Author
Muḥammad ibn Sulayman Arafāt (fl. 1895.)
Publication Date
1895
Publication Place
Place of publication not identified -
Subject
Folk literature, Arabic Arabs-Folklore Manuscripts, Arabic-Michigan-Ann Arbor Arab Popular Literature Arabs-Folklore Manuscripts Arabic-Michigan-Ann Arbor Arabs. Folk literature, Arabic. Manuscripts, Arabic. ; Michigan-Ann Arbor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxGWFhh8FVyVXdtj94rMP ; Folklore.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (63 leaves) : paper
Library
Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias - REBIUN
Record ID
b2FpOmNlbGVicmF0aW9uOmVzLmJhcmF0ei5yZW4vMzY5MDI1OTA
Date
1895
Notes
Ms. codex Title from 'title page' (p.3) Collation: 3 VIII(48), VII+1 (63) ; three octonions and an anomalous septenion ; final leaf left blank (serves as a 'flyleaf') ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, center of the upper margin ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves) Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry Script: Ruqah ; virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), mainly closed counters, some elongation of horizontal strokes, point of final nūn often set deep within bowl, pointing (for two and three dots) varies from strokes or conjoined dots to distinct dots Support: European laid paper ; one type (opening to p.32 and p.97 to close) with 9-10 laid lines per cm (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of three crescents (78 mm. long, perpendicular to chains) above 'FERDINANDO BETTI' itself above word in Arabic script (see p.2, 110, etc.) ; another type (pp.33-96) with 12 laid lines per cm (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of three crescents (68 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.36, 38, 40, 42, 64, etc.) and "S S B" (see p.44, 46, 48, 70, etc.). Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover, "IL 163" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip in volume 1, Isl. Ms. 653 v.1) Accompanying materials: For acquisitions slip and inventory cataloguing slip, see volume 1 of the set, Isl. Ms. v.1 Origin: This volume lacks dated colophon. As appears in colophon of volume 25 (Isl. Ms. 653 v.25, pp.112-113) transcription of the entire set executed by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Sulaymān Arafāt with transcription completed 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1312 [ca. 14 June 1895]. This volume was likely completed within months of that date. The colophon of vol. 25 also indicates that the work was authored by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Sulaymān Arafāt and Amīn ibn Muḥammad al-Sārī Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 653 v.24 | digitized 2024. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL | Use copy. Restrictions unspecified star. MiAaHDL
Sample Text
Twenty-fourth of twenty-five volumes containing a collection of the epic tales of al-Malik Asad al-Fawāris ibn Jūdar [Jawdar], the fāris of Irāq, in the manner of the Arabic heroic narrative (sīrah shabīyah) apparently compiled in the present form by Muḥammad ibn Sulayman Arafāt (fl.1895) and Amīn ibn Muḥammad al-Sārī (fl.1895)
Ek fiziksel biçim bağlantısı
Original (OCoLC)1291421999
Doğrudan edinim kaynağı
Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by his younger brother, the famous Orientalist and manuscript collector Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951)
Başlık varyantları
880-04 Title from close on p.123: Juz al-rābi wa-al-ashrūn min Sīrat al-Malik Asad al-Fawāris
