Copied A.H. 1149 A.D. 1736 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Bābī.Numb. fols. 254; 22 x 13.3 cm.; written surface 15 x 7.7 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords; with illumination.Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; first page illuminated with gold; ruled marginal lines in gold on first two pages and in red throughout the rest. Text overlined with red. On back of first page and five preceding folios occurs a table of contents. MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
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: Commentary on al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah, a work on logic by Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī (d. 675/1277), preceded on fol. 2-9 by a gloss on the introduction (khuṭbah) of the commentary by Walī al-Dīn al-Qaramānī (see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3217), written by another hand. The identity of the author of the second text is not clear. ʻAlī al-Samarqandī, thumma al-Qaramānī al-Ḥanafī (d. ca. 860/1456) has a Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah, but his laqab is ʻAlaʼ al-Dīn, and not Walī al-Dīn (see Kaḥḥālah, vol. 7, 261).Binding note: Red and black paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-9a: Sharḥ Khuṭbat Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah lil-ʻallāmah / li-baʻḍ al-fuḍalāʼ added in another hand.Contents: 2. fol. 10a-: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah / min taṣnīf Mawlānā al-ʻallāmah Saʻd al-Millah wa-al-Dīn al-Taftazānī.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1a (later addition).Fol. 2-9 (text 1) written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red to surline the commented text, with 19 lines per page (written surface: 125 x 87 mm.), on soft cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 10-121 (text 2) written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 21 lines per page (written surface: 140 x 88 mm.), on cream paper with laid and chain lines, and pulp visible. Some leaves are later replacements (see fol. 29). Verses of poetry on the title page of text 2 (fol. 10a). Fāʼidah (5 lines) by another hand at the end of text 2 (fol. 121b).Copy of text 2 completed on 28 ("thāmin" added in the margin) Jumādá al-Thānī 841 Dec. 1437 (colophon, fol. 121b).Collation: Paper, fol. 123 ; i (later free endpaper on glazed European paper, with inscription ; fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 1⁸ (text 1) 2-11¹⁰ 12¹² + ii (later free endpaper on glazed European paper with watermark, with inscription on the first recto) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf from the second quire on.Incipit text 1 (fol. 2b): الحمد لله العلي الفياض المنزه افعاله عن العلل والاغراض ... وبعد فهذه تحفة مزجاة الى طلّاب كل زمان ... قال الشارح ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم مستعنيا به او متبركا لهExplicit text 1 (fol. 8b): والايات اعم مطلقا من ذلك اى من المعجز ... نعم ان اريد بالايات ايات القران فهو اخص مطلقا من المعجزات هذا آخر ما ارادنا ايراده وبالله التوفيق للاتمام والله اعلمIncipit text 2 (fol. 10b): الحمد لله الذى بصّرنا بنور الهداية والتوفيق ... وبعد فقد سالنى فرقة من خلّانى ورفقة من خلص اخواني ان اشرح لهم الرسالة الشمسية ... قال الحمد لله اقول لما انعم الله تع عليه بافاضة نفسه الناطقة المتجلية بالعلومExplicit text 2 (fol. 121b): والاعراض الذاتية فانّ الاستقصاء فيها مما لا يليق بهذا الكتاب تم الكتاب
Abstract: Commentary on al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah by Najm al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142).Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind-tooled and gold painted, with a large frame consisting of fillets and a s-shape running pattern (on the lower cover: impressions of a small stamp), and a central panel outlined by a single gold fillet with a scalloped mandorla filled with geometrical blind tooling and gold, and outlined in gold with two gold painted calice pendants on the vertical axis. The inner corners of the frame are demarcated by blind fillets and filled with a small gold tooled motif consisting of three curved lines. Traces of a now wanting envelope flap. Purple dyed paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.18 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh, with Maghribī elements, see the dāl, the fāʼ, and the qāf. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Several inscriptions, including a crossed out ownership statement on fol. 1a.'Inscription "486" in Western numerals in black ink on the pastedown of the upper cover corresponds to Brill\'s list. See HoutsmaM. Th. Catalogue d\'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs appartenant à la maison E. J. Brill à Leideno. 979.'Copy completed on Yawm al-Sabt 1 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 856 April 21, 1452 by Aḥmad al-Maghribī, known as al-Farwī (colophon, fol. 74a).Incipit: الحمد لله المتوحد بجلال ذاته وكمال صفاته ... وبعد فان مبني علم الشرايع والاحكام وفواعد عقايد الاسلام هو علم التوحيد والصفات الموسوم بالكلامExplicit: والكمال فلا دلالة على افضلية الملايكة والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب