Author
Shanawānī, Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl, 1551 or 1552-1610 or 1611.
Publication Date
[16--?]
Subject
Laqānī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan,, Laqānī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan, /
1468 or 1469-1550., Laqānī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan, / 1468 or 1469-1550. /
Risālat al-basmalah., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., God (Islam), God (Islam) /
Name, God (Islam) / Name /
Early works to 1800., Basmalah, Basmalah /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
172
Physical Dimensions
172 leaves : paper ; 208 x 155 (145 x 101) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006793455
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of a commentary by Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl al-Shanawānī (d.1610 or 11) upon a treatise on the basmalah by Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Laqānī (d.1550). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 537
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggests 17th century.
Accompanying materials: a. Blank sheet of grid paper -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- d. Scrap of blue laid paper with "Not missing" in pencil (at lacuna between pp.34-35), possibly supplied by Yahuda.
Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and fore edge flap label "IL 280a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in yellow-tinted laid paper with tan leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, four stations, sewing gone from many quires ; endbands gone (traces of primaries) ; overall in poor condition with significant staining, moisture damage, abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; cover fully detached from textblock.
Support: European laid paper with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal), anchor in circle with trefoil above watermark (50 mm. tall, see pp.10-11, etc.), and "A C" under trefoil countermark (see p.13) ; sturdy, fairly thick, light cream in color, well-burnished to glossy.
Decoration: Simple title / authorship statement (on 'title page' p.1), keywords, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas, hāʼ, etc.
Script: Naskh ; angular Egyptian or 'Syrian' [?] hand ; virtually serifless (though head-serifs irregularly appear) with extension of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots (apart from three dots, often instead represented by a curved stroke), and free assimilation of letters.
Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: 16 V(160), VI (172) ; almost exclusively quinions ; pp.34-35 left blank (full lacuna, but apparently without missing text) ; final two leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "وخرج بالمتعلق بكيفية عمل المتعلق بغيرها كالمتعلق بذاته تعالى وصفاته وذوات المكلفين والجمادات لمدلول الله لا اله الا هو خالق كل شيء ولقد خلقناكم ويوم نسير الجبال تم تم تم"
Incipit: "نحمدك اللهم على نعم لو ارام [لو رام] اللسان حصرها لوقع في حصر وعي ... وبعد فيقول المنكسر ... ابو بكر بن اسماعيل الشنواني ..."
Title from 'title page' (p.1).
Ms. codex.
Ownership statement dated 1282 [1865 or 6] on 'title page' (p.1) in name of ʻAbd al-Salām al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī (d.1295/1878, see al-Ziriklī, v.4 p.6) reads "الحمد لله تعالى في ملك افقر الورى الى الكريم المعطي الحنبلي القادري عبد السلام الشطي" ; marginal corrections ; on p.40, side-head (ie notabilia) which may be in the hand of al-Shaṭṭī.
