Abstract: Collection of four short treatises by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī. This copy was written by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, a famous mathematician during the reign of Shāh ʻAbbās II.Binding note: Quarter bound in golden brown leather and marbled paper.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-8b: Short treatise.Contents: 2. fol. 9a: Letter in Persian.Contents: 2. fol. 9b-37a: Iksīr al-ʻārifīn fī maʻrifat ṭarīq al-ḥaqq wa-al-yaqīn / Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.Contents: 3. fol. 38b-51a: Ajwibat masāʼil al-Kāshānī / Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.Contents: 4. fol. 52a-102a: Risālah fī ḥudūth al-ʻālam / Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. 1a.Physical description: 19 to 22 lines per page. The four treatises are written by the same hand, in a casual shikastah-nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin paper with laid lines visible, glossy, frame-ruled. Collation notes and a few marginal notes on some texts. Fol. 52-end appear to be darker. The ownership statement on fol. 52a and the script suggest that this part of the volume might have been copied by another hand. On fol. 1a: several ownership statements, seals, and inscriptions in Persian; six-petal lotus in two double ruled concentric circles, with inscriptions. On fol. 1b and 103b: verses in Persian.Chiefly quaternions. Catchword on the verso of most leaves.Origin: Copied in Qazwīn by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn in Shaʻbān 1034 May-June 1625 (colophons, fol. 8b, 37a, 51a, 102a; on fol. 1a, ownership statement adding "al-Yazdī").
Abstract: Two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-88b: Fawāʼid ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Contents: 2. fol. 89b-113b: Kitāb Zubdat Shaykh Bahāʼī fī al-uṣūl / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Ms. composite codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 15 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; edges moldered.Origin: Text 1, 17 Rabīʻ II 1240 H 9 December 1824 in Iṣfahān, by Qurbān ʻAlī ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Rafīʻ al-... ? (leaf 88b). Text 2, 4 Rabīʻ I 1240 H 27 October 1824, by Muḥammad Ḥasan (leaf 113b); likely in Iran.
Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp orange-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets and blind-tooled central star.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-10a: al-Riḍāʻīyah / al-Muḥaqqiq al-Thānī.Contents: 2. leaves 10b-15b: al-ʻAwīṣ / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Mufīd.Contents: 3. leaves 16a-87b: Sharḥ ʻalá risālah fī al-ṭahārah.Contents: 4. leaves 88a-212b: Sharḥ Alfīyat Shahīd / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: Texts 1-2, 21 lines per page; written in casual naskh in brown on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 3, 21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 4, 21 lines per page; written in small, casual naskh in brown (switches to black on leaf 198b) on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Upper edge damp-stained and moldered. Leaves 1-15, 214 detached.Origin: Text 1, 6 Jumādá II 1088 H 6 August 1677 (leaf 10a). Text 4, 8 Jumādá II 1088 H (8 August 1677), by Saʻd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Dīn ibn Tamām al-Jazāʼirī (leaf 212b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Collection of short treatises and excerpts on astronomy.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-21b: Sharḥ Zīj Sanjaq Dār / Aḥmad ibn Māmī al-Ḥanafī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 5032.Contents: 2. fol. 22a-25b: Zīj / Ibn Qunfudh.Contents: 3. fol. 25b-101a: Zīj Sanjaq Dār / Muḥammad al-Sharīf Sanjaq Dār. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 5031.Contents: 4. fol. 101b-118b: al-Sirr al-maktūm fī aḥkām al-nujūm Excerpts / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.Contents: 5. fol. fol. 119a-130a: Urjūzat Abī Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ... al-Ṣūfī fī al-kawākib al-thābitah fī al-ṣuwar / Abū ʻAlī ibn Abi al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣūfī. -- Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 4873.Contents: 6. fol. 130a-149b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat al-ṭāliʻ min al-kawākib ... etc.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from the three first texts.Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small Maghribī script in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two black lines. Light cream European paper, glossy. Contains tables, charts , and diagrams. Kabīkaj (reading: "Kīkataj") on first fol. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits first fol.).Origin: The copy of two texts in the volume is dated, beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1200 Dec. 1786 (fol. 25a) and Thursday, the night of 10 Jumādá al-Awwal 1203 Feb. 6, 1789 (fol. 29b).
Abstract: Collection of two Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp golden-brown leather with blind-tooled central star and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-101a: Sharḥ Mabādī al-uṣūl / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī.Contents: 2. leaves 102b-153b: Sharḥ Dirāyat al-ḥadīth / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. codex.Spine title.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Records follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild insect damage.
Abstract: Commentary on the Qurʼān up to Sūrat al-Nās. The link between the two vol. should be investigated.Binding note: Vol. 1 is bound in dark brown, almost black, leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Both covers have a blind-tooled central mandorla. Smaller stamp on the point of the envelope flap with outer frame made of fillets. The spine and fore-edge flap are repaired with dark red leather. Paper pastedown on upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Red leather doublure on the fore-edge flap. Cloth doublure on the spine. Disbound.Binding note: Vol. 2 is bound in dark brown, almost black, leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have a blind tooled mcentral mandorla and an outer frame made of blind tooled fillets and a running pattern. Paper pastedowns on upper, lower covers and envelope flap. Green cloth doublure on fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (vol. 1, fol. 2, l. 14).Vol. 1 is written in small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 25 lines per page (written surface: 190 x 102 mm.), on thick glazed light cream paper with laid and chain lines, and pulp visible. The paper is frame-ruled. Inscriptions on fol. 1a. Obliterated seal on fol. 2a. One leaf missing between fol. 2 and 3 (3 and 4 in the modern foliation in pencil), between fol. 8 and 9 (9 and 10 in the modern foliation in pencil). Inscription in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 282b.Vol. 2 is written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 21 lines per page (written surface: 195 x 120 mm.), on thick light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margins.Copy of vol. 2 completed on a Wednesday at the end of Jumādá al-Ūlá, 859 (colophon, fol. 300b, lower margin).Incipit: الحمد للّه الذي انزل القرآن كلاما قيّما لا يحوم حواه عوج وجعله كتابًا محاكمً ... امّا بعد فانّ كتاب الله المجيد هو منبع الاصول الدينيةExplicit: قال عثمان لن واقد سالت من محمد بن المنكدر عن المعوذتين اهما من كتاب الله تع قال من لم يزعم انهما من كتاب الله تع فعليه لعنة الله والملآئكة والناس اجمعين
Abstract: A collection of poems in the form of letters to and from the author, arranged according to the alphabetical order of the names of the persons who wrote to the author and to whom the author replied.Binding note: Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.Collation: Paper ; fol. 321 + 1 ; catchwords ; pagination in red ink using Hindi-Arabic numerals ; quires signed 1-32 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS is in good condition and very neat ; MS is rare.Layout: 20-22 lines per page with separation between hemistitches.Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page are four verses of poetry by a transcriber, Ramaḍān al-ʻAṭīfī. On four folios before the title page is an index of the names in the MS; following is a statement to the effect that MS was written at the request and at the expense of Aḥmad Wihbi Wahbah, a bookseller in Ḥalab. He also collated the MS himself.Ms. codex.Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 19 Muḥarram 1305 by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn/al-Mardīn Muḥammad Rāghib (fol. 321a).Title from title page (fol. 5a).Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليقه يوم الخميس التاسع عشر محرم الحرام سنة خمس وثلثماية والف على يد افقر الورى الراجي عفوربه العزيز الواهب محمد عبدالعزيز بن محمد راغب کان الله عونا لهما في الدارين بجاه سيد الکونين والمسلمين اجمعين امين امين امين.مIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل البادي اميرًا
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on aromatic substances. Incomplete at end and beginning.Binding note: Blue cardboard.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-12b: Kitāb al-Ṭīb / li-Abī al-Ḥasan al-Khāzin.Contents: 2. fol. 13a-26b: Kitāb Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh fī jawāhir al-ṭīb al-mufradah bi-asmāʾihā wa-ṣifātihā wa-maʻādinihā / Ibn Māsawayh.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown). Thick soft dark cream paper with chain lines and pulp visible. The edges of the paper are not trimmed. Stained with dampness. Mildewed.Origin: According to colophon of first text, this was copied on Monday 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 590 April 4, 1194 (fol. 12a).
Abstract: Collection of short treatises on astronomy and ʻilm al-zāyirjah.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind-stamped central piece. Yellow paper pastedowns. Damaged.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-15b: Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah / li-Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al-Baʻlbakī.Contents: 2. fol. 16a-19a: Short treatise on ʻilm al-zāyirjah (aceph.).Contents: 3. fol. 19b-21a: Kitāb fī ʻilm al-zāyirjah ʻalá ṭarīq al-tisāʻīyah / Muḥammad al-Ghamrī?.Contents: 4. fol. 21b-35b: Kitāb fī ʻilm al-nujūm Urjūzah fī ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah / Abū ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣūfī.Ms. codex.Title from first text.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red and magenta ink. European paper. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals, from "20" to "33" on fol. 2-15. Inscriptions on fol. 36b, including verses of poetry in Persian.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍīyāt 26". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 895".