[Īḍāḥ fī sharḥ al-Iṣlāḥ fī al-fiqh al-Ḥanafī, late 16th or early 17th century?].

Clear copy of the author's own commentary on his Iṣlāḥ al-Wiqāyah, corrections to the commentary by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī on the work of his grandfather Burhān al-Sharīʻah Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Awwal, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah. Preceded by table of contents.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 57Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Paper would suggest late 16th or early 17th century.Accompanying materials: A few scraps of paper carrying glosses, etc. (paginated pp.139-140, pp.235-236, pp.265-266) ; very small scrap between pp.268-269 carries former owner's mark and seal impression.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 12. Al-Islah, with commentary."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper, hinges in marbled paper (red, orange, blue, etc.) ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OSd 8), along with frame in series of s-shaped stamps flanked by blind-tooled fillets ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; chevron endbands in black and red, fair condition ; in quite poor condition with much abrasion, moisture damage, cracking and lifting of leather, losses to fore-edge flap, delamination of boards, envelop flap detaching from fore-edge flap, etc. ; repairs in various leathers and paper.Support: European laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced roughly 32 mm. apart ; anchor in circle watermark (compare Heawood 7).Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; text being commented upon overlined in red ; written area surrounded by red rule-border (opening through p.197).Script: Naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq ; at least two Turkish (possibly Persian) hands ; initial hand sans serif with effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, often exaggerated contrast in thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes ; second hand (from p.183 to close) similar though line is certainly thinner ; kāf mashkūlah preferred with bar (shaqq) appearing on even final kāf ; mainly closed counters ; ligature for kāf followed by alif, with alif curving up to meet the bar of the kāf (shaqq) forming a closed loop.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 16 V(169), IV (177), 8 V(257), IV (265), 3 V(295), V-1 (304) ; chiefly quinions ; no catchwords present, but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf repeated at first of initial line on following recto ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ۱ on incipit page, p.4) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization, includes flyleaves and inserts, mistakenly repeats two pages (skips from p.243 to p.242 and continues), mistakenly skips two pages between pp.447-448).Explicit: "وانما قال في الاختيار لانه يحل اكل الميتة في الاضطرار والله اعلم بالصواب واله المرجع والمآب تم"Incipit: "احمده على الهداية والوقاية في البداية والنهاية واشكره على ما انعم علي من التوفيق والعناية ... اما بعد فغير خاف على ذوي البصائر اي المختصر الموسوم بالوقاية ... وسميت المتن بالاصلاح تضمنه اصلاح ما في الوقاية من الذلل والشرح بالايضاح لاشتماله على ايضاح ما في الشرح المذكور من الخلل ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GALClear copy of the author's own commentary on his Iṣlāḥ al-Wiqāyah, corrections to the commentary by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī on the work of his grandfather Burhān al-Sharīʻah Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Awwal, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah. Preceded by table of contents.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 12. Al-Islah, with commentary." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "324" in Western numerals on opening leaf (p.1) ; on blue-tinted paper pasted on 'title page' (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 على ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الملتصق بداري الا لعلماء سكنوا بارضروم بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; marginal and interlinear corrections and glosses ; numerous notabilia (side-heads) throughout ; former owner's mark and octagonal seal impression on scrap between pp.268-269 ; effaced ownership statement on p.612

[Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah, 983, i.e. 1575].

Fine copy of Kemalpaşazade's (Ibn Kamāl) commentary on the treatise on inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī (6/12th cent.).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 100Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.108a, copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʻAdī [?] al-Khazrajī with transcription finished 21 Ṣafar 983 [ca. 1 June 1575], likely in Edirne, where he was living (nazīl).Accompanying materials: Several slips and scraps scattered throughout with calculations, excerpts, etc. each paginated (see pp.139-140, pp.149-150, pp.161-164, pp.195-196, pp.221-222) along with a document bearing circular seal impression (paginated pp.171-172).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 39. Work on law of inheritance."Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear central blind-stamped mandorla and pendants (compare Déroche class. OSd 8) as well as border and cornerpieces consisting of a series of incised fillets ; sewn in cream thread, 2 stations ; endbands in red and green, nearly gone from tail ; in fair condition with abrasion, staining, leather burn, some delamination of boards at corners, etc.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper with laid lines mainly oriented horizontally and spaced 7 laid lines per cm. ; chain lines only visible sporadically as short lengths ; fairly transluscent and crisp ; flyleaves in European laid paper with three crescents (tre lune) watermark.Decoration: Written area surrounded by border varying from simple red or gold rule-border to frame consisting of gold band or bands outlined by black fillets and outermost blue fillet ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas ; text chrysographed with keywords and section headings ; rubricated with overlining, textual dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; graceful Ottoman hand ; partially seriffed with left-sloping head-serif on ṭāʼ, lām, etc., free-standing alif usually serifless, effect of slight tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing chiefly in lines or strokes (curved stroke for three dots), even final kāf carries shaqq, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, point of final nūn most often set just above bowl.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 2 V(20), IV (28), 5 V(58), 2 IV(94), V (104), III (110), ii ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the center of the upper margin of the recto of the first leaf of each quire, often cut off ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ۱ on fol.1b (p.6) and continues thereafter on recto of each folio ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الكتاب والله اعلم بالصواب في حادي عشرين شهر صفر الخير سنة ثلاث وثمانين وتسعمائة على يد احقر عباد الله واحوجهم الى رحمته وغفرانه محمد بن احمد العدي [؟] الخزرجي نزيل ادرنة المحمية اللهم اغفر لمستكتبه ولكاتبه ولمن قرا فيه ودعا لهما بالمغفرة امين"Explicit: "فقد اجتمع لام كل منهما عشرون ولبنت كل منهما ستون وللمولى عشرة"Incipit: "الحمد لله الملك العلام الذي جعل العلماء الاعلام ورثة الانبياء عليهم السلام ... وبعد فاني لما فرغت عن تصحيح المختصر المؤلف في علم الفرائض المنسوب الى الامام الهمام سراج الدين السجاوندي ... بتغيير ما فيه الخلل من جهة التعبير عن المعاني واصلاح ما فيه الزلل من جهة التقرير للمباني اردت ان اشرحه شرحا وافيا في تحرير المسائل ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of Kemalpaşazade's (Ibn Kamāl) commentary on the treatise on inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī (6/12th cent.).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, "From the British Museum, London. No. 39. Work on law of inheritance." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "369" in Western numerals on front flyleaf ; kabīkaj invocation on fol.1a (p.5) "يا كبيكج يا حفيظ" ; effaced statement on fol.1a (p.5) ; partially obscured statement on fol.110b (p.238) dated Shaʻbān to Ramaḍān 1035 [April-June 1626] accompanied by what appears to be a birth statement dated 13th Rabīʻ I 1043 [ca. 17 September 1633] ; on back flyleaf (p.241) inscription detailing a few of the characteristics peculiar to the louse, including a method for telling whether a pregnant woman is carrying a boy or a girl and a remedy for the inability to urinate ; numerous marginal glosses and corrections

[Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Ḥāshiyat al-Khayālī wa-Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Masʻūd al-Rūmī wa-Ḥadīth arbaʻīn, late 16th century?].

Fine copy of two glosses by Ramaḍān ibn ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-Wayzawī, al-shahīr bi-Bihishti (al-Wazīrī al-Bihishtī in GAL, d. 979/1571-2), the first a supergloss on the gloss of al-Khayālī upon al-Taftāzānī's commentary on al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah and the second a gloss upon the commentary by Kamāl al-Dīn Masʻūd al-Shirwānī al-Rūmī (d. 905/1499) on al-Samarqandī's (13th c.) treatise on disputation, Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth, followed by a treatise by Kemalpaşazade (Ibn Kamāl) on forty hadith.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 116Origin: Authorial colophons indicate dates of composition for each of the two works by Bihishtī. As appears in authorial colophon on p.111, compilation and composition of Bihishtī's Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Ḥāshiyat al-Khayālī completed 18th Rajab 949 [ca. 28 October 1542]. As appears in authorial colophon on p.176, compilation/composition of Bihishtī's Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Masʻūd al-Rūmī completed in 959 [1551 or 1552]. Lacks dated scribal colophon ; paper likely suggests late 16th century.Accompanying materials: Slips carrying notes (paginated pp.63-64 and pp.123-124).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 106. Supercommentary on Risalah fi adab il-bahth." ; "۳٧٥" on tail edge of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards now covered in bright orange coated and textured paper (embossed with scrolling vegetal designs), with brown leather over spine, fore-edge, and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; envelope flap and board linings in laid paper ; hinges in brown leather ; interior of envelope flap in faded marbled paper with blind stamped rosette in same brown leather ; sewn in cream thread, two stations, with occasional reinforcements sewn in pink thread ; only traces of endbands remain ; in poor condition with much lifting and tearing of paper, pest damage, staining, abrasion, delamination of boards, fore-edge flap ill-fitting, etc. ; repairs in cloth and textured tape.Support: European laid paper mainly of two types ; first and second works on a European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain line spaced roughly 31 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle (with leaf above) watermark, quite thick with some inclusions ; final work on a thinner European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 32-33 mm. apart (horizontal), and bull's head (with eyes and double line above) watermark ; flyleaves in other European laid papers.Decoration: Keywords, abbreviation symbols, and notabilia rubricated ; textual divders in the form of red discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; likely two hands, with first two works supplied in one hand, and final work supplied in another hand ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; slight effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline ; some exaggeration in thickness of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 2 V(20), IV+1 (29), 1 (30), 2 V(50), II (54), 2 V(74), V+1 (85), V (95), II (99), ii ; chiefly quinions ; final word of last line on verso repeated at opening of first line on following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts and mistakenly skips two pages between pp.147-148).Incipit: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Ḥāshiyat al-Khayālī] "الحمد لله المتكلم بالكلام وعلى رسوله الصلوة والسلام ... وبعد فيقول اضعف عباد الله القوي رمضان بن محسن الويزوي" ; [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Masʻūd al-Rūmī] "الحمد لله حمد العاكفين ببابه والصلوة على محمد سيد احبابه ..." ; [Sharḥ Arbaʻīn ḥadīthan] "الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فقد روينا عن علي بن ابي طالب رضي [الله عنه] ان رسول الله ع م قال من حفظ على امتى اربعين حديثا من امر دينها بعثه الله تعالى يوم القيامة من زمرة الفقهاء والعلماء ... فامتثلت الاشارة العالية في جمع اربعين حديثا ... الحديث الاول السلام قبل الكلام ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscriptions on front flyleaf (p.1) and opening of each text.Ms. codex.4. p.177-p.201 : [Sharḥ Arbaʻīn ḥadīthan] / Kemalpaşazade.3. p.116-p.176 : Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Ramaḍān ibn ʻAbd al-Muḥsin Bihishtī.2. p.112-p.115 : [originally left blank].1. p.6-p.111 : Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Ḥāshiyat al-Khayālī / Ramaḍān ibn ʻAbd al-Muḥsin Bihishtī.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of two glosses by Ramaḍān ibn ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-Wayzawī, al-shahīr bi-Bihishti (al-Wazīrī al-Bihishtī in GAL, d. 979/1571-2), the first a supergloss on the gloss of al-Khayālī upon al-Taftāzānī's commentary on al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah and the second a gloss upon the commentary by Kamāl al-Dīn Masʻūd al-Shirwānī al-Rūmī (d. 905/1499) on al-Samarqandī's (13th c.) treatise on disputation, Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth, followed by a treatise by Kemalpaşazade (Ibn Kamāl) on forty hadith.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. 106. Supercommentary on Risalah fi adab il-bahth." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "454" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; circular waqf-seal impression in black ink appears on front flyleaf (p.1) 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) ; also on front flyleaf (p.1) ownership statement reads "استصحبه الفقير ... في ١۲٠٧ [؟]" ; trace of oval seal impression on front flyleaf (p.1) ; on 'title page' (p.5) and at close of final text on p.201 waqf statement reads "وقف المرحوم محمد جلبى ابن عبد الرحمن جلبى" ; glosses and marginal corrections

Muhimmāt Kamāl Pāshā maʻa Badr al-wāʻiẓīn, [ca. 1087, i.e. 1677].

Fine copy of the collection of legal decisions by Kemalpaşazade (d.1534) followed by Badr al-wāʻiẓīn wa-dhukhr al-ʻābidīn, occasionally attributed to Firişteoğlu (Firiştezade) ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-shahīr bi-Ibn Malak, but more likely by his son Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Ibn Malak al-Rūmī. Contents listing on upper board lining.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 663Origin: As appears in colophon on p.414, transcription of second work completed in the latter part of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1087 [February 1677] by Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad. Opening work lacks colophon, but likely completed around the same time or slightly later (late 17th century to early 18th century).Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Insert carrying notes (paginated pp.183-184).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, "IL 375" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in once marbled paper with dark red-brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (as well as now lost fore edge flap, likely, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in light cream thread, two stations ; traces of worked headband remain ; overall in somewhat poor condition with loss of flap, significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; repair to spine in red leather.Support: European laid paper of two main types ; opening work (through p.292) mainly on a type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of scrollwork / arms with three bars (see p.20, 30, 31, etc. and compare Armoiries (16) - A. Indéterminées nos.1-8 dated 1673-1717 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans), well-burnished to glossy, medium cream in color, fairly thin and crisp though sturdy ; final work (from p.293) mainly on a type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (85 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.302, 303, etc.).Decoration: Section headings, keywords and some abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke over keywords) rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; two elegant hands ; opening work in nastaʻlīq (talik), at least two hands, both compact and elongated in the vertical, virtually serifless with effect of words descending to baseline and of tilt to the left ; following work in a fine naskh, serifless with effect of tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots, free assimilation of letters, slight contrast in thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes.Layout: Written in 29 and 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 13 V(130), III+1 (137), IV (145), 5 V(195), V+1 (206) ; Chiefly quinions ; first work lacks catchwords but in second work last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, distinct for each work ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب حرره الحقير الفقير المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى مصطفى بن محمد غفر الله له وجعل الجنة مثواه تحريرا في اواخر شهر ذي القعدة الشريفة لسنة سبع وثمانين والف م"Explicit: [Muhimmāt al-muftī] "فانتقل فعل الابن اليه كما ... ولو استاجر نجارا ليسقط جواره على قارعة الطريق" ; [Badr al-wāʻiẓīn wa-dhukhr al-ʻābidīn] "فكيف لا تزال عند ذكر من هو شفيع المذنبين من امته ما دون من ربه للشعاعة وما هو الما فخر القيامة"Incipit: [Muhimmāt al-muftī] "كتاب الطهارة الطهارة في اللغة النظافة وفي الشريعة النظافة عن النجاسات ..." ; [Badr al-wāʻiẓīn wa-dhukhr al-ʻābidīn] "المجلس الاول في الايمان قال الله تعالى الله ولي الذين امنوا يخرجهم من الظلمات الى النور والذين كفروا اولياؤهم الطاغوت يخرجهم من النور الى الظلمات اولئك اصحاب النار هم فيها خالدون ايها المؤمنون والعارفون فاختاروا بين الوليين ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.2. p.294-p.414 : [Badr al-wāʻiẓīn wa-dhukhr al-ʻābidīn] / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Ibn Malak al-Rūmī.2. p.293 : ['title page' for second work, originally left blank, now carries assorted excerpts].1. p.2-p.292 : [Muhimmāt al-muftī] / Kemalpaşazade.Velkov, Asparouh. Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans: divers types d’images. Sofia: Éditions "Texte - A. Trayanov", 2005.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Akün, Ömer Faruk. "Firishte-oghlu."Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the collection of legal decisions by Kemalpaşazade (d.1534) followed by Badr al-wāʻiẓīn wa-dhukhr al-ʻābidīn, occasionally attributed to Firişteoğlu (Firiştezade) ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-shahīr bi-Ibn Malak, but more likely by his son Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Ibn Malak al-Rūmī. Contents listing on upper board lining.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).Account inscriptions on upper board lining ; extensive glosses ; occasional marginal corrections and notabilia (side-heads), some rubricated

Durar al-ḥukkām ... [etc.], [966, i.e. 1559].

Fine copy of Muḥammad ibn Farāmurz Mullā Khusraw's commentary upon his own treatise on principles of Ḥanafī legal practice, Ghurar al-aḥkām, followed by a brief treatise by Kemalpaşazade on a question concerning qāḍīs.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 83Origin: As appears in colophon on p.526, copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Iskandar. Transcription completed ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min katb hādhā al-kitāb...") at noon on Friday 18 Rabīʻ II 966 [ca. 28 January 1559].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts carrying notes, glosses (paginated pp.13-14, pp.95-96, pp.177-178, pp.185-186, pp.189-190, pp.197-198, pp.229-230, pp.237-238, pp.261-262, pp.323-324, pp.395-396) and in two cases, detailed diagrams (paginated pp.65-66 and pp.111-112).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 84. Work on Hanafi law by Muh. b. Faramurz."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper (over marbled paper) ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with vegetal composition (horizontal and vertical symmetry as with Déroche class. OSd) ; sewn mainly in white thread (rarely yellow), two and four stations, though many threads are loose, broken or missing threads and textblock is entirely detached at spine ; endbands lost though traces of primaries in yellow and green visible ; in very poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, fore-edge flap detaching from lower cover, etc. ; various repairs in brown leathers ; cover extremely ill-fitting (far too small) ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper with chain lines grouped in threes, 11-16 mm. between the chains and 32-39 mm. between the groups ; flyleaves in European laid paper with three crescents (tre lune) watermark ; added leaves carrying table of contents in European laid paper with crown above grapes or beaded diamond watermark ; latter quires of text in European laid paper with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and some notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; some overlining and textual dividers in the form of discs in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish or Persian hand ; virtually sans serif, though quite miniscule right-sloping head serif occasionally appears on lām, etc. ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred ; kāf alif ligature forming complete loop ; occasional very slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, II (4), 24 V(244), IV (252), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.453-454).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ من كتب هذا الكتاب في يوم الجمعة وقت الظهر الثامن عشر في شهر ربيع الاخر من سنة ست وستين وتسعمائة على يد عبد اضعف عباد الله عبد الرحيم بن الحاج اسكندر عفى عنهما الملك المعبود القادر الحمد لله على الاتمام وعلى كل حال في الاسلام والصلوة والسلام على رسوله سيد الانام وعلى اله العظام واصحابه الاكرام" ; followed by authorial colophon.Explicit: "كان فسخهما بمنزلة الاقالة فيلزم الوصي كما لو تقابلا حقيقة فاذا فسخ القاضي لم يكن اقالة فلا يلزم الوصي. هذا اخر ما من الله تع علي بلطفه من شرح غرر الاحكام المسمى بدرر الحكام واستطلاع اراء فضلاء الامة العظام ... ليس الغرض الاصلي من هذه الكلمات التمدح بل الامثال بما يفهم من قوله تع واما بنعمة ربك فحدث"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع القويم بمحكمه كتابه واعلى اعلام الدين المستقيم بمعظم خطابه ..."Title from close on p.525.Ms. codex.5. fol.252b : [blank].4. fol.251b-fol.252a : Risale-yi istihlaf / Kemalpaşazade.3. fol.251a : [originally blank, now carries various excerpts].2. fol.5a-fol.250b : Durar al-ḥukkām / Molla Hüsrev.1. fol.1a-fol.4b : [added table of contents].Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of Muḥammad ibn Farāmurz Mullā Khusraw's commentary upon his own treatise on principles of Ḥanafī legal practice, Ghurar al-aḥkām, followed by a brief treatise by Kemalpaşazade on a question concerning qāḍīs.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. 84. Work on Hanafi law by Muh. b. Faramurz." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "66" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; ownership statement on front flyleaf reads "صاحب ومالك منلا يحيى بن الحاجى مصطفى افندى درر" ; almond shaped seal-impression on p.529 ; occasional glosses, marginal corrections and notabilia (side-heads)