[Kitāb al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar wa-baʻdahu Kitāb min Allāh sabaqa, early 18th century and 1160?, i.e. 1747?].

Fine copy of the Ṣūfī work expositing a collection of spiritual utterances attributed to al-Shaʻrānī's shaykh, ʻAlī al-Khawwāṣ al-Burullusī (d.1532 or 3). Apparently once in a collection (majmūʻah) that contained the works listed on opening 'title page' (p.9). Now followed by a work attributed to Ibn ʻArabī (d.1240), Kitāb min Allāh sabaqa.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 503Origin: As appears in colophon on p.337, final work copied by Ismāʻīl al-Liddī al-Azharī al-Rifāʻī with transcription completed 9 Jumādá II 1160 [?] [ca. 18 June 1747 ?]. Dated reading notice on opening 'title page' provides a rough terminus ante quem for first work of 1727. Paper for opening work would suggest early 18th century. Dated reading notices for one ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān on 'title pages' for both works would suggest that both works had been brought together by 1778 or 9.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Three inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-8).Former shelfmark: From spine label, inner front cover and 'title page' (p.9), "IL 77" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards now covered in dark pink cloth ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings (doublures) and lining of envelope flap in marbled paper (mainly in blue, pink, yellow and white) ; fore edge flap lined in red brown leathers ; sewn in light blue thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with some staining and lifting of cloth.Support: European laid paper of several types ; near the opening a type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks including three crescents (80 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.14, 23, etc.) and egg-like figure with six circles within and crown above (see p.18, 19, etc. and compare nos. 378, 381, 387, 392 and 394 dated 1724-1726 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1) ; another type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-29 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (73 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.34, 43, etc.) ; paper of the latter quires with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (66 mm. long, perpendicular to the chains) ; minor staining.Decoration: Some keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs and inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; at least three hands ; opening of al-Jawāhir al-durar (through p.108) in an elegant Egyptian or 'Syrian' [?] hand, mainly serifless and quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, effect of tilt to the left, freely ligatured, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly distinct dots, point of final nūn set deep in bowl, kāf mashqūqah preferred ; remainder of al-Jawāhir al-durar and paratext from exemplar (p.109-p.301) in possibly two or three hands, similar to first but more compact with pointing in strokes, freely ligatured ; final work in still another hand, somewhat angular with 'Syrian' character, mainly serifless with effect of tilt to the left or right, occasional effect of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, somewhat carelessly pointed (with two and three dots distinct or conjoined).Layout: Written in 21-23 lines per page.Collation: 16 V(160), III (166) ; almost exclusively quinions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper outer corner of the opening recto of each of the first five quires ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: [Kitāb min Allāh sabaqa] "وكان الفراغ من كتابة هذا المولف في يوم الخميس في تاسع من شهر جمادى الثاني المبارك سنه ١٦٠ على يدي افقر الورى ... الفقير اسماعيل اللدي وطنا الازهري نسبة[؟] الرفاعي طريقة عفي الله عنه وعن والديه وعن مشايخه وعن جميع المسلمين امين امين امين"Incipit: [al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلي واسلم على سيدنا محمد ... وبعد فهذه جواهر درر التقطتها من كلام شيخي وقدوتي الى الله تعالى الشيخ الكامل ... علي الخواص البرنسي [البرلسي] ... وسميته بالجواهر والدرر ..." ; [Kitāb min Allāh sabaqa] "وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم هذا كتاب من الله سبق من قبل ان فتق ورتق ضمنه عهد من صدق وصدق ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscriptions on opening 'title page' (p.9).Ms. composite codex.6. p.310-p.337 : Kitāb min Allāh sabaqa min qabli an futiqa wa rutiqa [?] / Ibn al-ʻArabī.5. p.309 : [originally blank, now 'title page' for final work with title and a few study / reading notices and ownership statement].4. p.306-308 : [blank].3. p.302-p.305 : [assorted exceprts].2. p.297-p.301 : [selection of ijāzāt, etc. transcribed from the manuscript exemplar under the heading "Ṣūrah mā ʻalá aṣlih min khuṭūṭ mashāyikh al-islām bi-Miṣr al-maḥrūsah"].1. p.10-p.297 : al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad al-Shaʻrānī.Nikolaev, Vsevolod. Watermarks of the mediaeval Ottoman documents in Bulgarian libraries. In Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, volume 1. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1954.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the Ṣūfī work expositing a collection of spiritual utterances attributed to al-Shaʻrānī's shaykh, ʻAlī al-Khawwāṣ al-Burullusī (d.1532 or 3). Apparently once in a collection (majmūʻah) that contained the works listed on opening 'title page' (p.9). Now followed by a work attributed to Ibn ʻArabī (d.1240), Kitāb min Allāh sabaqa.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.Several ownership statements (some effaced) and reading / study notices on 'title page' for opening work (p.9) including reading / study note in name of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAlī al-ʻAṭṭār ( محمد بن محمد بن علي العطار ) dated 1139 [August 1727], reading / study note in name of one ʻAbd al-Karīm ( عبد الكريم ) dated 15 Rajab 1190 [ca. 30 August 1776], ownership / purchase statement in name of ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-ʻAlamī ( عبد الحي بن عبد القادر العلمي ) dated 1193 [?] [1779 ?], reading / study note in name of Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Zaytūnah ( محمد بن عمر زيتونة ) dated 26 Jumādá II [?] 1250 [ca. 30 October 1834] or possibly 1251 [1835] , and ownership statement in name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad ... al-Ḥusaynī [?] (السيد محمد ... الحسيني ) dated 1282 [1865 or 6] ; selection of ijāzāt, etc. appearing on the exemplar from which the opening work was copied (pp.297-301) ; ownership statement and reading / study notices on 'title page' for final work (p.309) include statement dated 1192 [1778 or 9] in name of the aforementioned ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ( عبد الكريم ابن الشيخ عبد الرحمن ), ownership / purchase statement in name of the aforementioned ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-ʻAlamī ( عبد الحي بن عبد القادر العلمي ), and reading / study notice dated 26 [?] 1250 [1834 or 5] in name of ʻUmar Zaytūnah ( عمر زيتزنه ) father of the aforementioned Muḥammad (for further details on this family, see "biographical information on the Zaituna family in Ms. Berlin We II 1148, fol. 50v" description provided by B. Liebrenz) ; occasional marginal corrections

al-Asfār ʻan risālat al-anwār : fīmā yatajallá li-ahl al-dhikr min al-asrār : manuscript, [18th or 19th century?] /

Commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's Kitāb al-asfār, on "the 3 journeys, to, from and in God." Encyc. Islam, v. iii, p. 707b.Ibn al-ʻArabī's text in red, commentary by author in black; extensive marginal commentaries in hand of copyist.Pp. [1-206]. Bound with: ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, Hādhā sharḥ amṭarathu al-samawāt al-hamá ... lil-risālah ... allatī qadhaf bihā ... sayyidī al-shaykh Arslān al-mansūb bi-Dimishq al-Shām, pp. [210-323].EI2,Commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's Kitāb al-asfār, on "the 3 journeys, to, from and in God." Encyc. Islam, v. iii, p. 707b.Mode of access: Internet.AnonymousA Muslim mystic who died about 1428.Purchased in Cairo, 1924. Once part of the personal manuscript collection of Sultan Abdülhamid of Turkey

محمد بن بابويه القمّي.كتاب علل الشرائغ والأحكام. المجلّد الثاني

Numérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Version datée değumādā II 625 h. /mai 1227 (f. 195) :cette date est peut-être celle d'une copie qui a servi de modèle : elle ne peutêtre ni celle de la rédaction du texte (l'auteur est décédé en 9912.), ni cellede la copie, le filigrane du papier suggérant une date dans la deuxième moitiédu XVIIe s . Inc. (f. 1v) : العلة التي من أحلها سميتالسماء سماء والدنيا دنيا والاخرة اخرة والعلة التي من أحلها سمي آدم آدم Expl. (f. 195) : اذ اذعت سرنا بليت فينفسك وما لك واهلك ولدك تم المجلد الثاني من كتاب علل الشرايع من مصنفات الصدوقتحريرا قي شهور شهر جمادى الثاني من شهور سنة 625Marque de possession et cachet aunom de Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī qui a l'a hérité deson père (f. 195)

[Majmūʻat thalāth rasāʼil, 968, i.e. 1561].

A collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of three mystical works copied together in succession by the same copyist including: Kitāb fī al-ṭarīqah (or al-Ṭarīq al-ḥamīd ilá Allāh) a Ṣūfī work attributed to al-Shādhilī (d.1258), followed by Kitāb al-Qawānīn or Sharḥ Maḥāsin al-majālis, a commentary attributed to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Awsī al-Andalusī al-Mursī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Marʼah upon the celebrated Ṣūfī Ibn al-ʻArīf's (d.1141) Maḥāsin al-majālis, and closing with Shifāʼ al-ṣudūr wa-marātib al-ḥuḍūr or Bayān ḥaqīqat al-wuqūf ʻalá asrār al-ḥurūf a work on mysticism and the science of letters (ʻilm al-ḥurūf) attributed to Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (d.1225).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 505Origin: As appears in 'colophon' on p.3, transcription (kitābah / كتابة ) of first work begun 26 Jumādá II 968 [ca. 14 March 1561]. As appears in colophon on p.97, transcription of first work completed in 8 Rajab 968 [ca. 25 March 1561] and executed by Burhān al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad ibn Burhān al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Maʻarrī al-Ḥalabī al-Shāfiʻī al-Aḥmadī al-Shādhilī. As appears in colophon on p.144, transcription of second work completed by the same copyist ten days later, 18 Rajab 968 [ca. 4 April 1561]. As appears in colophon on p.188, transcription of final work completed by same copyist five days later, 23 Rajab 968 [ca. 9 April 1561].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and front flyleaf, "M 2" (possibly supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered with maroon cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in olive green wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry block-pressed design consisting of central medalion in the form of an oval with plumes, banners and scrollwork above and below, along with scrollwork border and cornerpieces ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; overall in fairly good condition though fully detached from the textblock ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle watermark with star above and "D" [?] below (see pp.30-31) ; some inclusions, well-sized and burnished.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated (orange-red ink).Script: Naskh ; compact, somewhat angular 'Syrian' hand ; serifless and fairly vertical, mainly adhering to baseline though occasional effect of words descending to baseline, pointing in distinct dots or strokes, mainly closed counters, elongation of horizontal strokes and some descenders (particularly rāʼ, wāw, etc. in rectilinear fashion).Layout: Written in 20-21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-1 (9), 4 V(49), II+1 (54), 3 V(84), V-1 (93), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.4. p.144-p.188 : Shifāʼ al-ṣudūr wa-marātib al-ḥuḍūr, wa-fī nuskhah tusammá Bayān ḥaqīqat al-wuqūf ʻalá asrār al-ḥurūf / Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī.3. p.101-p.143 : Kitāb al-Qawānīn, wa-huwa Sharḥ Maḥāsin al-majālis / Abū Isḥāq al-Andalusī al-Mursī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Marʼah.2. p.98-p.100 : [assorted excerpts including adʻaīyah attributed to al-Shādhilī, verses, etc.].1. p.3-p.97 : Kitāb fī al-ṭarīqah / Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Shādhilī.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Baghdādī, Ismāʻīl Bāshā. Hadīyat al-ʻārifīn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,A collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of three mystical works copied together in succession by the same copyist including: Kitāb fī al-ṭarīqah (or al-Ṭarīq al-ḥamīd ilá Allāh) a Ṣūfī work attributed to al-Shādhilī (d.1258), followed by Kitāb al-Qawānīn or Sharḥ Maḥāsin al-majālis, a commentary attributed to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Awsī al-Andalusī al-Mursī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Marʼah upon the celebrated Ṣūfī Ibn al-ʻArīf's (d.1141) Maḥāsin al-majālis, and closing with Shifāʼ al-ṣudūr wa-marātib al-ḥuḍūr or Bayān ḥaqīqat al-wuqūf ʻalá asrār al-ḥurūf a work on mysticism and the science of letters (ʻilm al-ḥurūf) attributed to Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (d.1225).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).Waqf statement on 'title page' for second work (p.101) in name of Muḥammad Saʻīd Āghā ( محمد سعيد اغا ) , accompanied by circular seal impression (likely dated 1167 [1753 or 4]), statement reads "وقفت وقفا صحيحا بحيث لا يباع وانا الفقير محمد سعيد اغا" ; occasional glosses and marginal corrections

[Majmūʻat rasāʼil, 193-?].

Composite collection (majmūʻah) of several works opening with tracts on the Bahai faith and followed by extracts from several philosophical treatises by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d.1273 or 4), Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī (d.1430 or 31) and al-Fārābī (d.950).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 995Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 144Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "معتقدات الهائية [كذا، اي البهائية]" ; sewing in white thread, apparently over three recessed cords, tightly bound ; overall in fairly good condition, with boards curving around text block at fore edge.Support: Machine wove paper of three main types ; opening work (through p.192) in a sturdy type, cream in color ; opening section of following collection in another sturdy type, beige in color, ruled in blue, edges in red ; concluding section of collection in still another type, dark cream to beige in color, thin though sturdy.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated in opening work ; large passages of texts in majmūʻah (from p.192) executed entirely in red or pinkish red ink, elsewhere only headings rubricated.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; opening work in an elegant modern naskh in a medium line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, final yāʼ usually left unpointed ; following collection (majmūʻah) of works (from p.192 on) mainly in ruqʻah, a quick, compact hand in a medium line , serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; final works of collection in naskh similar to that in the opening work.Layout: Written mainly in 12-15, 21 and 31 lines per page.Collation: i, 12 IV(96), VIII (112), VIII+1 (129), VIII (145), 2 VI(169), i ; opening gatherings (carrying Bahai tracts) exclusively quaternions, opening section of following collection in octonions and concluding section in senions ; pages between sections of text occasionally left blank (see pp.268-269) ; quire numbering in purple pencil, black ink or red ink in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals accompanying letter ك just below the end of the final line of the opening recto of each quire in the opening section of Bahai tracts ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (opening section) ; pagination in red ink or pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (final works, from p.291) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (referenced in description).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.14. p.317-p.337 : Matn al-Fuṣūṣ / al-Fārābī.13. p.309-p.316 : Hādhihi Risālat ʻUyūn al-masāʼil / al-Fārābī.12. p.303-p.308 : Risālat ādāb ṭālib al-ḥikmah, aw Risālat Mā yanbaghī an yuqaddamu qabla taʻallum al-falsafah / al-Fārābī.11. p.299-p.303 : Maqālah sharīfah fī al-ibānah ʻan jawāmiʻ maḍāmīn Kitāb al-Muʻallim al-Awwal al-mawsūm bi-al-Ḥurūf wa-bi-Kitāb Mā baʻda al-ṭabīʻah wa-al-kashf ʻan aqsāmih wa-ʻan aghrāḍ kull qism / al-Fārābī.10. p.291-p.298 : [on eight treatises of al-Fārābī that appeared in print in 1325, i.e. 1907 or 8].9. p.282-p.290 : Min Miṣbāḥ al-uns sharḥ Miftāḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī.8. p.280-p.281 : Fuṣūl min Miftāḥ al-ghayb / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.7. p.279 : [blank].6. p.260-p.278 : Fuṣūl min Sharḥ naẓm al-Tāʼīyah al-Kubrá al-Fāriḍīyah.5. p.258-p.259 : [blank].4. p.218-p.257 : Risālah fī al-Ḥashr / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.3. p.194-p.217 : Risālat al-Nuqṭah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.2. p.193 : ['title page' with contents listing for following majmūʻah].1. p.1-p.192 : Muʻtaqadāt al-Bābīyah wa-al-Bahāʼīyah / Mīrzā ʻAbbās al-Bahāʼ.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Composite collection (majmūʻah) of several works opening with tracts on the Bahai faith and followed by extracts from several philosophical treatises by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d.1273 or 4), Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī (d.1430 or 31) and al-Fārābī (d.950).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 7939" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; occasional glosses and marginal corrections in pencil and ink