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Owners and Patrons

‘Abd Allā Fal
عبد الله فضل
MS A 11 (undated stamp)

‘Abd [Allāh] asan Muammad al-usaynī (fl. 1852/1269)
عبد [الله] حسن محمد الحسينى
MS A 62 (stamp dated 1269 [=1852-3])

‘Abd Allāh ibn Muammad Amīn al-Mawilī (fl. 1769/1183)
عبد الله ابن محمد امين الموصلي
MS A 28 (stamp dated 1183 [=1769-70])

‘Abd [Allāh] Muammad Amīn (fl. 1751/1165)
عبد [الله] محمد امين
MS A 28 (stamp dated 1165 [=1751-2])
MS A 1.1, item 1; item 2; item 3 (stamp dated 1165 [=1751-2])

‘Abd [Allāh] Muammad ibn Muammad ‘Alī (fl. 1851/1268)
عبد [الله] محمد ابن محمد على
MS P 4 (stamp dated 1268 [=1851-2])

‘Abd al-Mudhanab al-Ifahānī
عبد المذنب ال اصفهانى
MS P 7, item 1; item 2; item 3 (undated note)

Amad āhir
احمد طا هر
MS A 13 (undated stamp)

‘Alī ibn Muammad ibn ‘Alī
على ابن محمد ابن على
MS P 4(undated stamp)

‘Alī al-‘Umarī (fl. 1827/1243)
على العمر ى
MS A 28 (stamp dated 1243 [=1827-8])

Amīn ..?.. al-Sayyid Muammad
امين ..؟.. السيد محمد
MS A 63 (undated stamp)

Aīyah al-mutaabbib al-Dimashqī al-Isrā’īlī
عطيه المتطبب الدمشقى الاسر ائيلى
MS A 26.1 (undated note)

Faqīr Muammad al-Dīn Shāh
فقيرمحمد الدين شاه
MS A 40 (undated Persian stamp; 18th century?)

āfiz Ibrāhīm
حافظ ابر اهيم
MS A 63 (defaced dated note, placed after 1438/842)

Ibn Muammad ‘Abd Rafī‘ al-usaynī al-Wahhāb (fl. 1823/1239)
ابن محمد عبد رفيع الحسينى الو هاب
MS P 7, item 1; item 2; item 3 (stamp dated 1239 [=1823-4])

‘Imād al-Dīn Zakarīyā’ ibn Muammad ibn Mamūd Limūnī (fl. 1546/953)
عماد الدين زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود لمونى
MS P 29 (stamp dated 953 [=1546-7])

Isāq Dhilā al-Yahūdī, a physician (al- mutaabbib) in Damascus (fl. 1824/1240)
اسحق ذلطا اليهودى المتطبب فى دمشق الشام
MS A 27, item 1; item 2; item 3 (note dated 1240 [=1824-5])
Incorrectly given as author by Sommer (Schullian/Sommer, Cat. of incun . & MSS., p. 306).

Ismā‘īl
اسماعيل
MS A 78 (undated stamp)

Ismā‘īl ibn Abī Bakr al-Kharrā al-anafī al-Dimashqī (fl. 1644/1054)
اسماعيل ابن ابي بكر الخراط الحنفى الدمشقى
MS A 35, item 1, item 2, item 3, item 4, item 5, item 6, item 7, item 8, item 9, item 10,
item 11, item 12, item 13 (note dated 1054 [=1644-5])

Jalāl al-Dawlah Amad Ghulay-Khān Bahādurī ..[?] (fl. 1895/1313)
[جلال الدوله احمد غليخان بهادرى ..[؟
MS P 10 (stamp dated 1313 [=1895-6])

Jamīl Ismā‘īl Muzahhar ..?.. (fl. 1771/1185)
[جميل اسماعيل مظهر موحامين
MS A 63 (stamp dated 1185 [=1771-2])

Khamrah Aghā ibn Rustum ibn Muammad Aghā ibn Khir Aghā ibn Mīr Khamrah ibn Mīr Mīzā ibn Amad Beg (fl. 1796/1211)
خمره اغا ابن رستم ابن محمد اغا ابن خضر اغا ابن مير خمره ابن مير ميزا ابن احمد بيگ
MS P 25, item 1, item 2, item 3, item 4, item 5, item 6, item 7, item 8, item 9, margin, (note dated 1211 [=1796-7]
Incorrectly given as compiler by Sommer (Schullian/Sommer, Cat. of incun . & MSS., p. 338).

Muammad ‘Alawānī, al-ājj (fl. 1914/1333)
الحاج محمد علوانى
MS A 54 (note dated 1333 [=1914-5])

Muammad Amīn al-abīb, chief physician in Syria (fl. 1840/1256)
محمد امين الطبيب
MS A 56 (stamp and note dated 1256 [=1840-1]

Muammad Amīn al-Mawilī al-shahīr bi- Yāsīn Efendi (fl. 1755/1169)
محمد امين الموصلى الشهير بيسن افندى
MS A 28 (note dated 1169/1755-6)

Muammad Hādī al-Shīrāzī (fl. 1704/1116)
محمد هادي الشيرازى
MS A 11 (note dated 1116/1704-5)

Muammad ibn al-marūm al-shaykh ‘Abd al-Raīm Shalhūbī [?] al- Zamzani [?]
[محمد ابن المرحوم الشيخ عبد الرهيم شلهوبى [؟] الزمزنى
MS A 42 (undated note)

Muammad ibn al-‘Aharī
محمد ابن العهري
MS A 8 (undated note)

Muammad ibn Amad Khaayb
محمد ابن احمد خطيب
MS A 8 (undated note)

Muammad ibn al-shaykh asan al-Kātib al- Shāfi‘ī (fl. 1876/1293)
محمد ابن الشيخ حسن الكاتب الشافعى
MS A 54 (note dated 1293 [=1876] )

Muammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sa‘d [?]
[محمد بن ابراهيم بن سعد
MS A 47 (undated note)

Muammad ibn Sulayman al-Kanāfī
محمد الن سليمان الكنافى
MS A 35, item 1, item 2, item 3, item 4, item 5, item 6, item 7, item 8, item 9, item 10,
item 11, item 12, item 13 (undated note)

Muammad ibn ‘Umar ibn Abī Bakr al-Jinānī (or al-Jinākhafānī) (fl. 1482/887)
(محمد ابن عمر ابن ابي بكر الجنانى (الجناخفانى ؟
MS A 8 (note dated 887 [=1482])

Muammad Sa‘īd ibn al-ājj Muafá al-abīb (fl. 1853/1270)
محمد سعيد ابن الحاج مصطفى الطبيب
MS A 56 (note dated 1270/1854)

Muammad al-āhir Zarūf al-sharīf
محمد الطاهر زروف الشريف
MS A 30 (undated note)

Muafá Behçet , al- ra’īs al-ibbā’ al-sulānī (d. 1833/1249)
مصطفى بهجت الرئيس الاطباء السلطانى
MS A 74 (note dated 1236 [=1820-1])

Muafá Mas‘ūd al-abīb (d. 1820/1236)
مصطفى مسعود الطبيب;
MS A 74 (note dated 1213 [=1798-9])

Qiwām al-Dīn Muammad al-asani (fl. 1694-1719/1106-32)
قوام الدين محمد الحسنى
MS A 86 item 1; item 2; item 3; item 4; item 5 (stamp and note stating that he corrected the copy in 1132 [=1719-20]

Rāja Rāma (fl. 1851/1268)
راجه رامه
MS P 14.1, owner
MS P 1.1, copyist

Sayyid ‘Abd Allāh al-Marādī ibn al-Sayyid āhir al-Marādī ibn al-Sayyid ‘Abd Allāh al-Marādī ibn al-Sayyid Muafá al-Marādī ibn al-Sayyid Marād Efendi
سيد عبد الله المرادى ابن السيد طاهر المرادى ابن السيد عبد الله المرادى ابن السيد مصطفى المرادى ابن السيد مراد افندى
MS A 1 (undated note)

al-Sayyid usayn al-abīb
السيد حسين الطبيب
MS P 10 (undated transfer of ownership)

al-Sayyid Muammad al-akīm
صاحبه ومالكه) السيد محمد الحكيم)
MS A 91 item 1, item 2, item 3, item 4, item 5, item 6, item 7, item 8, item 9, item 10,
item 11, item 12, item 13, item 14 (undated note)

al-Sayyid Muammad ‘Aā’ Allāh
السيد محمد عطاء الله
MS A 19.1 (undated stamp)

al-Sayyid Mu‘īn ibn Amad
السيد معين بن احمد
MS A 78 (stamp and note dated ??91 [=1191/1777 or 1291/1874]

Shams al-Dawlah Najm Amad Ghulay-Khān Sawlat Beg
شمس الدوله نجم احمد غليخان سوله بيگ
MS P 10 (stamp dated 1313 [=1895-6])

Patrons for whom compies were produced

Mamūd Efendi (fl. 1792/1206)
محمود افندى
MS A 88/IV, copied in Constantinople/Istanbul in 1206 [=1792]

Mumud ibn Zākī al-Ruqīy al-Shihābī (fl. 1208/604)
محمود ابن زاكى الرقيى الشهابى
MS A 26.1, copied in 1208/604

Muammad ibn Yayá al-Mawilī al-Shāfi‘ī (fl. 1750/1163)
محمد ابن يحيى الموصلى الشافعى
MS A 10, copied in 1163 [1750]

Qiwām al-Dīn Muammad al-asani (fl. 1694-1719/1106-32)
قوام الدين محمد الحسنى
MS A 86, item 1, item 2, item 3, item 4, item 5 (author who had a copy transcribed for his own use, which he corrected in 1132 [=1719-20])

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