Kitāb Ashraf al-wasāʼil ilá fahm al-Shamāʼil, [17th century?].

Fine early copy of the commentary by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (d.1567) on al-Tirmidhī's (d.892) Shamāʼil, a collection of traditions comprising the Prophet’s characteristics. Brief excerpts at opening and close (p.7 and pp.525-7).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 489Origin: As appears in opening matter on p.8, composed in 949 [1542 or 3]. Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-4) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.5-6).Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 16a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in dull yellow paper ; upper and lower cover carry tooled diamond-shaped binding ornament, built up from a series of four-petaled flower shapes, along with tooled rule-border ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and yellow, in poor condition with significant losses ; overall in poor condition with significant staining and deposits (possible acid burn or fire damage), shrinkage, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper of perhaps several types ; all with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks including three crescents (75 mm., perpendicular to chains, see p.16-17), anchor in circle (see p.76-77), and crown-star-crescent (see pp.114, 119) ; countermarks include "FB" (p.56), "MS" or "AS" [?] (p.122) and "GC" (p.136, with additional anchor in circle and three crescents marks, pp.130, 140, 144, etc., compare Heawood 4) ; all sturdy, well-sized and burnished, even glazed, some glossy.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas ; some overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Egyptian [?] hand in a medium to bold line ; virtually serifless (though occasional head-serif irregularly appears) with very slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots (three dots represented by a curved stroke), alif maqṣūrah occasionally pointed as yāʼ, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf), adhering fairly closely to baseline ; glosses as well brief excerpts at opening and close (p.7 and pp.525-7) in a Mahgribī hand.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page.Collation: 16 V(160), IV (168), 9 V(258), I (260), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and back flyleaf).Explicit: "فيحتري له اهل الدين دون غيرهم جعلنا الله تعالى منهم بمنه وكرمه واجزل لنا من مدد سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ... ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم والحمد لله اولا واخرا ظاهرا وباطنا وكفي وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا تم وكمل"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين والمرسلين وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين وبعد فهذه عجالة علقتها على مشكل شمائل الامام الحافظ ابي عيسى محمد ابن عيسى بن سورة بفتح المهملة فسكون اصلها لغة الحدة الترمذي ... سنة تسع واربعين وتسعمائة بالمسجد الحرام المكي وسميتها اشرف الوسائل الى فهم الشمائل ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.7) and opening matter (preface) on p.8.Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine early copy of the commentary by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (d.1567) on al-Tirmidhī's (d.892) Shamāʼil, a collection of traditions comprising the Prophet’s characteristics. Brief excerpts at opening and close (p.7 and pp.525-7).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by his younger brother, the famous Orientalist and manuscript collector Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951).Possible former inventory mark on upper board lining ; former owners' marks on 'title page' (p.7) include purchase / ownership statement dated 1 Rabīʻ I 1127 [ca. 7 March 1715] in name of one ʻUthmān indicating the book was among items he purchased in Tūnis, accompanied by octagonal seal impression and ownership statement in name of al-Ḥājjī Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Afandi, known as Khazīmatʹzādah (Hazimetzade Yusuf b. Mehmet Efendi / الحاجي يوسف بن محمد افندى المشهور بخزيمه زاده ) ; waqf statement in upper margin of incipit page (p.8) dated 1168 [1754 or 5] in name of al-Ḥājj Maḥmūd Afandī al-Ṣihrānī (Mahmut Efendi) reads "من موقوفات المرحوم الحاج محمود افندى الصهرانى سنه ١١٦٧" (compare statement in Isl. Ms. 635) ; marginal corrections and glosses in several hands (even Maghribī hand)

al-Fatāwā al-Ḥadīthīyah /

Mode of access: Internet

[Majmūʻat rasāʼil, 1128 to 1137, i.e. 1716 to 1725].

Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of works and excerpts on hadīth.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 153Origin: As appears in colophon on p.93, third work copied by Aḥmad ibn Walī al-Arzanjānī [Ahmet Veli Erzincanlı] with transcription finished Jumādá II 1137 [February-March 1725]. As appears in colophon on p.183, ʻUmdat al-aḥkām also copied by Aḥmad ibn Walī al-Arzanjānī [Ahmet Veli Erzincanlı] in the Sulaymānīyah madrasah of Mecca (Sultan Süleymân Medresesi, Mekke'de) with transcription finished Wednesday, 9 Rabīʻ I 1128 [ca. 3 March 1716]. As with several other works and excerpts in this codex, copied from the manuscript of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sālim al-Makkī al-Baṣrī ("نقلت هذه النسخة الشريفة من نسخة الاستاذ ... عبد الله بن سالم المكي ... البصري"). As appears in colophon on p.322, al-Asrār al-marfūʻah fī al-akhbār al-mawḍūʻah copied in Mecca also by Aḥmad ibn Walī al-Arzanjānī [Ahmet Veli Erzincanlı] with transcription completed in Rajab 1128 [June-July 1716]. As appears in colophon on p.333, al-Niʻmah al-kubrá also copied in Mecca by Aḥmad ibn Walī al-Arzanjānī [Ahmet Veli Erzincanlı] with transcription completed in 1128 [1716]. Some excerpts also dated and with place of transcription specified (see p.189 "... كتب في عاشر من شعبان في مكة المكرمة سنة ۱۱۲۸").Accompanying materials: Several inserts carrying notes, glosses, etc. (paginated pp.55-56, pp.79-80, pp.147-148, pp.167-168, pp.341-342) along with a leaf from another ms. (paginated pp.351-352).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 85. Collection of homilies, traditions, etc."Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather with envelope flap and interior of fore edge flap in tan leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry scalloped blind-stamped mandorla and epigraphic pendants ("حاجي احمد") with blind-tooled rosette accents forming crescent adjacent to mandorla and border in tooled fillets ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue and cream, headband cut from textblock (primaries) and adhering to spine lining (primaries stitched through), tailband still attached to textblock but only partially ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, some staining, moisture damage, etc. ; textblock fully detached from cover, which is certainly roomy in the spine and may have originally been intended for a different textblock ; housed in box for protection.Support: What appears to be a European laid paper with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart, but remarkably, no watermarks visible ; well-sized and burnished.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; written area surrounded by red rule-border (through p.22) ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs ; occasional abbreviation symbols in red ; some overlining in black and red ink.Script: Naskh ; several hands ; mainly a fine Turkish hand, partially seriffed with left-sloping barbed head serif on final lām, occasional head serifs on alif, initial lām, etc., effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, rightward descenders mainly tapered, rounded and somewhat freely ligatured ; another hand showing influence of nastaʻlīq, with tilt to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, final nūn often reversed (re-curved) ; partially vocalized ; headings in larger, bolder script.Layout: Written in 25-31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 4 V(40), III (46), IV (54), V (64), 2 VI (88), 9 V(178), II (182) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in blank ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, in ʻUmdat al-aḥkām (begins on p.119 with ۲) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and inserts ; skips two pages between pp.323-324).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.15. p.376 : [blank].14. p.336-p.375 : Mashāriq al-anwār / al-Ṣaghānī.13. p.334-p.335 : [assorted excerpts].12. p.324-p.333 : al-Niʻmah al-kubrá ʻalá al-ʻālam bi-mawlid sayyid banī Ādam / Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī.11. p.323-p.[] : [assorted excerpts].10. p.190-p.322 : [al-Asrār al-marfūʻah fī al-akhbār al-mawḍūʻah] / al-Qārī al-Harawī.9. p.184-p.189 : [assorted excerpts].8. p.118- p.183 : [ʻUmdat al-aḥkām] / ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid al-Jammāʻīlī al-Maqdisī.7. p.113-p.117 : [assorted excerpts and table of contents for ʻUmdat al-aḥkām].6. p.99-p.112 : [al-Ḥarf al-kāf, excerpt from al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr] / al-Suyūṭī.5. p.94-p.98 : [partially blank, carrying assorted excerpts from Mirqāt al-mafātīḥ, al-Maṣābīḥ, etc.].4. p.88-p.93 : [Risālah mushtamilah ʻalá taḥqīq masaʼlat al-ishārah bi-al-misbaḥah fī al-ṣalāh].3. p.65-p.87 : [excerpt from al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr] /al-Suyūṭī.2. p.6-p.64 : [excerpt from Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn] / Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī.1. p.1-p.5 : [originally blank, now carry excerpts, owners' marks, etc.].Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of works and excerpts on hadīth.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. 85. Collection of homilies, traditions, etc." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "69" in Western numerals on opening leaf (p.1) ; also on (p.1) ownership statement in name of al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh, muftī in Erzincan reads "تملكه الفقير اليه سبحانه وتعالى السيد عبد الله المفتي بارزنجان ..." accompanied by oval seal impression ; oval seal impression on 'title page' for ʻUmdat al-aḥkām (p.117) accompanying statement "... نقلته من كتاب الاستاذ عبد الله بن سالم البصري" ; occasional collation marks "بلغ" in margins of ʻUmdat al-aḥkām ; numerous glosses, marginal corrections and notabilia (side-heads)