Author
Ṣādiq Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, 1609 or 1610-1650 or 1651, Sadiq Isfahani, Muhammad Sadiq ibn Muhammad Saleh, Muḥammad Khayrʹshāhī, active 1880, Muhammad Khayr Shahi
Author Original
صادق اصفهانى محمد صادق ابن محمد صالح محمد خير شاهى
Publication Date
1880
Subject
Persian prose literature -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
344 leaves : paper ; 226 x 150 (166 x 81) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194684371
Record ID
990068180080106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1880
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from opening matter on p.11., Incipit: "I said the situation with myself...", Explicit: "Union of bazm ya and skon vav and kaser nun and skon ya tathaniye and nun is mausi besham", Colophon: "Authorial," reads "The authorship of this book took place on the date of one thousand fifty nine 1059 in Yamdeh [Madinah?] Akbarabad during the time of Shah Shoja Bahadur"; "Scribal," reads "Al-Haqir Al-Faqeer Muhammad Khair Shahi [?] 15 Shahr Dhul-Hijjah al-Haram year 1297", Collation: II (4), 42 IV(340), 2 I (344); almost exclusively quaternions; several leaves ruled but left blank (see pp. 9-10, 17, 44, 254, 460, 681-682, etc.) or partially blank (likely for diagrams / illustrations never realized, see p. 27, 28, 43, 253, 270, 445, 456, 459, 497, 513, etc.) ; twenty pages (p.[]-p.534) ruled for tables but left blank; present catchwords; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes leaves serving as flyleaves at opening and closing and skips two pages between pp.515-516)., Layout: Written in 25 lines per page; frame-ruled., Script: Nastaʻlīq; quite compact, elegant hand; serifless, with the effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes; Arabic excerpts in a compact naskh., Decoration: Keywords, numerals and section headings rubricated (words to be entered in red have been provided in the outer margins, mainly cut off, but in a few instances still visible, see p.41, 42, etc.); written area surrounded by frame in "gold" accented with red rules; margin also surrounded by red rule-border; overlining in red; occasional textual dividers in the form of inverted commas; several diagrams, mainly in red and black (see p.265, 289, 431, 432, 433, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 442, 443, 444)., Support: European woven paper, dark cream in color, quite well-burnished, thin and crisp though sturdy; leaves at opening and close (serving as flyleaves) also in highly burnished woven paper but of a lighter color; breakthrough at frames in leaves carrying p.679-682., Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather; Type III binding (without flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine); doublures in dark gray leather; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition) with pendants, as well as tooled border and accents; sewn in lime green and red (final few gatherings) thread, two stations; worked chevron endbands in lime green and light red, good condition (protected by tabs extending from spine leather); overall in fair condition with minor abrasion and staining, spine curved and fore edge protruding, etc., Former shelfmark: "505 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "9" inscribed in pencil on recto of opening leaf (serving as flyleaf, p.1); "15/6" and "٢٤" (with numeral khamsah looking like reversed B) inscribed in ink also on opening leaf recto (serving as flyleaf, p.1)., Accompanying materials: Scrap of tinted and block-printed paper with excerpts (proverb "Al-Dahr al-Taree Yayam, Yom Qad Foul La Udda Al-Alik Vyum Ante Feh La Yadum Al-Alik..." etc.) in black ink (between pp.436-437)., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.680, copied by Muḥammad Khayrʹshāhī [?] with transcription completed 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1297 [ca. 18 November 1880]. As appears in preceding 'authorial colophon' (also on p.680), composition supposedly completed in 1059 [1649] in Akbarʹābād (Agra) in the time of Shāh Shujā`., Several inventory marks and a few excerpts on recto of opening leaf (serving as flyleaf, p.1) and following leaf (p.3); oval seal impression in margin on p.12; occasional marginal corrections; notabilia (sideheads) indicating chapter or section appear in the upper outer corner of most leaves., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 352
Sample Text
Fine, though acephalous, copy of extracts, anecdotes and miscellaneous notices by Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ al-Iṣfahānī al-Āzādānī (d.1650 or 51). Author's contents listing in opening matter (pp.11-16).
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Muḥammad Khayrʹshāhī, active 1880, scribe.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Abdul Hamid Collection.
Referanslar
Cat. Pers. MSS. Brit. Mus., p.775 f.
Elde Ediliş
Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).
