Cream laid paper with watermarks. 19.9 x 14.3 cm.Bound with: al-Taʻarruf / lil-Kalābādhī.MS Arab 225. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish and Persian.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 276Origin: As appears in colophon on final panel, executed by Ömer Sırrı, one of the students of Mehmet Sadullah Efendi, known as Arabzade. Date of transcription not specified, but likely during Ömer Sırrı's training and thus before the death of Arabzade Mehmet Sadullah Efendi.Binding: Boards covered in red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings and lining of opening and closing panel in light blue coated and textured paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite tooled vegetal design (swirling leaves and flowers set off by small rosette stamps surrounding central almond-shaped form) in contrasting shades of gold, set in gold tooled borders (also in contrasting colors) in a series of s-shaped stamps and rosettes ; panels edged in red-brown leather with gold-painted rule borders and hinged together with dark pink silk ; overall in good condition ; repairs in Japanese paper (rebacked).Support: Written area on well-burnished paper (untinted or tinted blue, red, etc. or marbled), set in frames of embossed paper (with vegetal designs) tinted various shades (pale peach, olive green, orange, yellow, turquoise, light blue, red, dark green, etc.) with colors of facing panels matching.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame of heavy gold and colored bands (mainly in blue and red) set off by white fillets ; each specimen (kıta) set in a frame bordered in gold rules ; two specimens chrysographed ; leaves and floral sprays in blue, lavender, pink, green and gold flank colophon at close.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; exquisite specimen Ottoman calligraphy.Layout: Written in four lines per page with logograph for "سعي" under each line.Collation: Twelve 'panels' (mounted leaves) hinged together mainly in dark pink silk ; 'pagination' in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals in upper outer corner of panel (frame).Colophon: "نوشته شد بقلم شكتسه سيد عمر سرى كيه دار ناظر ديوان دعاوى صانه الله تعالى عن النقايص والمساوى از شاكر دان حضرت استاد مكارم اعتياد صدر والاى روم ايلى مولانا محمد سعد الله افندى الشهير بعرب زاده همه كا مش بادآ آماده"Explicit: "اثر اميدى ايله عالمده ايلدم بو قطعاتي تحرير اوقور اخوان صفا تاريخن اولدى والا اثر عبد فقير ١١٥٦ "Incipit: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اعظم اسماء عليم حكيم محترمان حرم انس را تازه حديثست ز عهد قديم..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite calligraphic specimen employing Jāmī's qaṣīdah on the basmalah for mürekkebât meșki exercises, executed by one of the students of Arabzade Mehmet Sadullah Efendi (d.1843).
A work on subtleties of Persian vocabulary. Discusses nuances of and differences in meaning between homographs or near-homographs and words derived from similar stems. Pronunciations, etymologies, differences in usage discussed. Poems used as examples.Title from f. 2r.Table of contents on inner front cover and f. 1r.Written in naskh script, in one column, 15 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Notes in margins. Catchwords.8.4 x 6.1 cm (5.4 x 3.6 cm).Polished light-cream laid paper, boards covered with pale yellowish paper. Brown leather on edges and spine, envelope flap.MS Turk 4. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 679Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.281b, copied by Nāʻil Ṣuḥufī [?]. Date transcription finished appears as a chronogram "غزلق" or 1137 [غ1000 + ز7 + ل30 + ق100 =1137, i.e. 1724 or 1725].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 fol.1a (p.1), "IL 132 a1" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and interior of envelope flap in pink tinted laid paper ; interior of foreedge flap in light brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry central blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (elongated) and pendants with vegetal pattern (compare Déroche class. OSd 8) accented with gold and red paint, bordered by fillet with strokes and dots at apices and sprandels of scallops in gold paint ; frame of striated s-shaped stamps painted gold and bordered by two gold fillets also in gold paint ; at corners and midpoints of frame, dots and strokes in gold paint ; foreedge flap decorated with fillets and heavy vegetal pattern (vine) in gold paint ; in fair condition with significant wear and pest damage but intact and still well-attached to text block.Support: European laid paper, mainly with laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 11-12 laid lines per cm., single chain lines running horizontally spaced roughly 25-26 mm. apart, and watermark of three hats (tre cappeli) or caps (see p.38, 58, 230, 232, etc.), well-burnished, thin though quite sturdy; very few if any inclusions ; countermark of "V d" under trefoil appears in p.136.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) on fol.1b consists of a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) flanked by scalloped accents filled by a vegetal pattern in gold, blue, red, and black on fields of gold and blue ; dome and flanking pieces are outlined in a blue fillet and surmounted by vertical stalks (ṭīgh) in blue positioned at alternating spandrels ; entire piece is bordered by an elaborate frame consisting of a band of blue with minute cross or diamond shapes flanked by narrow gold bands outlined by fillets ; elaborate frames appear throughout, consisting of gold band (of at least three thicknesses) bordered by black fillets surround both the entire written area for each folio as well as the columns of text within ; text rubricated with titles, headings, etc. in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, point of final and free-standing nūn set at mouth of tall, wide, angled bowl, occasionally nearly assimilated with it, hāʻ mudghamah looking like two inverted commas, pointing (for two and three dots) often in conjoined dots or strokes.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page; written area consists of a broad single column most often divided into two columns and framed thusly, though this layout varies ; in certain sections a centered column of two hemistiches of verse alternates with verse laid in two columns, divided at each hemistich ; headings usually appear centered on the single column or across its width; frame-ruled.Collation: i,12 V (120), IV (128), I (130), 6 V (190), IV+1 (199), 3 V (229), V+1 (240), 2 I (244), i ; chiefly quinions; leaves falling between the various sections of poetry left partially blank (though without missing text) and leaves following close of text intially left blank but now carry additional matter including lines of poetry, lines on Ebussuud Efendi, etc. ; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمام شد ديوان نابى رحمه الله تعالى في تاريخ غزلق دست حقير نائل صحفى [؟] تم"Explicit: "طاغيلرسه كور رآنى نكران جمع اولور ايه اولور آب روان"Incipit: [rubric]" قصيده در توحيد باري جل شانه براى باعث ترتيب ديوان ابراهيم پاشا رح [text] تعالى الله زهى ديوانطراز صورت معنا كه جسم لفظله روح مآ لي ايلمش الما ..."Title from inscription below headpiece on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Collected poems (ghazalīyāt, qaṣāyid, rubāʻiyāt, etc.) of Nabi, followed by a few additional excerpts at close of codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 363Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, hand, etc. suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: Slip of wove paper with note in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "363 | Dīvān of Bāḳī | undated, probably 16th cent. | contemporary binding."Former shelfmark: "93 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; doublures in dark red-brown leather with large mandorla, pendants and cornerpieces in gold and black painted leather filigree appliqué over blue paper (design continues on interior of envelope flap) ; flyleaves (made endpapers) in slate blue paper, gold-flecked ; upper and lower covers block-stamped, black- and and gold-painted (large panel stamp repeated twice with central seam visible) with design of mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, upper and lower rectangular piece and wide border overlaid with vegetal composition filling panel ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in light blue (approaching silver) thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition ; overall in good condition with some abrasion, etc. ; likely repairs (edging, fore edge flap, etc.) in dark red / maroon leather.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, some bits of fibre and inclusions visible, thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; opening section heavily moisture damaged with stains, traces of mold, etc. ; elsewhere breakthrough at frames.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece (bordered in bands of gold flanking orange-red band with black crosses) with empty gold cartouche surrounded by swirling vegetal decoration in gold with floral accents in red, yellow, green, light blue, and white on grounds of dark blue (approaching lapis) and gold, surmounted by band of gold with floral motifs (flanked by narrow bands of turquoise and gold) and scalloped dome with similar swirling vegetal motifs with floral accents (in light blue, red, white, orange, green, lavender, etc.) on grounds of gold and dark blue, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) and delicate floral vegetal decoration ; similar elegant headpiece at opening of ghazals on p.62 (rectangular piece with empty cartouche srmounted by wide scalloped dome almost filling the well, chiefly in gold and dark blue approaching lapis with swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, white, red, lavender, light blue, green, etc.) ; written area throughout surrounded by frame consisting of gold band outlined in black with inner orange fillet and outer blue fillet, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black ; from p.257, rubricated section headings provided.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, point of final nūn set at mouth (occasionally just above) wide, deep bowl ; text from p.257 to close possibly in a different hand.Layout: Written in 12 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board visible).Collation: i, IV+1 (9), III+1 (16), 15 IV(136), II-1 (139), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "صی دآن شاهد مطبوع شمایل باشی تمت م م م"Incipit: "خط مشك فامكله اى غنچه تر شكر در اولبلر ممسك مكرر ..." ; [ghazals] "ازلدن شاه عشقك بنده فرمانيوز جانا محبت ملكنك سلطان عاليشانيوز جانا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the collected poems of the celebrated Turkish poet, Baki Efendi (d.1600), opening with kaside in praise of Sultan Süleyman (opening on p.12 in Bâḳî dîvânı : tenkitli basım, Sabahattin Küçük, ed. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1994) and closing with Persian verses (compare p.462 in Küçük edition). Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
[Hasan Şuuri].Last of the books printed by İ. Müteferrika. Cf. E. J. Brill. Catalogue No. 453 p. 61; A Catalogue of the Persian printed books in the British Museum. col. 666.Title romanized.Title from colophon.In Ottoman Turkish and Persian.[حسن شعوري].
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.
Gift of the United States Naval Academy, January 25, 1931.Ownership statement by al-Sayyid ʻUbayd Allāh Muḥammad b. al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá. Seal of the same person reads Muḥammad ʻUbayd Allāh.MS Arab 12. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic, Persian and Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).Table of Contents: 1. Tarih-i Al-i Osman bin Ertuğrul (dates of Ottoman Sultans) (f. 1r) -- 2. Suret-i arzname (ff. 1v--2v) -- 3. Arabic poem, awāʼil Muḥarram 804 [August 11-20, 1401] (copied by Ḥājjī Aḥmad ibn ... al-B.f.l.ghānī) (ff. 3r-11r) -- 4. Taʻrīfāt ʻilm usūl fiqh, Shawwāl 804 [May 1402] (ff. 11v-16v) -- 5. Arabic glossary (explanations in Arabic and Persian), 804 [1402] (copied by Idrīs b. Ḥasan b. Bayram) (ff. 17r-52r) -- 6. Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah / ʻAbd al-Karīm b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Hamadānī al-Tabrīzī, awāsiṭ Dhī al-Ḥijja 804 [July 1402] (copied by Idrīs b. Ḥasan b. Bayram) (ff. 52v-94r) -- 7. Lughat-i ḥurūf (ff. 94v-95r) -- 8. Mufradāt-i Pārsī (A list of Persian verbs) (ff. 95v-97v).
A collection of more than 80 short treatises by various authors on various topics as well as numerous excerpts from different sources.Title supplied by cataloger.Treatises are copied in the hand of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥājj ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá between 1106-1128 AH [1694-1716 AD] in ʻAntāb [Gaziantep, Turkey].MS Arab 292. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Most texts in Arabic; some in Ottoman Turkish and Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 421Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper would suggest first half of 17th century ; ownership statement provides terminus ante quem of 1863.Former shelfmark: "533 T.De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf and opening leaf (p.2).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; doublures in dark red brown leather with delicately tooled dimond-shaped interlace central ornament and chain pendants with gold-painted rule-borders ; flyleaves and hinges now in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry large, stamped (with recessed onlays) central mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi 6), pendants, and cornerpieces with gold-painted accents, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, sewing failing ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, only headband and primaries remain ; overall in somewhat poor condition with loss of flap, abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly spine and onlays of lower cover), cracking and delamination of boards, cover detached from text block at spine, etc. ; spine rebacked in straight-grain brown leather (repair also damaged with portion of spine lining exposed) ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of crossbow in circle with trefoil above (see p.14, 16, 46, 144, etc. and compare Picard nos. 123860 / Mantua 1628 and 123861 / Roverato 1624), thin crisp and transluscent though sturdy, dark cream in color, well-burnished ; flyleaves in two other European papers (inner with three crescent watermark, outer with three stars in shield watermark).Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ink ; astronomical diagrams in red and black ink (see pp.3, 4, 5, 8, 18, 138).Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing mainly in strokes (rather than distinct dots), some elongation of horizontal strokes, kāf mashqūqah (mashkūlah) preferred with dramatically sweeping shaqq, final yāʼ often mardūdah.Layout: Written in as many as 23-25 lines per page, with occasional glosses on the diagonal in the margin, in two columns in some places ; sections with poetic excerpts also arranged in two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V (10), 4 (14), V (24), II (28), III+1 (35), IV (43), 2 III(55), 2 IV(71), IV+2 (81), ii ; miscellany of quinions, ternions, quaternions, etc. ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some flyleaves).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.21. p.154-p.162 : [assorted poetic excerpts of Adli, Fevri, etc.].20. p.145-p.153 : ["Hādhihi Silsilat sanadinā bi-talqīn al-dhikr al-sharīf wa-al-sirr al-laṭīf wa-al-khirqah al-mubārakah...] / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Bisṭāmī.19. p.140-p.144 : [assorted excerpts on muʻjizāt al-Nabī, ʻilm al-ḥurūf, etc.].18. p.138-p.140 : [astronomical work].17. p.137-p.138 : Şerh-i Rical-i gayb.16. p.136 : Fasl fi rüyet-i Allah.15. p.130-p.136 : Ḥall al-abyāt allatī waqaʻat fī Khizānat al-anfās al-Qudsīyah.14. p.127-p.129 : [assorted excerpts].13. p.125-p.127 : [Sharḥ Dībāchat al-Miṣbāḥ].12. p.121-p.125 : Dībāchah-ʼi Tārīkh-i Tāj-i Salmān.11. p.66-p.120 : [assorted poetic excerpts of Fevri, Şemsi, and many others].10. p.64-p.65 : Sūrat Alif lām mīm sharḥ Makkīyah min Tafāsīr Abū al-Saʻūd / Ebüssuud Efendi.9. p.54-p.63 : [assorted poetic excerpts of Nati, etc.].8. p.40-p.53 : [Qaṣīdat al-Burdah with interlinear and marginal takhmīs].7. p.31-p.40 : [assorted poetic excerpts of Niẓāmī, Figanî Ramazan Çelebi, etc.].6. p.25-p.30 : [assorted excerpts].5. p.19-p.24 : Haza Kitab-ı Sultan Mahmut.4. p.18 : Der beyan-ı kavis-i kuzah.3. p.9-p.18 : Der beyan-ı menazil-i kamer.2. p.5-p.8 : Der beyan-ı eflak ve menzil-i büruc.1. p.4 : Der beyan-ı seyr-i eflak ve nücum.Careful copy of a collection (mecmua / majmūʻah ) of excerpts and brief works on astronomy, tafsīr, grammar, Ṣūfī thought, etc. along with a great assortment of poetic excerpts, mainly in Turkish but also in Arabic and Persian. Additional excerpts appear in the margins.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 356Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper would suggest 16th or perhaps early 17th century ; dated calligraphic inscriptions (see p.9 and 11) provide terminus ante quem of 1640.Former shelfmark: "264" inscribed in pencil on added leaf (p.5) ; "394 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on added leaf (p.6).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) in comb marbled paper (mainly in pink, blue, black, and yellow) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi) with gold-painted accents and tooled border ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue and yellow, fair condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (perhaps Persian) and European laid papers of several types ; added leaves in a type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal) and crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.8, 10, 11, etc.), cream in color, sturdy and burnished ; main type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and angel with wings (in circle) watermark (see p.170-171, etc.), thin but quite sturdy ; many leaves tinted (pink, etc.) and interspersed with silhouette or shadowed paper decorated in exquisite vegetal-floral (see pp.20, 33, 41, 51, 69, 165, etc.) and even textual (see p.31) compositions (some outlined or filled in ink or gold) ; to occasional leaves marbled or other decorative papers have been applied (see pp.72, 80, 91-92, 124, 125, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece at opening on p.20 consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surrounded by swirling floral vegetal accents in gold, red, white, pink, blue, etc. on grounds of gold and blue (lapis or cobalt), bordered in blue band with diamonds or crosses and surmounted by a small scalloped dome in similar design, itself surmounted by tall vertical stalks (tīgh) ; written area in opening section surrounded by a gold frame with devisions within also defined by gold bands ; in some sections headings (mainly poets' names) rubricated (see p.150, etc.) or chyrsographed (see p.172) ; extensive use of decorative papers (silhouette, marbled, gold-flecked, tinted, etc.) including one case where the calligraphic inscription has been cut away from a marbled paper and applied over a tinted leaf underneath (see p.124).Script: Mainly nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; elegant, even calligraphic Ottoman hands ; larger talik, thuluth and riqāʻ (see p.120, etc.), divani, etc. appear in some of the calligraphic inscriptions.Layout: Highly variable, though some consistency according to calligraphic style employed ; in opening section written area divided to two columns with 10 lines (single hemistich to a line) on the diagonal per column and poet's name above, then a similar arrangement of lines in three larger columns (see p.24), followed by the smaller arrangment in two columns (see p.31), etc. ; an arrangment of 12-14 lines in two large columns also appears (see p.37, etc.) with some lines on the diagonal and others not ; another arrangement features 8 large lines (see p.87) ; still another features 25 hemistiches in 15 lines (see p.93, etc.).Collation: I (2), III+1 (9), V-1 (18), V (28), III (34), IV (42), I+1 (45), IV (53), V-1 (62), 2 IV(78), 2 V(98), 2 III(110), I (112) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves at opening and close of codex and the separate pieces of a leaf torn in three, see pp.109-110, 111-112, 113-114).Incipit: "در جفا نیست احتیار ترا آزمودم هزار بار ترا ..."Title from inscription on added leaf (p.5).Ms. composite codex.Elegant collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) featuring poetry in Persian and Ottoman Turkish, as well samples of fine calligraphy. Contributions to the cataloguing from Yasin Şale.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 423Origin: Lacks dated colophon but decoration, paper, etc. would suggest late 18th century.Former shelfmark: "101 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2).Binding: Boards faced in red cut velvet with dark red leather over spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins (velvet faced, leather edged framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and flyleaves in a decorative paper, silver-flecked and painted with charming bird and floral motifs in gold with subtle pink and green accents ; leather framing upper and lower covers carries tooled borders (in a series of s-shaped stamps) flanking gold-painted vegetal accents and tooled rosettes ; design continues on flap ; edges of text block gold-painted with a chain design (series of s-shapes) ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with minor lifting of spine leather, abrasion and minor losses of leather from upper cover, etc.Support: Mainly non-European (likely Persian) laid paper of at least three types ; opening type with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct, curving) and grouped chain lines faintly visible (see p.22, etc.), cloudy formation, thin and crisp though sturdy, well-sized and burnished, brown in color ; another type with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (quite curved, fairly indistinct) and chain lines rarely visible (see p.114, etc.), cloudy formation, sturdy, well-sized and burnished, dark cream in color ; final type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. and no chain lines visible, quite sturdy and well-burnished, some leaves tinted bright magenta ; occasional leaves (see p.206, etc.) and opening added leaves carrying table of contents on European laid paper with 10 laid line per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (horizontal) and a raisin watermark of grapes under fleur de lis (see p.10, 16, 18, 206, etc.) ; flyleaves in European laid paper with "GFA" under eagle watermark.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.22, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by vegetal motifs, surmounted by w-shaped piece overlaid with similar floral vegetal motifs in mint green, light pink, light blue, orange-red, and white on a ground of gold and light blue, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in light blue and red, all set in a well of pink and gold bands ; written area (and occasionally divisions within, columns otherwise divided by red rules) surrounded by frame consisting of gold band defined by black fillets ; headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and thickening of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in strokes (rather than distinct dots) ; a few excerpts at opening and close in other hands, mainly naskh.Layout: Written in roughly 17 lines per page, mainly divided to two columns with lines of each column on the diagonal ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, II+1 (5), I+1 (8), 7 V(78), IV (86), IV+1 (95), 2 VI(119), I+1 (122), ii ; chiefly quinions with a few quaternions and senions ; catchwords present ; leaves between sections and at close originally left blank (see pp.194-200 and p.213 to close) ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Incipit: "بو مجموعۀ زيبا بر قطعۀ بهشت رعنا وبر روضۀ غناى معنا در كه ... منتخبات ازهار نامدار اثارى ايله مشكين بهار وجويبار اشعار سلامت شعارى نمونۀ جنات تجري من تحتها الانهار در حائز قصب السبق مضمار بلاغت شعر وانشا صدر اعظم واسبق مرحوم ومبرور راغب محمد باشانك دواوين عديدۀ شعراى روم بلاغت مرسوم ...Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant collection of poetic excerpts in Persian and Turkish organized according to arrangment in tables at opening (see pp.6-20), compiled by the Ottoman grand vizier and littérateur, Koca Mehmet Ragıp Paşa (d.1763).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 504Origin: According to colophon on fol.69b, copied by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl Chāvush (Abdullah b. Halil Çavuş). Copying of first work completed 3 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1125 [ca. 21 December 1713] (see fol.69b). Copying of second work completed 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1125 [ca. 7 January 1714] (see fol.74a). No date given for completion of copying for third work.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 357" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip); head of textblock inscribed "۹۳".Binding: Thin pasteboards covered in red leather; Type III binding (without flap); board linings and flyleaves of machine wove paper; blind-tooled decorative border on upper and lower covers; pasted label on spine; sewn in blue thread, two stations; worked chevron endbands in magenta and dark blue [?], good condition; overall in good condition.Support: European laid paper with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced 20-24 mm. apart, and watermark of three crescents (tre lune, perpendicular to chains, roughly 85 mm. long, see p.14, 74, etc.), thin though sturdy, dark cream in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Red rule-borders throughout; red discs and geometric figures serve as textual dividers in the final work of the codex; section headings rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh; very fine, clear, Turkish hand, rounded and tilting slightly to the left with free standing alif sans serif and letters such as lām, ṭāʼ, ẓāʼ serrifed, though inconsistently; unusual form for lām alif ligatures where serif of alif closes to form a round loop not unlike the numeral "۹" (see fol.3b, etc.); all three texts copied in the same hand.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: 2 (2), 7 V (72), I (74), IV (82); chiefly quinions; catchwords present; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with folio following the incipit page; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "خاتمة الكتاب اربعينهاى سالكان جامى هست بهر وصول صدر قبول نبود [كذا] فضل حق عجيب وغريب كه ازبعين [كذا] رسى بوصول اثر اربعين اهل سلوك قرب حق رتبه سن قيلور حاصل اوفر تركيسم فضولى مسكين اوله بو اربعينله واصل تمت الكتاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي عم البلاد بنعمته وارفاده وخص العباد بهدايته وخلق النهار بانواره والليل بسواده والغيم بامطاره والسحاب بارعاده... اما بعد لما رايت قصور همم الناس في طلب العلم ... هداني ذلك ان اجمع لهم مختصرا نافعا في العبادات"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.6. fol. 74b-82b : Tarjamat arbaʻīn ḥadīthan / Mawlānā Nūr al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī ; Mehmet bin Süleyman Fuzulî.5. fol. 69b-74a : Kitāb Fiqh al-akbar / [Abū Ḥanifah].4. fol. 3b-69b : [Muqaddimat al-Ghaznawī] / Aḥmad al-Ghaznawī.3. fol. 3a : [blank with later notes].2. fol. 1b-2b : [table of contents].1. fol. 1a : [blank with later notes].Contains three works, mainly of Ḥanafī fiqh, including [1] al-Ghaznawī's work on ʻibādāt and [2] al-Fiqh al-Akbar attributed to Abū Ḥanīfah, followed by [3] Jāmī's collection of commentary on forty hadith accompanied by Fuzulî's elucidation in Turkish.
[Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar Zamakhsharī].Translation of: Muqaddimat al-adab.In Ottoman Turkish with Arabic and Persian originals within text.[محمود بن عمر الزمخشري].Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2009. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project). Copy digitized: Widener Library: OL 22423.7.5.
Caption title.In Ottoman Turkish and Persian.Microfiche. Chicago : Middle East Documentation Center, [1998?] 2 v. on 23 microfichesElectronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2009. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project). Copy digitized: Widener Library: OL 34211.68.5.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 449Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, paper, etc. would certainly suggest 18th century and dated watermark would more specifically suggest ca. 1745 (within a couple of decades following).Accompanying materials: Blank slip of pink wove paper stamped with shelfmark "449" (paginated pp.335-336).Former shelfmark: "202 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in deep red leather with outline of mandorla and pendants (interior flecked with silver) as well as tooled border in gold ; flyleaves in pink surface-dyed European laid paper with design echoing that of the doublures ; upper and lower covers carry splendid stamped (recessed onlays in red leather) and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration reminiscent of Déroche class. NSd 2) and pendants as well as gold-tooled accents and guilloché roll border ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in dark cream and pale yellow, good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, upper joint splitting and cover detaching, joints at fore edge flap also damaged, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types, all with raisin watermarks and accompanying names ; one type with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24-25 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) with cartouche and crown above (see p.12, 52, etc.) and of crown, grapes and name (see p.16, 18, 24, etc.), crisp and sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; another type with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of large crown above name and grapes (see p.40, 192, 248, 310, 294, etc.) ; other watermarks include crown over cartouche with "P G" and grapes below (p.210, etc.) and watermark of grapes with crown, name and date "1745" above (see p.486, 488, 496) ; rare bifolia tinted pale pink, mint green, or bright yellow ; wax spilled on p.150.Decoration: Superbly executed illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.2 consisting of w-shaped piece with empty cartouche in gold surrounded by a rich floral vegetal pattern in shades of blue, pink, lavender, red, green, and white on a field of gold ; entire piece set into well of blue, red and gold and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red ; margins of the incipit and facing page are filled with a swirling floral pattern in gold with pink accents ; section headings, keywords and letters, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, letter hāʼ, etc. ; overlining in red ; written area surrounded by a heavy gold frame ; diagram on p.109.Script: Naskh ; fine, compact Turkish hand ; virtually serifless with curvilinear descenders ; freely ligatured with alif often joined to following lām, tail of waw or rāʼ assimilated with following hāʼ, point of nūn assimilated with bowl, etc. ; pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; some passages partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 35 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 29 V(290), i ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Explicit: "سايه مبارك پاينده بادشايان اولدوغى كبى وهكذا قد سهل الله سبحانه وتعالى علينا ما رمناه من المقاصد الغالية والحمد كل الحمد لربنا رب المبدعات من العشرة العالية والمكونات من التسع الدايرة والمحدثات من السفليات البالية والصلوة صفو الصلوة على سيد الصافات من النفوس الفاضلة وقوم الفارسات من العقول الهادية نبى جلا ويا جير الرنية [ويا خير البرية؟] وازال عمارها وعلى اله وصحبه ما انزلت السماء سماها واخرجت الارض سماءها"Incipit: "باب الالف فصل آا الممدودتين آءة اصلى آتى در قلب مكانى ايله يا تقديم اوهوب همزه يه قلب اهمشدر كليجى معناسنه زمان آتيه و اخبار مستقبله ده استعمال اولنور اذا اعلمتك الحادثات بما مضى اى من الشدايد والضيق ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the alphabetically arranged encyclopedic glossary on Vaṣṣāf’s renowned history, Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-aʻṣār, by Ahmet bin Mirza Mehmet bin Habib Nâilî Efendi (Aḥmad Nīlī [or Nāʼilī] ibn Mīrzā Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, d.1748).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 414Origin: As appears in colophon (accompanied by oval seal impression) at close on p.103, transcription executed by the author Osman Şakir (عثمان المشتهر بالشاكر المدرس بدار السلطنه), müderris (مدرس). Date appears much earlier in the opening matter (see p.15), 1231 [1815 or 16] (represented by a chronogram incorporating the title "دا ... نظم دلارا").Former shelfmark: "12 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards faced in dark indigo textile (silk) and edged in red leather (silk faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; possibly two-piece binding (split in spine leather may lie where one flange overlaps the other) ; pastedowns and flyleaves (front flyleaf missing) in a marbled (kumlu or kılçıklı ebru in red) European laid paper (three crescents watermark visible in back flyleaf) ; upper and lower covers carry fine gold-tooled scalloped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition) and pendants, all in red leather onlays, with gold-painted stroke accents and tooled chain or guilloché roll border in a series of s-shaped stamps flanked by gold-painted rules ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn chiefly in yellow thread, two stations (added bifolium in opening gathering sewn in dark brown thread, see p.8) ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and pink, in fair condition with tailband detaching ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion of textile, lifting of onlay in pendant on lower cover, splitting and lifting of leather at fore edge flap joint (meeting lower cover) and spine, etc.Support: European wove paper with watermark "J ROSE 1801 [or 1804?]" visible (see p.2, 4, 22, 24, 52, 58, 70, 80, 88, 102) ; highly burnished with margins silver-flecked and tinted pastel blue, pink, green, yellow, etc.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal motifs in gold, white, pink, yellow, orange and red on fields of gold and dark blue all set in a well of bands in white (with black scallop pattern) , yellow (with black crosses) and pink (with red lozenges and cross-hatching) and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and gold ; appearing at openings of subsequent sections are rectangular pieces with gold cartouches (carrying headings in red, blue-green or white) flanked by similar floral motifs and surrounded by colored bands ; written area (often tinted pale green, pale pink, etc.) surrounded by gold frame, with a second gold band defining the margin ; margins tinted (pastel blue, yellow, pink, green, etc.) and gold-flecked ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red and light blue accents ; keywords rubricated, chrysographed or in blue-green, orange-red or red-brown ; illuminated tailpiece flanks seal impression of author at close.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on ascenders other than alif, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), mainly open counters, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in conjoined or distinct dots ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah / ruling board evident).Collation: V+I (12), 4 V(52), i ; exclusively quinions, with single bifolium added to opening quinion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Dedication: As appears in opening matter on p.7, composed for Sultan Mahmud II (r.1223-55/1808-39).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "بخط ناظمه المفتقر الى الله الغافر عثمان المشتهر بالشاكر المدرس بدار السلطنهExplicit: "هر ايشك صوكينه دى انجام كار كنه پایان اسپرى اتمام كار فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلات ازبر ايله ساكه بسدر بو لغات"Incipit: "نام ايزدله قلالم اغاز ايده لم نظم كلامى ممتاز قله لم نام شريفن هران صدق واخلاصله تاورد زبان ... سبب تاليف كتاب بعد ازين عزم خطابم دكله سبب نظم كتابم دكله چونکه شاهنشه دارادربان ... يعنى كم حضرت سلطان محمود بولدى بر اصف والا قدرى ثاقب الفكر جدير صدرى ... دير كه بو شاكر عبد اضعف احسن وجهله يازدم الطف فارسى لفظنى قيلدم تقديم تركيجه ترجمه ياننده نديم فارسى اول اولنجه هر بار تركى معنيسى بولينور نا چار ... اصلنى فرعنى ايله تحصيل اد تاريخله همپا اولدى هربرى نظم دلارا اولدى ..."Title from margin of incipit page (p.2) and opening matter (p.15).Ms. codex.Elegant autograph copy of the versified Persian-Turkish glossary of the müderris Osman Şakir (whose name appears in Īḍāḥ al-maknūn as ʻUthmān Shukrī, d.1818?). Apparently inspired by the popular Tuhfe-yi Vehbî (used for many years in Ottoman schools) of Sünbülzâde Vehbi Mehmet Efendi (d.1809), see opening matter on p.5-15.
Concise encyclopedia on twelve sciences: 1. history; 2. philosophy; 3. astronomy; 4. theology; 5. principles of law; 6. controverted points; 7. exegesis; 8. mysticism; 9. interpretation of dreams; 10. magic, charm, and medecine; 11. agriculture; 12. astrology and divination.17.1 x 10.6 cm (12.5 x 6.2 cm).Cream, thick glazed laid paper with some folios blue-green. Boards have flower motifs. Green spine has 19th century ornaments. Page edges cut off during later binding which is damaged, but volume intact. One folio missing between ff. 60-61.Written in taʻlīq script, in one column, 15 lines per page, in black ink. Section headings, years and Arabic phrases in red or red overlined. Catchwords.MS Turk 50. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish; quotations in Arabic and Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Persian ghazals (ff. 1b-16b). Nesimi, Dīvān-i Nesīmī (ff. 19b-190a).Dimensions: 21.8 × 13.5 cm (size of leaf). 15 × 78 cm (size of written area).Hand: Taʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 436Origin: As appears in colophon at close, copy executed by Safr ʻAlī ibn Khudāwirdī al-Kaffawī (Sefer Ali bin Hüdaverdi el-Kefevî) with transcription completed mid-Dhū al-Ḥijjah 962 [October-November 1555].Former shelfmark: "120 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in purplish maroon cloth with brown leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in pinkish paper with red fibers ; sewn in white thread, six stations, apparently over two wide tapes ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor abrasion, small split in spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced roughly 30 mm. apart and watermark of anchor (two line) in circle with six-pointed star above, mainly cream in color (a few leaves tinted pale yellow), quite sturdy though transluscent, burnished ; one bifolium marbled (blue and white) on only one surface.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of a series of gold bands outlined in black fillets with additional colored bands and rules (in green, blue, red) ; triangular accent pieces appear in opposite corners of the written area, for opening leaves contain text in white (nearly lost) on a gold ground with arabesque border in blue or green, but mainly contain chī cloud or arabesque design in black, red, etc. on gold ground with arabesque border in blue, green, black, etc. ; elucidation (Persian) often rubricated or in green ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with blue, red, or green accents ; text of incipit page set off by cloud-bands in red lines ; margins of incipit and facing page gold-flecked.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; large, elegant Crimean [?] hand ; serifless with characteristic elongation of horizontal strokes, effect of words descending to baseline, etc.Layout: Written mainly in 3 hemistiches (in six lines) alternating with 5-7 lines of Persian commentary / elucidation per page, all on the diagonal ; occasionally additional lines appear in the accent pieces of the opposite outer corners.Collation: i, III-1 (5), 3 III(23), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الكتاب المجموع في اواسط ذي الحجة المبارك كتبه [كذا] عن يد الضعيف النحيف المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى غفر الله ذنوبه سفير على بن خداوردى الكفوى في تاريخ سنه ٩٦٢ تم"Explicit: "جامی ارباب و فاجر زه عشقس نروند جوهر خود می شناس ار در وجودت جوهر است سر مبادت کرا زین رآه قدم بار کشی"Incipit: "[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اعظم اسماء علیم حکیم] محترمان حرم انس را کوس شه خالی و بانک غافلش دردسرست تازه حدیثیست ز عهد قدیم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a selection of poems by Jāmī (d.1492) in Persian and Arabic with interlinear commentary / elucidation in Persian and occasional added elucidation in Turkish.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 346Origin: As appears in colophon at close of opening section (p.19) executed by Muḥammad ʻAlī Tabrīzī with transcription completed 5 Ṣafar 1286 [ca. 17 May 1869]. As appears in colophon at close of second section (p.41) executed by Muḥammad ʻAlī Tabrīzī with transcription completed eleven days later 16 Ṣafar 1286 [ca. 28 May 1869].Former shelfmark: "379 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on interior of lower cover.Binding: Boards covered in seafoam green coated and textured paper ; Type III binding (without flap) but not flush (too large) ; board linings in untinted paper ; sewn in green-blue thread, four stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, upper cover detached at spine, text block fully detached at spine except for opening and closing leaves still affixed to spine lining and hinges, lifting and losses of paper (particularly at spine), etc.Support: Paper (possibly European wove paper) tinted a striking magenta color, quite well-burnished to glossy, thick and sturdy (possibly two thicknesses).Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of each of the three main sections (p.2, 20, 42), mainly consisting of a large cartouche carrying a statement indicating the original patronage in white bordered in gold vegetal motifs set in a delicate array of swirling vegetal and floral motifs in black, white, light blue, red, lavender, turquoise, etc. and set in a well of turquoise or lapis lazuli ; written area throughout bordered in a gold frame, often with outermost blue rule ; keywords, section headings, abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining some keywords), and occasional vocalization in white ; textual dividers in the form of four dots in white.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite specimen of Persian calligraphy ; bold hand in a heavy line, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes ; headings mainly in an elegant seriffed naskh or tawqīʻ.Layout: Written in roughly 14 lines per page, with written area often divided to two or three columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: 3 IV(24), IV+1 (33) ; exclusively quaternions (one anomalous) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [opening section] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمام شد اين نسخۀ شريف و بانجام رسيد اين نامۀ لطيف در روز دوشنبه پنجم شهر صفر المظفر سنه ١٢٨۶ در دار السلطنۀ تبريز بيد اقل خلق الله محمد على تبريزى ١٢٨۶" ; [second section] "Scribal," rectangular, reads "در روز جمعه شانزدهم شهر صفر المظفر من شهور سنه ١٢٨۶ هزار و دويست و هشتاد و شش من هجرة النبويه على صاحبها افضل الصلوة و ازكى التحية در دار السلطنه تبريز بيد بندۀ فانى و عبد مذنب جانى تراب قدم ارباب قلم محمد على تبريزى صورت انجام و اختتام پذیرفت"Incipit: "جهة وزیری که رایات جهانداری و کامکاری به قبۀ فلک زنگاری ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy reproducing several calligraphy specimens (qiṭʻāt / kıt'alar) executed by Mīrzā Sanglākh, Muḥammad ʻAlī Khurasānī (d.1877) for Muḥammad ʻAlī Pāshā, his son Ibrāhīm Pāshā, etc. including a selection of his own poetry in Persian and an assortment of offical letters and addresses, mainly in Turkish, from a range of viziers.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 879Origin: As appears in colophon on p.105, copied [and authored ?] by Jaʻfar ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Qummī with transcription completed in Tehran 6 Rabīʻ II 1296 [ca. 30 March 1879], presumably on the order of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh Qajār (r.1848-1896) "حسب الامر وفرمايش جناب مستطاب سرور مكرم مخدوم و معظم" (see closing matter on p.105).Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 14 A manual of Persian and Turkish conversation in 4 bāb. Copied in Tehran in 1296" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Portion of a page torn from Luzac catalog, 1911, with description of this manuscript "2546 Persian-Turkish conversations. A ms. containing conversational phrases in Persian and Turkish in parallel columns. Neatly written, the Persian in Nīm-Shikastah, the Turkish in Naskhī. 8vo. Leather-binding. pp. 93. Written at Teheran, A.H. 1296." as well as penciled note (likely in hand of E. Husselman "n. f. in Mich. Isl. MSS." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes | 19th century [in hand of Emilie Savage-Smith ?]" (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 28Binding: Pasteboards covered in light orange-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in purple-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers in blind-tooled in mitred-panel style ; sewn in cream thread, six stations ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support:European "laid" paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark "A PIRIE & SONS 1877" (see p.12, 22-23, etc.) ; embossed with medallion carrying the Lion and Sun emblem of the Iranian state (officially adopted by Muḥammad Shāh Qajār in 1836).Script: Naskh and shikastah-nastaʻlīq ; a compact, elegant hand ; Persian text in shikastah-nastaʻlīq, compact and freely ligatured with effect of words descending to baseline, pointing in distinct dots, elongation of horizontal strokes and sweeping descenders (many reversed or recurved) ; Turkish text in a fine naskh, mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, open and close counters, some free assimilation of letters.Layout: Written mainly in 7 lines per page, divided to two columns with Persian in right column and Turkish in left column ; list of vocabulary at close in four columns.Collation: i, 3 VI (36), IV (44), II (48), i ; three senions followed by a quaternion and a binion ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," [and authorial ?] reads "باتمام رسيد در دار الخلافه طهران صانها الله عن الحادثات [؟] بتاريخ يوم يكشنبه ششم شهر ربيع الثانى ١٢٩۶ وانا اقل خلق الله ... جعفر بن حاجى [؟] محمد حسين القمى اللهم اغفرها بحق الحق والنبى المطلق فى سنه ١٢٩۶"Explicit: "يعنى تمام اولدى حسب الامر وفرمايش جناب مستطاب سرور مكرم ومخدوم معظم باتمام رسيد ..."Incipit: "اشبوه رساله تكلم ايچون درت باب اوزره تبويب اولنون ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.11.Ms. codex.Elegant copy (possibly autograph) of a treatise addressing conversational phrases in Persian and Turkish in four chapters witha Turkish preface, parallel Persian-Turkish text, and a brief glossary at the close.