[Ḥāshiyah ʻalá al-Muṭawwal, 16th century?].

Fine copy of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Fanārī's (Hasan Çelebî) gloss on al-Sharḥ al-muṭawwal, the longer commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān). Includes preamble.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 631Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. would suggest perhaps 15th or 16th century for some sections, with other sections likely replacements perhaps 16th 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 fore edge flap label, "IL 95a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; from inner front cover date stamp "22 Jull 1906."Binding: Pasteboards covered in comb marbled paper (in salmon, blue, yellow, etc.) with dark red leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow laid paper with watermark of three hats (top hats with feathers, resembling tea cups) ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and yellow, tailband gone though headband remains in good condition ; overall in fair condition with some staining and abrasion, losses to lower corner of spine, etc.Support: non-European and European laid paper of several types ; mainly a type (likely Arab) with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with 11-13 mm. between chains and 33 mm. between groups, sturdy, well-burnished and quite smooth ; another type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and bull's head watermark (see p.180, etc.) ; still another European type with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (vertical) and anchor in circle watermark (see p.406, etc.), quite sturdy ; some leaves tinted light blue or yellow.Decoration: Keywords and some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; some overlining in red ; textual divders in the form of disc, inverted comma, and hāʼ in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; several elegant Turkish hands ; opening hand (through p.178 and then from pp.207-287) nastaʻlīq (talik), serifless, with effect of tilt to the right, very slight effect of words descending to baseline, contrast in thickness between vertical and horizontal strokes, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc. ; hand of next and other sections (see pp.179-206, pp.287-326, 367-386) naskh, a few compact Turkish hands, serifless, with effect of tilt to the left, closed counters, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc. ; toward close (pp.327-366, 387 to close) again nastaʻlīq (talik), two other hands, serifless, with slight effect of tilt to the right, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, etc.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled ; some marginalia in decorative shapes, artistically arranged.Collation: V-1 (9), 8 V(89), VII (103), 8 V(183), IV (191), I (193), V (203), III (209) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "والتذكير للاحكام المذكورة في علمي المعاني والبيان انما لم يتعرض للبديع لكونه خارجا عن البلاغة تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرح صدور ارباب الاذهان لايضاح معان الكلم ببديع البيان ... الهمنا حقائق المعاني والدقائق البيان الاقرب الى الفهم ان المراد بالالهام في هذا المقام معناه اللغوي وهو الاعلام مطلقا لا يحتاج ارادة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Fanārī's (Hasan Çelebî) gloss on al-Sharḥ al-muṭawwal, the longer commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān). Includes preamble.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.Extensive marginal glosses, many decoratively arranged in various shapes (even sword or cypress tree, etc.)

Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī ‘ilm al-ma‘ānī wa-al-bayān, [1191, i.e. 1778].

Fine copy of the shorter commentary of al-Taftāzānī upon Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 633Origin: As appears in colophon on p.531, latter portion (from around p.471) copied by Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlwān al-Ḥimṣī al-Shāfiʻī, for his shaykh Yāsīn al-Sibāʻī whose father Muṣṭafá al-Sibāʻī copied the opening portion (opening to around p.470) with transcription completed 16 Dhu al-Hijjah 1191 [ca. 15 January 1778].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 328" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in yellow laid paper with light brown leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewing now gone, though two stations visible, many bifolia now split ; overall in poor condition with significant staining, abrasion, lifting and losses of leather and paper at spine and upper board, flap far too small and now deformed, etc. ; ill-fitting and likely never attached to this texblock, serves simply as wrapper ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; opening type with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks including crown with grapes (raisin) above and name below (see p.10, 11, 128, 129, etc.) and other names (see p.8, 13, 159), medium cream to beige in color, thin though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 21-23 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) with crown above and name below and other names, etc. (e.g. "A FAVGERE" and "LANGUEDOC," see p.412, 414, 417, etc.), slightly thicker and denser, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and text being commented upon (matn Talkhīs al-Miftāḥ) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; written area of first six quires (through p.118) surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; two main, clear 'Syrian' hands ; opening hand virtually serifless, with effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, rightward descenders tapered, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf) ; hand changes around p.471, extensively seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs, pointing in distinct dots, adheres closely to baseline, only occasional very slight effect of tilt to the left.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 12 V(120), VI (132), 7 V(202), VI (214), V (224), IV (232), 3 V(262), III-1 (267) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering (signatures) in the form of full words on recto of first leaf of each quire beginning with the first ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between pp.29-30).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من هذه النسخة نهار الخميس المبارك لسادس عشر يوم خلت من شهر ذي الحجة الحرام الذي هو من شهور سنة احدى وتسعين ومائة والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والتسليم تم على يد العبد الفقير الذليل المحتاج الى عفو ربه الغني الجليل عبده اسمعيل بن عبد المنعم بن محمد بن علوان الحمصي بلدا الشافعي مذهبا غفر الله له وذلك من اجل شيخه واستاذه الشيخ يس السباعي الذي اول الكتاب من خط والده مصطفى ابي السعود السباعي غفر الله له ولكل المسلمين آمين تم"Explicit: "مشتملة على لفظ الفاتحة ومنطوية على حسن الخاتمة ختم الله لنا بالحسنى ويسر لنا الفوز بالذخرى الاسنى بحق النبي واله الاكرمين محمد واله اجمعين"Incipit: "نحمدك يا من شرح صدورنا لتلخيص البيان في ايضاح المعاني ونور قلوبنا بلوامع البيان من مطالع المثاني ... وبعد فيقول المفنقر الى الله الغني مسعود بن عمر المدعو بسعد التفتازاني ... قد شرحت فيما مضى تلخيص المفتاح"Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the shorter commentary of al-Taftāzānī upon Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).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.On 'title page' (p.1) ownership statement in name of copyist of the opening section (and father of the shaykh of the copyist of the latter section), Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Jalīl al-Sibāʻī al-Shāfiʻī [?] reads "من كتب كاتبه ... حقير عبيده مصطفى بن عبد الفتاح بن محمد بن يحيى بن محمد بن عبد الجليل السباعي الشافعي [؟] غفر الله له ولهم ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة امين" ; extensive marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections

[Min kalām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib maʻa Matn Talkhīs al-Miftāḥ, late 18th or 19th century?].

Composite manuscript opening with maxims (amthāl) attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and arranged in alphabetical order, followed by Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, the abridgement of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d. 1338), Khaṭīb Dimashq, of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1229) on rhetoric (ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 944Origin: As appears in colophon on p.235, second work copied by Sulaymān al-Khwājah ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khwājah al-Bujayrimī [al-Bujayramī] with date of completion not specified. Paper, hand, etc. would suggest late 18th or 19th century. Opening work lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 19th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 93Binding: Boards covered in black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; resewn in white thread, eight stations ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "كلام علي ابن ابي طالب متن التلخيص" ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion.Support: European laid paper of two types ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (vertical), and traces of crescent in shield watermark (see pp.2, 6, 16, 20, Nikolaev no.959, Walz p.89), quite crisp though fairly thick and sturdy ; second type with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (vertical), three crescents watermark (perpendicular to chains, see pp.26, 30-31, etc.), and "EA" [?] countermark (see pp.64, 68, etc.), well-burnished (some leaves to glossy), fairly sturdy, cream in color ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated in second work (with text to be entered in red typically indicated in margins) ; some overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; two main hands ; opening work in a clear though initially somewhat awkward hand in a medium line, partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of titlt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; second work in a clear, spacious hand (likely Egyptian with Turkish features) in a medium line, seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on most ascenders (even free-standing alif), slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 13 and 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 11 V(110), IV (118), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; quire numbering in the form of ك above Hindu-Arabic numeral in the upper outer margin of the opening recto of each quire in the second work ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: [Matn al-Talkhīṣ] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم كتاب متن التلخيص بحمد الله وعونه على يد الفقير الى مولاه سليمان الخواجه ابن عبد الرحمن الخواجه البجيرمي وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم"Explicit: [Min kalām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib] "يسود المرء قوم بالاحسان اليهم ياس القلب راحة النفس تم بحمد الله وعونه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم" ; [Matn al-Talkhīṣ] "واردة على احسن الوجوه واكملها يظهر ذلك بالشامل مع التذكر لما تقدم ان شاء الله تعالى"Incipit: [Min kalām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib] "قال علي عليه الرضوان إيمان المرء يعرف بأيمانه أخوك من وأوساك في الشدة إظاهر الغنى من الشكر ..." ; [Matn al-Talkhīṣ] "الحمد لله على ما انعم وعلم من البيان ما لم نعلم والصلوة على سيدنا محمد خير من نطق بالصواب ... اما بعد فلما كان علم البلاغة و توابعها من اجل العلوم قدرا و ادقها سرا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.3. p.21-p.235 : Hādhā Matn Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ mushtamil ʻalá thalāthat funūn al-Maʻānī wa-al-Bayān wa-al-Badīʻ / Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qazwīnī.2. p.17-p.20 : [blank].1. p.1-p.16 : Min kalām al-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib /ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sharīf al-Raḍī.Walz, Terence. "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011):Nikolaev, Vsevolod. Watermarks of the mediaeval Ottoman documents in Bulgarian libraries. In Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, volume 1. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1954.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Composite manuscript opening with maxims (amthāl) attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and arranged in alphabetical order, followed by Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, the abridgement of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d. 1338), Khaṭīb Dimashq, of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1229) on rhetoric (ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory numbers, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No.7770 | No.7771" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; extensive interlinear and marginal glosses (in second work in particular) ; occasional corrections