Abstract: Collection of two treatises, one on propaedeutics, the other on the legal character of killing dogs. Very clear copy.Binding note: Marbled paper on brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-8b: Ghāyat al-Kamāl fī bayān afḍal al-aʻmāl / ʻAlī al-Muttaqī.Contents: 2. fol. 9a: Short inscription.Contents: 3. fol. 9b-10b: Blank.Contents: 4. fol. 11b-13b: Risālat qatl al-kilāb / Muḥammad SājaqlīʹZādah. The Risālah proper ends on fol. 11b; Fāʼidah on fol. 12a-13b.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a.13 lines per page. European glazed paper with watermark. Text 1 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two red lines. Text 2 written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single red line. A few marginal notes on text 2. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 122". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1362/2 Ḥāʼ".Text 1 copied by Nuʻmān Ibn Khalīl in 1161 (colophon, fol. 8b). Text 2 copied in 1162 by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Afandī (fol. 12b).
Abstract: Treatise on Hanafite law and jurisprudence, in 40 chapters (faṣl). See table of contents in preamble of text, fol. 2b-7b. According to Kashf al-ẓunūn, it was started by the father of the author and completed by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm at the end of Shaʻbān 651 1253 in Samarqand. The text is followed on fol. 346b by a note attributed to the author copied from a manuscript of this text.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap, in brown leather and cream paper. Paper pastedowns. Leather doublure on fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from preamble (fol. 2b, l. 2).Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin light cream paper, glossy. Inscription in Ottoman Turkish on fol. (i)a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 6a). Title on head of text block: "ʻImādī".Origin: Copy completed on 11 Shawwāl 874 April 13, 1470 by ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd(?) ibn mawlānā Kafī(?) al-Ḥanafī(?) al-Bayḍāwī (colophon, fol. 346a).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وباسمه يبدأ كل كتاب ويختم وينثر كل خطاب وينظم وبالصلوة على رسوله محمد ... وبعد فان العلم فخر يبقى على مرور الايام حقاب وذكر يتوارثه الاعقاب بعد الاعقابExplicit: كان القول رب الارض كما اذا اختلف فى جريان ما الطاحونة وانقطاعه وقال القاضى الامام فخر الدين خان وينبغى ان يكون القول قول منك الشغل وتمامه فى اجارات فناواه تم الكتاب
Abstract: Treatise on Ḥanafī law, with important glosses and commentaries, in particular, according to the title, the commentary by Yaʻqūb ibn ʻAlī al-Rūmī ʻAlīʹzādah al-Banbānī (d. 931/1524).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have a similar blind stamped central mandorla and an outer frame made of fillets. Similar frame on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from fol. (iii)a.17 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-ii(a). Leaves with glosses and commentaries bound with or placed between the original fol. (see between fol. 25 and 26). These leaves are omitted by the modern foliation using Western numerals (counts fol. 1 as fol. iii) and by the foliation using Arabic numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf tā 107". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 876".Copy completed on Saturday 20 Ṣafar 952 (colophon, fol. 78b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي دلّنا على معرفته بالشواهد والاعلام ... وبعد فهذه عقود منظومة من سنن سيّد المرسلينExplicit: ومن السنة ان لا يذكر ميتا من المسلمين الّا بخير ... وقال صلعم لا تسبّوا الاموات فتؤذوا به الاحياء والحمد للّه ربّ العالمين والصلوة والسلام على رسوله خير البرية محمد واله الط---؟ الطاهرين تم
Historical study of Iran and Afghanistan during the reign of Nādir Shāh, 1688-1747. Waqiat-i Nadiri (literally "Events of Nadir") is a historical manuscript that chronicles the political and military career of Nādir Shāh, who was born in 1688 and rose to power in Iran during the 1720s; he became shah in 1736. He is known as a military warrior famous for his campaigns in Iran, Afghanistan, northern India, and Central Asia. He was assassinated by his officers in June 1747. The name of the author of this work, Muḥammad Mahdī Munshi' ibn Muḥammad Naṣīr (also seen as Mahdī Khān Astarābādī), appears on page four. Mahdi Khan was a court secretary, historian, and close confidante of Nādir Shāh, whom he accompanied on many of his campaigns, so the work is an important historical source. The manuscript is organized chronologically and recounts about 100 military and political events. The preliminary pages contain a preface outlining the political events in Iran and Qandahar (or Kandahar) that led to the Afghan invasion of Isfahan in 1722 and the emergence of Nādir Shāh as a ruler who would confront and eventually defeat the Afghans and other enemies. The preface is followed by a biography of Mahmud Hotaki, an Afghan commander who defeated the Safavids and briefly ruled in Isfahan. The last part of the manuscript covers the reigns of Ali Shah and Ebrahim Shah, nephews of Nādir Shāh, each of whom claimed the throne in Isfahan for brief times in the aftermath of Nādir Shāh's assassination. In the manner typical of Persian court historiography, the author emphasizes throughout the restoration of order, the introduction of justice, and the defeat of the enemies of the state. The margins contain notes, probably by anonymous readers. Various poems and verses from the Qur'an appear throughout the text. The manuscript is written in different styles of broken nastaliq, the calligraphic Persian script. All of the events recounted have a rubricated title and are organized and described in terms of their outcomes or final causes, usually in a page or a half page. The manuscript is numbered in pencil in the Indo-Arabic numeral style, probably by an anonymous reader. World Digital Library.
Abstract: Commentary on Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. This copy starts with Maqṣad 2 (see note on the lower corner of fol. 4a).Binding note: Golden brown leather over paper pastedown for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers have a blind-tooled frame consisting of fillets and stamps. Blue and yellow marbled paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.20 to 22 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark and light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 182-215 are inlaid leaves (originally 179 x 126 mm.), with 21 lines to the page. The date given in the colophon refers to these last leaves. Ḥāshīyah and short excerpts on the margins. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals, counting the first three endleaves as fol. 1-3. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 48". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on fol. 2b: "Ḥāʼ 1247".Copy completed on Saturday 5 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 970 June 26, 1563 (colophon, fol. 215a).Incipit: المقصد الثاني في الجواهر والاعراض وفيه فصول الاول في الجواهر قدم مباحثها على مباحث الاعراض لان وجود العرضExplicit: واذا ظن كل طايفة انه لم يقم به الآخر اثم الكل تركه هذا آخر ما يتيسر لنا من شرح تجريد الكلام والحمد لله على التوفيق للاتمام
Abstract: Commentary on Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī (d. 710/1310).Binding note: Quarter bound with flap, in marbled paper and red leather. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title fromPhysical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for some words and to overline the commented text. European paper with watermark. Ḥāshiyah on the margins, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 58". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1072/2 Ḥ".Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram 999 Oct.-Nov. 1590 (colophon, fol. 70b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى جعل لاصول شرعه منارا اي منار وافاض على من اختاره انوار كشف الاسرار والصلوة على سيدنا محمد ... اما بعد فيقول فقير الله الغنى عبد الرحمن بن ابى بكر بن العينى غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه لما رايت المختصر المسمى بالمنار فى اصول الفقه للامام العلامة حافظ الملة والدين ابى البركات النسفى سقى الله ثراه واحسن فى الجنة مثواه كتابا لم ير مثله فى الاصول ... الحمد لله الذى هدانا اى دلّنا وقيل خلق الهداية فينا الى الصراط المستقيمExplicit: واحتملت الرخصة ايضا كتناول مال الغير فانه حرام وحرمته يحتمل السقوط ب...؟ صاحبه بالتصرف واذا اكره حليه اكراها كاملا جاز له لان حرمة النفس فوق حرمة المال ... صار شهيدا لانه يكون باذلا نفسه لاعزاز الدين وامانته من الشرع تم
Abstract: A history of the battle of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Ḥusayn. The text ends on fol. 215b, and is followed (on ff. 216a-218b) by an incomplete text entitled "Mersiye", consisting of a mersiye (a dirge in memory of Haṣan and Ḥusayn), and a commentary.Binding note: "Green leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers and the envelope flap consisting of multiple gold rolls and filletsBinding note: with small rosetta stamps forming corner pieces. Gold stamped 'branch with flowers' motif on upper and lower covers. Gold tooled panel design on fore edge flapBinding note: made with fillets and rosetta stamps. Endleaves and lining to envelope flap in yellow embossed glazed paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in green leather."Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.18 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is within a frame outlined with four lines, in yellow, green, red and blue, with verses separated from the main text in sections ruled in red ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with blue, orange and black watercolors, and the text frame is in gold leaf with one red and one blue line around it. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink starts on fol. 2. Glazed dark cream paper with visible laid lines.Incipit: رب شرح لي صدري ويسر لي امري واحل عقدة من لساني ويفقهو اقواليExplicit (fol. 215b): اجرلر بو له لر وجمله ثوابلر ندن بو مصيبت نامه مؤلفنه تصدق قلوب بو ثوابي دخي موجب مزيد حسنات بله لر
Abstract: A gloss on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī which is a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī. The latter work, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah, is in turn an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī.Binding note: Brown leather with envelope flap. The leather on upper and lower covers polished to a high gloss. Large central mandorlas on covers, blind stamped and painted in gold around edges. Envelope flap is in different black leather with a similar design made with a smaller mandorla and a couple of fillets along the inner edge of the flap. Lining to the envelope flap and pastedowns in cream paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather. The whole is inside a board box with a flap. The box has red morocco on edges and glossy black paper with yellow print design on the sides and the flap, and a pull-out cord woven in brown, cream and orange thread. Label on the fore edge of the flap: "Akhī Chalabī ʻalá Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah".Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. The text is within a frame outlined with one line of red ink. Glazed European paper. Few marginal annotations.Incipit: الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... قوله فان تكميل النفوس الانانية بالفضائل القدسية وتحليتها بالحصائل الانتيةExplicit: وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا تعتبراشاراته وكتابته
Abstract: Commentary of Kanz al-daqāʼiq, a treatise on Ḥanafī fiqh by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī, d. 710/1310.Binding note: Green cloth over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from modern inscription on fol. 1a (later added fly-leaf).Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small thick naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible ; a few orange-peach leaves. Marginal annotations. Inscriptions and short texts on fol. 2a-3a. Table of contents on fol. 3a. Fol. 1 is a later added fly-leaf. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. The leaves are numbered in black ink using Arabic numerals on the upper right corner of each verso. Stained with water; mildew.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "326". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 226/2".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by Mūsá ibn Bakr in the middle of Shaʻbān 892 Aug. 1487 under the dictation of Muḥammad Miskīn (fol. 223a).Basmallah: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعينIncipit: الحمد هو الوصف بالجميل الاختيارى سواء تعلق بالفضايل او بالفواضل واللام للجنس والمراد مطلق المسمّىExplicit: سهام الزوج بالخارج بقى سهمان للام وسهم للعم فيقسم باقى المال بينهما ثلاثا والحمد لله الذى بنعمته يتم الصالحات وصلّى الله على محمد وآله صاحب الخيرات تم قرات المتن بحضرة والدى وشيخى واستادى ومولاى ... شمس الملة والدين محمد المسكين لا زالت شموس اقباله ساطعة لامعة الى يوم الدين امين يا رب العالمين واعلى درجاته فى اعلى عليين مقام الانبياء والمرسلين بحق محمد واله اجمعين ما ان مدحت محمدا للبرية شامل تم الكتاب
Abstract: Commentary on Manār al-anwār fiuṣūl al-fiqh by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī (d. 710/1310).Binding note: Quarter bound with flap, in dark green paper and leather. Paper pastedown and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. 1a.Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink, with use of red to overline the commented text. The text is framed within a single red line. European paper with watermark. Fol. 134b-136a: Blank. Inscriptions on fol. 136b. Title on tail of text block.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 56(?)". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Ḥ 634".Origin: Copy completed in 1130 H. (colophon, fol. 134a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى جعل لاصول شرعه منارا اى ضار وافاض على من اختار انوار كشف الاسرار والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد ... اما بعد فيقول فقير الله الغنى عبد الرحمن بن ابى بكر بن العينى غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه لما رايت المختصر المسمى بالمنار فى اصول الفقه للامام العلامة حافظ الملة والدين ابى البركات النسفى سقى الله ثراه واحسن فى الجنة مثواه كتابا لم ير مثله فى الاصول ... الحمد لله الذى هدانا اى دلّنا وقيل خلق الهداية فينا الى الصراط المستقيمExplicit: واحتملت الرخصة ايضا كتناول مال الغير فانه حرام وحرمته يحتمل السقوط باذن صاحبه بالتصرف واذا اكره عليه اكراها كاملا جاز له لان حرمة النفس فوق حرمة المال ... صار شهيدا لانه يكون باذلا نفسه لاعزاز الدين وامانة حق الشرع تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب
Abstract: "A dictionary and grammar of BaleybelenAbstract: the secret artifical language created by Muhyî-yi GülşenîAbstract: composed in Cairo in the second half of the 16th century (after Selim II's succession to the throne). The second of the two preliminary sections of the work is dated and was completed in 988 (1580 or 81)."Binding note: Brown leather with gold roll and two fillets around borders of covers. Pastedowns in yellow, olive and red marbled paper. Binding and paper restored by Jeffrey M. Rigby, 1985 (label inserted between fol. 164 and the lower cover).Ms. codex.Title from fol. 162a.17 lines per page. Written in a very small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, green and gold ink for rubrication. Text is written within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 21b and 41b have illuminated headpieces with mandorla style motifs in gold leaf in the center, surrounded by foliage pattern in gold ink on blue watercolor background. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thin, glazed paper with visible laid lines, and occasionally visible uneven chain lines. Most of it is light cream, with some sheets stained yellow, and fol. 2a and 163b are sprinkled in silver. Lower half of fol. 9 missing. Some water and wear damage, and repairs throughout, with some loss of text, chiefly towards the end of the ms.Ms. additions: three inscriptions on fol. 1a-1b, all in different hands, two in black ink and one in purple crayon, the latter signed Mehmet Veled, and all three providing information on the contents of the ms.Incipit: مقدمة الكتاب درت اصل وبر تتمه وضبط اوزره ضبط اولندى اصل اول لطفى در انسان تدنى بالطبع اولوبExplicit: خاتمه فى الرسالة الجامعة للتفرقة والتفريد ... والحرف والكيميا والسيميا والطب والطلسمات والله اعلم تم
Abstract: Commentary on Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. Copy incomplete at end.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Red leather doublure.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-128a: Maqṣad 1.Contents: 2. fol. 129a-290b: Maqṣad 2 (incomplete at end).Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a.23 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Ḥāshīyah on the margins. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 291 is a later addition, with an ownership statement signed Muḥammad Laṭīf Afandī on the verso. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a: ownership statements ; verses of poetry and prayer in Persian. The lower part of the fol. is wanting. Saying attributed to Mawlānā Mubārakshāh on fol. 1b. Ownership statements and short waqf statement on fol. 2a. Inscription in red pencil using Arabic script on fol. 1a: "Raqm 94 ʻ".Incipit: اما بعد حمد واجب الوجود على نعمائه والصلوة على سيد انبيائه وعلى اكرم احبائه اى على اله واصحابه الذين هم موصوفون بزيادة الكرمEnd as extant: وتقرير الجواب ان هناك قسما ثالثا بيانه ان الحصول التدريجى حصول مل له هوية اتصالية متطبق على الزمان