Author
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505.
Publication Date
[Egypt?], [1570]
Subject
ʻAskarī, Abū Hilāl al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh., ʻAskarī, Abū Hilāl al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh. /
Awāʼil., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Islamic eschatology, Islamic eschatology /
Early works to 1800., Hadith, Hadith /
Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hadith / Criticism, interpretation, etc. /
Early works to 1800., Islam, Islam /
Miscellanea, Islam / Miscellanea /
Early works to 1800., Islam, Islam /
History, Islam / History /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
61
Physical Dimensions
61 leaves : paper ; 203 x 148 (143 x 97) mm. bound to 209 x 152 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006813245
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of two works by al-Suyūṭī (d.1505), namely al-Wasāʼil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāʼil, condensing and expanding on al-Awāʼil of Abū Hilāl al-Ḥasan al-ʻAskarī (d. ca.1010), followed by al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf, a treatise analyzing a spurious ḥadīth and addressing events at the end of time, lacking a few pages of text from the end. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 658
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.109, opening work copied for himself by ʻAlī Nūr al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥasan Badr al-Dīn ibn Muhammad Jalāl al-Dīn al-Barhamtūshī ( Ali Nur al-Din ibn al-Hassan Badr al-Din bin Muhammad Jalal al-Din al-Brahmatushi ) with transcription completed 3 Ramaḍān 977 [ca. 9 February 1570]. A second work appears to have been supplied by the same copyist around the same time.
Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloging slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Judah.
Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on lower cover, "IL 411a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).
Binding: Boards covered in black cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light olive green wove paper ; resewn in white thread, six stations ; overall in good condition.
Support: European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29 mm. (horizontal), anchor in circle watermark with six-pointed star above (see pp.6 and 12,etc.), "AP" or "AS" countermark (see p.8), well-sized and burnished, sturdy though fairly crisp.
Decoration: Section headings, keywords, and some abbreviation symbols (two-teeth stroke, etc.) rubricated.
Script: Naskh ; compact, somewhat angular Egyptian hand in a medium to bold line (line thickness varies somewhat) ; serifless with slight inclination to the left (with words descending to baseline), elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf), foot of final isolated lām quite flattened and elongated (sits on baseline).
Layout: Written in 21 lines per page.
Collation: i, V-1(9), 5V(59), I(61), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; final added bifolium left blank ; quire numbering in the form of whole words in the upper outer corner of the recto of the opening leaf of each quire (partially cut off) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Colophon: [al-Wasāʼil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāʼil] "There is praise be to Allah, and praise be to Allah, and praise and thanksgiving first and foremost, inwardly and outwardly, secretly and publicly ... and attached to oneself Allah ... Ali Noor al-Din ibn al-Hassan Badr al-Din ibn Muhammad Jalal al-Din al-Brahmatushi al-Shafi'i [?] Ramadan al-Mu'azam ... from the month of the year of seven and seven and eighty-eight, may Allah conclude it and return it in good health and peace.
Incipit: [al-Wasāʼil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāʼil] "Praise be to Allah, the first flesh is the last Arrangement ... and the name of the means to the knowledge of the families ..." ; [al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf] "Praise be to Allah and peace be upon the worshiper who answered and then asked a lot of questions about the famous hadith on the Sunnah of the People that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Peace does not end in the grave of a thousand Sunnahs and it is strange that they are false Discovery of the passage of this nation of the alphabet
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Ownership statement on 'title page' (p.1) in name of Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Qādirī (Sayyid Muhammad al-Qādiri ibn al-marhum Mustafa al-Qādirī) accompanied by partially lost seal impression; occasional glosses and marginal corrections.
