Author
Ḥifnī, Muḥammad ibn Sālim, 1689 or 1690-1767 or 1768, Hafni, Muhammad bin Salem, Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?, Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?, Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)
Author Original
حفني، محمد بن سالم بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد
Publication Date
1757
Subject
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Poetry, Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1503-approximately 1566. Sharḥ ʻalá matn al-Hamzīyah, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
124 leaves : paper ; 221 x 158 (170 x 113) mm. bound to 230 x 167 mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194768149
Record ID
990068340440106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
Possibly between 1757-1799
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from opening matter on p.2., Incipit: “He said, “The comfort of the eyes of the eyes of the knowers and the fore of the foreheads of the faces of [sic] the knowers is a refuge for those who seek refuge and protection from every desperate person cut off from hope... Sir Muhammad Al-Hafnawi, may God bless his existence... In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Abdullah Muhammad Al-Hafni, these are footnotes superior to the precious pearls over the explanation of Al-Hamziyah by the scholar Al-Shihab Ibn Hajar...”, Explicit: “A discontinuity as it had previously done shortly, and this is the last thing from King Al-Wahhab, and to Him, Glory be to Him, is the return and the return. We ask Him of His grace to make it a useful guidance for every penitent heart, revealing the darkness of illusions about every calamity. Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the Seal of the Messengers... and upon his God. And his companions, wives, and loved ones", Colophon: "Authorial", reads "The completion of its commentary was on Wednesday, the first of the month of Shaban, in the year one hundred and seventy of the Hijra, the best of blessings and peace be upon him. I ask God of His bounty for a good ending, and there is no power nor strength except in God, the Most High, the Great. It has been completed.", Collation: i, 6 (6), V-1 (15), V (25), V-1 (34), 3 V(64), V-1 (73), 4 V(113), VI-1 (124), i ; almost exclusively quinions (with many anomalous) with final senion ; missing most of first and second gatherings though two replacement leaves for opening matter have been supplied (see pp.1-4), followed by a misplaced leaf from the final gathering (carrying pp.5-6, p.6 should follow p.246 and p.247 should follow p.5) and the opening three leaves of the second gathering (pp.7-12) bound in backwards and in reverse order ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals under letter kāf in upper outer corner of recto of opening leaf of each quire; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization., Layout: Written mainly in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh ; careful, clear Egyptian hand in a medium line; Partially serifed with long serif on occasional alif, slight effect of tilt to the right, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in strokes or conjoined dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ; two replacement leaves at opening (pp.1-4) in a different hand (with final yāʼ usually unpointed)., Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas and stylized florets (or v-signs, resembling fleurs de lis or crosses at times) in red., Support: European laid paper with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents / tre lune watermark with P (roughly 105 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see pp.16, 22, 24, 40, 42, etc. and compare no.769 / dated 1771 in Velkov and Andreev, Filigranes dans les documents ottomans. I Trois croissants), quite sturdy, cream to buff in color, well-burnished to glossy., Binding: Boards covered in dark blue textured cloth with dark blue 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 "Hafiyat al-Hafni"; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords; Overall in good condition., Previous shelfmark: Mich. Island. Ms. temp. no. 153, Origin: As appears in authorial colophon on p.248, composition completed 1 Shaʻbān 1170 [ca. 21 April 1757] (compare close to al-Maktabah al-Bārūnīyah no. 50.220). Date of copying is not specified, though paper, hand, etc. suggest ca. 1771, not long after composition., On upper pastedown, label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 9021" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; Occasional corrections (with signs de renvoi) and collation marks (“report interview” and “interview”)., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1004
Sample Text
Fine though partly acephalous copy of the gloss by Muḥammad al-Ḥifnāwī (al-Ḥifnī, d.1767 or 8) on the commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (d.1567) on al-Būṣīrī's (d.1296?) poem in praise of the Prophet entitled al-Qaṣīdah al-hamzīyah fī madḥ al-nabawīyah.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296? Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah., Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Heyworth-Dunne Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II 388 ; S II 527, Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 264-5 ; S I 467-72, Fihris makhṭūṭāt al-Maktabah al-Bārūnīyah bi-Jarbah, ed. Saʻīd ibn Yūsuf al-Bārūnī (Tūnis: al-Jumhūrīyah al-Tūnisīyah Wizārat al-Thaqāfah Dār al-Kutub al-Waṭanīyah, 1998), no. 50.220, p.33, Velkov, Asparoukh and Stephane Andreev. Filigranes dans les documents ottomans. I Trois croissants [= Водни знаци в Османотурските документи. I Три луни]. Sofia: Bibliotheque Nationale "Cyrille et Methode" Comission Archeographique Bulgare Section Orientale, 1983.
Elde Ediliş
Acquired in the Fall of 1950.
