Author
Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566.
Publication Date
[1648]
Subject
Ibn al-ʻArabī,, Ibn al-ʻArabī, /
1165-1240., Ibn al-ʻArabī, / 1165-1240. /
Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Islam, Islam /
Doctrines, Islam / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800., Sufism, Sufism /
Doctrines, Sufism / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800., Headpieces (layout features)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
315
Physical Dimensions
315 leaves : paper ; 295 x 179 (223 x 115) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
005989075
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine copy of al-Shaʻrānī's elucidation of Ibn ʻArabī's ṣūfī doctrine as it appears in al-Futuḥāt al-Makkīyah. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 44
Origin: As appears in scribal colophon on p.626, copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Minshāwī al-Shāfiʻī al-Turābī [?]. Transcription finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah...") 8 Ramaḍān 1058 [ca. 26 September 1648]. Authorial colophon on p.625-626 indicates that composition was completed 17 Rajab 955 [ca. 22 August 1548].
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 134. Kitab al-yawakit wa 'l-jawahir."
Binding: Textblock only, cover lacking ; traces of spine lining and spine leather ; sewing intact in yellow thread, two stations ; endbands in cream, intact ; housed in box for protection.
Support: European laid paper of several types ; opening leaves of a type with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (vertical), tre lune (three crescents) watermark (about 83 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.1, etc.) ; next mainly another type with similar measurements and tre lune watermark (about 75 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.24, 80 etc.) with occasional leaves of a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 19-20 mm. apart and small watermark resembling a pot / jug / vase with two handles faintly visible (see p.20, 38, 144, 190, etc.) ; further along in the codex, another type with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of small hand / glove (see p.338, 516, etc.) ; another type with 25-28 mm. apart (vertical) and larger hand / glove watermark (see p.342, 528, etc.) ; toward end of codex, two other tre lune types (see p.580 and p.626) ; all well-burnished, smooth and glossy ; some leaves surface-dyed in yellow.
Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on p.14 (incipit page) consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular (dome) piece (approaching w-shaped piece) ; rectangular piece carries empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in gold, red, white and blue on fields of blue ; scalloped dome and accent pieces (practically forming w-shaped piece) filled with floral vegetal pattern in gold, red, and white on field of blue, outlined in gold, red and blue and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; headpiece is set in a well of red and gold bands with white dot accents ; written area of incipit and facing page bordered in frame consisting of a series of gold bands if varying thickness with outermost blue fillet ; elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; textual dividers in the form of red discs, inverted commas, etc. ; text rubricated and partially chrysographed with section headings, keywords, overlining, etc. in red, some in gold, and many keywords and headings also appearing in green, orange, brown, etc.
Script: Naskh ; clear, likely Egyptian hand ; virtually serifless ; effect of slight tilt to the left ; mainly open counters, but some closed ; pointing in dots liberally spaced.
Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).
Collation: II (4), V+1 (15), 30 V(315) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ۱ on p.15, facing incipit page) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.349-350).
Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads: "وليكن ذلك اخر كتاب اليواقيت والجواهر في بيان عقائد الاكابر جعله [؟] خالصا لوجهه الكريم ونفع به مؤلفه وكاتبه وسامعه والناظر فيه ... وكان الفراغ من تأليفه في يوم الاثنين المبارك سابع عشر رجب سنة خمس وخمسين وتسعمائة بمنزلي بمصر المحروسة بخظ بين الصورين قال ذلك وكتبه مؤلفه عبد الوهاب ابن احمد الشعراني الشافعي حامدا ومصليا ومسلما ومحيعلا ومحوقلا ومستغفرا والحمد لله رب العالمين..." ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من كتابة هذه النسخة المباركة في يوم السبت ثامن شهر رمضان المعظم سنة ثمانية وخمسين والف على يد العبد الحقير العاجز المذنب الفقير عبد الرحمن بن محمد المنشاوي الشافعي الترابي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة ..."
Explicit: "فانظر يا اخي عناية التوحيد باهله فالحمد لله رب العالمين"
Incipit: "احمد الله رب العالمين واصلي واسلم على سيدنا محمد ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى عفو ربه ومغفرته عبد الوهاب بن احمد بن علي الشعراني عفي الله عنه هذا كتاب الفته في علم العقائد سميته باليواقيت والجواهر في بيان عقائد الاكابر حاولت فيه المطابقة بين عقايد اهل الكشف وعقائد اهل الفكر ..."
Title from titlepiece preceding table of contents on p.4.
Ms. codex.
Bookplate of British Museum, London on p.627, "British Museum, London. No. 134. Kitab al-yawakit wa 'l-jawahir." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "91" in Western numerals on p.1 ; obliterated waqf statement on p.3 ; on paper (blue-tinted) pasted on p.13, a detailed waqf statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Adīb (Abdullah Edip), known as Jannatʹzādah (Cennet-zade), qāḍī of Erzurum, reads: "وقفت وقفا صحيحا شرعيا على ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الملتصق بداري الا لعلماء سكنوا بارضروم بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; a few notabilia (side-heads) and marginal corrections.
