[al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Majmaʻ al-anhur sharḥ Multaqá al-abḥur, late 18th or 19th century?].

Second part of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Shaykhʹzādah's (d.1078/1667) popular commentary on al-Ḥalabī’s Multaqá al-abḥur, a handbook of Ḥanafī fiqh, opening in Kitāb al-buyūʻ.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 258Origin: No details on date of transcription or copyist supplied in text. Hand, paper, etc. would suggest late 18th or 19th century.Former shelfmark: Pasted label on spine "۴۷٦" ; inscription in pencil on lower pastedown "496 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" ; "85" inscribed in pencil on recto of first folio.Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep brown leather (goat) with black leather on spine ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper and lower covers carry gold stamped mandorla, pendants, and corner pieces filled with a vegetal design (compare Déroche class. OAi 4) bordered in a decorative pattern of tiny blind-tooled and gold painted (now green in many places) rosettes along with a decorative frame consisting of blind stamped and gold painted guilloche roll border flanked by gold fillets ; this decorative pattern carries on to the foreedge flap and envelope flap which is decorated in the same fashion as the upper and lower covers but for which the decorative work has been better preserved (a border of gold painted fillets and sprigs at the spandrels of the smaller mandorla/rosette appears on the envelope flap but not on the covers where it was likely lost) ; the foreedge flap carries gold fillets and a decorative pattern of tiny blind stamped (and gold painted) rosettes (interior of the flap as well) with guilloche roll accent at top and bottom pastedowns and flyleaves (and interior of envelope flap) in yellow laid paper (single chain lines visible, spaced 30-32 mm. apart) ; white thread ; two sewing stations ; chevron endbands in red (faded to salmon color) and yellow ; in poor to fair condition ; still well attached but with much wear ; oxidation and loss of gold paint on cover ; sever pest damage to lower cover, some to upper cover and flap as well (envelope and foreedge) ; housed in box for protection.Support: Pastedowns and flyleaves in laid paper with chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 30-32 mm. apart, laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 6 laid lines per cm., quite fibrous and crisp ; first three folios (p.1-6) ruled for table of contents on a laid paper with laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 6 laid lines per cm., sagging and undulating, quite fibrous and crisp, light brown in colour with some inclusions ; bulk of the textblock in a European laid paper with single chain lines running horizontally and spaced 25-27 mm. apart, laid lines running vertically and spaced laid lines 10-11 laid lines per cm., and watermark difficult to examine but possibly lion (even passant guardant, see p.12, 16, 18, 58, etc.) and "V G" (see p.14, etc. likely Valentino Galvani, see pp.88-89 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan" and compare Eineder nos.986, 987, etc. ), few inclusions and undissolved fibers, cream color, crisp and burnished ; still another watermark is visible in final leaves (likely of different paper type), a flower with five long petals over letters "G M" (see p.416).Decoration: Decorative frame consisting of black fillets flanking a gold band is present throughout text ; initial leaves are ruled for a table of contents but unfilled ; text rubricated with chapter and section headings, overlinings, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; very small, stiff Turkish hand in heavy line ; mainly seriffed with right-sloping head serif (approaching horizontal in some instances), slight effect of inclination to the left, exaggerated thickness of many horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final nūn often seated above or nearly assimilated with tall, narrow bowl.Layout: Written in 33 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 3 (3), 19 V (193), VII (207), I (209), i ; mainly quinions ; catchwords supplied but lacking in many places ; opening added leaves ruled for table of contents but left blank ; final two leaves ruled but left blank ; pagination in black ink, Hindu Arabic numerals, top center of each page from opening of text to second to final folio of text, though mistakenly repeats each of the following page numbers ١٢۸, ١٢٤, ۲۹۱, ۳٥٤ ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Authorial," triangular, reads: "هذا اخر كتاب سماه الملتقى الابحر ولم ال من الالو وهو التقصير جهدا اي لم امنعك جهدا في عدم ترك شيء من مسائل الكتب الاربعة وهي القدوري والمختار والكنز والوقاية كما مر في الخطبة ... حتى يسهل الطلب على من اشتبه عليه صحة شيء مما ليس في الكتب الاربعة ... وما توفيقي الا بالله عليه توكلت واليه انيب . وقع التمام والاختتام ببلدة ادرنة صانها الله عن البلية قاضيا بالعسكر المنصور في ولاية روم ايلي المعمورة راجيا من الله عز وجل العفو مما وقع عن القصور والخبط والذلل وذلك في ليلة الخميس في اليوم التاسع وعشر من جمادى الآخر من شهور سنة سبع وسبعين الف من الهجرة النبوية من له الفرد الشرف اللهم اجعله لي ذاخرا نافعا وخيرا باقيا بحرمة جميع الانبياء والمرسلين خصوصا بحرمة حبيبك محمد المصطفى صلوات الله وسلامه عليه وعليهم اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين" ; "Scribal," reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب".Explicit: "قال الفقير يريد المولى الفاضل روح الله روحه وزاد في أعلى غرف الجنان فتوح نفسه النفيسة"Incipit: "بان يكون آدميا فهواى هذا لبيع فاسد لما فيه عن زيادة عرية عن العوض فيكون ربوا وكل عقد شرط فيه..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Eineder, Georg. The ancient paper-mills of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and their watermarks. Hilversum, Holland: Paper Publications Society, 1960.Walz, Terence. "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011):Brockelmann, C. GAL,Second part of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Shaykhʹzādah's (d.1078/1667) popular commentary on al-Ḥalabī’s Multaqá al-abḥur, a handbook of Ḥanafī fiqh, opening in Kitāb al-buyūʻ.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Other than the apparent former shelfmarks or sellers' marks, conspicuous lack of detailed ownership marks ; some marginal corrections