Kitāb Ḥilyat al-abrār wa-shiʻār al-akhyār fī al-ḥadīth, [769, i.e. 1368].

Also known as Kitāb al-Adhkār, on prayers for day and night handed down by tradition, in 361 bābs or chapters. A lengthy table of contents precedes the work, and many reading notes and marginal comments are found throughout.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 531Origin: Composition finished ("faraghtu min jamʻih") in Muḥarram 667 [September 1268]. As appears in colophon on fol.153b, copying finished ("tamma al-kitāb...ʻalá yad") by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Naṣr Allāh al-Jurmī Muḥtadā al-Shīrāzī, on the evening of Friday, the 21st of the month of repentance (shahr al-tawbah) [Ramaḍān], 769 [ca. 10 May 1368].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Note in unidentified hand "[...]69 H [...] H/1368 second copy (there are two copies of this ms.)."Former shelfmark: From upper and lower board lining, "IL 105a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards faced in pink coated paper with brown leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding (though with tight back) ; upper and lower covers carry gold foil stamped floral design ; at some stage sewn over three recessed cords ; stuck on endbands in red and white stripe ; obviously modern binding, not original, separating from text block at spine, revealing a great deal of adhesive.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8-9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, more distinct in some areas) and no chain lines distinctly visible, somewhat cloudy formation, quite sturdy, beige to light brown in color, well-burnished ; added title page on a machine laid paper.Decoration: Section headings and words introducing quotes rubricated ; other words rubricated and overlined for emphasis ; three dots in red to mark text divisions.Script: Naskh ; elegant Persianate hand in a narrow line ; partially seriffed with sharp leftward serifs on many ascenders (even free-standing alif), curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots (two dots occasionally oriented vertically), final kāf often appearing with shaqq, some sweeping descenders ; from fol.107a, ink changes from brown to black, line much thinner with hand slightly smaller though quite similar ; occasionally vocalized.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page.Collation: i, I+1 (3), II+1 (8), III (14), VII (28), III (34), VI (46),10 V (146), V-3 (153), i ; chiefly quinions ; middle-of-the-quire marks appear in the form of oblique strokes in the upper corners of the right-hand leaves at the center of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination added later in pencil, Western numerals.Colophon: "Scribal", rectangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه على يد العبد الضعيف المذنب المقصر اقل عباد الله تعالى واحوجهم الى رحمته عبد الرحيم بن عبد الكريم بن نصرالله الجرمي محتدا الشيرازي مولدا ومنشأ اصلح الله احواله في الدارين وغفر له ولوالديه ولاحبائه وسائر من احسن اليهم وجميع المسلمين انه هو الغفور الرحيم في ليلة الجمعة الحادي والعشرين من شهر التوبة سنة تسع وستين وسبعمائة والحمد لله رب العالمين اكمل الحمد على كل حال والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله واصحابه خير صحب وال"Explicit: "هذا اخرما قصدته من هذا الكتاب وقد من الله الكريم فيه بما هوله اهل من الفوائد النفيسة والدقائق اللطيفة من نواع العلوم ومهماتها ومستحدات الحقائق ومطلوبها...اخر الكتاب قال مصنفه الشيخ الامام العالم الفاضل ابو زكريا محيي بن شرف النواوي رضي الله عنه فرغت من جمعه في المحرم سنة سبع وستين وستمائة سوى احرف الحقتها بعد ذلك واجزت روايته لجميع المسلمين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار مقدر الاقدار مصرف الامور مكور الليل على النهار تبصره لاولي [?] القلوب والابصار الذي ايقظ من خلقه من اصطفاه فادخله في جملة الاخيار...اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم العزيز الحكيم فاذكروني اذكركم..."Title from added title page (fol.1a).Ms. codex.Hajji Khalifah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Also known as Kitāb al-Adhkār, on prayers for day and night handed down by tradition, in 361 bābs or chapters. A lengthy table of contents precedes the work, and many reading notes and marginal comments are found throughout.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.A multitude of collation statments signed Nūr Shihāb al-Dīn [?] indicating that Mawlānā Shams al-Dīn completed the collation with him via reading / recitation, statement reads "بلغ مولانا شمس الدين قرأة علي كتبه الفقير نور شهاب الدين ... [?]" appears every few leaves in the margins throughout (e.g. fol. 13b, 25a, 36b, 38b, 40 b, 98b, 100b, etc.) though only twice after change of ink / line (fol. 107a, 108b) ; a statement on the added title page further references the collation by Mawlānā Shams al-Dīn "تنبيه: هذا النسخة الشريفة كتب في عصر المؤلف وقرء عليه مولانا شمس الدين وصححه وقابله" ; an interesting scribal note to test the red ink (probatio pennae or "pen trial") found on fol. 77a "تجرب القلم بالمركب الاحمر.