فتح الوجـود و شرح الجود فى مدح مولانا الباشـا محمــود « Ouverture de l'existence et déploiement de la générosité, offrant les louanges de Maḥmoûd Pacha ».

فتح الوجود و شرح الجود فى مدح مولانا الباشا محمودNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Panégyrique en vingt-quatre chapitres de Maḥmoûd Pacha, gouverneur d'Égypte, sous le règne du sultan Sélim (1566 à 1574 de J. C.), par Ramadhân ibn ʿÂmir ibn ʿAlî. A la fin, l'auteur a ajouté deux qaṣîdas : la première se compose de quatrains, dont les trois premiers vers commencent et finissent par la même lettre de l'alphabet, à commencer par l'élif ; le quatrième vers est un refrain, dont les mots sont قد عمر الوجود لما ولى المحمود « l'existence fut embellie sous le gouvernement de Maḥmoûd ». La seconde qaṣîda est écrite sur les côtés et dans l'intérieur d'une enfilade de cercles. Le présent ms., accompagné d'apostilles en prose rimée dont chacune est écrite de la main d'un docteur parmi les ulémas, est l'exemplaire original offert par l'auteur au pacha

Kifāyat al-ṭālib li-ʻilm al-waqt wa-bughyat al-rāghib fī maʻrifat al-dāyir wa-faḍlihi wa-al-samt : manuscript, [1st half of 18th cent.?] /

"A treatise on timekeeping in 23 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 111. Marginal note on p. [1] refers to works of Ḥasan al-Jabartī on timekeeping.Watermark: Scrollwork.Text and marginal notes rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist; foliation added by copyist (?).Possible early to mid-18th cent. date based on author's death date.GAL,"A treatise on timekeeping in 23 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 111. Marginal note on p. [1] refers to works of Ḥasan al-Jabartī on timekeeping.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundImportant 18th-century Egyptian astronomer; pupil of Egyptian astronomers Riḍwān Afandī al-Falakī (d. 1710) and Muḥammad al-Birshamsī; close friend of Ḥasan al-Jabartī; his writings very popular in 18th-19th centuries. See J. Heyworth-Dunne, An Introduction to the History of Education in Modern Egypt (London, 1938), p. 79.Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's seal and autograph: min niʻmat Allāh taʻālá ʻalá ʻabdhihi al-faqīr Aḥmad Ḥ[?]; on p. [1], owner's seal: min mumtalakāt al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Nāfiʻ; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof

al-Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah wa-al-sīrah al-aḥmadīyah, [1117, i.e. 1705].

Neat, well-glossed copy of the sermons and homilies of Birgivî (Birkawī, Birgilī) Mehmet Efendi.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 35Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.294a (p.596), copied by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājī Ramaḍān. Transcription finished ("qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah...") Muḥarram 1117 [April-May 1705].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts carrying extensions of the glosses (paginated pp.9-10, 15-16, 23-24, 35-36, 41-42, 45-46, 61-62, 231-232, 349-350), often sewn or tipped in.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 111. Al-Tarikat al-muhammadiyah."Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper (in blue, yellow, pink, white) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark brown (to black) leather (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in paper ; some red leather on flap ; marbled paper has been placed over blind stamped design (central lozenge with vegetal pattern) ; sewn in white thread, two stations, with primaries in dark blue thread ; fine worked chevron endbands in red and yellow ; in poor condition with much abrasion, staining, cracking and splitting of leather at joints, etc. ; upper board nearly detached and corners exposed and delaminating ; lower board cracked ; envelope flap is entirely gone and fore-flap is detaching from lower cover ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with roughly 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced 23-25 mm. apart ; watermarks include coat of arms with cross flanked by griffins, crown above and two circles below, upper with "A G R", lower with "I" (compare Heawood 755).Decoration: Text rubricated with abbreviation symbols, overlining, keywords, section headings, etc. in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, three inverted commas, etc.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; virtually serifless, but occasional right-sloping head-serif on lām, etc. even free-standing alif ; effect of slant to the left ; mainly closed counters ; hand may change where line thickness changes (pp.351-526) but a very similar Turkish naskh.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident), both central area and margins.Collation: VI (12), 9 V(102), IV+1(111), 2 V(131), IV (139), 3 V(169), III (175), 7 V(245), VI (257), V (267), VI (279), V (279), IV (297) ; chiefly quinions ; first three leaves and final three leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts, skips two pages each between pp.3-4, 57-58 and 139-140, mistakenly repeats p.557 twice).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماة بطريقة المحمدية والسيرة الاحمدية لمولانا البركوي محمد افندي تغمده الله مغفرانه واسكنه بحبوحة جنانه من يد الحقير المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الجليل ابراهيم ابن الحاجي رمضان يوم الثلث قبل الظهر من شهر المحرم في سنة سبع عشر ومائة والف والحمد لله والصلوة والسلام على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين م م م"Explicit: "وجلاء القلوب فعليك بها وطالعها حتى تعلم حقيقة مقالنا وقول الحمد لله الذي هدينا وما كنا نهتدي لو لا ان هدينا الله ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد اذ هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا امة وسطا خير امم ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل يتوافقان والكتاب والسنة يتطابقان ... فاردت ان اصنف الطريقة المحمدية واحببت ان ابين السيرة الاحمدية حتى يعرض عليها عمله كل سالك ..."Title from colophon on fol.294a (p.596).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Neat, well-glossed copy of the sermons and homilies of Birgivî (Birkawī, Birgilī) Mehmet Efendi.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,"British Museum, London. No. 111. Al-Tarikat al-muhammadiyah." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "186" in Western numerals on front flyleaf ; a waqf statement on fol.4a (p.5) reads: "وقد وقفت هذا الكتاب لرضاء الله تعالى ةقفا صحيحا بحيث لا يباع ولا يوهب ولا يرهن فمن بدله بعد ما سمعه فانما اثمه على الذين يبدلونه ان الله سميع عليم غفر الله تعالى لواقفه ولوالديه ولوالدي والديه واحسن اليهما واليه بلطفه وكرمه وفضله" ; also on fol.4a (p.5) and perhaps pasted over a final portion of the precedeing waqf statement, another 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 "عبد الله اديب", reads: "وقفت وقفا صحيحا شرعيا بشرط ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الذي بنيته في اتصال داري ان احتاجوا اشد الاحتياج بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير السيد عبده [كذا] اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم عفي عنه في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; occasional brief waqf statements appear in margins throught, "وقف" or "وقفت هذا الكتاب لعن الله على البائع والمشتري" (see fol.294b/p.595), etc. ; extensive marginal and interlinear glosses, often extending on to inserts ; occasional marginal corrections ; notabilia marked "مطلب" or "مبحث" ; extensive abbreviations (sigla and others) employed to represent various authorities and works are elucidated on fol.4a (p.5) ; tail-edge inscription (likely title) virtually illegible

Hādhā kitāb al-manhaj al-aqrab li-taṣḥīḥ mawḍiʻ al-ʻaqrab : manuscript, [1856].

Astronomical tables and instructions for using them to set pocket watches; also contains schedules entitled Mawqiʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá ḥasab awqāt al-ṣalawāt by Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Safaṭī al-Khawānikī, on determining the times for the five daily prayers.Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Title, text and tables rubricated; at top of p. [2]: yā kabīkaj.Date and name of copyist in colophon: waqafa itmāmahu fī yawm al-sabt al-mubārak al-muwāfiq li-tisʻah wa-ʻishrūn min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir sanat alf wa-miʾatayn thalāthah wa-sabʻūn min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [i.e. December 1856] ... ʻalá yad al-faqīr ... ʻAbduh Riḍwān ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān.Pp. [1-76]. Bound with: [2] ʻAbd Allāh Fikrī, Risālah fī muqāranat baʻḍ mabāḥith al-hayʾah bi-al-wārid fī al-nuṣūṣ al-sharʻīyah, pp. 1-32; [3] Ḥusayn Zāʾid, Kitāb al-maṭlaʻ al-saʻīd fī ḥisābāt al-kawākib ʻalá al-raṣad al-jadīd, pp. 1-89.Astronomical tables and instructions for using them to set pocket watches; also contains schedules entitled Mawqiʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá ḥasab awqāt al-ṣalawāt by Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Safaṭī al-Khawānikī, on determining the times for the five daily prayers.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundPurchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, autograph: Aḥmad Sālim al-Yamanī; inside cover, autograph: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ... [?]... ; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof

[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