Author
Zanjānī, Yaḥyá ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Salām, al-Imām al-Muʻaẓẓam, approximately 1640.
Publication Date
[1636]
Subject
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm,, Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, /
active 1257., Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, / active 1257. /
Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Arabic language, Arabic language /
Morphology, Arabic language / Morphology /
Early works to 1800., Arabic language, Arabic language /
Syntax, Arabic language / Syntax /
Early works to 1800., Arabic language, Arabic language /
Inflection, Arabic language / Inflection /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
60
Physical Dimensions
60 + iv leaves : paper ; 210 x 154 (133 x 75) mm. bound to 220 x 165 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006769563
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine copy of Yaḥyá ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Zanjānī's commentary on ʻAzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zanjānī's Kitāb al-Taṣrīf. Wrapped in a cover originally affixed to a textblock containing at least two different works of Abū al-Nāfiʻ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Qāzābādī (d.1749), namely a ḥāshiyah on al-Muqaddimāt al-arbaʻ, a portion of ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī's (d.1346) commentary on his own Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, and a commentary on the Ādāb of Birgivî Mehmet Efendi (d.1573). Brief excerpts from these two works thus appear on the leaves still attached to the upper and lower covers. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 143
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.121, copied by Aḥmad ibn Ṭūrsī [?]. Transcription finished Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1045 [?] [April-May 1636]. Appears that copyist originally entered خمسون then added اربعون above it.
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 147. Commentary on al-Tashrif."
Binding: Serving as a wrapper, pasteboards covered in laid paper (likely originally marbled, compare flap) with spine, fore-edge flap and edges/turn-ins in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; originally housed a different textblock ; current textblock sewn in pink thread, two stations but simply set in to cover without attachment to spine or endleaves ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, staining, etc. ; repairs in dark brown leather ; housed in envelope.
Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal) ; crown-star-crescent watermark, accompanied by countermark of "G V" surmounted by trefoil ; thick, sturdy and well-burnished.
Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots.
Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; virtually serifless, though occasional head-serifs appear irregularly on alif, lām, etc. ; effect of tilt to the left ; many open counters ; rounded ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred.
Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, 6 V(60), iii ; entirely quinions ; added leaves from textblock previously housed in this cover ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes leaves carried from textblock previously housed in this cover).
Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب رحمة الله عليه [كذا] من عبد الضعيف الفقير الحقير الى رب الكريم احمد ابن طورسى رحمة الله عليه ذي القعدنك اوندردنجى كنى ثلا وقتنده تم الكتاب تاريخ سنه خمسه وخمسون [اربعون] والف"
Explicit: "والفرق بين المصدر في النوع من هذا القسم القرينة [؟]"
Incipit: "الحمد لله على جزيل نعمائه السابقة واشكره على جميل الائه [؟] المتلاحقة ... وبعد يقول اضعف عباد الله واحوجهم الى رحمته يحيى [؟] الملقب بالامام المعظم ابن ابراهيم ابن عبد السلام الزنجاني لما [رايت؟] قلوب الطلاب من محصلى ابناء زماننا مائلة بهذا المختصر في علم الصرف المنسوب الى المولى المعظم ... عز الملة والدين عماد الاسلام والمسلمين عبد الوهاب ابراهيم الزنجاني ... اردت ان [اشرحه] شرحا فائقا ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 147. Commentary on al-Tashrif." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "343" in Western numerals on (p.1) ; also on (p.1) ownership statement in name of ʻAbd al-Ghafūr ibn Muḥammad Saʻīd Shukrī accompanied by circular seal impression seemingly dated 1267 [1850 or 1] "السيد عبد الغفور شكرى [؟] ۱۲٦٧", statement reads "تملكه الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير [السيد العبد] الغفور بن محمد سعيد ... زاده" (compare statement and seal impression in Isl. Ms. 15) ; a few marginal corrections.
