Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ : manuscript, [1919].

"A treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them.... Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār's work merits publication and analysis." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74.Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains astronomical tables: jadwal al-Ḥalabī, jadwal al-Farghānī; colophon mentions work of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī and Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Naqqāsh.Text and tables rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Dates of exemplar and this copy, and names of both copyists in colophon: wa-tammat al-kitābah ʻalá yad aḥwaj al-khalq ilá ʻafw rabbihi al-karīm Muṣṭafá ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Jawwād al-Danīṭī[?] ... fī yawm al-thulāthāʾ rābiʻ al-Muḥarram sanat 805 [4 August 1402] ... fī yawm al-jumʻah 25 Abrīl sanat 1919 ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.For other copies of this work, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 736,1, 795,14, and 803,2.Pp. [37-48]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Kashf al-qināʻ fī maʻrifat ṣināʻat al-arbāʻ, pp. [1-35].GAL,"A treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them.... Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār's work merits publication and analysis." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundEarly 15th-cent. Egyptian (?) astronomer.Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof

Sharḥ al-Qudūrī lil-Aqṭaʻ al-juzʼ al-thānī, [716, i.e. 1316 or 1317].

Second volume of al-Aqṭaʻ's commentary on Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī, a compendium of Ḥanafī law. Added table of contents at opening of codex.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 552Origin: As appears in colophon (fol.277a), transcription completed by ("tamma hādhā al-kitāb ʻalá yad...") Muḥammad ibn Shukr [?] ibn Muʻallá Shukrlak [?] al-Dabrī [?] in the months of 716 [1316 or 17].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf "IL 211C" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in red textured cloth with brown leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in green-blue wove paper ; spine gold-stamped with title and author "شرح القدوري للاقطع" as well as gold accents flanking raised bands ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, somewhat indistinct) and grouped chain lines occasionally visible, mainly grouped in threes with 11-14 mm. between chains and 38 mm. between groups (see final leaf fol.277/p.254) cloudy formation, obvious inclusions, quite thick and sturdy, well-burnished ; added table of contents at opening supplied on folded piece of European laid paper.Decoration: Elegant illuminated titlepiece (badly damaged but repaired) in gold, blue and white with black outlining on fol.1a, upper rectangular panel carries title and author, text carried in medallion (shamsah) of lower panel difficult to make out ; textual dividers in red ; section headings, pen flourishes above قال، etc. rubricated.Script: Naskh ; two elegant Syrian or Egyptian hands ; opening hand serifless with elongation of horizontal strokes and broad, sweeping descenders, pointing in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah often pointed as yāʼ ; hand changes at fol.191a, much more rounded and freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page in the first two quires and thereafter 25-27 lines per page ; impression of ruling board evident.Collation: I (2), 15 V (152), IV (160), 3 V (190), III (196), I (198), 7 V (268), IV+1 (277) ; chiefly quinions ; lacks catchwords ; early quires (2nd through 19th) are numbered with ordinals written in Arabic (ثاني، ثالث، رابع، إلخ) in the upper corner of the outer margin on the recto of the first leaf of each quire ; foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals (curious inverted nine) in black ink begins with "١" on second leaf, skips 222, hence final count is off ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Dedication: "تم النصف الثاني من كتاب شرح القدوري للاقطع سنة ست عشرة وسبعمائة بتقديم الشيخ المهملة [?] وهو على مذهب الامام الاعظم المحرم ابي حنيفة النعمان غفر الله له ..."Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم هذا الكتاب على يد محمد بن شكر [؟] بن معلى شكرلك [...؟] الدبرى في شهور سنة ست عشرة وسبعمائة وهو يحمد الله ويصلي على نبيه محمد واله ويسلم ويسأل غفران الذنوب وستر العقوب وكشف الكروب امين"Explicit: "وقدرها دائق ونصف وعلى هذا القياس تعمل جميع من [...?] المسائل"Incipit: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم كتاب النكاح قال الشيخ ابو نصر احمد بن محمد البغدادي رحمة عليه النكاح في اللغة حقيقة ..."Title from inscription on recto of front flyleaf.Ms. codex.Hajji Khalifah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Second volume of al-Aqṭaʻ's commentary on Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī, a compendium of Ḥanafī law. Added table of contents at opening of codex.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.Collated with the exemplar 5 Rabīʻ II 744 [ca. 27 August 1343] by Abū Bakr, son of the amīr ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Ṭunbughā (ابو بكر بن الجناب العالي علاء الدين الطنبغا), see collation statement on fol.277a ; and collation statement on fol.277a, reads "قوبل بنسخة اصله حسب الطاقة والاجتهاد في مجالس اخرها بعد اذان العصر من يوم الجمعة خامس ربيع الاخر سنة اربع واربعين وسبعمائة حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل وكتبه [وانا ؟] العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى ابو بكر بن الجناب العالي ... علاء الدين الطنبغا ..." ; marks of collation "بلغ مقابلة، بلغ، الخ" throughout ; ownership / bequest statement on fol.277a in name of Aḥmad Ibn al-Lubūdī (احمد بن اللبودي), possibly the well-known scholar Aḥmad ibn Khalīl al-Lubūdī [al-Labbūdī], d.1491, statement reads "الحمد لله ملكه بالهبة الشرعية احمد بن اللبودى لطفه الله"; circular seal impression reading "... احمد" on fol.23b ; glosses and marginal corrections ; doodle of a flower on margin of fol.140a, perhaps to test the pen (pen trial)

[Sharḥ Marāḥ al-arwāḥ, 1132, i.e. 1719 or 1720].

Fine copy of a commentary by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalīl on Ibn Masʻūd's textbook of Arabic grammar, Marāḥ al-arwāḥ. Preceded by a very brief anonymous commentary listing the maṣādir of the verbs discussed in the Marāḥ al-arwāḥ and followed by a witty poem.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 133Origin: As appears in colophon on p.247, Sharḥ ʻAbd al-Raḥmān copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥasan al-Wāfī [Mustafa Hasan Vafi]. Transcription finished 1132 [1719 or 20]. As appears on p.6, opening work completed 1175 [1761 or 2].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 62. Marah al-arwah."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with red-brown leather over spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; dark blue-green paper over envelope flap ; upper board lining and interior of envelope flap in pink-tinted laid paper, lower board lining in yellow-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers and bear traces of blind-stamped scalloped mandorla, with frame in a series of s-shaped stamps defined by tooled fillets ; design continues on envelope flap ; doublures (board linings) also bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with accompanying pendants and cornerpieces, along with border in a series of tooled fillets ; design continues on interior of envelope flap ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and green, in poor condition ; overall in very poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather (particularly at foreedge flap), severe delamination of boards, staining, upper cover detaching at spine, some negative draw in upper cover, etc. ; various repairs, also damaged.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermark with crown above bar above grapes or pendant ; lightly sized and burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviations symbols rubricated ; some notabilia and marginal corrections also in red ink ; textual dividers in the form of red commas.Script: Naskh ; on main clear Turkish hand, some sections likely supplied in other hands ; mainly serifless ; very slight effect of tilt to the left, occasionally more exaggerated ; mainly closed counters ; occasional hāʼ mudghamah looking like two inverted commas ; occasional very slight effect of words descending to baseline ; many descenders tapered ; final yāʼ and alif maqsūrah mardūdah ; some variation in line thickness.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), 11 V(112), IV (120), III (126) ; chiefly quinions ; final three leaves originally left blank ; lacks proper catchwords but but 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 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.239-240).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المباركة الميمونة بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد مصطفى بن حسن الوافي غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه في سنة اثنى وثلاثون ومائة والف من جهرة [هجرة] النبوية تمت تم تم تم"Explicit: "لكنه لا يعده ايضا لمتابعة للمفرد والذي اجتمع فيه اعلالان اذا اعل عينه [؟] والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: [Sharḥ al-Marāḥ] "الحمد لله الذي اطلعنا على كتابه بعلوم العربية والتصريف وحفظ كلامه عن التبديل والتغيير والتحريف وجعل التثبت به بمراح الارواح ... اما بعد فان العبد الذليل عبد الرحمن بن خليل يقول لما اسبغ الله على عباده نعماء لا يحصى عددها ... ومن لطفه علي وافضاله الي ترقي امر بعض اولادي الى قراءة مراح الارواح ... شرحت شرحا يحتوي متنا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.3. p.248-p.250 : [originally left blank, now carries Qaṣīdah malīḥah fī al-nafs].2. p.7-p.247 : Sharḥ al-Marāḥ / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalīl al-Rūmī.1. p.4-p.6 : Shayʼan lil-maṣādir al-madhkūrah fī Marāḥ al-arwāḥ.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of a commentary by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalīl on Ibn Masʻūd's textbook of Arabic grammar, Marāḥ al-arwāḥ. Preceded by a very brief anonymous commentary listing the maṣādir of the verbs discussed in the Marāḥ al-arwāḥ and followed by a witty poem.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 62. Marah al-arwah." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "333" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; on paper (blue-tinted) pasted on 'title page' (p.7), 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" ; also on 'title page' (p.7) ownership statement in red ink reads "ملكته في سنة ١١٧٥" ; extensive marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections ; occasional notabilia (side-heads) often rubricated

Kitāb al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah wa-yalīhi al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah, [1155, i.e. 1742 and 1135, i.e. 1723].

Fine Maghribī copy of a collection of works on Mālikī law, opening with a collection of legal decisions attributed to Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī (d.1038), followed by a work of Mālikī fiqh in the same hand opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ, itself followed by Bāb nadb al-ghars or al-Mughārasah from al-Mukhtaṣar, the renowned compendium of Mālikī law by Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (d.1365), and concluding with a commentary on that very work, namely al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī (d.1685).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 659Origin: As appears in colophon on p.43, opening work copied by al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Qāsim ( الحسين بن ابي القاسم ) with transcription completed 26 Rajab 1155 [ca. 26 September 1742] (date provided in ghubār numerals). As appears in colophon on p.130, final work copied for himself by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Saʻd ibn ʻAlī al-Jazāʼirī al-Mālikī al-Ashʻarī al-Baṣrī (احمد بن عبد العزيز بن سعد بن علي الجزائري المالكي الاشعري البصري ) with transcription completed with seven days left in Shaʻbān 1135 [ca. 29 May 1723] (date provided in ghubār numerals).Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on lower cover, "IL 334" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in coated orange paper with black cloth over spine (quarter binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; exposed boards untinted, hinges in blue paper ; sewn in heavy white thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, minor delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper of two main types ; through p.58, type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 31-32 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of triple mount with cross above (see p.8, 12, 13, 18, etc.) and initials [?] in circle (see p.16, etc. and compare Monts - Trois monts imbriqués nos.9 and 9A in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans), sturdy and well-burnished ; from p.59 through close, type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.74, 80, etc.), thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Maghribī ; two main hands ; opening hand (through p.58, supplying bulk of first two works) compact and somewhat angular ; hand supplying final two works (from p.59) more uniform ; both with inclination to the right, sweeping descenders, etc. ; occasionally vocalized.Layout: Written in 31 and 29 lines per page.Collation: i, VI+2 (14), III (20), III+3 (29), 3 VI(65) ; sexternions [senions] and ternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips added 'title page').Colophon: [al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah] "Scribal," reads "انتهى ما اختصره ابو الفاسي رحمه الله من دواوين المالكية رضي الله عنهم على يد عبيد الله سبحانه الحسين ابن ابي القاسم غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاشياخه ولاخوانه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات الاحياء منهم والاموات ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم عام ١١۶۶ في شهر الله المعظم رجب الفرد بعد ان خلت منه ستة وعشرين ... والحمد لله رب العالمين" ; [al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "كملت المغارسة بحمد الله وحسن عونه على يد ناسخها لنفسه ثم لمن شاء الله في بعده العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير الراجي عفو ربه وغفرانه احمد بن عبد العزيز بن سعد بن علي الجزائري الاصل والمنشأ المالكي مذهبا الاشعري اعتقادا البصري اعرابا غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاشياخه ولوالديهم ولجميع المسلمين ووافق الفراغ منها ضحوة يوم الجمعة لسبع بقين من شهر الله المعظم شعبان من عام ۱۱3۶ عرفنا الله خيره وسلام على جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: [al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah] "قال الشيخ ابو عمران الفاسي رضي الله عنه هذا ما اختصرنا من الدواوين دون التطويل من المسائل [مسائل] المدونة مسئلة في تزويج المراة بعد الوقوع والنزول ..." ; [Kitāb al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "فيقول العبد الفقير الى الله ... عبد الرحمن بن عبد القادر ... الحمد لله الملك القديم العالم العلي العظيم الاكرم الكريم الرحمن الرحيم الخبير الحليم ... وبعد فلما كان باب المغارسة من جملة ما ينبغي للمؤلفين المختصرين ان يتعرضوا له ... طلب مني بعض اخواننا ... ان اجمع في الباب مسائل جملة [؟] وان اذكر في ذلك احكاما مهمة ... ولما لخصته وهذبته ودرجته وقربته ظهر ان اسميه بالتيسير والتسهيل في ذكر ما اغفله الشيخ خليل من احكام المغارسة والتوليح والتصيير ..."Title from added 'title page' (flyleaf).Ms. composite codex.4. p.60-p.130 : al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr / Abū Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī.3. p.59-p.60 : [Bāb nadb al-ghars from Mukhtaṣar Khalīl] / Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī.2. p.44-p.58 : [book on fiqh opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ].1. p.1-p.43 : al-Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah / Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī.Velkov, Asparouh. Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans: divers types d’images. Sofia: Éditions "Texte - A. Trayanov", 2005.University of Michigan Library. Manuscripts & papyri : an exhibition arranged for the XXVII International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 13-19, 1967. (Ann Arbor, MI [?], 1967),Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine Maghribī copy of a collection of works on Mālikī law, opening with a collection of legal decisions attributed to Abū ʻImrān al-Fāsī (d.1038), followed by a work of Mālikī fiqh in the same hand opening in Bāb al-Ṭahārah and concluding in Bāb al-Nikāḥ, itself followed by Bāb nadb al-ghars or al-Mughārasah from al-Mukhtaṣar, the renowned compendium of Mālikī law by Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (d.1365), and concluding with a commentary on that very work, namely al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī (d.1685).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.Occasional marginal corrections ; occasional notabilia (side-heads) often marked "قف"

Irshād al-sāʾil ilá uṣūl al-masāʾil : manuscript, [late 17th century?].

On sundials and the quadrant."A commentary on al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf, al-Māridīnī (see [Mich. Isl. Ms.] 689).... The last two quires in the manuscript do not appear to belong to it.... Whether the text is the same has not been determined." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; three crescents; cursive initials TMC. For the first two see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.Contains geometrical diagrams.Text rubricated; copy incomplete, diagrams for last two signatures not present; dealer's (?) note in pencil on front of manuscript: Irshād al-sāʾil ilá uṣūl al-masāʾil sharḥ risālat Sibṭ al-Māridīnī fī ʻilm al-mīqāt sumiya al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr.GAL,On sundials and the quadrant."A commentary on al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf, al-Māridīnī (see [Mich. Isl. Ms.] 689).... The last two quires in the manuscript do not appear to belong to it.... Whether the text is the same has not been determined." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundEgyptian astronomer.Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on front of manuscript; manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof

Tuḥfat al-ḥukkām fī nukat al-ʻuqūd wa-al-aḥkām wa-yalīhi Kitāb al-mughārasah, [1149, i.e. 1736 or 1737].

Fine Maghribī copy of Ibn ʻAṣim's (d.1426) famous treatise of Mālikī law in 1698 rajaz verses, Tuḥfat al-ḥukkām fī nukat al-ʻuqūd wa al-aḥkām followed by al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr, a commentary by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī (d.1685) on al-Mukhtaṣar, the renowned compendium of Mālikī law by Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (d.1365).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 580Origin: As appears in colophon on p.217, second work copied by Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Qāsim with transcription completed 1149 [1736 or 7]. Opening work undated, but likely executed in roughly the same period, early to mid 18th century.Accompanying materials: Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 42c" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition) with pendants and tooled rule border ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and black (or dark grey), good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting of leather (particularly at board edges), exposure and delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs in dark blue or black cloth.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; opeing type (first work) with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24-26 mm. apart (horizontal), and triple mount watermark with "FB" underneath (see p.10, 38, 39, etc.), sturdy and dense ; second work mainly in a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and sun with rays and face (eyes and nose, see p.116, 118, 200, etc.)Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots.Script: Maghribī ; two elegant hands with effect of slight tilt to the right, sweeping descenders, etc.Layout: Written in 17 and 28 lines per page.Collation: VI+ 2 (14), 2 V(34), V+3 (47), II+3 (54), VI+1 (67), 3 VI(103), IV (111) ; many senions (sexternions) ; second quire of second work (pp.109-132) mistakenly bound before the first quire, hence opening of text appears on p.136 ; foliation in pencil, Western numerals, supplied for second work by inventory cataloguer ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: [Kitāb al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "Scribal," rectangular, reads "...كمل كتاب التيسير والتسهيل تأليف الشيخ الجليل ابي زيد سيد عبد الرحمن بن عبد القادر ... على يد ناسخه ... احمد بن ابي القاسم ... بتارسخ عام ١١۴۹ ..."Incipit: [Tuḥfat al-ḥukkām] "قال الشيخ رحمه الله الحمد لله الذي يقضي ولا يقضي عليه جل شانه ... وبعد فالقصد بهذا الرجز تقرير الاحكام بقول موجز ..." ; [Kitāb al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] "يقول العبد الفقير الى الله ... عبد الرحمن بن عبد القادر ... الحمد لله الملك القديم العالم العظيم الكريم ... وبعد فلما كان باب المغارسة من جملة ما ينبغي للمؤلفين المختصرين ان يتعرضوا له ... طلب مني بعض اخواننا ... ان اجمع في الباب مسائل [؟] جملة وان اذكر في ذلك احكاما مهمة ... ولما لخصته وهذبته ودرجته وقربته ظهر ان اسميه بالتيسير والتسهيل في ذكر ما اغفله الشيخ خليل من احكام المغارسة والتوليح والتصيير ..."Title from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.6. p.218-p.222 : [various excerpts].5. p.136-p.217 : ['resumes' Kitāb al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl] / Abū Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī.4. p.133-p.135 : [various excerpts].3. p.109-p.132 : al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr /Abū Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī.2. p.107-108 : [various excerpts].1. p.2-p.106 : Tuḥfat al-ḥukkām fī nukat al-ʻuqūd wa al-aḥkām / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻĀṣim al-Gharnaṭī.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Schacht, J. "Ibn ʿĀṣim, Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĀṣim al-Gharnāṭī." EI2,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine Maghribī copy of Ibn ʻAṣim's (d.1426) famous treatise of Mālikī law in 1698 rajaz verses, Tuḥfat al-ḥukkām fī nukat al-ʻuqūd wa al-aḥkām followed by al-Taysīr wa-al-tashīl fī dhikr mā aghfalahu al-shaykh Khalīl min aḥkām al-mughārasah wa-al-tawlīj wa-al-taṣyīr, a commentary by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī (d.1685) on al-Mukhtaṣar, the renowned compendium of Mālikī law by Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (d.1365).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.Kabīkaj ("kaykataj") invocation on upper board lining (" يا كيكتج ..." [?]) ; marginal glosses and corrections ; occasional notabilia (side-heads)