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    Hādhihi Majmūʻah taḥtawī ʻalá Shadhrah tārīkhīyah wa-Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Naṣīrīyah al-Khusrawīyah wa-Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ayḍan ʻan al-masāʼil al-Jīlānīyah wa-Risālat al-Nuqṭah lil-Ṣadr ayḍan, [193-?].

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    Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works opening with an excerpt on history followed by Asrār al-nuqṭah of Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadānī (d.1385) (here attributed to Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī) and two philosophical works by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 976Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 125Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "مجموعة شذرة تاريخية ورسائل | J.H.D." ; sewn in heavy white thread, seemingly in four stations ; overall in fairly good condition with minor curvature in boards (negative draw in upper board, positive draw in lower board).Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.Decoration: Occasional overlining, headings and glosses (including signes de renvoi) rubricated.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact, elegant hand in a thin to medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page.Collation: i, XIV (28), i ; a single gathering of fourteen bifola ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: [Shadhrah tārīkhīyah] "مقدمة في علم التاريخ وفائدته واقامه التاريخ علم يتضمن ذكر الوقائع ولا سيما ما كان منها متعلقا بالامم والاقاليم مع تعيين اوقاتها وبيان اسبابها ومسبباتها ..." ; [Risālat al-Nuqtah ] "الحمد لله الذي ظهر بما شاء لمن شاء بمشيئته الازلية ... اما بعد فلما شاع بين اهل العلوم ان ارفع العلوم واشرفها علم التوحيد ..." ; [Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Naṣīrīyah al-Khusrawīyah ] "الحمد لمنور النفوس بانوار العلم والقرآن وهادي الخلائق بارسال الرسول وانزال القرآن ... وبعد فان الحكيم ... نصير الملة والدين محمد الطوسي ... قد بعث رسالة الى بعض معاصريه وهو الفاضل ... شمس الدين الخسرو شاهي ..." ; [Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-masāʼil al-Jīlānīyah] "هذه رسالة كتبها الاستاذ صدر الافاضل الى الفاضل مولانا الشمس الجيلاني ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.5. p.42-p.55 : Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-masāʼil al-Jīlānīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.4. p.29-p.41 : Risālat al-Ajwibah al-Ṣadrīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Naṣīrīyah al-Khusrawīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.3. p.22-p.28 : Risālat al-Nuqtah / lil-Ṣadr ayḍan [ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī].2. p.21 : [blank].1. p.2-p.20 : Shadhrah tārīkhīyah.MacEoin, D. "Mullā Ṣadrā S̲H̲īrāzīṢadr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm Ḳawāmī S̲h̲īrāzī." In EI2,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works opening with an excerpt on history followed by Asrār al-nuqṭah of Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadānī (d.1385) (here attributed to Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī) and two philosophical works by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640).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 number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 7920" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; occasional corrections and marginal glosses, many in red ink

    [Kitāb-i Gulistān ...etc., 16th century?].

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    Elegant copy of the Gulistān, celebrated collection of moralizing anecdotes in rhymed prose interspersed with verse (maqāmah form), composed in 1258 by the renowned Persian poet and prose writer, Saʻdī (d.1292). Accompanied by the text of his Būstān in the margins and followed by further ḥikāyat, Risālah-ʼyi dah qāʻidah of Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadānī (d.1385) and a manqabat for Shaykh Saʻdī (see pp.228-249).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 308Origin: As appears in colophon on p.249, copied by Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Tirmidhī (al-Tirmiẕī) [?] ( محمد امين الحسينى الترمذى ). Date of transcription not specified but decoration, hand, paper etc. suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with verses (paginated pp.55-56) -- b. Slip with short note (paginated pp.75-76) -- c. Slip with calculations and date of 1219 [1804 or 5] (paginated pp.121-122).Former shelfmark: "113 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep red leather ; Type II binding (with flap), possibly two piece binding ; board linings in light pink-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled border and rosette corner accents ; sewn in dark pink / red thread, two stations, failing with many gatherings loose ; worked chevron endbands in dark pink and yellow, fair condition with some damage ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather to spine, upper cover detaching at spine, envelope flap detaching at fore edge flap, etc. ; pieced repairs in dark red-brown leather at board corners, spine, joints, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical, quite diffuse) and no chain lines visible, cloudy formation, dark cream in color, quite sturdy and well-burnished ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche and pendants surrounded by swirling arabesque with floral motifs (in gold, white, pink, yellow, orange, and red on a lapis lazuli ground) with accent and cornerpieces in gold, black and red and border in turquoise, surmounted by a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with same swirling arabesque design on fields of lapis lazuli and gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas and gold discs ; central written area surrounded by frame consisting of heavy gold band defined by black fillets, margins and divisions within written area also outlined in gold rules ; central (and in some places marginal) written area gold-flecked.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, with up to 32 lines on the diagonal in the margin ; frame-ruled ; written area occasionally divided to two columns to set off verses.Collation: ii, 15 IV(120), I (122) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present for marginal text (mainly Būstān) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (includes inserts).Colophon: "Scribal," in Arabic, reads "كتبه الفقير الحقير محمد امين الحسينى الترمدى [الترمذي ؟] غفر ذنوبه و ستر عيوبه"Explicit: "و الحمد لله وحده در خاتم كتاب كلستان و الله المستعان بتوفيق بارى تعالى درين جمله چنانكه عادت مولفانست ز شعر متقدمان بطريق استعارت تلفيقى نرفت ... واطلب لنفسك من خير تريد به من بعد ذلك غفرانا لصاحبه حكايت آورده اند كه حاتم اصم از شاكردان و ميردان شيخ بود ... چون تصانيف و رسايل نظم شيخ سعدى مشهور و معروف است شروع در ذكران نكرديم والسلام"Incipit: [Gulistān] "منت خدایرا عز و جل که طاعتش موجب قربتست..." ; [Būstān] "بنام خداوند جان آفرین حکیم سخن در زبان آفرین خداوند بخشنده ی دستگیر کریم خطا بخش پوزش پذیر عزیزی که هر کز درش سر بتافت ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Rypka,Browne,Cat. Pers. MSS Brit. Mus.,Elegant copy of the Gulistān, celebrated collection of moralizing anecdotes in rhymed prose interspersed with verse (maqāmah form), composed in 1258 by the renowned Persian poet and prose writer, Saʻdī (d.1292). Accompanied by the text of his Būstān in the margins and followed by further ḥikāyat, Risālah-ʼyi dah qāʻidah of Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadānī (d.1385) and a manqabat for Shaykh Saʻdī (see pp.228-249).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Inscription in pencil "113 T. De. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" on front flyleaf ; ownership statement in name of Mustafa Reşit ( مصطفى رشيد / Muṣṭafá Rashīd), son of the grand vezir Mehmet Emin Âli Paşa, statement dated 29 Shawwāl 1286 [February 1870], reads "من كتب الفقير الى الاء ربه المجيد السيد مصطفى رشيد مخدوم وزير اعظم سيد محمد امين عالى پاشا في ٢٩ ل سنه ٢٨٦" (compare statements and seal impressions in other manuscripts, including Isl. Ms. 371 and Isl. Ms. 389, along with Isl. Ms. 226, Isl. Ms. 399 and Isl. Ms. 409)

    The maqāma

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    Criticism in the post-classical period: a survey

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