Müftü-yü zemân Hoca Çelebi Ebussuud hazretlerinin risale-yi mübarekesi, [1017, i.e. 1608].

Elegant copy of brief treatise attributed to Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Hoca Çelebi, Mehmet Ebussuud [Ebusuud, Ebu's-suûd] Efendi, d.1574).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 671Origin: As appears in colophon on p.72, copied by Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Kayyāl (Mehmet Kemalettin İbnül Keyyâl) with transcription completed in latter Rajab 1017 [November 1608].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover, "IL 137" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in blue and red) with red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted wove paper ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of paper,lower board partially split, detaching at spine, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct) and no chain lines visible, dense and sturdy, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines, nibbled around edges.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with small right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām or joined alif, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly bold sweeping shaqq on kāf but occasionally represented by vertical stroke with miniature kāf seated above it, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page.Dedication: At the request of the grand vezir Ali Paşa (see heading at opening on p.2) "مفتئ زمان خواجه چلبى ابو السعود حضرتلرينك رساله مباركه سيدر كه مرحوم وزير اعظم على پاشا يسر الله له في الدارين ما يشا التماس ايدوب اكا ارسال ايتدوكيدر"Collation: 3 V (30), V-4 (36) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت الرساله بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في اواخر شهر رجب من شهور سنه سبعة عشر والف على يد الراجى عفو ربه محمد كمال الدين بن الكيال عفى عنه"Explicit: "كمسه باباسنوك واناسنوك حقلرينى اوده مش كبى اولور وعهدلرندن قورتلمش اولور"Incipit: "حمد وسباس وستايش بى قياس اول سامع الاصوات ومجيب الدعوات حضرتنه اولسون كم انك رحمت عميمه سى جميع عباده حاصل ونعمت جسيمه سى مطيع واهل عناده واصل در ..."Title from heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Elegant copy of brief treatise attributed to Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Hoca Çelebi, Mehmet Ebussuud [Ebusuud, Ebu's-suûd] Efendi, d.1574).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).Numerous glosses (mainly by the author, "minhīyāt" marked "منه رحمه الله") ; occasional notabilia (side-heads), some rubricated