Irshād al-qulūb ilá al-ṣawāb al-munjī man ʻamala bihi min alīm al-ʻaqāb, [1106, i.e. 1695].

Fine copy of the opening part of al-Daylamī's collection of sermons, ḥadīth, narrations pertaining to ʻAlī the other Imāms, etc.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1023Origin: As appears in colophon on p.347, transcription and subsequent collation completed 2 Jumādá II 1106 [ca. 18 January 1695].Accompanying materials: Slip torn from a page printed with prayers (paginated pp.5-6).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 172Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in dark red brown leather ; upper and lower cover carry traces of a tooled border with onlays ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and light green, good condition ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and deterioration of spine leather, pest damage, losses at board corners, warping and slight negative draw in covers, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines only occasionally faintly visible ; well-burnished, quite thin, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, beige to dark cream in color ; some staining and pest damage.Decoration: Keywords, headings, notabilia and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining keywords) rubricated ; text to be entered in red indicated in margins though nearly cut off ; textual dividers in the form of red dots ; overlining and some vocalization in red.Script: Naskh ; elegant Persianate hand in a thin line ; mainly serifless (though left-sloping head-serif occasionally appears on lām, etc.) with slight effect of tilt to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), adhering to baseline though some letters and words occasionally superscript, freely ligatured, point of final nūn typically assimilated with bowl, pointing in distinct dots, final yāʼ unpointed.Layout: Written in 16 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 17 IV(136), III+1 (143), 3 IV(167), II-1 (170) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in opposite outer corners ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, nearly cut off ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب وبلغ المقابلة [مرتين] في يوم الاثنين من شهر جمادى الاخر سنة ١١٠۶ ..."Explicit: "ولا تزعن من قلبه محبتي وعليك سلامي ورحمتي"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد خاتم النبيين وعلى آله الطاهرين اما بعد فانه لما استولى سلطان الشهوة والغضب على الآدميين ومحبة كل منهم لنفسه ... عملت هذا الكتاب وسميته بارشاد القلوب الى الصواب المنجى من عمل به من اليم العقاب ..."Title from opening matter on p.10.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the opening part of al-Daylamī's collection of sermons, ḥadīth, narrations pertaining to ʻAlī the other Imāms, etc.Mode of access: Internet.Purchased in Egypt by Mr. Sulaiman ;Several effaced former owners' marks on 'title page' (p.9) including statements and two distinct oval seal impressions ; excerpts on opening flyleaves and 'title page' (pp.1-4, 7-9) ; statement dated 29 Muḥarram 1260 [ca. 19 February 1844] in name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Murtaḍá ( السيد محمد المرتضى) in red pencil at opening on p.10 ; oval seal impression in name of one Muḥammad ...? (محمد ...؟) at close on p.347, possibly the copyist and / or collator ; collation statement with correction (in a different hand) in colophon indicate that the text was collated twice ; numerous glosses and marginal corrections ; collation marks and notes, often rubricated

Mas̲navī-yi sharīf, [1151?, i.e. 1738 or 1739?].

Elegant copy of the short mas̲navī of Niʻmat Khān Shīrāzī, known as ʻĀlī (d.1710).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 362Origin: As appears in colophon on p.361, copied by ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī [?] with transcription completed in 1151 [1738 or 9]. 1151 from 151, being the more likely reading (given the author's dates, decoration, hand, etc.) of what the copyist has entered as "١٠٥١" which initially suggests 1051 [1641 or 2]. A similar practice with numerals appears in the foliation (see fol.110-120 i.e. ١٠١٠ to ١٠٢٠ as entered in red ink). Date in seal impression provides very rough terminus ante quem of 1756.Accompanying materials: Half-sheet of writing paper with note in hand of G. Meredith-Owens, reads "362 | A mas̲navī poem of ethico-religious content. I cannot find the title and author but suspect that he is an Indian imitating Saʻdī and other Persian poets. Perhaps I could have a photostat of the first few folios. Indian, judging from the binding, probably 18th century."Former shelfmark: "119 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type III binding in Western style ; doublures in dark red leather with scalloped mandorla, lozenges, floral pendants) pendants and cornerpieces in stamped, gold-painted paper onlays filled with floral compositions and set off by gold-painted rules (both lozenges and floral pendants appended to mandorla) ; made endpapers in comb marbled paper (chiefly in red, orange, black and blue) pasted to outermost leaf of a gathering of three (ternion) ; upper and lower covers carry large, central rectangular panel in stamped, gold-painted paper onlays (applied to recessed leather) filled with symmetrical floral vegetal composition set among interlacing scallops and surrounded by gold-painted and tooled borders (series of annular stamps) setting off wide border (also in recessed leather onlays with stamped, gold-painted paper applied) with additional vegetal motifs ; board edges gold-tooled in scroling vegetal designs ; spine similarly gold-stamped with bands of scrolling vegetal designs alternating with diamond shapes ; sewn in white thread over two cords (apparent as ridges on spine and visible between back endpapers and text block), tightly bound ; worked endbands in pistachio green and pink (interspersed with metallic threads) ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather and onlays, etc.Support: non-European (likely Indian) laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct) and single chain lines occasionally visible, thin, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; endpapers in still a different likely Indian laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, distinct, curving) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, many inclusions, sturdy, gray in color ; some staining and tide lines, ink burn (more extensive in some gatherings), minor pest damage, cockling and excess adhesive ; extensive repairs (fills, guards, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with basmalah set off by gold cloud-bands and flanked by delicate vegetal designs on gold ground, surmounted by w-shaped piece in gold and light blue overlaid with delicate vegetal designs with floral accents (mainly in pink with orange-red outline, green and black) set in a heavy well of gold interlace, pistachio green, pink and blue bands ; bands of refined vegetal motifs in gold also accent written area on incipit page (p.2) ; written area throughout surrounded by gold frame with divisions within also defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black ; section headings rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; large, elegant hand in a medium to heavy line ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, superscripting of letters, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in distinct dots, occasionally set very close together or conjoined, dramatically sweeping shaqq or sarkash on many kāfs, point of final nūn set just down in wide, slightly angled bowl.Layout: Written in 12 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: vi, 3 IV(24), III (30), 5 IV(70), III+2 (78), 6 IV(126), III+1 (133), IV (141), III+1 (148), IV (156), II (160), IV (168), II (172), IV+1 (181), vi ; chiefly quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of faint, oblique black strokes in the upper outer margin of the right-hand leaf and lower outer margin of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present (though occasionally lost or obscured by repairs) ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "مشقه العبد المذنب عبد الرشید الديلمی [؟] فی سنه ١٠٥١ه هجرة النبويه"Explicit: "معتبر بنود تعدد در صفات"Incipit: "حمد و شکر او را که هرچه هست ازوست دام هستی حلقه دار از های [و] هوست ..."Title from inscription on second front flyleaf.Ms. codex.Berthels, E. "Niʿmat K̲H̲ān, called ʿĀlī, Mīrzā Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad." In EI2,Elegant copy of the short mas̲navī of Niʻmat Khān Shīrāzī, known as ʻĀlī (d.1710).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Inscription in black ink with title and copyist on second front flyleaf "مثنوى شريف ... بخط عبد الرشيد" along with possible inventory number (also in black ink) and book price in pencil, partially effaced ; small rectangular seal impression on 'title page' (p.1) and below colophon at close (p.361) dated 1169 [1755 or 6] in name of Muḥammad Fayyāḍ "محمد فياض ١١٦٩" ; also on 'title page' an effaced statement in black ink (lower outer corner) as well as faint inscription in upper outer corner ; occasional collation marks (such as "بلغ") in pencil ; some marginal corrections

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Contient : Recueil ; Traité ; MUḤAMMAD IBN MUḤAMMAD AL-DAYLAMĪ AL-WAZRĀZĪ AL-DARʿĪ ; Šuzūr al-aḏkār al-māḥiya li-l-awzār (sic) SĪDĪ IBN AL-MUḪTĀR IBN AL-HAYB ; al-Mabāḥiṯ al-aṣliyya ʿan ğumlat al-ṭarīqa al-ṣūfiyya AḤMAD IBN MUḤAMMAD AL-TUĞĪBĪ, dit IBN AL-BANNĀʾ AL-SARAQUSTĪ ; Riḥlat al-tahānī fī ḥilyat al-šayḫ al-Tiğānī ʿUBAYDA IBN MUḤAMMAD AL-ṢAĠĪR ; AL-ŠAYḪ IBN YIRKOI ṬALFI ; ʿUğālat al-rākib fīʾl-ṭibb al-ṣāʿib [MUḤAMMAD BELLO IBN ʿUṮMĀN FŪDĪ] ; Tuḥfat ahl al-ğibāl fī maʿrifat aḥwāl al-riğāl AL-MUḪTĀR IBN ABĪ BAKR IBN SAʿĪD (...) IBN KĀNTA ; Commentaire ; Notes, textes courts et fragments divers (prose, prose rimée et poésie)Numérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Voir Arabe 5588 dans "Manuscrits d'Afrique sub-saharienne", "Tombouctou"