Author
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490, Sanūsī, Muhammad ibn Yusuf, Laqānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm, -1631 or 1632, Laqānī, Ibrahim ibn Ibrahim, Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān, active 12th century, Oshi, Ali ibn Uthman, Ibn Mālik, Muhammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1274, Ibn Malik, Muhammad bin Abdullah, Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)
Author Original
سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف لقاني، ابراهيم بن ابراهيم اوشي، علي بن عثمان ابن مالك محمد بن عبد الله
Publication Date
1870
Publication Place
[Egypt] -
Subject
Islam -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800, God -- Simplicity -- Early works to 1800, God (Islam) -- Attributes -- Early works to 1800, Arabic poetry -- Early works to 1800, Arabic language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
45 leaves : paper ; 225 x 155 (190 x 115) mm. bound to 231 x 162 mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1354989069
Record ID
990068325830106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
Possibly between 1870-1905
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1)., Incipit: [Matn Umm al-barāhīn] “Praise be to God, and may blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of God. Know that rational judgment is limited to three categories: obligation, impossibility, and permissibility...” ; [Matn al-Jawharah fī al-tawḥīd] “Praise be to God for his prayers, then may God’s peace be upon him, along with his blessings upon a prophet who brought monotheism and the religion was devoid of monotheism...”; [Matn Badʼ al-amālī fī al-tawḥīd] “The servant says in the beginning of the hopes for monotheism with systems like pearls...”; [Matn Alfīyat Ibn Mālik] “Muhammad said, ‘He is Ibn Malik. I praise God, my Lord, the best Malik, praying upon the Chosen Messenger and his God who perfects honor...”, Collation: i, V-1 (9), 3 V(39), III (45), i ; quinions (one anomalous) followed by a ternion; final two leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization)., Layout: Written in 15-17 lines per page ; written area often divided into two columns ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board occasionally evident)., Script: Naskh ; Large, clear though somewhat awkward hand in a medium to bold line; Partially but irregularly seriffed with slight right-sloping head-serifs, effect of tilt to the left, some sweeping descenders (often flattened), pointing in distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed though kasrah supplied, fully vocalized., Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots in red., Support: Machine laid paper and wove paper; Mainly a type with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of words in Arabic script only partially visible (see p.28, 40, 42, etc.) and date (see pp.48 and 60, possibly 1313 [1895 or 6] or 1292 [1876 or 7), light beige in color, virtually unburnished; Another type (see pp.3-6, 13-16) with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see pp.4, 6, 14, 16 and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91), dense and sturdy, beige to buff in color, only lightly burnished; final leaves of codex (from p.65 to close) are in a wove paper of nearly the same color as the predominant machine laid type., Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding); Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetable pattern in pink and green; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "Unity"; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords, tightly bound; overall in fairly good condition., Former shelfmark: Mich. Island. Ms. temp. no. 97, Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest transcription in Egypt, late 19th century (or possibly within the first decade of the 20th century)., On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory numbers, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No.7777" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; marginal glosses., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 948
Sample Text
Fine collection (majmūʻah) of several concise didactic treatises of theology and grammar, mainly in verse, named Umm al-barāhīn of Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d.1490), Jawharat al-tawrāhībīd ibībīm of Iībnīm (d.1631 or 2), Badʼ al-amalī (or Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʼabd fī Badʼ al-āmālī) of Ali ibn 'Uthman al-Ushī (12th century), and the Alfīyah of Ibn Malik (d.1274).
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490. Umm al-barāhīn fī ʻilm al-kalām., Laqānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm, -1631 or 1632. Matn al-Jawharah fī al-tawḥīd., Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān, active 12th century. Badʼ al-amālī., Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1274. Alfīyah., Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Heyworth-Dunne Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II 250-51 (II.), Brockelmann, C. GAL, II 316, Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 429-30 (I.) ; S I 764-5, Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 298 (II.), Walz, Terence. "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The Trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011): 73-108.
