[Jāmiʻ al-wajīz lil-fatāwá al-Bazzāzīyah, 15th or 16th century?].

Fine copy of the compendium of Ḥanafī fatwas from various sources. Detailed table of contents precedes the text (fol.1b-fol.2b/pp.2-4). See Mich. Isl. Ms. 539 for another ms. copy of this work.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 70Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Paper, cover, etc. suggest 15th or 16th century.Accompanying materials: Inserts carrying notes paginated (pp.37-38, pp.39-40).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 29. Decisions of al-Bazzazi."Binding: Pasteboards covered in red brown leather with spine in black leather (repair) ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in European laid paper ; upper cover bears central blind-tooled mandorla without pendants, but carrying diamond and interlace design within (compare Weisweiler 89) and decorative frame with roll-border and blind-stamped floral design ; lower cover bears blind-tooled ornament in the form of an eight-branched star filled with interlace (compare Weisweiler 99-101) ; and decorative frame nearly identical to that of upper cover ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; endbands in red and blue, quite damaged with repairs in cream thread sewn over ; in poor condition with severe abrasion (gashes), staining, splitting and lifting of leather at spine, delamination of boards, loss of flap, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper with chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes, 35-42 mm. between the groups and 8-10 mm. between the chains ; laid lines spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three discs and overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; small, neat Turkish or Persian hand ; virtually serifless ; quite rounded and freely ligatured ; mainly closed counters ; three dots supplied as inverted comma.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: IV (8), VI (20), IV (28), 20 V(228), I (230), 12 V(350), IV (358) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords appear on the final folio of each quire, occasionally lacking or appearing more frequently ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and reverts to p.627 following p.686).Explicit: "لا يعتبر لانه ناطق بحاله وان صمت بعارض فهو كالمريض المعتقل لسانه كذا في المحبوبي والله اعلم والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على محمد واله اجمعين الطيبين الطاهرين"Incipit: "حمدا لمن دعا الى دار السلام بمحمد عليه افضل الصلوة والسلام شارع احكام الاسلام ... وبعد فهذا مختصر في بيان تعريفات الاحكام على وجه الاتقان والاحكام جمعه العبد محمد بن محمد الكردري"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GALFine copy of the compendium of Ḥanafī fatwas from various sources. Detailed table of contents precedes the text (fol.1b-fol.2b/pp.2-4). See Mich. Isl. Ms. 539 for another ms. copy of this work.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. 29. Decisions of al-Bazzazi." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "96" in Western numerals on fol.1a (p.1) ; on blue-tinted paper pasted at on fol.1a (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 الملتصق بداري الا لعلماء سكنوا بارضروم بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم عفى [كذا] في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; numerous notabilia (side-heads) throughout ; occasional marginal corrections and glosses ; thread tabs (as bookmarkers) in blue and red

al-Jāmiʻ al-wajīz fī al-fatāwá, [960, i.e. 1553].

A compendium of Ḥanafī fatwas from various sources; copy in rough condition with extensive page repairs and some loss of text. See Isl. Ms. 70 for another ms. copy.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 539Origin: According to colophon on fol.468b, copied by Yaḥyá ibn ʻAlī al-Saqaṭī al-Mālaqī [?]. Copying completed ("najiza Kitāb al-Jāmiʻ al-wajīz...") 2nd Jumādá II 960 [ca. 16 May 1553].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. a number of scraps with doodles (pen trials?) inserted irregularly at mid-quire in the latter part of the codex (see fol.233b-234a, etc.).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 259" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip); front flyleaf in purple ink "۱٤".Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather with numerous repairs in brown and red leathers; Type II (with flap); present flap may be recycled or restoration, i.e. not original to covers; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces (compare Déroche class. OSd 8 and OSd 9); blind-stamped rosettes on fore-edge flap; blind-stamped geometric border on envelope flap; doublures of dark brown leather, upper doublure inscribed in black ink "احمد بن زين الدين"; interior of flap in woven cloth and marbled paper in green, blue, and yellow; pasted label on spine with shelfmark; in poor condition.Support: primarily non-European (likely Persianate) laid paper with roughly 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible; somewhat thin with many inclusions, cloudy formation, well-burnished, in several places quite worn; flyleaves are of a much later wove paper bearing embossed mark ("imitation watermark") in shape of tabula ansata (30 x 15 mm.) with inscription "اثر جديد عهد همايون" ; this same paper is used for the extensive page repairs and reinforcement throughout.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b, clearly damaged with only trace of upper panel remaining (in gold with red and blue accents, vegetal design); cartouche within lower panel of headpiece carries basmalah on a field of gold; gilt vegetal pattern extends over angular fields of blue and gold on either side of cartouche; bounded with red frame and gold border; frame in gold and blue on incipit page, red rule-borders thereafter throughout; textual dividers in the form of red discs on incipit page and facing page; text rubricated, with section headings, overlines, etc. in red as well as gold, blue, green, and violet; text of headings for rubrication written in margins, though occasionally cut off where page has been trimmed or worn.Script: Naskh; clear hand; sans serif, occasional sweeping tails and descent of words to the baseline; different hand supplies text of fol.440b-445a.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page.Collation: ii, 2 V (20), IV (28), 10 V (128), VI (140), 2 V (160), IV (168), 13 V (298), V+1 (309), IV (317), 9 V (407), IV+1 (416), VI (428), I (430), II (434), VIII (450), IV (458), I (460), IV (469), ii; chiefly quinions; catchwords present; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins on folio following the incipit page with "٢", skips ١۶۶ and count off thereafter; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular/trapezoidal, reads: "نجز كتاب الجامع الوجيز في الفتاوى بحمد الله وعونه في ثاني شهر جمادى الثاني في سنة ستين وتسعماية على يد الفقير الحقير المعترف بالعجز والتقصير الراجي رحمة ربه القدير الواثق بربه المعطي يحيى بن علي السفطي المالقي [؟] حامد الله تعالى وصلى الله على سيدنا ونبينا ومحمد وعلى اله وصحابه وسلم تسليما كثيرا"Explicit: "وصمت بعارض فهو كالمريض المعتقل لسانه كذا في المحبوبي والله اعلم"Incipit: "[حمدا لمن دعا الى دار] السلام بمحمد عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام شارع احكام الاسلام ... وبعد فهذا [مختصر] في بيان تعريفات الاحكام على وجه الاتقان والاحكام جمعه العبد محمد بن محمد الكردري ... كتاب الطهارة"Title from colophon on fol.468b.Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,A compendium of Ḥanafī fatwas from various sources; copy in rough condition with extensive page repairs and some loss of text. See Isl. Ms. 70 for another ms. copy.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.Oval seal impression in black ink on fol.468b, "عبد الرحمن..."; inscription on upper doublure gives name of Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn (الحمد بن زين الدين) ; marginal corrections and notabilia (side-heads) throughout; various signes-de-renvoi employed including inverted caret to mark omissions (see fol.11a); collation mark "بلغ" found in later quires from fol.251b