Publication Date
[16--?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Pillars of Islam, Pillars of Islam /
Early works to 1800., Islam, Islam /
Doctrines, Islam / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800., Islam, Islam /
Customs and practices, Islam / Customs and practices /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
82
Physical Dimensions
82 leaves : paper ; 222 x 144 (138 x 78) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006837285
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Elegant (though acephalous) copy of a work in Persian on matters of Islamic ritual practice (ʻibādāt) as attested in the ḥadīth of the Prophet. Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 877
Origin: As appears in colophon at close on p.163, copied by Luṭf Allāh ibn Amān Allāh. Date of transcription not specified. Paper, hand, etc. may suggest 17th century.
Accompanying materials: a. Slip with descriptive notes in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 17 Imperfect at the beginning. A work on Muslim institutions (the Ḥajj, almsgiving, etc.) based in the practice of the Prophet as laid down by the Ḥadīth. Undated. Copied by Luṭfullāh b. Amānullāh" -- b. Slip with notes "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" -- c. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report"
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 26
Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in quite dark brown (to black) leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in dark red leather, current flyleaves in untinted European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind stamped mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces (each filled with vegetal composition), as well as blind rule borders ; now sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and blue, fair condition with some losses ; overall in fair condition with losses and delamination of lower board, some abrasion and staining, etc. ; repairs to spine (rebacked), likely resewn.
Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with roughly 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct, curving) and occasional chain line visible, somewhat cloudy formation, inclusions visible, fairly thin and transluscent though quite sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; repairs (guards and fills) ; flyleaves in untinted European laid paper.
Decoration: Keywords (فصل marking each section, etc.) rubricated ; some overlining (with two-teeth stroke) in red ; written area throughout surrounded by gold frame with outermost blue rule.
Script: Nastaʻlīq ; spacious, elegant hand in a medium to heavy line ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, final or free-standing nūn somewhat irregular, but often set down in wide, slightly angled bowl.
Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: ii, IV-2 (6), 3 IV(30), III (36), III-1 (41), 4 IV(73), III (79), II-1 (82), ii ; chiefly quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in black appearing in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "حرره لطف الله بن امان الله ریئ"
Explicit: "... در دنیا سبب نجات از فتن و حوادث و در آخرت موجب رحمت و مغفرت باشد و ما ذلک علی الله بعزیزه و تمت تم"
Incipit: "فتنه اشغال بعلم حدیث واجب دیده وضو رسوم حوادث را باین تریاق فاروق مندفع گردانید و جون علم حدیث بحر لا ساحل است ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Occasional marginal corrections.
