Author
Jurjānī, 'Abd al-Qahir ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, -1078?
Publication Date
[Damascus?], [1431]
Subject
Mawṣilī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn,, Mawṣilī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, /
-1334 or 1335., Mawṣilī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, / -1334 or 1335. /
ʻUnqūd., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Arabic language, Arabic language /
Grammar, Arabic language / Grammar /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
93
Physical Dimensions
93 leaves : paper ; 140 x 100 (95 x 57) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006813652
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Clear copy of al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah [Miʼat ʻāmil], ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jurjānī's (d. 1078?) popular manual of Arabic grammar, followed by al-ʻUnqūd, the metrical treatise (urjūzah) on Arabic grammar by Shams al-Dīn Muhammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mawṣalī al-Khalīlī (d. 1334 or 5), followed by an anonymous commentary. A large number of birth and death notices are included throughout the codex. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 626
Origin: As appears in colophons on p.23, 42, and 185 copied for himself ("ʻallaqahā li-nafsih") by Abu Bakr ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad ibn Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ṣārim (Abu Bakr ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn al-Sarm) with transcription of the poem [al-ʻUnqūd] completed 4 Rajab 834 [ca. 18 March 1431] and transcription of the poem and its commentary completed 14 Shaʻban 834 [ca. 27 April 1431]. A notice for the copyist appears on p.186, identifying him as a merchant (tājir) of Sūq Jaqmaq and indicating that he was born in 807 [1404 or 5], died 14 Jumādá II 888 [ca. 20 July 1483], and was buried in Bab al-Ṣaghīr in Damascus.
Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Judah. -- b. Inventory cataloging slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.
Former shelfmark: From recto of opening leaf (p.1) and spine label, "IL 209" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though envelope flap now missing, only fore edge flap remaining) ; linings and interior of foreedge flap in brown leather with block-pressed vegetal composition (arabesque) ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite blind-tooled geometric strapwork design with gold-tooled accents covering the entire panel, bordered rules outlining a series of s-shaped stamps and centered on a twelve-pointed star filled with a repeated rectangular pattern formed of a small lozenge-shaped stamp ; the same pattern fills the cornerpieces and elsewhere a small triangular stamp has been used to form the effect of a more detailed interlace pattern ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; endbands virtually gone ; overall in poor condition with upper cover fully detached, fore edge flap detaching, envelope flap lost, significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at spine), some delamination of boards, staining, wax drips on lower doublure, etc. ; housed in box for protection.
Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm running horizontally (visible though often quite faint) and chain lines running vertically in groups of three (or groups of three and two) with 9-11 mm. between chains and roughly 42-50 mm. between groups ; stiff and thick though crisp, well-burnished, fairly smooth, dark cream with some inclusions.
Decoration: Keywords, section headings, some vocalization, and text being commented upon rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas (three or six) in red.
Script: Naskh ; clear though angular Syrian hand in a thin to medium line ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs appearing mainly on free-standing alif and occasional initial lām, hooked serif on shaqq of kāf, effect of tilt to the right, many open counters, pointing in distinct dots; more compact and of thinner line in Sharḥ al-ʻUnqūd ; some passages vocalized, mainly text of al-ʻUnqūd.
Layout: Written in 11-12 lines per page ; hemistiches of al-ʻUnqūd in lines alternately justified to the right and left ; frame-ruled.
Collation: III-1 (5), 8V(85), III+2 (93) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization ; paginated with central bifolium of final quire lifted out and placed at end of textblock, hence mistaken pagination (i.e. p.178 is followed by 183, 184, 185, 186, 179, etc.) reflected in digital object.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Numerous birth and death notices, chiefly from the family of the copyist, on the upper doublure, opening and final leaves, etc., appear. ; numerous collation notes ("Blgh Muqablah" etc.) and marks ; ownership statements (p.23 and p.185) and reading/study statements (p.43 and lower doublure) dated 1079 [1668 or 9] al-Husseini al-Shafi'i) who received the book from his mother's father, Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Sirāj al-Dīn (Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Sirāj al-Dīn).