1. Jangnāmah-i Imām Ḥusayn va Durr al-majālis

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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 853Origin: As appears in colophon on p.232, transcription of opening work completed 2 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1259 [ca. 24 December 1843] in Amīnʹpūr. As appears in colophon on p.424, final work copied by Muḥammad Bakhsh valad-i Muḥammad ʻAẓīm (likely the same copyist who executed Isl. Ms. 852 and Isl. Ms. 854) with transcription completed 15 Rajab 1244 [ca. 21 January 1829].Accompanying materials: a. Sheet of ruled paper with notes in pencil "First part | 'Jenghis-name' | Dated '1259 which corresponds to 1888' in Aminpur | Second part | Completed 1888 in same place. | Title not mentioned in colophon. Religious history" and in pen "PERSIAN SCRIPT" -- b. Card with typed description "K240 | 17301 | Indian [struck through] Persian [struck through] Mogul (?) manuscript book, leather binding with paper faces. | Amritsar." and in pen "PERSIAN SCRIPT" -- c. Photocopy of card with typed description "17301 | 865 Amritsor, India | 1 Indian manuscript book | Original no. K240. Leather binding; date 1888. | Univ., of Mich., Div. of Fine Arts | Walter Koelz, 1932-33 | March 19, 1934" -- d. Scrap with verses between pp.10-11 -- e. Torn scrap with notes between pp.64-65 -- f. Scrap torn from a page itself torn from a printed New Testament in Urdu (page appears at close of volume) between pp.92-93 -- g. Yet another torn scrap with prayer between pp.200-201 -- h. Yet another scrap with verses between pp.214-215 -- i. Page torn from a printed New Testament in Urdu (carries verses from the Gospel according to Luke) following p.424 at close of codex.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 2Binding: Pasteboards faced in now dull yellow laid paper with dark red leather over spine and board edges (paper faced, leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in light brown laid paper ; same dark red leather also used for inner hinges, to which textile spine lining has been glued and both sandwiched in paper ; upper and lower covers inner and outer triple-rule painted borders in silvery gray ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and cream, now further down on the spine, in fairly good condition though with some losses of thread and ends of rolled paper cores exposed, primaries sewn through spine lining ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of spine leather, upper joint split explosing spine lining and leather of inner hinge, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Indian) laid paper with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, indistinct, curving) and chain lines occasionally visible, quite cloudy formation, inclusions, fairly thick and sturdy though transluscent, only lightly burnished, light brown in color ; bit of blue thread / yarn visible in p.235.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated throughout ; text to be entered in red provided in margins.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant Indian hand in a thin to medium line ; in opening work, large and spacious, in final word smaller and more compact though appears to be the same hand ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, inclination to the right, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, yāʼ always pointed, point of final nūn often set down within wide bowl ; naskh employed for transcription of some Arabic passages (see opening of final work on p.236).Layout: Written in 25 (opening work) and 18 (final work) lines per page, with written area for opening work divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 14 IV(112), II (116), 12 IV(212), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in black in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [Jangnāmah] "Scribal," triangular, reads " ثم تم تمام شد نسخه متبرکه کتاب جنگ نامه از تصنیف حامد بتاریخ دویم دویم ماه دالحج بروز یکشنبه بوقت سپهر سنه ١٢٥٩ هجری سنه ١٨٩٨ در موضع امین پور تحریر یافت بحرمت النبی و اله الامجاد تمام تمام تم شد تم تم شد" ; [Durr al-majālis]"Scribal," triangular, reads "بید خط فقیر حقیر پر تقصیر مفتی محمد بخش ولد محمد عظیم غفر الله له بتاریخ پانزدهم ماه رجب المرجب بروز پنج شنبه سنه ۱۲۴۴ ۱۸۸۵ در ماه ماکیه در موضع امین ‌پور در خانۀ دیوا سینگه هنابل تحریر یافت والله اعلم بالصواب تمام شد"Incipit: [Jangnāmah] "لکھ لکھ حمد الاه نون جینی کل جهاں ..." ; [Durr al-majālis] "یا ایها الذین آمنوا صلوا علیه و سلموا تسلیما پیغامبری که خلعت در عالم علوی و سفلی بطفیل عظمت وجود اوست که مقر انبیا ولایت اوست و مقر اولیاء بهدایت اوست قوله تعالی فاتبعونی یحببکم الله زهی محبوب ازل که امان نامه عذاب امت را ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from colophon on p.232 and opening on p.236.Ms. codex.3. p.236-p.424 : Durr al-majālis / Sayf Ẓafar ʻAlī Nawbahārī.2. p.233-p.235 : [originally left blank now some leaves carry elegiac poetic excerpts (مرثیه از نصیر الحق, etc.) and prayer].1. p.4-p. 232 : Jangnāmah / Hāmida Shāha Abbāsī.Careful copy of a lengthy Panjabi poem on the martyrdom of Imām Ḥusayn and Durr al-majālis a Persian prose work on ethics. Extensive contributions to the cataloguing from Connie Bobroff, Arif Naushahi, Ali Rafi and Hossein Mottaghi. Further contributions to the physical description from Elizabeth Kunze.