Akhlāq-i Muḥsini, [922, i. 1516].
(اخلاق محسنى, [922ه, 1516م].)

Name: Akhlāq-i Muḥsini, [922, i. 1516].
Author: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505.

Title	Akhlāq-i Muḥsini, [922, i. 1516].
Title Original	اخلاق محسنى, [922ه, 1516م].
Author	Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505.
Publication Date:	[1516]
Subject	Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan / Ann Arbor., Muslims, Muslims / Conduct of life, Muslims / Conduct of life / Early works to 1800., Islamic ethics, Islamic ethics / Early works to 1800., Headpieces (layout features)
Type	Book
Language	ara,fas
Digital	No
Manuscript	Unknown
Pages Count	184
Physical Dimensions	184 leaves : paper ; 245 x 165 (160 x 95) mm. bound to 245 x 175 mm
Library:	HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID	006805292
Library Location	University of Michigan
Notes	About: A work on ethics in 40 chapters, composed by Kāshifī for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin, a son of Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander. \| Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 271 Origin: Versified chronogram at end (fol.182b, "اخلاق محسنى") gives dating for completion of composition; this reading, without the preposition "ز", yields the more widely accepted date of 900 H. As appears in colophon on fol.182b, copied by Maḥmūd ibn Najīb. Transcription finished ("tamma al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb taḥrīran fī tārīkh...") 12 Rabīʻ I 922 [ca. 15 April 1516]. Binding: Pasteboard covered in red-brown leather; Type II binding (with flap); upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central mandorla (Déroche class. NSh1) with pendants and simple gold rule-border; smaller mandorla on envelope flap; doublures in light-blue coated paper embossed with vegetal pattern; in good condition. Support: Persian laid paper; laid lines oriented vertically but too faint to count; chain lines not visible; flyleaves are fashioned from a light-blue coated paper, embossed with a vegetal pattern, that is also used for the doublures. Decoration: Illuminated headpiece on fol.2b; marvelously rendered in two rectangular panels; lower panel contains the basmalah, executed in red nastaʻlīq, in a central cartouche flanked by two, smaller palmette-like lozenges; lower panel is framed by an elaborite golden braid; background is predominantly lapis-lazuli, with vegetal/floral patterns executed in gold, red, pink, green, black, and white; upper panel continues the background motif and color palette; three small, predominantly black, palmette-like lozenges serve as the pivot for the repeating vegetal pattern in this panel, but these are subdued figures and are rather absorbed into the lapis-lazuli background and intriquate vine patterns; upper panel is surmounted by five verticle, decorative stalks; written area framed by a rule-border in dark blue, black, and gold; gold frames set off verses and some chapter titles; text is polychrome, with main text in black, Arabic quotations in dark blue, gold, and occasionally red, and chapter titles in dark blue or gold; the words "شعر" and "بيت" as they occur throughout the text introducing verses of poetry are rendered in red and blue, and occasionally, gold; main text of incipit page decorated with gilt cloudbands. Script: Main text in nastaʻlīq; chapter headings in tawqīʻ; Arabic quotations of Qur'anic verses and Hadith in naskh and vocalized; basmalah in cartouche of illuminated headpiece in nastaʻlīq. Layout: Written in 15 lines per page. Collation: ii, 23 IV (184), i; quaternions; cacthwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ١ on fol.3a (Western pagination) and concludes with ١۸۰ on fol.182a; fihrist of chapter titles (fol.6a-7a) corresponds with foliation. Dedication: Composed for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin (شاه ابو المحسن ), one of the sons of the Tīmūrid pādishāh Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, on the occasion of his coming to court (in Herat) from Marv (see fol.4a-4b, Western pagination). Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads: "رب اختم بالخير والحسنى تمت [كذا] الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا في تاريخ اثنى عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنه اثنى عشرين و تسعمايه بخط العبد الحبيب [المجيب ؟] محمود بن نجيب" Explicit: "با خامه گفتم ای كه زهر ساختى قدم وز مقدم تو چشم سخن يافت روشنى اخلاق محسنى بتامى نوشته تاريخ هم نويس ز اخلاق محسنى" Incipit: "حضرت يادشاه على الاطلاق غرت كلمته و جلت عظمته منشور دولت سلطان المرسلين" Title from opening on fol.5a. Ms. codex. Fol.2a bears several marks of possession, including: a circular/oval seal impression with inscription in nastaʻlīq script, "ختم الله بالايمان احمد عبده", a faint oval seal impression with illegible inscription in ornate divani script, another circular seal impression nearly entirely effaced, and a partially pointed ownership statement in Ottoman Turkish, begins: "بو كتاب مبارك ومتين در اصحاب سعاداتدن هر..." ; other statements on fol.2a have been deliberately effaced; codex lacks marks of collation and marginal correction, essentially a clean copy.

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Akhlāq-i Muḥsini, [922, i. 1516].

(اخلاق محسنى, [922ه, 1516م].)

Author Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505.

Publication Date [1516]

Subject Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan / Ann Arbor., Muslims, Muslims / Conduct of life, Muslims / Conduct of life / Early works to 1800., Islamic ethics, Islamic ethics / Early works to 1800., Headpieces (layout features)

Type Book

Language ara,fas

Digital No

Manuscript Unknown

Pages Count 184

Physical Dimensions 184 leaves : paper ; 245 x 165 (160 x 95) mm. bound to 245 x 175 mm

Library HathiTrust Digital Library

Record ID 006805292

Library Location University of Michigan

Notes About: A work on ethics in 40 chapters, composed by Kāshifī for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin, a son of Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 271 Origin: Versified chronogram at end (fol.182b, "اخلاق محسنى") gives dating for completion of composition; this reading, without the preposition "ز", yields the more widely accepted date of 900 H. As appears in colophon on fol.182b, copied by Maḥmūd ibn Najīb. Transcription finished ("tamma al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb taḥrīran fī tārīkh...") 12 Rabīʻ I 922 [ca. 15 April 1516]. Binding: Pasteboard covered in red-brown leather; Type II binding (with flap); upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central mandorla (Déroche class. NSh1) with pendants and simple gold rule-border; smaller mandorla on envelope flap; doublures in light-blue coated paper embossed with vegetal pattern; in good condition. Support: Persian laid paper; laid lines oriented vertically but too faint to count; chain lines not visible; flyleaves are fashioned from a light-blue coated paper, embossed with a vegetal pattern, that is also used for the doublures. Decoration: Illuminated headpiece on fol.2b; marvelously rendered in two rectangular panels; lower panel contains the basmalah, executed in red nastaʻlīq, in a central cartouche flanked by two, smaller palmette-like lozenges; lower panel is framed by an elaborite golden braid; background is predominantly lapis-lazuli, with vegetal/floral patterns executed in gold, red, pink, green, black, and white; upper panel continues the background motif and color palette; three small, predominantly black, palmette-like lozenges serve as the pivot for the repeating vegetal pattern in this panel, but these are subdued figures and are rather absorbed into the lapis-lazuli background and intriquate vine patterns; upper panel is surmounted by five verticle, decorative stalks; written area framed by a rule-border in dark blue, black, and gold; gold frames set off verses and some chapter titles; text is polychrome, with main text in black, Arabic quotations in dark blue, gold, and occasionally red, and chapter titles in dark blue or gold; the words "شعر" and "بيت" as they occur throughout the text introducing verses of poetry are rendered in red and blue, and occasionally, gold; main text of incipit page decorated with gilt cloudbands. Script: Main text in nastaʻlīq; chapter headings in tawqīʻ; Arabic quotations of Qur'anic verses and Hadith in naskh and vocalized; basmalah in cartouche of illuminated headpiece in nastaʻlīq. Layout: Written in 15 lines per page. Collation: ii, 23 IV (184), i; quaternions; cacthwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with ١ on fol.3a (Western pagination) and concludes with ١۸۰ on fol.182a; fihrist of chapter titles (fol.6a-7a) corresponds with foliation. Dedication: Composed for Shāh Abū al-Muḥsin (شاه ابو المحسن ), one of the sons of the Tīmūrid pādishāh Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, on the occasion of his coming to court (in Herat) from Marv (see fol.4a-4b, Western pagination). Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads: "رب اختم بالخير والحسنى تمت [كذا] الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا في تاريخ اثنى عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنه اثنى عشرين و تسعمايه بخط العبد الحبيب [المجيب ؟] محمود بن نجيب" Explicit: "با خامه گفتم ای كه زهر ساختى قدم وز مقدم تو چشم سخن يافت روشنى اخلاق محسنى بتامى نوشته تاريخ هم نويس ز اخلاق محسنى" Incipit: "حضرت يادشاه على الاطلاق غرت كلمته و جلت عظمته منشور دولت سلطان المرسلين" Title from opening on fol.5a. Ms. codex. Fol.2a bears several marks of possession, including: a circular/oval seal impression with inscription in nastaʻlīq script, "ختم الله بالايمان احمد عبده", a faint oval seal impression with illegible inscription in ornate divani script, another circular seal impression nearly entirely effaced, and a partially pointed ownership statement in Ottoman Turkish, begins: "بو كتاب مبارك ومتين در اصحاب سعاداتدن هر..." ; other statements on fol.2a have been deliberately effaced; codex lacks marks of collation and marginal correction, essentially a clean copy.