Author
Ibn al-ʻAssāl, al-Asʻad Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allāh d. ca. 1260., ابن العسال, الأسعد أبو الفرج هبة الله.
Author Original
ابن العسال الأسعد أبو الفرج هبة الله
Publication Date
1671
Subject
Coptic Church Liturgy ; Calendar., Coptic Church, Islamic calendar ; Early works to 1800., Jewish calendar ; Early works to 1800., Calendar Egypt., Manuscripts, Arabic Michigan Ann Arbor., Calendrier islamique ; Ouvrages avant 1800., Calendrier juif ; Ouvrages avant 1800., Calendrier Égypte., Manuscrits arabes Michigan Ann Arbor., Calendar, Islamic calendar, Jewish calendar, Manuscripts, Arabic, Egypt, Michigan Ann Arbor
Type
Periodical
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (4, 95, 4 leaves) : paper
Library
jisc
Record ID
q_language%3A%20ara_sort_year_rn_1903
Library Location
University of East Anglia Library
Date
1671
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from opening on p.10., 1. p.1-p.8 : [blank]., 2. p.9 : [excerpt of a horoscope?]., 3. p.10-p.168 : Kitāb yashtamilu ʻalá al-Abuqṭī / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl., 4. p.10-p.16 : Urjūzah fī maʻrifat al-Abuqṭī wa-ḥisāb al-ṣawm al-muqaddas wa-al-Fiṣḥ wa-al-aʻyād wa-ghayr dhālik / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl., 5. p.17-p.168 : Mukhtaṣar Ḥisāb al-Abuqṭīyāt / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl., 6. p.169-185 : Kitāb mubārak yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ṭāliʻ al-sanah al-shamsīyah wa-ikhrāj al-ṭāliʻ fī ayy burj min al-ithná ʻashar burj al-musammá bi-al-Shiʻrah al-Yamānīyah wa-asmāʼ al-ithná ʻashar burj wa-al-saʻd minhum wa-al-naḥs., 7. p.186-p.197 : [assorted excerpts]., 8. p.198-p.206 : [blank]., Collation: i, 2 II (8), VI (20), VI+1 (33), VI (45), VIII (61), III+1 (68), III (74), V (84), III (90), I+1 (93), III (99), II (103), i ; quiring very difficult to discern ; binion of ruled wove paper added at both the opening and the close of the codex ; several leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Graeco-Coptic numerals, accompanied by foliation in purple ink with corresponding Hindu-Arabic numerals ; foliation in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals, in the centr of the upper margin of the recto of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves)., Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page ; mainly single column but text of the urjūzah divided to two columns ; numerous tables ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident)., Script: Naskh ; mainly in a large, clear Egyptian hand ; virtually serifless, though right-sloping head-serifs appear on occasional lām and free standing alif ; mainly curvilinear descenders ; open and closed counters ; elongation of horizontal strokes with occasional sweeping tails ; yāʼ of fī mainly mardūdah ; pointing in distinct dots ; sīn marked with ʻalāmat al-ihmāl in the form of a stroke looking like an inverted caret ; section headings in a bold, seriffed naskh ; final work and excerpts in different hands., Decoration: Section headings, keywords, abbreviation symbols, and numerals rubricated ; occasional textual dividers in the form of four v-signs forming a cross, three inverted commas, hāʼ surrounded by four dots or four inverted commas, etc. in red and black ; written area of incipit page surrounded by red rule-border ; numerous tables and diagrams (see p.52, p.54, p.121, etc.)., Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 18 mm. apart (vertical), and crown-star-crescent watermark ; sturdy and well-burnished ; binion of ruled wove paper added at both the front and back of the codex., Binding: Pasteboards covered in red cloth with red leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western binding ; flyleaves and pastedowns in European wove paper ; sewn originally in four stations (threads gone), now resown in white thread, ten stations ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting of spine leather, etc., Accompanying materials: Papyrus fragements in folded sheet of bond paper just inside front cover., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.168, Kitāb yashtamilu ʻalá al-Abuqṭī wa-ṭuruqih copied by Dāwūd ibn Buqṭur with transcription finished 13 Amshīr 1387 lil-Shuhadāʼ al-Abrār (Era of Martyrs or Era of Diocletian) [February 1671]. A note beside the colophon describes the manuscript exemplar from which this copy was made. As appears on p.185, transcription of Kitāb mubārak yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ṭāliʻ al-sanah al-shamsīyah...etc. completed 2 Ṣafar 1082 [June 1671]., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 219., Arabic., Print version record, Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم كتاب الاقبطي بمعونة الرب جل اسمه على يد اضعف خلق الله داوود بن بقطر بالاسم قسيس [؟] بالقاهرة المحروسة في ثالث عشر من شهر امشير سنة الف وثلاثمائة وسبعة وثمانين للشهداء الابرار يرحمنا الرب بصلواتهم امين في الايام الابوية السيدية البطريوكية المرقصية انبا متاووس الرب يديم ايامه في هدؤ وسلام امين ...", Conspicuous lack of dealers marks appearing in other manuscripts of the Abdul Hamid Collection ; oval seal impression in blue ink on 'title page' (p.9) and p.197 ; collation statement indicating the number of leaves in the codex on p.197 "عدد اوراقه ۹۹" ; numerous marginal glosses.
Tür
Calendars, Early works
İçinde
Abdul Hamid Collection.
