Abstract: Careful copy of a commentary of Kanz al-daqāʼiq, a treatise on Ḥanafī fiqh by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī, d. 710/1310.Binding note: Modern library binding in blue cloth over cardboards.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. (i)a.Physical description: 31 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq ibn black ink with use of red. European paper; glossy. Table of contents dated Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 1099 Feb.-March 1688 on fol. (i)b-(iii)b. Poem in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 160b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the five first leaves as fol. I-V). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on the first recto of the text).Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. (i)a: "Raqm 413".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Samarqand on Monday 18 Ramaḍān 912 Feb. 1, 1507 (fol. 159b).Basmallah: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعينIncipit: الحمد هو الوصف بالجميل الاختيارى سواء تعلق بالفضايل او بالفواضل واللام للجنس والمراد مطلق المسمّىExplicit: من الطريق مسجدا ومن المسجد طريقا صح اتخذ خانوتا وسط البرازين منع عنه والحمد لله الذي بنعمته يتم الصالحات وصلّى الله على محمد وآله وصحبه قال ثم قرأة المتن بحضرة والدى وشيخى واستادى و ... مولانا محمد المسكين لا زالت سموس اقباله ساطعة لامعة الى يوم الدين آمين يا رب العالمين واعلا درجته جاز فى اعلامه عليين مقام الانبياء والمرسلين بحق محمد وآله اجمعين ما ان مدحت محمد بمقالى ولكن محدت بمقالتى محمد بقاء الدهر التمام باكيف اهله وهذا دعاء ... من الكتب المعتبرة المتداولة الموثوق بها
Abstract: Treatise on how to escape from plague, with a religious tone, aiming to demonstrate that it is a religious duty and a rational behaviour (ḥukm sharʻī wa-qānūn ʻaqlī) to keep away from places where there is plague (see preamble, fol. 2b). This short treatise was written after the author had fled from plague in Cairo on his way back from the pilgrimage in 917/1511, raising criticism from several ʻulamāʼ from Damascus and Aleppo (see preamble, fol. 2a). Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 6371 gives a detailed description of contents.Binding note: Bound in a leaf of marbled paper in yellow, green, brown, and plain.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a. The name of the author appears in a rubric at the head of the text (fol. 1b) and in the preamble (fol. 1b-2a).Incipit: يا حيّا لا يموت ويا قويا فى الملك والملكوت الى لطفك الرغبوت ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف المتوكل على ربّه اللطيف ... 2أ ... ادريس بن حسام الدين البدليسى اصلح الله اعماله ... انه لما وفقنى التوفيق الزمانى وساعدمى العون الصمدانىExplicit: انا نعوذ بك من الطعن و الطاعون والوبآء وهجوم البلاء ... يا عون الضعفاء المظلمين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين والحمد لله رب العالمينPhysical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and overlining. The text is framed within a single red line. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible ; fiber visible on surface. Fol. 23 is a later added flyleaf left blank.Collation: Paper, fol. 23 ; 1¹⁰ 2¹² (+1, fol. 23) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 121". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 707".Origin: Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1193 March-April 1779 by Muḥammad Naẓīf.
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikamAbstract: completed on the 1st of Jumādá al-Ūlá 896 (1491)."Binding note: Brown leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled mandorlas with pendants in the center of upper and lower covers. Gold tooled border design on upper and lower covers made with gold guilloche, gold fillets and rosetta stamps, only partially visible as the edges of covers, the spine and the fore-edge flap are repaired in different dark burgundy leather. Gold fillets, and a smaller mandorla-like gold stamp on envelope flap. Endleaves in green glazed paper. Lining to fore-edge and envelope flaps in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 2a.Copied by Ibrāhīm bin Fayḍ Allāh bin Ismāʻīl al-Qrīmī(?) on the 23rd of "Jumādá al-Ākhirah/Rajab"(?) 1258 (1842) -- colophon (fol. 141b).27 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Text written within a single line frame outlined in red ink. Fol. 2 is two leaves pasted together, the first of which has a table of contents on the verso which is now not visible and was re-written, in black ink with use of red for page numbers, on the verso of fol. 1. Foliation in red ink in Arabic numerals and in pencil in Western numerals start with 1 on fol. 3. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Circular ownership seal on fol. 2a in the name of al-Shaykh Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥarīrī al-Khalwatī, dated 1288 (1871-72).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى زين خواتم قلوب ... اما بعد فاعلم ان الحكم الفائضة من الحق سبحانه على قلوب كل عبادهExplicit: لقد وفق للفراغ عن فك ختام هذه الفصوص وكشف ايهام هذه النصوص العبد المتذلل بالشخوص بين يدى عموم اهل الخصوص عبد الرحمن ابن احمد الجامى ... غرة جمادى الاولى المنتظمة فى سلك شهور سنة ست وتسعين وثمانمائة وصلى الله ...
Abstract: Commentary on a work on astronomy by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jighmīnī (d. after 1221) entitled al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʻilm al-hayʼah.Binding note: Marbled paper pasted on golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a.25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 42 and 52-56 (blank): glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Several inscriptions and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 54". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 242".Copied from an autograph on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 817 by ʻAbd Allāh ---? (colophon, fol. 51b, with hardly legible mention of the name of the copyist).Incipit: سبحانك اللهم يا مدير اطباق السماوات بلا عمد واوتاد على القطب ... وبعد فقد دلت البراهين العقلية والشواهد النقلية على ان اقصى ما يترجى للانسان من معارج الكمالات ... 2أ ... قوله وجعلته يشتمل على مقدمة ومقالتين وذلك لانّ 2ب ما ذكر فيه اما ان يكون مقصوداً بالذاتExplicit: وهذه السنة القمرية ناقصة عن السنة الشمسية بعشرة ايام وعشرين ساعة ونصف ساعة بالتقريب وليكن هذا اخر كلامنا فى شرح الكتاب والله سبحانه مفيض الخير و ...؟ الصواب والمرجو من اولى البصاير النقّادة ان يعمضوا(؟) عن الضرار(؟) وان لا يوخذوا بالهفوات
Abstract: Commentary on Kitāb al-Mawāqif by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). The commentary was completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand (see colophon, fol. 462b).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Traces of a fore-edge flap. Both covers are similarly tooled, with a central gold painted stamped mandorla and an outer frame made of gold painted fillets with a blind-tooled and gold painted s-shape running pattern. Brown leather doublure. Lower cover disbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink. The commented text is written in red ink on fol. 2b-8a, and overlined in red in the rest of the text. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold and blue on fol. 1b. The text is framed within a gilt and black and blue ink border. The last words of the verso are repeated at the beginning of the opposite recto. A few marginal notes by the same hand. On fol. (i)a: Verses of poetry dated 21.10.1894. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied in Dār al-Salṭanah Istanbul on 15 Shaʻbān 1022 (colophon, fol. 462b).Incipit: سبحان من تقدست سبحات جماله عن سمت الحدوث والزوال ... وبعد فانّ انفع المطالب حالا ومآلا ... 2ب ... قال بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم به نستعين فاقول ضمن المص خطبة كتابه الاشارة الى مقاصد علم الكلامExplicit: قال المصنف وليكن هذا آخر الكلام ... انه هو الغفور الرحيم وانا اقول هذا ما تيسر لنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه من كشف مشكلاته وتوضيح معضلاته وتحرير مسائله وتقرير دلايله ... وجعله ذخيرا لنا يوم الدين انه خير موفق ومعين
Abstract: A collection of six texts on Sufism in Persian and Arabic.Binding note: Full burgundy leather binding with gilt-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. 20W, fol. 1b-9b: Treatise on the lawfulness of samāʻ. In Arabic.Contents: 2. 21W, fol. 14b-47a: Ḥasanāt al-ʻārifīn / Dārā Shikūh. In Persian; year of compilation is given as 1062H (1651 or 2) (fol. 14b).Contents: 3. 22W, fol. 48b-66b: Lavāyiḥ / Jāmī. In Persian. In Persian; dated Jumādá al-Thānī 1232H (April-May 1817) (fol. 66b).Contents: 4. 23W, fol. 67a-74b: Ṣulḥ-i kull / Khūb Muḥammad Chishtī. In Persian; composed in 1016H (1607 or 8) and dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 74b).Contents: 5. 23W, fol. 75b-85a: Risālah / Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh. In Persian; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 85a).Contents: 6. 24W, fol. 86b-98b: Ayyuhā al-walad / al-Ghazzālī. In Arabic; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 98b). Followed by a short prayer in Arabic and Persian on fol. 99a.Ms. codex.Physical description: 15-19 lines per page; written in black by different hands on brown Arabic glazed, laid paper. Text 1 written in naskhi; texts 2-6 written in nastaʻliq. Catchwords and rubrication; a few marginal notes. Some insect damage. List of texts on fol. 1a and on label on front cover. Numbers 20-24 in Western numerals listed on label on back cover. Fol. 10a-14a, 47b-48a, 75a, 85b-86a, 99b-100 are either blank or contain title information by a later hand.Text 1 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي خص الاولىاء بحسن الاستماعText 2 incipit: بسم الله ... احدى راست حمد بىحد که حمد و حامد و محمود اوست و حمدى راستText 3 incipit: بسم الله ... رب وفقنا للتكميل والتميم لا احصى ثناء عليك كيف وكل ثنائي يعود اليكText 4 incipit: بسم الله ... حمد جلىلى را که بجمىع محامد محمد است و صلوات بر انسان کامل که در مرتبه جامع محمد استText 5 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الحمد لله که حقىقت از آفتاب روشن تر استText 6 incipit (after introduction): بسم الله ... ايها الولد العزيز المحب اطال الله بقاءك لطاعته
Masnavi-e Manawi (Spiritual rhyming couplets) is the famous poetic collection of the medieval ecstatic mystic scholar and Sufi, Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207-73), known in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran as Mowlana or Mawlānā Jalaluddin Balkhi and in the West as Rumi. This Persian manuscript in nastaliq script is a complete 15th century copy of Masnavi, with all six volumes. Narratives, homilies, and commentaries appear throughout. Many stories have stock characters, such as beggars, prophets, kings, and animals. Ethical concerns, traditional wisdom, and stories filled with jokes, including ones about sexuality and ethnic and gender stereotypes, appear throughout Masnavi. Prose pieces are arranged extemporaneously, sometimes breaking off mid-narrative and resuming later. Masnavi begins with Rumi's famous "Song of the Reed," which is the 18-verse prologue. This song, scholars have argued, contains the essence of the work. A mystic who has become separated from God is searching for his origin, and longs to find it again; Rumi suggests in this song that love of God is the only way to return to that state. The first story of Masnavi expands on "Song of the Reed," and is about a king whose love for a sick slave cures her illness. All six books have their own introductions. The introduction to book one, written in Arabic, defines Masnavi as "the roots of religion" and "uncovering the secrets of knowledge and union." Masnavi's contents are specified as a creed, holy law, proof of God, cure for man's ills, and mysticism. Rumi also praises the supremacy of God: "He is the most protective and most merciful of all." The other introductions are mostly in Persian (the one to book three is partly in Arabic) and some are part prose and part verse. In each one, Rumi praises his leading disciple and successor, Ḥosām-al-Din Chalabi (died 1284), and his contribution to Masnavi. The work has a mixed verse-and-prose conclusion in Persian and Arabic entitled "The seventh book of the books of Masnavi," which is not part of the known original of Masnavi; however, there are claims for a seventh book. If true, then this manuscript is a rare copy. Rumi's full name and the year of publication, 1435, appear on the last page of book six. The place of publication is not given; it was probably somewhere in Khorasan. Each narrative has a rubricated heading. Pages are not numbered. World Digital Library.
Abstract: "Commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-UṣūlAbstract: on the principles of jurisprudence."Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and brown leather. Marbled paper pastedowns. Wear.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 1b).Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red ; gets thicker from fol. 31 on. A single line in gold frames the text on fol. 1b-2a. Ḥāshiyah on the margin by several hands (specially on beginning of text). Several inscriptions on fol. 1a and 202b, including a table of contents (fol. 1a), ownership statements, and verses of poetry in Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish. Stained with water (loss of a few marginal annotations).Collation: Paper, fol. 202 ; 1-19¹⁰ 20¹² ; the last words of the verso are repeated on the next recto.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 101". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1262/2 Ḥ".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 17 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1048 April 21, 1639 by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, resident of Maḥallat Sinān Pāshā, from the maḥallāt of Qusṭanṭinīyah.Copyist: Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī.Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله محمد وآله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة سعد جدّه وانجح جده يقول لما وفقنى الله تع بتاليف كتاب تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته معرضا عن شرح بعض المواضعExplicit: حرمة لا تحتمل السقوط وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنهما لم تسقط وهما حق الله تعالى ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله الموفق بالخيرات وهو الملهم بالصواب
Abstract: A gloss on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, which is a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī. The latter work, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah, is in turn an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. This copy has an extra paragraph after the end of the main text not found in all copies and providing information on the original composition of the work. According to this information, the gloss was completed on the 8th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 901(1496).Binding note: Glazed marbled paper over pasteboard on covers and envelope flap. Brown leather on spine, around cover edges and on fore edge flap. Lining to the envelope flap and pastedowns in brown paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.Ms. codex.Title on fol. 256a and on the lower edge of text block."25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper. Some marginal annotation. The extra paragraph at the end starts with a couple of lines in the scribe's handbut is finished by a different hand. Ff. 5b-6a have a table of contents in black ink also in a later hand."'Incipit: الحمد لله الذى شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانانية بالفضائل القدسية وتحليتها بالخصائل الانتية'Explicit: وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا تعتبر كتابته واشاراته تم بعون الله ... وختامه فى ثامن من ذو الحجة من حجة احدى وتسعمائة ... واخلت الغاربة
Abstract: Commentary on Kitāb al-mawāqif by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers are similarly tooled with a blind-tooled and gold painted central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame made of gold painted fillets and a s-shape running pattern, with four small stamps with a floral motif in the inner corners. The envelope flap has a similar outer frame with a smaller blind-tooled and gold painted mandorla on its pointe. Blind-tooled and gold painted small stamps with floral motif and gold painted fillets on the fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from lower edge of the text block.31 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink. The commented text is overlined in red. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) with a floral motif in gold and colors (fol. ib). On the two first pages of the text, frame made of gold and black fillets (fol. ib-1a). The rest of the text is framed within a single red fillet. Glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first folio). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thālith 113". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 525".Copied on 13 Ṣafar 1213 (colophon, fol. 335b).Incipit: سبحان من تقدست سبحات جماله عن سمة الحدوث والزوال ... وبعد فان انفع المطالب حالا ومألا ... 1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ضمن المص تغمده الله تعالى بغفرانه خطبة كتابه الاشارة الى مقاصد علم الكلامExplicit: قال المصنف رح وليكن هذا اخر الكلام ... 335ب ... انه هو الغفور الرحيم وانا اقول هذا ما تيسر لنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه من كشف مشكلاته وتوضيح معضلاته وتحرير مسائله وتقرير دلايله ... وجعله دخرا لنا يوم الدين انه خير موفق ومعين
Abstract: "Ibn al-ʻArabī's metaphysical treatise in 27 chapters composed in 1226 in DamascusAbstract: accompanied by a short (incomplete?) glossary of Sufi terms. The latter is (loosely) arranged in alphabetical orderAbstract: starts with al-alifAbstract: al-ittiḥādAbstract: aḥadīyat al-jamʻ etc.Abstract: the terms covered correspond to the terms contained in Iṣṭilāḥāt al-Sūfīyah by ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-QāshānīAbstract: but there are much fewer of them and although some of the wording of the explanations is similar to that used by QāshānīAbstract: the text nevertheless differs."Binding note: Half leather with envelope flap (upper cover loose). Spine, fore-edge flap and the two fore-edge corners of upper cover in light brown leather. Covers and envelope flap in dark blue paper with flower pattern painted in yellow and black, over pasteboard. Lining to fore-edge flap in decorated paper painted in red, yellow and brown flower pattern. Pastedowns and lining to envelope flap in light cream paper.Contents: 1. Fol. 1b-15b: Iṣṭilāḥāt al-SūfīyahContents: 2. Fol. 17b-97a: Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikamMs. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.15 lines per page. Main text written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text of the glossary written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Although the style of writing differs, the two texts seem to be contemporary and written continuously in same ink and possibly same hand. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil."Ms. additions: Numerous short inscriptions on fol. 1aone of them dated 1163 (1750). Three short inscriptions and one ownership seal on fol. 99b. Ff. 16a-17a contain a text with the heading 'Faṣṣ ḥikmah fardīyah fī kalimah Muḥammadīyah' commenting on the final chapter of Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Ff. 97-98 contain a short commentary relating to Ibn al-ʻArabī's Mawāqiʻ al-nujūm. Extensive marginal annotations to the main text in a later hand."
Abstract: Treatise on the demonstration of the existence of the Necessary existent, followed by a commentary by Mullā Ḥanafī. On the identity of the glossator, who completed his gloss on 9 Shaʻbān 926 25 July 1520 in Herat, see Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD). Bd. XVII, Reihe B,3, no. 103. Several ḥāshīyah on the margins.Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Square motif on its pointe of gold tooled meshwork with vertical pendants at the center of the upper and lower covers with a single fillet outer frame. The same square motif and outer frame are repeated on the envelope flap. Yellow-colored paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-36a: Ithbāt al-wājib / Jalāl al-Dīn al-DawwānīContents: 2. fol. 38a-79a: Sharḥ Ḥanafīyah ʻalá matn Ithbāt-i wājib li-Mullā Jalāl / Muḥammad al-Tabrīzī al-Ḥanafī.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a). The title of Text 1 appears on fol. 2b. The title of Text 2 appears on fol. 38a.15 and 17 lines per page. Written in shikastah nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Fol. 2b is written in a larger script, with use of magenta. Ḥāshiyah on the margins of Text 1 and the beginning of Text 2. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 98". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "749/2 Ḥāʼ".Copied by al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān in the middle of Ramaḍān 1105 (colophon Text 2, fol. 79a).