An elaborate astronomical calendar consisting of one long scroll. It was made by an astronomer (name not given) for the Hijrī year 1259 (1859-1860). On one side, it is written in the form of tables, on the other side is a list of different categories of male and female personal Islamic names arranged alphabetically. Beside the months and days, it gives the times of prayers, the times of fasting and breaking the fast during Ramaḍān, the direction to the holy city of Mecca "qiblah", and personal reading of one's fortune. Written by al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭarsūsī (could not be identified) who may also have been the author
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish and Arabic., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., 108 x 10.8 cm., and In naskh/ruqʻah script in black, gold and red ink on white paper.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Arab, Fortune-telling by names, Islamic calendar, Names, Personal, Islamic, Prayer, Islam, Qiblah, and Ramadan
Menteşzâde, Abdürrahim, -1716 منتشزاده عبد الرحيم
Published / Created:
1700-1799.
Call Number:
Turkish MSS suppl. 255
Image Count:
670
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript on paper of Fetāvā-yı ‘Abdürraḥīm Efendi by Menteşzāde ‘Abdürraḥīm Efendi, a collection of fetvās (legal opinions). Includes a table of contents (ff. 1a-11a). Extensive marginal commentary throughout including responses to legal questions
Alternative Title:
Fetāvā-yı Yaḥyā Efendi, Fetāvā-yı Minḳārīzāde, and Fetāvā-yı ‘Aṭā’ullāh
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish with some Arabic., Title assigned by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Single column of 33 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta‘līq., Binding: Brown leather over paper pasteboards, gold-tooled and painted, with central mandorla and pendants covered in embossed paper, now damaged., Decoration: Illuminated text frames throughout, rubrication., Pagination added by a later hand to folios bearing text, with f. 12a numbered p. 1, f. 13a numbered p. 2, and so on., Contemporary manuscript notes on related legal opinions tipped in (ff. 47-48, 181-182)., Contemporary manuscript annotations in at least three hands, including notes on Fetāvā-yı ʻAbdürraḥīm Efendi (front pastedown, recto front flyleaf) and on legal matters (recto front and rear flyleaves). Protective charm against bookworms: Yā Kebīkec (يا كبكج) (ff. 1a, 12a)., and Accompanied by notes on legal questions (2 leaves).
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Fatwas, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Islamic law, and Manuscripts, Turkish
Manuscript, on paper, of Ustuvani Mehmet Efendi, a treatise on Islamic jurisprudence which also discusses principles of faith, worship, and prayer
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish and Arabic., Title from text heading (f. 1b)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Single column of 11 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Naskh., Binding: Flap binding, blind-tooled leather, repaired and rebacked. Covers with blind-tooled central mandorla and other decoration; spine in six compartments with blind-tooled flowers., Decoration: Text frames throughout, rubrication., Mathematical calculations in contemporary hand on front pastedown. Pen trials on rear pastedown., and Some loss of text due to repairs.
A collection of Islamic prayers, invocations and decorations, as follows: 1. Part of an invocation in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic (folio 1a). The first leaf seems to be missing. 2. Asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná (The 99 most beautiful names of God), written within gold squares (folio 1b-3a). 3. The name of the Prophet Muḥammad (folio 3a-4b). 4. Duʻāʼ istighfār kabīr (A prayer for seeking God's forgiveness) (folios 4b-5a). 5. Sharḥ muhr kabīr sharīf (An explanation of the noble seal of God) (folio 5b). 6. The seal itself written in large thulth script (folio 6a). 7. The word "Allāh, jalla jalāluh", written within a crescent moon surrounded by a decorative rectangle in gold and blue (folio 6b). 8. The word "Muḥammad, ʻalyhi al-salām" written in a similar fashion (folio 7a). 9. The name of "Adam" written within a circle surrounded by a decorative rectangle in gold and blue (folio 7b). 10. The names of Noah, Muḥammad, Abū Bakr, ʻUmar, ʻUthmān, ʻAlī, Ḥasan, Ḥusayn in a similar fashion (folios 8a-12a). 11. The names of the famous companions of the Prophet Muḥammad, written within decorative circles: Abū Bakr, ʻUmar, ʻUthmān, ʻAlī, Ṭalḥah, Zubayr, ʻAbd Allāh, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ibn ʻAwf, Saʻd, Saʻīd, Abū ʻUbaydah, Ḥasan, Ḥusayn (folios 12b-19a). 12. The names of "Ahl al-Kahf" (Seven sleepers of Ephesus): Yamlīkhā, Makshalīnā, Mithlīnā, Marnūsh, Bardanūsh, Shādhanūsh,Kafshaṭṭayyūsh and their dog "Qaṭmīr" (folios 19b-23a). 13. A prayer in the form of cypress trees (folios 23b-32a). 14. Invocation seals "muhrs": "Yā Ḥannān", "Yā Mannān" (Oh Merciful, Oh Generous), "Wa-huwa ʻalá kull shayʼ qadīr (He is able to do anything), Unity of God, Shifāʼ al-Qurʼān (Quranic medicine), seal of a prayer for getting well, seal for the great prayer of getting well, the seal of the Prophet, the seal of Sulaymān (Solomon), explanation of the seal of Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq (the sixth Shiʻī Imām, died 765), the seal of the Almighty, all written within decorative circles (folios 32b-38a). 14. Drawings of: "Hand of Faṭimah", "Dhū al-Fiqār" (ʻAlī's sword), foot of the Prophet Muḥammad, the Prophet's shoes, "Tawakkalū ʻalá Allāh" (Rely upon God), the staff of Moses, an ax, a rose, the banner of gratitude, the cloak of the Prophet Muḥammad, his rosary, his ewer and his basin, all drawn in gold (folios 39b-43a). 15. Decorative sketches of Mecca and Medina in gold and other colors (folios 43b-44a). 16. A prayer for attaining "al-Maqām al-Maḥmūd" (the Glorious Station "a place in Heaven") (folios 44b-45a). 17. Various Islamic flags drawn in gold (folios 45b-47a). 18. Various prayers for variety of occasions (folios 47b-69a). 19. Various talismanic numerology squares (folios 69b-72b). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century
Description:
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: The first leaf seems to be missing., Secundo folio: al-rāfiʻ al-muʻizz al-mudhill., 12 x 19 cm; written surface: 6 x 10 cm; lines per page vary., Binding: In brown leather binding with flap; covers richly gilt with central medallion on both sides and corners decorations; edges slightly rubbed., In large and beautiful naskh or thulth scripts, in black ink on thin white paper; with headings in white ink on gold background; catchwords., and Colophon: Last page seems to be missing; ends with a magic square and the katchword "barkamsah".
Ibn Ghānim, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad, -1279? ابن غانم، عزّ الدين عبد السلام بن أحمد، -1279?
Published / Created:
1657.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 224
Image Count:
108
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A collection of two treatises: 1. Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azhār "Unveiling of secrets on the sagacity of birds and flowers" (folios 1a-47a), a treatise on sufism, in the form of "maqāmah" genre, by ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (died 1279? in Cairo), a ṣūfī author, preacher and poet. Copied in the middle of Jumādá al-ākhir (31 March, 1657). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned. 2. Naẓm "Muthallath Quṭrub" (folios 47b-52b), by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān al-Azʹharī al-Ḥanafī, active 1688, a little known author (See Brockelmann: G II, 215; Suppl. I, 161: "al-Manẓūmah al-sannīyah fī bayān al-asmāʼ al-lughawīyah" [Illustrious poem presenting the linguistic nouns]). The treatise is a versification of "al-Muthallath" of Quṭrub (Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr, died 821 or 822, a well-known grammarian and philologist, from Baṣrah, Iraq), enumerating the trilateral homonyms in Arabic which have different meanings according to the three Arabic vowels (fatḥah, ḍammah, kasrah). Quṭrub was the first author to write on the "Muthallath" genre. The author added to the materials of "Muthallāth Quṭrub" words which he selected from extensive dictionaries, such as "Ṣiḥāḥ al-Jawharī". Copied by Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī (?). Place and date of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azhār 880-02, Kashf al-asrār fī ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār, Kitāb al-Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār, Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār, كشف الأسرار عن حكم الطيور والأزهار 240-02/r, كشف الأسرار في حكم الزهور والأطيار, كتاب المختار لكشف الأسرار في مناقشة الطيور والأزهار, and مختار لكشف الأسرار في مناقشة الطيور والأزهار
Description:
In Arabic., Title of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār from folio 3a., Title of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah lisān al-fuṣaḥāʼ wa-al-mutakallimīn ʻIzz al-Dīn Ghānim ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Maqdisī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu wa-arḍāh wa-jaʻala al-Jannah mathwāh: al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-baʻīd fī qurbih al-qarīb fī buʻdih, al-mutaʻālī fī rafīʻ majdih ʻan al-shayʼ wa-ḍiddih, alladhī awjada bi-qudratihi al-wujūd baʻda an kāna ʻadaman, wa-awjada kull mawjūd ḥukman, wa-jaʻala al-ʻaql baynahumā ḥakaman ...", Secundo folio of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: wa-mā yukābiduhu min wijdān., Incipit of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Yā Rabbī yassir yā karīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāhi alladhī hadānā // li-millati al-Islām wa-ijtabānā ... Wa-baʻda taslīmī ʻalá khayri nabī // naẓamtu min Muthallathāt Quṭrubi. Urjūzatan ladhīdhatan fī al-mashrabi // wa-zidtuhā min kutubin ṭiwāli ...", Secundo folio of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "Taḥīyat al-nāsi hiya al-salāmu., 15 x 20 cm; written surface: 8 x 14.5 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: In reddish blue cardboard binding., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; with headings and markings in red and green; catchwords., On front cover a statement in Arabic and English by Duncan Black Macdonald, 1863-1943, professor of Semitic languages at Hartford Theological Seminary, as follows: "Kashf al-asrār fī ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār li-ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Maqdisī. Bought at Damascus, Aug. 1908. D.B. Macdonald. Hartford.", On folio 1a: "Ḥasbiya Allāh. Kitāb al-Mukhtār li-kashf al-asrār fī munāqashat al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār lil-shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah ʻIzz al-Dīn Ghānim ibn ʻAbd al-Salām, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu, wa-ʻafá ʻanhumā.", On folio 3a: "... wa-sammaytuhu: Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār ...", Colophon of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "Tammat nuskhat hādhā al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb fī awāsiṭ shahr Jumādá al-Ākhir, sanat sabʻ wa-sittīn wa-alf.", Translation of the colophon of Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-zuhūr wa-al-aṭyār: "The copy of this book was completed by the help of the Benevolent King, in the middle of the month of Jumādá al-Ākhir, 1067 [31 March, 1657].", Colophon of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: " Tammat wa-bi-al-khayr ʻammat ʻalá yad al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr, al-muʻtarif bi-al-ʻajz wa-al-taqṣīr Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī [?], ʻufiya ʻanhumā. Balagha al-muqābalah ḥasba al-ṭāqah wa-al-imkān. Wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-niʻma al-wakīl. Tamm.", and Translation of the colophon of Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub: "It is completed. May it be wide-spread with goodness, by the hand of the poor and despised, who confesses his inability and shortcoming, Ḥusayn ibn Munlā Yūsuf al-Naqshabandī [?], may they both be pardoned. It was collated to the best of [my] ability, as far as possible. God suffices us. He is the best advocate. It is completed."
Subject (Name):
Azʹharī, Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān, active 1688., Ibn Ghānim, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad, -1279?, Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?, and Quṭrub, Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr, -821 or 822.
Manuscript, on paper, of a mec'mua containing prayers and mystical poems: (1) unidentified Sufi theological text, ff. 1b-20b; (2) Münācāt-ı der tevhīd-i yā Rabbī teālā 'azze ve celle (مناجات در توهيد يارى تعالي عز و جل), ff. 21b-30b; (3) 'İbtidā-i Ġazeliyāt-ı fī ḥarf-i elif (ابتدائي غزليات في حرف الألف), ff. 31a-70a; (4) unidentified poem, ff. 71b-76a
Alternative Title:
Ṭariḳat-ı Bektāşiyye'den Divān-ı Ṣāfī and طريقات بكتاشيهدن ديوان صافي
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish and Arabic., Title assigned by cataloger. Variant title from contemporary manuscript annotation at head of text., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Single column of 15 lines (ff. 1b-20b). Double columns of 15 lines (ff. 21b-76a). Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta'liq., Binding: Modern three-quarter binding in light brown leather with marbled paper over paper pasteboards., Decoration: Rubrication., and Manuscript annotations in a later hand include a prayer (f. 90b) and a petition (f. 91b). Protective charm against bookworms: Yā Kebīkec (يا كبكج) (f. 1b).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Turkish, Sufi poetry, Turkish, and Sufism
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197 مرغيناني، علي بن أبي بكر، -1196 or 1197
Published / Created:
1523 or 1524.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 603
Image Count:
560
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Mukhtārāt al-nawāzil" (Selected new issues), a treatise on Islamic law according to the Ḥanafī tradition, by Burhān al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī, a prominent and prolific Ḥanafī scholar, whose "nisbah" (affiliation) is to Marghīnān, a locality in the district of Farghānah (Marghilon, Farghona, Uzbekistan), being a collection of selected "nawāzil" (new issues which require fatwás (advisory or legal opinions), from a "faqīh" (Islamic law scholar)). Copied in the year 930 of the Hijrah (1523 or 1524), by Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim. Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit (folio 4b): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. "al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-al-ʻāqibah lil-muttaqīn, wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūlihi al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn ajmaʻīn. Kitāb al-Ṭahārāt. al-Ṭahārah fī al-lughah ʻibārah ʻan al-naẓāfah, wa-fī al-Sharīʻah, ʻibārah ʻan ghasl aʻḍāʼ makhṣūṣah bi-ṣifah makhṣūṣah, wa-hiya anwāʻ: Ṭahārat al-ṣughrá wa-Ṭahārat al-kubrá, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-ḥadath, wa-ṭahārat al-thawb wa-al-badan, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-khabath. Bāb mā yajūzu bi-hi al-wuḍūʼ, wa-mā lā yajūz. Faṣl fī al-miyāh ...", Secundo folio: Yūsuf, annahu lam yujawwiz fī al-badan., 14.3 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 12 cm; 14lines per page., Binding: Cover missing; dark brown leather on spine., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in red and large black script; some notes on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a-3b: Miscellaneous quotations on Islamic law., At the head of folio 4a: "Hādhā kitāb Mukhtārāt nawāzil, li-ṣāḥib al-Hidāyah.", At the head of folio 5a: An endowment statement: "Waqf Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-Chakmajlī.", Text ends abruptly on folio 276b, as follows: "... rawá al-Ḍaḥḥāk ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās, rḍ, annahu qāl: Yakūnu baʻd al-Nabī nūr yukanná Abū Ḥ, yaḥya dīn Allāh wa-Sunnat Rasūl Allāh ʻalá yadih. Wa-ʻan Anas, qāl, qāla Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam: Yakūnu fī ākhir al-zamān rajul yukanná bi-Abī Ḥanīfah, yaḥyá dīn Allāh taʻālá wa-Sunnatī ʻalá yadih. Thumma shurrifa bi-al-dhikr fī Ḥadīth ākhar: Muliʼa qalbuhu ʻilman wa-ḥikmah ...", Folio 277 is bound upside-down and contains miscellaneous quotations., At the head of folio 277a: "ʻAdad masāʼil hādhā al-kitāb alf wa-khamsmiʼat wa-ithnān wa-thalāthūn, wa-dhakar al-khilāf fī miʼah wa-sabʻīn, wa-lam yadhkur al-qiyās illā fī [...?].", Colophon (at the lower right margin of folio 276b): "Tammat al-kitāb, bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb, ʻalá yad ʻAbd [al-ʻabd] al-ḍaʻīf, al-muḥtāj, al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-Ghanī, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-aḥsana ilayhimā wa-ilayhi. Tārīkhuhu sanat thalāthīn wa-tisʻimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed by the help of the Abundant Giving King, by the hand of the feeble, needy and poor to Gracious God, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, may God forgive him and his parents and treat them and him favorably. Dated in the year 930 [of the Hijrah = 1523/1524]."
Subject (Name):
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197.
Collection of prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection from the enemies, with many verses from the Qurʼān. Name of the author not mentioned. Copied and illuminated in 1267 Hijrī (1850 or 1851) by the calligrapher al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir nicknamed "Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān" (Memorizer of the Qurʼān). Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ...", Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn., 10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt., In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame., Text folios 1b-11b., Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances)., Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H.", and Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851]."
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Invocation, Religious aspects, Islam, and Prayer
An anonymous treatise on the Arab conquest of North Africa under the leadership of ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir (died 678), a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad who became the governor of Egypt and died there. The present manuscript is the first book (al-sifr al-awwal) of the original work, dealing with the conquest from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf (localities in North Africa). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm of Banū Ṣāliḥ on Wednesday, 1 Shaʻbān, 1083 Hijrī (22 November, 1672). Place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ Ifrīqīyah and فتوح إفريقية
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi. Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. Bi-ʻawn Allāh wa-barakat Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Qāl fa-kharaja ilayhā ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, yakūnu amīr al-jaysh, wa-kharrajahu Mawlānā ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wa-huwa amīr al-Madīnah [madīnat] al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam, wa-yakūnu ʻAlī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wazīrahu. Wa-lam yuqtal aḥad baʻda mawt al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Fa-kharaja bi-sittīn alf fāris min bilād al-ʻArab ...", Secundo folio: miʼat alf fāris., 14 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 14 cm; 17 lines per page., Binding: In modern brown cloth binding., In fair Maghribī script, in brown ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; the first ten leaves are in a different hand and seem to have replaced the original; catchwords. The leaves are affected by dampness, but the text is legible, some are repaired without loss of text., Text folio 1a-155b., On folios 1a an advice on generosity, written in light blue ink, bearing the name and signature of al-Sayyid al-Ṭūfī al-Mālikī, Mudīr ʻĀmm Maʻhad al-Futūḥ al-Malakī, starts with: "Kun karīman kay tanāla bi-qurbinā nūran wa-ʻilman ...", On folio 10b an invocation in a different hand., Colophon: "Wa-hādhā muqtaḍá al-sifr al-awwal min al-Mahdīyah wa-ilá Sāṭīf ... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-ikmāl ʻalá yad ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm min Banī Ṣāliḥ ... Wa-kāana al-farāgh minhu ʻashīyah yawm al-Arbaʻ awwal shahr Shaʻbān ʻām thalāth wa-thamānīn wa-alf ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This is the end of the first book dealing with [the conquest] from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf ... Praise be to God on completing its copying by ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhim of Banī Ṣāliḥ ... The copying was completed on Wednesday evening, the beginning of Shaʻbān, 1083 [22 November, 1672] ..."