Sharḥ al-Ījāz, [15th or 16th century?].

Much glossed commentary attributed to ʻAlī Zayn al-Dīn al-Ḥakīm (possibly an autograph) on al-Ījāz, a Shāfiʻī legal treatise by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Kahbanānī al-Aṣfahīdī al-Kirmānī (d.807/1404-5) itself a commentary on the Muḥarrar of ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Qazwīnī (d.623/1226).Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 15th-16th century ; conceivable that this is an autograph of a minor work.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. Inserted slips on a mix of Oriental and European papers at pp.52, 78 (sewn-in), 96, 128, 228, 470, 522, and 734 ; with the exception of 470-A, which marks the end of the first 'book', and 96-A these slips appear to contain further notes on the text ; some have been sewn in, others tipped in ; none appear to be in the hand of the copyist, although some of the hands are recognizable from the marignalia ; 96-A may be a slip from a bookseller, with inscription mentioning "penal law" ("droit pénal"), the name "M. Talaat" and numbers that could be prices.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 181" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western binding ; board linings in green wove paper ; resewn in white thread ; in good condition.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper ; chain lines appear sporadically, occsaionally grouped in twos, 11-14 mm. apart ; roughly 9 laid lines per cm. ; paper is not heavily burnished and is fairly translucent ; the codex was seriously damaged by water and mold at some point, causing some loss of text in the final leaves ; the ms. might benefit from having some of the now dry mold removed.Decoration: Simple headpiece lightly sketched in red ink at the top of fol. 4b (p.8), consisting of a wide-based triangle sitting atop a three-compartment rectangle, in the middle compartment of which is the basmalah ; texts of fol.4b and 5a are framed in a red rule-border, and the next few folia with a black fillet ; text rubricated with keywords and overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; Persian or Transoxanian hand (?) ; alifs are sans serif and taper slightly towards the bottom ; counters are closed ; the lām alif al-mukhaffafah is most commonly used.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 3 + II (7), 48 IV (391), IV + 1 (400) ; chiefly quaternions ; fol.4-6 have been bound in prior to the opening folia, immediately apparent from the existing foliation ; foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning with ١ on the leaf facing the basmalah and ending with ٤٢٥ ; the foliator appears to have repeated fol. 59, repeated fol.167, jumped from fol.169-180, skipped the fol. between fol. 242 and fol.243, jumped from 289 to 300, repeated 306, and jumped from 389 to 400 ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "ويقدم على سائر حقوق الغرباء[؟] فضلا عن الوصايا والارث لقوت الاستيلاد"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي قوم قوائد الدين بتأسيس اساس الاسلام وشد واركان ضوابط اليقين باحكام ترصيف معاقد الاحكام ورفع ... وسواه وسدده وقواه اشد تسوية واقوى تقويةبالفيض "Title from inscription on fol.4a (p.7).Ms. codex.Ḥajjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Much glossed commentary attributed to ʻAlī Zayn al-Dīn al-Ḥakīm (possibly an autograph) on al-Ījāz, a Shāfiʻī legal treatise by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Kahbanānī al-Aṣfahīdī al-Kirmānī (d.807/1404-5) itself a commentary on the Muḥarrar of ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Qazwīnī (d.623/1226).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase from Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951) in the late 1920s.Single, many-lobed oval ownership seal impression on fol. 4b (p.8), near the bottom-right corner of the page, "اصفهان" is legible ; filled to superabundance with marginalia in numerous hands, most in various naskhs and some in nastaʻlīq ; most marginal corrections marked with صح ligature seem to be in the copyist's hand ; collation statements seem markedly absent, reinforcing the sense that this may be an autograph work, though they could simply have escaped notice in the sea of marginalia ; glosses are also abundant throughout and marked with assorted abbreviations, some of which presumably refer to hadith authorities ; in some cases references to other texts are identified (see pp.94-95 for examples of attribution to Ibn Ḥajar)