المؤلف
Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī
تاريخ النشر
Late 14th century (CE, Gregorian)
النوع
كتاب
اللغة
العربية
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
نعم
عدد الصفحات
1
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
304 x 215 mm
المكتبة
مكتبة قطر الرقمية
معرف أصل المكتبة
Add MS 9589
رقم السجل
vdc_100093647864.0x000001
موقع المكتبة
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
التاريخ
Late 14th century (CE, Gregorian)
ملاحظات
A section of
Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār
(مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار), a 27-volume geographical, historical and biographical compendium by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī (أحمد بن يحي بن فضل الله العمري, d. 1349).
The present copy corresponds to volume 14 in which al-ʻUmarī lists and anthologises the poets of the pre-Islamic
Jāhilīyah
period, and volume 15 detailing the poets of the Islamic era up to the third century of the
hijrah
/mid-10th century CE. The composition of volume 15 was completed on 18 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 745/23 March 1345 (see author's
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 250r, transcribed below, and Brockelmann, Vol. 2, p. 152). The transition from the Umayyad to the ʻAbbasid period is indicated on f. 108r, line 11.
A note on the title page dated 831/1427-28 records the borrowing of the volume by the prominent Mamluk historian Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Maqrīzī (أحمد ابن علي المقريزي, d. 1442)
A few words of the text from the end of the text (f. 249, lines 17-18) have been erased; they may have referred to the ending of volume 15 and the contents of the next volume, beginning with the poetry of al-Mutannabī, whose name is mentioned on line 19.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
وأما الشعراء فقد تقدم في هذا ما فيه لناظر مستمتع ولسامع بلاغ مما جملته
وتفصيله للشرق إذ نبع منه معينه وبدأ به فجره واستنير من ملمنه لهبه
واستثير من معدنه ذهبه ومنه شقشقت في الجاهلية فحوله...
Ends (f. 249v, lines 17-19):
...[؟] كتاب مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار
ولله الحمد والمنة
أحمد بن الحسين المتنبي
Author's
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 250r, lines 1-3):
وكان الفراغ من هذا السفر يوم السبت ثامن عشر [ذي] القعدة المبارك سنة
خمس وأربعين وسبعمائة
والحمد لله وحده وصلوته على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلامه حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 575, pp. 273-75
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from William Brown Hodgson (1801-1871), American diplomat who held various posts in Algeria, Egypt, and Istanbul, serving briefly (1841) as consul general of the U.S. in Tunis, Tunisia.
Köken
Two unidentified
ṭughrā
seals (f. 1r)
Erased inscription (f. 1r)
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn [?] al-ʿAlāʾī al-Dawādār al-Ḥanafī (محمد ابن أحمد ابن [؟] العلائي الدوادار الحنفي): his inscription, without date (f. 1r)
Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Maqrīzī (أحمد بن علي المقريزي): holograph loan inscription, with date 831/1427-28 (f. 1r)
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Facsimile publication of Add MS 9589:
Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār,
Silsilah ʿUyūn al-turāth; al-mujallad 46/14 (Frankfurt: Maʿhad Tārīkh al-ʿUlum al-ʿArabīyah wa-al-Islamīyah, 1988)
Study of volumes 14 and 15:
Brockelmann, Carl,
History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Volume 2
, trans. by Joep Lameer, Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section One, The Near and Middle East, vol. 117/2 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016), p. 152