Author
Laqānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm, -1631 or 1632, Laqāni, Ibrahim ibn Ibrahim, Ṣāliḥ ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad ibn Yāsīn al-Wāṭī al-Mālikī, active approximately 1622?, Salih bin Taj al-Din bin Ahmed bin Yasin al-Wati al-Maliki
Author Original
لقاني، ابراهيم بن ابراهيم صالح بن تاج الدين بن احمد بن يس الواطي المالكي
Publication Date
1600
Subject
Laqānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm, -1631 or 1632. Jawharat al-tawḥīd, God -- Simplicity -- Early works to 1800, God (Islam) -- Attributes -- Early works to 1800, Islam -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
315 leaves : paper ; 203 x 155 (155 x 95) mm. bound to 210 x 162 mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194845122
Record ID
990068152800106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
Possibly between 1600-1630
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1) and opening matter (preface) on p.8., Incipit: “And may blessings be upon our master Muhammad, the owner of creation... Praise be to God, who alone requires the necessity of his existence, so all events overflow from his generosity of existence... Now then, the best of sciences is the science of God’s religion and His laws, for through it the preservation of faith and Islam, which are the result of his deposits, and the best of it is the science of beliefs... and I have put in it my system called Jewel Monotheism... I explained it before this in two great explanations, one of which was the main focus of the disciple, and the second was a summary of abstraction. Then the mercy of the weak overcame me... when a group of brothers and a group of people asked me for an explanation of it that would not fall short of benefiting those who neglect it, and free from length and redundancy... I answered them with confidence in the power of the Noble One, and calling upon him to guide the disciple with the jewel of monotheism...”, Explicit: “With hesitation among others. Othman and Ali, and the more correct detail is Othman Ali Ali, may God be pleased with them all, and here I mentioned the sum of the seventy-three sects in the summary of abstraction. O God...as the situation has helped us, what has inspired us and the collection of what you have taught us... Glory be to your Lord, Lord of Glory above what they describe, and peace be upon the messengers, and praise be to God, Lord of the worlds. This is the last thing in the author’s copy, may God Almighty have mercy on him. He said, may God have mercy on him, and the completion of its collection was the beginning of the good month of Safar, which is one of the months of the year twenty-nine and a thousand. Then he said, “Alaqah Jami’ah.” The despicable Ibrahim Al-Laqqani Al-Maliki, with his mortal hand... Amen, it has ended.” Colophon: “Scribal,” reads “The completion of writing this copy was on the blessed Thursday before noon, the eighth month of Rabi’ al-Awwal, which is one of the months of the year twenty-one [thirty?] and a thousand of the Prophet’s Hijra. May God forgive him and his parents... And I seek from the bounty of whoever reads this book to pray for its writer... and he has sealed it for me... and he has the greatest and most abundant luck in the grave and in the venerable place of honor, Amen, Amen. I have deposited in this book a testimony... of that one who has never fallen and to whom only is good is Muhammad Al-Hadi, upon whom Gabriel descended.”, Collation: 2 V(20), IV (28), 6 V(88), IV (96), 5 V(146), IV (154), 10 V(254), IV (262), V (272), IV (280), 3 V(310), 1 (311), II (315) ; chiefly quinions; catchwords present; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages each between pp.555-56 and pp.585-86)., Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh ; clear Egyptian, 'Syrian' or Ḥijāzī [?] hand; Mainly serifless but with head-serif on occasional free-standing alif, very slight effect of tilt to the left, pointing in distinct dots and often slanted down toward baseline (alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ), some elongation of horizontal strokes, a mix of closed and open counters., Decoration: Headings, keywords and abbreviation symbols (mainly sigla) rubricated., Support: European laid paper with 10 lines laid per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (horizontal), crown-star-crescent watermark with "CD" [?] below (92 mm. tall, see pp.10-11) ; well-sized and burnished (even glazed to glossy), cream in color, fairly thick and sturdy; some staining., Binding: Pasteboards covered in well-worn paper (likely once marbled, compare envelope flap) with red leather over spine and fore edge flap; Type II binding (with flap); board linings in yellow laid paper; no evidence of having ever been sewn; over all in poor condition with much abrasion, staining and moisture damage, lifting and losses of paper and leather, etc. ; ill-fitting and serving as wrapper for the unsewn gatherings (never attached to textblock)., Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and lower cover "IL 405" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip)., Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory catalog slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas., Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.624-625, copied by Ṣāliḥ ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad ibn Yāsīn al-Wāṭī [?] al-Mālikī from the author's copy in his own hand ("nuskhat al-muʼallif ... ʻallaqahu jāmiʻuh ... bi-yadih al-fāniyah") with transcription supposedly completed 8 Rabīʻ I 1021 [ca. 9 May 1612]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon on p.625, composition (jamʻ) and transcription of the author's copy completed 1 Ṣafar 1029 [ca. 7 January 1620]. It seems likely that the copyist mistakenly repeated twenty when listing the date of transcription for this copy and may have intended thirty (implying 1031, i.e. 1622) or another decade, though paper, etc. do suggest early 17th century., Ownership / loan statement on 'title page' (p.1) indicating the book was borrowed from one al-Shaykh Jawdī [?] al-Sanbūskī [?] reads “Praise be to God, this book is by Sheikh Judi Al-Sanbūskī [?] known as Ibn Khalil, so to me it is bare, written by the poor man...?” ; Occasional marginal corrections (with signs de renvoi)., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 644
Sample Text
Fine early copy of Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm al-Laqānī's (d.1631 or 2) third commentary (after his ʻUmdat al-murīd and Talkhīṣ al-tajrīd, see opening matter on p.8) upon his Jawharat al-tawḥīd, a theological poem.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Ṣāliḥ ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad ibn Yāsīn al-Wāṭī al-Mālikī, active approximately 1622?. scribe.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Yahuda Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II 316 (I. cmtre. a.), Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn, ii 654
Elde Ediliş
Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by his younger brother, the famous Orientalist and manuscript collector Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951).
