Author
ʻAwfī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 17th century.
Publication Date
[Edirne], [1756]
Subject
Qurʼan, Qurʼan /
Readings, Qurʼan / Readings /
Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
171
Physical Dimensions
171 leaves : paper ; 162 x 120 (105 x 59) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006806239
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine copy of a work on Qurʼānic readings (qirāʼāt) by Mehmet b. Ahmet el-Avfî (d.1639 or 40). Preceded and followed by notes and excerpts in Turkish and Arabic. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 472
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.336, copied by al-Sayyid Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad (Hafız Ahmet) with transcription completed 1 Jumādá I 1169 [ca. 2 February 1756] in Edirne.
Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.
Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 48" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (in yellow, pink and dark brown, see envelope flap) with dark red leather over fore edge flap and edges/turn-ins (likely spine as well, but now covered in cream textile) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in peach / light orange wove paper ; sewn in dark green-blue thread, two stations ; worked endbands in dark green-blue and cream, damage with losses and exposed core ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, spine slant (cocked) etc. ; repairs in cloth.
Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including crown above name and grapes, others more difficult to observe (see p.12, 13, 32, 33, 38, 112, 113, etc.), thin and transluscent though sturdy, quite well burnished to glossy ; some foxing and staining.
Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated (text to be entered in red indicated in margin, see p.31, though often cut off) ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.
Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām of definite article and free-standing alif, effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in conjoined dots.
Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: V+1 (11), 16 V(171), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Colophon: "Scribal," triangular reads "تمت بعون الله الملك الوالي [؟] والحمد لله رب العالمين حرره السيد حافظ احمد في مدينۀ ادرنه غره في جمادى الاول سنه ١١٦٩"
Explicit: "هذا عظيم الشأنى هذا رسول البارى هذا خاتم الرسلى يا رب صل على جميع الرسلى والهم والصحبى مازينت بالنجمى واشرقت بالفجوى وضوات بالشمس في يومنا والغدوى الى انتهاء الامرى"
Incipit: "الحمد لله ذي النعم المتواترة والفضل الجزيل ... وبعد فيقول محمد بن احمد العوفي في ذي العجز والنقص ... هذا مختصر في القرآات العشرة المتواترة باقوى حجة ... وسميته التسهيل وشفاء العليل لطالب جد مجد في الرحيل ..."
Title from opening matter (preface) on p.4.
Ms. codex.
Occasional marginal corrections and glosses ; occasional notabilia (side-heads).
