Abstract: Responses to four legal questions on marriage, divorce and the permissibility of confiscating the property of heterdox sects.Title from title page.Ownership notes, one dated 1710. Includes two poems by Qāsim ibn ʻAlī Ibn Hutaymal, one about Imam Mahdī li-dīn Allāh.Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمدلله رب العالمين وصلواته ... الحمدلله المتجلّى لخلقه بخلقه والمتميّز ... امّا بعد فانّ ولاه الشرف وسادات السادات من الحلف ...Explicit: فالكل من الخلائق محتاج الى التقريب المخطى منهم فى فعله والمصيب هى والسلام عليكم ورحمه الله وبركاته هى وصلى الله على محمد واله هىNaskh script, written in black ink.16 lines.1- قصيدة في الامام المهدي لدين الله احمد بن الحسين سلام الله عليه لابن هتيمل أولها: اذا جيت العضا ولك السلامه فطارح بالتحيه ريم رامه وآخرها: فقد ولى النبي على قريش وامر دون سادتهم اسامه 2- قصيدة أخرى له أيضاً مطلعها: ألست أحق من عود النشام برشف رضاب معسول الوشام وآخرها: امام هاشمي فاطمي ملى بالطعان وبالطعام (من لقطة ... - ....)
Ownership note by the copyist, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī.جيده وهو عبارة عن مجلد مغلف بقماش ملون وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر"Khulāṣah wa-Ghāyah wa-Shāfiyah wa-Ādāb al-ʻālim wa-al-mutaʻallim" written on the bottom edge of the manuscript.14-19 lines.
Abstract: "A collection of the author's poetry."Title from title page.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.هَذَىِ ترجيع الأَطيار بمرقص الاءشعار / تاليف القاضي العلامه الفهامه القدوه وجيه الاسلام والدين عبدالرحمن بن يحيى بن احمد الآنسيBrockelmann, S II 817.جيده وهو مغلف بغلاف جلدي وقماشي أحمر مخطط وصفحاته مرتبة ومنسقة ومكتوبة بالمداد الأسود والأحمرIncipit: بِسمِ اللهِ...وبه نستعين يا كريم قال سيدي المولى الوالد المالك القاضي العلامه القدوه الفهامه وجيه الاسلام والدين واحد العلماء المحققين ابو احمد عبدالرحمن بن يحيى الآنسي رحمه الله رحمة الأبرار مجيباً ولده أحمد بن عبدالرحمن الآنسي هـ يا نسمة السحر قفي بمن له بك اتم ايناس...Explicit: أَيا جربة الرّوض افسحي قبره لَهُ هـٍ ، ويارحمة الرحمن بلّيْ ثراءَها ، بلغ تتميماً ونظراً فيما فيه من التحريف وأضنّه قد صحَّ ولو كان ثمَّ فراغ لأَعدّةُ النّظر فيْه ولاكن ثمَّ أَشغال وتشويش بال والله المستعان هـٍPersian naskh script, written in black and red ink.17 lines.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Half leather with blue paper covers; orange pastedowns and flyleaves.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-staining and a few repairs.Origin: 2 Rajab 1068 H 5 April 1658, by Ibn Muḥammad Muḥammad Ashraf al-Anṣārī (leaf 367a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: Volume 2 of a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh, comprising al-ijmāʻ through al-iḥtiyāṭ.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; red paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Occasional staining. Back cover detached.Origin: Jumādá I 1272 H January-February 1856 in Mashhad, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-madʻū bi-Ṣādiq (leaf 210a).Incipit: الحمد لله ... في الاجماع ... اختلفوا في حقيقة الاجماع لغة
Abstract: A treatise showing the legitimacy of using tobacco.Binding note: Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and white paper with block-pressed floral design. Multi-colored endbands.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).A few marginal notes. Title page has ijāzah from Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn al-Nābulusī in the name of ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī dated 1280. Title written on lower edge of text block.Collation: Paper ; fol. 152 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 13 lines per page.Description: Overlining and verse separators in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1120 by ʻAbd al-Jalīl ibn Ibrāhīm (fol. 151b).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل استعمال دخان التتن نافعا بتجفيفه للرطوبات ...Colophon: وقد وافق الفراغ من نسخ هذه الرسالة وذلك عصرية نهار الاربعاء ثامن يوم خلت من شهرربيع الاول الذي هومن شهور سنة الف ومائة وعشرين من الهجرة النبوية على يد اضعف العباد عبد الجليل بن ابراهيم کان له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين
Abstract: "Jīlānī's comprehensive treatise covering Islamic ethicsAbstract: practices and ritualAbstract: and Sufism."Binding note: Brown leather with envelope flap. Panel design on covers, made with roll and fillets around borders, central mandorla with two pendants along the vertical axis, and corner pieces, all of them blind stamped and used to be covered in gold leaf which is now missing. Same design on the envelope flap. Blind roll and fillets on the fore-edge flap. Lining to the envelope flap and pastedowns in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 6b.Copied by ʻAbd al-Karīm bin Mullā Ṭāhā (al-Hindī Baghdādī) and completed on the 18th of Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1131 (1719) -- colophon (fol. 194b).25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Text within a double line frame in brown ink. Catchwords on the verso of each folio. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink in the top right corner of the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Ff. 3b-6a have a table of contents outlined in red ink and filled in black and red ink. Glazed European paper. Most leaves are loose.Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم العارف ... اما بعد فقد الح على بعض الاصحاب وشدد في الخطابExplicit: وقيل ان اطلب الله بالصدق اعطاك مراة يتصر فيها كل شيء من عجايب الدنيا والاخرة
Abstract: Collection of a Shiʻite legal treatise and Shaykhī texts.Binding note: Stiffened black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, fillets, and pendants; green paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 2b-37b: Hādhā Kitāb al-Fawāʼid al-ithná ʻasharīyah / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Mūsawī.Contents: 2. leaves 38a-39a: Risālah mūjazah fī bayān dāʼirat al-ʻaql wa-al-jahl lil-ʻāqil al-mutadarrib. Commentary on a secton from an unidentified philosophical treatise; contains two circular diagrams.Contents: 3. leaves 40a-43b: Risālah fī bayān qawlihi taʻālá "qāba qawsayni aw adná" / ʻAlī ibn Naqī al-Aḥsāʼī.Contents: 4. leaves 43a-44a: Risālah fī bayān ʻālam al-barzakh ijmālan wa-ikhtiṣāṣan / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī.Ms. codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp-stained. Leaves 19-20 are replacements.Origin: Text 3 dated 1248 H 1832 or 1833 (leaf 43a). Other texts likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: A treatise on worship and prayer.Binding note: Dark purple buckram.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Incipit: الحمد لله الذى وصف الانسان بما وصف به نفسهExplicit (as extant): ولا مراقبة لهم في شيى الا في قلبهم فانه الذي وسعه"19 or 27 lines per page. Written in small casual naskh in black ink. Ff. 2b-13b and fol. 28 are in a different stylehave the smaller number of lines per page and are on different paper to the restthus are probably earlier than the rest of the ms. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Marginal annotations and corrections to the main text throughout. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Modern dark and light cream papers. A loose sheet between fol. 25 and 26. Colophon on fol. 52b completely obliterated by water damage. Fol. 53a has a circular chart with 'Shajarat al-Zaqqūm' in the centreand 'al- tawḥīd' on the outer most circumference."
Abstract: "A commentary on Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh's al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah."Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboard with envelope flap. Blind fillets around borders, and blind stamped mandorlas in the centre of covers and the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather. Binding is damaged and some sheets are loose.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1b.Copied by Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Salṭī and completed in the middle of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1074 (1663) -- colophon (fol. 196b).15 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Text is written inside a single line frame in red ink. The frames on fol. 1b-2a are wider and outlined with several lines in red and black ink, with simple rectangular head pieces also outlined in several lines of red and black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Short inscriptions on inside of upper cover and fol. 1a, a short text on fol. 200b and some poetry in Ottoman on fol. 201b.Incipit: من علامة الاعتماد على العمل نقصان الرجا عند وقوع الزلل لعلم نور الله قلبك بانوار المعارفExplicit: فهذا الشهود كان مع الله فى الحضرة بالمعية و بعد ذلك تكون فى الحضرة العندية
Abstract: "Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūlAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Full brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining. Front cover and first two leaves detached.Origin: 10 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1253 H 7 March 1838, by Ibn Ḥājjī ʻAlī Akbar Muḥammad Mahdī al-Hamadānī (leaf 274b).Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول
Abstract: "Ibn ʻAbbād's commentary on Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh's al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyahAbstract: followed by the text of the Ḥikam itself."Binding note: Brown leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers made with gold guilloche, fillets and small rosetta stamps. Gold central mandorlas with pendants. Same design on envelope flap. Endleaves and lining to envelope flap in olive marbled paper. Lining to fore-edge flap in light brown leather. Label on spine: "Taṣawwuf 109".Contents: 1. fol. fol. 1a-272a: Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah.Contents: 2. fol. 275a-291a: Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1a.Only text 2 is dated: copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad and completed on the 25th of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1233 (1818) -- colophon, text 2 (fol. 291a).21 lines per page. Texts written in similar hand, both in small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text 1 written within a double line frame in red ink, with ff. 1b and 2a in gold leaf frame outlined in black and red ink. Illuminated head piece on fol. 1b made with gold leaf and white, purple, orange and grey watercolors. Glazed European paper. Text 2 on a different glazed European paper of slightly smaller dimensions with frame ruled margins. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf in both texts. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil.