Publication Date
[Istanbul], [ca. 1743]
Subject
Muḥammad,, Muḥammad, /
Prophet,, Muḥammad, / Prophet, /
-632, Muḥammad, / Prophet, / -632 /
Poetry., Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr., Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr. /
Qaṣīdat al-Burdah., Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar,, Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, /
1075-1144., Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, / 1075-1144. /
Rabīʻ al-abrār., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Arabic poetry, Arabic poetry /
1258-1800., Arabic poetry, Arabic poetry /
622-750., Arabic poetry, Arabic poetry /
750-1258., Quotations, Arabic, Quotations, Arabic /
Early works to 1800., Maxims, Arabic, Maxims, Arabic /
Early works to 1800., Numbers in literature, Numbers in literature /
Early works to 1800., Arabic literature, Arabic literature /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
124
Physical Dimensions
124 leaves : paper ; 165 x 113 (115 x 57) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006813241
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine collection (majmūʻah) of mainly "belles-lettres" (adab / ādāb) works in prose and verse. Contents listing on added leaf at opening (p.2). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 657
Origin: As appears in opening statement on p.9 and in colophons on p.111 and p.203, bulk of majmūʻah copied for himself by ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá Karāmah [?]. As appears in colophon on p.111, transcription of Bard al-akbād and Nubdhah mukhtaṣarah min Rawḍ al-akhyār completed during the first part of Rabīʻ II 1155 [June 1742]. As appears in colophon on p.203, transcription of Kitāb al-Mudhhab fī al-ḥulá completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 [January-February 1743]. Transcription of other works likely completed around the same time. What appears to be date of composition for Takhmīs Bānat Suʻād supplied by fractions on p.239, likely 113-? [1718-1727?].
Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Three inventory cataloguing slips (and two scraps) in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.
Former shelfmark: From inscription on inner front cover and spine label, "IL 31b" (likely supplied by Yahuda).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in now dull beige laid paper with dark red-brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (likely fore edge flap as well, though now lost, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather and paper, etc.
Support: European laid paper ; opening type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-25 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) with name and crown (see p.12, 18, 19, 25, etc.), "P FABRE" (p.16, 21, etc.) and "LANGUEDOC" (p.14, 23, etc.) ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23-24 mm. apart (vertical), and crown above name watermark (see p.208, 221, etc.) ; well-burnished to glossy, thin though sturdy, medium cream in color.
Decoration: Keywords, section headings and occasional abbrevation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke over certain words) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.
Script: Naskh ; small, clear Turkish or 'Syrian' hand ; mainly serifless with effect of tilt to the right, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, some elongation of horizontal strokes, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred.
Layout: Written in 15-21 lines per page ; written area divided to two columns to set off verses.
Collation: II (4), 5 V(54), VI (66), V (76), III (82), 3 V(112), VI (124) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (prior to collation, thus due to an initially misplaced bifolium pagination skips from p.222 to p.227, then from p.238 to pp.223-226, then to p.239, foliation is correct).
Colophon: [Bard al-akbād] and [Nubdhah mukhtaṣarah min Rawḍ al-akhyār] "Scribal," rectangular, reads "حرر في القسطنطنية في اوائل شهر ربيع الثاني من شهور سنة ۱۱٥٥ على يد الفقير عثمان كرامه" ; [Kitāb al-Mudhhab fī al-ḥulá] "Scribal," rectangular, reads "تم كتابه على يد كاتبها لنفسه ولمن شاء الله من بعده عثمان بن مصطفى كرامه ... وذلك في الديار الرومية حماها رب البرية [؟] في ذي الحجة سنة ۱۱٥٥"
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
On opening 'title page' (p.9), statement identifying copyist, ʻUthmān (عثمان), dated 1154 [1741 or 2] and accompanied by oval seal impression, statement reads "بخط المغتفر [؟] الى رحمة المنان عبده عثمان ١١٥۴" ; marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections ; collation marks (بلغ).
