Publication Date
[Ṭihrān, etc.], [1672-1687]
Subject
Qurʼan., Qurʼan. /
Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, Qurʼan. / Sūrat al-Fātiḥah /
Commentaries, Qurʼan. / Sūrat al-Fātiḥah / Commentaries /
Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Philosophy, Ancient, Philosophy, Ancient /
Early works to 1800., Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosophy /
Early works to 1800., Hadith, Hadith /
Commentaries, Hadith / Commentaries /
Early works to 1800., God (Islam), God (Islam) /
Early works to 1800., Sufism, Sufism /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
257
Physical Dimensions
257 leaves : paper ; 185 x 125 (132-140 x 70-80) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006796628
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine composite collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of several works of Ṣūfism, ḥadīth, tafsīr, and philosophy, including works by Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d.1274), Badr al-Dīn al-Shāshī [?], Kamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (d. 1330?), etc. Contents listing at opening on 'title page' (p.1). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 252
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.281, opening works copied in the town (qaṣabah) of Ṭihrān by ʻAlī Riz̤ā ibn Ḥasan al-ʻAqlānī [?] al-Tankānī [?] with transcription completed in 1083 [1672 or 3]. As appears in colophon on p.334, al-Multaqayāt min kalām Aflaṭūn copied by Ibn Mīr Muḥammad Salīm al-Rāzī Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī with transcription completed 1098 [1686 or 7]. As appears in colophon on p.515, final work also copied by Ibn Mīr Muḥammad Salīm al-Rāzī Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī with transcription completed in Shaʻbān 1098 [June-July 1687].
Former shelfmark: "٤٢٢" on paper spine label ; "254 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "216" inscribed in pencil on opening 'title page' (p.3).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in bright pink surface-dyed wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry octagonal central ornament and square cornerpieces built up of blind tooled rosettes as well as blind-tooled border in series of striated s-shaped stamps ; sewn in magenta thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and red, good condition ; overall in fair condition with significant abrasion, moisture damage, lifting and losses of leather, etc.
Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper of perhaps two types ; opening type with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and rare chain lines visible, dark cream in color, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished ; final type (from p.283) with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) , quite thin, crisp and transluscent ; staining and tidelines.
Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlining in red ; lacunae in text of final work where rubrics left unfilled.
Script: Naskh and naskh nastaʻlīq ; two clear Persianate hands ; opening through p.281 in a fine naskh-nastaʻlīq, serifless, with tilt to the right, effect of words descending to baseline and superscripting of letters and words ; latter collection of philosophical treatises (from p.283 on) in an elegant naskh, partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif, with mainly open counters, curvilinear descenders, adhering closely to baseline, and pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written mainly in 16, 21, 22, and 18 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, IV (8), III (14), 2 IV(30), III (36), 27 IV(252), II+1 (257), ii ; mainly quaternions with occasional ternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. composite codex.
Inscriptions in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) "254 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and opening 'title page' (p.3) "216 " ; several possible former shelfmarks, inventory marks or prices on upper board lining and opening 'title page' (p.3) ; rectangular (or square) seal impression on opening 'title page' (p.3), now effaced ; ownership statement on opening 'title page' (p.3) and on p.69 in name of Muḥammad Makkī ibn Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn from the progeny of Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-Shahīd Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥāmid ibn Ṭayy al-Muṭallibī al-Ḥārithī al-Hamadānī al-Khazrajī al-ʻĀmilī ; kabīkaj invocation on opening 'title page' (p.3) "يا كبيكج" ; ownership statement on latter 'title page' (p.283) of final work, almost entirely effaced ; oval seal impression on p.285 ; glosses and marginal corrections.
