Abstract: A work on fiqh, an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).Binding note: 'Brown leather with envelope flap (the flap is loose). Blind tooled panel design on covers, made with fillets and an ornamental blind roll around borders, and fillets, together with small flower stamps and circular stamps with word "sharaf", to form triangular corner pieces of the panel. Blind stamped circular medallion in the centre of upper and lower covers, with small flower stamps with outward radiating fillets and small circular gold stamps around the edges. Blind tooled design on envelope flap consists of an ornamental blind roll and blind fillets around the edges, with the inner area is fully tooled in an \'arabesque\' design. Circular stamp in the centreBinding note: plain with a smaller area inside tooled with the same \'arabesque\' motifBinding note: and several small circular gold stamps inside and around the circle. Spine repaired in a different brown leather. Fore edge flap is missing. The envelope flap has a leather lining.'Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.Copied by Haṣan ibn ʻĀdil ibn Yūsuf al-Qasṭamūnī in 790 (1388-89) -- colophon (fol. 133b).13 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Thick dark cream glazed paper visible laid lines. Extensive marginal and within the text annotation throughout. Some damage to paper, chiefly at the beginning and end of the ms, with some repairs and some loss of text. Fol. 1a has a duʻāʼ for the Yawm al-ʻĀshūrāʼ, and fol. 2a has several excerpts in Arabic. Oblong ownership stamp on fol. 3a.Incipit: حمد من جعل العلم اجل المواهب الهنية واسناها واعلي المراتب السنية واسماها احسن ما يفتتح به الكلامExplicit: وفي غنم مذبوحة فيها ميتة وهي اقل تحرى واكل في الاختيار
Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 228 x 120mm leaf [164 x 83mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink. Foliation of f. 77a has been added by cataloguerRuling:
Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: Black ink, with keywords and text frames in redDecoration: Two diagrams (ff. 18v and 41v)Binding: Blind-tooled, brown leather frame enclosing paper covers, stamped with a floral central medallion and pendants, with green and purple endbandsCondition: Water damage to fore edge margins; paper repairs to folio edges throughout; only a fragment of the tailband remainsMarginalia: Very few, but see Scope and ContentSeals: ff. 122v, 123v and 124r (all erased); British Library stamps: ff. 1r and 123v
Fols. 115; 21 x 14.6 cm.; written surface 14.2 x 8 cm.; 15 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; headings and entries in red.A work on the importance and significance of the birth of the Prophet.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله اتم الحمد واکملهColophon: تم الکتاب بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفىقه والله اعلمOn folio before the title page are a prayer; the date of the death of ʻAlī Afandī, qāḍī of Makkah, A.H. 1109 A.D. 1697/8. On title page is a statement that the author prepared an abridgment of the work in a book entitled Durar al-fawāʼid al-farāʼid. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9529/30; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1817.
Copied A.H. 1217 A.D. 1803 by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Jawād al-Mālikī al-Azharī.Fols. 68; 22.5 x 15.8 cm.; written surface 15 x 9.5 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.An eschatological treatise on the signs and prognostics of the day of judgment.Beg.: بسم الله ... قد خطر ببالي ان اضع رسالة في اشراطColophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة المبارکة ىوم الاثنىن المبارك خامس ىوم من شهرذي الحجة الذي هو من شهور سنة 1217 الف ومائتىن وسبعة عشر على ىد کاتبه الفقىرالى الله محمد عبدالجواد المالکي الازهري المصري غفرالله له ولوالدىه ولمشاىخه ولجمىع المسلمىن بمنه وکرمه امىنThe last folio is defective. MS in good condition except worm-eaten and mended; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Copied A.H. 531 A.D. 1136 by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAbd Allāh ... ibn Manṣūr Qays ibn ʻAylān ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār.Fols. 98; 22.4 x 1 5.3 cm.; written surface 19 x 13 cm.; 22 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi.A collection of traditions on asceticism.Beg.:قال ... الجنة حدودها ... باب ثمر الجنة حدثناColophon: تم کتاب الزهد بحمد الله ومنّه وکان الفراغ منه ىوم الثلثاء صلاة الظهرسادس عشرربىع الاخرمن سنة احدى وثلثىن وخمسمائة کتبه صاحبه عبد الوهّاب بن عبدالله ... بن منصور ابن قىس بن عىلان بن مضر بن نزار وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وآله وسلم تسلىما. نفعه الله بالعلم وغفرله ولجمىع المسلمىنA few marginal notes. On eight folios before the first is a collection of traditions entitled Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn fī al-ḥadīth compiled by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī A.H. 376-465 A.D. 986-1072 (see ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 237). Immediately after the colophon are several notes about the reading of the work, one of which is dated A.H. 521 A.D. 1127 though the copy was made A.H. 531 A.D. 1136. MS is incomplete at the beginning; in fair condition; mended; Arabic binding. Evidently unique.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 91.
Fols. 35; 20 x 14.5 cm.; written surface 16.5 x 10.7 cm.; 16-20 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red; with rubrications.A treatise on the majesty of God as revealed in the wonders of creation, in heaven and on earth, based upon traditions.Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمد لله المنفرد بالقدم والبقاء والعظمةColophon: انتهى والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلمA few marginal notes. The edges were trimmed. MS in different hands; in good condition; mended; Arabic binding with flap. Probably from XVIIIth century.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Anonymous.Fols. 80; 19.5 x 12 cm.; written surface 14.5 x 7 cm.; 13 lines to page; on European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.A compilation of the beliefs and doctrines of the Khārijite sect.Beg.: بسم الله ... وقوله تعالى انه قال مولانا امىر المومنىنColophon: تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهابThe work was composed for a certain ʻAlī ʻĪd. The copy, according to a note after the colophon, was made in Marseille by Yūḥannā ibn Yūsuf Wārsī al-Faransīsī. MS in good condition; French binding. On back of binding is the title ʻʻCatéchisme des reformes musulmansʼʼ. MS probably from the early XlXth century.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Anonymous.Numb. pages 353; 19.3 x 13.4 cm.; written surface 12.5 x 8 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords; entries and headings in red and green.A work on the art of using the bow and arrow. This is a supplement to the authorʼs former work on the same subject which is entitled Kifāyat al-muqtaṣid al-baṣīr fī al-ramy ʻan al-qaws al-ʻArabīyah bi-al-sahm al-ṭawīl wa-al-qaṣīr. (See MS p. 8.)Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي نعمته على الخلق تامةColophon: تمتMS in good condition; Arabic binding. Probably from early XIXth century. In all likelihood unique.Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Copied A.H. 1154 A.D. 1741.Fols. 159; 20.4 x 15.5 cm.; written surface 13.5 x 7.2 cm.; 15 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.The title appears as Kitāb Muqaddamat Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. MS in good condition but worm-eaten; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
ff. 66. 196 x 153; 148 x 111 mm. 25 lin. Ṣafar 989.Commentary on al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah: Brockelmann, GAL, I, 470 (commentary 2); S I, 650.Incip.: ... قال المصنف ... الحمد لله .. الحمد الثناء بعد الاحسان بخلاف المدح
ff. 24. 210 x 150; 165 x 82 mm. 27 lin. 18th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, I, 552 (commentary 6); SI, 764.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى وجب وجود ذاته ... اراد بالعبد نفسه◆ اى عبد الله ووصف نفسه باعبودبة اعترافا
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather; edges and spine repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 6.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Mild staining on outer edge and repairs to first eight leaves and last leaf.Origin: Beginning of Jumādá I 1010 H October 1601, by Ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Rāzī (leaf 299a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي دلنا على الطريق القويم