[Majmūʻat rasāʼil, 1155, i.e. 1742].

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Clear copy of a collection of treatises (majmūʻah / mecmua) on assorted topics. Contents listed on fore-edge flap label and 'table of contents' (p.7).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 154Origin: All works appear to be in the hand of a single copyist, named in the colophons which appear following a few of the works (see p.24, p.119, p.144, and p.177) as Muḥammad al-Qāriṣī [al-Qarṣī] ibn Uways ibn Muḥammad ibn Ramaḍān (Mehmet Üveys Karsî) for or while in the service of Mevlana Mahmut müftü of Kars Erzurum. As appears in colophon on p.24, transcription of al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī's Sharḥ al-Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah fī al-ādāb [al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah] finished Rabīʻ II 1155 [June-July 1742]. As appears in colophon on p.119, transcription of Risālat Ḥallāl al-mushkilāt finished in the city of Kars, Erzurum (vilayet) 1 Rabīʻ I 1155 [ca. 6 May 1742]. As appears in colophon on p.144, transcription of Kāshifat ḥāl al-mawtá completed 8 Rabīʻ I 1155 [ca. 13 May 1742]. As appears in colophon on p.177, transcription of Risale-yi Hakanî completed in Rabīʻ I 1155 [May-June 1742].Accompanying materials: Slips carrying glosses tipped in (paginated pp.49-50, pp.55-56).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 74. Collection of tracts."Binding: Pasteboards covered in combed marbled paper (in red, blue, and yellow ; see interior of flap) with dark brown leather over spine, foreedge flap, and edges/turn-ins ; entire cover now fitted with custom textile jacket / detachable overcover (see p.246-247, 453 in Julia Miller, Books will speak plain) in light green-blue linen, stiched across board linings in heavy cream and blue thread (yarn) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked endbands in green and red, fair condition ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, staining, tearing, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and major chain lines spaced roughly 23-24 mm. apart (horizontal) but spaced roughly 6-8 mm. from apparently minor chain lines (giving the effect of chain lines grouped in pairs) ; watermark with crown above fleur de lis, studded pendant and initials 'GB' 'MF' below ; well-sized and burnished ; some inclusions ; thin but sturdy ; moisture damage obscures text in upper inner corners of written area.Decoration: Titles, section headings, keywords, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh influenced by nastaʻlīq ; all works mainly in one fine Eastern Anatolian hand, virtually serifless with effect of tilt to the right, mainly closed counters, some elongation of descenders and horizontal strokes, slight effect of words descending to baseling, freely ligatured, point of final nūn often assimilated with bowl, final yāʼ often mardūdah, etc.Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; written area of a few texts divded to four and two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: 6 V (60), V+1 (71), V (81), VI (93), V (103), IV+1 (112) ; chiefly quinions ; 'quire numbering' in the form of whole words roughly every ten leaves toward the middle of each quire (often the leaf following the middle bifolium, see p.35, p.57, p.77, p.97, etc.) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.25. p.224-p.228 : [blank].24. p.206-p.223 : [Risālah fī al-tajwīd]/ Muṣṭafá al-Anṭākī.23. p.205 : [blank].22. p.178-p.204 : Hilye-yi Hakanî / Hakanî Mehmet Bey.21. p.164-p.177 : Risale-yi Hakanî / Hakanî Mehmet Bey.20. p.163 : [blank].19. p.152-p.162 : Risālah fī al-kabāʼir wa-al-ṣaghāʼir min al-dhunūb / Ibn Nujaym.18. p.150-p.151 : [Risālah fī al-fiʻl al-iṣṭilāḥī] / Kadızade Mehmet [?].17. p.148-p.149 : [Risālah ṣaghīrat al-ḥajm fī mā istafadtu mimmā yataʻallaqu bil-Qurān al-ʻaẓīm] / Kadızade Mehmet [?].16. p.145-p.147 : [blank].15. p.122-p.144 : Kāshifat ḥāl al-mawtá / Kadızade Mehmet [?].14. p.120-p.121 : [blank].13. p.106-p.119 : Risālat Ḥallāl al-mushkilāt / Fatḥ Allāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Mawṣilī.12. p.78-p.105 : Kitāb al-Munabbihāt / Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī.11. p.76-p.77 : [assorted excerpts].10. p.42-p.75 : Risālat al-ʻadl fī bayān ḥāl al-Khiḍr / Numân Paşa bin Mustafa Paşa Köprülü.9. p.36-p.41 : [blank].8. p.26-p.35 : [Tafsīr Sūrat al-Mulk] / Kemalpaşazade.7. p.25 : [blank].6. p.18-p.24 : Risālah-yi ʻAḍudī fī al-ādāb [i.e. Sharḥ al-Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah fī al-ādāb] / al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī.5. p.17 : [originally left blank, now carries waqf statement].4. p.12-p.16 : al-Fāriqah bayna al-sāʻāt al-saʻīdah wa-al-naḥisah / Kadızade Mehmet Necip [?].3. p.8-p.11 : [blank].2. p.7 : [table of contents].1. p.1-p.6 : [blank].Miller, Julia. Books will speak plain : a handbook for identifying and describing historical bindings. Ann Arbor : The Legacy Press, 2010.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Clear copy of a collection of treatises (majmūʻah / mecmua) on assorted topics. Contents listed on fore-edge flap label and 'table of contents' (p.7).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. 74. Collection of tracts." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "143" in Western numerals on opening leaf (p.1) ; on paper (blue-tinted) pasted on ’title page’ of second work (p.17), a detailed waqf statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Adīb (Abdullah Edip), known as Jannatʹzādah (Cennet-zade), qāḍī of Erzurum, accompanied by his seal, reads: "وقفت وقفا صحيحا شرعيا على ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الملتصق بداري الا لعلماء سكنوا بارضروم بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; numerous glosses and marginal corrections