Abstract: Collection of texts comprising Risālat Ithbāt al-wājib of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī, a commentary by Mullā Ḥanafī Muḥammad al-Tabrīzī al-Ḥanafī in Mach, R. Yahuda, and a supergloss by Mīrzā Jān Ḥabīb Allāh al-Shīrāzī.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Traces of a blind-tooled decoration with frame made of fillets and stamps. Rebacked. Paper pastedowns and endleaves.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-32b: Risālah Ḥanafīyah ʻalá Ithbāt al-wājib lil-Dawwānī / Muḥammad Mullā Ḥanafī.Contents: 2. fol. 33a-56a: Risālah qadīmah li-ithbāt al-wājib / Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Contents: 3. fol. 56b: Commentary on the ḥadīth qudsī "Kuntu kanzan makhfīyan fa-aḥabbtu ..." / Yūsuf al-Aṣamm.Contents: 4. fol. 58a-87b: Mīrzā Jān ʻalā Ithbāt al-wājib / Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.19 to 23 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. European? glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible. On fol. 1a: Table of contents and several ownership statements and seals. On first back fly-leaf: mention "214 ʻayn" in Arabic. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.The last text is dated Mārdīn, Jumādá al-Ulá 1042 and signed ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm (colophon, fol. 87b).
Abstract: Elegant copy of a biographical dictionary of ʻulamāʼ and ṣūfīs, completed on 30 Ramaḍān 965 July 16, 1558.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Scalloped gold-stamped mandorla with swirling leaves motif at the centre of the covers, outlined in gold with radiating flecks. Gold fillet and cablework border. Similar border on the envelope flap, with small stamp on its point. Slip-case with folding flap in red leather, with blue and beige marbled paper on front and back.Ms. codex.Title from preamble (fol. 9a, l. 3).21 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and keywords. Red teardrop text-stops. The text is framed within a single red line (gold outlined in black frame on fol. 8b-9a). Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold, blue and orange on fol. 8b. Some entries repeated in red on the margin. European paper with watermark. Fol. 1-8 are later additions. Fol. 8 consists of a latter added leaf pasted on the recto of an original folio. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. A few marginal annotations. Several inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 1a and 194b. Table of contents in a magenta grid on fol. 1b-8a. Title in Arabic script on a label pasted on the right edge of the slip-case: "al-Shaqāʼiq al-Nuʻmānīyah". Title in Arabic script on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap of the slip-case: "Şakaik-i Nuʻmaniye maʻa dhaylihā fī bayān ʻulamāʼ dawlat al-ʻUthmānīyah".The date 992 H. is written at the end of the copy, followed by two lines of poetry in Ottoman turkish (fol. 193a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى رفع بفضله طبقات العلماء وجعل اصولهم ثابتة ... وبعد فانى عندما عرفت من الشمال والمستقيم من المحال كنت مشفوفاExplicit:189ب ... ومنهم الشيخ العارف بالله الصالح صلح الدين مصطفى من خلفآء السيد احمد البخارى ... هذا آخر ما تيسر لى بعون الملك العلّام من تفصيل احوال العلمآء الاعلام ... 193أ ... واجب يا رب دعوتى وثبت حجّتى وسدد لسانى واهد قلبى واسلل سخر صدرى