[Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i mansūb bih Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib

Name: [Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i mansūb bih Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Author: Qāḍī Mīr, Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn, -1504 or 1505, قاضى مير، حسين بن معين الدين, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Āghā Jān, active 1653, ابو القاسم بن آغا جان

Title	[Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i mansūb bih Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Author	Qāḍī Mīr, Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn, -1504 or 1505, قاضى مير، حسين بن معين الدين, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Āghā Jān, active 1653, ابو القاسم بن آغا جان
Author Original	قاضى مير، حسين بن معين الدين ابو القاسم بن آغا جان
Publication Date:	1653
Subject	ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661. Poems, Arabic poetry -- 622-750 -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800, Sufism -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type	kitap
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	315 leaves : paper ; 290 x 200 (185 x 100) mm
Library:	University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID	1194685635
Record ID	990068140210106381
Library Location	UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date	1653
Notes	Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: "اهل فقر همت طلبیم آینه ذات حق چو درویشانند ...", Explicit: "ارجو النجا بكم يوم المعادون حبت نداى من الذنب الافانينا", Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب بتاريخ ۱۴ شهر رجب المرجب سنه ۱۰۶۳ م م م المحتاج الى رحمة الله الغني ابو القاسم بن آغا جان بن بز", Collation: IV+1 (9), 37 IV(305), V (315) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; quires marked in black ink ("رب يسر") at the head of the recto of the opening leaf of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals., Layout: Written in 19 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled., Script: Nastaʻlīq and naskh ; elegant Persianate hand ; nastaʻlīq sans serif with slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, sweeping horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots ; Arabic excerpts mainly in a medium naskh, serifless and fairly vertical but with slight effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots., Decoration: Keywords (فتح، ميقرمايد، الخ), headings for excerpts from the dīwān attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and abbreviation symbols (sigla, etc.) rubricated ; most Arabic excerpts overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of 'three inverted commas' conjoined to form a single stroke ; a few diagrams in red and black ink (see pp.49-51, 67, 112)., Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown above fleur de lis (see p.25, etc.), extremely well sized and burnished (quite glossy), transluscent and quite crisp, though sturdy ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of an inverted teardrop shape with cross (see p.452, etc.) ; burnisher's marks visible., Binding: Pasteboards covered in black (upper cover, which appears to be a replacement for the original) and brown (lower cover and spine) leathers ; Type II (with flap, though now lost) ; upper board lining in untinted wove paper ; lower doublure in red-brown leather ; lower cover carries blind-stamped (with recessed onlay) scalloped mandorla (filled with scene of two antelopes and a flowering tree) and pendants, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps flanked by tooled fillets ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light yellow and pink, only portion of tailband remains ; overall in quite poor condition with flap lost, extensive abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (especially to replacement upper cover), staining, severe moisture damage and shrinkage in upper cover, fills to upper cover in bits of black leather and pink textile, etc., Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 22" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip)., Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Portion of a printed page with list of titles in Arabic script, perhaps torn from a catalogue -- d. Slip ruled with a red grid (between pp.112-113)., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.629, copied by Abū al-Qāsim ibn Āghā Jān bin Baz [?] with transcription completed 14 Rajab [?] 1063 [ca. 10 June 1653]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.629), composition completed in Ṣafar 890 [1485]., Octagonal seal impression in the lower outer corner of p.619 (possibly dated 1084 [1673 or 4]) ; a few marginal corrections., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 684
Sample Text	Elegant but acephalous copy (opening in the first Fātiḥah, compare p.18 of the 2000 Tihrān edition) of the commentary by Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Manṭiqī al-Maybudī al-Yazdī (d.1504?) upon the dīwān attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ca. 600-661), opening with the Favātiḥ-i sabʻah.
Katkıda Bulunanlar	Abū al-Qāsim ibn Āghā Jān, active 1653, scribe.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi	20251210
Biçim	Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda	Yahuda Collection.
Referanslar	Brockelmann, C. GAL, S II 294 6. no.5 ; S I 983 zu 74, Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn Maybudī Yazdī. Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i mansūb bih Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Ḥasan Raḥmānī and Ibrāhīm Ashk Shīrīn (Eds.). Tihrān : Mīrās̲-i Maktūb, 2000.
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.

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[Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i mansūb bih Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib

Author Qāḍī Mīr, Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn, -1504 or 1505, قاضى مير، حسين بن معين الدين, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Āghā Jān, active 1653, ابو القاسم بن آغا جان

Author Original قاضى مير، حسين بن معين الدين ابو القاسم بن آغا جان

Publication Date 1653

Subject ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661. Poems, Arabic poetry -- 622-750 -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800, Sufism -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor

Type kitap

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 315 leaves : paper ; 290 x 200 (185 x 100) mm

Library University of Michigan Library

Library Asset ID 1194685635

Record ID 990068140210106381

Library Location UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library

Date 1653

Notes Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: "اهل فقر همت طلبیم آینه ذات حق چو درویشانند ...", Explicit: "ارجو النجا بكم يوم المعادون حبت نداى من الذنب الافانينا", Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب بتاريخ ۱۴ شهر رجب المرجب سنه ۱۰۶۳ م م م المحتاج الى رحمة الله الغني ابو القاسم بن آغا جان بن بز", Collation: IV+1 (9), 37 IV(305), V (315) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; quires marked in black ink ("رب يسر") at the head of the recto of the opening leaf of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals., Layout: Written in 19 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled., Script: Nastaʻlīq and naskh ; elegant Persianate hand ; nastaʻlīq sans serif with slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, sweeping horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots ; Arabic excerpts mainly in a medium naskh, serifless and fairly vertical but with slight effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots., Decoration: Keywords (فتح، ميقرمايد، الخ), headings for excerpts from the dīwān attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and abbreviation symbols (sigla, etc.) rubricated ; most Arabic excerpts overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of 'three inverted commas' conjoined to form a single stroke ; a few diagrams in red and black ink (see pp.49-51, 67, 112)., Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown above fleur de lis (see p.25, etc.), extremely well sized and burnished (quite glossy), transluscent and quite crisp, though sturdy ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of an inverted teardrop shape with cross (see p.452, etc.) ; burnisher's marks visible., Binding: Pasteboards covered in black (upper cover, which appears to be a replacement for the original) and brown (lower cover and spine) leathers ; Type II (with flap, though now lost) ; upper board lining in untinted wove paper ; lower doublure in red-brown leather ; lower cover carries blind-stamped (with recessed onlay) scalloped mandorla (filled with scene of two antelopes and a flowering tree) and pendants, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps flanked by tooled fillets ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light yellow and pink, only portion of tailband remains ; overall in quite poor condition with flap lost, extensive abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (especially to replacement upper cover), staining, severe moisture damage and shrinkage in upper cover, fills to upper cover in bits of black leather and pink textile, etc., Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 22" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip)., Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Portion of a printed page with list of titles in Arabic script, perhaps torn from a catalogue -- d. Slip ruled with a red grid (between pp.112-113)., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.629, copied by Abū al-Qāsim ibn Āghā Jān bin Baz [?] with transcription completed 14 Rajab [?] 1063 [ca. 10 June 1653]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.629), composition completed in Ṣafar 890 [1485]., Octagonal seal impression in the lower outer corner of p.619 (possibly dated 1084 [1673 or 4]) ; a few marginal corrections., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 684

Sample Text Elegant but acephalous copy (opening in the first Fātiḥah, compare p.18 of the 2000 Tihrān edition) of the commentary by Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Manṭiqī al-Maybudī al-Yazdī (d.1504?) upon the dīwān attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ca. 600-661), opening with the Favātiḥ-i sabʻah.

Katkıda Bulunanlar Abū al-Qāsim ibn Āghā Jān, active 1653, scribe.

Son Dizinleme Tarihi 20251210

Biçim Book, Manuscript, Available Online

Koleksiyonda Yahuda Collection.

Referanslar Brockelmann, C. GAL, S II 294 6. no.5 ; S I 983 zu 74, Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn Maybudī Yazdī. Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i mansūb bih Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Ḥasan Raḥmānī and Ibrāhīm Ashk Shīrīn (Eds.). Tihrān : Mīrās̲-i Maktūb, 2000.

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.