Abstract: Abridgment of al-Wasīṭ fī al-madhhab by al-Ghazzālī (d. 505/1111), with a short excerpt from the Iʻlām fī mabānī al-Islām by Abū Bakr ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn? (Bāb fī bayān al-taysīr, fol. 1b-2b).Binding note: Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of dark brown leather over paper pasteboards. The upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla linked by one single gold painted vertical fillet to the outer frame, consisting of fillets and an s-shape running pattern. The envelope flap has a similar outer frame with a blind stamp on the pointe. paper pastedowns. Rebacked.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b, l. 17).23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red and blue (see fol. 134a). Occasional marginal notes. Notes on small pieces of paper between fol. 75 and 76, 124 and 125. Several short texts on fol. 1a, 138a-140a. Dark cream paper, glossy, with no chain or laid lines visible. Some leaves are later replacements, on European glazed paper with watermark (see fol. 4-10). Label pasted on the upper cover, with the mention "769" in Arabic numerals.Copied in Tabrīz, in the Madrasah al-Ṣāḥibīyah in the night of Saturday 2 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 728 (colophon, fol. 137b).Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى ابدع الخلق واعاد ... هذا وان علم الفقه مما لا يخفى جلاله وقدرهExplicit: وعلى لفظ العتق نختم كتابنه ونرجوا ان يعتق الله من النار رقابنا تم الكتاب
Abstract: Commentary on the Qurʾān, with fihrist on leaves ib-iib.Binding note: Full maroon leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, and fillets; marbled paper doublures. Volume 2 is missing flap.Ms. codex.Title from text on leaf 1b, volume 1.Physical description: 29 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. On leaves 1b-2a, text framed in red and gold; remainder of text framed in double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Continuous foliation in Arabic script. Extensive staining; some smudging and paper repairs. In fair condition.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرا ... و بعد فان اعظم العلوم مقدارا وارفعها شرفا ومنارا علم التفسير الذي هو رئيس العلوم الدينية وبرأسها ومبنى قواعد الشرع واساسها
Abstract: Extracts from Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Yellow paper pastedowns. Flap missing.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On folio 76a-b are extracts from Shaykhʹzādah.Collation: Paper ; fol. 76 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 17 lines per page ; folios 21-75 frame-ruled in red.Description: Rubricated ; text overlined in red ; MS in good condition.Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 12 Ṣafar 1180 in Qasṭamūnī by the compiler Muṣṭafá ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qalūjakī (fol. 75b).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرا فتحدى باقصر سورة من سورة مصاقع الخطباء من العرب العرباء ...Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة بعون الله الملك الوهاب عن يد اضعف العباد مصطفى ابن ابراهيم القلوجکي في بلدة قسطموني سنة ثمانين ومائة والف بلطفه وکرمه في يوم السبت من شهر صفر الخير في يوم الاثني وعشر في وقت الضحى غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه سنة 1180 تم تم تم
Abstract: Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a blind stamp central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis (lightly stamped). Modern paper pastedown and free endpaper.Ms. codex.Title from title page in red ink (fol. 2a).Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper, with pulp, fiber, and a few lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin, attributed to Asnawī (Isnawī), ʻIraqī, etc. Several short excerpts on fol. 1a-2a. Corrosive ink.Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A 251e".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Tuesday, 8 Shawwāl 749 Dec. 30, 1348 (fol. 54b).Incipit: بسم ... رب تمم تقدس من تمجّد بالعظمة والجلال وتنزه من تفرد بالقدم والكمال ... وبعد فان اولى ما يهم به الهمم العوالى ويصرف فيه الايام والليالى تعلم المعالم الدينية والكشف عن حقايق الملة الحنيفيةExplicit: انما يجوز فى الفروع وقد اختلف فى الاصول ولنا فيه نظر وليكن هذا اخر كلامنا والله الموفق والهادى والحمد لله اولا واخرا وظاهرا وباطنا والصلوة على محمد واله متواصلا متقارنا تم الكتاب
Abstract: Collection of texts mostly by ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayḍawī.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of red leather over paper pasteboard. Traces of an envelope flap. Marbled paper pasted on both covers. Paper pastedowns. Traces of a label on the spine.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-114a: Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār / ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayḍawī, d. 1286?Contents: 2. fol. 117b-185b: Minhāj al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl / ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayḍawī, d. 1286?Contents: 3. fol. 187b-323a: Īḍāḥ al-asrār fī sharḥ al-Minhāj / ʻAlī ibn Rūzbihān al-Khunjī, d. 1307.Contents: 4. fol. 323b-324a: Taḥqīq masʼalat al-tjzī fī al-ijtihād mentioning a Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar al-ʻAḍudī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Written in medium small naskh in black ink, except the last text, written in a small nastaʻlīq. Title on the lower edge of the text block (hardly legible). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counting the first fly-leaf as fol. 1). On fol. 2a: Several inscriptions and ownership statements; stamp from the library of Majd al-Dīn; inscription "1273" using Arabic numerals, in red ink. On fol. 117a: Seal. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription "95" using Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover.According to the colophons, texts 1, 2 and 3 were copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad in Madrasah Kāmūyah in 699 (see fol. 113b-114a, 185b, 322b). Collation statement dated 2 Muḥarram 710 (fol. 323a).