Kitāb Sharḥ al-ʻUjālah al-sanīyah ʻalá Alfīyat al-sīrah al-Nabawīyah, [1120?, i.e. 1708?].

Fine (though damaged) copy of the commentary on Alfīyat al-sīrah al-Nabawīyah, or Naẓm al-durar al-sanīyah fī al-siyar al-zakīyah, a biography of the Prophet in verse, by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻIrāqī (d.1404).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 598Origin: As appears in colophon on p.282, completed 10 Ramaḍān 1120 [ca. 23 November 1708] (likely referring to transcription of replacements, though possibly referencing the original transcription or even a misreading of the date of composition) ; paper in bulk of codex suggests 18th century transcription.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip (on recycled card) in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 205" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla, pendants and cornerpieces (each filled with vegetal composition), along with tooled rosette accents and border in a series of s-shaped stamps flanked by rules ; sewn in pink thread, two stations, mainly gone ; textblock completely detached (or perhaps never attached, ill-fitting and likely not original), cover serves more as a wrapper ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion and lifting of leather, some pest damage, etc.Support: European laid paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (horizontal), grapes with name "B GAILLIARDON" and crown above (see pp.30-31, compare Raisin no.30 A, pp.28-29, 387 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans, appearing in a ms. transcribed in Istanbul, 1749) ; quite thin though sturdy, fairly transluscent, dark cream in color ; replacement leaves (see pp.41-80, 279-282) in brown wove paper ; extensive pest damage ; many repairs in same wove paper as replacements.Decoration: Keywords, text being commented upon, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; elegant 'Syrian' or Egyptian hand [?] in a thin to medium line ; partially seriffed with small right-sloping head-serifs appearing irregularly on free-standing alif and lām, elongation of horizontal strokes, exaggerated thickness of some horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in conjoined dots or strokes (stroke for three dots looking like reversed hamzah), final nūn with dot set deep in bowl, kāf often written as vertical stroke with miniature kāf (looking like hamzah) seated above,free assimilation of letters ; replacement sections supplied in a different, possibly Egyptian hand (see pp.41-80, 279-282).Layout: Written mainly in 25 lines per page ; mainly single column, but divided to two column to set off poetry.Collation: 13 V(130), V-1 (139), I (141) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "نجز شرح الفية الحافظ عبد الرحيم العراقي في سيرة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم للشرف عبد الروف المناوي قرن مصر [العصر؟] يوم السبت العاشر من شهر رمضان المعظم سنة عشرين ومائة والف بحمد الله وعونه تم رضي الله تعالى عنه ونفعنا به وبعلومه امين امين تم"Explicit: "وقول الناظم والولي بشد الياء اي الناصر وال فيه للاستفراق اي وعلى كل الانصار والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم بالصواب وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا دائما ابدا ... والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرح الصدور بنظم شمل الاسلام وسيرته ... وبعد فهذه عجالة سنية على الفية السيرة النبوية الحاوية مع ذلك للمعجزات والخصائص المصطوفية نظم جدنا الاعلى من قبل الام زين الاسلام حافظ مصر والحرمين والشام عبد الرحيم العراقي الشافعي رحمه الله ..."Title from 'title page' (p.1) and opening matter (preface) on p.2.Ms. codex.Velkov, Asparouh. Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans: divers types d'images. Sofia: Éditions "Texte - A. Trayanov", 2005.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kahshf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine (though damaged) copy of the commentary on Alfīyat al-sīrah al-Nabawīyah, or Naẓm al-durar al-sanīyah fī al-siyar al-zakīyah, a biography of the Prophet in verse, by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻIrāqī (d.1404).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.Possible former owners' mark on upper board lining in name of Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir ( شيخ احمد بن شيخ عبد القادر ) ; effaced statement on 'title page' (p.1) ; glosses and marginal corrections ; some notabilia (side heads)

Kitāb Tawḍīḥ Fatḥ al-Raʼūf al-mujīb bi-sharḥ Unmūdhaj al-labīb fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-Ḥabīb, [1078, i.e. 1667].

Fine copy of ʻAbd al-Raʼūf Ibn al-Munāwī's (d.1621) revision of his commentary Fatḥ al-Raʼūf al-mujīb on Unmūdhaj al-labīb fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-ḥabīb (also known as al-Khaṣāʼṣ al-ṣughrá), al-Suyūṭī's (d.1505) abridgment of his own Kifāyat al-labīb fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-ḥabīb (known as al-Khaṣāʼiṣ al-kubrá) on the virtues and distinctive attributes of the Prophet.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 954Origin: As appears in colophon on p.586, transcription completed 15 Ṣafar 1078 [ca. 6 August 1667].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 103Binding: Boards covered in textured blue cloth with blue leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "شرح انموذج اللبيب" ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.10, 11, 72, 73, etc.), and "AD" countermark (see p.454), medium cream in color, sturdy though fairly crisp, well-burnished to glossy ; staining.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas (mainly in red) ; a few marginal glosses in decorative shapes.Script: Naskh ; clear Egyptian hand in a medium to bold line ; mainly serifless with effect of slight inclination to the left or right (varies from one to the other), curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, pointing in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah usually pointed as yāʼ, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf), final nūn quite round with dot set deep in bowl.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V (10), V+1 (21), 23 V(251), IV+2 (261), 3 V(291), II (295), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (occasionally added in pink, see p.40, 88, etc.) ; quire numbering in the form of full words, though seemingly intentionally obscured by loss of a small portion of the upper outer corner of the opening recto of nearly every quire ; pagination in blue ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with incipit page) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.553-554).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من رقم هذا الكتاب المبارك يوم السبت المبارك خامس عشر صفر الخير من شهور سنة ثمان وسبعين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وسلم ورضي الله عن اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين امين"Explicit: "فهو لم يفعل ما نهي عنه حتى يحتاج الى الاعتذار بذلك والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي تفضل بارسال الرسل لبيان المعاش والمعاد ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف الراجي عفو الرب الرؤوف اللطيف محمد المدعو عبد الرؤوف ابن المناوي الحدادي ... اني شرحت فيما مضى كتاب انوذج اللبيب في خصائص الحبيب للحافظ الكبير الامام الشهير الجلال السيوطي ... شرحا اقتصرت فيه على حل الفاظه وايراد الدليل ... فاطلع عليه بعض من غلب عليه داء الحسد وحب التغليط واللدد وقال ان الشرح المذكور لم يكشف النقاب عن اسرار الكتاب ... فلما بلغني ما ذكره هذا الحاسد المتحامل والغبي الجاهل بادرت للشروع في هذا الشرح على عجل ... وهو في الحقيقة كالشرح للاول ... وسميته توضيح فتح الرؤوف المجيب بشرح انموذج اللبيب ..."Title from 'title page' inscription on p.1 and opening matter on p.3.Ms. codex.Hamdan, Abdelhamid Saleh. "al-Munāwī, ʿAbd al-Raʾūf b. Tād̲j̲ al-ʿĀrifīn b. ʿAlī b. Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn b. Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad, called Zayn al-Dīn al-Ḥaddādī al-Munāwī al- Ḳāhirī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī." In EI2,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of ʻAbd al-Raʼūf Ibn al-Munāwī's (d.1621) revision of his commentary Fatḥ al-Raʼūf al-mujīb on Unmūdhaj al-labīb fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-ḥabīb (also known as al-Khaṣāʼṣ al-ṣughrá), al-Suyūṭī's (d.1505) abridgment of his own Kifāyat al-labīb fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-ḥabīb (known as al-Khaṣāʼiṣ al-kubrá) on the virtues and distinctive attributes of the Prophet.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory numbers, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 7784" ; partially effaced waqf statement on 'title page' (p.1) in name of Muḥammad Bayyūmī ( محمد بيومي ) ; brief waqf statement "وقف لله تعالى" repeated throughout volume (opening recto of every quire) though mainly effaced ; ownership statement and circular seal impression only partially visible on 'title page' (p.1) ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; marginal glosses (some arranged decoratively in curves and geometric shapes, see p.116, 117, 119, etc.)

Hādhā Kitāb Kunūz al-ḥaqāʼiq fī ḥadīth Khayr al-khalāʼiq, [1273, i.e. 1857].

Careful copy of a compilation of 10,000 ḥadīth from the major collections assembled by ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Tāj al-ʻĀrifīn al-Munāwī (d.1621).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1002Origin: As appears in colophon on p.207, copied by ʻAlī al-Batanūnī al-Mālikī with transcription completed 24 Jumādá II 1273 [ca. 19 February 1857].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 151Binding: Boards covered in black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "كنوز الحقائق" ; sewn in white thread, five stations ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion.Support: European (specifically Venetian made by the Galvani firm) laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of crescent with face (human profile) in shield (see pp.4, 96, 208, etc. and compare Walz, The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan, 88-9) and countermark of "V G" (see pp.2, 22, 92, 206, etc.), quite sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished ; some cockling and staining.Decoration: Headings, keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; compact, somewhat angular Egyptian hand in a medium line ; partially though irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional alif, effect of tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, closed and open counters, pointing mainly in distinct dots (though three dots often represented by stroke looking like inverted comma), alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred.Layout: Written mainly in 25 lines per page divided to two columns (a layout which the copyist took to be intended by the author, see note in colophon on p.207) ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 4 V(40), VI (52), 4 V(92), VI (104), i ; quinions alternating with senions in a regular pattern exemplary of the deliberation of the copyist who describes the discrepancy in number of quires between his copy and the exemplar from which he copied (i.e. the exemplar had ten additional quires due to that copyist not including two ḥadīth per line) in a note in the colophon (see p.207) ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals under letter kāf in upper outer corner of recto of opening leaf of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," mainly triangular, reads "هذا وقد وجدت النسخة التي نقلت منها زائدة على عشرة كراريس وسبب الزيادة ان الكتاب ربما كتب حديثا في سطر واحد مع ان غرض المؤلف ليس كذلك ولا سيما التراجم التي للحروف فانها اخذت نحو ورقة وبالجملة لو تحري الكاتب كتابة كل حديثين في سطر كما نيه عليه المؤلف اول الكتاب لم تزد النسخة على عشرة كراريس الا التراجم ونصف ورقة في الاول ونصف ورقة في الاخر هذا ووافق فراغ نسخه ليلة الخميس لست ليالي بقين من شهر جمادى الاخر او سبعة منه سنة الف ومائتين وثلاث وسبعين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم لعفوه علي البتنوني المالكي عفي عنه بمنه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم كمل الكتاب تكاملت ..."Explicit: "اليوم الموعود يوم القيامة ت اليوم انتقصت العرب ملك العجم خ وهذا اوان الفراغ من اعادة نظم غرره واجادة استحكام نسج نقوش درره بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والله الموفق للصواب واليه المرجع والمآب وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العظيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي كسى اهل الحديث رداء الشرف في كل اقليم ورفع شأنهم واعلى ذكرهم في كل حديث وقديم ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير القائم على قدم التقصير عبد الرؤوف المناوي هذا كتاب عجاب من تأمله رحلت عليه المسرة من كل باب جمعت فيه زهاء عشرة الاف حديث في عشرة كراريس كل كراس الف حديث في كل ورقة مائة حديث تقرأ بالعرض على العادة وفي نصف العرض بالطول ومن اعلى الى الاسفل ومن اسفل الى اعلى كل نصف مسطر مستقل بنفسه ورتبته على حروف المعجم ليسهل تناوله على العرب والعجم ... وسميته كنوز الحقائق في حديث خير الخلائق ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Walz, Terence. "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The Trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011):Hamdan, Abdelhamid Saleh. " al-Munāwī." In EI2Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of a compilation of 10,000 ḥadīth from the major collections assembled by ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Tāj al-ʻĀrifīn al-Munāwī (d.1621).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 8584" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; scribal verses following colophon on p.207, begin with "كمل الكتاب تكاملت ..." ; occasional glosses and many marginal corrections with signes de renvoi in the hand of the copyist

ʿABD AL-RAʾŪF IBN TĀǦ AL-ʿĀRIFĪN AL-MUNĀWĪ. al-Taysīr bi-šarḥ al-Ǧāmiʿ al-ṣaġīr.

Ǧāmiʿ (al-) al-ṣaġīr. CommentaireTaysīr (at-) bi-ššarḥ al-Ǧāmiʿ aṣ-ṣaġīrالتيسير بشرح الجامع الصغيرالجامع الصغير . شرحInc. (ms. 768, f. 1 v) : السموات و الأرض ... وبعد فإنيّ لما شرحت فيما مضى الجامع الصغير من حديث البشير النذير كوى قلب الحاسد لما استوى الحمد لله الذي علمنا من تأويل الأحاديث فاطر Exp. (ms. 769, f. 342) : حديث موسى بن عبيدة وهو ضعيف انتهى والله سبحانه وتعلى أعلم من أبي هريرة قال غريب لا نعرفه إلاّ من BROCKELMANN (C), Geschichte der arabischen Literatur, II2, 186 [56, Cmt. e] ; II, 184 ; SARKIS, 1899. Copie anonyme achevée le 12 ǧumādā II 1183 de l'hégire (ms. 769, f. 342).Ḫuṭba de Belqāsim ʿAzzūm (ms. 769, f. 342 v)

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Contient : Opuscule ; Opuscule ; al-Muṯallaṯ QUṬRUB IBN AḤMAD ; MUḤAMMAD IBN ʿALĪ, dit ABŪ MIQRAʿ ; AḤMAD IBN AḤMAD AL-BURNUSĪ, dit ZARRŪQ ; Kayfiyyat al-duʿāʾ bi-asmāʾ Allāh al-ḥusnā SĪDI MUḤAMMAD IBN ʿABBĀD ; MUḤAMMAD AL-NĀBIĠA IBN ʿUMAR AL-ĠALLĀWĪ AL-ŠINĞĪṬĪ ; MUḤAMMAD IBN UBBA IBN IḤMAYD AL-MUZAMMIRĪ ; [YŪSUF IBN MUḤAMMAD AL-NAḤWĪ AL-TAWZARĪ] ; Commentaire ; Faḍāʾil niṣf Šaʿbān NAĞM AL-DĪN IBN AḤMAD AL-ĠAYṬĪ ; Nūr al-iqtibās min miškāt waṣiyyat al-Nabī li-Ibn ʿAbbās ʿABD AL-RAḤMĀN IBN RAĞAB ; MUḤAMMAD ʿABD AL-RAʾŪF IBN AL-MUNĀWĪ AL-ḤADDĀDĪ ; Fragments et textes courts en proseNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution