Kitāb Maṭāliʻ al-masarrāt bi-jalāʼ Dalāʼil al-khayrāt, [late 17th or early 18th century?].

Commentary by Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn Aḥmad al-Fāsī on al-Jazūlī's celebrated collection of prayers for the Prophet, Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 49Origin: Neither place nor date of composition or copying is specified in colophon. Paper, hand, decoration, etc. suggest late 17th or early 18th century. Ownership statement suggests a terminus ante quem of 1701 (or possibly 1691).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 20. Commentary on Dalail al-khairat."Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown goatskin ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and interior of envelope flap in a pale orange (salmon) laid paper ; lining of fore edge flap in green silk ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd7) with annular stamp accents and tooled border of blind rules and a series of roundels ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in white and blue, good condition ; state of preservation is fair to good with some separation of pages (assessment provided by J. Miller).Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced 22-24 mm. apart, and watermarks of grapes (raisin, with stem, parallel to chains, see p.2, 24, 230, 632, 634, etc.) and crown above small cartouche with "M A" flanking four-petaled flour or cross (perpendicular to chains, see p.2, 30, 32, 152, 154, 641, etc. and compare Heawood 2308 dated 1704, without crown but paired with grapes), sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished to glossy ; back flyleaf of laid European paper, chain lines running vertically, with watermark of horn in shield (without crown above).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) on fol.1b with red, blue, and black vegetal designs; bears cartouche carrying title and prayer; gold border on incipit page and facing page (pp.2-3); red rule-borders through remainder of text; text rubricated with matn in red ink, sharḥ in black ink; diagrams showing orientation of tombs of the Prophet, Abū Bakr, and ʻUmar (pp.231-233).Script: Naskh ; angular Egyptian hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless with curvilinear though somewhat flattened descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, slight effect of inclination toward the left ; title in cartouche on fol.1a in nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board evident).Collation: i, 31 V (310), VI (322), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals.Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular then triangular, reads: "هذا اخر ما قصدت وتمام الوعد الذي وعدت ولا ايمن ان اكون اسقطت او حرفت شيا من متن الكتاب سهوا و رحم الله امرا راي خللا ... فان الخطا والخطل غير مستغرب من الانسان المطبوع على عدم الاحسان ... الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا نهتدي لو لا ان هدانا الله والحمدلله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبيه بعده سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين والمرسلين سبحانه ربك رب العزة عما ...والحمدلله رب العالمين ناشدتك الله ان عليك عاينت لي خطا فاستر فان خيار [كذا] الناس من سترا "Explicit: "وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما وهذا اخر الكتاب في النسخة السهلية على ما عند جدي للامام ابي العباس احمد ابن يوسف الفاسي رحمهما الله وغيره عنها كما في غيرها زيادة والحمد لله رب العالمين وزاد في بعض النسخ بعد هذا ... و كتب ايضا الشيخ رضي الله تعالى عنه على ظهر نسخة اخرى هذين البيتين ... وفي رواية معظم هذا اخر ما قضدت ... "Incipit: "يقول العبد الفقير الى الله سبحانه ... محمد المهدي بن احمد بن علي بن يوسف الفاسي ... الحمد لله الذي اختص رسوله محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم بخالص حبه"Title from 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Heawood, Edward. Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries. Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae, vol. I. Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1950.Commentary by Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn Aḥmad al-Fāsī on al-Jazūlī's celebrated collection of prayers for the Prophet, Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on inner front cover, "No. 20. Commentary on Dalail al-khairat." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "115" in Western numerals on recto of front flyleaf ; ownership statement on recto of front flyleaf along with several ownership statements on 'title page' (p.1), including that in name of Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Yanaywī (محمود بن احمد بن محمد الينيوي), teacher in al-Dāwudīyah in Mecca, likely dated 1112 [1700 or 1] (or possibly 1102 [1690 or 91]) with statement indicating the book was purchased in Egypt ("مشترى بمصر") and that of al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh (السيد الحاج عبد الله المفتي بارزنجان), muftī in Erzincan, dated 1146 [1733 or 34] ; waqf statement on p.1 also in name of the aforementioned al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh, reads: "فاسي وقف السيد الحاج عبد الله المفتي بكتبخانه المعمورة بارزنجان سنة 1191"; numerous transcription marks and marginal corrections (see p.15, 262, etc. even referencing a transcript in the hand of the author) as well as notabilia / side-heads (see p.21, 23, etc.)

Sharḥ Majmaʻ al-Baḥrayn, [862, i.e. 1459].

Fine copy of Firişteoğlu's (Firiştezade, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-shahīr bi-Ibn Malak) commentary on Majmaʻ al-Baḥrayn of Ibn al-Sāʻātī (d. 696/1296), a compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar of al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah of al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142). Arranged in two sections within the single volume with leaves between left blank. Second section opens with Kitāb al-Waqf (see p.390). Table of contents provided at opening (pp.2-4) dated 1098 [1686 or 7].Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 80Origin: As appears in colophon on p.388, first section copied by Muḥammad ibn Ḥājj Faraj ibn Amīr ibn Darvīshān [?] with transcription completed ("waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah al-mubārakah...") in Shaʻbān 863 [June-July 1459]. As appears in colophon on p.810, second section copied by Yaʻqūb ibn Saʻādat Yār (یعقوب بن سعادت یار) with date of transcription not specified, though likely contemporary with opening section.Accompanying materials: a. Scrap of European laid paper (portion of three circles watermark visible) carrying text opening "الحمد لله الحمد لله الذي لا مالك للدارين الا هو الخالق الذي لا خالق للكونين الا هول ..." (paginated pp.25-26) -- b. Slip of European laid paper with notes and excerpts (paginated pp.121-122) -- c. Scrap carrying glosses (paginated pp.169-170) -- d. Scrap with notes in Turkish (paginated pp.277-278) -- e. Scrap of European laid paper with notes (paginated pp.355-356) -- f. Scrap of European laid paper with glosses (paginated pp.445-446).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 117. Majma al-bahrain."Binding: Pasteboards coverd in dark brown (to black) leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures, interior of envelope flap, and some repairs (at fore edge flap and spine) in dark red brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled mandorla divided to three fields filled with interlace design, bordered in interlace band and with fleuron pendants faintly visible (compare Weisweiler 89-95), as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and cracking of leather, boards delaminating, moisture damage, spine slant (cocked), etc. ; cover quite ill-fitting (small) ; repairs (see spine, fore edge, etc.) and reinforcements (see lower doublure) in leather and recycled paper (manuscript 'waste').Support: non-European and European laid paper ; opening section mainly in a non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct) and chain lines (vertical) possibly grouped with roughly 15 mm. between the chains (see pp.108/117), sturdy and dense though transluscent, well-burnished, medium cream in color, thread visible in leaf carrying p.213 ; second section mainly in a non-European laid paper with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct) and chain lines (vertical) possibly grouped with roughly 14-17 mm. between chains, some inclusions visible, sturdy, transluscent, well-burnished ; replacement leaves at opening of second section (pp.389-394) and repairs in a later European laid paper with crown-star-crescent watermark visible (see p.394) ; table of contents (dated 1098 [1686 or 7]) on still another paper with different crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.4) ; staining and tide lines ; tears in a few leaves, likely artifact of burnishing process, in some cases lines of text adjusted around tear (see pp.575-575 and 687-688).Decoration: Headings, text being commented upon, etc. rubricated (mainly first section) ; overlining (in red, first section and opening of second section, elsewhere in black) ; some headings set off by rubricated floral or interlace accents (see p.45, 84, etc.), ansae (p.91, 106, etc.) or full rectangular headpieces filled with geometric designs incorporating the word "كتاب" (see pp.116, 146, 162, 203, 262, 276, and 282), chiefly in red and black (or black only).Script: Naskh ; two main Turkish hands, one for each section, with replacement leaves and repairs in still another hand ; main hand of first section virtually sans serif, kāf mabsūṭah preferred, slight effect of slant to left, some swooping descenders, point of final nūn set deep within bowl by which it is often fully encircled, freely ligatured, pointing in both distinct dots and curved strokes ; main hand of second section compact and virtually sans serif, elongated in the vertical, freely ligatured, with curvilinear descenders, pointing in curved strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn set deep within nearly circular bowl.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page (text of final line often entered on the diagonal) ; frame-ruled.Collation: I (2), IV+2 (12), 9 IV(84), IV+1 (93), III (99), IV (107), III (113), 3 IV(137), IV+1 (146), 2 IV(162), III (168), 2 IV(184), IV-2 (190), 4 IV(222), IV+1 (231), 21 IV(399), II-1 (402) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and mistakenly repeats pp.26-27 and skips two pages between pp.415-416).Colophon: [1] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد الاضعف [كذا] العباد واحوجهم الى رحمة الله المعبود محمد بن حاج فرج بن امير بن [؟] درويشان غفر لهم وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المباركة بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه في شهر الله المبارك شعبان في يوم المبارك الثلثاء في وقت الضحوة الكبرى في تاريخ [؟] سنة ثلث وستين وثمانمائة من هجرة النبوية [كذا] صلى الله عليه وسلم ... هر که خواند دعا طمع دارم زان که من بنده گنه کارم" ; [2] "Scribal," reads: "هذا اخر الكلام حرره العبد الضعيف المذنب الراجي الى غفران الله الملك المبارك يعقوب بن سعادت يار غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه"Explicit: "واجازها محمد حملا لكلامه الى الصرف الى مصالحة تصحيحا له"Incipit: "كتاب الطهارة اختار لفظ كتاب على باب لان فيه معنى الجمع يقال كتبت الخيراي جمعت..."Title from inscription on fol.3a (p.5).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of Firişteoğlu's (Firiştezade, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-shahīr bi-Ibn Malak) commentary on Majmaʻ al-Baḥrayn of Ibn al-Sāʻātī (d. 696/1296), a compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar of al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah of al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142). Arranged in two sections within the single volume with leaves between left blank. Second section opens with Kitāb al-Waqf (see p.390). Table of contents provided at opening (pp.2-4) dated 1098 [1686 or 7].Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on inner front cover, "No. 117. Majma al-bahrain." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "61" in Western numerals on fol.1a (p.1) ; on fol.3a (p.5), 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 على ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الذي بنيته في اتصال داري الا لعلماء نفس ارضروم بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; also on fol.3a (p.5) collation statement ("عدد ورق ٣٥٠"), book price and decorative ownership statement beginning "تملكه..." ; on fol.3b (p.6) an oval seal impression "طالب لطف قديم [؟] ابراهيم ٧٢" seemingly dated 1072 [1661 or 2] ; brief waqf statement "وقف" in margins of pp.435, 437, 439, 442, 443, 485, 652) ; marginal corrections, glosses and occasional notabilia ; tail edge inscription (illegible) ; traces of paper label on fore edge flap

[Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn, late 16th century?].

Elegant, richly illustrated copy of Muḥyī al-Dīn Lārī's renowned poetical description of the holy cities Mecca and Medina with a full account of the rites of pilgrimage (ḥajj).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 347Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, style of painting, etc. may suggest late 16th or early 17th century ; dated ownership statement provides terminus ante quem of 1195 [1780 or 81].Former shelfmark: "468 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "222" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost [traces of flap on upper board lining, front flyleaf and opening leaf, damage at fore edge of lower cover]) ; board linings in orange paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, sewing failing with most gatherings loose ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, upper cover detaching, flap lost, etc. ; reinforcements at sewing stations ; ill-fitting (slightly small) and likely not original.Support: non-European laid paper, possibly of more than one type ; 7-9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), curving, quite faint and indistinct in many leaves ; rare single chain lines occasionally visible as short lengths ; sturdy and burnished ; flyleaves in well-burnished European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of "VG" and "F" set among three stylized hats [?].Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with large, empty gold cartouche with flanking domes and swirling floral vegetal motifs in gold, white, orange, red, and blue on grounds of gold and blue, bordered in bands of gold, orange and blue ; written area of incipit page surrounded by frame of heavy red and turquoise [?] bands (here and throughout divisions within defined by black fillets), elsewhere written area surrounded by a faint gold frame with outermost turquoise rule ; keywords, section headings and illustration captions rubricated ; generously illustrated with 8 full-page and 12 half-page paintings in gold, red, turquoise, blue, lavender, yellow, dark green, etc. depicting in Mecca and vicinity: al-Masjid al-Ḥarām (p.38), al-masʻá between al-Ṣafāʼ and al-Marwah (p.41), Jabal Bū Qubays marked "محل شق القمر" (p.43), Sūq al-Layl with the birthplace of the Prophet, ʻAlī and speaking stones (p.44), Mudʻá or sūq al-mudʻá, here marked "مدعا" (p.45), Maʻlā with tombs (most prominently of Khadījah) and pools for the Egyptian and Syrian caravans (p.50), Shubaykah cemetery (p.51), Jabal Nūr with Ghār Ḥirāʼ (p.53), Jabal Thawr with Ghār Hijrat (p.54), ʻArafāt with pilgrim tents, banners and lampstands, Maṭbakh Ādam, Masjid Namīrah, four posts marking the place of the standing ritual, and Syrian, Egyptian and Yemeni maḥāmil (p.61), Muzdalifah (p.64), Minā with the jamarāt, place of the sacrifice, Masjid Khayf, cave where the Prophet was sheltered (غار والمرسلات), etc. (p.68) ; in Medina and vicinity: Jabal Mafraḥ (p.80), the Prophet's mosque / al-Masjid al-Nabawī (p.83), al-Baqīʻ cemetery (p.87), Masjid Qubā (p.88), Four mosques and the two-qiblah Mosque (p.90), Jabal Uḥud (p.91) and in Jerusalem: al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf (p.93) with al-Masjid al-Aqṣá, Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah, etc. and a sandal of the Prophet (p.94).Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 5 IV(40), IV-1 (47), i ; exclusively quaternions (final anomalous) ; on pp.74-75 written area framed but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "صل علی روضۀ خیر الانام خاتمه نسخه برین شد تمام تم تم تم تم تم تم تم تم تم"Incipit: "اى همه کس را بدرت التجا کعبۀ دل را ز تو نور و صفا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Cat. Pers. MSS. Brit. Mus.,Milstein, Rachel. "Futuh-i Haramayn: sixteenth-century illustrations of the Hajj route." In Mamluk and Ottoman Studies in Honour of Michael Winter. Eds., David J. Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon (London and New York, 2006):Fisher, Carol G. and Alan Fisher. "Illustrations of Mecca and Medina in Islamic Manuscripts." In Islamic art from Michigan collections. Eds. Carol G. Fisher and Alan Fisher (East Lansing, MI, 1982):Elegant, richly illustrated copy of Muḥyī al-Dīn Lārī's renowned poetical description of the holy cities Mecca and Medina with a full account of the rites of pilgrimage (ḥajj).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Inscriptions in pencil on front flyleaf "468 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "255" ; several former owners' marks on 'title page' (p.1) including ownership statement of former owner Ali Paşa ( على پاشا ) accompanied by large circular seal impression in name of Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Khādim ( حسين بن محمد الحسينى الخادم ) who likely entered the statement (reads "من جمله كتب المرحوم على پاشا حرره تراب العتبه الرضويه"), as well as small octagonal seal impression in name of one ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ( عبد الرحمن ) possibly dated 1103 [1691 or 2], and ownership statement dated 1195 [1780 or 81] in name of Muḥammad Yamanī [Yumná ?] ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAlī ( محمد يمنى بن محمد بن الحاج على ) accompanied by oval seal impression in his name ( محمد يمنى ) dated 1185 [1771 or 2] ; relatively clean copy

Kitāb al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah wa-yalīhi al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah, [1155, i.e. 1742 and 1135, i.e. 1723].

Fine Maghribī copy of a collection of works on Mālikī law, opening with a collection of legal decisions attributed to Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī (d.1038), followed by a work of Mālikī fiqh in the same hand opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ, itself followed by Bāb nadb al-ghars or al-Mughārasah from al-Mukhtaṣar, the renowned compendium of Mālikī law by Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (d.1365), and concluding with a commentary on that very work, namely al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī (d.1685).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 659Origin: As appears in colophon on p.43, opening work copied by al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Qāsim ( الحسين بن ابي القاسم ) with transcription completed 26 Rajab 1155 [ca. 26 September 1742] (date provided in ghubār numerals). As appears in colophon on p.130, final work copied for himself by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Saʻd ibn ʻAlī al-Jazāʼirī al-Mālikī al-Ashʻarī al-Baṣrī (احمد بن عبد العزيز بن سعد بن علي الجزائري المالكي الاشعري البصري ) with transcription completed with seven days left in Shaʻbān 1135 [ca. 29 May 1723] (date provided in ghubār numerals).Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on lower cover, "IL 334" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in coated orange paper with black cloth over spine (quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; exposed boards untinted, hinges in blue paper ; sewn in heavy white thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, minor delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper of two main types ; through p.58, type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 31-32 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of triple mount with cross above (see p.8, 12, 13, 18, etc.) and initials [?] in circle (see p.16, etc. and compare Monts - Trois monts imbriqués nos.9 and 9A in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans), sturdy and well-burnished ; from p.59 through close, type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.74, 80, etc.), thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Maghribī ; two main hands ; opening hand (through p.58, supplying bulk of first two works) compact and somewhat angular ; hand supplying final two works (from p.59) more uniform ; both with inclination to the right, sweeping descenders, etc. ; occasionally vocalized.Layout: Written in 31 and 29 lines per page.Collation: i, VI+2 (14), III (20), III+3 (29), 3 VI(65) ; sexternions [senions] and ternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips added 'title page').Colophon: [al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah] "Scribal," reads "انتهى ما اختصره ابو الفاسي رحمه الله من دواوين المالكية رضي الله عنهم على يد عبيد الله سبحانه الحسين ابن ابي القاسم غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاشياخه ولاخوانه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات الاحياء منهم والاموات ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم عام ١١۶۶ في شهر الله المعظم رجب الفرد بعد ان خلت منه ستة وعشرين ... والحمد لله رب العالمين" ; [al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "كملت المغارسة بحمد الله وحسن عونه على يد ناسخها لنفسه ثم لمن شاء الله في بعده العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير الراجي عفو ربه وغفرانه احمد بن عبد العزيز بن سعد بن علي الجزائري الاصل والمنشأ المالكي مذهبا الاشعري اعتقادا البصري اعرابا غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاشياخه ولوالديهم ولجميع المسلمين ووافق الفراغ منها ضحوة يوم الجمعة لسبع بقين من شهر الله المعظم شعبان من عام ۱۱3۶ عرفنا الله خيره وسلام على جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: [al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah] "قال الشيخ ابو عمران الفاسي رضي الله عنه هذا ما اختصرنا من الدواوين دون التطويل من المسائل [مسائل] المدونة مسئلة في تزويج المراة بعد الوقوع والنزول ..." ; [Kitāb al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "فيقول العبد الفقير الى الله ... عبد الرحمن بن عبد القادر ... الحمد لله الملك القديم العالم العلي العظيم الاكرم الكريم الرحمن الرحيم الخبير الحليم ... وبعد فلما كان باب المغارسة من جملة ما ينبغي للمؤلفين المختصرين ان يتعرضوا له ... طلب مني بعض اخواننا ... ان اجمع في الباب مسائل جملة [؟] وان اذكر في ذلك احكاما مهمة ... ولما لخصته وهذبته ودرجته وقربته ظهر ان اسميه بالتيسير والتسهيل في ذكر ما اغفله الشيخ خليل من احكام المغارسة والتوليح والتصيير ..."Title from added 'title page' (flyleaf).Ms. composite codex.4. p.60-p.130 : al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr / Abū Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī.3. p.59-p.60 : [Bāb nadb al-ghars from Mukhtaṣar Khalīl] / Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī.2. p.44-p.58 : [book on fiqh opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ].1. p.1-p.43 : al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah / Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī.Velkov, Asparouh. Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans: divers types d’images. Sofia: Éditions "Texte - A. Trayanov", 2005.University of Michigan Library. Manuscripts & papyri : an exhibition arranged for the XXVII International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 13-19, 1967. (Ann Arbor, MI [?], 1967),Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine Maghribī copy of a collection of works on Mālikī law, opening with a collection of legal decisions attributed to Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī (d.1038), followed by a work of Mālikī fiqh in the same hand opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ, itself followed by Bāb nadb al-ghars or al-Mughārasah from al-Mukhtaṣar, the renowned compendium of Mālikī law by Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (d.1365), and concluding with a commentary on that very work, namely al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī (d.1685).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.Occasional marginal corrections ; occasional notabilia (side-heads) often marked "قف"