Author
Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122, Hariri, Amīn al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī, active 1459, Amin al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī, Nuttall, Frank E., 1875-1943
Author Original
حريري امين الدين محمد السمرقندى
Publication Date
1459
Subject
Arabic prose literature -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
237 leaves : paper ; 265 x 185 (183 x 108) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194844610
Record ID
990068366530106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1459
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from close on p.473., Incipit: “O God, we praise You for what You have taught of clarification and inspired by clarification, just as we praise You for what you [have bestowed] of blessings and brought forth from cover...”, Explicit: “And he sins by pardoning that he is the people of piety and the people of forgiveness and the guardian of good things in this world and the hereafter. Stations of standing were completed thanks to God and from him, and may God’s prayers and peace be upon our Master Muhammad and his family, and may God be pleased with all the companions.” Colophon: "Scribal", triangular, reads "The completion of the editing of this honorable and kind copy occurred at the hands of the poor servant, hoping for the hidden kindness of his Lord, Amin al-Din Muhammad al-Samarqandi al-Hanafi, on the first Sunday of the month of Sha`ban in the year eight hundred and sixty-three", Collation: V+1 (11), V (21), VI (33), V+1 (44), V-1 (53), 11 V(163), IV (171), 4 V(211), V-2 (219), 2 V-1(237), i ; chiefly quinions; leaves left partially blank at opening of virtually each maqāmah ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf)., Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh ; elegant hand; Partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, even free-standing alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders, mainly open counters, pointing in distinct dots, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred with shaqq even on final kāf, final yāʼ usually unpointed., Decoration: Section headings and many glosses rubricated, a few in now light brown ink (see p.27, etc.); written area of incipit page surrounded by double rule-border (in black ink), elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border., Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines grouped in threes with 11-12 mm. between chains and approximately 44 mm. between groups (see p.182, etc.), thick and sturdy, medium cream in color, well-burnished; replacement leaves carrying pp.19-22 in European laid paper with bull's head watermark (with snake on cross pole above); back flyleaf in European laid paper with hand (six petalled flower above) watermark; some pest damage; repairs., Binding: Pasteboards covered in a dark brown leather; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in untinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry four-lobed or petalled central ornament built up of a repeated stamp, as well as elegant blind-tooled borders in a series of square stamps filled with vegetable interlace designs defined by blind rules; sewn in cream thread, two stations; Endbands damaged with significant losses at head and tail though traces of blue thread, core of headband, and primaries remain (clearly stitched through textile spine lining); overall in poor condition with flap lost, much abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, pest damage, etc. ; recycled paper (manuscript 'waste') used in pasteboards; Repair to spine (rebacked) in dark brown leather, also damaged; housed in box for protection., Previous shelfmark: Mich. Island. Ms. temp. no. 12; "No. 3" from upper cover label., Accompanying materials: a. Strip of paper with "#7" in red pencil -- b. Recycled catalog card with note in pencil "early ms. worth investigating" -- c. Slip of paper with notes in handwriting of E. M. Hussleman pp.-- d. Slip of ledger paper with notes in French giving inventory number "Livre no 2" and characterizing contents (title, author, copyist, date of transcription, script, dimensions, and extent), on reverse a few words in crude Arabic -- e. Slip of paper with inscription in ink "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- f Slip of paper with inscription in ink "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) Husselman notes" -- g. Page with list of titles torn from a seller's catalog (Librairie Maisonneuve Frères, editors | 3, rue du Sabot, Paris VIe) inscribed "May 1930" and entry for this manuscript "324. HARIRI (Aboû Mohammed al-Gâsim ibn Ali al-Hariri). The Maqâmât, or the different forms of Arabic style. In-4 rel. 350 fr. Manuscript d'une magnifique calligraphie persane. Copied by Amin from the Molla Samarkandi, the day of Chaâkan 863 of the Hégire (1458 J.-Ch.) and subsequent probable results. - Hauteur, 26 cm. 1/2; Larger, 18 cm. - 238 ff. - Tache d'eau and the reliure est détériorée.", Origin: As appears in colophon on p.474, copied by Amīn al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī al-Ḥanafī with transcription completed 1 Shaʻbān 863 [ca. 3 June 1459]., Inscriptions in ink "Les Makamat de Hariri | Manuscript copy in 863 del'hegire by a name Amin ed Din el Molla Samarkandi, probable in Perse" and in pencil "3644 Rare beautiful calligraphy" on slip attached to upper board lining; ownership statement on 'title page' (p.1) in the name of Ibrahim b. Hacı Mehmet Çaviş ( Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥājj Muḥammad Chāvīsh / Ibrahim bin Haj Muhammad Jawish) of Antakya (Antioch) with book price / value; in outer margin of p.219, ownership statement (with price 3 ghurūsh) in name of Muṣṭafá al-Wazīrī al-Qaṭāmī [?] (Mustafa Al-Waziri Al-Qatami [?]), statement reads “He entered the kingdom of Hajj Mustafa Al-Waziri Al-Qatami [?]... May God forgive him and all the Muslims, the price is 3 gros” titles and borrowing / lending notice dated 1 Rabīʻ I 965 [ca. 22 December 1557] in the name of al-Ḥājj Maḥmūd ibn Ṭallāʻ (Haj Mahmud ibn Tala’) who apparently borrowed the items for a period of three years; numerous interlinear and marginal glosses (some rubricated); (side-heads)., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl 863
Sample Text
Elegant copy of al-Ḥarīrī's (d.1122) celebrated Maqāmāt or Sessions modeled after those of al-Hamadhānī (d.1008).
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Amīn al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī, active 1459, scribe., Nuttall, Frank E., 1875-1943, former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251211
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
F. E. Nuttall Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 276, Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn, vi 57-8
Elde Ediliş
Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).
