المؤلف
Maydānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad | ميداني، احمد بن محمد
المؤلف الأصلي
ميداني، احمد بن محمد
تاريخ النشر
[1739].
مكان النشر
-
University of Michigan
الموضوع
Manuscripts, Arabic | Proverbs, Arabic Early works to 1800. | more | less
النوع
kitap
اللغة
العربية
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
نعم
عدد الصفحات
223
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
223 leaves : paper ; 286 x 177 (235 x 108) mm.
المكتبة
مكتبة الشرق الأوسط الرقمية
رقم السجل
006796380
موقع المكتبة
University of Michigan
التاريخ
[1739].
ملاحظات
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 245 | Origin: As appears in colophon on p.447, copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kurdī with transcription finished 11 Jumādá I 1152 [ca. 16 August 1739]. As appears in statement to the left of the colophon, collated by ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Raḥbī al-Shāfiʻī with collation completed toward the end of Shawwāl 1152 [January 1740]. | Former shelfmark: "467 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "72" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.3). | Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures / board linings in block-printed paper with repeating square, cross and floral motifs in green and orange on a yellow and white ground ; upper and lower covers carry 'gold-stamped' (now green) scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration) and pendants, along with tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps outlined by tooled fillets ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and lavender (or gray), good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, minor lifting of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection. | Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal and vertical, fairly indistinct), cloudy formation, sturdy , highly sized and burnished, mainly yellow-tinted ; flyleaves in European laid paper (outermost surface-dyed a dark purple) with watermarks of "ALMASSO" and "GM" under shield / arms with eagle above horse. | Decoration: Section headings and text of proverbs rubricated ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of a series of a silver band flanked by black and red fillets ; occasional textual divders in the form of hāʼ or three inverted commas in red. | Script: Naskh ; fine, clear Syrian or Iraqi hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, elongation of horizontal strokes, partially vocalized. | Layout: Written mainly in 35 lines per page ; frame-ruled. | Collation: i, 22 V(220), I+1 (223), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves). | Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وفرغ منه محمد بن احمد الكردي في يوم الاثنين حادي عشر شهر جمادى الاول سنة اثنين وخمسين ومائة والف حامدا لله ومصليا على نبيه نبي الرحمة م م م" | Explicit: "وهي المكافاة ويد سوداء وهي المن وقيل لبعضهم ما العقل قال الاصابة بالظنون ومعرفة ما لم يكن بما قد كان تم الكتاب بتوفيق الله ومنه والحمد لله اولا واخرا وباطنا وظاهرا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله الاكرمين وسلم تسليما" | Incipit: "ان احسن ما يوشح به صدر الكلام واجمل ما يفصل به عقد النظام حمد الله ذي الجلال والاكرام والافضال والانعام ... وبعد فان من المعلوم ان الادب سلم الى معرفة العلوم به يتوصل الى الوقوف عليها ومنه يتوقع الوصول اليها ..." | Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3). | Ms. codex. | Careful copy of the renowned collection of classical Arabic proverbs compiled by Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maydānī (d.1124). | more | less
