[Risālah fī tārīkh al-Maghrib fī ʻahd al-Sulṭān Mawlāy Sulaymān, late 19th century?].

Crude transcript (arranged for annotation) of an excerpt of a larger work containing an account of the tribes and regions of Morocco under the ʻAlawī sulṭān, Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ismāʻīil (d.1822).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 896Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest late 19th century ; bookseller's label suggests terminus ante quem in the range of 1886 to 1916.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Persian [crossed out] Arabic Manuscripts (Heyworth Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owen notes" -- b. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- c. Recycled card with notes in pencil "Maghribi script – N. African script (not incl. Egypt) | same writer as that of the pencilled ms. [i.e. Isl. Ms. 898] | apparently transcribed from anr. ms. (on right) & his notes on how to puzzle it out (on left)"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 45Binding: Fiber boards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in brown, blue and dark pink) with dark brown cloth over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; sewn in heavy cream thread, four stations, over two wide tapes / bands (flexible sewing) ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, board and cloth, etc.Support: European "laid" paper (no watermarks visible) upon which leaves carrying the transcript have been affixed (every other leaf) ; compare Isl. Ms. 898.Script: Maghribī script ; crudely executed in pencil in imitation of the exemplar, mainly serifless and rounded with sweeping descenders, spur-like tail on alif of prolongation, slight effect of inclination to the right, etc. (compare transcript of Isl. Ms. 898).Layout: Transcript written mainly in 17 lines per page ; every other leaf carries a varying number of clarifications or glosses of vocabulary from the Arabic text as well as notes in English.Collation: i, V+1 (11), XI (29), VIII (45), i ; leaves of transcript have been mounted in such a way as to allow space for annotations on facing pages, many of which are thus partially or fully blank ; catchwords present in transcript (as they appeared in the exemplar) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, appears only on leaves carrying the transcript.Explicit: "والغزال في السحراء والطيور النعام في السحراء ايضا وهذا ما وجدنا في الاخبار والله يوفقنا لما يجب ويحبه ويرضاه كملت"Incipit: "فصل في معرفة قبائل المغرب الذين هم محدودين في حكومة السلطان الاعظم الخليفة الافخم الشريف الجليل الماجد الاصيل مولانا سليمن [سليمان] بن مولانا محمد بن مولانا عبد الله بن مولانا اسماعيل نصره [؟] الله وخلد ملكه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Forsyth, Michael. Bath. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.Bennison, Amira K. "ʿAlawī dynasty." In EI3,Crude transcript (arranged for annotation) of an excerpt of a larger work containing an account of the tribes and regions of Morocco under the ʻAlawī sulṭān, Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ismāʻīil (d.1822).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Description on verso of front flyleaf "An account of the Provinces in the Kingdom of Selim Ben Mahomed Ben Abdallah Ben Ismail i.e. of Morocco written in the Moorish character" ; on opening leaf, a listing distinguishing "Moorish", i.e. Maghribī letterforms from the standard forms of the Islamic East ; label on back flyleaf "GEORGE GREGORY, Book Merchant and Library Buyer, 5, Argyle Street, BATH" and on lower pastedown "GEORGE GREGORY, Bookseller to H.M. Queen Alexandra, 5, Argyle Street, BATH" (compare Isl. Ms. 898) ; extensively annotated

Risālah-i Maṭlūb al-fuqarāʼ va muntakhab-i irshād al-vāṣilīn, [19th century?].

Careful copy of an anonymous Ṣūfī treatise. Table of contents (فهرست) at opening on p.3.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 875Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. may suggest 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 7. Risāleh-i Maṭlūb al-fuqarā va Muntakhab-i irshād al-vāṣilīn. A Ṣūfī tract. No date. XIXth century?" -- b. Recycled card with Emilie Savage-Smith [?] notes "Sufi writing" -- c. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- d. Slip with "n. f." [i.e. not found, likely in hand of E. Husselman].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 24Binding: Pasteboards covered in teal or blue-green block-printed paper (scrollwork and vegetal designs in brown) with brown paper over spine and board corners (half-binding) ; Western style binding ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in heavy white thread, three stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with moisture damage, abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, staining, etc.Support: non-European (likely Indian or Persian) laid paper with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, somewhat indistinct, curved) and no chain lines plainly visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished, cream in color ; ink bleed through somewhat obscures text ; opening added leaf carrying table of contents (p.3) in European laid paper with watermark of scrollwork with flanking lion and eagle at center partially visible.Decoration: Keywords, headings and some symbols (numerals, etc.) rubricated ; written area surrounded by double rule-border in red ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; quick hand in a heavy line ; mainly serifless with marked effect of tilt to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: VIII+1 (17) ; catchwords present ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "خوردن و خوراندن حرام است این رساله را مطلوب الفقرا و منتخب ارشاد الواصلین نام نهاده شد تمت تمام شد ختم رساله"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمین والعاقبت للمتقین ... بدان اى درویش که دلق فقیری پوشیدن ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.6.Ms. codex.Careful copy of an anonymous Ṣūfī treatise. Table of contents (فهرست) at opening on p.3.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Possible former inventory number in pencil "413" and label with title "رساله مطلوب الفقرا و منتخب ارشاد الواصلين" on upper board lining ; inscription on blank opening leaf (p.1) in pencil "Anonymous. Risâle matlûb al-fuqarâʼ wa muntakhab etc." ; title repeated on blank opening leaf (p.1) and 'title page' (p.5) in brown ink "رساله مطلوب الفقرا و منتخب الواصلین است" ; possible former inventory mark "16" with title "Risâla i maṭlûb-ul-fuqarâ and inscription "Persian. Sufism." on lower boar lining ; fairly clean copy

[Mukhtārāt fī tārīkh al-Dawlah al-ʻUthmānīyah, 19th century?].

Transcript of excerpts from a historical work addressing the final Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos [Palaeologus] (d.1453), and the Ottoman Sultans Bayezid II (r.1481-1512), Selim I (r.1512-1520), and Süleyman I [the Magnificent] (r.1520-1566).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 898Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest late 19th century ; bookseller's label suggests terminus ante quem in the range of 1886 to 1916.Accompanying materials: "a. Card with writing in hand of Emilie Savage-Smith: 'Not native hand, European? or very old writer | Arabic, in pencil | probably transcribing a text.' -- b. Slip of paper: 'Persian [crossed out] Arabic Manuscripts (Heyworth-Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owens notes' -- c. Slip of paper: 'Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report.'"- from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993, no longer in volume.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 47Binding: Boards covered in dark brown cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns in wove paper (opening leaf of opening quire and final leaf of final quire) ; sewn in heavy cream thread, four stations, over two wide tapes / bands (flexible sewing) ; overall in fair condition with spine cloth gone (exposing sewing), some staining, abrasion, etc.Support: European wove paper upon which leaves carrying the transcript have been affixed (compare Isl. Ms. 896).Script: Naskh ; somewhat crudely executed in pencil in imitation of the exemplar ; mainly serifless, rounded with curvilinear descenders, occasional slight effect of words inclining to the left, otherwise adhering fairly consistently to the baseline, pointing in distinct dots, mainly open counters ; section headings in a larger, bolded script approaching tawqīʻ or thuluth ; compare Isl. Ms. 896.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV* (7), 2 IV(23), IV* (30) ; opening leaf of opening quire and final leaf of final quire serving as pastedowns ; exclusively quaternions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, in lower outer corner of each page.Incipit: "تملك قسطنطين الاخير في التفاقم طول اناتك ايها السيد الضابط الكل كيف سمحت بهذه الامور بطول اناتك لكن اقول مع النبي من ذا عرف عقل الرب او من صار مشيرا عليه اي قلب حجري يقدر ان لا يكبر ولا ينوب ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Transcript of excerpts from a historical work addressing the final Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos [Palaeologus] (d.1453), and the Ottoman Sultans Bayezid II (r.1481-1512), Selim I (r.1512-1520), and Süleyman I [the Magnificent] (r.1520-1566).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Label on upper pastedown "GEORGE GREGORY, Book Merchant and Library Buyer, 5, Argyle Street, BATH" (compare Isl. Ms. 896) ; fairly clean copy

[Risālah dar maṣāyib-i Ahl-i Bayt, ca. 1824].

Fine though acephalous copy of a work in twenty chapters (مجلس) on the tragedies suffered by the family of the Prophet, particularly the martyrdom of Imām Ḥusayn.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 901Origin: Colophon at close on p.551 is incomplete ; paper would suggest 19th century and dated watermark suggests ca. 1824.Accompanying materials: a. Part of a page torn from 1913 catalog, Luzac & Co., with description and price for this manuscript "321 Tragedy of Husain. No author's name mentioned. Persian MS. Written on blue tinted paper of various shades ; in fair Naskhi character ; 2 inks. Small 4to. Leather. 230 folios. No date ; eighteenth century. 15s. One or two folios missing from the beginning." (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Recycled E. J. W. Gibb Memorial form letter with notes in pencil on the reverse, repeating description found in Luzac catalog (paginted pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "Persian Manuscripts [in pencil 'or lithograph?'] (Heyworth-Dunne?) No Hussulman or Meredith-Owen notes" (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.7-8) -- e. Matching piece of upper hinge (paginated pp.127-128) -- f. Scrap with Qurʼānic excerpt / portion of Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ (paginated pp.195-196).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 50Binding: Pasteboards faced in dark brown leather with light brown, black and red leather over spine and board edges (producing effect of leather faced and edged framed binding, but likely repairs) ; Type III binding (without flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; doublures in red leather ; portion of hinges in manuscript "waste" (recycled paper) remains affixed to doublures (matching piece for upper hinge has been tucked in to the book and paginated pp.127-128) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and lime green thread, fair condition, headband protected by tab extending from spine leather ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, deterioration of leather, etc. ; possibly reuse of covered boards (recycled covers).Support: European laid paper of several types ; one type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of double-headed eagle with shield at center and small crown above (see p.16, 28, 114, 150, 512, etc.) and cursive initials "B C ф" (see p.506, 507, etc.) ; another type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-31 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermarks of fleur-de-lis (see p.166, etc.), date "1823" (see p.160, 164, etc.) and cursive initials "A CA" (see p.108, 109, etc. and compare Heawood no. 3064) ; another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of Pro Patria with lion and initial "M H" [?] to the side (see p.58, 60, 198, 337, 549-550, etc.) ; still another type with watermark of date "1824" (see p.352, 408, 422, etc.) ; almost all blue-tinted (occasional bifolia or entire gatherings a gray color, see p.529-540 with Pro Patria watermark).Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; occasional overlining in red.Script: Naskh in a form reminiscent of Bihārī ; spacious, elegant hand in a fairly thin line ; mainly serifless and quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, many open counters, large oval form for ṭāʼ, ẓāʼ, ḍād, ṣād with ṣād and ḍād particularly rather flat, pointing in distinct dots often oriented vertically, adhering fairly consistently to baseline, point of final nūn set deep in bowl, letters fairly uniform in height, etc. ; Arabic passages usually vocalized.Layout: Written in 15-19 lines per page.Collation: 1+I+I (5), 2 [2I+2I] (21), I+I+I (27), I+I+2 (33), II+1 (38), IV (46), IV+1 (55), V (65), IV (73), V (83), III (89), V (99), II (103), 2 IV(119), IV+2 (129), II (133), II+1 (138), 2 IV(154), III (160), 6 IV(208), II (212), IV (220), II+1 (225), 2 IV(241), 2 III (253), II (257), I+I (261), III (267), II+2 (273) ; haphazard assemblage, some composed gatherings in which a gathering of eight or six leaves is formed by guarding together individual bifolia without nesting them ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing (includes inserts and drops six pages following p.386 with p.381).Colophon: "Authorial" and or "Scribal" [?], reads "و قد فرغت من تسويد هذا الكتاب فى شهر ذي حجة من شهور "Explicit: "لعنة الله عليهم وعلى سائر ظالمى ال محمد صلى الله عليه واله وعذبهم عذابا يستغيث منه اهل النار امين رب العالمين تمام شد کتاب امید که فایده کوبه کافه شیعیان ال رسول الله صلی الله علیه واله برسد و مؤلف عاصی را از خوانندگان و نویسندگان ملتمس است که چنانچه بر خطائی مطلع باصلاح آن این ضعیف را ممنون نمانید و این روسیا را بدعائی یاد نمانید"Incipit: "چها که از تو بر ال مصطفى رسید کم تربک لما صرعوا من دم سال من دمع جری چه خونها که بر خاک ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from introductory matter on p.11 ff.Ms. codex.Fine though acephalous copy of a work in twenty chapters (مجلس) on the tragedies suffered by the family of the Prophet, particularly the martyrdom of Imām Ḥusayn.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Possible former inventory mark in pencil on incipit page (p.9) "MS | 1912" ; glosses and marginal corrections

Kıssa-yi Ebülmihcen ve sair-i mucizat, [1140, i.e. 1727 or 1728].

Careful copy of a poetic rendering of uncertain authorship relating the tale of Abū Miḥjan ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb, Arab poet of the Thāqif tribe who converted to Islam in 631-2 and fought at al-Qādisīyah. Eleazar Birnbaum (who examined the manuscript in June, 1964) has characterized the form as folk poetry couplets, style possibly 15-16th cent.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 857Origin: As appears at close on p.165, dated 1140 [1727 or 8].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with notes in hand of Eleazar Birnbaum, "Author ? | Title ? | [Title on flyleaf in a different hand KIṢṢA-I EBŪʼL MIHCAN VE SĀʼIR MUʻJIZĀT. "The Story of Abū al-Mihjan and other marvels" | The events of the early years of Islam in Ottoman Turkish. folk poetry. couplets, style possibly 15-16th cent. | Date [of copy] 1140 AH (1727-1728 A.D. | E Birnbaum June 1964" -- b. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Ḳissah i Abū al-Mahjan. Turkish A.H. 1140 (= A.D. 1727) | So Nuttall's list | Nothing found about this anywhere."Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 6Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather with dark red-brown leather now over spine (repair) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition) ; spine gold-stamped "K¨ISSA ¨I EBU L-MIHDJEN | MS. 1140" ; head edge of text block gilt ; now sewn in white thread over four recessed cords ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, staining, etc. ; repairs to spine (rebacked) and flap in dark red-brown and dark brown leathers.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal) and three crescents watermark (roughly 95 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.12, 16, etc.), quite dense and sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished.Script: Naskh ; clear, spacious hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, some elongation of horizontal strokes, open and closed counters, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in conjoined dots ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 6 V(60), 2 IV(76), iii ; quinions followed by two quaternions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink (now fading), Western numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips ahead 8 pages following p.90 with p.99).Explicit: "بوفاني دنياده يارى وفادار بولم ديرسك سكا يار اول سكا يار سنه ١١٤٠"Incipit: "بو بنده چاره اولورسه ايدر اول موسى بويله ددى طوتدم كنه يول ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.7).Ms. codex.Careful copy of a poetic rendering of uncertain authorship relating the tale of Abū Miḥjan ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb, Arab poet of the Thāqif tribe who converted to Islam in 631-2 and fought at al-Qādisīyah. Eleazar Birnbaum (who examined the manuscript in June, 1964) has characterized the form as folk poetry couplets, style possibly 15-16th cent.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Notes in French (in a now greyish ink) on 'title page' (p.7) ; brief waqf statements or marks appear occasionally in margins "وقف" or "وقف وقف وقف" ; otherwise fairly clean copy

[Kitāb-i lughāt ... etc., 19th century].

Careful copy of an excerpt from a Persian-Persian dictionary from Bāb al-alif through Bāb al-nūn, followed by an excerpt from a work on Persian prosody and preceded by assorted poetic excerpts.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 858Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest mid 19th century. Ownership statement on front flyleaf (p.3) provides rough terminus ante quem of 1875.Accompanying materials: Slip with notes in hand of Eleazar Birnbaum, "Author ? | Title: [KITĀB-i LUGHAT] Title on fore-edge | In Persian. | A brief dictionary Persian-Persian from rāʼ it is very sketchy | At the end part of a Persian technical treatise on prosody. (incomplete) | No date, possibly 17th cent ? | Ownership note on fly leaf 1292 A.H. (1875 A.D.) | E Birnbaum June 1964" (paginated pp.1-2).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. ms. temp. no. 7Binding: Covers in black leather with orange-brown interior (limp binding without boards) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; once stab sewn in heavy white cord ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and purple, fair condition and detaching from text block with spine lining (through which they are sewn) ; overall in fair condition with cover fully detached, some abrasion, staining, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types (mainly machine laid) ; opening type (also appearing later in the volume) with a crosshatch of "laid lines," chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "JP" in medallion with bird on ball above (see p.11, 18, 19, 102, 104, 109, etc.) ; next type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of "ALMASSO" (see p.28, 30, 31, etc.) and scrollwork with bird above tower and "POLLERA" below (see p.24, 26, 36, etc.) ; next type with crosshatch of "laid lines," chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermarks of "ALMASSO" and scrollwork with bird above tower and "GIOR MAGNANI" below (see p.40, 42, 43, 45, 52, 54, 58, 59 63, etc. and compare Heawood 3748) ; next type with crosshatch of "laid lines," chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermarks of stag leaping above pond (stag springing or salient, or even courant, p.122, 123, etc.) and "BAGLIETTO" (see p.120 125, etc.) as well as countermark "DB" in cursive initials (p.122, etc.) ; still another type with crosshatch of "laid lines," chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of "Florino GPP" below flower ; well-burnished ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; clear, spacious hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, mainly closed counters, freely ligatured.Layout: Written mainly in 15 lines per page.Collation: II (4), IV-2 (10), IV-1 (17), III+1 (24), 8 IV(88), II (92), 5 IV(132), III-1 (137) ; almost exclusively quaternions with added binion at opening ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Incipit: "باب الالف مع الالف افدستا بفتح [همزه] و دال مهمله و سکون فا و سین مهمله حمد خدای عز و جل و ستایش شگفت و نیکو چه اینکلمه مرکبست از اخذ [افد] که بمعنی شگفت است ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from edge title.Ms. codex.4. p.267-p.276 : [Risālah-i ʻarūz̤-i Fārsī]3. p.11-p.266 : [Kitāb-i lughāt].2. p.10 : [blank].1. p.4-p.9 : [assorted poetic excerpts].Careful copy of an excerpt from a Persian-Persian dictionary from Bāb al-alif through Bāb al-nūn, followed by an excerpt from a work on Persian prosody and preceded by assorted poetic excerpts.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Former owners' marks on opening add leaf (p.3) include listing of volumes / titles, inventory number "MS 1906" with extent/collation statement "131 folios", and ownership statement dated Jumādá I [?] 1292 [June-July? 1875] in name of one Muḥammad Ṣādiq ... [?] ( محمد صادق ) accompanied by small oval seal impression ; marginal corrections

Dīvān-i Mushfiqī Bukhārī, [17th century?].

Elegant copy of the Dīvān of the Tajik poet Mushfiqī (ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, d.1588) with qaṣāʼid, ghazalīyāt, muqaṭṭaʻāt, rubaʻīyāt, etc. as well as his brief mas̲navī Sāqī-nāmah (pp.375-381).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 869Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. would suggest 17th century. Chronogram at close of dīvān on p.375 "اتمام يافت" may suggest date of composition of 973 [1565-6].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) Husselman notes" -- b. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Mushfiqī, Bukhārī | Dīvān | BMC. Cat. Pers. MS. Suppl. has a Mushfiqī, Bagdadī in a Tazkirah of ancient & modern Persian poets. No Bukhārī found. Apparently we do not have | 190 ff. 379 pp." -- c. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- d. Tag with "#10"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 18Binding: Boards faced in blue-green cloth with dark green leather over spine (straight grain) and board corners (approaching half-binding) ; Western style-binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in shell 'marbled' paper (mainly in brown, blue and pink) ; leather extending on upper and lower covers gold-stamped with toothed borders ; spine gold-stamped with decorative bands and title and author "DIWAN | I | MUSHFIKI | I | BUKHARI" ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords (visible at spine) ; overall in somewhat poor condition with severe spine slant (cocked), spine leather detaching, abrasion, staining, etc.Support: non-European (likely Indian or Persian) laid paper with roughly 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, indistinct, some curving) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, dark cream in color, well-burnished ; some pest damage, staining and tide lines ; extensive repairs.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in red, yellow, green, etc. on grounds of blue and gold, surmounted by a set of scalloped domes (nearly evoking w-shaped piece) filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in shades of pink, red, blue, orange, yellow, white, etc. on grounds of gold and blue, all set in a well of yellow, gold and orange bands with red accents and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area (and divisions within) surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule ; occasional section headings rubricated (mainly toward the close of the codex).Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless with gentle effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, marked elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes (contrasting with thin vertical strokes), pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: Heavily repaired with original gatherings difficult to discern though middle of the quire marks appear for some gatherings (black stroke in the lower outer corner of the right-hand leaf) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords only rarely visible (typically cut off) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (center of upper margin of the recto of each leaf) ; pagination in heavy pencil, Western numerals (upper outer corner of the verso of every other leaf) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inner flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.5-6).Explicit: "که با شد بآ کاهی انجام من"Incipit: "این نامه که روی در سیاهی دارد بیهوده خلل نامتناهی دارد ... نموده می شود که راقم این سواد مشفقی المروی ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Hitchins, Keith. " MUSHFIQI, ABDURAHMON (Mošfeqi, ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān), Tajik poet (1525-1588)," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 20 July 2004.Rahman, Munibur. "Mushfiḳī." In EI2,Rypka, J. History of Iranian Literature (Dordrecht, 1968),Elegant copy of the Dīvān of the Tajik poet Mushfiqī (ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, d.1588) with qaṣāʼid, ghazalīyāt, muqaṭṭaʻāt, rubaʻīyāt, etc. as well as his brief mas̲navī Sāqī-nāmah (pp.375-381).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Spine title transcribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf "DIWAN I MUSHFIKI I BUKHARI" ; possible former inventory numbers on spine "56" and "133," verso of front flyleaf "39" and "No 180", and inner front flyleaf (p.1) "L 39" ; collation statement with extent (number of leaves), etc. on repaired 'title page' (p.3) ; description with inventory number "۴۰۶", title, and date [chronogram taken from close of Dīvān on p.375] on repaired 'title page' (p.3) ; former inventory marks on back flyleaf ; on back inner flyleaf (p.384), stamp in name of James O'Kinealy (1837-1903), reads "J. O'KINEALY." in black ink ; fairly clean copy

Ruzname-yi hazret-i Şeyh Vefa, [17th century?].

Fine copy of the calendar or almanac of Şeyh Vefa (Muslihittin Mustafa, d.1490) comprised mainly of tables for calendar conversion, etc. with instructions in Turkish.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 871Origin: Lacks dated colophon though discussion of diagrams on p.3 address the years 1064-1066 [1653-6] ; paper, etc. suggests 17th century ; dated birth notice on p.15 provides rough terminus ante quem of 1712.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 20Binding: Boards covered in mauve cloth with red-brown leather over spine and board corners (half binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted laid paper ; spine carries raised bands and is gold-stamped "RUZNAME-I-HAZRET-I-SHEYKH VEFA" ; sewn in white thread, eight stations, rather tightly bound ; stuck-on endbands in yellow ; head edge gilt ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and countermark "V G" under trefoil visible (see p.6, etc.) ; pastedowns/flyleaves and added leaves in a much later laid paper.Decoration: Simple 'headpieces' carry headings for most of the tables, consisting of rectangular pieces with cartouches set in fields of green, blue or red ; written area surrounded by triple rule-border in red and black ; keywords, headings and some numerals and symbols (in tables and diagrams) rubricated ; consisting mainly of tables and diagrams.Script: Naskh ; compact Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, many closed counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured.Layout: Varies though each page after opening with circular diagrams (see p.2) typically with 5 lines of text above table and a varying numer of lines adjacent to table ; frame-ruled.Collation: ix, IV (8), ix ; nine blank added leaves (including flyleaves) inserted before and after leaves carrying the text ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, center of lower margin on the recto of each leaf only ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (does not include added leaves).Explicit: "احتراز لازمدر رياضتدن وسوار اولمقدن الله اعلم"Incipit: "اكر يكشنبه حرفندن غفلت اولنور ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.King, D. A Survey of the scientific manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986),Brit. Mus. Cat. Turkish MSS,Fine copy of the calendar or almanac of Şeyh Vefa (Muslihittin Mustafa, d.1490) comprised mainly of tables for calendar conversion, etc. with instructions in Turkish.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Several birth notices with details of the time of birth on final leaf, in margin of p.15 for a son (dated 9 Ṣafar 1124 [ca. 18 March 1712]) and on p.16 for two daughters (one for a daughter Emine / امينه [?] dated 24 Rabīʻ I 1193 [ca. 11 April 1779], the other for a daughter Ayşe / عايشه dated 13 [?] Ṣafar 1195 [ca. 19 Februrary 1781]) ; other excerpts and effaced statements on final leaf (p.16) ; gloss for each table in outer ruled margin (under rubricated heading ملحمه)

Durr-i maknūn, [1240, i.e. 1825].

Fine copy of a selection of excerpts from Rūmī's (d.1273) celebrated Mas̲navī compiled and elucidated by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Gujarātī.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 891Origin: As appears in colophon on p.258, transcription completed 16 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1240 [ca. 2 July 1825].Accompanying materials: a. Scrap with inscription in ink "Durr i Maknūn | A.H. 1264 [?] | Not in B.M. or India Office" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip of ruled paper with inscription in ink "Durr | e | maknūn | – | MS. | 1204 | DURR | E | MAKNŪN | – | MS. | 1204 | Title on label. | Mended & furbished | Label removed & thrown away." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 16 Durr-i maknūn | A ṣūfī poem, being an abridgement of of the Mas̲navī of Rūmī made by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Gujaratī. Copied in 1204 (?)" (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Jalāl al-Dīn, Rūmī | Durr i maknūn. An abridgment of the Masnavi Abd al-Fattah, Gujurātī. Written A.H. 1240 [in red pencil, '? 1204 ?'] = A.D. 1824. | n. f. anywhere | 118 ff. 236 pp." (paginated pp.7-8) -- e. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Husselman and Meredith-Owen notes" (paginated pp.9-10) -- f. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.11-12).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 40Binding: Pasteboards (thin) covered in dark red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures and hinges (trimmed in zig-zag pattern) also in dark red leather ; spine gold-stamped "PERSIAN | M. S." ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in dark blue and cream (headband) and dark blue and red (tailband), in fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, shrinkage, etc. ; pieced repairs in red leather at head and tail of spine, damaged at tail exposing primaries.Support: non-European (likely Indian or Persian) laid paper with roughly 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical, faint and fairly indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, quite cloudy formation, dark cream in color, quite well-burnished (burnisher's marks visible) ; flyleaves in European laid paper with watermark of dagger [?] in circle visible in front flyleaves.Decoration: Simple headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.24, consisting of rectangular piece carrying the basmalah surmounted by scalloped dome (flanked by two other scalloped domes to evoke w-shaped piece) outlined in red and blue rules ; keywords and headings rubricated ; written area surrounded by triple rule-border in red and blue, divisions within defined by double rule-borders in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant, compact hand in a medium line ; serifless with marked descent of words to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 12 lines per page, with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: vi, 11 V(110), V-1 (119), iv (plus letter tipped in) ; exclusively quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black oblique strokes in upper outer corner of right-hand leaf and lower-outer corner of left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; lacuna on p.154 marked "صحيح البياض" ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت وبالخير قد عمت ١۶ ديقعده ۱۲۴ هجرى والحمد لله على ذلك والصلوه على حبيبه واله واصحابه تم"Incipit: "ابتدا کرد مولوی علیه الرحمه مثنوی را در بیان معنیت [؟] حق با خلق که خمرت طینت آدم بیدی اربعین صباحا ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.23).Ms. codex.Fine copy of a selection of excerpts from Rūmī's (d.1273) celebrated Mas̲navī compiled and elucidated by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Gujarātī.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Possible former inventory marks on front flyleaf "MS | 1913", "L | 173", etc. ; on front flyleaf (p.13), ownership statement in name of "ميجر جنرل جناب ج ج پرس" (General George Godfrey Pearse, 1827-1905, see British Museum collection database entry for "Major George G Pearse RA" and NRA entry GB/NNAF/P146976 for "Pearse, George Godfrey (1827-1905) General"), reads "مالک این کتاب میجر جنرل جناب ج ج پرس صاحب است اگر کسی دعوی کند باطل و عاطل است" ; bookplate for Pearse (with name and coat of arms with "Nihil amanti durum") appears on lower doublure ; effaced ownership statement on 'title page' (p.23) ; tipped in at close (pp.269-270) a letter addressed to "Major General G. G. Pearse" from "Shah Mohamed Gause Gawahir Shuttary... سيد شاه محمد غوث شطارى" ( Sayyid Shāh Muḥammad Ghaws̲ī Shaṭṭārī [Shuṭṭārī] / سيد شاه محمد غوث شطارى ) dated "19 September /9/ 81 [1881]" in Bangalore and discussing his gift of this manuscript "... I have sent a Persian mystical book Named Duray Muknoo [?] and hoping that your honor might accept it, and another Persian book which you have forwarded me I have already given it to the old-book binder and I shall send it as soon as possible..." ; detailed inscription in ink on back flyleaf (p.262) signed "Geo. G. Pearse Major General, Royal Artillary" reads "Ootacamund. India. – July 1882. | This little Persian M.S. consists of selections from the great Persian work, the 'Musnuvie [Masnavie ?] ūl Shurreef' of Molannah Jallal ūl Deen Roomie, with commentaries by Moulvie Abdool Fatteh Goojratie, who terms it the 'Door i Muknoon' i.e. the secret pearl. | This copy was transcribed by an unnamed writer in A.H. 1240 corresponding to A.D. 1824. | The calligraphy is very good and neat. The work is philosophical & goes in for being deep & learned." ; collation marks "بلغ" and occasional corrections

Münşeat, [late 18th or early 19th century?].

Fine copy of a collection of letters compiled by Atıf Mehmet Emin Efendi (d.1771) while he served as secretary (mektupçu / مكتوبجى) for şeyhülislam Dürri Mehmet Efendi (d.1736) during the early part of the reign of Mahmut I (r.1730-1754) (see opening matter on p.6). For another copy compare Isl. Ms. 420.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 856Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest late 18th century though excerpt on p.78 (which appears to be a later addition) reports an event dated to 11 Jumādá II 1236 [ca. 16 March 1821] and would thus have been entered after that date.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Muḥammad Emin, Effendi. | Inshā | Many Insha's in BMCat. of Turk. MSS. but not this. nf. in U of M MSS" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip with notes in hand of Eleazar Birnbaum "Compiler: MEḤMED EMĪN efendi, died near end of 1184 AH (Jan-Mar 1771) | Title: [INŞA or MÜNŞEʼĀT] | In Ottoman Turkish | A collection of stylistic pieces compiled by Mehmed Emīn from documents while he was secretary to DURRĪ Meḥmed efendi | Eleazar Birnbaum JUNE 17 1964" (paginated pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 5Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper, hinges in marbled paper (mainly blue and white) ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold painted borders in a series of s-shaped stamps with defining fillets ; label on upper cover carries title and script ("منشات تعليق") ; originally sewn in pale yellow thread, two stations, failed or failing with some gatherings now reinforced in black or white thread, gatherings loose ; endbands virtually gone with only traces of primaries ; overall in somewhat poor condition with lifting and losses of spine leather, abrasion, staining, etc.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 21 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermarks of lion rampant on ball in scrollwork (see p.8, 10, 14, 15, 74, 75, etc.), another lion rampant in scrollwork (see p.72, 77, etc.) and "DV" alone (see p.12, 18, 28, 41, etc.) and under diadem (see p.66 and 83 and compare Nikolaev no.569 with three crescents dated 1773) ; thin and transluscent though sturdy, buff to pale yellow in color, well-sized and burnished.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻuwnān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.6 consisting of scalloped w-shaped piece filled with floral vegetal decoration in gold, pink and green, surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold frame, elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; overlining (section headings, etc.) in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; fine Turkish hand ; serifless with marked effect of tilt to the right and slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters.Layout: Written in 21 line per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 4 V(40) ; exclusively quinions ; final leaves ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (include inserts).Incipit: "طرح افكن نو زمين علم انشا اعجاز نماى طرق حسن بيان واملا بيكيوز سكسن درت سنه سى اواخرنده اناطولى صدارندن منفصلا واصل رحمت ربانى اولان اديب كامل بليغ كريم الخصائل عاطف محمد امين افندى جنابلريكه اوائل زمان محمود خانيده متكا پیراى مشيخت اسلاميه مرحوم مغفور له درى محمد افندى حضرتلرينك مدت معلومه مكتوبجيلر يكن جمع وترتيب اولنان منشأت بديعه ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.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.Roemer, H.R. "Inshāʾ (inshā)." In EI2,Fine copy of a collection of letters compiled by Atıf Mehmet Emin Efendi (d.1771) while he served as secretary (mektupçu / مكتوبجى) for şeyhülislam Dürri Mehmet Efendi (d.1736) during the early part of the reign of Mahmut I (r.1730-1754) (see opening matter on p.6). For another copy compare Isl. Ms. 420.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).Several inventory marks on upper board lining in ink and pencil ; label on upper board lining with inscription in French, brown ink, describing manuscript in terms of language, contents, decoration, etc. "Turc. انشا | formulaire de lettres de Mohammed emin efendi, mort vers la fin de l'au 1184..." ; inscription with title and former inventory mark or price on 'title page' (p.5) ; on lower board lining, various inventory marks and indications of extent as well as round paper label with depiction of tower, palms, etc. and encircling text "MAISONNEUVE ET Cie EDITEURS | A LA TOUR DE BABEL" ; fairly clean copy