Author
Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122, Hariri, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib, active 1854, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tayyib,, Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)
Author Original
حريري احمد بن محمد الطيب،
Publication Date
1854
Subject
Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122. Mulḥat al-iʻrāb, Arabic language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
62 leaves : paper ; 211 x 145 (160 x 85) mm. bound to 219 x 150 mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194780997
Record ID
990068325710106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1854
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' / opening leaf (p.1)., Incipit: "The Sheikh, the Imam, the scholar, the scholar... Abu Muhammad Al-Qasim bin Ali Al-Hariri... I say, after the opening of the statement, praise be to the One who is extremely long... A limit is what prevents a limited thing from deviating from what it has limited and prevents others from entering it. From it is the derivation of the limits of the house. The limit in the language is prohibition, and from it the gatekeeper is called a blacksmith because he prevents the one who knocks from entering...”, Explicit: “Then prayer after Praise be to the eternal Prophet Muhammad, his family and his good companions, who rest in peace night and day, and the god of the good Imams who are obedient in the righteous darkness.”, Colophon: “Scribal,” triangular, reads “It was written and explained on the blessed Friday of the past nineteen days of zero in the year one thousand two hundred and seventy-one, at the hands of the poor to God, Glory be to Him, Ahmed bin Sheikh Muhammad Al-Tayeb, may God forgive him, his parents, and his sheikhs.” And to all Muslims, Amen.”, Collation: i, 5 V(50), VI (62), i ; exclusively quinions with final senion; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals under letter kāf in upper margin of recto of opening leaf of each quire; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization)., Layout: Written in 25 lines per page; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; clear, compact Turkish hand in a medium to bold line; Characteristically serifless with marked inclination to the right, mainly closed counters, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ often unpointed., Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red., Support: European laid paper of several types (all extremely well-burnished); Opening type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of scrollwork / arms consisting of two-headed eagle with crown above, star and trefoil at center, and "G.C.C." below (see p.2, 10, 12, etc.), dark cream to beige in color, well-burnished to glossy; Another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "GIOR MAGNANI" under scrollwork / arms with bird above tower (see p.22, 24, 30, 32, etc. and compare Heawood 3748 and Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.88), medium cream in color, well-burnished to glossy ; Another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "G M" under scrollwork (see p.50, etc.), dark cream to beige in color, well-burnished to glossy ; some staining, creases and tears., Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black 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 “Hariri’s poem is an urgent parsing”; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion and staining., Former shelfmark: Mich. Island. Ms. temp. no. 96, Origin: As appears in colophon on p.122, copied by Aḥmad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib with transcription completed 19 Ṣafar 1271 [ca. 11 November 1854]., On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory numbers, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No.7776" ; UM Library inscription on p.5 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; glosses and marginal corrections (often with signs de renvoi and marked "correct")., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 947
Sample Text
Fine copy of al-Ḥarīrī's (d.516/1122) didactic urjūzah on grammar, Mulḥat al-iʻrāb, accompanied by commentary.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib, active 1854, scribe., Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Heyworth-Dunne Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 277 (VII.) ; S I 488, Walz, Terence. "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The Trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011): 73-108., Heawood, Edward. Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries. Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae, vol. I Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1950.
Elde Ediliş
Acquired in the Fall of 1950.
