al-Nashr al-ṣaghīr, [1144, i.e. 1731 or 1732].

Fine copy of the abridgment by Ibn al-Jazarī (d.1429) of his Nashr al-qirā’āt al-‘ashr [Kitāb al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr] on the ten readings of the Qur’ān.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 474Origin: As appears with authorial colophon on p.440, transcription apparently completed in 1144 [1731 or 2]. Authorial colophon indicates that composition was completed 10 Muḥarram 804 [ca. 20 August 1401] in the author's house in Bursa (Brūṣah) where Bāyazīd I had his court.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, front flyleaf (p.1) and spine label, "IL 392" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in dark blue and dark brown, which Jake Benson has identified as being of 19th century Spanish manufacture) with green-blue cloth over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in green textile ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations, many threads broken ; worked endbands in light yellow and beige or dark pink, damaged with significant losses ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, staining, some delamination of boards, lifting and losses of paper and cloth, detaching at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (vertical), grapes (raisin) under crown watermark with "IF" below (see p.60, 70, etc.), transluscent and sturdy, very well burnished, mainly beige or light yellow in color ; some staining and tide lines, as well as minor foxing.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke) rubricated.Script: Naskh ; fine, medium Turkish or 'Syrian' hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on most ascenders other than free-standing alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: VI+I (14), 21 V(224), IV+1 (233), V (243), II (247) ; chiefly quinions ; final two leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Authorial" [mainly], reads "قال المصنف رحمه الله ونفع بعلمه وافق فراغه في يوم الاحد العشر محرم سنة اربع وثمان مائة ... لجميع المسلمين روايته عني عموما واجزت الاولادي محمد واحمد وابو الخير وغيرهم خصوصا روايته عني مع جميع ما يجوز لي وعني روايته قاله وكتبه محمد بن محمد الجزري عفا الله عنهم وذلك بمنزلي من مدينة مروصة المحروسة سنة ١١٤٤ م م م م م م م"Explicit: "واجعله حجة لي يا رب العالمين وهذا اخر ما سهل اختصاره من نشر القرآت جعله الله خالصا لوجه ونفع به"Incipit: "قال شيخنا العلامة ... شمس الملة والدين اسبغ الله تعالى الى يوم الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمد الجزري الشافعي رحم الله اسلافه الكرام واهداه العظام الحمد لله على التقريب والتيسير واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له ... وبعد فلما كان كتابي نشر القرآت العشرة مما عرف قدره واشتهر بين الطلبة ذكره ... التمس مني ان اقربه وايسره واقتصر على ما فيه من الخلاف فاختصرته ليقل لفظه ويسهل حفظه ..."Title from heading preceding table of contents (p.3).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the abridgment by Ibn al-Jazarī (d.1429) of his Nashr al-qirā’āt al-‘ashr [Kitāb al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr] on the ten readings of the Qur’ān.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.Circular seal impression at close on p.440 in name of one Fayḍī, dated 1247 [1831 or 2], "عبده فيضي ٢٤٧" ; occasional notabilia (side-heads) mainly marked مطلب

[al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham wa-bi-hāmishih al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām Sayyid al-mursalīn, late 18th or early 19th century?].

Elegant prayerbook containing al-Qārī al-Harawī's (d.1605) al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham with Ibn al-Jazarī's (d.833/1429) al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām Sayyid al-mursalīn, a collection of ḥadīth employed in prayer, in the margins. al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn is preceded by an excerpt from the author's abrigdment ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn (pp.2-3) and followed by an additional prayer (pp.183-184).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 522Origin: As appears in colophons on p.183 and p.184, both texts copied by Muḥammad Darwīsh al-Āmidi (Mehmet Derviș el-Amidî), known as al-Ḥājj Darwīshʻzādah (Hacı Dervişzade) though date of transcription is not specified. Paper suggests early 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 100" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown to black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in blue-tinted paper ; doublure hinges in decorative paper (black with vegetal design in orange) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped central mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration) , pendants and cornerpieces with accents in numerous blind-tooled rosettes and gold-tooled guilloché roll border ; sewn in golden yellow thread, four stations ; only traces of primaries remain at head, endbands otherwise gone ; overall in fair to poor condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of gold leaf, leather and board linings, etc. ; repairs to spine and foreedge flap in dark brown leather.Support: European laid paper with 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including lion passant guardant (see p.156, etc.) and "G A" [or "V G" ?] (compare nos. 986, 987, etc. in Eineder, The ancient paper-mills) ; beige or dark cream in color, heavily burnished to glossy, thin and transluscent though quite sturdy ; some moisture damage with loss of text (see p.76, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpieces (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at openings on p.2 for al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam and excerpt from ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn (in margin) as well as at opening on p.4 for text of al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn (in margin) ; all consisting of w-shaped piece [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam/al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] or scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) [excerpt from ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] filled with simple floral vegetal decoration in gold, orange, pink, and red on fields of light blue, pink, green-blue and orange set in wells of yellow, green-blue, or pink with red or black accents, surmounting gold rectangular pieces carrying the titles in white (now mainly lost), and themselves surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and black ; central written area surrounded by gold frame, margins also outlined by gold rules ; use of gold cloud-bands in central written area on incipit and facing page ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs (central written area and margins) ; keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; virtually serifless with very slight effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, rightward descenders tapered, fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 37 lines per page with central written area carrying 11 lines of al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam and 26 lines of al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn on the diagonal in the margins (13 upper-outer, 13 outer-lower) ; frame-ruled.Collation: 8 V(80), 2 III(92) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present for text of main written area ; text of margins lacks proper catchwords 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.Colophon: [al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] "تمت الحصن الحصين بعون الله وتوفيقه عن يد اضعف العباد السيد محمد درويش الامدى الشهير بالحج درويش زاده غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاقربائه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات الاحياء منهم والاموات" ; [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "قد تم الحزب الاعظم عن يد اضعف العباد السيد محمد درويش الامدى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولاقربائه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات"Explicit: [al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] "ولا يدفعه سواك اللهم فرج عنا يا كريم يا ارحم الراحمين والحمد لله رب العالمين" ; [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد عبدك ورسولك النبي الامي الذي آمن بك وبكتابك واعطه افضل رحمتك واته الشرف على على [كذا] خلقك يوم القيامة واجزه خير الجزاء والسلام عليه ورحمة الله وبركاته سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين م م م"Incipit: [al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam] "الحمد لله الذي دعانا للايمان وهدانا بالقرآن واجاب دعوتنا بالفضل والاحسان ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الداعي الراجي مغفرة ربه الباري علي بن سلطان محمد القاري ستر عيوبهما وغفر ذنوبهما لما رايت بعض السالكين يتعلقون باوراد المشياخ المعتبرين ... فخطر ببالي ان اجمع الدعوات الماثورة في الاحاديث المنشورة ...وهذا الجمع الذي هو معدن الدعاء ... وسميته الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم لانتسابه واستناده الى الرسول الاكرم ..." ; [excerpt from ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] "الحمد لله رب العالمين ربنا اتنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب قال الشيخ الامام ... شهاب الدين احمد بن علي بن حجر العسقلاني الشافعي المصري قال صاحب الشيخ الامام ... تاج القراء " ; [al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] "قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ... شمس الدين محمد بن الشيخ شمس الدين محمد بن محمد الجزري فسح الله تعالى في مدته واعاد علينا وعلى المسلمين من بركته اما بعد حمد الله الذي جعل الدعاء لرد القضاء ... فان هذا الحصن الحصين من كلام سيد المرسلين وسلاح المؤمنين من خزانة النبي الامين والهيكل العظيم من قول الرسول الكريم ... واخرجته من الاحاديث الصحيحة ابرزته عدة عن كل شدة ... وقد رمزت للكتب التي خرجت منها هذه الاحاديث بحروف تدل على ذلك ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on interior of upper cover and openings for each work.Ms. codex.4. p.183-p.184 : [prayer].3. p.4-p.183 : al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām sayyid al-mursalīn / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī.2. p.2-p.3 : [excerpt from ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī1. p.2-p.184 : al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī.Eineder, Georg. The ancient paper-mills of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and their watermarks. Hilversum, Holland: Paper Publications Society, 1960.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Elegant prayerbook containing al-Qārī al-Harawī's (d.1605) al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham with Ibn al-Jazarī's (d.833/1429) al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām Sayyid al-mursalīn, a collection of ḥadīth employed in prayer, in the margins. al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn is preceded by an excerpt from the author's abrigdment ʻUddat al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn (pp.2-3) and followed by an additional prayer (pp.183-184).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.Fairly clean copy

al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām sayyid al-mursalīn : manuscript, [1768 or 9].

Collections of sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad, derived from earlier collections of sound traditions, used for prayer.On p. [1], illuminated ʻunwān and opening; text vocalized and rubricated and enclosed in gold borders.Date and copyist's name in colophon: sawwadahu al-faqīr al-sayyid ʻUthmān al-maʻrūf bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān ... sanat ithnā wa-thamānūn wa-miʼah wa-alf.GAL,Collections of sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad, derived from earlier collections of sound traditions, used for prayer.Mode of access: Internet.AnonymousSyrian; prolific author of works on variant readings of the Qurʼān, prophetic tradition (ḥadīth), and jurisprudence (fiqh).Purchased in Cairo, 1924. Once part of the personal manuscript collection of Sultan Abdülhamid of Turkey

Treatise in verse on the various Koranic readings : manuscript, [1731 or 2].

Analysis of the various readings of the Koranic text according to different traditions.Contains tables.Illuminated ʻunwāns at beginning of each section (pp. [3, 103, 129, 157, 175, 177]); chapter headings and colophon illuminated; rubricated text in two columns, enclosed within gold borders; marginal notes in hand of copyist.Date and copyist's name in colophon: katabahu al-faqīr ... Ḥāfiẓ Ṣāliḥ min talāmīdh al-sayyid ʻAbd Allāh wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min tanmīqihi ... li-sanat arbaʻ wa-arbaʻūn wa-miʼah wa-alf....EI2,Analysis of the various readings of the Koranic text according to different traditions.Mode of access: Internet.AnonymousSyrian; prolific author of works on variant readings of the Koran, prophetic tradition (ḥadīth), and jurisprudence (fiqh).Purchased in Cairo, 1924. Once part of the personal manuscript collection of Sultan Abdülhamid II of Turkey

[Taḥrīr al-Manṣūrī ʻalá Ṭayyibat al-nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr...etc., 18th century?].

Collection of excerpts on Qur'anic readings, mainly from ʻAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Muqriʼ al-Manṣūrī's Taḥrīr on Ibn al-Jazarī's Ṭayyibat al-nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr preceded by a "lost" passage attributed to Ibn al-Jazarī from his al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 259Origin: No details on date of transcription or copyist supplied in text.Binding: Painted lacquerwork on heavy boards with black leather on spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in painted lacquerwork with hinges in red leather and flyleaves in pink and blue marbled paper ; upper and lower covers bear paintings of identical composition yet mirror images of one another on a black background ; gold painted fillets define outer and inner frames consisting of a series of gold triangular shapes on bands of black ; the fillets intersect to form square compartments at the corners ; between these frames, an elaborate floral design consisting of an alternating succession of gold lozenges and four-petal flowers in blue, green and bronze ; each gold lozenge contains a central rosette in pink with white accents flanked by four smaller buds in pink and white, leaves in green, and two five-petal flowers in white and pink ; the main panel has a central cluster of two peony-like flowers in pink and yellow with adjacent tulip, poppy, other floral forms, and leaves in pink, white, blue-green, and olive green ; the remainder of the panel is filled with leaves, flowers (poppies, etc.) and buds in pink, white, and olive green ; upper and lower doublures also bear paintings of identical composition yet mirror images of one another on a dark green background (flecked in gold green) consisting of a tall narcissus-like plant with leaves in shades of green and at the head of a central stalk, flowers and buds in yellow with pink accents; gold painted fillets define a frame consisting of a series of oblique strokes in gold on the dark green background ; appears contemporaneous with text ; in fair condition ; much worn, leather of spine is cracked, brittle and detaching ; lacquer and paint of covers is chipped ; lacquer of doublures is cracked and crazed ; housed in box for protection.Support: At least three varieties of European laid paper ; front and back flyleaves (single bifolium following initial marbled paper flyleaf and preceding final marbled paper flyleaf) are of European laid paper with watermark partially visible (lion rampart in shield - compare Heawood 3133 and 3135), few inclusions, 27-28 mm. between the single chainlines ; the beginning and latter quires are in a European laid paper with watermarks partially visible (see grapes watermark in fol.12, watermark in fol.78b-79a and in fol.94 has name "...ARDONI" [?] with crown above and grape below ; compare Heawood 2399), laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 14 laid lines per cm., single chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 21-24 mm. apart, relatively few inclusions, burnished and crisp character ; central quires are in a European laid paper with laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 12 laid lines per cm., single chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 26-27 mm. apart, virtually no inclusions, and a lighter "whiter" cream color than the other paper.Decoration: Partially rubricated with overlinings, section headings, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; at least four Turkish (and Persian?) hands, though perhaps supplied by one or two copyists ; first work appears to be supplied in two hands and the line thickness changes at least once ; the first hand is very round, nearly unpointed, mainly serifless, with slight effect of words descending to baseline ; hand changes on fol.8a (p.15) to a stiffer hand better pointed with initially some right sloping head serifs, then mainly serifless ; second work is supplied in a heavy Turkish hand with slight tilt to left, mainly serifless but occasional serifs on alif of lām alif ligature (looking like numeral ۹) ; passages following this work appear in the same rounded, unpointed hand of first work ; next work is supplied in another very fine hand, virtually serifless and also in the rounded, unpointed hand of the first work and the hand of second work ; next work is supplied in a similar fashion with same rounded, unpointed hand supplying the closing text.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: iii, VI+1 (13), 7 V (83), VI (95), V+1 (106), iii ; chiefly quinions ; leaves at beginning and end of textblock left blank, as well as between the various works ; catchwords present in the various works though cut off in some places ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "لابي عمرو في غاية ابي العلا وللدوري من التبصرة ومثلها لكن مع التسهيل في الكامل والله اعلم"Incipit: " هذا من النشر الكبير المفقود في اكثر النسخ قبل فرش الحروف رواية ورش اذا قرى له من طريق الازرق... [تحرير المنصوري] الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى علي المنصوري غفر الله تعالى له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين هذا ما يسر جمعه في بعض الايات عن تحرير الطرق والروايات من طريق طيبة النشر في القراءات العشر"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.10. fol.106a-106b : [blank].9. fol.100a-105b : [Excerpt from Taḥrīr al-Manṣūrī, begins "Qāla fī al-Nashr aṣḥāb ʻadam al-sakt..."]8. fol.96a-fol.99b : [Excerpt, begins "Qawluh taʻālá al-ṭalāq martayn..."]7. fol.95a-fol.95b : [blank].6. fol.94a-fol.94b : [Excerpts from Taḥrīr al-Manṣūrī?] / ʻAlī al-Manṣūrī.5. fol.14b-fol.93b : Hādhā mā yassara jamʻahu fī baʻḍ al-āyāt ʻan Taḥrīr al-ṭuruq wa-al-riwāyāt min ṭarīq Ṭayyibat al-nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr / ʻAlī al-Manṣūrī.4. fol.12b-fol.14a : [blank].3. fol.12a : [Excerpt with figure, begins "Li-hamzah ithná ʻashar wajhan..."].2. fol.2b-fol.11b : Hādhā min al-Nashr al-kabīr al-mafqūd fī akthar al-nusakh / Ibn al-Jazarī [?].1. fol.1a-fol.1a : [blank].Brockelmann, C. GAL,Collection of excerpts on Qur'anic readings, mainly from ʻAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Muqriʼ al-Manṣūrī's Taḥrīr on Ibn al-Jazarī's Ṭayyibat al-nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr preceded by a "lost" passage attributed to Ibn al-Jazarī from his al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Conspicuous lack of ownership marks ; inscription in pencil on verso of front flyleaf "388 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" ; inscription in purple pencil "67..." on fol.105b (p.210) ; some marginal correctionsو notabilia (side heads) and glosses throughout