Abstract: "Edition of Ptolemy's AlmagestAbstract: composed in 644/1247 (see GAS and margin of the colophon)."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind-tooled and stamped. Blue and burgundy marbled paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b, l. 17 2b in the faulty modern foliation). The name of the author appears in the colophon.Incipit: احمد الله مبدء كل مبتء وغاية كل غاية ... وبعد فقد كنت برهة من الزمان عازما على ان احرّر لنفسي ولساير طلبة العلم من الاخوان كتاب المجسطي المنسوب الى بطلميوس ... وها انا اخوض فى المقصود واقول الكتاب مشتمل على ثلثة عشر مقالةExplicit: قال واذا اتممنا جميع ما يفتقر الى ارشاده من وجود ما يحتاج الى وجوده وتصحيح ما يحتاج الى تصحيحه ... حامدا له على الاته مصليا على جميع اوليائه خصوصا على خاتم انبيائه وبرزة من اله واهليائهPhysical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta and red. The text is framed within two lines in magenta, with a pagination in Arabic numerals in the middle of the top of the frame (starts with "2" on fol. 3b). Contains diagrams, tables and figures. Collation notes on the margins. Jadwal on a leaf pasted between fol. 8 and 9. Table of contents on fol. 1b-2b -1b in the faulty modern foliation by the same hand as the main text (whose name is given as Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn ... ibn Muḥammad al-... al-Faḍlī in the colophon of the Fihrist, fol. 2b). Title in Arabic script on a spine label (horizontal): "Majisṭī". Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "Raqm 43".Origin: Copy completed on Friday 19 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1324 Jan. 4, 1907 by Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥabīb(?) ibn al-Muḥsin ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Turkī al-Faḍlī (colophon, fol. 94a 93a in the faulty modern foliation). According to a note on the left margin of the colophon, this copy was collated with an autograph copy.
Abstract: Collection of three texts: Two commentaries on texts by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346) on uṣūl al-fiqh, -- a commentary on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl by the author (followed by a short text in Ottoman Turkish written by another hand on fol. 167b), and a commentary on al-Muqaddimāh al-arbaʻ by ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī --, and another short treatise by the same Siyālkūtī. The volume comprises two parts copied separately and bound together at a later date, Text 1 (fol. 1-167) and Text 2 and 3 (fol. 168-207).Contents: 1. fol. 1b-167a: Kitāb Tawḍīḥ maʻa Tanqīḥ / ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī.Contents: 2. fol. 167b: Short text in Ottoman Turkish.Contents: 3. fol. 168a-200a: Sharḥ al-Muqaddimāt al-arbaʻ / ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī.Contents: 4. fol. 200b-207b: al-Risālah al-Khāqānīyah / ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī.Ms. composite codex.Title provided by cataloger, from title of text 1 (rubric, fol. 2b).Physical description: Text 1 written in medium small thick nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 20 lines per page (162 x 75 mm.), on European paper with watermark. Important annotations on the margins, between the lines, and on small pieces of paper pasted between the original leaves. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts some but not all leaves pasted between the original fol.; this record follows the existing foliation).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 72". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1041/2 Ḥ".Origin: According to colophons, copy of text 1 completed on a Thursday in Muḥarram 1161 Jan. 1748, during the reign of Salīm Khān, in the Madrasat ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Afandī, by Islām ibn Bayrām Ghāzī ... (fol. 167a). Copy of text 3 completed in the middle of Shaʻbān 1228 Aug. 1813 in Qusṭanṭinīyah by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Asīrī(?) (fol. 200a).
Binding and script features: Siyah, baskı semseli, salbekli, köşebentli, zencirekli, yeni cilt. Tezhip özellikleri : Bütün sayfalarda yazı alanı altın varak çerçeve içinde, sondaki dua bölümlerinde duraklar altın varak noktalıPhysical description: 2 manuscripts in 1 volume/ 22x16,5 cm.Contents: Birbirinden farklı 2 adet yazmanın bir araya getirilmesiyle oluşturulmuş ve ciltlenmiş bir eserdir (Yazma numaraları : MS 60, MS 61). MS 60 : Eserin ilk sayfaları eksiktir. 1a-34b: Hz. Muhammed’in doğumu, ahlakı, mucizeleri, miracı, hicreti, ve ayrıntılı olarak ölümü manzum olarak anlatılır. 35a-36a: Hatim duası; 36b-38a: Münacat duası. Mevlidin sonuna başka bir eser ciltlenmiştir (Bkz. 30/II). MS 61 : İlmiye icazetnamesidir. En sonda Ahmed Nazif Sinobi, belgenin hocası Es-seyyid el-Hâc Rif’at b. el-Hâc İbrahim el-Ankaravi’den aldığı icazet sureti olduğunu belirtir. (46a). Burada Ahmed Nazif Es-Sinobi’nin mührü de vardır. 46a’da son bulan icazetnamenin rıka yazıyla farklı bir kağıda yazılmış bir diğer kopyası da 48b-50b arasındadır. 53b-55a: Farklı bir kağıda farklı bir yazıyla muhtemelen bir mevlidden alınmış Hz. Muhammed’in hayatına ait kısa bir manzumePaper type: MS 60, MS 61 : Krem rengi, aharlı, suyollu, filigranlıCalligraphic style: MS 60 : Harekeli nesih / Harakāt Naskh script ; MS 61 : Talik / Taʿlīq scriptInk color: MS 60 : Siyah, başlıklar kırmızı ; MS 61 : SiyahNotes: Two different manuscripts bound in one volume. Written in two columns in 13 lines per page. Nastaʿliq and Taʿlīq scripts in black ink with captions in red.Description of script: MS 60 : Yaprak sayısı : 38 / Sütun sayısı : 2 / Satır sayısı : 13 / Yazı alanı boyutu : 180x110 mm / Kağıt boyutu : 220x165 mm / Yazmanın başı - sonu : 1a - 38a. MS 61 : Yaprak sayısı : 7 / Satır sayısı : 15 / Yazı alanı boyutu : 125x60 mm / Kağıt boyutu : 235x150 mm / Yazını başı - sonu : 39b - 46a
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on astronomical instruments, one in 65 short chapters (see table of contents at the beginning of the text, fol. 2b-3a and in Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 5836) attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, the other comprising an introduction and 33 chapters (bāb) on an astronomical instrument called the celestial globe (same as Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 5869 and King, D. Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻilmīyah, 4/2/7.2). The text is followed on fol. 17a by a Faṣl fī al-dāʼir bayna al-ẓuhr wa-al-ʻaṣr wa-al-dāʼir bayna al-ʻaṣr wa-al-ghurūb.Binding note: Purple paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-12b: Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah / Qusṭā ibn Lūqā.Contents: 2. fol. 12b-17a: Risālah fī al-kurah dhāt al-kursī.Contents: 3. fol. 17a: Faṣl fī al-dāʼir bayna al-ẓuhr wa-al-ʻaṣr wa-al-dāʼir bayna al-ʻaṣr wa-al-ghurūb.Ms. codex.Title from modern note on fol. 2a. The title of Text 1 appears in the beginning of the text as "al-ʻAmal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah" (fol. 2b).25 lines per page. Written in clear medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the first fly-leaf as fol. 1). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "751/2 ḥāʼ". Inscription in pencil in Arabic script on the first fly-leaf (fol. 1a): "Thālith 149".Incipit Text 1 (fol. 2b): مقالة قسطا بن لوقا اليونانى فى العمل بالكرة الفلكية الفها لابى(؟) الحسن عبد الله ابن يحيى كلّ فاضل فمحبته واجبة والفاضل من الناس من كان عند امّه(؟) مفضلا والمفضل عند الله من كان كامل الفضلة فى النفس والبدنExplicit Text 1 (fol. 12b): معرفة عرض البلد من ارتفاع نصف النهار من كواكب الكرة اذا اردنا ذلك زفعنا الكواكب من(؟) اجزاء خلقة نصف النهار والله اعلم تمت هذه الرسالة بعون الله الملك الوهابIncipit Text 2 (fol. 12b): الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات العلي وزينها بمصابيح الذجى والصلوة ... وبعد فان الكرة المسماة بذات الكرسي كرة عجيبة وآلة غريبةExplicit Text 2 (fol. 16b): فى الافق ويرفع عن الافق بقدر ذلك النصف وعلى هذا القياس تم الكتاب بعون الله الوهاب الغفار الستار الذنوب
Abstract: "Treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: completed on 27 Jumādá II 969 March 1562 (see end of textAbstract: fol. 337a). The text is preceded on fol. 12a-15a by what appears to be a description of contentsAbstract: written by the same hand as the main text (beginning wanting). Fol. 332 is an addition with Abū Ḥanīfah's WaṣāyāAbstract: written by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl in Ṣafar 1145."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Central blind stamped scalloped mandorla filled with a floral arabesque, with two pendants on the vertical axis on covers. Blind stamp on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 17a, l. 5-6).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta. The text is framed within a single line in magenta. Thin dark cream European paper with watermark; some leaves dyed in light yellow or green. Quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-11b. Handmade label with inscriptions on the upper cover. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 12a). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Inscription in Western numerals in pencil on fol. (i)a: "62".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl ibn Muṣṭafá, and completed in the night of Friday 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1143 June 1731 (fol. 337b; the colophon is inscribed within a circle consisting of two lines in red ink).Beginning as extant: الشرع والادد القاعدة الثانية اذا اجمع الحلال والحرام غلب الحرام الحلال وبيان ما يقزع عليها من اشباه ... 15أ ... بسم ... الحمد لله على ما انعم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وبعد فان الفقه اشرف العلوم قدرا واعظمها اجراExplicit: على رأس شجرتين فتقطع نصفين رحمه الله تعالى وهذا آخر ما اوردنا من كتاب الاشباه والنظائر فى الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم ابى حنيفة النعمان ... وكان الفراغ من تأليفه فى السابع والعشرين من جمادى الآخرة سنة تسع وستين وتسعماية وكانت مدة تأليفه ستة اشهر مع تخلّل ايام توعك الجسد والحمد لله ... الى يوم القيام وكتبه مؤلفه بيده الفانية زين بن نجيم الحنفى ... هذا آخر ما قاله المؤلف ... بجاه نبيه محمد ومصطفاه وآله واصحابه ومن والاهBeginning of text fol. 332a: بسم ... قال ابو حنيفة ... لابنه حماد ... يا بنى ارشدك الله تعالى وايدك اوصيك بوصايا ان حفظتها
Abstract: Beginning of a gloss on al-Kashshāf, the commentary on the Qurʼān by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 538/1144), comprising the text from the beginning to the end of Sūrat yūnus (starts on fol. 201a).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind and gold-tooled with a central mandorla filled with impressions of a small stamp and outlined by gold guilloches and fillets ; the outer guilloche develops into pendants on the vertical axis. The outer border consists of blind and gold-tooled fillets and guilloches, with gold impressions of a small stamp in the inner corners. Possibly wanting fore-edge flap. Lighter brown leather doublure. Edges damaged.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a in the modern foliation. A later hand adds : "ilá ākhir Sūrat Yūnus".Physical description: 29 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink, with use of red for "qawluh". Larger script from fol. 78a on. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margins of the beginning of the text. Table of contents on first fol. Fol. 205a-206b: Blank. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Most quires are quinions. Title on tail of text block. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals and foliation in black ink using arabic numerals (both omit the first fol.).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Tafsīr 36". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 262".Origin: According to the colophon, copy completed in the middle of Jumādá al-Ukhrá sic 867 March 1463 by Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd al-ṢamadIncipit: الحمد لله الذى انزل على عبده الكتاب ولم يجعل له عوجا وبين فيه لاولى الالباب بينات وحججا ... وبعد فان كتاب الكشاف للشيخ العلامة احلّه الله من فضله دار المقامة قد طار حيث جلالة قدره كالامطار فى الاقطارExplicit: قوله هو شفاء مقتضى سوق الكلام وشفاء بالجر عدل الى هذا بينها على ان موضع الشفاء الى المواعظة والتنبيه على التوحيد فان الشفاء والدواء للمرضى هو حصول الضد اعنى الصحة ثم عطف على موعظة وتنبيه تتميما للفوايد دعاء ورحمة والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على سيد المرسلين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل بمنه وجوده
Abstract: Collection of several treatises on medicine, translated into Arabic by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. The ms. contains two main parts: the first text which is a later addition and texts 2-10, all written by the same hand. There seems to be two parts in this last section, the first called "al-Jawāmiʻ" (texts 2-6, see colophon, fol. 244b) and the last four texts.Binding note: Dark brown leather over pasteboards. Upper and lower covers have a simple outer frame made of single fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-40a: Kitāb Jālīnūs al-maʻrūf bi-al-Ṣināʻah al-ṣaghīrah / Galen.Contents: 2. fol. 41a-58b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-buḥrān / Galen.Contents: 3. fol. 59b-68a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-buḥrān / Galen.Contents: 4. fol. 69b-83a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayāt / Galen.Contents: 5. fol. 83b-84a: Blank.Contents: 6. fol. 84b-197b: Jumal min jawāmiʻ Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-ḥīlat lil-burʼ / Galen.Contents: 7. fol. 198a: Blank.Contents: 8. fol. 198b-244b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī tadbīr al-aṣiḥḥā / Galen.Contents: 9. fol. 245a-262a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī firaq al-ṭibb / Galen.Contents: 10. fol. 262b-263a: Blank.Contents: 11. fol. 263b-278b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-nabḍ ilá Ṭūtharun lil-mutaʻallimīn / Galen.Contents: 12. fol. 279a-281a: Blank.Contents: 13. fol. 281b-342b: Kitāb Jālīnūs ilá Aghlūqun fī shifāʼ al-amrāḍ / Galen.Contents: 14. fol. 343a: Blank.Contents: 15. fol. 343b-377b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Usṭuqusāt ʻalá raʼy Buqrāṭ / Galen.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the lower edge of the text block.21 lines per page. The first text is written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for the headings on European glazed paper with watermark. From text 2 on: written in careful and professional vocalized medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) on light cream glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible ; frame-ruled. Marginal notes (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, copied by the same hand, see fol. 42b, 53a). Smaller leaves are inserted between the ms. leaves, with inscriptions by the same hand as the main text (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, see between fol. 51 and 52; 112-113; 211-212). On fol. 1a: Obliterated seal. On fol. 41a (i.e., fol. 1a of the original ms.): Table of contents; several ownership statements, one dated 623 H., one dated 8 Muharram 902 H. in Dār al-Islām Qusṭanṭinīyah; one signed Kamāl al-Dīn al-mutaṭabbib al-Mūsawī. On fol. 377a: Seal with waqf inscription signed Dāmādzādah Fayḍ Allāh Afandī, dated 1174 H. On fol. 377b: Ownership statements. The quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in the form "7 min 3" (often cut off due to the trimming of the leaves, but still visible on some quires, see fol. 96a, 126a, 136a, 146a, 156a). Signs in the upper corner and lower corner of the opposite leaf marking the middle of the quire (see fol. 130-131; 220-221). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied by ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī in 572 H. (colophon of text 6, fol. 244b), except the first text, copied for Dāmādzādah by Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḥasanī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tūqātī in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1138 H. (colophon, fol. 40a).
Physical description: Material: Mix of Eastern and Western laid paperDimensions: 225 x 115 mm leaf [160 x 65 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cmScript: Naskh with nastaʿlīq elementsInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in redBinding: British Museum binding; evidence of envelope flap on previous binding (see ff. 58-63)Condition: Tidemarks towards head (ff. 63-72), some offsetting and mould stains (see ff. 34-39)Marginalia: Notes by more than one handSeals: none
Abstract: A collection of tratises in a variety of subjects, including tafsīr, theology, philosophy, metaphysics, semantics and science of time-keeping. Most are in Arabic, with few texts in Ottoman. Only texts 17 and 20 are dated, 3rd of Rajab 1096 and first 10 days of Rajab 1096 respectively (1685). Most texts are in same hand, appear to be contemporary and vary only slightly in style and layout.Binding note: Brown leather. Gold guilloche and fillets around borders of covers. Gold tooled mesh pattern in diamond shape in the centre of upper and lower covers. Marbled paper pastedowns. Label on upper cover: "Majāmiʻ 27".Contents: 1. Fol. 1b: Table of contentsContents: 2. Fol. 2b: Tafsīr "Yawm yaqūmu al-rūḥ wa-al-malāʼikah"Contents: 3. Fol. 3a: Ḥadīth "taken from Ḥāshiyat al-Kashshāf by Shaykh Akmal al-Dīn" and a short wird by Ibn al-ʻArabīContents: 4. Fol. 3b-7a: blankContents: 5. Fol. 7b: Manlā Aḥmad al-Anṣārī ʻalá qawl al-Bayḍāwī title from the table of contents.Contents: 6. Fol. 8a-8b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-TawbahContents: 7. Fol. 9a: Tafsīr Sūrat al-TawbahContents: 8. Fol. 9b-13b: Risālah mutaʻalliqah bi-iṣṭilaḥāt arbāb al-ḥadīth.Contents: 9. Fol. 14a-18b: blankContents: 10. Fol. 19a-19b: Risālat al-waḍʻContents: 11. Fol. 21a: Maqādīr sharʻīyah title from the table of contents.Contents: 12. Fol. 22a-24a: Tafsīr kabīr min Sūrat al-Aḥzāb.Contents: 13. Fol. 24b-28b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-Mulk.Contents: 14. Fol. 29a-32b: al-Risālah al-Walāʼīyah.Contents: 15. Fol. 32b-37a: Risālah fī radd al-Risālah al-Walāʼīyah.Contents: 16. Fol. 37b-39a: Risālah fī afʻāl al-ʻibād.Contents: 17. Fol. 39b-43a: Risālat al-Zawrāʼ.Contents: 18. Fol. 43b-46b: Sharḥ khuṭbat al-ZawrāʼContents: 19. Fol. 47a-56a: al-Ḥawrāʼ ʻalá al-ZawrāʼContents: 20. Fol. 56b-63a: Sharḥ al-dāʼirah al-ḤindīyahContents: 21. Fol. 63b-64a: Risālah fī ḥall al-taʼrīkh.Contents: 22. Fol. 64a-64b: Risālah fī al-gharaḍ wa-al-ghāyahContents: 23. Fol. 65a: an inscription concerning verses (in a risālah) coined by Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān (d. 1586?)Contents: 24. Fol. 65b-71b: blankContents: 25. Fol. 72a-80b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-kalām fī mawqif al-maʼmūm wa-al-imām.Contents: 26. Fol. 81a-84a: blankContents: 27. Fol. 84b-86a: Şeyhülislam hazretlerine maruz-i fakir (in Ottoman).Contents: 28. Fol. 86b-88b: blankContents: 29. Fol. 89a-90a: Taʻlīqah ʻalá qānūn al-khabr min al-miftāḥ lil-ʻAfīf title from the table of contents.Contents: 30. Fol. 90b-91a: blankContents: 31. Fol. 91b: a short paragraph containing a list of excerpts from a number of different worksContents: 32. Fol. 92a-92b: blankContents: 33. Fol. 93a-93b: Qānūn al-khabr min miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.Contents: 34. Fol. 94a-95b: blankContents: 35. Fol. 96a: a short text on ʻilm al-uṣūlContents: 36. Fol. 96b: a recipe (in Ottoman)Contents: 37. Fol. 97a-99a: blankContents: 38. Fol. 99b-112a: Esrârname title from the table of contents; the text is a risālah (in Ottoman) in metaphysics, and includes commentaries on a selection of ḥadīthContents: 38. Fol. 112b-116b: blankContents: 39. Fol. 117a-123a: al-Tanbīh ʻalá ghalaṭ al-ḥāmil wa-al-nabīhContents: "40. Fol. 123a-125a: al-ʻIddah fī al-nisāʼ wa-al-rijāl title from the table of contents; the text (in Ottoman) is an exposition by Ebussuud Efendi on the 'waiting time' between marriages"Contents: '41. Fol. 126a: a short text in tafsīr'Contents: 42. Fol. 126b: Fawāʼid Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ.Contents: 43. Fol. 127a-129a: blankMs. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Written surface varies. Catchwords present in most texts. Glazed European paper. An ownership signature, accompanied by a seal, in the name of Molla Sayyid Mehmet "protected by" Lalaʹzade on fol. 1a.
Abstract: Collection of texts on time-keeping and the use of various astronomical instruments. The volume consists of two distinct parts. The first part (fol. 1-20) contains a text in Ottoman Turkish copied in Edirne in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667. The second part (fol. 21-124) contains several texts in Arabic copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī, Egypt ("al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533, except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown leather and marbled paper.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-18b: Teshil ül-mikât Tasʹhīl al-mīqāt / Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī al-muwaqqit.Contents: 2. fol. 19a-20b: Several inscriptions and tables.Contents: 3. fol. 21a-25a : Muqaddimah fī maʻrifat al-ḥudūd / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 4. fol. 25b-34b: Risālat laqṭ al-jawāhir fī maʻrifat al-dawāʾir / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 5. fol. 35a-43a: al-Risālah al-gharbanīyah(?) fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 6. fol. 43b-44a: Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-taqwīm bi-ṭarīq al-ḥisāb.Contents: 7. fol. 45b-51b: Muqaddimah ʻalá al-rubʻ al-shamālī al-kāmil / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 8. fol. 52a-61a: ʻUmdat dhawī al-albāb fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-aʻmāl al-falakīyah bi-al-ḥisāb wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb / Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī.Contents: 9. fol. 62b-65a: Risālah āfāqīyah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-nisbah al-sittīnīyah.Contents: 10. fol. 65b-66b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ṭūl al-balad.Contents: 11. fol. 67a-73a: Risālat Niṣf dāʾirat al-muʻaddil / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī.Contents: 12. fol. 73b-75b: Fāʾidah Hādhihi al-thalāthah al-abwāb min ākhir al-Risālah al-sittīnīyah alladhī ilá al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Māridīnī.Contents: 13. fol. 75b-76a: Dāʾirah of "mā taṣādaqa min al-burūj wa-mā tabāghaḍa wa-mā taṣādaqa min al-nujūm wa-mā tabāghaḍa", with introduction.Contents: 14. fol. 76b: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-ʻulwīyah".Contents: 15. fol. 77a: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-suflīyah".Contents: 16. fol. 78b-96a: Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir / Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī.Contents: 17. fol. 97a-112b: Kitāb al-Luʾluʾ al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 18. al-Waḍʻ ʻalá al-jihāt fī al-basāʾiṭ wa-al-munḥarifāt.Contents: 19. fol. 125b: Verses of poetry in Ottoman Turkish and other inscriptions.Ms. codex.Title from table of contents on fol. (i)a (later hand).Physical description: First text written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 12 lines per page (147 x 80 mm.). Laid European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 300 mm.). The other texts written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, with 13 lines per page (140 x 100 mm.). Yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. Zād al-masāfir has 15 lines per page (fol. 78b-96a). European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 400 mm.). Contains tables and a circular diagram (fol. 76a). Fol. i is a later addition with a table of contents. Fol. 125 is a later addition with inscriptions. Stained with water.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻUlūm riyāḍīyah 32". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1019".Origin: According to colophons, Text 1 copied in Edirne, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667 (fol. 18b). The other texts are copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī (ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Barisī Kū(?) on fol. 66b), Egypt ("bi-al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 1533 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533 (fol. 34b, 66b, 73a, 112b, 113b), except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533 (fol. 94b).
Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 208 x 147 mm leaf [139 x 83 mm written]Foliation: India Office Library foliation in pencil; intermittent previous (erroneous) foliation in pencil, some crossed out or erased; quire marks in Eastern Arabic numerals in red ink throughout (quinions except ff. 70-78, quaternion), mark missing on f. 158r.Ruling:
Misṭarah; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cmScript:
Naskhthroughout except for text on more recent replacement folio (f. 1v,
nastaʻlīq)Ink: Black ink with rubricated headingsDecoration: Two paintings in green, yellow, red and black (ff. 4v-5r and 59r)Binding: India Office binding with marbled boards, fragments of previous spine removed during conservation work are contained in box with manuscriptCondition: Fore-edges repaired with paper at beginning and end of volume; tidemarks to tail edge margins; paint flaking and tears to paper especially at tail edge on ff. 4v-5r.Marginalia: few, except ff. 159v, 163r and 198r.Seals: ff. 2r, 3r and 273v
Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 301 x 174 mm leaf [210 x 115 mm written]Foliation: India Office Library foliation stamped in black inkRuling:
Misṭarah; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cmScript:
Nastaʻlīq; many scribal handsInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and keywords and overlinings in redDecoration: NoneBinding: Modern British Library archival cardboard binding reflecting the previous binding structure, including sewing stations arranged in a V-formation. Previous brown leather binding with marbled doublures and white sticker typed with ‘Delhi Arabic 1941 Arabic III C’, under same shelfmark.Condition: Generally good; rebound. Paper is thin and fragile. Some staining, wormholes and tears.Marginalia: Very few; marginal corrections in the scribal hands and comments in other hands. Some notes erased, see for example f. 230v.Seals: ff. 1r and 319v