Author
Rūmī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalīl, Rumi, Abdul Rahman bin Khalil, Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 13th century, Ibn Masoud, Ahmed bin Ali, Mustafa Hasan Vafi, active 1719 or 1720, Mustafa bin Hassan Al-Wafi,
Author Original
رومي، عبد الرحمن بن خليل ابن مسعود، احمد بن علي مصطفى بن حسن الوافي،
Publication Date
1719
Subject
Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 13th century. Marāḥ al-arwāḥ, Arabic language -- Morphology -- 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
126 leaves : paper ; 222 x 170 (153 x 83) mm. bound to 222 x 180 mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194733414
Record ID
990067687140106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
Possibly between 1719-1720
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: [Sharḥ al-Marāḥ] “Praise be to God who acquainted us with his book with the sciences of Arabic and morphology, and preserved his words from alteration, alteration, and distortion, and made confirmation of them the comfort of souls... As for what follows, the humble servant, Abd al-Rahman bin Khalil, says, “When God bestowed countless blessings on His servants... and from His kindness to me and His bounty in raising the affairs of others.” My children, to read “The Rest of the Souls”... I explained an explanation that contains our text.”, Explicit: “But it does not prepare it also to follow the singular, in which two declarations are combined, if He raises His essence [?] And God knows best what is correct, and to Him is the return and the return.”, Colophon: “Scribal,” triangular, reads: “This honorable, blessed, and auspicious copy was completed with the help of God, King Wahhab, at the hands of the weakest of servants, Mustafa bin Hassan Al-Wafi, may God forgive him. And to his parents and be kind to them and to him in the year one hundred and thousand and thirty-two of the Prophet’s [Hijra] dawn, completed, completed, completed.”, Collation: i, I (2), 11 V(112), IV (120), III (126); chiefly quinions; final three leaves originally left blank ; lacks proper catchwords but but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.239-240)., Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh ; on main clear Turkish hand, some sections likely supplied in other hands; mainly serifless; very slight effect of tilt to the left, sometimes more exaggerated; mainly closed counters; occasionally hāʼ mudghamah looking like two inverted commas; occasionally very slight effect of words descending to baseline; many descenders tapered; final yāʼ and alif maqsūrah mardūdah; some variation in line thickness., Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviations symbols rubricated ; some notabilia and marginal corrections also in red ink; Textual dividers in the form of red commas., Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart(horizontal); watermark with crown above bar above grapes or pendant; lightly sized and burnished., Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with red-brown leather over spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap); dark blue-green paper over envelope flap; upper board lining and interior of envelope flap in pink-tinted laid paper, lower board lining in yellow-tinted laid paper; upper and lower covers and bear traces of blind-stamped scalloped mandorla, with frame in a series of s-shaped stamps defined by tooled fillets; design continues on envelope flap ; doublures (board linings) also bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with accompanying pendants and cornerpieces, along with border in a series of tooled fillets; design continues on interior of envelope flap ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations; Worked endbands in red and green, in poor condition; overall in very poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather (particularly at foreedge flap), severe delamination of boards, staining, upper cover detaching at spine, some negative draw in upper cover, etc. ; Various repairs, also damaged., Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 62. Marah al-arwah.", Origin: As appears in colophon on p.247, Sharḥ ʻAbd al-Raḥmān copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥasan al-Wāfī [Mustafa Hasan Vafi]. Transcription finished 1132 [1719 or 20]. As appears on p.6, opening work completed 1175 [1761 or 2]., Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 62. Marah al-arwah." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "333" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1); on paper (blue-tinted) pasted on 'title page' (p.7), a detailed waqf statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Adīb (Abdullah Edip), known as Jannatʹzādah (Cennet-zade), qāḍī of Erzurum, accompanied by his seal, reads: “I stood in a correct and legitimate manner, provided that it does not come out of the house of attached books In my house, there are scholars who live in Erzurum with a strong pasture guarantor, and I am poor. May the honor of Mr. Abdullah Adeeb, known as Jant Zadeh, the judge in the city of Erzurum in the year two hundred and one thousand and sixty-two.” also on 'title page' (p.7) ownership statement in red ink reads "I owned it in the year 1175" ; extensive marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections; occasional notabilia (side-heads) often rubricated., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 133
Sample Text
Fine copy of a commentary by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalīl on Ibn Masʻūd's textbook of Arabic grammar, Marāḥ al-arwāḥ. Preceded by a very brief anonymous commentary listing the maṣādir of the verbs discussed in the Marāḥ al-arwāḥ and followed by a witty poem.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 13th century. Marāḥ al-arwāḥ., Mustafa Hasan Vafi, active 1719 or 1720. scribe.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251211
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Tiflis Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 21
Elde Ediliş
Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).
