: qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kitāb ... ʻalá yad ... ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-sākin fī madrasat Ramaḍān Bāshā al-wāqiʻ fī baladat Kūzalaḥṣār[?] fī yawm al-ithnayn fī waqt al-ḍaḥwah al-kubrá ... sanat ʻashar wa-miʾah wa-alf 1110.The author's commentary on his ʻUmdat ahl al-tawfīq wa-al-tasdīd, which was his own commentary on his work ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-kubrá, a work on theology.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 952Origin: As appears in colophon on p.380, final gatherings (11-19, from p.203 to close) copied by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb Sulaymān with transcription completed 30 Jumādá II 1200 [ca. 30 April 1786]. Transcription of opening gatherings (through p.202) possibly completed earlier, even early to mid 18th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 101Binding: Pasteboards covered with shell marbled paper in green-blue, dark blue, red, and yellow with maroon leather over spine, fore edge flap, and board corners ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board lining and endpapers (pasted to opening and closing gatherings) in untinted wove paper ; wrapper binding, case with no signs of attachment, gatherings of text block never sewn though possibly once supported by two strips of leather or textile pasted to the spine (see traces of adhesive) ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types ; opening section (through p.202) in a few tre lune types, including one with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents / tre lune watermark (95 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see pp.10, 16, 46, 60, 68, 78, etc.) another with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents / tre lune watermark (87 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see pp.24, 32, 34, 41, 48, 58, etc.), all quite sturdy, light cream in color, well-burnished ; next section (pp.203-262) in a type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26-28 mmm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of double-headed eagle with "FNF" (see pp.210, 212, etc. and compare no.1156 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1) and crescent (with human profile) in shield (see pp.204, 208, 222, etc.), quite sturdy, medium cream to buff in color, well-burnished ; final section (p.263 to close) in a type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of crescent (with human profile) in shield (see pp.264, 266, etc.) and countermarks "A G" above "Andrea Galvani Pordenone" in script (see pp.270, 272, etc.),Decoration: Keywords, section headings and notabilia rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots in red.Script: Naskh ; several Egyptian hands in bold to thin lines ; opening through p.188 in a clear though somewhat awkward hand in a bold line, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the right, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, some elongation of horizontal strokes ; pp.189-202 in a quicker, more compact and freely ligatured hand in a thin line, partially seriffed with effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, some sharp, rectilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; from p.203 to close a much neater, more careful hand with Turkish features, mainly serifless (though very small serifs appearing occasionally) with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ ; replacement bifolium (pp.103-104, 121-122) in still a different hand, an elegant Ottoman naskh.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 19 V(190), i ; exclusively quinions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals below letter ك on recto of opening leaf of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes endpapers).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الكتاب على يد افقر العباد الى الله عز وجل عبد الوهاب سليمان في ليلة الثلاث المبارك ليلة ثلاثين من جمادى اخر من شهور سنة ١٢٠٠ من الهجرة النبوية م وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله وحده"Explicit: "اليه منا ترجع الامور قال تعالى واليه يرجع الامر كله وافضل الصلاة والسلام على النبي المصطفى سيد الانام اي الخلق صلى الله عليه وسلم كلما ذكره الذاكرون"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي وصل من انقطع اليه بدينه القويم ورفع من اسند امره اليه باتباع سنة نبيه الكريم ... وبعد فان الفية علم الحديث المسماة بالتبصرة والتذكرة للشيخ الامام الحافظ شيخ الاسلام ابي الفضل عبد الرحيم زين الدين بن الحسين بن عبد الرحيم بن ابي بكر ابن ابراهيم العراقي لما اشتملت علي نقول عجيبة ومسائل غريبة ... طلب مني بعض الاعزة ... ان اضع عليها شرحا ... وسميته بفتح الباقي بشرح الفية العراقي ..."Title from opening on p.4.Ms. composite codex.Elegant copy of the commentary by Zayn al-Dīn Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī al-Sunaykī (d. ca. 1520) upon al-ʻIrāqī's al-Alfīyah fī ʻilm al-ḥadīth or Tabṣirat al-mubtadiʼ wa-tadhkirat al-muntahī or al-Maqāṣid al-muhmalah, itself a versification of Kitāb Maʻrifat anwāʻ ʻilm (‘ulūm) al-ḥadīth or ʻUlūm al-ḥadīth of ‘Uthmān Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī (d.1243).
Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; initials EAN in roman; three Face-in-the-moons arranged horizontally. For the first two, see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 860 and 2595.In Maghribī script.Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections by copyist.Date and provenance in colophon: yawm al-jumʻah sabʻah Shawwāl fī ʻām sabʻah wa-sabʻīn wa-alf [2 April 1667] bi-madīnat Fās al-maḥrūsah.Author's commentary on his al-Yawāqīt li-mubtaghī maʻrifat al-mawāqīt, a poem on timekeeping.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 45Origin: As appears in colophon on p.131, transcription finished ("qad istarāḥa qalam al-tabyīḍ ʻan al-taswīd..." see p.129) 15th Jumādá I 1173 [ca. 4 January 1760]. The copyist is not identified. The author is named on fol.1b (p.2) and appears to be the Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ayyūb al-Izmīrī named by Kaḥḥālah (see ed. Dimashq, 1957 p.29).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No.5. Hizb al-bahr, with commentary."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with red leather for spine and turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) though flap now missing ; board linings in yellow European laid paper, hinges in brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central panel in lozenge shape filled with floral design ; sewing in red thread, two stations ; only traces of primaries (in yellow) remain, otherwise endbands lost ; in fair condition though upper cover is detaching from spine, much abrasion, staining, and some delaminating of boards.Support: European laid paper with chain lines running horizontally evenly spaced roughly 24 mm. apart and laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 12 laid lines per cm. ; highly burnished with burnishers marks evident ; three hats watermark (compare Heawood 2596-2599) visible in second to final quire particularly (see p.108, 110, etc.) ; scrollwork / shield watermark partially visible also.Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of rectangular piece with empty cartouche surmounted by semicircular piece with floral vegetal design in pink and gold, surmounted by gold stalks ; decorative frame on incipit and facing page consists of a series of gold bands and black fillets, thereafter a plain rule-border in red ink ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; text rubricated with section headings, key words, textudal dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with occasional left sloping head serif on alif of lām alif ligature ; rounded with a very slight tilt to the left.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 6 V (60), IV-1 (67) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization).Colophon: "Scribal", triangular, reads: "قد استراح قلم التبييض عن التسويد ومن الله التكميل بالقبول والتسديد وله الحمد على جميع نعمه بلا غاية ولا تحديد ... تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة ۱۱۷۳ في ۱٥ جمادى الاولى"Explicit: "رب العالمين خالق الخلائق ومصلحها وسيدها"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل ... العلماء العارفين احرازا في [؟] ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى الغني القدير احمد بن عمر الداعى في الازمير [؟] عفا عنهما العلي الكبير لما كان الحزب الجليل والحرز الجميل لامامنا الكامل الجلي الشيخ ابو الحسن الشاذلي ... ومع هذا قد شرحه المتبحرون واقتفى اثرهم المقلدون لكن لم يشهر منها ما يروى الجنان التمس منى بعض الاخوان زاد كما لاتهم الملك المنان ان اكتب عليه نبذة من الفرائد ... و لما تم بحمد الله الاكبر سميته فتح العلي البر شرح الحزب البحر ... ثم ان شيخنا ..."Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Early fair copy of Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Izmīrī's commentary on al-Shādhilī's popular Ḥizb al-baḥr.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 129Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.226a, copied by Murād Aṣl ibn ʻAbd Allāh. Copy completed ("khatamtu hādhā [kadhā] al-nuskhah...") in the year 1165 [1751 or 1752] or possibly 1149 [1736 or 1737]. Reading is questionable, though 1165 may fit better with the claim that the copy was completed in the time of Arslan Giray Han (ruled 1748-1756). Scribal verses adjacent to colophon read "الخط باقى والعمر فانى والعبد عاصى والرب عافى."Accompanying materials: Numerous inserted slips, some with writing some without, between fol. 23 and 24, fol. 47 and 48, fol. 48 and 49, fol. 105 and 106, fol. 134 and 135, fol. 193 and 194.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London. "No. 122. Jami's commentary on the Kafiyah."Binding: Pasteboard covered in black leather; Type II (with flap); upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central mandorla and cornerpieces (design worn and no longer clearly visible but comparable to Déroche class. NA) along with decorative vegetal border and blind-tooled accents; pastedowns of pink paper; in good condition.Support: European laid paper; chain lines visible and running horizontally, spaced about 27 mm. apart; laid lines running vertically and spaced roughly 7 laid lines per cm; several quires in a second European laid paper with chain lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 23-24 mm. apart, laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 6-7 laid lines per cm.Decoration: Red rule-border frames portions of text and glosses.Script: Naskh, with influence of nastaʻlīq (talik); at least four or five distinct hands: hand of the first quire (fol. 1 - 10), hand of the eighth quire (fol. 124 - 134), hand of fol. 135 to the end, hand of fol. 70 to 89, etc.Layout: Written in 17 to 19 lines per page; frame-ruled.Collation: VI (12), 14 V (162), 4 IV (194), 5 III (214), 2 II (222), 2 I (226), 1 (227); catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (referenced in cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "ختمت هذا [كذا] النسخة الشريفة المباركة في يوم بشنبه وفي [الوقت ص] العشاء وفي مدرسة مصر ومدرسة باي محمد افندي وفي زمان ارسلان كراي خان خلد الله ملكه وسلطانته كاتبه مراد اصل الحقير الفقير المحتاج رحمة الله عليه اجمعين تاريخ سنة ١١٤٩ [؟]Explicit: "قد استراح من مكد الانتهاض لنقل هذا الشرح من السواد الى البياض العبد الفقير عبد الرضى عن الخير [؟] ... صاحب ومالك مراد اصل بن عبد الله كتبه مراد اصل ..."Incipit: "الحمد لله لوليه والصلوة على نبيه ... اما بعد فهذه فوائد وافية بحل مشكلات الكافية للعلامة المشتهر في المشارق "والمغارب الشيخ ابن الحاجبTitle from opening on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Jāmī's commentary, written for his son Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Yūsuf and also called al-Fawāʼid al-Ḍiyāʼīyah, on ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib's grammar, al-Kāfiyah. Description provided by Alison Vacca.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 52Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.159b (p.326), copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm with transcription finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min tanmīq [al-sharḥ?] al-sharīf...") 20 Rabīʻ II 1180 [ca. 25 September 1766]. In the same hand, colophon for the previous exemplar transcribed by one Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad is included prior to the colophon for this ms. (see fol.159a-159b/p.325-326).Accompanying materials: Several inserted slips carrying portions of text on the Prophet, etc. some paginated (pp.99-102/folded, pp.209-210, pp.331-332), one scrap carrying text (between p.136-137) and a full folded document (between p.118-119) not paginated.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 35. Al-Faiz al-arham." ; on tail edge of textblock "٣٠١".Binding: Pasteboards covered in red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in yellow paper ; upper and lower covers carry central diamond motif and cornerpieces in blind-tooled rosettes with incised fillet border and accents ; sewn in salmon thread, two stations ; chevron endbands in pink and cream ; in fair condition with abrasion, staining, some cracking of spine leather, and spine slant (cocked) ; several loose leaves.Support: European laid paper with 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and single chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermarks include scrollwork with crown above and lion rampant within as well as "FC" in circle with trefoil-like motifs above and below ; well-burnished and fairly smooth ; added leaves ruled for table of contents in a different European laid paper.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; overlining in red ; written area and margin surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish (?) hand ; virtually serifless ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; many closed counters ; occasional effect of words descending to baseline ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board evident).Collation: i, IV (8), 15 V(158), I (160), i ; chiefly quinions ; added quaternion ruled for table of contents precedes text ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ۱ on incipit page (mistakenly skips two pages between١٩٥ and ۱٩٦ and again between ۲٥۸ and ۲٥٩, mistakenly repeats ۲۲٥ and ٢٤٣); pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and some inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "اعلم ان المصنف رحمه الله تعالى ختم الصلوة الشريفة على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم بهذه الآية الكريمة خاتمة تشريفة ... قد وقفنا بتحرير هذه النسخة بالاتمام وحقق لنا الفوز بهذا المرام والحمد لله على كمال لطفه ... وانا العبد الضعيف الفقير الى غفران رحمة ربه القدير مصطفى بن محمد غفر لهما الله الصمد مع الذين انعمت عليهم ... وقد وقع الفراغ من تنميق [الشرح؟] الشريف على يد افقر عبيد العلام عبد الرحيم بن الحاج حسن بن ابراهيم غفر الله لهم ولوالديهم ولاجدادهم ولاستاذهم ولاخوانهم ولاحبائهم ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات بحرمة من له العز والشرف لسنة ثمانين ومائة والف في اليوم العشرين من ربيع الاخرة الله اعلم"Explicit: "والمراد تنبيه المؤمنين على كيفية تسبيحه وتحميده التسليم على رسله هم وسائط بينهم وبينه في فيضان الكلمات الدينية والدنيوية عليهم كذا في الارشاد"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي اعد للقانتين والمسبحين مثوبة ... وبعد فلما كان الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم المنسوب الى الرسول الاكرم صلى الله عليه وسلم جامعا للدعوات المأثورة التي فيها المتابعة المحمدية ... ولكنه محتاج الى كشف اسرار معانيه ... فخطر بالي ان اشرحه شرحا محتويا لما يحتاج اليه فاستخرت الله متضرعا اليه ان يجعله خالصا لوجهه الكريم ... وسميته فيض الارحم وفتح الاكرم على الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم ..."Title from opening on fol.9b (p.20).Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Qārī al-Harawī's own commentary upon his collection of prayers, al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 479Origin: Lengthy audition statement following the text on fol.6a (p.11) indicates that al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī heard the text as read by its owner ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī [al-Jammāʻīlī] in the presence of other auditors in Alexandria during the first 10th of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 569 [June 1174], thus establishing a firm terminus ante quem for the manuscript's transcription. It was likely copied by ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī not long before the audition, possibly also in Alexandria.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. Slip with note on one of the dated audition statements (mistaken date conversion).Former shelfmark: From inscription on inner front cover and lower cover label, "IL 269a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in maroon cloth ; Western binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in blue wove paper ; title gold-stamped on cover ; sewn in heavy white thread, four stations ; covers in excellent condition ; textblock heavily repaired but stable.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper, quite thick, with 20 horizontal laid lines in 38 mm. ; chain lines very difficult to make out, though at least one pair spaced 10 mm. apart are visible in fol.4 (pp.7-8) ; quite soiled and stained ; several losses and repairs ; some ink burn.Script: Naskh ; a casually pointed, unvowelled Syrian hand, freely ligatured ; free-standing alifs somewhat wavy, often ending with a left-foot but generally lacking head-serifs ; swooping descenders ; mainly closed counters ; shaddah occasionally marked ; highly ligatured contraction for اخبرنا appears as ابنا with final alif curving back to reach initial alif.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page.Collation: i, 3 I(6), i ; perhaps originally a ternion, now repaired to three single bifolia (singulions) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "قالا ثنا ابو عميرعيسى بن محمد النحاس ثنا ضمرة بن ربيعة عن الاوزاعي عن يحيى بن سعيد عن سعيد بن المسيب عن ابي ثعلبة الخشني عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم انه قال كل ما رد عليك قوسك. اخر الكتاب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على رسوله سيدنا المصطفى محمد النبي واله وسلم تسليما وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل"Incipit: "ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله [العلي العظيم؟] اخبرنا الشيخ الامام الحافظ ابو طاهر احمد بن محمد بن احمد بن محمد بن ابراهيم السلفي [...] ابنا الفقيه ابو عبد الله محمد بن مسعود بن احمد بن شذرة الخطيب [المدني؟] بشهور ستان على مقربة من اصبهان بقرأتي عليه من اصل سماعه في [...] من سنة احدى وتسعين واربع ماية ابنا ابو علي الحسين بن محمد الحسين بن ابي [...] الهروي قرأه عليه بهراة ابنا ابو يعقوب اسحاق بن ابي اسحاق العدل الحافظ ابنا [عبد الله] بن احمد بن حمويه واحمد بن عبد الله بن نعيم قالا ابنا ابو نصر احمد بن محمد بن داسة ثنا [الفضل] بن عبد الله بن عبد الجبار ثنا مالك بن سليمان عن ابراهيم بن طهمان عن محمد بن [زياد] عن ابي هريرة ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال إن الله عز وجل يدخل بالسهم [الواحد] ثلاثة الجنة... "Title from 'title page' fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine early copy of the ḥadīth on the excellences of archery with 'title page' (fol.1a/p.1) ascription statement (isnād) beginning with the author and numerous transmission notices (samāʻāt and qirāʼāt). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 683Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From verso of front flyleaf "IL 362" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in dark purple cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in paper printed with floral / landscape design in shades of blue, tan, olive green, and white ; upper and lower covers carry embossed central ornament (oval scrollwork design) ; raised bands on spine, accented with stamped (turquoise-colored onlays) bands and floral motifs ; sewn in white thread, five stations, stab sewn as well ; stuck-on endbands in black and yellow ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion and staining.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of crown above grapes (see p.20, 24, etc.) alternating with "P S" (see p.22, 26, etc.), thin though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; some foxing, staining and tide lines.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.10 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by lavender floral motifs surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling floral vegetal motifs in lavender, pink, salmon, white, etc. on a gold ground, entire piece surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red and set in a well of pink with red accents ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold frame, elsewhere written area (including margin) surrounded by red rule-border ; keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke over keywords) rubricated ; grid of table of contents outlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs on incipit and facing page ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; two elegant Turkish hands ; opening two works in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik), characteristically serifless with effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq (talik) ; final work in another nastaʻlīq (talik) similar to the first hand but with greater effect of words descending to baseline, thicker line and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV (8), V (18), V+1 (29), 23 V(259), i ; chiefly quinions ; fol.110-111 and 112-113 bound in reverse order ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (includes flyleaves).Incipit: [Fetava-yi Ali Efendi] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله كتاب الطيبين الطاهرين الطهارة [الطيبين الطاهرين كتاب الطهارة] زيد جنب ايكن ذكر وتسبيح والصلوة على النبى ايتمك جائز اولورمى الجواب اولور ..." ; [Tarjīḥ al-bayānāt] ; "الحمد لله عظيم البرهان وعميم الاحسان ... فان افقر عباد الله السبحان عبد السيد الرحمن بن سليمان الشهير بخصالى بين الاجناب والاخوان قد اختصر هذا الرسالة بحسب الامكان في الكتب المعتبرة البيان ..." ; [Maruzat-ı Ebussuud] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا خاتم النبيين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد سعادتلى وفضيلتلى ومروتلى سلطانم حضرتلرينه عرض داعى منشالرى بو در كه بوندن اقدم مرحوم سيخ الاسلام ... حضرت ابو السعود ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.7. p.519-520 : [assorted excerpts].6. p.504-p.518 : [Maruzat-ı Ebussuud] / Ebussuud Efendi.5. p.482-p.503 : Tarjīḥ al-bayānāt / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulaymān, al-shahīr bi-Khilāṣī.4. p.478-p.481 : [blank].3. p.10-p.477 : Fetava-yi Ali Efendi / Ali Efendi Çatalcalı.2. p.8-p.9 : [blank].1. p.3-p.7 : [added contents listing and table of contents].Fine copy of the collection of legal decisions (fetvas) by Ali Efendi (d.1692), followed by Tarjīḥ al-bayānāt, a work of fiqh in Arabic by Hisâlî Abdurrahman Çelebî bin Süleyman bin Eyüp Sârûhânî (d.1676) and Maruzat-ı Ebussuud, a collection of legal decisions (fetvas) issued by Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Ebussuud Efendi, d.1574) and sanctioned by Sultan Süleyman I (r.1520-1566).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 68Origin: As appears in colophon on p.772, transcription finished 29 Rabīʻ II 1125 [ca. 25 May 1713].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts have been paginated including a few documents, scraps carrying notes or glosses, an entire bifolium from another manuscript, etc. ; several half-sheets, mainly blank, have been sewn in (see pp.147-148, pp.199-200, pp.475-476, etc.).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 135. Legal decisions of Muh. Ata Allah."Binding: Limp dark brown leather (unusual grain) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-tooled floral motifs for the central ornament, border and cornerpieces where they resemble carnations ; sewn in a red thread, two stations, though sewing often gone ; endbands entirely gone apart from traces of primaries ; in extremely poor condition with significant abrasion, moisture damage, shrinkage (lower cover in particular, which is quite ill-fitting), losses of spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart ; flower (?) watermark ; much staining ; moisture and or oil damage ; burn (acidic?) to edges.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of discs in red ; written area in first few quires surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; bold Turkish hand ; sans serif with effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, many sweeping descenders and elongated horizontal strokes, exaggerated contrast in line thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes ; single quire near the end of the text (pp.623-642) supplied in a different hand, being quite a neat Ottoman naskh.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III (6), VI (18), 34 V(358), V-8 (360), IV (368) ; chiefly quinions ; third quire from last appears to be missing (between pp.752-753, compare catchwords and foliation) ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaf and inserts, skips two pages each between pp.19-20, pp.109-110, pp.239-240).Colophon: "Scribal", rectangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب في شهر ربيع الاخر في ٢٩ سنة خمس وعشرين ومائة والف "Explicit: "حد قديم نه در الجواب برامردركه اولنى بيلور اولميه حد القديم ما لا يحفظه القران من محيط البرهاني في كتاب ما يمنع عنه الانسان ما لا يمنع. تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله واصحابه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم الكتاب"Incipit: "حمد وسپاس وشكر بى قياس خداى لا يزالى [كذا] لا يزاله كه اختراع كرده انواع انسان"Title from inscription on incipit page (p.18).Ms. codex.Well-annotated and quite early copy of the collection of fatwás of Minkarizade Yahya Efendi compiled by Ataullah Mehmet Efendi (d.1715).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 69Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.268b (p.537), copied ("ḥarrarahu...") by Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Bāyazīd al-Qaramānī. Transcription finished 4 Muḥarram 1149 [ca. 15 May 1736].Accompanying materials: Slip carrying notes between pp.214-215 (not paginated).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 150. Legal decisions of Abd al-Ghani."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap, flap now lost) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla with floral vegetal composition ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; endbands in light blue and cream, fair condition ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, loss of flap, upper cover detaching, etc. ; repairs in brown leather.Support: European laid paper of several types ; early quires in a European paper having 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), horn (?) watermark ; other quires in another thinner European paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart, scrollwork with pedestal watermark and "A C" countermark ; some leaves in still another European paper with 14 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart, watermark with grapes ; not heavily burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, sigla, and occasional notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of discs in red ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; characteristically sans serif with effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, occasional sweeping descenders and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 2 V(20), VI (32), 15 V(182), V+2 (194), 7 V(264), 2 IV(280) ; chiefly quinions ; final quire following treatise of Abū al-Suʻūd mainly left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ۲۹٦ on opening folio of text/fol.2a/p.5) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaf, skips two pages between pp.505-506, skips p.536).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "حرره الفقير اليه سبحانه وتعالى احمد المدعو بمولانا ابن رجب [؟] بن بايزيد القرمانى رحمهم الله عليهم وعلى سائر الاقرباء والاصدقاء سنة تسع واربعين ومائة والف في اليوم الاربع من محرم الحرام"Explicit: "حد قديم نه در الجواب برامردركه اولنى بيلور اولميه حد القديم ما لا يحفظه القران من محيط البرهاني في كتاب ما يمنع عنه الانسان ما لا يمنع. تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب"Incipit: "باب الاجازة المؤجلة و المعجلة ... اقجه بدل [؟] مقابله سنده فراغ وتسليم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.4. fol.273a-fol.280b : [all but one leaf carrying an excerpt blank].3. fol.268b-fol.272b : Maruzat-ı Ebussuud / Abū al-Suʻūd.2. fol.2a-fol.268b : [Fetava-yı Ataullah] / Minkarizade Yahya Efendi and Ataullah Mehmet Efendi.1. fol.1b : [table of contents].Despite spine and edge titles, appears to be an odd second volume of the collection of legal decisions (fetvas) of Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (d.1678) compiled by Ataullah Mehmet Efendi (d.1715), beginning in the latter part of Kitāb al-ijāzāt. Followed by Maruzat-ı Ebussuud, the collection of legal decisions (fetvas) issued by Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Ebussuud Efendi, d.1574) and sanctioned by Sultan Süleyman I (r.1520-1566).
Text rubricated; many marginal and interlinear corrections and assorted doodlings in the hand of the copyist.[1] consists of at least 7 bābs, missing the beginning and end, and is on timekeeping by solar methods; [2] consists of 15 bābs, missing the beginning and the last page(s) of the khātimah, and is on timekeeping by night using the stars and the characteristics of the Byzantine and Coptic calendars. The item in hand seems to have been used for practice in copying.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 14Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests late 17th or early 18th century.Accompanying materials: Scrap with writing between pp.246-247.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 95. Fusul mufassal."Binding: Pasteboard(s) covered in dark red brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in yellow-tinted laid paper ; upper cover bears blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (compare Déroche class. OSd) along with tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light yellow and cream, intact ; overall in quite poor condition with lower cover and flap entirely lost, some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, loss of flap, delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (horzontal), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (vertical), and grapes with bar above (carrying initials) watermark ; another type of European laid paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal) and coat of arms watermark with cross flanked by lions above two circles also appears ; well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; clear, though at times somewhat unsteady, Turkish hand ; partially serifed with right-sloping head serifs appearing irregularly on joined alif, lām of definite article, etc. ; effect of tilt to the left ; pointing mainly in distinct dots ; rounded and freely ligatured ; adheres fairly closely to horizontal though occasional superscripting or very slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-2+IV (16), 14 V(156), IV (164), 27 V(434) ; chiefly quinions ; quaternion carrying table of contents inserted in opening anomalous quinion ; p.461 left partially blank ; p.462 and final three leaves left blank ; lacks proper catchwords though 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 ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages each between pp.125-126, pp.315-316, pp.825-826 and pp.827-828 ; repeats p.691 and p.720 twice).Explicit: "آمين يا آله العالمين ويا خير الناصرين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Incipit: "البحر مداد الكلمات ربي لنفد البحر الآية ولكن ما لا يدركه كله لا يتركه كله تمت فصل في فضائل الفاتحة عن رسول الله صلى الله تعالى عليه وسلم انه قال لابي بن كعب الا اخبرك بسورة لم تنزل في التورية والانجيل والزبور والقرآن مثلها"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy (perhaps an odd first volume) of assorted excerpts from a commentary on the Qurʼān by Naṣīr al-Dīn Nabī ibn Mursil al-Tūqātī. Lacks introductory matter ; opens in Faḍāʼil Sūrat al-Fātiḥah.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains astronomical tables and diagrams and a map of the northern hemisphere from Spain to China enhanced with blue sand.In Maghribī script.Text rubricated, with silver flecks and blue sand clinging to red ink ; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (?).Date in colophon: wa-wāfaqat nihāyatuhu yawm al-sabt min awākhir shahr Jumādá al-ūlá min ʻām thamāniyah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [ca. April 1881].Title from opening matter (author's preface) on p.2.A compendium on theoretical astronomy, apparently an Arabic translation of the Persian, Gayhānʹshinākht by ʻAyn al-Zamān Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Abū ʻAlī Qaṭṭān Marvazī (d. 1153 or 4).
Contains diagrams.Text rubricated in red and gold; triple borders throughout in red, black, and gold; 1 loose sheet bound in; marginal corrections and commentary in hand of copyist (said inside cover to be author himself); finding aids and other notes in another(?) hand; couplets in Persian on endpapers and first flyfleaf.Date and provenance in colophon: qad tamma wa-kamala taʾlīf hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī Qusṭanṭīnīyah fī dār al-ḥadīth li-Ḥusayn Pāshā ... yawm al-aḥad al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir min shuhūr sanat sitt wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʾah wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah wa-qad badaʾa ...[?]... al-musammá bi-al-turkīyah Qazalṭāgh[?] fī shahr Rajab al-mubārak min shuhūr sanat khams wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʾah wa-alf [July-August 1713].Commentary on Bahjat al-albāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb, "a treatise on the use of the astrolabe in 18 bābs" by ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Qayṣarī Suwaylim Zādah. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 165 and 174. On p. [59] is a discussion in a different hand of the origin of the word "astrolabe."
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 566Origin: As appears in colophon on p.426, copied by Walī ibn Shaʻbān (Veli bin Şaban) with transcription completed Muḥarram 1080 [June 1669]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.426), composition completed 1 Rajab 981 [ca. 27 October 1573].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. 46 slips carrying glosses, etc. (paginated, e.g. pp.33-34, 35-36, 37-38, 43-44, etc.).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and fore edge flap label "IL 407" (likely supplied by Yahuda see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in dull yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSv 1) ; sewn in light brown or grey thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and or light yellow, fair condition, some losses to tailband ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, some lifting and losses of leather, minor delamination of upper board, etc. ; numerous repairs to board edges, spine, and flap in red and tan leathers.Support: European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.22,23, etc.) and "S S" under trefoil countermark (see p.340) ; sturdy and dense, quite well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; an elegant Turkish hand ; virtually serifless with tilt to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, partially vocalized ; text following preface (p.14) supplied in a different hand.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, I+1 (3), 5 V(53), VI (65), 10 V(165), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Authorial" reads "في غرة شهر رجب من شهور سنة احدى وثمانين وتسعمائة حامدا لله تعالى ومصليا ومسلما على رسوله محمد ... آمين" ; "Scribal" reads "قد وقع الفراغ من تنميق هذه النسخة الشريفة على يد احوج الورى الى رحمة ربه الاعلى يوم الاحد في وقت العصر [من المحرم الحرام] ولي بن شعبان غفر الله العافي عنهما ... من شهور سنة ثمانين والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف ... تم تم تم"Explicit: "فعليكم ايها الاخ [الاخوان] بالتقوى والاستعداد للقاء الله عز وجل ونعم الاخرة الحمد لله على التمام لوصول التحرير بالاختتام ... برحمة ربنا ذي الجلال والاكرام ورزقهم الفوز هول يوم القيامة"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل قلوب العلماء مرايا جمال معاني الهداية ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه وشفاعة نبيه ابو الليث المحرم بن محمد بن العارف بن الحسن الزيلي [؟] ... لما كنت اذاكر كتاب تحفة الملوك ... سألني بعض الطلبة ان اشرحها شرحا يفتح مخفياته وينشر مطوياته ... فاستخرت الله وشرعت الدعاء فالهمني بان ليس للانسان الا ما سعى فطالعت المتون المتداولة والشروح المستعملة مستعينا به ... وسميته هدية الصعلوك في شرح تحفة الملوك ... الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اسطفى ولكن لم يصف الله تعالى بجلال ذاته وكمال صفاته ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.12.Ms. codex.7. p.429-430 : [blank].6. p.427-p.428 : [excerpts].5. p.14-p.426 : [continuation of Hadīyat al-ṣuʻlūk fī sharḥ Tuḥfat al-mulūk] / Abū al-Layth al-Muḥarram ibn Muḥammad al-Zīlī.4. p.13 : [waqf statement].3. p.11-p.13 : [preface of Hadīyat al-ṣuʻlūk fī sharḥ Tuḥfat al-mulūk] / Abū al-Layth al-Muḥarram ibn Muḥammad al-Zīlī.2. p.9-p.10 : [contents listing].1. p.1-p.8 : [assorted excerpts].Fine copy of the commentary by Abū al-Layth al-Muḥarram ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻĀrif al-Zīlī (al-Zaylāʻī) upon al-Rāzī’s compendium of Ḥanafī law, Tuḥfat al-mulūk. Preceded by contents listing (pp.9-10), along with various excerpts at opening and close of codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1025Origin: As appears in colophon on p.263, copied by Mullā Ḥusayn ibn Mullā ʻAlī al-ʻUshārī al-Baghdādī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashaʻrī (d.1785?) with transcription completed in the latter part of Rabīʻ II 1171 [January 1758].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 174Binding: Pasteboards (thin) covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; lower board lining in yellow tinted paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and pink, good condition ; overall in poor condition with upper cover entirely lost, much abrasion and losses of leather and board from lower cover, etc. ; spine repair (rebacked) in brown leather.Support: European laid paper of a few types ; one type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of double-headed eagle with heart at chest (see p.16, 18, 72, 106, 242, etc.) ; another type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) with cartouche and crown above (see p.52-53, 190, etc.) ; final quire in a type with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (92 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.248) ; a couple of name watermarks appear also, difficult to read, one possibly with "DAUPHINE" (see p.12, 20, 92-93, etc.) ; all sturdy and well-burnished ; flyleaves also in a three crescents watermarked paper (roughly 82 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see back flyleaf).Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining some keywords) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; elegant, compact Iraqi hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping tear-drop head-serif on occasional free-standing alif, lām, ṭāʼ, etc., effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, words spaced very closely with many even touching by means of rising tail on a final descender, etc., pointing (two and three dots) in strokes or conjoined dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 12 V(120), V+1 (131),i ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد فرغت من كتابة هذه الحاشية المباركة الميمونة ظهر يوم الاثنين من اواخر ربيع الثاني سنة ١١٧١ وانا العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى ملا حسين بن ملا علي العشاري قبيلة البغدادي وطنا الشافعي مذهبا الاشعري عقيدة رحمه الله تعالى امين"Explicit: "وانما ثبتت بالقياس على الال و في هذا القدر كفاية لمن تأمله بالدراية ... والحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتدي لو لا ان هدينا الله وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد ... ورضا نفسك امين"Incipit: "الحمد لله المنعم بالهام الحمد لعبيده حمدا موافيا لنعمه ومدافعا لنقمه ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغني به عما سواه ... ابو بكر بن اسمعيل الشنواني ... هذه حواست [حواش] وضعتها على موصل الطلاب الى قواعد الاعراب للعلامة الشيخ خالد الازهري الشهير بالوقاد ... سميته هداية ذوي الالباب الى موصل الطلاب الى قواعد الاعراب ..."Title from opening matter on p.4.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the gloss by Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl al-Shanawānī (d.1610 or 11) on the commentary by Zayn al-Dīn Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Waqqād al-Azharī (d.1499) on Ibn Hishām's (d.1360) popular grammatical textbook, Qawāʻid al-iʻrāb.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 238Origin: As appears at close, calligraphy executed by ʻUthmān, known as Ḥāfiẓ Kalām al-Wahhāb (i.e. Hafız Osman Efendi) in 1099 [1687 or 8]. Decoration and earlier mounting likely 18th century. Most recent mounting and borders likely 19th century.Former shelfmark: "546 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on reverse of uppermost panel ; "113" in pencil in border adjacent to illuminated headpiece.Binding: The three pieced panels of the levha are mounted on boards backed with silk, edged and hinged together with red-brown leather, unfolding like a triptych but vertically ; some repairs to the edging in purple leather ; minor hinge repairs in Japanese paper.Support: European laid paper, well-burnished, pieced and mounted on boards.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) appears in a rectangular panel above the baş makam, consisting of a semi-circular piece (dome) filled with a depiction of al-Masjid al-Ḥarām at Mecca (kaʻbah visible) and set off by an outer border of swirling vegetal designs in white, lavender, mint green, pink, gold, etc. on a blue ground with heavy gold and black borders and surmounting vertical stalks (tīgh) ; the same vegetal designs fill the area around the göbek and the koltuklar ; a black and gold frame surrounds the uppermost rectangular panel, the baş makam, the square containing the göbek, hilâl (in gold), and names of the çiharyâr, the ayet and the etek ; bands of turquoise and gold surround the circles with names of the çiharyâr ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes accent the hilye text ; a heavy border in olive green with gold painted floral accents, itself set-off by white fillets and framed by black and gold bands, surrounds the entire levha.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; basmalah (besmele), āyah (ayet) and names of the first four caliphs (çiharyâr) in thuluth (sülüs) ; hilye texts (of the göbek and etek) in naskh (nesih).Layout: Baș makam with besmele (opening with "انه من سليمان وانه" in small cartouche above "بسم") ; göbek with 9 lines of text ; ayet in a single line ; etek with 4 lines of text.Collation: Three 'panels' (likely once a single levha, now pieced) hinged together with red-brown leather, opening for display as a levha.Colophon: "كتبه اضعف الكتاب عثمان المعروف بحافظ كلام الوهاب سنه تسع وتسعين والف"Explicit: "يقول ناعته لم ار قبله ولا بعده مثله صلى الله عليه وسلم"Incipit: "عن علي كان اذا وصف النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لم يكن بالطويل الممغط ولا بالقصير المتردد ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. (three panels hinged together).Exquisite hilye (written depiction of the Prophet) executed by the master who developed this graphic form of the hilye, Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698). Decoration and mounting later, likely in at least two distinct stages (18th and 19th century).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1008Origin: As appears in colophon on p.71, executed by Derviş İbrahim b. Hafız Halil with transcription completed 1129 [1716 or 17].Accompanying materials: "a. Two 5 x 7 catalog cards bearing above description of item. -- b. Letter, Warner G. Rice (Director, General Library, U of M) to Mr. Richard Ford of Detroit, 20 July 1951. In the letter Rice acknowledges receipt of a 16 July note from Ford which included a copy of a letter obtained by Ford from G. M. Meredith-Owens, Brit. Mus. Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts, presumably authenticating (and describing?) the work in hand. Ford's letter may have asked what research institutions in the United States might be interested in acquiring the text. Rice writes: "There are several research institutions in the Unites States which have made some special attempts to collect materials on and about the Near East. Among these I suppose the most distinguished is Princeton, though a good deal has been done at the University of Chicago also. At the University of Michigan we have specialized for a long time in Coptic materials, but we are now extending our interests, especially through the activities of Professor Cameron, who has recently become head of our Department of Near Eastern Languages...The General Library is now making rather extensive purchases of materials in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. Last fall we acquired a large collection 19 of such materials and shall doubtless continue to build in this field. I can assure you that if you were to offer the Arabic manuscript which Mr. Owens describes to the University of Michigan we should be very glad indeed to have it." -- c. Note on pink slip of paper in handwriting of Harriet Jameson: "From Mr. Wagman 12-22-61. Is this the missing manuscript? No. In his vault. Keep anyway." -- d. Small Univ. of Mich. campus mail envelope addressed "Islamic MS," containing small fragment of a book binding: filigree cut gilded leather on cloth" - from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993, only cards carrying description still with manuscript.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 157Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures (board linings) and interior of flap in spring green textile (possibly silk), flyleaves and hinges in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, reminiscent of Déroche class. OAi 10) with gold-tooled rosette accents and guilloché roll border ; sewn in dull pink thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with lifting and losses of leather (particularly at pine, spine lining exposed), abrasion, staining, minor delamination of boards, minor pest damage, etc.Support: European laid paper with roughly 14 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 19 mm. (vertical) and no watermarks visible (perhaps lost to trimming), beige in color, sturdy though thin and transluscent, well-sized and burnished ; flyleaves in a different European laid paper.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.8 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral accents, surmounted by dome or semi-circular piece filled with swirling floral decoration in gold with black outline, white, red and orange-red on fields of gold and dark blue (cobalt), all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue and set in a well of gold, red and blue bands with white crosses ; additional illuminated headpieces at section openings throughout the manuscript ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red and blue accents.Script: Naskh ; clear, well-formed Ottoman hand in a medium line ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing mainly in conjoined dots, extensively vocalized (mainly Arabic passages).Layout: Written mainly in 9-11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 3 V(30), II (34), iii ; almost exclusively quinions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "كتبه اضعف الضعفاء درويش ابراهيم ابن حافظ خليل حامدا لله تعالى ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين سنة تسع وعشرين ومائة والف من هجرة النبوية"Explicit: "شفاعتلرين احسان وصحبتلريله شرفياب ايليه امين يا معين"Incipit: "اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد هر حمد وافرين كه ازلدن ابده دك موجود ومعلوم اولدى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.7. p.67-p.71 : Nat-i Damad-i Resulullah [or Hilye-yi Hazret-i Ali].6. p.64-p.66 : Nat-i Osman [or Hilye-yi Osman].5. p.61-p.64 : Nat-i Faruk yani Ömer [or Hilye-yi Ömer ].4. p.59-p.61 : Nat-i Yar-i Gar-i Sıddık [or Hilye-yi Ebübekir].3. p.16-58 : [Hilye-yi şerif].2. p.13-p.16 : [Asmāʼ al-Nabī].1. p.8-p.12 : [elucidation of the Fātiḥah in Turkish].A fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy comprising devotional material in Arabic and Turkish, opening with a Turkish elucidation of Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, followed by the names of the Prophet, description of the Prophet's characteristics (or hilye text, opening with the text related by ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib) with Turkish elucidation, and similar descriptions for each of the four rightly guided Caliphs (Çihâryâr-i Güzin).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 440Origin: Dates in dated pieces range from 1006 [1597 or 8] to 1252 [1843 or 4]. Some pieces possibly earlier. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "208" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel gold-stamped with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) at center, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with olive green leather onlays) decorative panels in vegetal designs with crescents gold-stamped on olive green leather onlays at the four corners ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted, marbled or silhouette ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper (resembling reptile hide) with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes).Script: Naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs), tawqīʻ (tevki'), and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: Twenty-one heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.42. fol.21b : [blank].41. fol.21a : piece in divani signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Recai (كتبه الحاج محمد رجائى رئيس الكتاب سابقا) and dated 1186 [1772 or 3].40. fol.20b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.39. fol.20a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated (with area left unfilled, perhaps for colophon or icazet text).38. fol.19b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.37. fol.19a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.36. fol.18b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.35. fol.18a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.34. fol.17b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Ḥusayn ʻAlī (العبد حسين على كاتب) and undated (set in a border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).33. fol.17a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Ḥusayn ʻAlī (العبد حسين على كاتب) and undated (set in a border of silhouette paper with animal motifs).32. fol.16b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with bird motifs).31. fol.16a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī (كتبه المذنب احمد الحسينى) and undated (set in border of silhouette paper with bird motifs).30. fol.15b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.29. fol.15a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) (الفقير محمد اسعد اليسارى) and undated.28. fol.14b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Ahmet (مشقه المذنب الخاظئ السيد حافظ احمد المعروف بتوفيقى) and dated 1196 [1781 or 2].27. fol.14a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher “جزائري” and dated 1107 [1692 or 3].26. fol.13b : unsigned piece in naskh, undated.25. fol.13a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh (opening of müfredat exercises), undated.24. fol.12b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Kasim (محمد قاسم) and undated.23. fol.12a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Şevki Efendi (d.1887) (كتبه العبد الضعيف السيد محمد شوقى) and undated.22. fol.11b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İmamzade [possibly Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) who early in his career signed İmamzade] (كتبه امام زاده) and undated.21. fol.11a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated (likely accompanying piece on fol.11b).20. fol.10b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.19. fol.10a : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).18. fol.9b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).17. fol.9a : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with dragon motifs).16. fol.8b : piece in thuluth and naskh approaching tawqīʻ signed by the calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698) (مشقه الفقير عثمان المشتهر بحافظ القرآن) and dated 1098 [1686 or 7].15. fol.8a : unsigned piece in naskh, undated.14. fol.7b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muhammad (محمد) and undated.13. fol.7a : piece in thuluth and signed by the calligrapher Afif (كتبه عفيف) [possibly İbrahim Afif, d.1767] and undated.12. fol.6b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Salıh Namık [?] (سوده صالح نامق) and undated.11. fol.6a : piece in thuluth and naskh with icazetname signed by the calligrapher Şekerzade Mehmet Efendi (d.1753) authorizing the student who executed the piece (اجزت لصاحب هذه القطعة الشريفة وضع الكتبة فما كتبه وانا الفقير السيد محمد المعروف بشكر زاده) and dated 1155 [1742 or 3].10. fol.5b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Ahmet (حرره السيد حافظ احمد) and dated 1197 [1782 or 3].9. fol.5a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.8. fol.4b : unsigned frontispiece with excerpt (اول از بالای کرسی بر زمین آمد سخن او دگر ...) in thuluth at center of shamsah, undated.7. fol.4a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.6. fol.3b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Ahmet Çelebi (احمد چلبی) dated 1006 [1597 or 8].5. fol.3a : unsigned composite piece in nastaʻlīq of different sizes, undated.4. fol.2b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mahmut Celalettin (Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi d.1829, نمقه الفقير محمود المعروف بجلال الدين) and undated.3. fol.2a : piece in naskh and thuluth signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Şefik Bey (d.1879) (كتبه محمد شفيق عن خلفا الحاج مصطفى عزت) and signed 1259 [1843 or 4].2. fol.1b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Zeynelâbidin Haşimi (حرره المذنب محمد زين العابدين الهاشمى) and undated.1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (40 kıt'alar / pieces), likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Marion Frenger, Mamoun Sakkal, and Irvin Schick.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 438Origin: Dated pieces range from 914 [1508 or 9] to 1317 [1899 or 1900]. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "210" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) gold-stamped on bright green satin, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with light green-gold onlays) decorative panels in vegetal designs with crescents gold-stamped on mint-green silk onlays at the four corners ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of silk onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted or marbled ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes) ; two miniatures, one in Indian style, the other Persian, each featuring a pair of lovers.Script: Naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs) and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: Twenty-two heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.44. fol.22b : [blank].43. fol.22a : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq executed in filigree / cut-work, undated (compare Calligraphie islamique: Textes sacrés et profanes, no.140).42. fol.21b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Dedezade (مشقه الفقير الحقير دده زاده) and undated.41. fol.21a : piece in naskh with icazetname for a student of es-Seyyid Mustafa Efendi (من تلاميذ السيد مصطفى افندى) authorizing the student to sign his name to his work and to teach others, undated.40. fol.20b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Asad Allāh Shīrāzī (العبد المذنب اسد الله شيرازى) and dated 1254 [1838 or 9].39. fol.20a : piece in celi sülüs signed by the calligrapher Mahmut Celalettin (Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi, d.1829, حرره محمود جلال الدين) and undated.38. fol.19b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mustafa b. Osman Keskin (fl.1758) (الفقير مصطفى بن عثمان المعروف بكسكين) and dated 1172 [1758 or 9].37. fol.19a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Mīr ʻImād al-Ḥasanī (d.1615) (مشقه عماد الحسنى) and undated (compare Calligraphy and the decorative arts of Islam, no.7).36. fol.18b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Faqīr ʻAlī (فقير على) and undated (compare Calligraphy and the decorative arts of Islam, no.8).35. fol.18a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Ahmet b. Ali Kütâhî (سوده احمد بن على المعروف بالكوتاهى) dated 1100 [1688 or 9].34. fol.17b : piece in naskh signed by the calligrapher Hocazade Ahmet (كتبه الفقير الى رحمة القدير السيد احمد المعروف بخواجه زاده) and dated 1161 [1748].33. fol.17a : piece in naskh signed by the calligrapher Derviş Ali [possibly İkinci Derviş Ali, d.1716] (الحقير درويش على) and undated.32. fol.16b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muḥammad Muhtadī (الحقر المذنب محمد مهتدى) and undated.31. fol.16a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.30. fol.15b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh (likely Yedikuleli Seyyid Abdullah, d.1731, "كتبه السيد عبد الله") and undated.29. fol.15a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail (اسمعيل, possibly Ağakapılı İsmail Efendi, d.1706) and undated.28. fol.14b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail (اسمعيل, possibly Ağakapılı İsmail Efendi, d.1706) and undated.27. fol.14a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muʻizz al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (كتبه معز الدين محمد الحسينى) and dated 986 [1578 or 9].26. fol.13b : piece in thluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hocazade Mehmet (d.1695) (كتبت له اذنا وانا الفقير محمد خواجه زاده) and dated 1162 [1749].25. fol.13a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Şekerzâde Mehmet Efendi (d.1753) (كتبه السيد محمد المعروف بشكر زاده) and dated 1144 [1731 or 2].24. fol.12b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated.23. fol.12a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher ʻAbd al-Bāqī (Abdülbâki / الفقير المذنب عبد الباقى) and undated.22. fol.11b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Yedikuleli Seyyid Abdullah (d.1731) (كتبه العبد الفقير السيد عبد الله المعروف بالامام) and dated 1114 [1702 or 3].21. fol.11a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Aḥmad Rashīd (الفقير احمد رشيد) and dated 1194 [1780].20. fol.10b : unsigned piece in naskh, undated.19. fol.10a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Tirmidhī (مشقه المذنب محمد امين الحسينى الترمذى) dated 1010 [1601 or 2].18. fol.9b: piece in thluth signed by the calligrapher Hulusi (پر تقصير خلوصى) and dated 1128 [1715 or 16].17. fol.9a : piece in thuluth signed by the calligrapher Hulusi (الفقير خلوصى) and dated 1128 [1715 or 16].16. fol.8b : piece in naskh appearing to be the opening of the piece on fol.8a.15. fol.8a : piece in naskh (appearing to be the continuation of the piece on fol.8b) signed by the calligrapher Yedikuleli Seyyid Abdullah (d.1731) (كتبه العبد الفقير السيد عبد الله المعروف بالامام) and dated 1120 [1708 or 9 ].14. fol.7b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Maḥmūd Isḥāq Shihābī (مشقه محمود اسحق شهابى) and undated.13. fol.7a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher ʻAbd al-Jabbār (الفقير الحقير المذنب الراجي عبد الجبار غفر له) and undated.12. fol.6b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated.11. fol.6a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876) (حرره السيد الحاج مصطفى عزت المعروف برئيس العلماء) and dated 1288 [1871 or 2].10. fol.5b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hulusi (الفقير خلوصى) and undated.9. fol.5a : piece with text in nastaʻlīq (possibly signed ʻAbd al-Raḥmān) surrounding oval with unfinished drawing.8. fol.4b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Mīr ʻAlī ("مشقه المذنب مير على") and undated.7. fol.4a : painting of two lovers, likely Safavid.6. fol.3b : painting of two lovers, in Mughal style.5. fol.3a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Badīʻ al-Zamān Quṭbʹshāhī (بديع الزمان قطبشاهى) and undated.4. fol.2b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq.3. fol.2a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Sulṭān Muḥammad Khandān (سلطان محمد خندان) and dated 914 [1508 or 9].2. fol.1b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Hilmi (محمد حلمى) and dated 1283 [1866 or 7] with illuminations signed by the illuminator Osman Yümni Efendi (d.1919) (عثمان يمنى) and dated 1317 [1899 or 1900].1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (42 kıt'alar / pieces), many signed, likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Mamoun Sakkal.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 439Origin: Dates in dated pieces range from 1009 [1600 or 1] to 1211 [1796 or 7]. Some pieces possibly earlier. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "211" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) gold-stamped on bright green satin, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with dark green leather onlays) cartouches with crescent and star accents ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted or marbled ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes).Script: Naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs) and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: 19 heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.38. fol.19b : [blank].37. fol.19a : unsigned piece in nastaliq, undated.36. fol.18b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail Zühtü (İsmail Zühdi d.1806, نمقه الفقير اسمعيل الزهدى) and undated.35. fol.18a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İbrahim Afif (d.1767) (سوده ابراهيم عفيف) and undated.34. fol.17b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Şeyhülislam Veliüddin Efendi (d.1768) (العبد الداعى ولى الدين المفتش باوقاف الحرمين) and dated 1142 [1729 or 30].33. fol.17a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Usturacızade Mehmet Şehri (d.1740) (سوده الفقير محمد المعروف بشهرى) and undated.32. fol.16b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail Zühtü (İsmail Zühdi d.1806, كتبه العبد الضعيف اسمعيل الزهدى) and undated.31. fol.16a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.30. fol.15b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Şeyhizade Mehmet Şihabuddin (الفقير حرقه شريفه شيخى زاده السيد محمد شهاب الدين) dated 1211 [1796 or 7].29. fol.15a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.28. fol.14b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed “بنده درگاه صفی” and dated 1182 [1768 or 9].27. fol.14a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hüseyin Hamid (d. after 1787) (كتبه العبد الضعيف السيد حسين الحامد) and dated 1181 [1767 or 8].26. fol.13b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Sulṭān Ḥusayn (نمقه سلطان حسين) and undated.25. fol.13a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Yusuf Efendi (d.1787) (كتبها عبد مذنب لا طاعة له يوسف المعروف بحافظ القرآن) and undated.24. fol.12b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq (talik), undated.23. fol.12a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.22. fol.11b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.21. fol.11a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Mīr ʻImād al-Ḥasanī (d.1615) (الفقير الحقير المذنب عماد الحسنى) and dated 1009 [1600 or 1].20. fol.10b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muḥammad ʻAlī (الفقير محمد على) and undated.19. fol.10a: piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Refi Efendi (d.1769) (الفقير المذنب محمد رفيع) and undated.18. fol.9b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Ebubekir Raşit (d.1782) (سوده اضعف المذنبين ابو بكر راشد) and undated.17. fol.9a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Shāh Maḥmūd al-Nishāpūrī (fl.1517-1572) (كتبه المذنب شاه محمود النشابورى) and undated, on textile.16. fol.8b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.15. fol.8a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.14. fol.7b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.13. fol.7a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail Zühtü (İsmail Zühdi d.1806, كتبه اسماعيل الزهدى) and undated.12. fol.6b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Durmuşzade Ahmet (d.1717) (الفقير المذنب احمد المدعو بطورمش زاده) and dated 1107 [1695 or 6].11. fol.6a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Durmuşzade Ahmet (d.1717) (الفقير المذنب احمد المدعو بطورمش زاده) and dated 1107 [1695 or 6].10. fol.5b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī (كتبه العبد احمد الحسينى) and undated.9. fol.5a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (حرره الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير محمد راسم) and undated.8. fol.4b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (نمقه الفقير محمد راسم) and undated.7. fol.4a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (حرره الفقير محمد راسم) and undated.6. fol.3b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (نمقه محمد راسم) and undated.5. fol.3a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (حرره محمد راسم) and undated.4. fol.2b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (نمقه محمد راسم) and undated.3. fol.2a : unsigned piece in nastaliq, undated.2. fol.1b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Nuri Musa Efendizade (العبد المذنب محمد نورى بحافظ القرآن موسى افندى زاده) dated 1193 [1779 or 80].1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (36 kıt'alar / pieces), likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Mamoun Sakkal.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 441Origin: Origin: Dates in dated pieces range from 1080 [1669 or 70] to 1323 [1905 or 6]. Some pieces possibly earlier. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "208" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel gold-stamped with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) at center, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with olive green leather onlays) decorative panels in vegetal designs with crescents gold-stamped on olive green leather onlays at the four corners ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted, marbled or silhouette ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper (resembling reptile hide) with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes).Script: Muḥaqqaq (muhakkak), naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs) and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: Twenty-one heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.42. fol.21b : [blank].41. fol.21a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Hilmi (نمقه السيد محمد حلمى) and dated 1287 [1870 or 1].40. fol.20b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding pieces (from fol.10a).39. fol.20a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.38. fol.19b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.37. fol.19a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.36. fol.18b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.35. fol.18a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.34. fol.17b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.33. fol.17a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.32. fol.16b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.31. fol.16a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.30. fol.15b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.29. fol.15a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.28. fol.14b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.27. fol.14a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.26. fol.13b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.25. fol.13a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.24. fol.12b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.23. fol.12a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.22. fol.11b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.21. fol.11a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.20. fol.10b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) likely by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) and belonging to the preceding and following pieces.19. fol.10a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) (الفقير محمد اسعد اليسارى) and undated, likely (with the following pieces fol.10b-20b) concluding piece of a meşk murakkaa.18. fol.9b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hocazade Mehmet (d.1695) (سوده الحقير محمد الشهر بخواجه زاده) and dated 1080 [1669 or 70].17. fol.9a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Kazasker (Kadıasker) Mustafa İzzet Efendi (d.1876) (بندۀ ال عبا سيد عزت مصطفى) and possibly dated 1278 [1861 or 2].16. fol.8b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hasan Rıza Efendi (d.1920) (حرره الحاج السيد حسن رضا ) and dated 1323 [1905 or 6].15. fol.8a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail b. Abdullah student of İbrahim Rodosi (d.1787) (مشقه العبد المذنب اسمعيل بن عبد الله من تلاميذ ابراهيم الردوسى) and undated.14. fol.7b : piece in thluth signed by the calligrapher Usturacızade Mehmet Şehri (d.1740) (سوده محمد الشهرى) and undated.13. fol.7a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hasan Rıza Efendi (d.1920) (حرره الحاج السيد حسن رضا ) and dated 1323 [1905 or 6].12. fol.6b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.11. fol.6a : piece in naskh signed by the calligrapher Deli Osman Afif Dâmâdı (d.1805) (كتبه الفقير السيد عثمان المعروف بداماد العفيف) and dated 1205 [1790 or 1].10. fol.5b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İsmail Zühtü (İsmail Zühdi d.1806, كتبه اسمعيل الزهدى) and undated.9. fol.5a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Tevfiki [?] (كتبه توفيقى) and undated.8. fol.4b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher, most likely the Ottoman Sultan Murat IV (r.1623-1640) (كتبه مراد خان), and undated.7. fol.4a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Yusuf Efendi (d.1787) (نمقه المذنب يوسف المعروف بحافظ القرآن) and unsigned.6. fol.3b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.5. fol.3a : piece in naskh signed by the calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) (محمد راسم) and undated.4. fol.2b : unsigned piece in muḥaqqaq (continuation of the previous), undated.3. fol.2a : unsigned piece in muḥaqqaq, undated.2. fol.1b : impression of the seal (مهر) of Muḥammad Shāh Qājār (محمد شاه قاجار, r.1834-1848) with inscription “الملک لله محمد شاه غازی صاحب تاج و نگین آمد شکوه ملک و ملت رونق آیین دین آمد” and date 1250 [1834 or 5] set in illuminated four-lobed ornament.1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (40 kıt'alar / pieces), likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Mamoun Sakkal.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1004Origin: As appears in authorial colophon on p.248, composition completed 1 Shaʻbān 1170 [ca. 21 April 1757] (compare close of al-Maktabah al-Bārūnīyah no. 50.220). Date of copying is not specified, though paper, hand, etc. suggest ca. 1771, not long after composition.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 153Binding: Boards covered in dark blue textured cloth with dark blue leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style 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 "حاشية الحفني" ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; overall in good condition.Support: European laid paper with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents / tre lune watermark with P (roughly 105 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see pp.16, 22, 24, 40, 42, etc. and compare no.769 / dated 1771 in Velkov and Andreev, Filigranes dans les documents ottomans. I Trois croissants), quite sturdy, cream to buff in color, well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas and stylized florets (or v-signs, resembling fleurs de lis or crosses at times) in red.Script: Naskh ; careful, clear Egyptian hand in a medium line ; partially seriffed with long serif on occasional alif, slight effect of tilt to the right, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in strokes or conjoined dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ ; two replacement leaves at opening (pp.1-4) in a different hand (with final yāʼ usually unpointed).Layout: Written mainly in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 (6), V-1 (15), V (25), V-1 (34), 3 V(64), V-1 (73), 4 V(113), VI-1 (124), i ; almost exclusively quinions (with many anomalous) with final senion ; missing most of first and second gatherings though two replacement leaves for opening matter have been supplied (see pp.1-4), followed by a misplaced leaf from the final gathering (carrying pp.5-6, p.6 should follow p.246 and p.247 should follow p.5) and the opening three leaves of the second gathering (pp.7-12) bound in backwards and in reverse order ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals under letter kāf in upper outer corner of recto of opening leaf of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Authorial," reads "وكان الفراغ من تعليقها يوم الاربعاء غرة شهر شعبان سنة سبعين ومائة والف من هجرة اشرف المرسلين عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام واسأل الله من فضله حسن الختام ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم تم"Explicit: "انقطاع كما سبق له قريبا وهذا آخر ما من به الملك الوهاب واليه سبحانه وتعالى المرجع والمآب نسأله من فضله يجعلها هداية نافعة لكل قلب منيب كاشفة ظلمات الاوهام عن كل صب مصيب والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على خاتم المرسلين ... وعلى اله واصحابه وازواجه واحبابه"Incipit: "قال قرة عيون اعيان العارفين وغرة جباه وجوه وجوه [كذا] العارفين ملاذ من الى جنابه التجا ومعاذ كل ملهوف منقطع الرجاء ... سيدي محمد الحفناوي متع الله بوجوده الوجود ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لمن جعل احبابه ادلاء على سبيل الهداية وامدهم بلوامع الانوار وسواطع الاسرار ... وبعد فيقول فقير المغني عبد مولاه محمد الحفني هذه حواش تفوق نفائس الدرر على شرح الهمزية للعلامة الشهاب ابن حجر ..."Title from opening matter on p.2.Ms. codex.Fine though partly acephalous copy of the gloss by Muḥammad al-Ḥifnāwī (al-Ḥifnī, d.1767 or 8) on the commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (d.1567) on al-Būṣīrī's (d.1296?) poem in praise of the Prophet entitled al-Qaṣīdah al-hamzīyah fī madḥ al-nabawīyah.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 906Origin: As appears in colophon on p.162, transcription completed 19 Dhū al-Qaʻdah [13]55, corresponding to the 1st of February [19]37 and the 24th of Ṭūbah [1653].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 55Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title, author and owner, as well as decorative accents over raised bands "مجموعة ابي نصر الفارابي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine but appears to be over cords, in white thread, five stations ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact, modern hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 26 lines per page.Collation: i, 20 II(81), i ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals surmounted by kāf appears on the opening recto of each of the first three quires ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من تسويد هذه الرسالة في يوم الاثنين الموافق ١٩ من ذي القعدة ٥٥ وغرة فبراير س ٣٧ ق ٢٤ طوبة"Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.10. p.85-p.162 : al-Risālah al-tāsiʻah min al-rasāʼil al-Fārābīyah hiya al-risālah al-maʻrūfah bi-Ārāʼ ahl al-madīnah al-fāḍilah wa-hiya fī al-aṣl al-Risālah al-Aflāṭūnīyah al-shahīrah bi-Jumhūrīyat Aflāṭun / al-Fārābī.9. p.83-p.85 : Min al-Risālah al-thāminah wa-hiya Nukat Abī Naṣr fīmā yaṣiḥḥu wa mā lā yaṣṣiḥu min aḥkām al-nujūm / al-Fārābī.8. p.79-p.83 : Min al-Risālah al-sābiʻah fī masāʼil wa-ajwabatihā / al-Fārābī.7. p.62-p.79 : al-Risālah al-sādisah min al-thamāniyah Risālat al-Fuṣūṣ/ al-Fārābī.6. p.48-62 : al-Risālah al-khāmisah min al-thamāniyah ʻUyūn al-masāʼil / al-Fārābī.5. p.41-p.48 : al-Risālah al-rābiʻah min al-thamāniyah fīmā yanbaghī an yuqaddam qabla taʻallum al-falsafah / al-Fārābī.4. p.33-p.41 : al-Risālah al-thālithah min al-thamāniyah fī maʻānī al-ʻaql / al-Fārābī.3. p.30-33 : al-Risālah al-thānīyah min al-thamāniyah Maqālah sharīfah lil-muʻallim al-thānī Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī fī aghrāḍ al-muʻallim al-awwal fī kull maqālah min maqālāt Kitāb Mā baʻd al-ṭabīʻah al-mawsūm bi-al-Ḥurūf / al-Fārābī.2. p.3-p.29 : al-Risālah al-ūlá fī al-jamʻ bayna al-raʼyayn / al-Fārābī.1. p.1-p.2 : [preface].Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works by the renowned Muslim philosopher, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī, referred to as Alfarabius or Avennasar in Latin texts, known as "the second teacher" (المعلم الثاني), the first being Aristotle.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 976Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 125Binding: 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 "مجموعة شذرة تاريخية ورسائل | J.H.D." ; sewn in heavy white thread, seemingly in four stations ; overall in fairly good condition with minor curvature in boards (negative draw in upper board, positive draw in lower board).Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.Decoration: Occasional overlining, headings and glosses (including signes de renvoi) rubricated.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact, elegant 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.Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page.Collation: i, XIV (28), i ; a single gathering of fourteen bifola ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: [Shadhrah tārīkhīyah] "مقدمة في علم التاريخ وفائدته واقامه التاريخ علم يتضمن ذكر الوقائع ولا سيما ما كان منها متعلقا بالامم والاقاليم مع تعيين اوقاتها وبيان اسبابها ومسبباتها ..." ; [Risālat al-Nuqtah ] "الحمد لله الذي ظهر بما شاء لمن شاء بمشيئته الازلية ... اما بعد فلما شاع بين اهل العلوم ان ارفع العلوم واشرفها علم التوحيد ..." ; [Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Naṣīrīyah al-Khusrawīyah ] "الحمد لمنور النفوس بانوار العلم والقرآن وهادي الخلائق بارسال الرسول وانزال القرآن ... وبعد فان الحكيم ... نصير الملة والدين محمد الطوسي ... قد بعث رسالة الى بعض معاصريه وهو الفاضل ... شمس الدين الخسرو شاهي ..." ; [Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-masāʼil al-Jīlānīyah] "هذه رسالة كتبها الاستاذ صدر الافاضل الى الفاضل مولانا الشمس الجيلاني ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.5. p.42-p.55 : Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-masāʼil al-Jīlānīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.4. p.29-p.41 : Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Naṣīrīyah al-Khusrawīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.3. p.22-p.28 : Risālat al-Nuqtah / lil-Ṣadr ayḍan [ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī].2. p.21 : [blank].1. p.2-p.20 : Shadhrah tārīkhīyah.Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works opening with an excerpt on history followed by Asrār al-nuqṭah of Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadānī (d.1385) (here attributed to Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī) and two philosophical works by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1039Origin: As appears in colophon on p.12, copied by Salīm sibṭ al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭībī [al-Ṭayyibī] with transcription completed 1 Ramaḍān 1262 [August 1846]. In a transmission / ascription statement accompanying the colophon on p.12, the copyist indicates that he transmits this work having received it by authoritative transmission from his grandfather (al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭībī [al-Ṭayyibī]) who received it from Aḥmad al-ʻAṭṭār who received it from the author himself.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 188Binding: Stiff brown paper cover (single sheet, limp binding without boards) ; sewn in yellow thread, four stations (through the paper cover) ; cover in fair condition with minor creasing, staining, tears, etc. ; housed in sturdy envelope for protection.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and "G" and "M" watermarks / countermarks visible (see p.8, 10, 12), dense and sturdy, dark cream in color, burnished ; pieces of wove paper have been applied to the 'title page' (p.1), possibly by the copyist.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and notabilia rubricated.Script: Naskh ; clear 'Syrian' [?] hand in a medium line ; serifless and rounded with many closed counters, descenders curvilinear but rāʼ, zay, etc. somewhat flattened, slight effect of tilt to the left, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6) ; a single ternion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى المالك الكريم الجواد سليم سبط الشيخ عبد الرحمن الطيبي طيب الله ثراه وجعل الجنة متقلبه ومثواه ورحم والداه وغفر لنا وله ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم في غرت رمضان سنه ۱۲٦٢"Explicit: "قلت يا رسول الله اخبرني باحب الاعمال الى الله عز وجل قال ان تموت ولسانك رطب من ذكر الله عز وجل تمت"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي رفع مقدار اهل الحديث وخصهم بحفظ اسانيده في القديم والحديث ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير لمولاه الغني الفتاح اسماعيل العجلوني ابن محمد جراح قد وقفت علي رسالة اظنها البعض المكيين لكني لم اقف علي اسمه ولا علي تسميتها وهي مشتملة على ذكر احاديث من اوائل بعض كتب الحديث ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Careful copy of a selection of forty ḥadīth taken by the author from various authoritative compilations. Contribution to the cataloguing (citation, variant title) provided by Hossein Mottaghi.
Watermarks: Three crescents; Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; BLACON(?) in roman; AFFE(?) in roman. For the first two see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.Text and tables rubricated.Date in pencil on back flyleaf in a different hand: 1210 hijrī fī yawm al-khamīs.Astronomical tables for the latitude of 41⁰ (Istanbul), with brief instructions for their use.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist.Date and copyist's name in colophon: tamma al-kitābah bi-ʻawn al-malik al-wahhāb ʻalá yad al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Aḥmad Ṣiwān al-Liqāʾī[?] fī yawm al-thulāthā li-sabʻ ...[?]... min shahr al-Muḥarram sanat 1259 [7? February 1843].In a muqaddimah and 20 bābs, on the "complete" quadrant. Text almost identical with that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 748 through the second bāb, after which the texts diverge; also similar, but not identical, to the text of Mich. Isl. Mss. 796,10 and 835,10, although they share similar titles.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 937Origin: As appears in colophon on p.60, copied by the anonymous "ا ع" (compare Isl. Mss. 905, 910, 929, 981, 988, 998) with transcription completed 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1352 [ca. 20 March 1934]. Likely copied in Egypt and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 86Binding: 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 "رسالة العرشية | صدر الدين | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine, but appears to be in heavy white thread over perhaps four stations (see p.50) ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of two types (trimmed to different sizes), both quite sturdy, one lined and beige in color (opening through p.40), the other unlined and cream in color (p.41 to close).Script: Ruqʻah ; compact hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with slight effect of tilt to the right, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written in 25-27 lines per page.Collation: i,2 V(20), V+1 (31), i (as suggested by gatherings, sewing difficult to examine) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals accompanied by letter kāf (ك) appearing on the opening recto of each gathering from the second (see pp.21, 41) ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (through page ٤٤) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly repeats pp.58-59).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "كتبه الفاني اع في الثلاثاء رابع ذي الحجة ١٣٥٢"Explicit: "على الظن والتخمين والاماني والخيال اعاذنا الله واخواننا الذين يؤمنون من شر الشياطين والمضلين ... انه سميع الدعاء وقريب مجيب وبالاجاء جدير وبالهداية الى اقوم سبيل ... آمين آمين آمين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره للاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو الرب الجليل محمد المدعو بصدر الدين ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title from heading on incipit page (p.2).Ms. codex.Careful copy of al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640), renowned philosopher of the Ṣafavid period.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Text rubricated and vocalized; lines of each section beginning on p. [8] numbered; text enclosed in red borders; marginal notes in another (?) hand.Date based on owner's mark on p. [1].On the characteristics of calendars in the Coptic, Byzantine, and Islamic systems, the astrological import of their days, and weather conditions for crops on those days.
Watermarks: Three crescents; crown surmounted by 6-pointed star and crescent. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24 and no. 1132.Contains astronomical tables.Text and tables rubricated and ruled in red; text partially vocalized; copyist's name in colophon: min kitābat al-ʻabd al-faqīr ... Muṣṭafá al-Ābār; marginal corrections in a different hand; on verso of f. 7 a sheet containing tables in a modern hand has been pasted over the original text, some tables apparently missing (description by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945).For an earlier (?), more complete (?) copy of this work see Mich. Isl. Ms. 734.Text (not this copy) published.Includes tables for Islamic years 1189 [1775 or 6] to 1219 [1804 or 5], upon which the 18th-cent. date for this item is based."Prayer-tables for Cairo taken from the main corpus [compiled by Ibn Yūnus] ... preceded by a short introduction in 8 or 10 faṣls, simple calendrical tables, and a solar longitude table, and followed by a star catalog." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 91.
Pp. [1-2] have thin triple borders in black and red with gold ink; remainder of text rubricated with red borders; wide margins with embossed diagonal rules provided for commentary; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 805,2-4.Date and copyist's name in colophon: wa-qad tamma ʻan yad aḍʻaf al-ʻibād al-sayyid Aḥmad al-Ḥamdī ibn Muḥammad ibn Amr Allāh al-ʻAlāʾī sanat khams wa-thamānīn wa-miʾatayn baʻd al-alf fī al-yawm al-khāmis ʻashar min Rajab [i.e. 1 November 1868].Text (not this copy) published.Pp. [1-12]. Bound with: [2] Muḥammad ibn Asʻad Jalāl al-Dawwānī, commentary on al-Zawrāʾ, pp. [13-34]; [3] same author, Khuṭbat a-zawrāʾ, pp. [35-39]; [4] Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qāḍī Zādah, Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ, pp. [40-212].Essay on philosophy and mysticism.
Text rubricated; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 691,2; diagrams and marginal notes in a different hand.Date in colophon: alf wa-miyah wa-ithnayn wa-thalāthīn Dhū al-Ḥijjah [October-November 1720].Pp. [1-47]. Bound with: ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimishqī, Sharḥ urjūzah fī ḥall al-ʻadad, pp. [48-53].Dimishqī's commentary on his own poem Nukhbat al-tuffāḥah, based on Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ashʻarī's poem al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah, on surveying. For a later copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 796,12.