Kitāb Zubdat al-ʻirfān

Title:

Kitāb Zubdat al-ʻirfān
كتاب زبدة العرفان

Alternative title:

Zubdat al-ʻirfān fī wujūh al-Qurʼān
زبدة العرفان في وجوه القرآن

Creator:

Bālawī, Ḥamīd ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ
بالوي, حميد بن عبد الفتاح

Contributor:

ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Shukrī, former owner
عبد الغفور شكري، مالك سابق

Date:

17--]

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 15Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 18th century. Colophon on fol.156a-156b (p.309-310) indicates text was copied in the city of Tūqāt (Tokat) in the Khātūnīyah madrasah.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 154. Zubdat al-kuran."Binding: Pasteboards covered in orange brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in laid paper (under leather turn-ins) ; upper and lower cover carry simple design of incised fillets marking a border, cornerpieces and centerline ; sewn in rose colored thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in green and cream ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting and shrinkage of leather, moisture damage, etc.Support: European laid paper in perhaps a few different types ; main type is smooth, well-burnished and fairly crisp with a yellowish tint, roughly 10-12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines evenly spaced 26 mm. apart (vertical) ; watermarks include grapes, names (difficult to make out) and crown ; latter type is slightly thicker and whiter in color with laid lines spaced roughly 13 per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (vertical) ; main watermark appears to be a type of scrollwork with three hats ; staining, ink smudges (occasionally obscuring text see fol.130b/p.260), and hole burned in fol.128b (p.256).Decoration: Crude 'headpiece' on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of semi-circular outlines in red with vertical stalks in black and title in red ; red rule-border surroundes the written area ; text rubricated with headings, keywords, sigla and other abbreviations, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; bold Turkish hand, written in a thick, heavy line ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; pointing in two dots appears as a line or inverted caret ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; alif lām of definite article occasionally assimilated ; compact, adhereing to baseline though occasionally letters in final words of a line are superscript.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 15 V (150), IV (158), i ; chiefly quinions ; fol.23a (p.45) left blank, but with what appears to be no text missing ; final two folios unruled, carry related extratextual material in same hand as main text ; catchwords present (last word of final line repeated on the recto of the following leaf) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.221-223 and includes final flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal" [?], triangular, reads: " قد وقع الفراغ من تسويد هذه [كذا] الكتاب [؟] المتين يتأبدوا هب القوى والنعم المسنين بديع الشكل عديم المثال كثير النفع قليل المقال في مدينة توقات بمدرسة خاتونية صانها الله عن المصائب الدينية والدنيوية ويسر الختم تمت الكتاب"Explicit: "ولو وقف عليه الهمزة [؟] كان الوقف على هزوا في البقرة لا تبديل لكلمات الله انه السميع العليم ... وبجاه من احببته وبعثته"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من القارئين الذين هم قرؤا القرآن بصحيح الروايات ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى رحمة الله الغني حامد ابن الحاج عبد الفتاح البالوى لما قرأت القرآن العظيم من اوله الى اخره ختمة كاملة بالقراآت المتواترة للائمة العشرة ..."Title from 'headpiece' on fol.1b (p.2).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the work on the ten readings of the Qurʼan as collected by the author from various sources.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Qurʼan Readings Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic

Extent:

158 leaves : paper ; 159 x 107 (95 x 54) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/005968627

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