Author
Abū Jaʻfar al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, -902 or 903.
Publication Date
[Isfahan?], [1661]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Imamate, Imamate /
Early works to 1800., Hadith (Shiites), Hadith (Shiites) /
Early works to 1800., Shīʻah, Shīʻah /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
210
Physical Dimensions
210 leaves : paper ; 170 x 114 (120 x 65) mm. bound to 180 x 124 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006835325
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
Abū Jaʻfar Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār (d.902 or 3), divided into four ajzāʼ (juzʼ 1 through juzʼ 4) with a colophon following each. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1036
Origin: As appears in final colophon on fol.210a, copied by Faḍīl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Nāʼīnī (see colophon at the close of juzʼ II for his full name "Fadīl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn ibn ibn Haji Muhammad Tahir ibn Khawaja Ahmad Son of Salghur Shah Son of Amadeh Shah Son of Salghur Shah Naini"). Transcription finished ("tamma kitāb Baṣāʼir al-darajāt...) 1 Rabīʻ II 1072 [ca. 24 November 1661]. According to colophon following juz' III on fol.
Shapes shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 185
Binding: Pasteboards faced in blue-green paper with red goatskin over spine and board corners (half-bound); Type III (without flap); pastedowns and flyleaves in what appears to be European wove paper with an embossed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Court of Auvergne." TSL[?]"; very worn, upper cover detached from text block, entire case detaching from textblock at spine; poor condition.
Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with laid lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., no chain lines visible plainly enough for measuring; many inclusions; flyleaves and pastedowns in a European wove paper with impressed mark in French cursive italic script "Super Cour d'Auvergne." TSL[?]
Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlinings and occasional textual dividers in the form of numeral khamsah in red.
Script: Naskh ; fine, neat Persianate hand; essentially serifless (though occasionally serif on alif of lām alif ligature), point of final and free-standing nūn set down within wide, angled bowl (reminiscent of nastaʻlīq), pointing in distinct dots, curvilinear descenders, superscripting of final letters and words.
Layout: Written in 14 lines per page; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).
Collation: i, 25 IV (200), IV+2 (210), i; chiefly quaternions; catchwords present; leaves between each of the four ajzāʼ left partially blank and unmarked, but with no apparent loss of text; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied in cataloguing).
Colophon: [final] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "This book is written in stages, praise be to Allah, and praise be to Allah, and praise be to Allah, the One [?] seventy-two thousand and the book of 'Abd al-Adhal al-Muhtaj to the mercy of Allah al-Ghani Ibn Jalal al-Din Akbar flanked by scribal verses in Persian, reading: "Oh, if you were looking at Massoud, you would be a conqueror, you would be Mahmoud, God willing" and duʻāʼ in Arabic, reading: "اللهم اغفر وارحم لكاتبه And the owner of Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.
Explicit: "It is said to the satisfied that they live from the owners of a salon in which Allah will call them and Allah will present their deeds to Allah in every day"
Incipit: "Chapter in the science of demanding it is obligatory on the people Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Ma'roof, sponsored by Ibrahim ibn Hashim, ibn al-Hasan ibn Mahboob, Yazid ibn Ali ibn al-Hussein, ibn Abiyah, ibn Abi Abdullah (peace be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
Title from final colophon on fol.210a.
Ms. codex.
Obliterated statement on fol.1a may be former owner's mark ; a few marginal corrections in copyist's hand.
