Author
Burūsawī, Ya'qūb ibn 'Alī, -1524 or 1525.
Publication Date
[1573 or 1574]
Subject
Jurjānī, Ali ibn Muḥammad,, Jurjānī, Ali ibn Muḥammad, /
al-Sayyid al-Sharīf,, Jurjānī, Ali ibn Muḥammad, / al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, /
1340-1413., Jurjānī, Ali ibn Muḥammad, / al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, / 1340-1413. /
Farāʼiḍ al-Sharīfīyah., Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,, Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, /
active 12th century., Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, / active 12th century. /
Faraid al-Sirājīyah., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Inheritance and succession (Islamic law), Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
70
Physical Dimensions
70 leaves : paper ; 182 x 140 (135-150 x 80-95) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006804995
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Clear copy of the gloss by Yaʻqūb ibn Sayyid ʻAlī al-Burūsawī (d.1524) upon the commentary by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī (d.1413) on the celebrated work on the law of inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī (fl. 12th cent.). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 574
Origin: As appears at close on p.146, transcription completed 981 [1573 or 4].
Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2) -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.3-4).
Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 95" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; possible former shelfmark on head edge.
Binding: Pasteboards now covered in layers of laid paper (including manuscript 'waste') with dark red-brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in untinted paper (including manuscript 'waste') ; sewn in heavy cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in blue and cream, damaged with significant losses at head and tail ; overall in quite poor condition with flap lost, significant abrasion and staining, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in box for protection.
Support: European laid paper ; opening type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24 and 32-33 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of teardrop shape with cross (see p.16, 17, 110, etc.), transluscent, thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished ; another type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 32-33 mm. apart (horizontal), and hand or glove watermark (possibly with flower above, see p.72, 90, etc.), thicker and sturdier than previous type ; staining and tide lines.
Decoration: Keywords rubricated (from p.55 to close).
Script: Naskh with influence of nastaʻlīq (talik) ; clear Turkish hand (possibly more than one) ; serifless with effect of tilt to left or right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured.
Layout: Written in 17-19 lines per page (layout changes at p.107).
Collation: i, 7 V(70) ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).
Explicit: "في جميع ذلك مع علي رضي الله عنه وعن باقي الصحابة اجمعين مع جميع المسلمين امين تمت تاريخ سنة ٩۸۱"
Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل العلم هداية للعالمين وزين به صدور العالمين ... ويقول العبد الضعيف ... يعقوب بن سيد علي ... لما رأيت شرح الاستاذ العلامة ... السيد الشريف الجرجاني ... يحتاج الى حل مواضع مغلقة وكشف مواقع معضلة كتبت هذه الاوراق مستعينا بالملك الخلاق ..."
Title from inscriptions on front flyleaf (p.5) and 'title page' (p.7).
Ms. codex.
A few excerpts and notes on upper and lower board linings and front flyleaf.
