Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Three-quarter red leather with black leather covers; blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 2a-77a: Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī al-jamʻ bayna al-ashyāʼ wa-al-naẓāʼir / Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥillī.Contents: 2. leaves 79b-266a: Kitāb al-Intiṣār / al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá.Ms. composite codex.Title from both texts.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 14 lines per page; written in naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper; rubrication in green and catchwords. Text 2, 17-19 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper; rubrication and catchwords; hand changes on leaf 238a; leaves 80-83 are replacements. Some damp-staining and a few repairs, particularly at the beginning and end of each text.Origin: Text 1, 16 Rabīʻ I 985 H 3 June 1577 (leaf 77a). Text 2, 22 Rabīʻ I 972 H 28 October 1564 (leaf 266a).
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Abstract: Collection of texts on inheritance law, mathematics, and astrology.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled central star and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1a: Persian verses.Contents: 2. leaves 1b-10a: al-Bāb al-thālith min al-manhaj al-rābiʻ min Ḥabl al-matīn fī al-mawārīth / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 3. leaves 10b-12b: Persian verses.Contents: 4. leaves 13a-21a: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 5. leaf 21b: Persian verses.Contents: 6. leaves 22a-49b: Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.Contents: 7. leaves 50a-89b: Ghunyat al-anām fī maʻrifat al-sāʻah wa-al-ayyām / al-Fayḍ al-Kāshī.Contents: 8. leaf 90a: Notes.Contents: 9. leaves 90b-122b: Farāʼiḍ / Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.Contents: 10. leaves 123a-124b: Notes concerning ḥisāb abjad and other topics.Ms. codex.Title from text 2.On spine: Label reading "Manhaj al-rābiʻ az Ḥabl al-matīn fī al-mawārīth" in Arabic script.Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 9 on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Marginal damp-staining and some repairs.Origin: Text 4, middle of Ṣafar 1110 H August 1698 (leaf 21a). Text 9, 6 Shaʻbān 1111 H 27 January 1700. Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Treatise on kalām and logic, with a commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī (d. 907/1501).Binding note: Blue paper over cloth on paper pasteboards. Damaged (some of the paper used for the pasteboard visible, with text in Armenian?).Contents: 1. fol. (i)a-3a: Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa-al-kalām / Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī.Contents: 2. fol. 3b-28a: Ḥāshīyah ilá al-Muḥaqqiq al-Dawwānī al-mūḍiḥah li-alfāẓ Tahdhīb al-manṭiq lil-ʻAllāmah al-Taftazānī / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.23 lines per page. Written in shikastah nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta. The text is framed within a magenta fillet with an outer frame made of a single magenta fillet. Some ḥāshīyah written by the same hand on the margins. Fol. 29: Blank. Catchword on the verso of some leaves; on the other leaves, the last words of the verso are repeated on the recto. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits fol. 1).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid thānī 27". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1173/2 Ḥā".Text 1 copied in 1261 1845 (colophon, fol. 3a, with the name of the copyist in Turkish).
Abstract: On the demonstration of the existence of the Necessary existent.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of blue and yellow marbled paper over cardboard.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta and red. European glazed paper with watermark. Ḥāshīyah by Muḥyī al-Dīn, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, etc. on the margins. On fol. 1a: Title and statement with seal, dated 1206 H. 1791 or 2. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Inscription in Arabic script on a modern label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 102". Inscription in Arabic on a modern label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1153/2 Ḥāʼ".Incipit: سبحانك سبحانك ما اعظم شانك ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد بن اسعد الدوانى الصديقى قد حررت فى هذه الرسالة وجوه براهن اثبات الواجب جلّ ذكره على ما اورده 2أ ائمة الحكمة والكلامExplicit: هو الله ربى يحقق الحق بفضله ويبطل الباطل بعدله بيده الحسنى واليه الرجعى تمت الربالة التحقيق ومحلّة التدقيق لمولى الموالى المحققين بفضل العليم المتعال المول فخر الافاضل مولانا جلال الدين مدّ الله ظلّه مدا وجعل بينه وبين الكروبات سدّا
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Spine repaired with cloth.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-4b: Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 2. leaves 4b-8b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-qiblah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 3. leaves 9b-13b: Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat.Contents: 4. leaves 13b-18b: Risālah fī taḥrīm dhabāʼiḥ ahl al-kitāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 5. leaves 19b-65a: Bidāyat al-hidāyah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 6. leaves 65b-73b: al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah.Contents: 7. leaves 74a-152a: al-Fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-aʼimmah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.Origin: Text 4, 1130 H 1717 or 1718 (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H April 1718, by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
Abstract: "Part of a commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's al-Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻAbstract: comprising kitāb al-ʻitq through kitāb al-qaḍāʼ. Text begins on leaf 3b and is preceded by three pages of notes and a fihris on leaf 2a."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; red paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.On spine: Label reading "Kitāb al-ʻitq" in Arabic script.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Leaves 3b-153a are in naskh, and leaves 155a-235a are in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Top of leaf 235a is torn away. Edges are moldered, and there are a few stains and marginal paper repairs."Origin: Completed toward the end of the first ten days of Jumādá II 1216 H October 1801 in Karbalāʼby Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Qazwīnī al-aṣl Karbalāʼī al-maskan; copied from the original manuscript in the author's hand (leaf 235a)."'Incipit: الحمد لله ... كتاب العتق وهو لغة الخلوص ومنه سمي البيت عتيقا لخلوصه من يدي الجبابرة'
Abstract: Treatise on fiqh, written in such a manner that it can be read in five different ways, with the text as such and four vertical "sub-texts" indicated by red ink.Binding note: Blue and white marbled paper pasted over brown leather on pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Gold painted frame on each cover.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 2a.23 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is written in seven columns framed by a red ink fillet. European glazed paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "al-ʻulūm al-adab 6". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1032". Inscription in arabic script on the lower edge of the text block: "... 15".Incipit: الحمد لله ولي الحمد ومستحقه ... وبعد فهذا كتاب جليل كتبته لم اسبق بعد اليه الفته مختصرًا فى الفقهExplicit: وصللى الله على محمد واله وسلم غاية التسليم الموجب لكرامة فى دار النعيم آمين آمين آمين الكتاب
Abstract: Treatise on medicine in two parts (see description of contents in the preamble of the text, fol. 3a-4b), also known as "Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī". The text is dedicated to Sulṭān Mujāhid al-Dīn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, i.e. Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Muẓẓafarī, ruler of Fars, 786-789/1384-1387, according to the Mashhad catalogue. Rieu suggests that the dedicatee is rather Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn of Kashmīr, 823-875/1420-1470. There is no evidence however that the laqab of the latter is Mujāhid al-Dīn (Storey, C. Persian Literature).Binding note: Half bound in paper and purple cloth.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the pastedown of the upper cover.Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin laid paper ; frame-ruled. Stained with water ; insect damage.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Origin: The copy is not dated. The paper and the script suggest the 19th cent.Incipit: يا فتاح رب يسر وتمم بالخير بسم ... شكر وسپاس مر خالقي را كه در خلقت انساني دقايق حكمت او بي پايانستExplicit: با عسل بر ذكر طلا كنند همين عمل كند والله اعلم بالصواب تمام شد
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; spine repaired.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-31b: Mafātīḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 2. leaves 31b-34b: Tarjamat ḥadīth al-jabr wa-al-tafwīḍ / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 3. leaves 34b-37a: Risālah fī al-zakāh / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 4. leaves 37a-40a: al-Kaffārāt / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 5. leaves 40b-44b: Māl al-nāṣib / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 6. leaves 44b-49b: Sharḥ al-ziyārah al-maʼthūrah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Riḍā al-Qummī. Title from leaf 49b, line 14. Text completed Rajab 1085 H. in Mashhad.Contents: 7. leaves 49b-51b: Ajwibah ʻan asʼilat Majd al-Dīn Shūshtarī.Contents: 8. leaves 51b-52a: Nubadh min aḥkām sujūd al-tilāwah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 9. leaves 52a-54a: Ḥadīth on the eight doors of heaven and hell.Contents: 10. leaves 54b-87a: Asrār al-ṣalāh / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Contents: 11. leaves 87a-101b: Shukūk al-ṣalāh / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Ms. codex.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh (Arabic) and nastaʻliq (Persian) in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. First leaf detached. Damp staining across top of manuscript and some marginal paper repairs. Some loss of text on last leaf due paper loss and staining.Origin: Likely 18th century.
Caliph 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (circa 601-61) is one of the most revered religious and holy figures of Islam. In Iran, he is referred to by the honorary name Amir al-Muʼminin, which translates from Arabic as “Commander of the Faithful” and is used to refer to him in Persian. Written works by 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib and sayings attributed to him are sacred to the Shiite faithful, particularly among Persian speakers. Shown here is an illuminated 18th-century manuscript copy of the Munājāt (Supplication) of ʻAli ibn Abī Ṭālib. Included are both the original Arabic and a translation into Persian. The text is written on a moderately heavy cream-colored paper in gold (folio 1b and 2a) and black ink (folio 2b to the end) within five borders. The borders are colored in, from the outermost to the innermost, in blue, red, gold, red, and green. The pages are divided into four boxes to accommodate the main text and the translation, three containing two lines and one containing one line, or seven lines for each page. The Arabic text, in naskhi script, is in larger boxes with elaborate interlinear decoration; the Persian translation, in nastaʻlīq script, is in narrower boxes with panels of floral decoration on either side. An unknown Persian text appears on folio 1a, part of which is missing along the left margin due to trimming and on the upper-right margin due to damage to the first folio (mended with some loss of this text but no damage to main text). The name and date "Vahīd Ḥusaynī 1209" (1794 or 1795) appears at the lower-left corner of the written area of folio 7b; an unknown Persian text in a later hand appears on the endpaper. World Digital Library. Munājāt (Supplication) of ʻAli ibn Abī Ṭālib.
Abstract: Treatise on Imāmī fiqh. Left incomplete by the author.Binding note: Bound in leather (camel color). Both covers are similarly blind tooled with a border consisting of a running pattern of impressions of a s-shape stamp outlined by two fillets on each side. The central area defined by the border has two fillets crossing in the middle, thus forming a "x". Paper pastedown and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from spine label.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʼ dotted. European paper. The beginning of the text is apparently a later replacement (fol. 2). Fol. 1 in the modern foliation is a fly-leaf with name of the author on the recto. Fol. 95 detached.Origin: According to colophon, copied for al-Shaykh Nājī ibn al-Shaykh Hamzah Nājī ibn Hamzah, his brother in God, Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 973 2 crossed out 1565 (fol. 95a).Incipit: بسم ... وبه الاستعانة والتوكل الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا يستدر اخلاف كرمه ... اما بعد فان الادلة العقلية والنقلية متطابقة على شرف العلوم ومن اهمها معرفة الحي القيومExplicit: الفصل الثالث في الامساك وفيه مطالب الاول فيما يسك عنه وهو اقسام الاول الابتلاع يجب ه الى هنا انتهى فنهى كلام المص