Author
Khalkhālī, Ḥusayn al-Ḥusaynī, -1605, Khalkhālī, Hussein al-Husseini
Author Original
خلخالي حسين الحسيني
Publication Date
1670
Subject
Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413. Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá, Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, -1355? Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá, Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249. Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá, Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction -- Early works to 1800, Malikites -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
64 leaves : paper ; 203 x 148 (145-155 x 67-70) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194685150
Record ID
990068052590106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
Possibly between 1670-1730
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1)., Incipit: "Praise be to God, to whom understandings have been aroused by the pride of His Essence, and doubts have been perplexed [?] by the greatness of His attributes. His pride is great in hovering over the depths of minds... As for what follows, these are comments on the footnote to the explanation of Al-Mukhtasar by the master of the scholar... the honorable Sayyed... Creatures in need of the mercy of [?] His Most High Lord, Hussein Al-Hussein Al-Khalkhali ...", Explicit: "There is no need for them both, but rather [?] only one of them is sufficient because of comprehensiveness", Collation: 5 V(50), VII (64) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with 136, as though once part of a collective volume) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization., Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; two clear Turkish hands; From opening to p.96, a fine naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with most ascenders occasionally seriffed, marked tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots rather than distinct dots, final nūn usually reversed (recurved); From p.96 to close, a bold nastaʻlīq (talik), serifless with a slight effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots., Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols (signes-de-renvoi, etc.) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs., Support: European laid paper of a few types; Opening type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), three hats over "G C" watermark (see p.4, etc.), thin and translucent, fairly crisp though sturdy, well-burnished ; Another type with 9 lines laid per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of scrollwork / coat of arms with three bars (see p.48, 58, etc. and compare Armoiries (16) A. Indeterminées dated 1673-1717 in Velkov, Les Filigranes in les documents Ottomans); Another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of cross flanked by creatures above two circles (see p.102, etc.), thin and translucent though sturdy, burnished ; repair (covering hole) at close (see p.128)., Binding: Fiber boards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in gray [to lavender], blue, pink with another paper in brown and dark blue at two edges) with red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap); no board linings (i.e., interior of boards not lined, hinges and turn-ins only); sewn in heavy cream thread, two stations; Overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and spine leather, etc., Former shelfmark: From hinge on upper board and spine label "IL 87" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip)., Accompanying materials: a. Inventory catalog slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda., Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggests mid to late 17th or early 18th century., Extensive marginal glosses ; Occasional corrections., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 579
Sample Text
Clear, well-annotated copy of the supergloss by al-Khalkhālī upon the gloss by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (d.1413) upon the commentary by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d.1355?) upon Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d.1249) Mukhtaṣar al-muntahá, an abridgement of his own treatise on law according to the Mālikī school, Muntahá al-suʼāl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal. Appears to ends abruptly. Likely once part of a collective volume (majmūʻah).
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251211
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Yahuda Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 306 (VIII. 3. b. χ.) ; II 413, Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn, vi 172, Velkov, Asparouh. Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans: divers types d'images. Sofia: Éditions "Texte - A. Trayanov", 2005.
Elde Ediliş
Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.