Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 271Origin: Versified chronogram at end (fol.182b, "اخلاق محسنى") gives dating for completion of composition; this reading, without the preposition "ز", yields the more widely accepted date of 900 H. As appears in colophon on fol.182b, copied by Maḥmūd ibn Najīb. Transcription finished ("tamma al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb taḥrīran fī tārīkh...") 12 Rabīʻ I 922 [ca. 15 April 1516].Binding: Pasteboard covered in red-brown leather; Type II binding (with flap); upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central mandorla (Déroche class. NSh1) with pendants and simple gold rule-border; smaller mandorla on envelope flap; doublures in light-blue coated paper embossed with vegetal pattern; in good condition.Support: Persian laid paper; laid lines oriented vertically but too faint to count; chain lines not visible; flyleaves are fashioned from a light-blue coated paper, embossed with a vegetal pattern, that is also used for the doublures.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece on fol.2b; marvelously rendered in two rectangular panels; lower panel contains the basmalah, executed in red nastaʻlīq, in a central cartouche flanked by two, smaller palmette-like lozenges; lower panel is framed by an elaborite golden braid; background is predominantly lapis-lazuli, with vegetal/floral patterns executed in gold, red, pink, green, black, and white; upper panel continues the background motif and color palette; three small, predominantly black, palmette-like lozenges serve as the pivot for the repeating vegetal pattern in this panel, but these are subdued figures and are rather absorbed into the lapis-lazuli background and intriquate vine patterns; upper panel is surmounted by five verticle, decorative stalks; written area framed by a rule-border in dark blue, black, and gold; gold frames set off verses and some chapter titles; text is polychrome, with main text in black, Arabic quotations in dark blue, gold, and occasionally red, and chapter titles in dark blue or gold; the words "شعر" and "بيت" as they occur throughout the text introducing verses of poetry are rendered in red and blue, and occasionally, gold; main text of incipit page decorated with gilt cloudbands.Script: Main text in nastaʻlīq; chapter headings in tawqīʻ; Arabic quotations of Qur'anic verses and Hadith in naskh and vocalized; basmalah in cartouche of illuminated headpiece in nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: ii, 23 IV (184), i; quaternions; cacthwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ١ on fol.3a (Western pagination) and concludes with ١۸۰ on fol.182a; fihrist of chapter titles (fol.6a-7a) corresponds with foliation.Dedication: Composed for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin (شاه ابو المحسن ), one of the sons of the Tīmūrid pādishāh Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, on the occasion of his coming to court (in Herat) from Marv (see fol.4a-4b, Western pagination).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads: "رب اختم بالخير والحسنى تمت [كذا] الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا في تاريخ اثنى عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنه اثنى عشرين و تسعمايه بخط العبد الحبيب [المجيب ؟] محمود بن نجيب"Explicit: "با خامه گفتم ای كه زهر ساختى قدم وز مقدم تو چشم سخن يافت روشنى اخلاق محسنى بتامى نوشته تاريخ هم نويس ز اخلاق محسنى"Incipit: "حضرت يادشاه على الاطلاق غرت كلمته و جلت عظمته منشور دولت سلطان المرسلين"Title from opening on fol.5a.Ms. codex.A work on ethics in 40 chapters, composed by Kāshifī for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin, a son of Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander.
This Aljamiado manuscript contains a compendium of Islamic law written by Baray de Reminjo with the help of a young scholar known as Mancebo de Arévalo. The treatise was composed in Spain in the third decade of the XVI century. A Latin note at the top of the first page states that the manuscript was given as a gift from Engelbertus van Engelen to Henry Sike in 1703.Layout: 23 lines to the page
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 257Origin: As appears in colophon on fol. 168b-169a, transcribed ("amaranī...bi-taḥrīr hādhihi al-raqāʼiq...") for Ali Rıza Paşa (Ottoman ruler in Baghdad from 1831-1842) by Sufyān al-Wahbī al-Baghdādī in 1257 [1841 or 2], likely in Baghdad.Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants and corner pieces with vegetal decoration ; gold frame ; good condition.Support: Glossy laid European paper, AB watermark ; flyleaves of two European papers, one having coat of arms with hand and balance watermark and the other coat of arms with eagle and horse watermark.Decoration: Illuminated headpieces in Ottoman style evoking the miḥrāb with vegetal, floral decoration painted in gold, blue, red, green, orange, white, pink, etc. mark each section (fol. 1b, fol. 11b, fol. 32b) ; cartouche with gold field left blank accompanies each ; gold rule borders surround text ; occasional rubrication to highlight sections or introduce quotes.Script: Naskh ; same fine Ottoman / Iraqi hand throughout ; vocalized throughout.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page.Collation: 13 V (130), IV (138), 3 V (168), I (170) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination added later in pencil.Dedication: "قد امرني من يجب علي امتثال امره لاداء بعض حمده وشكره حضرة تاج الوزراء ومن استقامت بعدالة خطة البلدة الزوراء الوزير الخطير والدستور المثير افندينا علي رضا باشا جعل الله له الرضا غطاء وفراشا بتحرير هذه الرقائق بعد ان جمعها فاوعى [?] وتنميق هذه الدقاق بعد ان القى اليها سمعا كيف لا وهي مقتسبة من اثار انوار قطب العارفين والقنديل النوراني سيدي الشيخ عبد القادر الكيلاني قدس الله سره"Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت قد امرني من يجب علي امتثال امره لاداء بعض حمده وشكره حضرة تاج الوزراء ومن استقامت بعدالة خطة البلدة الزوراء الوزير الخطير والدستور المثير افندينا علي رضا باشا جعل الله له الرضا غطاء وفراشا بتحرير هذه الرقائق بعد ان جمعها فاوعى [?] وتنميق هذه الدقاق بعد ان القى اليها سمعا كيف لا وهي مقتسبة من اثار انوار قطب العارفين والقنديل النوراني سيدي الشيخ عبد القادر الكيلاني قدس الله سره وانا الفقير الى الله سفيان الوهبي البغدادي عفى عنه وذلك في سنة الف ومايتين وسبع وخمسين النبوية بعد الهجرة"Explicit: "ويصير من الاغيار اجنبيا ومن افات نفسه بريا ويصفو قلبه من كدر بشريته ويفارق بصره ملاحظة الخلق تمت..."Incipit: "الحمدلله كاشف الغمة والصلوة والسلام على نبيه خير البرية وشفيع الامة فان الله جعل قلوب العارفين معادن اسراره وزينها بطوالع نواره وصفاهم من كدورات البشرية واشهدهم مجاري احكام الربوبية فقال الغوث الاعظم المستوحش عن غير الله..."Title from fol. 11b.Ms. codex.3. fol. 32b-169a : "قال العلامة مؤلف البهجة رحمه الله تعالى فانه من رام ان يدرك هذا الشا [?]..."2. fol. 11b-32a : "الحمدلله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين فهذه خمسة عشر مكتوبا للاستاذ القطب الرباني والغوث الصمداني الشيخ عبد القادر الجيلاني..."1. fol. 1a-11a : "الحمدلله كاشف الغمة والصلوة والسلام على نبيه خير البرية وشفيع الامة فان الله جعل قلوب العارفين معادن اسراره..."A collection of Ṣūfī writings pertaining to ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166), Ḥanbalite theologian, preacher and Ṣūfī, who gave his name to the order of the Qādirīyah. Included are some fifteen tracts attributed to al-Jīlānī, reportedly translated from the Persian by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Junbūrī al-Hindī al-shahīr bi-al-Muttaqī, as well as excerpts from al-Shaṭṭanawfī's collected accounts.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 606Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.192b, copied in Badahl (Egypt) by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Dāʼim ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Badahlī al-Shāfiʻī. Transcription completed ("kān al-farāgh min naskhih...") during Jumādá I 990 [May-June 1582].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 108" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboard covered in paper printed with a red, black and white vegetal pattern; Type III binding (without flap); not original to codex; worn but intact.Support: non-European laid paper; at least three different papers are used; the paper of the 14th and 15th quires is notable for being quite thin; at least one of these papers can be described as 'Mamluk,' having 3 sets of 2 horizontal chain lines, with the chain lines roughly 12 mm. and groups roughly 40 mm. apart; roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (see fol. 37 where the paper's features are readily apparent).Decoration: On fol.3b, circular world map painted chiefly in blue and brown with a border of green lobes (representing the belt of mountains surrounding the Earth) and richly labeled with Mecca at the center, the Encircling Ocean, and other places, bodies of water, etc. marked in black and red ink; portions lost due to trimming; on fol.14a a framed chart with partial table of contents; on fol.51b a diagram in black and red ink for finding the direction of Makkah based on one's location with illustration of the Kaʻbah at the center; on fol.191a a table in black and red ink for use in calculating dominance using the numerical values of names; text rubricated with section headings, textual dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh; a small, clear hand with extremely vertical lāms and alifs, generally free of serifs, shaddah is generally marked; hamzah and waṣlah not marked; ihmāl signs often used over unpointed letters; a larger naskh is frequently used for section headings; thoroughly vocalized.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page; frame-ruled (using a misṭarah) though oddly at times, see fol. 151a where the writing does not extend to the end of the rulings.Collation: i, 1 (1), III (7), 18 V (187), III (193) ; chiefly quinions; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals is present for quires 13, 14, 17, 18, 19 in the top outer corner of the first folio of each quire; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (referenced in cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وبتمامه تم الكتاب بحمد الله الكريم الوهاب كان الفراغ من نسخه قبل الظهر ببدهل في يوم الاثنين المبارك عشري شهر جمادى الاولى من شهور سنة تسعين وتسعماية على يد افقر عباد الله تعالى واحوجهم الى عفو ربه ومغفرته ورضوانه العبد الفقير احمد بن محمد بن عبد الدائم بن محمد بن سليمان البدهلي الشافعي"Explicit: "و هذه خاتمة الارجوزة وما حوت من حكم عزيزة"Incipit: "قل لا يعلم من في السماوات والأرض الغيب إلا الله الحمد لله غافر الذنب قابل التوب شديد العقاب عالم الغيب ... وبعد فان خالق الخلق والبدية ومن له الارادة و المشيئة قد ميز الملوك والرعاة عن من دونهم من الرعية"Title from inscription on front flyleaf.Ms. codex.4. fol. 191a-192b : Faṣl fī mawḍūʻ al-shaṭranj / Ibn al-Habbārīyah [?].3. fol.191a : Hādhā jadwal fīhi ḥisāb al-ghālib wa-al-maghlūb.2. fol.187b-191a : Qilādat al-durr al-manthūr fī dhikr al-baʻth wa-al-nushūr / ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Dīrīnī.1. fol.1a-187b : Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīdat al-gharāʼib / Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī [?].Cosmography, mainly plagiarized from the Jāmiʻ al-funūn wa-salwat al-maḥzūn of Najm al-Dīn al-Ḥarrānī (ca.732/1332). Authorship of the Kharīdah is disputed. It is often attributed to Abū Ḥafṣ Sirāj al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Wardī (d.861/1457) whose name al-Ziriklī gives as al-Wurūdī, though in this ms. it is ascribed to Zayn al-Dīn Ibn al-Wardī (d.749/1349). It has also been attributed to an ʻUmar Ibn al-Wardī al-Subkī. (see EI2 "Ibn al- Wardī , Sirādj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar" and Sellheim, R. Materialen zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte, t. I, no. 49 for more on this matter of disputed authorship). The text concludes with excerpts from a poem on the resurrection, a table for numerological calculations of dominance using names, and verses on the game of chess. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 591Origin: As appears in scribal colophon on p.538, transcription of added replacement section (p.357 to close) completed 1222 [1807 or 8]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.538), composition completed 1 Muḥarram 1008 [ca. 24 July 1599]. Paper, hand, etc. suggest that bulk of codex (opening to p.356) copied in the late 17th or early 18th century. Ownership / purchase statement provides a terminus ante quem of 1723.Accompanying materials: Acquisition slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inscription on acquisitions slip, "IL 8" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Cover entirely lost ; now resewn in blue thread, two stations (when later replacements added) ; leather core of tailband remains ; overall in poor condition with covers lost, tears, abrasion, staining and moisture damage to textblock, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of at least three types ; mainly with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (vertical), crown-star-crescent watermark (60 mm. tall, see p. 32, 50, etc.) and three crescents watermark (perpendicular to chains, 72 mm. long, see p.148, 150, etc.) ; opening bifolium carrying table of contents with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27-29 mm. apart (vertical), and crown-star-crescent watermark (75 mm. tall) ; replacements from p.357 to close on European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (vertical), letters arranged in a triangle "G G M" [?] , heavy and sturdy, scarcely burnished if at all ; quite soiled and stained.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas and red discs.Script: Naskh ; two main Turkish / 'Syrian' hands ; opening hand (mainly through p.356) initially quite small and compact, later (with change in layout to fewer lines per page) larger and more generously spaced, partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on mainly lām and occasional free-standing alif, marked effect of tilt to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots and strokes looking like reversed hamzah (occasionally for three dots) and inverted caret (mainly on qāf), mix of open and closed counters, lām alif wrapping to almost form a closed loop ; second main hand (from p.357 to close) showing influence of ruqʻah, rounded and compact, virtually serifless with only slight tilt to the left, pointing more in strokes, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, final nūn quite round with dot often set deep in the bowl.Layout: Written in 23-33 lines per page.Collation: I (2), V-4+I (10), 6 V(70), V-1+3 (82), 4 V(122), V-1 (131), V-3 (138), 13 V(268), 1 (269) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves).Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads "قال المؤلف ايضا كمله مؤلفه ولفقه مصنفه مع تزول البال وتمزع الحال وعامله بما يرتضيه فضلا وجمالا ... بما يفيضه عدلا وجمالا [جلالا] في صبحية نهار السبت مستهل محرم الحرام سنة ثمان بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واكمل التحية" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من نسخ هذا الكتاب المستطاب نهار الخميس المبارك ثاني عشري سنة اثنتان وعشرون ومائتان [كذا] والف كمل وختم بالخير المبارك امين"Explicit: "حزى الله خير من تأمل تأليفي وقابل بالاغضاء نحوي وتصريفي فما لي شيء غير اني اختصرته ونقل كلام الناس من غير تعسيف"Incipit: "الحمد لله عند تصاريف العبر وعند استماع التواريخ والسير ... بعد فلما كان في التواريخ والسير عبرة لمن اعتبر وتنبها لمن افتكر ... رأيت ان اجمع عن نقلة الاخبار وجملة الآثار تلخيص سير الاولين من الانبياء والمرسلين ... واخبرا الامم الماضية والقرون الخالية وما فيه من العجائب وما اودع الله فيها من الغرائب وسميته اخبار الدول و الاثار [اثار] الاول ..."Title from 'title page' (p.5) and opening on p.6.Ms. composite codex.Fine composite copy of the historical work by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Dimashqī al-Qaramānī (Ahmet Çelebi) based mainly on the Taʼrīkh of al-Jannābī (d.1590). Table of contents on added bifolium at opening of codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 221Origin: As appears in authorial colophon on p.838, composed in Mecca. Details on the origin of this copy lacking. Paper, hand, decoration, etc. suggest early 17th century (see Velkov, Les filigranes dans les documents ottomans). Date of waqf-seal impression provides a terminus ante quem of 1782.Former shelfmark: "71 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "51" in pencil on front flyleaf (affixed to opening leaf) ; "124" in Hindu-Arabic numerals on tail of text block.Binding: Pasteboards covered with black leather ; Type II binding (with flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping hinges visible at spine) ; doublures in red leather ; upper and lower covers carry large, stamped (red recessed onlays) and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NA 4), pendants and cornerpieces as well as tooled and gold-painted chain and rule borders ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in white thread, two stations (repair to opening gathering in rose thread) ; worked chevron endbands in white and blue, good condition, primaries sewn through inner leather spine lining ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, staining, etc.Support: Gatherings mixed with leaves of non-European (likely Persianate) and European laid paper of at least two types ; all fairly thin, crisp and extremely well-burnished ; leaves of likely Persianate laid paper exhibiting especially cloudy formation with laid lines vertical but difficult to measure ; leaves of European laid paper, least two types, both with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 30-33 mm. apart (vertical, difficult to examine) and watermarks of cross in tear-drop shape with letters below (see p.68, 80, etc.) and of anchor in circle with trefoil above (see p.266, etc.).Decoration: Splendid double-page illumination on pp.2-3 executed in gold, blue, orange-red, and white, consisting of rectangular panels corresponding to the written area, the panel of the right-hand with five large cartouches (set off by arabesques and floral motifs) carrying text "ونسخة قاموس قد تحررت بها مد مجد الدين فى الطرس ابحرا ففاخرت الافلاك فيها موادها وقد ملئت تبرا ودرا وجوهرا صلى الله على من لا نبي بعده وسلم" executed in white thuluth on gold grounds and surmounted by a rectangular headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ), the panel of the facing page with similar headpiece surmounting rectangular pieces carrying title, central medallion (shamsah) carrying an authorship statement, and rectangular piece with the ṣalwalah, all text in white on gold grounds set off by blue and red vegetal accents ; frames of gold, red, and blue rules defined by black fillets surround panels of opening illuminated titlepiece / frontispiece and incipit and facing pages ; illuminated roundels appear in the margins of all of the opening illuminated pages as well ; similar illuminated headpieces with cartouches carrying the basmalah, etc. appear on incipit page and facing page of the opening half of the text (pp.4-5) as well as at the opening of the second half (p.432) ; further rectangular headpieces set off chapter headings ; gold rule borders throughout ; section headings chrysographed, many keywords (terms) and letters (abbrevation symbols) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Naskh ; small, elegant Syro-Egyptian or Turkish hand in a thin line ; mainly serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots ; mainly vocalized ; chapter headings, section headings, and keywords (terms) in larger script reminiscent of tawqīʻ.Layout: Written in 37 lines per page ; impression of ruling board evident.Collation: i (affixed to opening leaf), 3 V(30), V-2 (38), V (38), V-2 (56), 4 V(96), IV+1 (105), V (115), IV+1 (124), 5 V(174), IV+1 (183), V (193), 2 IV(209), III (215), 3 V(245), 2 II (249), 1 (250), 3 V(280), V-1 (289), V-2 (297), 4 V(337), V-1 (346), V (356), IV (364), V-3 (371), 2 V(391), V-1 (400), V (410), V-1 (419) ; chiefly quinions with several anomalous quires ; pages between the two halves of the work left blank (see p.430 and 431) ; catchwords present ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper outer corner of the recto of the first leaf of each quire (3rd through 23rd, first half of the work) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads, "قال مؤلفه الملتجي الى حرم الله تعالى محمد عفا الله عنه ابن يعقوب بن محمد الفيروزاباذي رحمهم الله تعالى هذا اخر القاموس المحيط والقابوس الوسيط عنيت بجمعه وتأليفه وتهدينه وترصيفه ولم ال جهدا في تلخيصه وتخليصه واتقانه راجيا انه يكون خالصا لوجه الله ورضوانه وقد يسر الله تعالى اتمامه بمنزلي على الصفا بمكة المشرفة تجاه الكعبة المعظمة زادها الله تعالى لعظما وشرفا وهيأ لقطان باحثها من بحابح الفراديس غرفا ونقع بهذا الكتاب المكنسي من تركها اخوانه وحسنه بالقبول لتستعير من حسنه الغواني لطائف المعاني أجزل من فضله العميم ثوابي وجعله نورا بين يدي يوم حسابي والحمد لله...والصلوة...وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم"Explicit: "لان قبلها كسرة تخلفها ويا الجزم المنبسط رأيت عبدي الله لم تسقط لانه لا خلف عنها"Incipit: "الحمد لله منطق البلغا باللغى في البوادي ومودع اللسان السن اللسن الهوادي...وبعد فان للعلم رياضا وحياطا"Title from illuminated titlepiece on p.3.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Fīrūzābādī's renowned dictionary of the Arabic language.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 253Origin: As appears in colophons on p.69, p.110, and p.451, entire majmūʻah likely copied by Hābīl ibn ʻUmar with transcription of Kitāb al-Chighmīnī finished 26 Rabīʻ I 1095 [ca. 13 March 1684], transcription of Ashkāl al-taʼsīs completed 19 Ṣafar 1095 [ca. 6 February 1684], and transcription of al-Shāfiyah completed 12 Muḥarram 1093 [ca. 21 January 1682]. Completion of transcription for the other works not specified, but likely falling between 1682 and 1684. Colophon on p.367 would indicated that Matn al-Bayḍāwī fī al-naḥw was copied by ʻUmar al-Marsawī [?] [perhaps the copyist's father] with transcription completed 9 Rabīʻ I 1060 [ca. 12 March 1650], though the copyist very likely simply copied this verbatim from the exemplar.Accompanying materials: a. Slip of ruled paper with "Jaghmīnī | Mulakhkhaṣ | trans. into German | 2 DMG | 47, L13" in pencil -- b. Insert carrying glosses tipped in (paginated pp.373-374).Former shelfmark: "219 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "18" inscribed in pencil on 'title page’ (p.3) ; "٣٢٣" on tail edge.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; two-piece binding (overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves (as well as flap lining) in a fine marbled paper (in red, blue, light green, and maroon) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled elongated central lozenge and roll border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in light blue thread, two stations, failing with many gatherings loose ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and light blue, some damage but in fair condition ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor abrasion and lifting of leather ; fore edge flap somewhat small.Support: European laid paper of several types, all well-burnished ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of large, elaborate scrollwork / arms with two stars (see p.12-13), scrollwork / arms with mermaid or figure above (see p.8, 18, etc.), another scrollwork / arms with chevrons and again figure above (see p.6, 20) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of three hats (see p.32-33, etc.), sturdy and slightly thicker ; another type with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of lion rampant (see p.112), quite sturdy ; some leaves tinted (pink, orange, ochre, etc.), others untinted but silver-flecked, and still others both tinted and silver-flecked.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of a narrow gold band outlined with black fillets ; several diagrams in red and black (see p.7, etc.).Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; bold, elegant hand ; serifless, with characteristic descent of words to baseline ; elongation of horizontal strokes as well as exaggerated contrast in thickness as compared to vertical strokes.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board clearly evident).Collation: ii, 3 V(30), III (36), 3 V(66), VII (80), 14 V(220), ii ; chiefly quinions ; several leaves between each work left blank ; catchwords present in opening work, then lacks proper catchwords but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.203-204 and skips ahead ten pages from 333 to 344).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.20. p.452-p.454 : [blank].19. p.372-p.451 : al-Shāfiyah / ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib.18. p.368-p.371 : [blank].17. p.322-p.367 : Matn al-Bayḍāwī fī al-naḥw / ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar al-Bayḍāwī.16. p.314-p.321 : [blank].15. p.302-p.313 : Tahdhīb al-manṭiq / Saʻd al-Dīn Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī.14. p.296-p.301 : [blank].13. p.292-p.295 : al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.12. p.284-p.291 : Risālat al-istiʻārah / Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr al-Laythī al-Samarqandī.11. p.282-p.283 : Matn al-Ḥanafīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.10. p.277-p.281 : [blank].9. p.164-p.276 : Tahdhīb al-kalām / Saʻd al-Dīn Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī.8. p.158-p.163 : [blank].7. p.116-p.157 : Hidāyah fī al-ḥikmah / al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī.6. p.111-p.115 : [blank].5. p.76-p.110 : Ashkāl al-taʼsīs / Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarqandī.4. p.70-p.75 : [blank].3. p.4-p.69 : Kitāb al-Chaghmīnī / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī.2. p.2-p.3 : [blank].1. p.1 : [contents listing].Elegant copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of treatises on assorted topics. Contents listed on second flyleaf at opening of codex (p.1).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 220Origin: As appears in colophon at end of roll, main section copied by Ḥusayn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Khurāsānī with transcription completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 727 [?] [October-November 1327?] ; opening section (and repairs to main section) certainly much later than main section, perhaps 18th or 19th century.Accompanying material: a. Metal case in the form of a cylinder decorated with incised diamond pattern with lid (only slightly convex) ; case retains one ring through which a cord may have passed, a second ring has been lost -- b. Waxy, brown oil cloth now in two pieces which once wrapped roll inside case.Support: Each section in a distinct paper type ; opening section (first 895 mm., roughly 104-107 mm. wide, three pieces of paper) in type with roughly 10-11 laid lines per cm. (parallel with the length of the roll, fairly distinct) and no chain lines or watermarks plainly visible, dense and sturdy, burnished ; bulk of roll (roughly 3530 mm., 110-112 mm. wide, at least six pieces of paper) on a non-European (likely Persian) paper, highly sized and burnished, reinforced with further paper backing and repairs.Decoration: Text of opening section bordered by red double-rule border, table / jadwal with ninety-nine names ruled in red, border texts defined by red rules, openings with depiction of the "seal of prophecy" (مهر نبوت) here "صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی" ; main section opens with a long cartouche (oriented along the length of the roll) with illuminated heading "اسماء الله تعالى" in thuluth and basmalah in plaited and knotted kufic, a central field filled with floral and vegetal designs executed in micrography, bordering lozenges and alternating circles filled with further micrography (mainly chrysographed, some in blue and black) and Qurʼānic texts in large tawqīʻ approaching thuluth (chrysographed), and further border of rubricated Qurʼānic text in fine riqāʻ ; an even longer cartouche appears next, with illuminated headings for each of several sections ("من اسماء الله تعالى نودونه نام،" "هذا دعاء حرز الاماني،" اسماء الاربعون") which are each in a different layout incorporating the nintey-nine names, Qurʼānic and prayer texts in ghubār, naskh, thuluth, tawqīʻ, etc. in gold, red, black and some blue in a highly symmetrical fashion, with the various elements defined by heavy bands of gold flanked by red double-rules.Script: [opening section] Naskh and tawqīʻ ; [main section] Naskh, thuluth, tawqīʻ, riqāʻ, ghubār, plaited and knotted kufic.Layout: [opening section] central written area in a single column (text written perpendicular to length of the roll) bordered in Qurʼānic and ḥadīth texts along the length of the roll, ninety-nine names arranged in a ruled table / jadwal (five cells wide by twenty cells tall), text following the heading for "the prayer of the bāzūband" ("دعا بازوبند حضرت شاه ولايت پناه") in 26 lines ; [main section] an elaborate arrangement of text consisting of a central narrow panel filled with text first arranged in a series of diagonal arrays (each read across in a zig-zag fashion), next in a series of five circles executed in micrography, and finally in rectangular fields of roughly nine horizontal lines, all interspersed with headings and surrounded by two heavy borders of cartouches, circles and rectangles filled with Qurʼānic and prayer texts in various scripts, closing with dedication and colophon.Dedication: "اللهم وخل بدخلك [؟] دوله الامير الاعدل الاعظم الاعلم الاشجع الاكرم سلطان الامراء في العالم انك دولت همه از دولت اوحي طلبنا والملك العادل ... خلد الله تعالى ملكه ودولته الى يوم الدين"Colophon: "كتبه العبد حسين ابراهيم ابن محمد الحسيني الخراساني في ذي الحجة سنه سبع وعشرين وسبعمائة [؟]"Incipit: "صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. roll.[main section] اسماء الله تعالى -- من اسماء الله تعالى نودونه نام -- هذا دعاء حرز الاماني -- اسماء الاربعون[opening section] صوره مهر نبوت حضرت رسالت پناهی -- نودونه نام باری تعالی -- دعا بازوبند حضرت شاه ولایت پناهComposite talismanic scroll (rotulus, i.e. opening vertically) consisting of two sections of distinct production, now joined. Originally wrapped in oil cloth and housed in metal case.
arabicè olim exarata à Georgio Elmacino ... et latinè reddita operâ ac studio Thomae Erpenii. Accedit & Roderici Ximenez ... Historia Arabum, longè accuratius, quam antè, è manuscripto codice expressa.Arabic text and Latin translation in parallel columns.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. 532 v.1Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.297b, copying of the first volume completed (najiza hādhā al-juzʼ al-mubārak...") 8th Shaʻbān 1131 [ca. 26 June 1719]. Copyist is named in colophon of second volume (ʻAlī ibn al-Shaykh ʻAlī ibn al-Shaykh Ḥasan ibn al-Shaykh ʻAlī ibn al-Shaykh ʻUmar al-ʻAmmūrī [ʻUmūrī] al-Mālikī al-Azharī).Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. small slip with notes inserted between fol.38b-39a (p.76-77).Former shelfmark: From inscription in blue pencil on inner front cover "IL 478" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboard covered in red goatskin ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in European laid paper (lining upper cover apparently once served as back flyleaf for the second volume of this work, compare offset on upper doublure with prayers flanking colophon of Isl. Ms. 532 v.2) ; upper and lower covers bear only very rough, uneven rule-border ; lower cover seems somewhat smaller than upper cover ; material covering boards also matches repairs to binding of the second volume ; in fair condition, though quite worn and spine is peeling.Support: European laid paper ; very clear single chain lines, running vertically and evenly spaced 25-29 mm. apart ; laid lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 10 laid lines per cm. ; some ink burn.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) accompanies opening on fol.1b, consists of rectangular panel containing an empty cartouche in gold flanked by angular vegetal accents in blue, red, and gold ; rectangular panel is surmounted by well with semi-circular piece (dome) evoking the miḥrāb filled with vegetal design in gold, red, blue, and black and surmounted by short 'vertical' stalks (tīgh) ; gold rule-border on incipit and facing page, with red rule-borders throughout thereafter ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs ; keywords such as "قوله", notabilia, and some section headings rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; clear, compact Egyptian hand ; seriffed with small right-sloping serifs on free standing alif, lām, ṭāʼ, etc., curvilinear though somewhat flattened descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf) ; same hand appears in second volume.Layout: Written in 39 lines per page; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: V-1 (9), 28 V (289), V-1 (298) ; chiefly quinions flanked by anomalous quinions at front and back ; first two leaves of the first quire may be adhered together, giving the anomalous quinion ; quire numbering in red ink in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals surmounted by the letter kāf (mabsuṭah) appears on the top outer corner of the first folio of each quire; catchwords present ; final folio is completely blank but without missing text ; occasional lacunae throughout are marked "بياض بالاصل" (see fol.68a, 164b, etc.) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals present but often not visible due to trimming, mistakenly skips from ١٨٨ to ١٩٩ ; foliation in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals occasionally appears clarifying and correcting the foliation in ink ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (referenced in cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "نجز هذا الجزء المبارك ثامن يوم حلت في شهر شعبان المبارك من شهور سنة احدى وثلاثين ومائة والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام يليه الجزء الثاني الى اخر الكتاب للامام الحافظ الثاني كابن حجر العسقلاني العلامة ابن علان الصديقي نزيل مكة المشرفة شرفها الله تعالى امين"Explicit: "اي مثل الذي اصابهم او مثل مصابهم فما موصولة امسي او حرفي انتهى [؟] والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم"Incipit: "وبه ثقتي الحمد لله الذاكر من ذكره والمغدق سحائب النوال على من شكره ... وبعد فيقول فقير رحمة ربه ... محمد علي بن محمد علان البكري الصديقي الشافعي ... وسميته الفتوحات الربانية على الاذكار النواوية ... قوله الحمد لله سيأتي الكلام على الحمد في بابه ان شاء الله تعالى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.First volume of Ibn ʻAllān's commentary on Ḥilyat al-abrār wa shiʻār al-akhyār, or al-Adhkār al-Nawawīyah, a work of prayers compiled from traditions by Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676/1277).