Finding aid for the Ilmiyah collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, ca. 1516-1893 LSC.1654
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
- Manuscripts 1-3 (Box 1)
- Manuscripts 4, 8-12 (Box 2)
- Manuscript 5, withdrawn
- Manuscripts 6-7 moved to Collection 1055, Shaykhi Collection of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts, manuscripts 40-41
- Manuscripts 13-14 (Box 3)
- Manuscripts 25-32, 34-38 (Box 4)
- Manuscript 33, withdrawn
- Manuscripts 39-42 (Box 5)
- Manuscript 43 [oversize] (Box 6)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
The book of one who has never visited a jurist / The book of one who has never visited a jurist Manuscript no. 1 1585 July
- Author: Ibn Babawayh, ?li ibn al-?usayn, d. 941
- Scribe: ?bd al-Ra?im Mazandarani
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Ottoman Mecca
- Layout: 21 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in black leather with brown and burgundy leather paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, headings and marked passages in red; double border in gold blue; some marginalia.
The book of belief and unbelief from the book [called] al-kafi / Prayer book / The book of belief and unbelief from the book [called] al-kafi / Prayer book Manuscript no. 2 1700
- Author: Kulayni, Mu?ammad ibn Y?qub, d. 941?
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in faux red Morocco, stamped in gilt.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, headings in red; illuminations on 1b and 162b; few marginalia.
[The light of the Sheikh of Tus] / [The light of the Sheikh of Tus] Manuscript no. 3 1539
- Author: [?usi, Mu?ammad ibn al-?asan, 995-1067?]
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 8 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in red leather, stamped in gilt, with purple, green and blue marbled paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, headings and marked passages in red; double borders in gold and blue; some marginalia.
The laws and precepts of Islam / The laws and precepts of Islam Manuscript no. 4 1670 April
- Author: Mu?aqqiq al-?illi, J? far ibn al-?asan, 1205 or 6-1277
- Scribe: Mu?min ibn Sayyid Iftikhar al-Lalih'abadi
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia or Ottoman empire
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather, blind-stamped, with leather fore-edge flap.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, headings and marked passages in red; double borders; marginalia; water damage.
The jewel of desire / The jewel of desire Manuscript no. 8 1712 July
- Author: Lahiji, ?bd al-Razzaq, 17th cent.
- Scribe: Mu?ammad ?usayn Tabrizi I?fahani
- Language: Text in Persian
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in black leather, stamped in gilt; black canvas spine.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, chapter headings in red; marginalia.
The source of faith / The source of faith Manuscript no. 9 1696 June
- Author: Lahiji, ?bd al-Razzaq, 17th cent.
- Scribe: ?asan ibn Taj al-Din ?ul?an Mu?ammad.
- Language: Text in Persian
- Origin: Ottoman empire
- Layout: 14 lines of text per page.
- Script: Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in green and burgundy leather with marbled paste-downs; fore-edge flap.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, chapter headings in red; marginalia.
Delightful elegance commenting on the Alfiya / Delightful elegance commenting on the Alfiya Manuscript no. 10 1649
- Author: Suyu?i, 1445-1505
- Scribe: ?li Taqi al-Khurasani
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Ottoman empire
- Layout: about 12 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in black leather, blind-stamped, with orange and green paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, chapter headings in red; marginalia. Leaves [9-135] in different hands. Fore-edge title.
Commentary on Ibn ?ijjah's rhetorical excellence / Commentary on Ibn ?ijjah's rhetorical excellence Manuscript no. 11 1684
- Works 1 and 2 are by Suyu?i, [2-21] and [24a-80b], Shar? badi ? iyah Ibn ?ijjah and Shar? badi ? iyah ?a'isha, respectively;
- 3. Ba ? uniyah, ?a'ishah bint Yusuf, d. 1516 or 17, religious and secular poetry, [81a-98b];
- 4. al-Maridini, Abu al-?asan ?li ibn al-Musharraf fl. 1442, Qasidah (hymn), [105a-108b].
- Author: Suyu?i, 1445-1505 [et al.]
- Scribe: ?bd al-Qadir ibn A?mad ?azim
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Ottoman empire [Iraq]
- Layout: 19 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft brown leather with burgundy inlays; burgundy spine.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red; marginalia.
[Commentary on the Ta?iyat of ibn al-Fari?] / [Commentary on the Ta?iyat of ibn al-Fari?] Manuscript no. 12 [16--]?
- Author: Qay?ari, Dawud ibn Ma?mud, d. 1350 or 51
- Scribe: Mu?ammad ibn Abu Bakr
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Ottoman empire [Iraq]
- Layout: 25 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft red leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red; marginalia. Title written on lower edge of text block.
[Commentary upon the curative book in the science of conjugation] / [Commentary upon the curative book in the science of conjugation] Manuscript no. 13 [16--]?
- Author: Jarbardi, Fakhr al-Din A?mad ibn al-?asan, d. 1345
- Scribe: ?usayn ibn ?li ibn Taj al-Din al-Najafi
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 18 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather with blind-stamped inlays.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, words marking quotations in red; marginalia. Author's name on bottom-edge.
The adequate book commenting upon the complete book / The adequate book commenting upon the complete book Manuscript no. 14 1690 January
- Author: Astarabadi, ?asan ibn Mu?ammad, d. 1315
- Scribe: Mu?ammad Ism? il ibn Mir Mu?ammad al-?usayni
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 21 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather, blind-stamped.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, underlining in red; marginalia. Cover title.
[Anthology of religious prose and poetry] / [Anthology of religious prose and poetry] Manuscript no. 15 1753
- Language: Text in Arabic, Persian, Turkish
- Origin: Ottoman empire [Iraq]
- Layout: 14 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in blue cloth over boards.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red; marginalia.
The forty / The forty Manuscript no. 16 [16--]?
- Author: [Qummi, Mu?ammad ?ahir, d. 1686 or 7]
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia?
- Layout: 15 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in tan leather with blue, yellow and pink marbled paste-downs; black tooling on edges. Fore-edge flap.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red; marginalia. Leaves [1-38] possibly in author's hand.
[Anthology of astronomy] / [Anthology of astronomy] Manuscript no. 17 [between 1795 and 1818?]
- Language: Text in Persian and Arabic
- Origin: Qajar Iran
- Layout: Average 15 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh and Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in black leather, blind-stamped, with brown leather paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red; marginalia.
[Treatise] on the science of prosody / [Treatise] on the science of prosody Manuscript no. 18 1854 March
- Author: ?aba?aba?i, Mu?ammad Raf? ibn ?li A?ghar
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qajar Iran
- Layout: 12 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft red leather, with green paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red; marginalia. Possibly signed by the author on leaf [1a].
The pilgrim's gift / The pilgrim's gift Manuscript no. 19 1733
- Author: Majlisi, Mu?ammad Baqir ibn Mu?ammad Taqi, 1627 or 8-ca. 1699
- Language: Text in Arabic and Persian
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 20 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in black leather, with red leather on spine and edges; blue, red and yellow marbled paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red; marginalia.
Exegesis of the [Koranic] chapter Iron / Exegesis of the [Koranic] chapter Iron Manuscript no. 20 [18--]?
- Author: ?adr al-Din Shirazi, Mu?ammad ibn Ibrahim, d. 1641
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qajar Iran?
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft red leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red.
Book of guidance for learning about the authority of God over [his] servants / Book of guidance for learning about the authority of God over [his] servants Manuscript no. 21 1654 June
- Author: Mufid, Mu?ammad ibn Mu?ammad, d. 1022
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 22 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in brown and tan leather with green, blue and yellow marbled paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red. Extensive marginalia. Title on spine and lower edge of text block. Insect damage.
Blessed invocations / Blessed invocations Manuscript no. 22 1580 March
- Author: ?li al-Ri?a ibn Musá, d. 818 or 19
- Scribe: Khalil Allah Shirazi
- Language: Text in Arabic and Persian
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 10 lines of text per page.
- Script: Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in soft black leather, with tan leather along edges and spine.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages and underlining in red; marginalia.
[Treatise on dialectics] / [Treatise on dialectics] Manuscript no. 23 1697
- Author: Razi, Fakhr al-Din Mu?ammad ibn ?Umar, 1149 or 50-1210 / Khalifah Sultan (d. 1653)
- Scribe: Mu?ammad Karim
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 19 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft red leather with tan leather spine.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words and underlining in red. Extensive marginalia on the first title. Title on lower edge of text block.
Commentary on the [book called] U?ul al-kafi / Commentary on the [book called] U?ul al-kafi Manuscript no. 24 1665 May
- Author: Qazwini, Khalil ibn al-Ghazi, 1592 or 3-1678 or 9
- Scribe: Mu?ammad Na?ir ibn Af?al Beg
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia or Ottoman Mecca?
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in burgundy leather with green, pink and blue marbled paste-downs. Fore-edge flap.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages and underlining in red; marginalia.
Mirror of truth / Mirror of truth Manuscript no. 25 1790 July
- Author: Maj?ub ?li Shah, Mu?ammad J?far, d. 1823 or 4
- Language: Text in Persian and Arabic
- Origin: Zand Iran
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft red leather, blind-stamped.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages and underlining in red; some marginalia. Title on lower edge of text block.
Treatise on the proper reading of the glorious Koran / Treatise on the proper reading of the glorious Koran Manuscript no. 26 1854 October
- Scribe: ?li ibn A?mad
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qajar Iran
- Layout: 11 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in black leather over stiff paper boards.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages and underlining in red. Water damage.
Synopsis of the Quintessence / Synopsis of the Quintessence Manuscript no. 27 1654 February
- Author: Taftazani, Mas?ud ibn ?Umar, 1322-1389?
- Scribe: Abu Turab ibn Isma?il al-?usayni
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in black and brown leather, with canvas spine.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages and underlining in red. Some marginalia.
The solar tractate on logic / The solar tractate on logic Manuscript no. 28 1788
- Author: [Taftazani, Mas?ud ibn ?Umar, 1322-1389?]
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Zand Iran
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft brown leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages and underlining in red; occasional charts and marginalia.
Treatise on the Friday prayer / Treatise on the Friday prayer Manuscript no. 29 1716 June
- Author: [Shahid al-Thani, Zayn al-Din ibn ?li, 1506-1559 ]
- Scribe: Mu?ammad Taqi
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in multi-colored leather fragments.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, some underlining in red.
[The treatise on the peculiarities of Friday] / [The treatise on the peculiarities of Friday] Manuscript no. 30 [before 1708?]
- Author: [Shahid al-Thani, Zayn al-Din ibn ?li, 1506-1559 ]
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 21 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in brown wrappers over boards.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages and underlining in red; extensive marginalia.
Commentary on the summary of mathematics / Commentary on the summary of mathematics Manuscript no. 31 1635 February
- Author: al-?aba?aba?i, Mu?ammad Ashraf b. ?abib Allah al-?asani al-?usayni
- Scribe: ?bd Allah ibn Khalifa
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in orange-brown leather, blind stamped, with blue paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink; extensive marginalia. Appendix on the last three leaves. Fore-edge title.
The essence of the foundations / The essence of the foundations Manuscript no. 32 1638
- Author: ?amili, Baha al-Din Mu?ammad ibn ?usayn, 1547-1621
- Scribe: ?bd al-Qadir ibn ?aydar
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia?
- Layout: 7 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather, with blue, yellow and white marbled paste-downs. Fore-edge flap.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, chapter headings in red; extensive marginalia; some stains and smearing.
The book of the ?shariyah / The book of the ?shariyah Manuscript no. 34 1893
- Author: Haj Shaykh J?far
- Scribe: [Illegible] Baqir
- Language: Text in Arabic and Persian
- Origin: Qajar Iran
- Layout: 6 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in red leather, blind-stamped, with a brown leather spine.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words in red; some marginalia.
Pathway of the faithful / Pathway of the faithful Manuscript no. 35 1743 September
- Author: Ghazzali, 1058-1111
- Scribe: Shams al-Din
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Afshar Persia
- Layout: 16 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather, blind stamped.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words in red; some marginalia.
Tractate on Arabic lingustics / Tractate on Arabic lingustics Manuscript no. 36 1820 February
- Author: Ibn Hisham, ?bd Allah ibn Yusuf, 1309-1360 / Ni?am al-Din A?mad al-Ardabili
- Scribe: Afrasiyab ibn Malik al-?addad
- Language: Text in Arabic and Persian
- Origin: Qajar Iran
- Layout: 15 lines of text per page.
- Script: Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in soft brown leather, blind-stamped.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words and underlining in red; some water damage.
Systematic account of the principal means of Shiism / Systematic account of the principal means of Shiism Manuscript no. 37 [16--]?
- Author: ?urr al-?amili, Mu?ammad ibn al-?asan, 1624-1693
- Language: Text in Arabic and Persian
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 16 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft brown leather, with green leather on edges.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages and some underlining in red; some marginalia.
The book of important chapters about the fundamentals regarding the Imams / The book of important chapters about the fundamentals regarding the Imams Manuscript no. 38 1697
- Author: ?urr al-?amili, Mu?ammad ibn al-?asan, 1624-1693
- Scribe: ?aj Khuda Bakhsh
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Herat
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather, blind-stamped, with orange leather on edges.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words and some underlining in red; some marginalia.
Part one of the book for the guidance of the community / Part one of the book for the guidance of the community Manuscript no. 39 [16--]?
- Author: ?urr al-?amili, Mu?ammad ibn al-?asan, 1624-1693
- Scribe: Mu?ammad ?alih ibn Mu?ammad J?far
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 22 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft brown leather, with green leather on edges.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words and some underlining in red; some marginalia. Occasional stains and ink smears. Title on lower fore-edge of text block.
The book of the eminent selection / The book of the eminent selection Manuscript no. 40 [after 1640?]
- Author: Fay? al-Kashi, Mu?ammad ibn Murta?á, 1598 or 9-1680 or 81
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in soft brown leather, with green leather on edges.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words and some underlining in red; some marginalia. insect and water damage. Title on lower edge of text block.
[Commentary on the wine poem of al-Fari??á] / [Commentary on the wine poem of al-Fari??á] Manuscript no. 41 1626 August
- Author: Jami, 1414-1492
- Scribe: Asad Allah al-Ardalani
- Language: Text in Persian and Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: 19 lines of text per page.
- Script: Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather, blind stamped, with red paste-downs.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words, original verses, and some underlining in red; some water damage.
[The exhaustive one] / [The exhaustive one] Manuscript no. 42 1648 December
- Author: [Taftazani, Mas?ud ibn ?Umar, 1322-1389?]
- Scribe: al-I?fahani (mostly erased)
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid I?fahan
- Layout: 23 lines of text per page.
- Script: Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather, with black leather spine.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, underlining in red; extensive marginalia.
Gardens of eternity / Gardens of eternity Manuscript no. 43 1713 [chronogram]
- Author: Khatunabadi, Mu?ammad Ri?a ibn Mu?ammad Mu?min, fl. 1715.
- Language: Text in Persian and Arabic
- Origin: ?afavid Persia
- Layout: Average nine rows of text per page.
- Script: Nast?liq.
- Binding: Bound in black leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked words or passages in red and blue; text contained in silver, red, and blue borders; leaves on brown, blue, green, pink, and purple paper.