Publication Place
[18--?] -
Subject
Manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Turkish /Michigan, Manuscripts, Turkish / Michigan /Ann Arbor., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /Ann Arbor., Turkish poetry., Arabic poetry.
Type
kitap
Language
ara,ota
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
24
Physical Dimensions
24 leaves : paper ; 247 x 145 (180 x 68) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006815302
Notes
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 648 Origin: Lacks dated colophon though poem on p.33 possibly dated 1199 [1784 or 5]. Paper, etc. suggests late 18th or early 19th century. Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4). Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, 'title page' (p.5) and label on lower cover, "IL 128" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip). Binding: Pasteboards covered in red cut velvet with dark red leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in marbled paper (striking pattern mainly in red, blue, yellow and black on white) with doublure hinges in a different marbled paper (blue on white) ; leather surrounding velvet panels gold-tooled in wide guilloché roll border ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, though textblock detached from cover and with many loose quires ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion and staining, lifting of leather, spine fully split with covers detached from one another and from textblock, etc. Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, varies), curved and fairly distinct and occasional chain lines visible at roughly 45 mm. apart ; thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy ; alternating leaves surface dyed a dark yellow ochre, pale green or pale pink. Decoration: Occasional vocalization and orthographic signs rubricated ; signatures following several of the poems rubricated ; for one poem (see p.22) opening letters of opening words of each hemistich rubricated. Script: Nastaʻlīq ; compact, elegant hand ; characteristically serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and thickness of horizontal strokes. Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; often divided to two columns to set off poetry. Collation: 2 V (20), I+2 (24) ; possible that leaves are missing ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts). Title supplied by cataloguer. Ms. codex. Book price and possible former inventory marks on 'title page' (p.5) ; occasional marginal corrections.. Fine copy of a small collection of poems and brief prose pieces in Arabic (some signed by Muḥammad Ṣādiq, Muḥammad Najīb al-Azharī al-Ḥusnī al-ʻAṭṭār, ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Salām, and ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Ṣamadī [?]), concluding with three short poems in Turkish.
İlgili İsimler
ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Ṣamadī., ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Salām., Muḥammad Najīb al-Azharī al-Ḥusnī al-ʻAṭṭār., Ṣādiq, Em.
