"The first comprehensive description of ancient and modern Egyptcompiled by the 165 members of the Institut de l'Egypte established by Napoleon to accompany his expedition to Egypt in 1798-1801. This exhaustive survey of all aspects of ancient and modern life in Egypt was carried out under the supervision of the mathematician Gaspard Mongethe appointed President of the new Institute (of which Napoleon was Vice-President)."
https://libraries.aub.edu.lb/xtf/data/aco/LeBAU_b12335824/thumb.jpg"Part of the Arabic Collections Online (ACO) projectcontributed by American University of Beirut's Jafet Memorial Library"'Electronic reproduction'447 صفحة ؛ 24 سمالأنوار الجلية في مختصر الأثبات الحلبية: 1. كفاية الراوي والسامع وهداية الرائي والسامع / للعلامة المحدث الشيخ يوسف الحسيني الحنفى الحلبي المتوفى سنة 1153 -- 2. إنالة الطالبين لعوالي المحدثين / تأليف العلامة المحدث الشيخ عبد الكريم بن الشيخ أحمد الشراباتي الحلبي المتوفى سنة 1178 -- 3. منار الإسعاد في طريق الإسناد / للعلامة المحدث الشيخ عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله الحنبلي الحنفي المتوفى سنة 1192
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).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1050Origin: As appears in colophon on p.18, transcription apparently completed 9 Ṣafar 787 [ca. 22 March 1385].Binding: Heavy boards covered in dark maroon leather ; Type III binding (without flap), tightback ; board linings and flyleaves in wove paper (notes, likely binder's notes, in pencil barely visible beneath board linings) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled rule borders, cornerpieces and central circular ornament (outline only) ; now sewn in rose thread, seemingly over two recessed cords ; overall in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct) and grouped chain lines (threes and possibly twos) with roughly 9-10 mm. between chains and 42-50 mm. between groups, somewhat cloudy formation, quite sturdy, medium cream to buff in color, burnished ; opening leaf possibly of different paper type ; moisture damage, tears and creases, some repairs / fills.Decoration: Headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; clear Syrian or Egyptian hand in a thin to medium line (line thickness changes) ; mainly serifless with large curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), casually pointed (tāʼ marbūṭah often unpointed) with pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, alif maqṣūrah often pointed as yāʼ, ihmāl sign on sīn, shaqq of kāf often quite horizontal, free-standing alif often terminating in a left-ward foot, final alif often with tail or spur extending below baseline.Layout: Written in 15-16 lines per page.Collation: i, IV+1 (9), i ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت منافع الاشربة في تاسع صفر سنة سبع وثمانين وسبعماية"Explicit: "واما من اراد ان يضيف اليه حوايج فليكن رمي [؟] الحوايج عند نضج الشعير ويغلى عليات حتى تخرج قوة الادوية منه ويرفع ويستعمل مع ما يوافقه من الاشربة نافع ان شا الله تعالى"Incipit: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صفة شراب بسفايج ساذج عن طبيب مشهور بسفايج خضر المكسر طري اربع اواقى يرض وينقع في ما حار شديد الحرارة يوما وليلة ويغلي بنار هادية حتى يبقى منه مقدار ما يحل رطل سكر واوقية عسل ..."Title from 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine, early copy of a work on potable medicaments, i.e. beverages or syrups (sharāb) attributed on the 'title page' to Amīn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Sīwāsī al-Abhārī (d. 733/1333).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 38Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 15th century. Cover likely contemporary with transcript.Accompanying materials: Slip of European laid paper with excerpt in black ink (paginated pp.85-86).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 18. Commentary on a work on theology by Al-Iji." ; "٣٩٤" on tail-edge of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublure hinges and interior of envelope flap extending onto lower doublure in red brown leather with block-stamped vegetal pattern ; board linings in paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled central circular medallion consisting of a series of concentric circles formed with a crescent-shaped stamp, accents in same stampe, and border in s-shaped stamps and scored fillets ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, four stations ; endbands virtually gone though traces remain ; in fair condition with abrasion, lifting and cracking of spine and fore-edge flap leather, some pest damage, repairs in blue cloth tape, and paper label bookplate pasted over upper cover.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with indistinct laid lines spaced 8 laid lines per cm. (20 laid lines in 25 mm.) ; chain lines grouped in threes running horizontally spaced roughly 10 mm. apart with roughly 43-45 mm. between the groups ; well-burnished with some burnisher's marks visible ; quite smooth ; some undissolved fibers.Decoration: Text rubricated with keywords, overlining, etc. in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; graceful hand ; sans serif ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; slight effect of tilt to the right ; some swooping tails ; initial hāʼ looking like two inverted commas.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii,13 IV(104), ii ; quire numbering in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears on the recto of the first leaf for the second through the sixth quires, thereafter likely cut off ; entirely quaternions ; catchwords present, though occasionally lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Explicit: "هو الوقت المشروع اولا وبعد الوقت المطنون تضيقه قبل الوقت و اقره اليه اد [؟]"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرع الاحكام وربطها بدلائل كلية وعلل تفصيلية للاحكام وابار معالم الدين بانوار الكتاب والخير ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf verso.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Abharī's gloss upon al-Ījī's (d. 756/1355) commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d. 646/1249) abridgement of his own Muntahá al-suʼl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal, on uṣūl al-fiqh. Copy ends abruptly and appears incomplete.
Text is a history of Lebanon in the early 20 century.Written in one column, 14 lines per page, in black.On inside front cover : "Presented to Isaac H. Hall by the author and transcriber, Alexander Effendi Abkarius, Beirut, 19 Nisan 1877" [April 19, 1877].Book of the marvels of time in the events of Mount. Lebanon.MS Arab 8. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Recto: family letter, ca. 11th century, from Abraham to his son-in-law Elijah and his daughter אתוכלי, Itwakkilī (Arabic, but unattested as a name). There are many greetings and good wishes from various family members. The writer states that Elijah’s brother wanted to visit him, but had been prevented by the grape harvest (הבציר). He wants the couple to send a letter at the next opportunity. Also mentioned is a debt and ‘the time that the river rises’, probably a reference to the flooding of the Nile. A number of different names are mentioned: Elijah’s sister is Sitt al-Rūmī (שטירומי); also mentioned are Irini (אריני), Leon (לאון) and his wife Sitt al-Bayt (שטילבית), another son-in-law Kalev, a wife Meršini (מרשיני, vocalised) and a son Šemarya. Verso: address and several lines of unrelated Arabic.Condition: tornLayout: 11 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham Maimonides to the judge Nissim in Alexandria, instructing him not to let Abū Manṣūr b. Abū l-Ḵayr, the tax-farmer of Sanhūr, re-marry before he has paid back his previous wife’s delayed bridal gift. In the hand of Solomon b. Elijah (13th century).Condition: holesLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Recto: letter to the dignitary Jacob in Alexandria from Abraham b. Isaac Ibn al-Zūlāfī in Palermo. The right margin has continuation of piyyuṭ from verso. Verso: piyyuṭ for Passover with many biblical quotations. Jottings in Arabic script at the top of the page.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 26 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Isaac al-Andalūsī in Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1065 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Recto: begging letter to Mevoraḵ b. Isaac from Abraham b. Jethro from Damascus. Verso: list of names, most of them bankers, including Abū l-Faḍl b. Ṣaḡīr, Abū Naṣr b. Abū Sulaymān and Abū ʿImrān Mūsā, the ḡulām of Ibn ʿAwkal, and a poem in praise of a merchant, followed by a dirge.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 38 lines + marginalia (recto); 36 lines, partly in 2 columns (verso)
Letter concerning the poll tax (ḵarāj), from Abraham b. Saʿadya he-Ḥaver to Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Binyām. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan and his brother, Moses al-Salām ha-Kohen, Peraḥya, Bayān and the mother of Bayān.Condition: Holes, rubbedLayout: 28 lines (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Recto: letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic from Abraham b. Saʿadya he-Ḥebroni, on behalf of refugees from Hebron that are now in Bilbays. Abraham writes to Isaac b. Samuel ha-Sefaradi (active ca. 1090-1130 CE) in Fusṭāṭ, concerning the building of a new synagogue in Bilbays, replacing an old synagogue that had been torn down. The entire community joined forces to dismantle the synagogue and rebuild the new building. The letter lists the donations given by members of the community, and describes in detail the surrounding properties and their owners. A muslim judge initially objected to the construction of the new synagogue, so the community tactically rebranded their construction as a ‘home’, to which the judge had no objection. Verso: jottings of an Arabic philosophical text.Condition: StainedLayout: 52 lines (recto); 40 lines (verso)
Recto: poem written by Abraham b. Yijū in praise of Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan (i.e. Maḍmūn b. Yefet), cursing his enemies. Probably written in Aden, c. 1140-41 CE. Verso: crossed-out list of commodities such as metals and their quantities in Arabic script.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 24 lines (recto); 13 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Ḥalfon b. Naḥum in Ashkelon to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Ḥayyim (c. 1090 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 26 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Incipit: (بعد البسملة) قال الفقيه ابو عبد / الله بن ابي زمنين [...] / كَا بَّرْتِذَ ذَا لَش الاَاشْ ذَابَلُّ اَلَاا ذَالَّشْ اَنْتَاشْ كَا اَلَاءَ اُتْرَ.Explicit: كُنْ لُكَا اُبْرَنْ / درجت من نشا. ان ربك حكيم عليم. شُشْشِيَاربُش.Tinta marrón oscuro.Copista: DesconocidoColofón: No.Características especiales: Texto árabe en trazos más gruesos; texto aljamiado, más finos.Ilustración: Dos círculos concéntricos que indican 10 versículos; una “hā’” ornamentada, que indica 5 versículos. Motivos circulares en los márgenes laterales, para indicar las diferentes partes de la recitación: ruba’a, nisf, ḥizb. Cenefa ornamentada con florón semicircular en el margen que marca el cambio de azora.Ilustraciones: Manecillas. Motivos vegetales; palmetas enfrentadas para completar línea de escritura. Motivos geométricos; serie de tres puntos en forma de pirámide. ‘Unwān con títulos. Panel simple en forma de ángulo recto en margen superior y lateral, que encuadra el texto.Tipo de cuaderno: Quinión y sexternosDeterioros: No.H. en blanco: I, 1r. II hojas de guarda fijas y una volante, al principio y final del volumen, insertadas con nueva encuadernación.H. dañadas, mutiladas, sueltas: La tinta, matalogálica, dificulta en ocasiones la lectura del texto. En algunos casos de texto árabe con cálamo más grueso, la tinta ha roto el papel y ha sido restaurado.H. faltan o añadidas: Falta cuaderno 13.Foliación: 1-152. Moderna, a lápiz, en la esquina superior izquierda del recto. F. 76 repetido.Reclamos: En horizontal, en la esquina inferior izquierda del verso del último folio del cuaderno.Sign. cuad.: Numeración a la derecha de reclamos, que coincide con la que aparece en el margen superior derecho del cuaderno siguiente.Pautado: A punta seca en el vuelto. Prácticamente imperceptible.Filigrana: Pequeño símbolo ¿alfanumérico? del que solo se distingue un “6”, ya que el otro carácter es apenas imperceptible.Anotaciones: Al margen, por la misma mano, para completar información.Signatura antigua: Junta 511v-152v. Comentario de las 6 primeras azoras del Corán a partir del Tafsir de Yaḥyà b. Salām al-Baṣri.Moderna, en cartera. Piel marrón sobre tabla de cartón endurecido. Decoración rectangular simple con doble filete estampado en seco. Motivos florales en los cuatro ángulos.
ff. 300 (acephalous) 245 x 167; 193 x 120 mm. 18 lin. Rabīʻ I, 605, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn ḥasan ibn Wāfī for the library of ʻIzz al-Quḍāh Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Dimyāṭī.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 168; S I, 267.Contains the riwāyah of al-Luʻluʻī; the contents correspond to vol. 2, p. 219 - v. 4, p. 246 of ed. Muḥammad Muhyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ḥamīd, Cairo, 1935.
Abstract: Collection of ḥadīths and letters by Abū Dāʼūd Sulaymān al-Sijistānī.Binding note: Lower and upper covers and envelope flap made of brown leather with a similar blind and gold tooled decoration, with a central roundel and an elaborate outer frame made of several fillets and running patterns. Rebound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents of the ms..Contents: 2. fol. 1b- 222a: Sunan / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 3. fol. 222b-223a: Risālah / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 4. fol. 224a-238b: Kitāb al-Marāsil / Abū Dāʼūd al-Sijistānī.Contents: 5. fol. 239a-243b: Tasmiyat shuyūkh Abī Dāʼūd ... al-Sijistānī / al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Jayyānī.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.41 lines per page. Written in Maghribī(?) script in black ink with larger script for headings. Glazed light cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible. Collation notes. Marginal notes. Some pages are carefully mended. Title on the lower edge of the text block (hardly egible). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.In the colophon of Text 1 (fol. 222a), it is stated that the copy was completed on Friday 25 Ramaḍān 589. The only other date in the ms. is 1241 H., the date of a collation by Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd (fol. 222a).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 495Origin: As appears in the audition statements on the margins of fol.9a (p.17) and fol.19a (p. 37), and fol. 36b (p. 72) seemingly copied by al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá ibn al-Ḥasan al-Lakhmī, who died in the year 699 [1299 or 1300] in Cairo. Either this copy or its exemplar appears to have been authorized by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bakrī al-Taymī al-Nīshābūrī thumma al-Dimashqī (d.656 in Cairo). Thus, the ms. was very likely copied in the mid to late 13th century. The audition statement/ijāzah in the margin of fol.19b (p.38) appears to be in the hand of al-Lakhmī's son Aḥmad.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 162" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth and black leather (modern Western quarter binding) ; board linings in sky blue paper ; in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper, approx. 32 mm for 20 vertical laidlines ; chainlines are difficult to estblish definitively ; on fol. 13a (p.25) there appear to be 5 sets of 2 chainlines, with 7-9mm between chainlines and 25-40 between sets.Decoration: Lacks decoration or rubrication ; ink has faded to brown.Script: Naskh ; one main hand, Egyptian (?) ; serrifed with a prominent rightward tear-drop serif on free-standing alif ; the lām-alif al-muḥaqqaqah is often used ; counters are inconsistent ; kāf often lacks bar ; mainly pointed ; audition statements, etc. are unpointed.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-5 (5), V-6 (9), 7 V(79) ; chiefly quinions ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals attests to the fragmentary nature of the present artifact ; catchwords lacking ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتبه لنفسه الحسن بن علي بن عيسى بن الحسن اللخمي ..."Explicit: "باب الحلف بالأنداد حدثنا ابو داود ثن الحسن بن علي قال ثنا عبد الرزاق قال أخبرنا معمر عن الزهري عن حميد بن عبد الرحمن عن أبي هريرة قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من حلف فقال في حلفه واللات فليقل لا إله إلا الله ومن قال لصاحبه تعال أقامرك فليتصدق بشىء"Incipit: "فأحكم الله عن ذلك ونهى عن ذلك حدثنا ابو داود ثنا أحمد بن شبوية المروزي ثنا عبد الله بن عثمان عن عيسى بن عبيد عن عبيد الله مولى عمر عن الضحاك بمعناه قال فوعظ الله [ في ] ذلك باب في الاستئمار "Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine early copy of a section of Abū Dāʼūd's Sunan, from roughly the middle of Kitāb al-Nikāḥ (just before Bāb fī al-istiʼmār) to the early part of Kitāb al-īmān wa-al-nudhūr (Bāb al-Ḥalf bi-al-andād). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Abstract: Stories about Abū Nuwās, and some of his poems about wine, told by Abū Hiffān.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue embossed paper.Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 + (1) ; catchwords.Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; watermarks (circle with a cross inside, crown) ; MS in good condition.Layout: 21 lines per page.Marginal notes and glosses. Poems by various authors on fol. 1b and 2a.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Colophon: تم والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلمIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ابو هفان قال اخبرني
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.
Work connecting people's names to the place from which the name is taken. The work was composed in 918 or 928 A.H. (1512 or 1522 CE) according to the colophon copied into this copy. This copy is missing some pages at the beginning; the first complete entry is "Arak"; most of a quire of leaves is missing between f. 10 and f. 19; several pages at the end (f. 280-297) have had their inner, outer and lower edges trimmed, cutting off some text.
Letter from Abū Manṣūr b. Abū Saʿd to Abraham, sent to the Palestinian synagogue in Fusṭāṭ. Mentions, among others, Joseph b. Abū ʿImrān, Ezekiel the judge and Sitt Rayḥān.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Recto: letter from Abū Maymūn Yaʿqūb in Jerusalem to his son Abū ʿImrān in Fusṭāṭ, describing how he is bedridden after the death of another son and how he wishes to see him before his death. Verso: Arabic address to Abū ʿImrān.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
A collection of anonymous astrological and magical treatises. Also bound together with this manuscript is a lithographed copy of Kitāb fī al-tamām wa-al-kamāl by Abū Maʻshar. This book is in two parts, the first dealing with horoscopes of men and their signs the second with women. Each part has 12 sections.
Collection of recipes taken from works by Abū Maʿālī ibn Tammām, Ibn Al-Tilmīḏ, Dāwūd ibn Abī al-Bayān and Ibn Jumayʿ, dealing with illnesses of the stomach and the intestines.Condition: Torn, tiny holesLayout: 13 lines
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.
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Abraham informing the addressee that Judah ha-Levi set sail on Wednesday, the first day of Šavuʿot (= 1141 CE), after leaving him a letter for the Nagid Samuel b. Ḥananya, which accompanies this letter; dated 12th Sivan. Arabic on verso describes someone who went up to Cairo and met the leader of the community.Condition: torn, slightly rubbed, stainedLayout: 9 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Recto: begging letter from Abū Naṣr, ‘son of the doctor’, acknowledging receipt of letters from the addressee and from Abū l-Maʿālī. Verso: jottings in a crude hand in Arabic script.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Fols. 171; 26.7 x 18.5 cm.; written surface 20.5 x 12.5 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Maghribi; headings and entries in red.Parts IV-XI of Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʼ.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم صلى الله ... اخبرنا الشىخColophon: اخر الجزء من الاصل وبتمامه تم الجزء الحادي عشر من الکتاب والحمد لله حق حمده وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد واله وسلم تسلىماA few marginal notes. MS contains eight parts. In the colophon the copyist states that it is the conclusion of the 11th part. Accordingly MS begins with the 4th part. MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى متوطين الصفه ونزولهاExplicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... 286ب ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
Abstract: Last parts of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū al-Faḍl Ḥamd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Iṣbahānī from Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Khalīl Mufarraj(?) Mawlá Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd ibn al-Ḥarīrī al-Tajībī al-Ṭulayṭulī (fol. 17a, 32a, 51a). Incomplete at the beginning (contents correspond to ed. Cairo (1938), vol. 8, p. 77, l. 3 - end of the work; entries no. 369-689).Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather over cloth for the spine. The cloth extends as doublure of the upper and lower covers. Disparate pieces of paper as pastedowns. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a central medallion (different pattern on each cover) and an outer frame made of fillets with the inner corners delineated by fillets and stamped with a small flower motif.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of juzʼ 64 (fol. 17a).31 lines per page. Written in medium small script in black ink, with use of red for some punctuation and decoration of verses and re-inking of headings. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. The no. of the entry is written in red ink in the margin. Collation notes (collation statement on fol. 378a, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 566 H. 1171). End and beginning of parts (juzʼ) indicated on fol. 16a,17a, 32a, 51a, 67a (with a collation statement dated Mecca, Friday 18 Jumādá al-Ākhira 566 H.). Fol. 68-77 repaired with loss of text. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (fol. between 138 and 139: blank).On last fol. (fol. 378b): two reading certificates (samāʻ and ijāzah) for several persons, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī, the first dated Aleppo, 11 Rajab 624 H. 1227.Copied in Mecca at the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 566 (colophon, fol. 378a).Incipit: قال سمعت ابا تراب الزاهد يقول سمعت حاتما الاصم يقول قال لى شقيق البلخي اصحب الناس كما تصحب النارExplicit: والخلق الحسن الجميل رزقنا الله تعالى ما رزقهم من الاقبال عليه والانقطاع اليه وجمعنا وإياهم بطوله فى ساحة قدسه وبحبوحة جنته انه على ما يشاء قدير وهو حسبنا و نعم الوكيل
ff. 2 (incompl.). 176 x 131; 150 x 117 mm. 18 lin. Shaʻbān 591; on fol. la autogr. certificate of reading by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī, dat. Ṣafar 897; on fol. 2a samāʻ of the copyist Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn ʻImād, dat. 21 Rabīʻ I, 638, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh (al-Dimashqī, d. Jumādá II, 648: Shams al-Dīn V, 243); six other notes on fol. 2b.Incip.: ... اخبرنا ... شمس الدىن ابو الحجاج ىوسف بن عبد الله بن خلىل بقراتى علىه
Recto: note from Abū Riḍā to Abū Zikrī, acknowledging the receipt of the purse of Ibn ʿAlī and promising to send perfume with Ibn ʿAlī. Verso: draft of a Judaeo-Arabic letter and lines in Arabic script.Condition: holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 11 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 12Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Between pp.80-81, machine-made paper with accounts -- b. between pp.172-173, a commendation slip dated 1318 [1900] issued by a civil primary school in Erzurum and carrying the director's seal -- c. between pp.390-391, accounts slip on laid paper.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 67. Commentary on Kuran."Binding: Pasteboards covered in untinted laid paper with spine light brown leather (effective quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in maroon, intact at head and tail ; in fair condition with only minor abrasion on at corners and some red rot on spine leather.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertial) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal) ; pot watermark in at least three designs, one with empty interior except for bisecting line, two handles, four feet, with lid and surmounted by stalk and crown, another carrying "M" with lid surmounted by stalk and crescent, and another carrying "P B" with lid surmounted by stalk and floral motif.Decoration: Qur'ānic text overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, use of both freely ligatured with waw and lām occasionally assimilated, etc. ; chapter headings seriffed with rightward serif on alif and lām ; occasional vocalization added to Qur'ānic quotations by glossator ; glosses in several other hands.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page.Collation: i, 25 IV(200), IV + 1 (209) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "اله الناس من شر الوسواس اي الموسوس الوسواس بفتح الواو و"Incipit: "قوله تعالى والسماء ذات البروج الى اخر السورة قال الشيخ ابو الحنيفي رحمة الله عليه اعلم ان في هذه السورة كلاما من خمسة اوجه احدها في فضائل قرأتها والثاني في عدد اياتها وكلماتها وحروفها والثالث نزولها والرابع في تفسيرها والخامس فيما يتصل بها"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Clear copy of an odd final volume of a commentary on the Qurʼān attributed to Abū Saʻīd al-Ḥunayfī (al-Ḥanīfī), beginning in Sūrat al-burūj (85) and continuing through Sūrat al-nās (114). Incomplete with final leaves missing (ends in verse four of the final sūrah). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Letter from Abū Saʿd al-Maḡribī, possibly in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1060 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd in Alexandria to his father in Fusṭāṭ, with greetings to Sayyid al-Ahl, Abū l-Faraj, Michael, the teacher Isaac, Sahlān, Mūsā b. Ḥassūn and their relatives.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 11 lines (verso)
Recto: note from al-šaykh Abū Saʿīd dealing with a monthly wage that partially consisted of an ounce of myrobalan, possibly for medicinal purposes. Verso: unidentified Arabic text, very fragmentary.Condition: TornLayout: 4 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)