al-Niṣf al-awwal min Khulāṣat al-fatāwá, [873, i.e. 1469].

First volume of the collection of Ḥanafī fatwas by Ṭāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Bukhārī.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 67Origin: As appears in colophon on p.746, copied for himself by Muḥammad ibn al-Shujāʻī Shāhīn al-Bishlāqī [al-Bashlāqī ?] al-Ḥanafī. Transcription completed ("ʻallaqahu li-nafsih ... wa-kāna al-farāgh min taʻlīqih ...") 8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 873 [ca. 19 June 1469] in Damascus.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 52. Decisions of Bukhari."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; doublures and doublure hinges in dark brown leather, block-pressed with intricate vegetal design ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled medallion accented with gold dots, filled with geometric strapwork design having three elongated intersecting dodecagons and a six pointed star, and surrounded by interlace band and a series of small lobes with strokes at the spandrels (perhaps most comparable to Weisweiler type 49) ; a fine border of stamped interlace accented by gold dots and framed by tooled fillets, along with corner pieces complete the design ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; fine chevron endbands in red and cream, fair condition ; in fair condition with much abrasion, staining, cracking and lifting of leather, delamination of boards, shrinkage, etc.Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper of perhaps two types, one with chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with roughly 32-38 mm. between the groups and 8-10 mm. between the chains (see p.2, 6, etc.) and laid lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., the other likewise with chain lines grouped in threes with roughly 39-43 between groups and 10-12 between chains (see p.746, 747, etc.) and 7-8 laid lines per cm. ; burnished and quite thick and heavy ; significant moisture damage and staining, even obscuring text in latter quires ; flyleaves in European paper with crown-star-crescent watermark (compare Heawood 1132).Decoration: Section headings and some notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of inverted commas (alone and in threes forming triangles) in red.Script: Naskh ; fine Syrian hand ; virtually serifless ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; many closed counters ; freely ligatured ; inverted caret as an ihmāl sign to distinguish sīn ; three dots in the form of an vertically elongated inverted comma ; bar of kāf (shaqq) very often disconnected.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV+1 (9), 5 V(59), IV+1 (68), 2 V(88), V-1 (97), 10 V(197), IV (205), 4 V(245), III+1 (252), 2 V(272), V-1 (281), 9 V(371), II+1 (376), ii ; chiefly quinions ; final three leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ١ on 'title page'/fol.2a/p.3) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "علقه لنفسه العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد ابن الشجاعي شاهين البشلاقي الحنفي بدمشق المحروسة زادها الله شرفا وصانها من جميع الافات بمحمد واله وكان الفراغ من تعليقه نهار الاحد ثامن شهر ذي الحجة من شهور سنة ثلاث وسبعين وثمان مائة والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا [؟] محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما ابدا ورضي الله عن اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين"Explicit: "القرض في كل عددي متقارب وفي كل كيلي ووزني ولا يجوز قرض الحيوان والعقار والخشب وما كان متفاوتا الكل في الاصل والله اعلم. اخر الجزء الاول من الخلاصة الفتاوى ويتلوه الجزء الثاني الاخير [؟] والثاني كتاب الاجازات ان شاء الله تعالى"Incipit: "الحمد لله خالق الارواح والاجسام وجاعل النور والظلام ... وقال الامام الزاهد ... افتخار الملة والدين ... طاهر بن احمد بن عبد الرشيد البخاري نور الله تربته ... وقد كتبت كتب في هذا الفن احدهما تسمى بخزانة الواقعات والثانية تسمى كتاب النصاب فسألني بعد ذلك بعض اخواني ان اكتب نسخة قصيرة يمكن ضبظها وتيسير حفظها فكتبت هذه النسخة ... وسميتها كتاب الخلاصة ..."Title from inscription accompanying table of contents on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,First volume of the collection of Ḥanafī fatwas by Ṭāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Bukhārī.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on upper doublure, "British Museum, London. No. 52. Decisions of Bukhari." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "62" in Western numerals on front flyleaf ; on paper pasted on ’title page’ (fol.2a/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 بشرط ان لا يخرج من دار الكتب الذي بنيته في اتصال داري الا لعلماء نفس ارضروم ان احتاجوا اشد الاحتياج بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم عفى [كذا] في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; two other distinct seal impressions on fol.2a (p.3) ; marginal corrections, notabilia (side-heads) and glosses appear occasionally throughout ; collation marks "بلغ" appear only rarely ; occasionally text for rubrication appears in the margins, elsewhere cut off

[Risālat Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb maʻa sharḥihā lil-Chillī, 1127, i.e. 1715].

Fine copy of the manual of arithmetic Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī (d.1621), followed by commentary by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.). Copyist has transcribed what appears to be the opening of another ms. copy of Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb on the 'title page' (p.1).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 118Origin: As appears in colophon on p.64 and p.190, both works copied by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Shāhīn in Erzurum. Transcription of first work finished Rabīʻ II 1127 [April-May 1715]. Transcription of second work finished final days of Jumādá II 1127 [July 1715].Accompanying materials: Slip with notes (paginated pp.65-66).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 78. Khulasat al-hisab."Binding: Pasteboards covered in paper (once pink with floral pattern in gold, see envelope flap) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations, though sewing is very often missing ; overall in quite poor condition with significant losses of paper on upper and lower cover, significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs in assorted leathers.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), three hats watermark ; tearing and staining.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, abbreviations, and numerals rubricated ; written area (including ruled margins) through p.20 surrounded by red rule-border ; textual divders in red ; many geometric diagrams in red.Script: Naskh ; bold Turkish hand ; mainly serifless ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred ; descenders mainly tapered ; final nūn occasionally reversed (or re-curved) ; opening quire (through p.20) in a very similar but larger hand with more open counters.Layout: Written in 13 and 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 V(20), VI (32), 5 V(82), VI (94) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present in second work ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Colophon: [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الرسالة بعون الله الملك المنان سنة ۱۱۲۷ على يد الضعيف عمر بن احمد بن شاهين في سنة سبع وعشرين ومائة والف في ربيع الاخير في يوم الثلثاء في بلدة ارض روم في محلة المفتي" ; [Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الرسالة الشريفة بعون الملك المعين العطية فيما بين الفجر والضحى في يوم الثلثاء من ايام اواخر جمادى الاخير على يد المذنب المحتاج الى ربه الغني عمر بن احمد بن شاهين غفر له ولوالديها في المدينة المسماة بالارزن الروم سنة ۱۱۲۷"Explicit: [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "فاحفظ وصيتي اليك والله حفيظ عليك" ; [Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "فمجموع الرمح اثنى عشرة ذراعا ونصف وهو المطلوب"Incipit: [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجميع نعمه عدد ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في الحساب مرتبة على مقدمة وعشرة ابواب" [p.1] "نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجميع نعمه عدد ... وبعد فان الفقير الى الله الغني بهاء الدين محمد بن الحسين العاملي ... يقول ان علم الحساب لا يخفي علو شانه وسمو مكانه ... وهذه رسالة حوت الاهم من اصوله ... وهي خلاصة كتاب المتقدمين ... سميتها خلاصة الحساب ورتبتها على مقدمة وعشرة ابواب" ; [Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "يا من عجز عن جميع تضاعف نعمه اقلام افهام العقلاء ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالمائي الچلي رسمت فيما مضى في ايام التحصيل واثناء التدريس والتعطيل تعليقات على المواضع المشكلة وتنبيهات على رموز المباحث المفصلة في الرسالة البهائية في الحساب المشهور فيما بين اولى الالباب ..."Title supplied by catloguer.Ms. codex.3. p.68-p.190 : [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Bahāʼīyah fī al-ḥisāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.2. p.67 : [blank].1. p.1-p.64 : Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the manual of arithmetic Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī (d.1621), followed by commentary by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.). Copyist has transcribed what appears to be the opening of another ms. copy of Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb on the 'title page' (p.1).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. 78. Khulasat al-hisab." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "366" in Western numerals on 'title page' (p.1) ; on blue-tinted paper pasted on ’title page’ (p.1), 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 اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; numerous glosses and marginal corrections