Author
Muḥammad ibn Sulayman ʻArafāt | Muhammad bin Suleiman Arafat
Author Original
محمد بن سليمان عرفات
Publication Date
[1895].
Publication Place
-
University of Michigan
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic | Arabs Folklore. | Folk literature, Arabic. | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
63
Physical Dimensions
63 leaves : paper ; 225 x 165 (185-190 x 110-120) mm.
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Record ID
006814142
Library Location
University of Michigan
Date
[1895].
Notes
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 653 v.10 | 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 ʻArafāt 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 ʻArafāt and Amīn ibn Muḥammad al-Sārī. | Accompanying materials: For acquisitions slip and inventory cataloguing slip, see volume 1 of the set, Isl. Ms. v.1. | Former shelfmark: From verso of opening leaf (p.2), "IL 163" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip in volume 1, Isl. Ms. 653 v.1). | Binding: Lacks cover, though spine carries traces of hinges in recycled paper (ms. 'waste') ; numeral ١٠ (indicating volume number) inscribed on outer leaves ; somewhat crudely sewn in beige yarn or twine, mainly four stations ; overall in fair condition despite lacking cover, with staining, some tears, etc. | Support: European laid paper 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, 6, 126, etc.). | Decoration: Transfer picture of carnation with stems and leaves on 'title page' (p.3). | Script: Ruqʻah ; 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. | Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry. | Collation: 3 VIII(48), VII+1 (63) ; three octonions and an anonmalous 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 outerleaves). | Explicit: "فكن من بطل اضحى صريعا على الرمال من ضرب يدي والليل امسى وصارت الليلة غلسى والحديث ليلة غدا وغدا تسمعون يا كرام ما يأتي في بقية هذا الكلام واصلي واسلم على سيد ولد عدنان انتهى الجزء العاشر من سير اسد الفوارس ويليه الحادي عشر" | Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين قال الراوي ثم ان الملك اسد الفوارس ..." | Title from 'title page' (p.3). | Ms. codex. | Tenth of twenty-five volumes containing a collection of the epic tales of al-Malik Asad al-Fawāris ibn Jūdar [Jawdar], the fāris of ʻIrāq, in the manner of the Arabic heroic narrative (sīrah shaʻbīyah) apparently compiled in the present form by Muḥammad ibn Sulayman ʻArafāt (fl.1895) and Amīn ibn Muḥammad al-Sārī (fl.1895). | more | less
