Author
Aḥrār, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1403 or 1404-1489 or 1490.
Publication Date
[15--?]
Subject
Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr,, Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr, /
967-1049., Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr, / 967-1049. /
Poems., Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Quatrains, Persian., Persian poetry, Persian poetry /
747-1500., Sufi poetry, Persian, Sufi poetry, Persian /
Early works to 1800.
Type
kitap
Language
Persian
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
8
Physical Dimensions
8 leaves : paper ; 218 x 140 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006814652
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Elegant copy of a commentary by the Naqshbandī shaykh Aḥrār (d.1490) on the quatrain (rubāʻī) known as the Ḥawrāʼīyah attributed to the famous mystic Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr (d.1049). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 434
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. may suggest 16th century.
Former shelfmark: "383 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; "232" inscribed in pencil on 'title page'.
Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (kumlu or kılçıklı ebru in blue, green, yellow and white) with red leather over spine ; Type III (without flap) ; board linings in European laid paper (three hats watermark) ; resewn in white thread ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, etc.
Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, fairly thick and sturdy, quite well-burnished.
Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān/sarlawḥ) at opening consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying the basmalah in white on a field of lapis lazuli overlaid with a swirling vegetal pattern in gold, surrounded by a delicate vegetal pattern in black with chi clouds in light blue on a field of gold, with entire piece bordered in green or turquoise band ; rectangular piece surmounted by scalloped three semi-circular pieces (domes) filled with a similar delicate vegetal pattern in gold on fields of lapis lazuli, with further gold accents and chi clouds in light blue, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; written area very delicately gold-flecked and surrounded by heavy gold band ; keywords and text of ḥadīth and Qurʼānic excerpts, etc. chrysographed.
Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite hand ; serifless with characteristic descent of words to baseline and superscripting of final words and letters ; elongation of horizontal strokes ; exaggerated contrast between thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes; text of keywords, text of Qurʼānic excerpts, quoted ḥadīth, etc. in tawqīʻ with tilt to the left and right-sloping head-serif.
Layout: Written in 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, III+2 (8), i ; catchwords present.
Explicit: "و او از معنی این رباعی حالت رجوع بآن جناب فهم کند البته اورا سروری بیدا شود زیرا که خاصیت محبت آنست که محب را هیج لذتی بهتر از ملاقات محبوب نباشد تمت الرسالة"
Incipit: "الحمد لله فیاض الحکم والمواهب وموصل الطالبین الی المطالب ... اما بعد بدانکه این فقیر را بسی شغف مى بود بدانستن رباعی قطب الاولیا سلطان ابی سعید ابی الخیر قدس الله روحه ورباعی اینست حورا بناظره نگارم صف زد رضوان ز تعجب کف خود بر کف زد..."
Title from inscription on front flyleaf.
Ms. codex.
Occasional marginal corrections.
