Arabe 3953

Contient : Maximes des philosophes grecs : Socrate, Homère, Pythagore, Platon, Aristote, Alexandre le Grand, etc ; Quelques traditions attribuées à Mahomet ; Qaṣîda dont la rime est formée par la syllabe مُ et qui renferme l'éloge de « nos seigneurs », c'est-à-dire, des derviches ; كتاب درر البحور فى مدايح الملك المنصور « Les Perles des mers, recueil à l'éloge d'Al-Malik al-Manṣoûr (Qalâoûn) », par Ṣafî al-DînNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.En tête du volume se trouvent quelques notes astrologiques

Kitāb Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻ, [1053, i.e. 1643].

Fine copy of the author's abridgment of his own Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām, recognized as the authoritative work on Shīʻī law.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1022Origin: As appears in colophon on p.489, copied by Ibn ʻAynī Aznāwī [Aznāvī] with transcription completed 5 Jumādá II 1053 [ca. 21 August 1643].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 171Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry border and diagonal lines intersecting the center of the panel in blind rules ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and lavender, fairly good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, losses to boards, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and occasional chain lines visible, though all rather indistinct ; well-burnished to glossy, fairly crisp though sturdy, cloudy formation with bundles of fibers visible, light brown in color, some leaves quite thin and transluscent ; opening two replacement leaves in European laid paper.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated (text to be entered in red provided in margins, occasionally visible and otherwise cut off) ; textual dividers in the form of hāʼ or numeral khamsah in red.Script: Naskh ; spacious, elegant Persianate hand in a thin line ; mainly serifless (though left-sloping head-serif occasionally appears) with elongation of horizontal strokes, fairly vertical ascenders, curvilinear descenders, adhering to baseline, freely ligatured, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, final yāʼ unpointed, wide, open bowl of final nūn with point set down in, spacious open counters of ṭāʼ, ṣāḍ, etc. ; replacement leaves at opening in a large, bold naskh, seriffed (though somewhat irreguarly) with left-sloping head-serifs on most ascenders (even occasional free-standing alif), quite rounded with curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV-2+2 (8), 9 IV(80), III (86), 11 IV(174), III+1 (181), 8 IV(245) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "وتشرف بتسويد كاغده اقل العباد بل لاشيء في الحقيقة الفقير الحقير الى الله ابن عيني ازناوي غفر الله لهما وللمؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات بمنه وكرمه يوم السبت الخميس شهر جمادى الثاني سنة ثلاث وخمسين والف من الهجرة النبوية المصطوفية"Explicit: "ويختص ضمانها بالجناية على الآدمي حسب فهذا ما اردنا ذكره وقصدنا حصره مختصرين مطوله محررين محصله ونسأل الله ان يجعلنا ممن شكر عمله وغفر زلله وجعل الجنة منقبله [منقله] انه لا يخيب من سأله ولا يحرم من امله"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي صغرت في عظمته عبادة العابدين وحصرت عن شكر نعمة السنة الحامدين ... اما بعد فاني مورد لك في هذا المختصر خلاصة المذهب المعتبر بالفاظ محبرة وعبارة [عبارات] محررة تظرفك بنخبه وتوصلك الى شعبه مقتصرا على ما بان لي سبيله ووضح لي دليله ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the author's abridgment of his own Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām, recognized as the authoritative work on Shīʻī law.Mode of access: Internet.Purchased in Egypt by Mr. Sulaiman ;Assorted notes and excerpts on 'title page' (p.1) including possible ownership statement in name of one Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ( شيخ عبد الرحيم ) ; oval seal impression on p.5 ; oval seal impression (partially effaced) and rectangular seal impression at close on p.489 ; oval seal impression among notes and excerpts on verso of final leaf (p.490) ; UM library inscription on lower board lining "Spec. Coll. Lib. | 690713-156 | Sulaiman | 1968" ; extensive glosses and notabilia (side-heads, along with catch titles of chapter headings in upper outer corner of every left-hand leaf within each chapter) ; occasional marginal corrections

Mukhtaṣar al-Sharāʼiʻ al-musammá bi-al-Nāfiʻ, [917, i.e. 1511].

Fine copy of the author's abridgment of his Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām, the authoritative manual of Shīʻah law. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 99Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.144a (p.287), copied by Muḥammad ibn Fallāḥ ibn ʻAlī ibn Fallāḥ. Transcription finished ("faragha min taḥrīrih...") 5 Ṣafar 917 [ca. 4 May 1511].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 140, Al-Nafi."Binding: Pasteboards (recycled paper) originally covered with reddish brown goat skin, spine and fore-edge flap repaired with lighter brown leather, now darker with age ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper and lower covers carry gorgeous blind-tooled almond-shaped ornament (mandorla) with band and geometric infilling set off by rosette stamps (compare Weisweiler 89-95) as well as tooled rule borders and rosette accents ; sewn in two sewing stations, dark green thread, broken at head and tail ; endbands in maroon and white, partially intact at head and tail ; in poor condition ; leather has shrunk significantly with text-block protruding ; bottom of spine partially detatched ; top endband missing, bottom partially gone ; severe abrasion on all corners ; pasteboards delaminating ; spine partially detached from back cover ; fore-edge flap is stitched to back cover at hinge (sewn mend).Support: European laid paper with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 30 mm. apart ; only lightly burnished ; thick and creamy ; watermark of scales / balance in circle with six-pointed star above (see p.6, 8, 274, 276, etc.) ; bull's head with eyes and above it a rod consisting of one line with a flower above that (compare Piccard inventory J340, no. 64743, Lechtenberg, 1492) ; loose folia at end, partially detatched pages at beginning ; water damage throughout but does not impact legibility.Decoration: Text rubricated with chapter and section headings, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; two Persian or Turkish hands ; first hand virtually sans serif (though occasional right-sloping head-serifs on lām, alif, etc., perhaps inadvertantly) with generally open counters, dots rather than strokes for pointing, slight effect of tilt to the left ; p.185 on supplied in second hand, sans serif, effect of tilt to the right, free assimilation of letters such as rāʼ and final hāʼ, heavier line ; partially vocalized ; several hands for marginal and interlinear glosses.Layout: Written in 18 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: III+1 (7), 12 IV (103), 2 III+1 (117), 3 IV (141), II (145) ; chiefly quaternions ; top three lines of fol.107a (p.213) left blank ; final leaf originally left blank ; lacks catchwords ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله تع و حسن توفيقه ... فرغ من تحريره افقر عباد الله تع و احوجهم الى رحمته و رضوانه محمد بن فلاح بن علي بن فلاح يوم الخامس من شهر صفر ختم بالخير و الظفر من شهورسنة سبع عشرة و تسعماية هجرية ... و الحمد لله وحده صلى الله على محمد و اله الطاهرين"Explicit: "الثالثة لا تعقل العقلة بهيمة ولا اتلاف مال ويختص ضمانها بالجناية على الادمي حسب فهذا اخر ما اردنا ذكره وقصدنا حصره مختصرين مطوله [فراغ] ونسأل الله سبحانه ان يجعلنا ممن شكر عمله وغفر زلله وجعل الجنة منقله ومنتقله انه يجيب من سأله ولا يخسر من امله وصلى على سيدنا محمد النبي واله وسلم تسليما كثيرا"Incipit: "الحمد الله الذي صغرت في عظمته عبادة العابدين و حصرت عن شكر نعمته السنة الحامدين و قصرت عن وصف كماله افكلر العالمين ... و صلى الله على اكرم المرسلين و سيد الاولين والاخرين محمد خاتم النبيين ... اما بعد فاني مورد لك هذا المختصر خلاصة المذهب المعتبر بالفاظ محبرة وعبارة [عبارات] محررة تظفرك بنخبه وتوصلك الى شعبه ..."Title from 'title page' fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the author's abridgment of his Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām, the authoritative manual of Shīʻah law. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.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. 140, Al-Nafi." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "144" in Western numerals on fol.1a (p.1) ; on paper (blue-tinted) pasted on fol.1a (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" ; two ownership statements on fol.1a (p.1), the first reading "قد دخل في سلك ملكي بالمعاملة [؟] الصحيحة وانا الفقير الى الله الغني مصطفى بن احمد افندى في ..." and the second reading "ثم دخل بالارث في ملكي وانا الفقير زين العابدين" ; illegible round stamp in wax or ink repeated on interior of back cover ; two ownership statements follow the colophon on fol.144a (p.287) "و كان مالكه العبد الفقير المحتاج الى رحمتة الله تع الشيخ عبد الحسين ابن نصر الله الوزيري غفر الله له و لوالديه و لمن قرا و ترحم ثم تملكته من ملك اسمعيل الارهاني و هو تلميذي و انا الحقير مصطفى بن احمد افندي ابن يعقوب الوعظ والناصح تم" ; two birth notices dated 955 (1548 or 9) and 21st [?] Shawwāl 966 (ca. 27 July 1559) appear on fol.145b (p.290) ; marginal and interlinear glosses ; collation marks "بلغ" appear occasionally in top left margin