al-Jāmi al-ṣaḥīḥ.

Vol. 4 edited by Th. W. Juynboll.Added t.p.: Le Recueil des traditions mahométanes par Abou A̧bdallah Mohammed ibn Ismaîl el-Bokhâri. Publie par M. Ludolf Krehl.Mode of access: Internet

Muqaddimat al-Ṭirāz al-manqūsh fī maḥāsin al-Ḥubūsh, [17th century?].

Fine copy of the treatise in prose and verse on the eminence of the Ethiopians (Abyssinians, Ḥubūsh).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 592Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. suggest 17th century. Ownership statement on 'title page' suggest rough terminus ante quem of 1723.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover, "IL 239a" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in shades of brown and blue with pink and yellow accents) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; worked endbands in pink and beige, only traces remain ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, staining, some lifting and losses of paper and leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart, and anchor in circle watermark (see pp.52-53) ; sturdy, not especially thick, well-burnished to glossy ; staining and some pest damage.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs and inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish or 'Syrian' hand with slight effect of tilt to the left, thickness and elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, mainly curvilinear descenders (though some more rectilinear, i.e. rāʼ), rightward descenders tapered, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf).Layout: Written in 19 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off verses ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 V(60), III-1 (65), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Explicit: "وقال بعضهم وبي ذا الرشا الحبشي المي سبي عقلي وكلمني طلامه [؟] ويتم مهجتي لكن بشرط وكان الشرط اخره سلامه تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب والحمد لله وحده"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان صلصال من حماء مسنون وفضل بعضه عن بعض فهم بذلك يتقاوتون ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفير الى الله الصمد علاء الدين محمد بن عبد الباقي البخاري القاضي خاني المكي خطيب المدينة المنورة سابقا ... نسخ لي في هذه الايام الشريفة ... اعي عام احد وتسعين وتسعمائة من الهجرة النبوية ان الف رسالة يستدل بها على فضل الحبوش ... فكنت التقط الفرائد من مناقبهم واجمع الفوائد من محاسنهم مما جاء في ذلك الاحاديث الشريفة والآيات والفوائض اللطيفة والابيات الى ان طفرت برسالتي الشيخ ... جلال الدين السيوطي ... واستغنيت بهما عن سائر الكتب والعدد وانتخبت من احاديثهما ما لا بد منه في المطلوب واضفته الي ما قد كان عندي من مكتوب فصارت بفضل الله تعالى من احسن الرسائل وانفع الوسائل وسميتها بالطراز المنقوش في محاسن الحبوش ..."Title from 'title page' (p.3) and opening matter (preface) on p.6.Ms. codex.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),Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the treatise in prose and verse on the eminence of the Ethiopians (Abyssinians, Ḥubūsh).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by his younger brother, the famous Orientalist and manuscript collector Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951).Virtually effaced ownership statement on 'title page' (p.3) dated 1126 [1714] or 1136 [1723 or 4] ; another ownership statement on 'title page' (p.3) in name of Aḥmad Rāshid al-Maʻarrī [?] ( احمد راشد المعري ) ; occasional marginal corrections ; following close of text on p.132 (originally left blank), instructions under the heading "باب محبة وقبول عجيب" for inflaming love in another person's heart and bringing love between two people using an egg which should be washed, inscribed with a charm (magical formula), wrapped in a rag, and buried

[Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn, 17th century].

Fine copy of the commentary by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mubārakshāh al-Bukhārī (d. ca. 740/1340) on Ḥikmat al-ʻayn, the work of metaphysics and natural sciences by Najm al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Kātibī al-Qazwīnī (d. 657/1276). Ends abruptly in "al-Baḥth al-thālith fī ithbāt al-nafs al-nāṭiqah".Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 121Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests latter 17th century (post 1650).Accompanying materials: Slip with writing exercises (paginated pp.121-122).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 66. Hikmat al-ain, with commentary."Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in beige laid paper ; doublure hinges in brown leather ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla and pendants with floral vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OSd 1), accompanied by border in tooled fillets framing a series of s-shaped stamps ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations, though most quires are quite loose ; worked endbands in red and green, in poor condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, some lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; numerous repairs in tan leather ; quite ill-fitting and perhaps originally intended for a smaller codex.Support: European laid paper with 14-15 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced roughly 24 mm. apart (horizontal) ; foolscap watermark (similar to Heawood 2022) ; fairly thick and burnished ; two added bifiolia (see pp.105-108 and pp.159-162) in a different European laid paper ; much tearing, staining, and moisture damage.Decoration: Section headings, keywords, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; bold Turkish (?) hand with Persianate features ; virtually serifless ; both open and closed counters ; tapered descenders ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred with shaqq appearing even on final kāf ; lām alif ligature in which the tail of the lām curves around and descends to form the alif, terminating at the base of the lām and thus forming a closed loop ; dot of final nūn set low in bowl ; pointing mainly in bold distinct dots ; occasionally two dots appear as inverted comma ; rounded but upright ; mainly adhering to baseline but occasional descent letters or words to baseline.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: 6 IV (48), V (58), 2 IV(74), V (84), 10 IV (164) ; chiefly quaternions ; final word of last line of verso repeated at the beginning of the first line on following recto, but lacking in some sections ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and mistakenly skips two pages between pp.195-196).Explicit: "وان اردتم ما لا يتقسم الى اجزاء مختلفة بل متشابهة"Incipit: "اما بعد حمدا لله فاطر ذوات العقول النورية ومظهر خفيات اسرار الربوبية ... فان المولى العلامة ملك المحققين افضل المتاخرين شمس الملة والدين محمد بن المباركشاه البخاري ... يقول قد التمس مني بعض اخواني في الدين ... ان اكتب لكتاب حكمة العين ... شرحا يذلل من الالفاظ صعابها ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the commentary by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mubārakshāh al-Bukhārī (d. ca. 740/1340) on Ḥikmat al-ʻayn, the work of metaphysics and natural sciences by Najm al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Kātibī al-Qazwīnī (d. 657/1276). Ends abruptly in "al-Baḥth al-thālith fī ithbāt al-nafs al-nāṭiqah".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. 66. Hikmat al-ain, with commentary." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "368" 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 على 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 في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; seal of Solomon inscription (with greatest name of God / al-Ism al-Aʻẓam) and kabīkaj invocation on 'title page' (p.1) ; includes interlinear and extensive marginal glosses ; occasional corrections

al-Niṣf al-awwal min Kitāb al-Jāmiʻ al-Ṣaḥīḥ, [early to mid 18th century?].

Fine, large-format copy of the first half of the Ṣaḥīḥ, al-Bukhārī's celebrated collection of traditions.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 17Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.444a (p.909) copied by ʻAlī bin ʻAlī al-Kutubī. Date of transcription not specified. Paper may suggest early to mid 18th century. Compare D-Dl Mus.3154-D-1 and D-Dl Mus.3154-D-5, autographs of Antonio Duni dated 1744 and 1746 (cf Répertoire International of the Sources Musicales = RISM and CatChiesa 1765) and consider A 3 marks in Velkov and Andreev, Filigranes dans les documents ottomans. I Trois croissants (p.62).Accompanying materials: Several slips and scraps with excerpts, glosses, pen trials, etc. numbered by paginator (pp.39-40, pp.125-126, pp.391-392, pp.545-546, pp.663-664, pp.679-680, pp.715-716, pp.771-772, pp.819-820).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 51. Sahih of Bukhari, vol.i."Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan brown leather (goat) ; Type II binding (with flap) though more of a wrapper ; doublures, flap lining, and spine lining in a fine illuminated block-stamped pattern, grid of squares with small rosette and vegetal designs in alternating squares ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped, scalloped mandorla with vegetal decoration (compare Déroche class. OAi 4) and pendants, blind-stamped scalloped lozenges with vegetal decoration (compare Déroche class. OSd 5) as corner pieces accompanied by pendant accents, and gold-painted roll border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps ; composed of loose quires, not affixed to one another or to cover (wrapper), each quire individually sewn in yellow, rose or red thread, four stations ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of three crescents / tre lune (perpendicular to chains, 78 mm long, see p.1, 12, 134, etc) with countermark "A F 3" (or "A F Z") under trefoil with F slightly raised (see p.6, 8, 136, etc) ; fairly thick and well-burninshed ; first leaf fully detached.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) on fol.1b (p.1) consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular piece (dome) ; rectangular piece carries empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in gold, red, and green on fields of blue ; semi-circular piece is filled with floral vegetal pattern in gold, white, light blue, pink, yellow and red on fields of blue and green, bordered in gold, green, and red and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents ; entire headpiece is set in a well of interlace in black and white ; written area of incipit and facing page bordered in frame consisting of alternating gold bands and red, green, and gold fillets ; elsewhere throughout written area is surrounded by rule-border consisting of red and blue fillets ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas ; text rubricated with keywords ("حدثنا", "باب", etc.), section headings, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Egyptian or Ḥijāzī hand [?] hand ; virtually serifless with effect of slight tilt to the left, pointing in distinct dots quiteliberally spaced, hamzah at midline or seated at baseline rather than seated on alif, elongation of horizontal strokes, descenders somewhat flattened, extensively vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 44 V (440), III (446) ; chiefly quinions ; final two leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and skips from p.175 to 178 and from 303 to 306).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "اخر النصف الاول من كتاب الجامع الصحيح تصيف ابي عبد الله محمد بن اسماعيل البخاري ويتلوه اول النصف الثاني مناقب عبد الله ابن مسعود على يد افقر العباد الى عفو ربه الفقير علي بن المرحوم علي الكتبي عفي عنهما بمنه وكرمه وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل وصلى الله على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين تم"Explicit: "مناقب سالم مولى ابي حذيفة حدثنا سليمان بن حرب ... استقرئوا القرآن من اربعة من عبد الله بن مسعود فبدأ به وسالم مولى ابي حذيفة وابي بن كعب ومعاذ بن جبل قال ولا ادري بدأ بابي اوبمعاذ"Incipit: "باب كيف كان يبدو الوحي الى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ..."Title from colophon on fol.444a (p.909).Ms. codex.Velkov, Asparoukh and Stephane Andreev. Filigranes dans les documents ottomans. I Trois croissants [= Водни знаци в Османотурските документи. I Три луни] (Sofia: Bibliotheque Nationale "Cyrille et Methode" Comission Archeographique Bulgare Section Orientale, 1983),Fine, large-format copy of the first half of the Ṣaḥīḥ, al-Bukhārī's celebrated collection of traditions.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,"British Museum, London. No. 51. Sahih of Bukhari, vol.i." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "235" in Western numerals on 'title page' fol.1a (p.1) ; also on 'title page' fol.1a (p.1), ownership statement dated 1219 [1804 or 5] in name of al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm Bāshā ibn al-Sayyid Ismāʻīl Aghā ibn al-Shaykh al-Ḥājj Yūsuf Afandī (Seyit İbrahim Paşa b. Seyit İsmail Ağa b. Şeyh Yusuf Efendi) accompanied by oval seal impression on fol.1a (p.1), statement reads "من تمليكات اضعف العباد السيد ابراهيم باشا بن السيد اسماعيل اغا بن الشيخ الحاج يوسف افندى قدس الله سره سنة ۱۲١٩", inscription in seal only partially legible ; numerous glosses and some marginal corrections ; collation statement on fol.11a (p.21) reads "بلغ مقابلة على نسخة صحيحة جدا"

[al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Khulāṣat al-fatāwá, 886, i.e., 1481].

Second volume of the collection of Ḥanafī fatwas by Ṭāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Bukhārī.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 16Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.174a (p.349), copied by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻĪsá ibn Aḥmad. Transcription completed ("waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah...") before noon on Thursday, 21st of Muḥarram 886 [ca. 21 March 1481]. Ownership statement below the colophon reveals that the copyist hails from al-Jabal al-Aqraʻ in the Syrian province of Latakia (Lādhiqīyah).Accompanying materials: a. slip of European laid paper with inscriptions in black ink inserted after p.110 -- b. scrap of paper with inscription in black ink inserted after p.260.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 130. Khulasat al-fatawi."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather with spine and board edges now covered in red leather repairs ; perhaps once Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-tooled polylobed central medallion with band formed from a series of interlocking s-shaped stamps and floral/star motif at the center, all with gold-tooled accents as well as a lined corner pieces and a multi-banded border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps and cross-shaped stamps ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in green and red (burnt orange) ; in poor condition with lifting of leather, abrasion, water damage, staning, and extreme negative draw (warping) in upper cover.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with laid lines running horizontally, distinct but faint, spaced roughly 9 laid lines per cm., chain lines grouped in threes running vertically with roughly 8-10 mm. between the chains and 45 mm. between groups ; very thick, smooth and only lightly burnished ; ink/tar damage along tail of text block ; staining, accretions, and minor pest damage ; a few repairs in European laid paper.Decoration: Text rubricated with section headings in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Syrian hand ; virtually sans serif ; mainly closed counters ; pointing for letters such as tāʼ, qāf, etc. (two dots) appears as inverted caret ; alif of lām alif ligature forms a loop ; strong vertical character though with slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-1 (9), 16 V(169), 1+II (174) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present, though often obscured ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ۲ on fol.2, continues accurately and concludes with ۱۷۴ ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.161-162, two inserted slips numbered).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة قبل الظهر في [؟] يوم الخميس في احدى وعشرين في شهر المحرم في تاريخ ستة وثمانين وثمانمائة على يد العبد الضعيف الراجي رحمة ربه اللطيف مصطفى بن الفقيه عيسى بن الفقيه احمد غفر الله لهم ولوالديهم ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين"Explicit: "بان قال [؟] طلبت الشفعة واخترت او على القلب يجوز الاول منهما ويبطل الثاني لانه يمكنها ان يقول [كذا] طلبتهما الشفعة والخيار"Incipit: "كتاب الاجازة مشتمل على احد عشر فصل الاول في المقدمة وفيها وجوب الاجازة ومسائل حق الحبس الثاني في..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Second volume of the collection of Ḥanafī fatwas by Ṭāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Bukhārī.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,"No. 130. Khulasat al-fatawi." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "35" in Western numerals on fol.1a (p.1) ; on paper pasted on fol.1a (p.1), a detailed waqf statement (in an unpointed hand) 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 شريعا بشرط ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب اللذي بنيته في اتصال داري الا لعلماء نفس ارضروم بكفيل قوى ماورهن ... و انا الفقير السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى و ستين و ماتين و الف" ; also on fol.1a (p.1) ownership statement dated 22 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1026 [ca. 21 November 1617] in name of Muḥammad [?] ibn Muṣṭafá al-ʻAkkārī [al-ʻAkārī] (محمد بن مصطفى العكاري ) reads, "من نعم الله على عبده الفقير محمد [؟] بن مصطفى الحنفي العكاري في ۲۲ ذي القعدة سنة ۱۰٢٦" (contribution to the cataloguing from Boris Liebrenz) ; two other ownership statements on fol.1a (p.1) virtually effaced ; on fol.174a (p.349) a statement of sale reveals the transfer of the ms. from the copyist's possession to that of another faqīh by the name of Maḥmūd, "انتقل هذا الكتاب المسمى بخلاصة الفتاوي من ملك الفقيه مصطفى بن الفقيه عيسى من الجبل الاقرع الى ملك الفقيه محمود من جماعة الكولزي بالبيع الصحيح الشرعي على موجب الشرع الشريف" ; several marginal corrections and notabilia (side-heads) appear throughout ; a few glosses ; collation marks "بلغ" appear frequently throughout

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī : manuscript, [1754].

His most famous work, arranged in 97 books with 3450 bābs (chapters) containing 2762 prophetic traditions.Title from spine.Text rubricated and vocalized and enclosed in gold border; marginal commentaries and foliations in hand of copyist; table of contents on pp. [1-75]; illuminated ʻunwān on p. [79]; edges gilded in foliate patterns.Date and copyist's name in colophon: waqaʻa al-farāgh ... min kitābat al-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī waqt al-ḍuḥá fī al-yawm al-tāsiʻ wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Rajab al-fard sanat sabaʻ wa-sittīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [i.e. 22 May 1754] ... ʻalá yad ... al-sayyid al-ḥājj Muḥammad ibn al-sayyid al-ḥājj Pīrī ... sanat 1167.For a commentary on the Ṣaḥīḥ by an unidentified author, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 182.EI2,His most famous work, arranged in 97 books with 3450 bābs (chapters) containing 2762 prophetic traditions.Mode of access: Internet.AnonymousOne of the most famous traditionists of Islam.Purchased in Cairo, 1924. Once part of the personal manuscript collection of Sultan Abdülhamid II of Turkey

al-Niṣf al-awwal min Khulāṣat al-fatāwá, [873, i.e. 1469].

First volume of the collection of Ḥanafī fatwas by Ṭāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Bukhārī.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 67Origin: As appears in colophon on p.746, copied for himself by Muḥammad ibn al-Shujāʻī Shāhīn al-Bishlāqī [al-Bashlāqī ?] al-Ḥanafī. Transcription completed ("ʻallaqahu li-nafsih ... wa-kāna al-farāgh min taʻlīqih ...") 8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 873 [ca. 19 June 1469] in Damascus.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 52. Decisions of Bukhari."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; doublures and doublure hinges in dark brown leather, block-pressed with intricate vegetal design ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled medallion accented with gold dots, filled with geometric strapwork design having three elongated intersecting dodecagons and a six pointed star, and surrounded by interlace band and a series of small lobes with strokes at the spandrels (perhaps most comparable to Weisweiler type 49) ; a fine border of stamped interlace accented by gold dots and framed by tooled fillets, along with corner pieces complete the design ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; fine chevron endbands in red and cream, fair condition ; in fair condition with much abrasion, staining, cracking and lifting of leather, delamination of boards, shrinkage, etc.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper of perhaps two types, one with chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with roughly 32-38 mm. between the groups and 8-10 mm. between the chains (see p.2, 6, etc.) and laid lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., the other likewise with chain lines grouped in threes with roughly 39-43 between groups and 10-12 between chains (see p.746, 747, etc.) and 7-8 laid lines per cm. ; burnished and quite thick and heavy ; significant moisture damage and staining, even obscuring text in latter quires ; flyleaves in European paper with crown-star-crescent watermark (compare Heawood 1132).Decoration: Section headings and some notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of inverted commas (alone and in threes forming triangles) in red.Script: Naskh ; fine Syrian hand ; virtually serifless ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; many closed counters ; freely ligatured ; inverted caret as an ihmāl sign to distinguish sīn ; three dots in the form of an vertically elongated inverted comma ; bar of kāf (shaqq) very often disconnected.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV+1 (9), 5 V(59), IV+1 (68), 2 V(88), V-1 (97), 10 V(197), IV (205), 4 V(245), III+1 (252), 2 V(272), V-1 (281), 9 V(371), II+1 (376), ii ; chiefly quinions ; final three leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ١ on 'title page'/fol.2a/p.3) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "علقه لنفسه العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد ابن الشجاعي شاهين البشلاقي الحنفي بدمشق المحروسة زادها الله شرفا وصانها من جميع الافات بمحمد واله وكان الفراغ من تعليقه نهار الاحد ثامن شهر ذي الحجة من شهور سنة ثلاث وسبعين وثمان مائة والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا [؟] محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما ابدا ورضي الله عن اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين"Explicit: "القرض في كل عددي متقارب وفي كل كيلي ووزني ولا يجوز قرض الحيوان والعقار والخشب وما كان متفاوتا الكل في الاصل والله اعلم. اخر الجزء الاول من الخلاصة الفتاوى ويتلوه الجزء الثاني الاخير [؟] والثاني كتاب الاجازات ان شاء الله تعالى"Incipit: "الحمد لله خالق الارواح والاجسام وجاعل النور والظلام ... وقال الامام الزاهد ... افتخار الملة والدين ... طاهر بن احمد بن عبد الرشيد البخاري نور الله تربته ... وقد كتبت كتب في هذا الفن احدهما تسمى بخزانة الواقعات والثانية تسمى كتاب النصاب فسألني بعد ذلك بعض اخواني ان اكتب نسخة قصيرة يمكن ضبظها وتيسير حفظها فكتبت هذه النسخة ... وسميتها كتاب الخلاصة ..."Title from inscription accompanying table of contents on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,First volume of the collection of Ḥanafī fatwas by Ṭāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Bukhārī.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on upper doublure, "British Museum, London. No. 52. Decisions of Bukhari." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "62" in Western numerals on front flyleaf ; on paper pasted on ’title page’ (fol.2a/p.3), 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 دار الكتب الذي بنيته في اتصال داري الا لعلماء نفس ارضروم ان احتاجوا اشد الاحتياج 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" ; two other distinct seal impressions on fol.2a (p.3) ; marginal corrections, notabilia (side-heads) and glosses appear occasionally throughout ; collation marks "بلغ" appear only rarely ; occasionally text for rubrication appears in the margins, elsewhere cut off