Abstract: "Commentary on the Kitāb al-muʼāmalāt of Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām."Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped central floral design, pendants, and fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: Generally 30 lines per page; written in small, cramped naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: 23 Muḥarram 1255 H 8 April 1839, by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Qazwīnī (leaf 57a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اشتق نور الوجود من ظلمة العدم
Abstract: "Commentary on ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūnī's al-Wāfiyah."Binding note: Limp maroon leather with blind-stamped fillets.Ms. codex.Spine title.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the fifth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on machine-made paper. Hand and paper change on leaf 96a. Rubrication; catchwords in second half of manuscript. Marginal notes. Mild staining. First four and last four leaves blank.Origin: Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1245 H April-May 1830, by Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (leaf 211b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اوضح مناهج الدين ... قوله قلت انکار التبادر اقول معنى کون التبادر
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla; brown leather doublures; edges and spine repaired.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-57b: Manāhij Shaykh Bahāʼī / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 2. fol. 58b-185b: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 1a, 58a; also present on partially torn spine labels.Physical description: Text 1, 8 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 2, 14 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Both texts: Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs.Origin: Likely 17th century.
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 three Zoroastrian texts, one of which contains fifty miniatures of heaven and hell.Binding note: European-style full brown leather with gold-stamped fillets and gold stamping on spine.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-60a: Ṣad dar.Contents: 2. fol. 62b-121b: Kitāb-i Vīrāfʹnāmah.Contents: 3. fol. 123a-208a: Dar shāyast va nashāyast.Ms. codex.On spine: "Ardai Veraf Namah" in Western script tooled in gold.Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on unglazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 2 in two columns and framed in red. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and insect damage; edges ragged. Binding is loose and some gatherings are detached. Text 2 has fifty miniatures of heaven and hell.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law, preceded by a fihrist on leaf 1a.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 9.Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in naskh and nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Numerous replacements of full or partial leaves. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: Juzʼ 1 completed 2 Shawwāl 940 H 16 April 1534, by Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Harawī (leaf 199b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي انطق السنتنا بحمده
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīnAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Full golden-brown and teal leather.Ms. codex.Title from front flyleaf.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Leaf 15 detached. A few tears and repairs and mild staining.Origin: Likely first half of the 19th century.Incipit: والفقه في اللغة الفهم آه انما ابتدأ بتعرىف الفقه دون اصول الفقه کما هو المعروف فى کتب الاصول لان وضع الکتاب انما هو في اللغة
Binding note: Limp golden-brown leather.Contents: 1. leaves 2b-41b: Risālah fī salāt al-musāfir wa-mā yataʻalliqu bi-hā.Contents: 2. leaves 43b-54b: Risālah fī bayān baʻḍ min al-masāʼil al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-daʻāwá.Contents: 3. leaves 59b-66b: Risālah fī bayān al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in miniscule nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Origin: Text 1, 1 Rabīʻ I 1126 H 17 March 1714 (leaf 41b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time. According to note on leaf 2a, texts are in the hand of the author."Holographic copy of several of the author's writings on Shiʻite fiqh."
Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of A.A. Kachif, Nov. 20, 1930. Written in Iran. Paper; thick, polished light cream color paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue, red, and white with wide borders of a similar floral pattern and similar colors of fol. 1b and 2a; an outer border of two very thin lines accompanies all the text on facing pages; the text itself is enclosed in a border of black, white, gold, and red; floral section headings in gold, red and blue; lines of the text are separated by a cloud design in gold; text in black ink with small red overlining of some letters; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; in written area 13 x 7.5 cm. Fol. 1b-24a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M100. Binding; dark brown half leather with lacquered papier-mâché floral design on a copper colored background surrounded by contrasting green, red and green borders also with floral designs; inner sides of cover also lacquered with a paintings of dark pink roses on a brown background. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Manuscript. Persian. Each work has separate title ; title of first work fol. 1b; title for second work, fol. 82a. Each section has different date: Makhzan al-asrār dated 28 Rajab 954 [9 September 1547]; second section dated 4 Shaʻbān 954 [19 September 1547]. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran or India. Paper: thick, cream color Oriental paper; text in columns in black ink with section headings and some marginal notes in red ink; second work has some section headings in gold ink ; text is surrounded by many marginal notes; no catchwords. Pasted label on page 2 of cover: "(1) Makhzan-al-asrār. (2) Ṣubḥat-al-asrār. (3) K̲h̲ulāṣat-al-khamsa. by Niẓāmī 945/1547. 22.3 c. 29.3 cms. 14 lines per page. 2 columns. Nastaʻlīḳ. Marginal notes." Nastaʻlīq; 14 lines in written area 10.5 x 6 cm. Folios 1b-121a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, [number]. Binding in dark blue leather with embossed diamond pattern front and back. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Incipit: كتاب مخزن الاسرس حضرت شيخ نظامي عليه الرحمة. Explicit/Colophon: تمت الكتاب بعون الله الوهاب تاريخ 4 شهر شعبان 954.
Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied from container. Scribe not identified. Written in India? Paper; thin, lightly polished laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral carpet page in blue, gold, pink, and black surrounded by three borders: the outer of a gold floral design, the next of a repeating design in blue and gold and the inner of a floral design of repeating flowers in alternating rose and pink on a gold background; remainder of text has outer ruled bord of thin blue, white, gold, red and dark blue; text block within ruled border in blue, white, red, blue, a wider floral border and an inner border of blue and red; sections separated by a horizontal block in gold; hemistichs divided by a wide dark blue vertical divider with gold highlighting; black ink; catchwords. Nastaʻlīq; 15 lines in written area 13 x 6.2 cm. Numerous miniatures throughout the text. Fol. 1b-466b (incomplete) Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M19. Binding; disbound; text block and many pages loose in remainder of binding which is brown leather; spine lacking. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Selections from the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī. This manuscript from the early 17th century contains selections from the Shāhnāmeh (Book of kings), the epic-historical work of Persian literature composed at the end of the tenth century by the poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). This beloved epic of pre-Islamic Persia (present-day Iran) was widely read in Persia, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. The manuscript contains three half-page paintings showing different battles. The text is preceded by an introduction and table of contents (folios 1b-6b) and is written in black ink in a nastaʻliq script. The pages are in four columns of 25 lines each within a blue-cream-gold-cream-gold border. Rubrication is used, and there are catchwords on the recto pages. A few notes and corrections have been made in the margins. The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Jamādī al-Avval, 14, 1027 (May 9, 1618); the place of writing is not given. The binding, newer and of Central Asian origin, is olive-green leather with embossed medallions, two in dark red, with a light-red leather spine. World Digital Library.