Matn al-Mughnī, [16th century?].

Fine copy of Ibn Hishām’s (d.761/1360) celebrated treatise on Arabic syntax, arranged by particle.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 617Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon (though lengthy authorial colophon appears on p.290) ; paper and hand may suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From fore edge flap label, "IL 348" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (resembling marbled [ebru] design in blue and white) with red leather over spine and light brown leather over fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in light orange European laid paper (three hats watemark) ; sewing now gone, though two stations visible ; overall in quite poor condition with upper cover entirely lost and lower cover and envelope flap fully detached, lifting and losses of leather, staining, etc.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with 6-9 mm. between chains and 46-55 mm. between groups ; medium cream in color, dense and sturdy, well-burnished to glossy (burnisher's marks visible) ; staining and tidelines ; some repairs.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless and quite rounded with slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), elongation of horizontal strokes, occasional sweeping descenders.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 14 V(140), II+1 (145) ; almost exclusively quinions ; leaf now affixed to 'title page' (p.1) and final leaf (p.290, to cover added text) ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "وقد مر ذلك ولو ذكرت احرف الجر ودخول بعضها على بعض في معناه لجاء من ذلك امثلة كثيرة"Incipit: "ومنه العون والتوفيق اما بعد حمدا لله على افضاله والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله فان اولى ما تقترحه القرائح واعلى ما تجنح الى تحصيله الجوانح ما يتيسر به فهم كتاب الله المنزل ويتضح به معنى حديث نبيه المرسل ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of Ibn Hishām’s (d.761/1360) celebrated treatise on Arabic syntax, arranged by particle.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 glosses and marginal corrections

Mughnī al-labīb, [early 18th century].

Fine though incomplete copy of Ibn Hishām's (d.761/1360) celebrated treatise on Arabic syntax, arranged by particle.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 134Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper likely suggests early 18th century.Accompanying materials: Inserts with glosses (paginated pp.69-70 and pp.97-98).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 4. Mughni al-labib." ; "٥٨٧" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and interior of envelope flap in yellow paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration, compare Déroche class. OAi 4) with pendants and cornerpieces, along with tooled border ; design continues on flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; overall in poor condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, some pest damage, paper label affixed to upper cover, etc. ; repair to spine in red leather.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper of two types ; opening quinions in first type, crisp, thin and transluscent, sized and burnished to glossy with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, some curving) ; remaining quaternions in second type, sturdy, less transluscent, only lightly sized and burnished with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, some curving) ; no chain lines visible in either type.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs and inverted commas.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; effect of words descending to baseline, occasionally more exaggerated ; elongation of horizontal strokes ; effect of tilt to the right ; around pp.110 hand changes, much more compact though similar to initial hand.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 5 V(59), 12 IV (155) ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in black ink appear in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.29-30, pp.41-42, pp.45-46, pp.59-60, pp.73-74, pp.97-98, pp.105-106, pp.147-148, pp.217-218, pp.219-220, pp.245-246, pp.256-257, pp.263-264, pp.284-284 and four pages between pp.251-252).Explicit: "يا حرف موضوع لنداء البعيد حقيقة او حكما وقد ينادى به القريب توكيدا وقيل هي مشتركة بين البعيد والقريب وقيل بينهما"Incipit: "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم اما بعد حمد الله على افضاله والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله فان اولى ما تقترحه القرائح واعلى ما تجنح الى تحصيله الجوانح ما يتيسر به فهم كتاب الله المنزل ... ويتضح به معنى حديث نبيه المرسل ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine though incomplete copy of Ibn Hishām's (d.761/1360) celebrated treatise on Arabic syntax, arranged by particle.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on upper cover, "No. 4. Mughni al-labib."; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "490" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; ownership statement on front flyleaf (p.1) ; circular waqf-seal impression in black ink appears on ’title page’ (p.3) and several places throughout, reads: "هذا وقف الراجي فيض الصمدي الشيخ احمد ضيا الدين ابن مصطفى الخالدي فمن بدله بعد ما سمعه فانما اثمه على الذين يبدلونه" in name of Aḥmad Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khālidī (i.e. Ahmed Ziyâüddîn Gümüşhanevî, d. 1893 or 4) ; book price on 'title page' (p.3) nearly illegible ; numerous marginal glosses and corrections ; kabīkaj invocation on interior of upper cover (upper board lining) "يا كبيكج يا حافظ"

Hādhā Mughnī al-labīb, [1271, i.e. 1855].

Fine copy of Ibn Hishām’s (d.761/1360) celebrated treatise on Arabic syntax, arranged by particle.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 951Origin: As appears in colophon on p.550, copied by al-Sayyid ʻIwaḍ al-Rashīdī (İvaz Reşidî) with transcription apparently completed Jumādá II 1271 [February-March 1855].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 100Binding: Boards (ill-trimmed and possibly recycled, see upper board under board lining stamped with "423 CLOCHETTE 2M" and star in circle below) covered in a floral-print textile (cretonne) ; Type III binding (without flap), tight back though with squares rather than boards cut flush with text block ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted European laid paper with three crescents (tre lune) watermark ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and pink ; overall in fair condition with some staining and abrasion, detaching at spine, etc. ; likely not original, traces of earlier spine lining (through which primaries have been sewn) visible.Support: Machine wove paper, dark cream to beige in color, well-burnished ; some offset of ink and blocking, staining, and pest damage ; flyleaves and pastedowns in European laid paper with three crescents (tre lune) watermark.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact Turkish hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of inclination to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), some elongation of horizontal strokes and sweeping descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: ii, 27 V(270), II (274), v (ternion with final leaf pasted down) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips two pages between pp.435-436).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "وقد وقع الفراغ من تحريره يوم الاثنين [؟] من جمادى الاخر سنة الف ومائة واثنين وستين بعون الله ومنه تم بقلم الفقير اليه سبحانه السيد عوض الرشيدي في جمادى الثانية سنة الف ومائتين وواحد وسبعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا الى يوم الدين م"Explicit: "وقد مر ذلك ولو ذكرت احرف الجر ودخول بعضها على بعض لجاء من ذلك امثلة كثيرة وهذا اخر ما تيسر ايراده في هذا التعليق اسأل الله الذي من علي بانشائه واتمامه ... ان يحرم وجهي النار ... انه حكيم كريم رؤوف رحيم"Incipit: اما بعد حمدا لله تعالى على افضاله والصلوة ... فان اولى ما تقترحه القرائح واعلى ما تجنح الى تحصيله الجوانح [ما يتيسر] به فهم كتاب الله المنزل ويتضح به معنى حديث [نبيه المرسل] ..."Title from 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of Ibn Hishām’s (d.761/1360) celebrated treatise on Arabic syntax, arranged by particle.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On opening leaf (p.3), label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory numbers, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No.7780" ; collation statement on 'title page' (p.5) reads "عدد كراريسه ٢٧" ; UM Library inscription on p.7 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; occasional glosses and marginal corrections ; notabilia (side-heads), some rubricated