Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 976Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 125Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "مجموعة شذرة تاريخية ورسائل | J.H.D." ; sewn in heavy white thread, seemingly in four stations ; overall in fairly good condition with minor curvature in boards (negative draw in upper board, positive draw in lower board).Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.Decoration: Occasional overlining, headings and glosses (including signes de renvoi) rubricated.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact, elegant hand in a thin to medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page.Collation: i, XIV (28), i ; a single gathering of fourteen bifola ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: [Shadhrah tārīkhīyah] "مقدمة في علم التاريخ وفائدته واقامه التاريخ علم يتضمن ذكر الوقائع ولا سيما ما كان منها متعلقا بالامم والاقاليم مع تعيين اوقاتها وبيان اسبابها ومسبباتها ..." ; [Risālat al-Nuqtah ] "الحمد لله الذي ظهر بما شاء لمن شاء بمشيئته الازلية ... اما بعد فلما شاع بين اهل العلوم ان ارفع العلوم واشرفها علم التوحيد ..." ; [Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Naṣīrīyah al-Khusrawīyah ] "الحمد لمنور النفوس بانوار العلم والقرآن وهادي الخلائق بارسال الرسول وانزال القرآن ... وبعد فان الحكيم ... نصير الملة والدين محمد الطوسي ... قد بعث رسالة الى بعض معاصريه وهو الفاضل ... شمس الدين الخسرو شاهي ..." ; [Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-masāʼil al-Jīlānīyah] "هذه رسالة كتبها الاستاذ صدر الافاضل الى الفاضل مولانا الشمس الجيلاني ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.5. p.42-p.55 : Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-masāʼil al-Jīlānīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.4. p.29-p.41 : Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Naṣīrīyah al-Khusrawīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.3. p.22-p.28 : Risālat al-Nuqtah / lil-Ṣadr ayḍan [ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī].2. p.21 : [blank].1. p.2-p.20 : Shadhrah tārīkhīyah.Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works opening with an excerpt on history followed by Asrār al-nuqṭah of Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadānī (d.1385) (here attributed to Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī) and two philosophical works by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640).
Lithographed.With one drawing on t.p.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2009. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project). Copy digitized: Widener Library.
Title from fol. 1r.Cream laid paper with watermarks. 21.8 x 16 cm (text size varies).Bound in dark brown leather.Bought in Damascus by George Sarton, Spring 1932, for Carnegie Institution.MS Arab 396. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Written in one column, 23 lines per page, in black and red.According to the colophon (f. 42v), copy completed on 6 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1256 AH [July 6, 1840 AD]MS Arab 229. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black ink. Text includes tables. Comments in the margins.Copy completed in 774 AH [1372-3 AD].MS Arab 332. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
li-muʼallifihi Muḥammad Afandī Saʻd. Wa-bi-hāmishihi Kitāb Aṭbāq al-dhahab / li-ʻAbd al-Muʼmin al-Maghribī al-Iṣfahānī.Gift of Prof. Muhsin Mahdi.لمؤلفه محمد أفندي سعد. وبهامشه كتاب أطباق الذهب / لعبد المؤمن المغربي الاصفهاني.
Unbound.According to a note on f. 57v, copy completed in the hand of Muṣṭafá in Shawwāl 1067 AH [July 1657 AD]Title from f. 57v.بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين يقول السبتي ويحمد ربه... :IncipitWritten in one column, from 12 to 13 lines per page, in black and red.Cream laid paper with watermarks. 20.1 x 14.8 cm. (16.5 x 10 cm.).MS Arab 190. 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).
Written in one column, 20 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Text framed within double red lines and each line framed within a red line.Includes tables.With: Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ min mīzān al-kalimāt al-jafrīyah wa-ḥawādith al-sinīn al-hijrīyah (ff. 1v-4r) -- Hādhihi al-Thalāthat alwāḥ al-jafrīyah al-mutaḍamminah asmāʼ mulūk Āl ʻUthmān (ff. 4v-5r).MS Arab 374. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.