Abstract: Careful copy of a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh. According to the end of the text, the work was completed on 11 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 760 Nov. 3, 1359 (fol. 46a).Binding note: Modern library binding.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Final yāʼ dotted. Red dot text-stops. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines in groups of three visible ; frame-ruled. Title on tail of text block.Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf.Origin: According to colophon, copied by Maḥmūd Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad ibn Makīh al-Shāfiʻī, Thursday, end of ("munsalakh") Shawwāl 921 Dec. 1515 (fol. 46a, "ʻām").Incipit: بسم ... وبه ثقتي نحمدك اللهم على نعم يؤذن الحمد بازديادها ... وعلى اله وصحبه ما قامت الطروس والسطورExplicit: والصالحين و حسن اؤلئك وفيقا قال مصنفه رحمة الله عليه كان تمام بياضه فى آخريات ليلة حادي عشر ذي الحجة سنة ستين وسبعا بمنزلي بالدهيشه من ارض النيرب ظاهر دمشق المحروسه
Abstract: Second part of al-Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah al-wusṭá.Binding note: Green-dyed fabric over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).Physical description: 21-22 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Verses of poetry and several inscriptions on fol. 1a-b and 175b; a note in pencil on fol. 1a attributed the verses to Shaykh al-Islām Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī, author of al-Kawākib al-sāʾirah fī aʻyān al-miʻah al-ʻāshirah. Corner of some leaves replaced with the text re-written on the repair. Stained with water and humidity ; mildew.Two labels pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, one with an inscription in Arabic script reading: "Raqm 26" (repeated on fol. 1a), the other with an inscription in Roman script reading: "H 18".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣafadī for himself, from an authograph dated Damascus, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 754 1353 (the name of the author reads: ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī al-Shāfiʻī). The copy was completed in the middle decade of Jumādá al-Ākhirah 811 or 814 1408 or 1411 (fol. 174a).Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر واعن حرف الدال داود بن نبدار بن ابرهيم الجيلي ابو سليمان درس الفقه
Abstract: Biography of his father Taqī al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī (d. 756/1355), an excerpt from his Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah al-kubrá. A note on fol. 1a indicates that this is followed by the entry on the same Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī by Ibn al-Zamlakānī, apparently not extant. The text proper ends on fol. 102a, and is followed on fol. 102b-103a by the record of a fatwa as transmitted by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ...?Binding note: Decorated paper inlaid in brown leather binding with flap. Modern paper pastedowns and free endpapers. Traces of an embossed leather reliure on fol. 103b.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for re-inking and text-stops (dots or drops in groups of three). Light cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid ; frame-ruled. Fol. 10 is a later replacement.Collation: Paper, fol. i, 103, i ; i (modern free endpaper) 1¹⁰ (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-10¹⁰ 11⁴ i (modern free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of some leaves ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "Thālith" (see fol. 20a).Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Wuhaybah ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Shāfiʻī, who completed his copy (taʻlīq) on Saturday 17 Shaʻbān 766 May 1365 (fol. 102a).Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر اما بعد فهذه ترجمة جمة الفوايد حميد المصادر والموارد ينبغى لكل راغب فى العلم والعمل مراجعتهاExplicit: من هو اعلا مقاما من الشيخ الاسلام ثم على نبينا محمد افضل الصلاة والسلام وعلى اله واصحابه على الدوام 102أ حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل لين فجعنا بالتقى النقي ففي الى نصر تأس وفي فيرحم الله اماما مضي وايّد الله اماما بقي
Abstract: Vol. 2 and 3 of a copy in three vol. (see colophon vol. 2, fol. 281a) of a biographical dictionary of Shafiʻites.Binding note: Both vol. are similarly bound with red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Central blind stamped mandorla and outer border consisting of several fillets on both covers. Similar outer frame on fore-edge flap and envelope flap, with a smaller stamp on the point of the later. Blue dyed paper pastedowns in vol. 2, olive paper pastedowns in vol. 3.Ms. codex.Title from title pages (vol. 2, fol. 8a and vol. 3, fol. 5a).Vol. 2 and 3 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, re-inking and punctuations in verses of poetry, with 29 lines per page, on thick glazed light cream paper with laid lines visible. The paper is frame-ruled. Marginal annotations apparently by another hand.Vol 2: Fol. 158-165 are later replacements on glazed European paper. On fol. 8a, mention of the important individuals mentioned in this vol. ("mashāhīr ahl hādhā al-juzʼ wa huwa al-thānī"). On fol. 281b, index (fihrist) of the entries in this vol. Before the first original folio (fol. 8 in the modern foliation), table of contents on glazed European paper with watermark (fol. 1b-7b). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals, starting with "1" on fol. 8a, the first original fol. Inscription "17" in red ink using Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover pastedown.Vol. 3: On fol. 5a, mention of the important individuals mentioned in this vol. ("al-mashāhīr fī hādhā al-juzʼ al-thālith wa huwa al-akhīr"). Before the first original folio (fol. 5 in the modern foliation), table of contents on glazed European paper with watermark (fol. 1b-4b). Inscription on fol. 1a. Collation statement dated Cairo, 2 Jumādá al-Awwal 901 1496 on fol. 258b, stating that this part and the ones before it were collated with an autograph manuscript, except the last part, collated with a copy made by al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Ḥajar, on which there were annoations by his hand, reported on this copy. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals, starting with "2" on fol. 5a, the first original fol. Inscription "18" in red ink using Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover pastedown.Copied by ʻAbd al-Khāliq ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī, vol. 2 completed on Yawm al-Arbaʻa 22 Rajab 874 Jan. 25, 1470 (colophon, fol. 281a) ; vol. 3 completed on Yawm al-Ithnayn 30 Ramaḍān 874 April 2, 1470 (colophon, fol. 258b).Collation vol. 2: Paper, fol. 281 ; 1⁸ (European glazed paper) + 2¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 8 in the modern foliation) 3-15¹⁰ 16¹⁰ (fol. fol. 158-165 later replacements) 17-27¹⁰ 28⁶ (-1, after fol. 281) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in black or red ink (see "8" on fol. 77a; cutt off on some quires due to the trimming of the leaves) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Collation vol. 3: Paper, fol. 258 ; 1⁴ (European glazed paper) + 2¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 5 in the modern foliation) 3-25¹⁰ + 5 fol. ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in black or red ink (see "8" on fol. 77a; cutt off on some quires due to the trimming of the leaves) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Incipit vol. 2: احمد بن على بن حامد ابو حامد البيهقى من خسر وجردExplicit vol. 2: المومل بن مسرور بن ابى سهل بن مامون ... من ذى الحجه سنه سبع عشره وخمسمايه وكان من الصالحين ارباب العبادات والمجاهدات مقيما فى رباط يعقوب الصوفى بمرو تقصده الناس للتبرك بهIncipit vol. 3: ناصر بن سليمان بن ناصر بن عمران بن محمد ابو الفتح بن ابى القاسم الانصاريExplicit vol. 3: بالله يا صبح لا تزرنا فالصبح حرب لقوم لوط انتهى اخر كتاب الطبقات الكبرى