ff. 92. 182 x 135; 115 x 88 mm. 21 lin. 15th/16th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 114 (22: no. 1); S II, 110.Incip.: ... الحمد لله ... الموجد للاشىاء بلا معىن
Abstract: Collection of several treatises, some fragmentary or defective, by al-Ghazzālī.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope-flap. Blind-tooled. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. Ia: Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. IIa-b: Kitāb al-Kāfī fī al-ʻaqd al-ṣāfī only first page / al-Ghazzālī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2219.Contents: 3. fol. IIIa-16b: al-Qusṭās al-mustaqīm aceph. ; first title: al-Qawl fī mīzān al-talāzum / al-Ghazzālī.Contents: 4. fol. 17a-20b: ʻAqīdat ahl al-sunnah i.e. Kitāb Iḥyāʾ ʻulūm al-dīn. Kitāb qawāʻid al-ʻaqāʾid. Faṣl 1 / al-Ghazzālī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2218.Contents: 5. fol. 21a-49b: Kitāb Iljām al-ʻawāmm ʻan ʻilm al-kalām / al-Ghazzālī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2387.Contents: 6. fol. 51a-71b: Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-ḍalāl / al-Ghazzālī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3025.Contents: 7. fol. 73a-78b: al-Durrah al-fākhirah fī kashf ʻulūm al-ākhirah fragments; fol. 74 and 77 blank / al-Ghazzālī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2531.Contents: 8. fol. 82a-89b: Jawāhir al-Qurʾān incomplete at beginning and end / al-Ghazzālī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2160.Contents: 9. fol. 90a-111a: Kitāb Mishkāt al-anwār / al-Ghazzālī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2668.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from the titles of the two first treatises in the volume.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with chain lines and pulp visible. Fol. I is a later added leaf with inscriptions, including a table of contents. Leaves missing between fol. II and III. Fol. 74, 77, 79-81, and 112 are later added leaves (European paper), blank, except for a Fāʾidah on fol. 112a. A few leaves crudely repaired, with loss of text. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first three folios, numbered I-III). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals from "34" to "62"on fol. 21a-49a in the faulty modern foliation; from "13" to "33", on fol. 52a-72a; from "1" to "4" (not in order) on fol. 73, 75-76, and 78; from "5" to "12" on fol. 82a-89a.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "SH 63".Origin: According to colophon of last text, copied by Ḥusayn ibn Mubārak ibn al-thiqah al-Ṣīrafī al-Mawṣilī, Damascus, Khānqāh al-Qaṣāʻīn, on Friday 12 or 22 Jumādá al-Ākhir 704(?) (fol. 111a).
ff. 29. 176 x 130; 100 x 80 mm. 13 lin. 14th/15th cen.According to Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn, col. 1772 the author is Ibn Ṣaḥnūn al-Dimashqī (d. 694/1294), to whom also the ms. Teheran-Mark. v. 15, no. 5217/14 is attributed, but in both mss. listed in Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 901 (38a) and in ms. Fatih 5411 (Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt al-muṣawwarah, ch. 6, no. 496) the authorship is ascribed to Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar , with the variant Ibn al-Muzza ? instead of Ibn al-Marʼah.Incomplete at end: the text breaks off in the 7th bāb.Incip.: ... قال ... شرف الدىن .. ال معروف بابن المرأة .... أما بعد حمد الله خالق الداء والدواء ... فانى لما طالعت اکثر الکتب الطبىة لم اجد فىها ما ىشفى القلب
ff. 56. 169 x 124; 133 x 90 mm. 13 lin. Ṣafar 862, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Kinānī al-Būṣīrī.Acephalous anonymous account of miracles of pre-Islamic prophets from Adam to Jesus, apparently identical with ms. India Off. 1036/2. The present work resembles very closely that of Ibn ḥamdān 5/11th cent.: Brockelmann, GAL, I, 436, no. 7: Kitāb muʻjizāt al-anbiyāʼ) publ. with Turkish translation by Ömer Ziyaüddin, Istanbul, 1338/1340, but differs both in style and in the number of miracles attributed to individual prophets. The account of Adamʼs second miracle begins as follows (fol. 1b, line 5): ... الثانىة من معجزات ادم علىه السلام. لما اراد الحج ثانىا کان ىمشى فرأى قوما من اولاد قابىلExplicit: (ident. withms. India Off.): وهذا ما صح عندنا من المعجزات المروىة فى الاخبار بالاسانىد الصحاح عن الانبىاء صلوات الله وسلامه علىهم اجمعىن تم الکتاب الشرىف بحمد الله
ff. 177. 205 x 145; 150 x 95 mm. 17 lin. Jumādá II, 1054, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Jumʻah ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-ʻUdhrī al-Ḥanafī al-Shaʻrānī.This title (fol. 1a of the present ms.) is mentioned by Ibn al-ʻArabī in his ijāzah for al-Malik al-Muẓaffar (ed. Badawī, Andalus v. 20, 1955, p. 107 sqq.) as no. 192; see also Yaḥyá, Histoire, no. 673.The book is divided into unnumbered sections, the first three of them beginning as follows:(2a) حضرة الامان المومن(3b) حضرة المهىمنىة والمهىمن(5b) حضرة العزة والعزىزIncip.: ... الحمد لله الذى علّم آدم الاسماء واختار محمدا للمرتبة العلىة ... وبعد فان للاسما الالهىة حضرات علىة
Fols. 4; 20.4 x 15 cm.; written surface 16 x 10.5 cm.; 26 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A treatise discussing the length of life and whether it exceeds or falls short of its pre-ordained length.Beg.: بسم الله ... فصل في ذکر فتوى من فتاوي الوالدColophon: تم وکمل بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفىقه وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسلىما تمTwo marginal glosses. MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap. Probably from the XVIIth century.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 369/70; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 49; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2487; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 743.