Abstract: Autograph copy of original poems of eulogy, travel, and prayer arranged in alphabetical order of their rhyme.Binding note: Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands. Covers cut away to reveal blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on both covers. Cutaway on flap to reveal rounded blind-stamped design.Collation: Paper ; fols. i + 99 + i ; catchwords.Description: Written in clear naskhi with vowel signs ; green flyleaves glued to initial and final folios of text block ; illegible title on lower edge of MS ; MS in good condition, paper cover is badly worn.Layout: 15-25 lines per page ; ruled.Marginal glosses. Title page bears three verses of poetry by the author, quotations of poetry of unknown authorship and three dated autographs of owners: Aḥmad al-Iṣbaḥī 1256, Ḥusayn al-Wafāʼī 1150, name obscured 1232. On page after colophon and on three following folios are a number of odes by the author not included in the dīwān, all bearing the date 1026 1617.Ms. codex.Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 27 Shawwāl 1027 (fol. 96a).Title from title page (fol. 1a)Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم وسلم ابداً في ليلة الاربعاء 27 شوال سنة 1027 ببرکة الحاج الحج ليلة سفر الرکب او صلهم الله سالمين وتقبلها بجاه سيد المرسلين صلى الله وسلم عليه وعليهم اجمعين.Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى جميع الانبياء والمرسلين
Abstract: Twenty-nine pentastichs, each rhyming in a different letter of the Arabic alphabet; containing mostly advice and counsel of a religious nature.Binding note: Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Simple blind tooling line decoration on cover. Red paper doublures with gold block-pressed floral pattern.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Marginal and interlinear glosses.Collation: Paper ; fol. 16 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 5 lines per page with interlinear glosses.Description: Headings in red ; verse separators in red ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition.Origin: According to colophon copied 1136 (fol. 16a).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. تبارك ذوالعلى والکبرياء * تفرد بالجلال وبالبقاءColophon: تمت القصيدة المخمسات في سنة سة ست وثلثين ومائة والف
Abstract: A history of Egypt from remote times until the time of Sulaymān the Magnificent, who reigned 926-64 1520-1566.Binding note: Type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers and flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Marginal notes and glosses. On a folio after the colophon are lists of the Ottoman sultans from ʻUthmān Khān Ghāzī 699 1299 to Salīm Khān III 1203 1789 and of the governors of Egypt from Khayr Bey Pāshā 922 1516 to Sulaymān Pāshā 943 1536/7 with their reigns. First and last folios have some writing and calculations.Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 75 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 17 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (shield, roman-alphabet letters "V O" or "O A", sun) ; MS in fair condition, upper cover detached from binding.Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الاول بلا بداية في ازليتهColophon: تم وکمل بحمد الله وعونه
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-64b: Hādhihi Kitāb al-Wāfiyah fī al-uṣūl / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūnī.Contents: 2. leaves 65b-103a: Fawāʼid al-ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Ms. codex.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the sixth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation. First four leaves contain notes and extracts or are blank.Physical description: Text 1, 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black. Text 2, 26 lines per page; written in small naskh in black; script changes to nastaʻliq on leaf 90a. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; upper outer corner moldered.Origin: Text 1 dated 1221 H 1806 or 1807 (leaf 64b). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Collection of ten treatises by ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Central blind-stamped roundel on the covers. Spine and fore-edge flap repaired in red leather. Paper pastedowns. Disbound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-101a : Wasāʼil al-taḥqīq wa-rasāʼil al-tawfīq / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 1588.Contents: 2. fol. 101a-103b : Taḥqīq al-maqṣūd min maʻná Yā man huwa maʻbūd fī ṣūrat kull maʻbūd / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 1431.Contents: 3. fol. 103b-112a : al-Kashf wa-al-bayān ʻammā yataʻallaqu bi-al-nisyān / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 488.Contents: 4. fol. 112b-122a : Rafʻ al-rayb ʻan ḥaḍrat al-ghayb / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 916.Contents: 5. fol. fol. 122a-(134bis)b : Kashf al-nūr ʻan aṣḥāb al-qubūr / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 484.Contents: 6. fol. 135a-137a : al-Naẓar al-mushrif fī maʻná qawl Ibn al-Fārid ʻarafta am lam taʻrif / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 839.Contents: 7. fol. 137b-141b : Risālah tataʻallaqu fī al-insān hal huwa hādhā al-haykal al-makhṣūṣ aw ghayruhu wa-bayān dhālika / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 1291.Contents: 8. fol. 141b-144b : al-Qawl al-abyan fī sharḥ ʻAqīdat Abī Madyan / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 903.Contents: 9. fol. 144b-150a : Radd al-jāhil ilá al-ṣawāb fī jawāz iḍāfat al-taʼthīr ilá al-asbāb / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 911.Contents: 10. fol. 150a-176a : Nukhbat al-masʼalah sharḥ al-Tuḥfah al-mursalah / ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī. -- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist, no. 852.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from the titles of Texts 1 and 2.Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in small naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two red lines (faded to yellow on some leaves). European paper with watermark. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.; faulty). Leaves wanting between fol. 13 and 14. Inscription on the pastedown of the upper cover.Collation: Paper, fol. 178 ; 1¹⁰ (+1 at beginning of quire) 2¹⁰ (-4, two central bifol.) 3-17¹⁰ 18¹⁰ (+1, end of quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered in red ink using Arabic numerals in the form "K 1" (see fol. 1a).Origin: Copied between 1 Muḥarram 1162 Dec. 22, 1748 and 3 Ṣafar 1162 Jan. 23, 1749 by al-ḥājj ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd Allāh (colophons, fol. 122a, 137a, 150a, 176a). The content and the name of a former owner seem to indicate a Syrian origin (al-Shām).
Abstract: A collection of proverbs from pre-Islamic and Islamic times; sayings of prophets, kings, princes, poets and common people, Arabian and non-Arabian. Incomplete at the beginning.Binding note: Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Endbands. Pastedowns of white paper with block-pressed design.Collation: Paper ; fol. 138 ; catchwords.Description: Written in clear naskhi ; rubricated ; watermarks ; writing on top and bottom edge unclear ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Binding and some folios are loose.Layout: 15 lines per page.Marginal notes. After the colophon are two autographs of owners.Ms. codex.Origin: According to colophon copied Ramaḍān 1011 by Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArīf (fol. 138b).Title from colophon (fol. 138b).Beginning: کافل المجد وکافي الخلقColophon: فرغ من کتابته العبد المذنب الضعيف يحيى ابن احمد بن محمد العريف رحم الله من دعا له ولمالکه وللناظر فيه بالخير والحسنى وذلك نصف شهر رمضان المبارك من شهور سنة احد عشر بعد الالف هجرية نبوية على مهاجرها افضل الصلوات والحمد ... امين رب العالمين
Abstract: The famous book Kalīlah wa-Dimnah, which is a translation, into Arabic from Pahlavi, of fables which are adaptations of the Indian tales of the Panchatantra originally brought from India in the time of Chosroes I.Binding note: Type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and and paper with a block-printed design. Text block wrapped in later paper, not connected to cover.Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 96 + i ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-8.Description: Written in naskhi ; vowel signs ; rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition with some staining, some pages mended.Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a), the rest frame-ruled in red.Marginal notes; marginal summaries in red. Table of contents on fol. 1b. On fol. 1a occur an obliterated ownership autograph along with a seal impression, the signature of ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī al-Fārisī, two verses of poetry, and kabīkaj (invocation against bookworks).Ms. codex.Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 24 Muḥarram 997 by Maḥmūd ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Maḥallī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 96b).Title from text (fol. 1b).Colophon: نجز في اليوم المبارك وهو يوم الثلاث المبارك رابع عشرين محرم الحرام افتتاح عام سنة سبع وتسعين وتسعماية على يد کاتبه فقير رحمة ربه المستنشق نسيم حضرة قربه محمود بن ابي الحسن بن شمس الدين المحلي الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهم واليه امينIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. وما توفيقي الا بالله عليه توکلت. هذا کتاب کليلة ودمنة