Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 865Origin: As appears in colophon on p.73, transcription [and composition ?] completed 17 Jumādá I 1219 [ca. 24 August 1804]. As appears in opening matter on p.25, date of composition appears to be represented by a chronogram, the value of which has been entered as ۱۲۱۹ below "جادۀ آخرت" (which would actually seem to have a value of 1214 or 1216). Paper, etc. do suggest 19th century for date of transcription.Accompanying materials: a. Slip of paper with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" (pp.1-2) -- b. Slip of paper with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report' (pp.3-4) -- c. Slip of paper with notes describing contents in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 13 Manāzil al-ḥajj | copied in 1219 (The date of composition)" (pp.5-6).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 14Binding: Boards covered in mauve paper (blotched design evoking marbling) with red-brown leather over spine and board corners (half binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted laid paper ; head edge of text block gilt ; spine gold-stamped with title "MS. | MANĀZILU L-HADJ̲DJ̲" ; sewn in white thread over four recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands in green, red and white stripes ; overall in good condition ; original cover material has been bound in (see pp.11-12, etc. and note on upper pastedown).Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct, some curving) and chain lines faintly visible, cloudy formation, quite sturdy, dark cream in color, well-burnished ; some pest damage.Decoration: Keywords rubricated or overlined in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; large, elegant hand ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page.Collation: ii, ii, 3 IV(24), III (30), 2 II(38), ii, ii ; chiefly quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black strokes, upper outer corner of right-hand leaf, lower outer corner of left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; foliation in greyish black ink, Western numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts, flyleaves and added leaves).Colophon: "تمت تمام شد کتاب منازل الحج و بتاریخ هفدهم جمادی الاول سنه ۱۲۱۹ هجری از تحریر فراغ یافت"Explicit: "این حروف باین جهت بشرح آنها نپرداخت"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى جعل منازل الحج وسيله للشهود واكرم الحجاج من سائر قافله الوجود الذى انزل فى شان الكعبه ... اما بعد بر ارباب الباب مخفى و محتجب ...که سیاح بلاد باصلاح و سداد خیر ... عبارت ازام القری مکه و حجاز و بطحی باشد "Title from opening matter (p.25).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the author's account of his pilgrimage from Baghdad to Mecca and Medina as well as holy sites in Iraq (see in al-Dharīʻah, no.6893 v.22 p.245).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 866Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.38a, first work copied by Bābā [?] Valad Āghā Shihāb. Copying finished Jumādá I 1222 [July-August 1807]. Anthology lacks a formal colophon, though a few dates appear (1206 [1791 or 2], 1211 [1796 or 7] p.241), likely also early 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip in hand of Meredith-Owens marked "MO 11" describing contents and suggested dating reads "MO 11 Niṣāb al-ṣibyān of Abū Naṣr Farāhī. A rhymed Arabic-Persian vocabulary. Followed by a verse anthology and the Dīvān of Mīrzā Muḥammad Ismāʻīl of Shīrāz. Undated but probably XIXth century" b. Slip reading "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" c. Slip reading "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 15Binding: Pasteboards (quite spongy) covered in brown (with orange tones) leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in black leather ; white and pink threads ; two sewing stations ; endbands in yellow with a chevron pattern ; in poor condition, with much wear, repair on spine ; lower cover has fully detached at spine ; extensive page repairs at beginning of ms. unfortunately obscure text in many places and make transcription of incipit difficult ; quite soiled with dirt, wax, food, and other stains ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of several types with watermarks including scrollwork with initials below (p.22, etc.), three hats (top hats) with feathers (p.50, 52, etc.), three hats (tre cappelli, p.198, 284, etc.), and lion passant guardant (p.436, 438, etc.) ; front and back flyleaves (each an inserted single bifolium) in still other European laid paper with no watermarks visible.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red circles (similar to numeral ٥) appear in first work at the end of each line ; first work rubricated with section headings, textual dividers, etc. in red ; anthology partially rubricated with titles, section headings, dedications, etc. in red.Script: Supplied in two main hands ; first work in Naskh ; large, neatly executed, Persianate or Indian hand ; virtually serifless though occasional left-sloping barbed head-serif on alif of lām alif ligature and occasional final lām ; occasional right-sloping barbed head-serif on bar of kāf mashkūlah ; many closed counters ; line thickness changes though hand appears not to (though opening and a few leaves at the center have slightly different character) ; essentially fully pointed, often with two dots often positioned one above the other rather than beside ; many mistakes in the pointing ; partially vocalized ; often final letters or entire final word of each line is superscript ; anthology is supplied in several hands of a kind of shikāstah nastaʻlīq script ; serifless ; interesting hāʼ mudghamah looking like two inverted commas one atop the other ; sweeping descenders ; free use of ligatures ; words sloping to baseline ; final letters or final word of each line often superscript ; line thickness, size, and hand all change frequently.Layout: First work written in 9 lines per page ; anthology ruled in two columns with number of lines per page varying widely from 4 to 12 ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board quite evident).Collation: ii, V(10), V+2(22), V(32), III(38), IV+1(47), 2 IV(63), 2 I(67), 2 IV(91), IV+2 (101), IV-1(108), IV(116), I(118), I+1(121), IV(129), IV-1(136), 3 IV(160), I(162), IV+1(171), IV(179), I(181), IV(189), VI(201), IV(209), 5 (214), III+2(222), II(226), ii ; catchwords present in first work, but appear irregularly in anthology ; several folia in anthology are left blank or partially blank, indicating division of contents and not missing text ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: [Niṣāb al-ṣibyān] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمام كتاب نصاب بتاريخ شهر جمادى اول بخط حقير فقير اغا بابا [؟] ولد اغا شهاب سنة ١٢٢٢"Explicit: [Niṣāb al-ṣibyān] "ناس و انس و اناس ادمیان پدر مادر ادم و حوا"Incipit: [Niṣāb al-ṣibyān] "الحمد لله رب العالمين [والصلاة] والسلام على خير خلقه محمد ... اما بعد حنين گويد ... ابو نصر فراهي حسد حافده وحفد حاسده ما حركت الشمال لنخل الدقيق ... صبيانرا پيش از تعلم لغت عرب رغبت مى افتد باشعار فارسي ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.3. fol.40b-226b : [Collected works of poetry].2. fol.39a-40a : [blank].1. fol.1a-38b : Niṣāb al-ṣibyān / Abū Naṣr Farāhī.Abū Naṣr al-Farāhī's versified Arabic-Persian vocabulary followed by a collection (majmūʻah) of poetry in Persian, beginning with rubāʻīyāt and including works attributed to Mīrzā Muḥammad Ismāʻīl and Rashīd al-Dīn Vaṭvāṭ, somewhat haphazardly copied toward the end.