Ḥāshiyat Ḥamzah Afandī wa-Ibn Chillī wa-Minqārīʻzādah, [1108, i.e. 1696 or 1697].

Fine copy of three superglosses by Hamza Efendi (d.1712), ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.), and Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (d.1678) each on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī's (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 114Origin: As appears in colophons on p.126 and p.181, transcription of the second and third work finished in 1108 H [1696 or 1697 M]. Copyist for the second and third works may be the author of the statement on the 'title page' (p.1), ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad. All papers suggest 17th century.Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes, etc. (paginated pp.39-40).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 129. Adab al-bahth, with 3 commentaries."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid marbled paper (in salmon, yellow, and green) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; envelope flap in different marbled paper ; sewn in once pink [?] thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and yellow, fair condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, some lifting and losses of leather, envelope flap detaching from fore-edge flap, fore-edge flap ill-fitting (small), some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: European laid paper of roughly three types ; first work supplied on a European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart (horizontal), three circles watermark with initials 'A R' [?] and cross above, only lightly burnished ; second and third works supplied on two papers, one a thick and burnished European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (compare Heawood 1133) the other a European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark ; some staining.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq ; two hands, with first work provided in one hand and second and third works provided in another hand ; both virtually serifless with mainly closed counters and slight effect of words descending to baseline (more exaggerated in second hand) ; some exaggeration in thickness of horizontal strokes (more so in bolder first hand).Layout: Written in 21 and 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V (10), V+1 (21), 4 V(61), I+1 (64), 2 V(84), IV (92) ; chiefly quinions ; leaves left blank between works and at close ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and skips two pages between pp.33-34).Colophon: [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī] "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت الحاشية الشريفة لمولانا عمر بن احمد الجلي الامدي [؟] على حاشية الفتحية في الاداب سنة ۱۱۰۸" ; [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الاوراق بعناية الخلاق سنة ۱۱۰۸ م"Incipit: [Ḥāshiyat Ḥamzah Afandī ] "يا محسنا لمن نادب في مقام العبودية بخير الاداب ويا هاديا لمن جاهد في الطاعات سبيل الصواب ... لما كانت الفوائد مشتهرة بين العلماء ... علقت عليها ما يكشف عن وجوه فرائدها ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī] "يا من وفقنا لاداب البحث والمناظرة في الكلام وعصمنا من الخلل والقصور في تحرير المدعى والمرام ... فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالچلي ان الحاشية الفتحة في الاداب لما كانت لدلتها متوارية عن الاذهاب ... فضمت اليه ما يتمم به النقصان ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah] "الحمد لمن رفع قوله من تأدب لاظهار الصواب ... وبعد فيقول الراجي من ربه الفوز بالسعادة يحيى بن عمر المشتهر بمنقاري زاده تحرير التقرير ان صدرت على اداب مذاكرة الرسالة الحنفية وحاشيتها الفتحية في الاداب ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.6. p.182-p.184 : [blank].5. p.130-p.181 : [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah ʻalá al-Ḥāshīyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / Minkarizade Yahya Efendi.4. p.127-p.129 : [blank].3. p.44-p.126 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.2. p.42-43 : [blank].1. p.1-p.41 : [Ḥāshiyat Ḥamzah Afandī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / Hamza Efendi.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of three superglosses by Hamza Efendi (d.1712), ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.), and Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (d.1678) each on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī's (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 129. Adab al-bahth, with 3 commentaries." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "188" in Western numerals on 'title page' (p.1) ; on blue-tinted paper pasted on ’title page’ (p.1), a detailed waqf statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Adīb (Abdullah Edip), known as Jannatʹzādah (Cennet-zade), qāḍī of Erzurum, accompanied by his seal, reads: "وقفت وقفا صحيحا شرعيا بشرط ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الذي بنيته في اتصال داري ان احتاجوا اشد الاحتياج بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم عفى عنه في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; also on 'title page' (p.1) ownership statement reads "من عواري الزمان ومستودعات الملوان لدى الفقير اليه سبحانه عمر بن محمد احسن الله حالهما والى الفردوس مآلهما بمباركة شرعية ومقابلة مرعية في ۱۱۰۸" ; occasional marginal corrections and glosses