Publication Date
[1780 or 1781]
Publication Place
[Istanbul?] -
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /Ann Arbor., Islamic calligraphy, Islamic calligraphy /Specimens., Writing, Arabic, Writing, Arabic /Specimens., Calligraphy, Arabic, Calligraphy, Arabic /Specimens.
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
11 panels paper ; 170 x 245 (110 x 183) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006796309
Date
[1780 or 1781]
Notes
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 240 Origin: As appears at close, executed by Mustafa el-Haşimî known as Kadızade in 1195 [1780 or 1]. Former shelfmark: "550 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on upper board lining ; "107" in pencil on recto of opening panel. Binding: Pasteboards faced in gold-flecked, pale yellow paper and framed in tan leather (covering board edges / turn-ins and likely spine at one time) now with dark purple leather (and Japanese paper repair) over spine (leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; opens vertically ; board linings in magenta paper ; gold rule-borders on leather edging ; overall in fairly good condition ; repairs in Japanese paper ; occasional repair to hinges in same dark purple leather. Support: Written area on well-burnished laid paper, pieced, set into an elaborate frame in several different laid papers (pale peach-tinted, pink-tinted, light blue-tinted, orange-tinted, etc. with colors of facing panels matching) and mounted. Decoration: Written area (and divisions within) surrounded by gold frame set off by black and white fillets ; written area set into a frame of tinted paper (colors of facing panels match). Script: Fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; in thuluth (sülüs) and naskh (nesih). Layout: Written in four lines per page ; two large lines thuluth and two smaller centered lines in naskh, constituting two distinct streams of text Collation: Eleven 'panels' hinged together with tan leather. Colophon: "مشقه اضعف العباد السيد مصطفى الهاشمى المعروف بقاضى زاده سنه ١١٩٥ه" Explicit: "وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك وجد ثناؤك ولا اله غيرك" Incipit: "رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تمم بالخير ا ب ت ج ح د ز ذ ر س ش ص ط ع و ..." Title supplied by cataloguer. Ms. codex. Inscriptions in pencil "550 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" on upper board lining and "39" on recto of opening panel ; clean copy.. Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) in this case a meșk murakkaa or album of meșkler (exercises) employing first (in seventeen kıt'alar) the principal alphabetic exercises (müfredat) and closing with three kıt'alar of mürekkebat exercises employing the alpha-numeric system (abjad / abced hesabı) and a prayer.
İlgili İsimler
Kadızade Mustafa Haşimî, active 1780
