Author
Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122, Hariri, Alami, Mohamed, Muhammad Al-Alami,, Aḥmad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Tūnisī al-Ḥanafī, Ahmad ibn al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Muslim al-Tunisi al-Hanafi,, Zayn al-Dīn Abū Bakr al-Ḥalabī, Ibn al-Naḥlāwī, active 1450?, Zain al-Din Abu Bakr al-Halabi, Ibn al-Nahlawi,
Author Original
حريري محمد العلمي، احمد بن الشيخ محمد بن مسلم التونسي الحنفي، زين الدين ابو بكر الحلبي، ابن النحلاوي،
Publication Date
1200
Subject
Arabic prose literature -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
152 leaves ; 200 x 155 (175 x 120) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
81282228
Record ID
990052267760106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
13rd century (exact date unknown)
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1)., Incipit: “The Sheikh President Abu Muhammad al-Qasim bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Othman al-Hariri al-Basri, may God be pleased with him, said, ‘O God, we praise You for what You have taught of clarification and inspired by clarification, just as we praise You for the bestowal of giving You have bestowed and the cover you have let loose, and we seek refuge in You from the evil of the tongue and the idle chatter...”, Explicit: “And he deserves pardon, for he is the people of piety and the people of Forgiveness and the Guardian of good deeds in this world and the hereafter. This is the last of the stations that I established through deception... Praise be to God for His blessings and blessings and peace be upon the best of His prophets and the transmitter of His prophets and upon his family, companions and saints. The letter was completed with praise and good success. I met him and corrected him except for what the eye lost. He also recites two letters, adhering to the letter “sin” and “shin” in every word... and he explains and expounds with his strong, lofty gait the throne and his honor for bringing good tidings to humanity. And the intercessor who intercedes in the gathering has been fulfilled, and praise be to God alone.”, Collation: ii, IV (8), I (10), V-1 (19), 2 V(39), V-1 (48), V (58), V-1 (67), 2 V(87), IV (95), 2 III(107), I (109), V (119), V-3 (126), I (128), VII (142), V (152), ii ; chiefly quinions; leaves appear to be missing from the quires 13, 14, 17 and 18 ; catchwords lacking; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert)., Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; single column divided to set off poetry ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh ; a few graceful Syrian and or Egyptian hands; primary hand is a highly readable naskh, probably Egyptian, plainly very old (13th-14th century), fully pointed and vowelled, with shaddah, hamzah, etc. ; hands of the replacement folia at the beginning and end of the textblock another very nice naskh, probably Egyptian and no later than 16th century, fully pointed and mostly vowelled, with shaddah, hamzah, etc. ; replacement folia from p.21-24 in a distinct hand, larger, more extended in the horizontal, likewise fully pointed and vowelled., Decoration: Text rubricated with section headings (for each maqāmah, occasional sections of tafsīr) in red., Support: non-European (Arab) laid paper with 20 laid lines in 32 mm. or 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal); Chain lines are difficult to distinguish but a set of 3 with 15-16 mm. between lines can be seen ; replacement folia in another Oriental laid paper, but with lines too indistinct to measure; some pest damage to some leaves, though not so badly as to obscure text; edges of a number of leaves are badly damaged., Binding: Pasteboards covered in European laid paper (over stamped scalloped mandorla) with spine and edges/turn-ins in dark brown leather; Type II binding (with flap, though now missing) ; board-linings in European laid paper (tre lune watermark visible) ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, primaries in red; in poor condition with much staining and abrasion with significant losses to covers; spine is damaged at the head and tail; endbands are entirely gone ; Most threads are broken and the majority of the leaves are loose; many of the bifolia have split; housed in box for protection., Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 353" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; From red-bordered label on upper cover, "16"., Accompanying materials: a. Inventory catalog slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. --c. Slip with notes in German (following p.68), including general description of the codex and claiming that, from the 24 maqāmah onwards, the text includes an otherwise unknown commentary written by al-Ḥarīrī himself; N. Gardiner believes this refers to the three sections marked interpretation, the first of which appears immediately following the 24 maqāmah; These texts do in fact appear in the printed edition., Origin: Lacks dated colophon, though paper would suggest late 13th (final decade) or 14th century., Numerous ownership marks and study/reading notes; an almond-shaped seal impression appears on p.3 and p.314 in the name of Muḥammad al-ʻAlamī, ownership statements in his name appear on p.3 “He entered into the shift of the servant...Muhammad [Al-Alami?]” and p.5 “Praise be to God...in the shift of the poor servant to God Almighty, who seeks the pardon and forgiveness of his Lord, Muhammad Al-Alami, may God treat him with His goodness”; two rectangular octagonal seal impressions appear on p.3 ; on p.5 ownership statements and on p.310 a reading note in the name of Aḥmad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Tūnisī al-Ḥanafī ; on p.5 inscription with quote from al-Zamakhsharī's criticism: “I swear by God and His signs and the beginning of Hajj and its appointed time that Hariri is free to have his shrines written in righteousness”; kabīkaj invocation on p.5"Ya kabīkaj ya kabīkaj ya kabīkaj" ; Another reading note on p.310 appears to be dated opening of the year 854 [1450] (with numeral khamsah in the form looking like reversed 'B') ; on p.314 a few dated reading notes, one a reader from Latakia (Lādhiqīyah) “Ahmad Agha... Agha Baranji Zadeh” dated 10 Rajab 1246 [December 1830] and the other “Sayyid Salih bin the late Sayyid Ismail Jarbaji Mahayni” dated 3 Rajab [?] 1235 [?] [ca. 16 April 1820?] ; Corrections appear throughout a number of hands; collation statement appears on p.128 ; numerous excerpts of poetry, hadith, etc. scattered throughout (description with contribution from B. Liebrenz and F. Bauden).
Sample Text
Elegant copy of al-Ḥarīrī's celebrated Maqāmāt or Sessions modeled after those of al-Hamadhānī, accompanied by brief commentary and followed by two brief epistles (even maqāmahs) in which the letters sīn and shīn appear in every word of the respective passage. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Alami, Mohamed, former owner., Aḥmad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Tūnisī al-Ḥanafī, former owner., Zayn al-Dīn Abū Bakr al-Ḥalabī, Ibn al-Naḥlāwī, active 1450?, former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Yahuda Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 276, Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn, vi 57-8, Humbert, G. "Papiers non-filigranés utilisés au proche-orient jusqu'en 1450: essai en typologie." Journal asiatique, 286, no.1 (1998): 1-54.
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.
